Diploma Policy

The Graduate School of Regional Education, Art and Science awards a degree to students who have completed its curriculum, successfully passed the screening and examination of a master's thesis, or a specific task-oriented research project and as a result acquired the research skills and advanced expertise described below:

1. Clinical Psychology Major

Graduates in this field have obtained advanced specialty skills needed to play an active role in clinical psychology using psychological knowledge and skills in areas such as education, welfare, medicine, public health and industry. Specifically, indivisuals have mastered the knowledge and skills necessary for clinical psychologists at hospitals and other medical institutions, junior high schools, child counseling centers, children's homes, and the national civil service.

2. Art and Culture Major

The Art and Culture Major has the three fields of Music, Art and Sports and confers a degree on students who have acquired advanced expert skills in their respective fields to contribute to invigorating culture.

(1) Music

Students who have acquired deep knowledge and the expressive ability in a specialty field of music and the abilities to plan and carry out contributions in the local community.

(2) Art

Students who have acquired deep knowledge and advanced expert skills in a specialty field of formative art and the ability to contribute to developing and promoting art in the local community and society.

(3) Sports

Students who have acquired advanced skills and knowledge of sports and the teaching and coordinating abilities in schools and community sports.

Curriculum Policy

1. The Graduate School of Regional Education, Art and Science consists of the Clinical Psychology Major and the Art and Culture Major. They partially merge specialty study subjects and fields to foster people who can give psychological care or play active cultural roles by flexibly dealing with various problems of today.
2. The curriculum of the Clinical Psychology Major is composed of required subjects and task-oriented research related to clinical psychology and electives. That of the Art and Culture Major consists of subjects common to the three fields of musical art, formative art and sports science, required subjects and electives of the respective fields and collaboration subjects.
3. Both majors emphasize practices and seminars to cultivate expertise, techniques, and skills. They thus collaborate strongly with clinical psychology facilities and cultural and sports facilities in Yamagata Prefecture. These facilities offer students venues for practice, while students participate in assisting the work of the facilities to gain practical problem solving skills.