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- Adventure in Transformative Thinking at Graduate School -

Your Intellectual Curiosity Expands Globally

What we share as our discipline is our concern for the human race, which has created such an unprecedented history of civilization and its cultures; we value an intellectual rigor with a humanist passion to deeply apprehend our behavior in every sphere. Thus our faculty purports to study this fundamental aspect of human beings, which includes a variety of disciplines from philosophy and history, through sociology and psychology, to literatures, pedagogies, cultural studies and even computerized human sciences. You who are filled with such intellectual curiosity and rigor are most welcome.

“You Acquire Contemporary ‘Humanology’ through Elite Seminars”

Our faculty consists of three main branches of discipline, totaling fifteen separate courses; we practice teaching in thoroughly small seminars with a maximum number of ten to twenty students, which makes it possible for the students to explore their concerns with professionalized or interdisciplinary subjects through a tangible curriculum. We share our fundamental attitude to deeply apprehend the working of human beings and their cultural expressions; hence, our objectives are to acquire essential knowledge about such workings and the more practical skills to communicate in various languages other than the mother tongue. After graduation, many of the students in this faculty seek teaching jobs; you can get teaching licenses in the subject of museum curatorship as well as Japanese, social knowledge, geography and history, civil rights, and foreign languages. Those who pursue business careers join top-grade companies in almost any field. You can rely on your undergraduate apprenticeship of human study in such a way as to effect smoother human relationships.

“Adventure in Transformative Thinking at Graduate School”

Welcoming the twenty-first century, we also welcome the renovation and restructuring of our faculty; in April 2001, we completed the reformation process, which resulted in adding a new interdisciplinary existing major in Asian Urban Culture Studies as well as the three existing branches of studies comprising fifteen majors.