Aiko Tanaka, President of Waseda University, reported that she would expand face-to-face lessons after entering the winter quarter, which is the second half of the fall semester, and requested students to take thorough infection control measures such as wearing masks.
According to Waseda University, a document of President Tanaka's name has been posted on the website.Regarding face-to-face lessons, it was revealed that face-to-face lessons have begun to resume in subjects other than seminars, taking into consideration those who are in the first grade or some second grades and do not have seminars. For faculties that are in the first grade and have no face-to-face lessons, the policy is to provide opportunities to meet face-to-face outside of lessons.
In preparation for the resumption of face-to-face lessons, air conditioning equipment was installed in all classrooms that will be taught in the fall semester for about 3.4 million yen, but the remaining classrooms will also be installed for about 2021 million yen for the spring semester of 4.1. Clarified plans to proceed.
However, as the number of infected people continues to increase due to the third wave of new coronavirus infection, the introduction of full-scale face-to-face lessons may lead to the occurrence of clusters, so we will gradually face-to-face online lessons while paying attention to infection prevention. He showed his intention to return to class.
We request students to act with the same awareness as before, such as encouraging them to wash their hands, wearing masks, and avoiding dinner in close contact.
reference:[Waseda University] Classes in the second half of the fall semester
