The following sections on prior courses and research experience are included for the purpose of summarizing the background information to the Graduate School and the Mentor.
Students must complete rotations in two laboratories in their broad area of academic background and intended thesis research, and one laboratory from another broad area of science. At least one of the rotations must be outside your research area. You may be asked to defend your choice of out-of-field rotation to ensure that it is out-of-field, to ensure that you are gaining experience in a complementary field. For example, if you are a neuroscientist, a molecular biology lab or a biochemistry lab would count, but a third neuroscience unit would not.
Discuss your Laboratory Rotation Units choices with your Mentor, and in the boxes below, please type FOUR unit choices for your in-field and TWO unit choices for your out-of-field rotation; in order of your priorities. If you have more units you would like to select, please write these unit names in “Remarks”.
Information about each laboratory may be found online at http://www.oist.jp/research-units.
Constraints: Your choice of research units will be honored as far as possible; however, please bear in mind that not all requests may be accommodated due to the availability of faculty members and space. The laboratories of adjunct professors are not normally available for laboratory rotations. And if your out-of-field unit is not considered to be far enough out of field, we may ask you to choose again.
This selection is not binding, as the OIST program allows for flexibility and a change of your preferred units as you move through the program.
Refer to the course list https://groups.oist.jp/grad/courses-term-0#term and course timetable https://groups.oist.jp/grad/course-timetable for the course contents and the term offered. While this is correct at the time of this survey, changes will be made to course availability from time to time. UPDATED August 2022
Only nominate Elective courses on this form.
A maximum of 4 credits worth of Elective courses per term is recommended considering the balance between course work and lab work. You may choose one course or none to tailor your program as needed. A small number of courses are worth only 1 credit, and may be taken together if you wish; please check the course description for more details.
Credit requirements for Electives: 20 credits of electives for Bachelor degree holders; for STEM Master's degree holders, a minimum of 10 elective credits are required. If you have graduate level science courses that were not included in your bachelor's or masters's degree, you may contact Curriculum and Programs Section at gs-cp@oist.jp for discussion about receiving possible transfer credit toward your OIST degree.
Please list sufficient courses to cover your full credit requirements. Courses taken as Independent Study should be listed later
