Note for Course Registration (For master students)

Please check the Student Handbook for your year of admission and the following information carefully before registering for courses. In particular, please make sure that you have registered for seminars in accordance with the regulations, as there are many errors in course registration of seminars.

1.Regarding Seminars, students both enrolled in April and October need to take seminars of their main academic advisor with the following order for two years.

1st semester　  Ia 
2nd semester　Ib　( Ib may not be taken unless the student has already earned credits for Ia.)
3rd semester 　IIa  ( IIa may not be taken unless the student has already earned credits for Ia and Ib.)
4th semester 　IIb  ( IIb may not be taken unless the student has already earned credits for Ia, Ib and IIa.)

Ia and Ib are in the first year. IIa and IIb are in the second year.
Seminar II is exclusively for M2 students.
Students may take only one seminar subject of his or her academic advisor in one semester. Only 8 credits of seminars are allowed to be taken in a year (16 credits in two years).

2.Registration of Seminars for new M1 students enrolled in April:

As a general rule, for Seminar Ia, please register for the Seminar of the Faculty Advisor assigned at the time of admission. The Academic Advisor who will provide actual research guidance will be surveyed in June of the admission year and officially decided in July.

If your Faculty Advisor is different from your desired Academic Advisor, you can take both (or only your desired Academic Advisor) seminars with the consent of both advisors.

For Seminar Ib, which is registered in the second semester after enrollment, students need to register for the seminar of the Academic Advisor who has actually been assigned.

Course Registration

All MC students must complete the course registration.

DC students do not have to register for classes. For DC students, please refer to Procedure for Ph.D. Dissertation Presentation.

Research students may not officially register for classes.

2025 Spring Semester Class Registration 

The registration  will be processed during the designated period via Nagoya University Portal. 

The registration for each semester includes registration for the Intensive Courses. Students who wish to enroll in intensive courses are required to register for them as well

Please consult with your faculty advisor about your registration plan and get his/her approval before your registration.

Please click the link below while logged in to the Nagoya University Portal.

2025 Spring Semester Course Registration Period and Completed Courses Check (Schedule)　

*Spring Semester 1st course registration period for students enrolled in April, AY 2025 is as follows. (Current students can also register)
April 2 (Wed, from 9:00 AM) to April 3 (Thu, until 11:30 AM)

*Please note that the start date of the University-Wide Graduate School Common Courses and other graduate school courses, etc. is April 10 (Thu), while the start date of spring semester classes for GSID courses is April 11 (Fri).

1. Course Registration and Registration Confirmation

NU Portal> Student Affairs > Course registration and grading
*You can access NU Portal from anywhere, either on or off campus using a computer connected to the internet.

*If you have any trouble logging in to the NUportal, please contact the following

IT Help Desk

Location:
Information Technology Center 1F (Information & Communications, Information Promotion Department)

Opening hours:
Weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. (excluding holidays)

Consultation method:
By phone: 052-747-6389 (direct)
Via website:https://qa.icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
By email: it-helpdesk@icts.nagoya-u.ac.jp

*You can register for courses at any time during the “Course Registration” and “Registration Revision” period, except for maintenance time (4:00 – 5:00).

<Operation Manual>
URL: NU Portal >Student affairs >Course registration and grading (schedule etc)>Educational Affairs (For Students) >Learning Management System Manual

<Notes>
Please note that the web registration can be done only during the designated period.
It is strongly recommended to finish registrations by the day before the deadline to avoid busy network hours.
After the deadline, you will not have any access to the web. You must complete the course registration by the designated deadline.

<Change of Address (Your current address)>
It must be reflected prior to registration of courses on NU Portal.

2. The Reflection to TACT of Your Course Registration Information

What is TACT?

TACT web

In case students register for courses in the 1st Application period for Spring Semester course registration (April 3 (Thu, until 11:30 AM)),
your information will be transferred to TACT on April 9 (Wed, from 9:00 AM).
You can find your TACT course sites below.
Log in TACT> Membership >Available course sites’ tabs are shown in your site.

If you fail to register for a course by the deadline, make corrections such as adding courses during the subsequent adjustment period, the registration information will only be  transferred to TACT only after April 25 (Fri, from 9:00 AM) . 

The Spring semester GSID courses will start from April 11 (Fri). If you would like to join the TACT sites before the reflection, please ask the lecturers to add you to the TACT sites individually.

In this case, you need to ask the lecturer  to add you to the TACT site manually via email or on the first day of the course.
You can find the lecturer’s email address on the GSID website, and make sure to include your name, student number and the title of the course in your email.

3. Registration for Courses of Other Graduate Schools (arbitrary)

To register for courses of other graduate schools, please follow the procedure below.
① Please consult with your faculty advisor and the lecturer about your registration plan and get his/her approvals before your registration.
② Please register for courses during the designated period via NU Portal. You can choose “other departments” button in the course registration page.

