How Science and Technology Overview B Counts in Your Curriculum

Science and Technology Overview B is a required first-year, two-credit lecture in the listed programmes, but the course-group rule differs by academic year and programme.

Course status and first-year placement

Science and Technology Overview B is listed as a required course worth 2 credits, offered in one semester during the first year, for the following 2025 programmes: Electronic Systems Engineering, Design Engineering, Information Media, Architecture, and Information Systems Engineering. It is also listed as a required first-year course for Electronic Systems Engineering in 2026. The course is a lecture held in either the first or second semester, and it has no teaching-licence code. For Information Systems Engineering in 2025, it is shown as part of a one-choice required group.

How the course satisfies the course-group requirement

The course-group requirement depends on the programme and academic year. For Information Media in 2025, the course table states that 4 credits must be earned from the specified course group. For Information and Communications Engineering in 2026, students earn one course from Science and Technology Overview A–E; these are listed as open courses. For Advanced Mechanical Engineering, Applied Chemistry, and Information and Communications Engineering in 2025, Science and Technology Overview B is included in the one-choice required group of Science and Technology Overview A–D, from which 2 credits must be earned. For Design Engineering in 2026, it is included in the one-choice required group of Science and Technology Overview A–E, which are listed as open courses. For Mechanical Engineering in 2025, it is included in the one-choice required group covering Physics Overview and Exercises A–C together with Science and Technology Overview A–D.

Official sources

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