Teaching Practice Seminar: Licence Requirement, Credits, and Timing

The Teaching Practice Seminar is a 2-credit, fourth-year course listed as required for both junior-high and high-school teaching licences in the specified curricula. Its records place it in the second semester, with some curricula identifying it as a summer intensive course.

Licence requirement and credits

In the supplied curriculum records, the Teaching Practice Seminar is required for both junior-high and high-school teaching licences. It carries 2 credits, which corresponds to the stated statutory minimum of 2 credits for the teaching-practice-seminar category. The course is listed as a seminar and appears in the teaching-practice section of the licence curriculum. In some course tables, it is marked with the course-selection symbol used in that table, but the supplied records do not establish that this means the course is a free elective. For the 2025 Information and Communications Engineering curriculum, it is listed under teaching-related courses with 2 credits shown in parentheses.

When and how the course is offered

The course is placed in the fourth year and second semester. This timing is stated for the 2025 Mechanical Engineering curriculum, the 2026 Science and Engineering curriculum, and the 2025 and 2026 System Design Engineering records. In the relevant course tables, the course is described as a lecture and seminar, with its class period shown as arranged as needed. Some records specifically identify it as a summer intensive course. The course carries 2 credits.

Official sources

The following official Tokyo Denki University materials were used to prepare this page.