*You cannot register for other “undergraduate” courses online. In that case, please counsult with GSID office in advance.

Confirmation of Class Registration

Course Registration Confirmation Periods are  “Start of confirmation of  Class Enrollment (by students, 1st round)” and “Start of confirmation of  Class Enrollment (by students, 2nd round)” in the “Course Registration Period and Completed Courses Check (Schedule)”  above.

Course registration information is not immediately reflected in the “Confirmation of Registration Status” and ” Confirmation of Registered Course ” sections of the Educational Affairs System.

The information is only reflected during the specified ‘Start of confirmation of Class Enrollment (by students, 1st round)’ and ‘Start of confirmation of Class Enrollment (by students, 2nd round)’ periods.

Please be sure to check your course registration on  the Nagoya University Portal during these periods.

For students enrolled in / before 2021

Handling when students enrolled before AY2021 take renamed courses and new subjects from AY2022

In April 2022, the curriculum for Master’s program has been partially revised for the AY2022 enrollment. Along with the revision, the names of some of the courses have been changed and new courses have been newly offered.

1) Renamed Courses from AY2022
They will be counted as old course names (course names before 2021) and can be included in the requirements for completion. When registering for renamed courses, please register them under the old course name.

Renamed Subjects:

・ “Applied Econometrics” (formerly “Quantitative Economic Analysis”)：
・ “International Development Economics” (formerly “International Development Economics (Globalization and Development)”)
・”International Development and Global Health” (Formerly “Special Lecture on Poverty and Social Policy B (Development, Poverty and Global Health)”)

2) New Courses from AY2022
Although it is possible to take these courses, they cannot be included in the requirements for completion because they are not included in the “Check Sheet for the Completion of Program (for students enrolled in AY2020 & AY2021)” distributed at the time of admission. If you take these course, your grades will be “Optional Courses” in your transcript.

New Courses:
・ “Introduction to Statistics and Data Science”
・ “Introduction to Economics”
・ “Regional Development”
・ “Theory of South Asian Development”
・ “Education in the Era of Globalization”
・ “Education and Social Change”

For students enrolled in / before 2019

Students enrolled in/before 2019 cannot register for courses on the system through the Nagoya University Portal above.

If you would like to register for courses, please inform GSID Office of the following information via email before the beginning of each semester.

gsidoffice@t.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Student ID / Name / Subject name / Lecturer

Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies at Kobe University (arbitrary)

GSID students can take courses at the graduate school of Kobe University under the academic exchange agreement.
You may be accredited as credits required for completion by applying for accreditation after earning credits to the GSID. Certification is done every semester.

 If you would like to take courses from the graduate school, please consult with your faculty advisor, then  send the application form to  GSID Office (gsidoffice@t.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp) by September 26 (Thur.).

　Timetable
　Syllabus

　Annual Schedule

University-Wide Graduate School Common Courses

The Graduate School Common Courses are common courses for the entire graduate school of Nagoya University offered by the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nagoya University.
Graduate School Common Courses website

Curriculum Scheme and Policies of Nagoya University Graduate School Common Courses
The primary objective is to cultivate globally competent researchers and professionals with the highest level of integrity, through curricula which foster knowledge, skills, and attitude that are applicable to all academic fields. In particular, the curricula focus on nurturing students’ development in four main sets of skills:
(1)Thinking：to understand different fields and cultures, and to analyze problems.
(2)Proposal：to create new solutions and express own ideas clearly.
(3)Integrity：to self-regulate and to achieve own goals as a researcher or a professional.
(4)Collaboration：to communicate with and to lead a team of people from different academic, cultural, and language backgrounds.

(Example of coursework)

Research Skills T: Logical Research Writing Ⅰ
Research Skills T: Logical Research Writing Ⅱ
Research Skills W: Fundamentals of Academic Writing
Research Skills W: Developing Academic Writing
Research Skills W: The Secrets of Research Writing
Research Skills W: More Secrets of Research Writing
Research Skills P: Practical Presentation Skills
Research Skills P: Effective Research Presentation
Research Skills P: Academic Presentation Design
Research Skills P: Academic Presentation
Research Skills P: Academic Presentation Skills Ⅰ
Research Skills P: Academic Presentation Skills Ⅱ
Research Skills SC: Summer Camp
Research skills F: Academic communication in French Ⅰ
Research skills F: Academic communication in French Ⅱ
Research Skills C: Academic Writing in Chinese Ⅰ
Research Skills C: Academic Writing in Chinese Ⅱ

Special Lecture on International Development A (Global Leader 1)
Special Lecture on International Development A (Global Leader 3)
Development and Business 
Seminar on Education and Human Resource Development Ib(Prof. Okada A. )
Seminar on Education and Human Resource Development Ⅱb(Prof. Okada A. )

1.Grade Confirmation by NU Portal