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Faculty of Education, Art and Science

Outline and Features

The Faculty of Education was reorganized into the Faculty of Education, Art and Science in April 2005 in order to instill students with practical expertise for the 21st century. It created the Department of Education, the Department of Art and Culture and the Department of Information, Environment and Food Science, which had contributed to regional society's education and culture, the fostering of teachers and the creation of cultural activities and lifestyles.
As generations progress, society has undergone a sea change to require different types of workers. To cope with the change, the three departments were unified into a single department (the Department of Education, Art and Science). As a faculty with expert courses and a practical and comprehensive education system, the Faculty of Education, Art and Science aims at fostering human resources suited to the needs of the new age.

Philosophy and Goals

The advancement of globalization and information society in line with the rapid progress of science and technology, and significant changes of the social environment, as represented by the falling birthrates and graying of the population, call for the creation of a comprehensive power of the community to address these situations.
The faculty nurtures citizens and professionals capable of linking their expert knowledge to practice, carry on, and further develop cultural resources of the community.

We want to welcome students who:

  • Have a strong interest in today's social problems and their solutions, and an eagerness to enter professions that contribute to vitalizing local communities,
  • Have basic knowledge enabling co mprehensive and logical thinking,
  • Can acquire more advanced knowledge and skills,
  • Can positively tackle tasks, respect others, and have strong social and communication skills, and
  • Aspire to become teachers or certified psychologists at elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and special schools, as well as nutritionists, Class One architects, and social researchers.

Department of Education, Art and Science

Outline and Features

In order to further promote the cultivation of expert professionals who can contribute to energizing local areas and the development of people with a high degree of expertise combined with a comprehensive knowledge and practical abilities, the Department of Education, Art and Science provides eight courses and 23 programs to better suit the needs of students.

The department's curriculum consists of basic education for the acquisition of liberal arts knowledge, core programs for the basics of specialties, and advanced programs to acquire a high level of expertise.
It also provides opportunities for interdisciplinary learning to enable the acquisition of comprehensive and applied skills.

The eight courses are outlined below:

Primary Education Course

The course fosters elementary school teachers with a high degree of content area knowledge who can appropriately cope with today's complex and varied school problems. It also nurtures special education teachers who teach and support handicapped children, and certified psychologists with a teaching certificate for elementary schools that can give psychological support in the educational environment and other areas.

The course desires students who:
  • Want to become elementary school and special education teachers,
  • Want to give psychological support in various areas of society with certificates to be both an elementary school teacher and a psychologist,
  • Are eager to give educational support and assistance to the local community,
  • Possess a basic knowledge of each subject, irrespective of arts or sciences, and
  • Are receptive and tolerant of children and can communicate and cooperate well with other people.
Intercultural Studies Course

The course develops indivisuals who can contribute to the community's intercultural exchange, especially with East Asian residents and English-speaking citizens, by taking advantage of their language and cultural knowledge and communication skills. Students will be able to acquire a practical command of English, Chinese or Korean and Japanese teaching skills for the promotion of intercultural exchange. The program also fosters well-cultured Japanese and English teachers with a practical command of the languages and internationally minded social studies teachers for junior high and high schools with a deep understanding of today's interconnected international society.

The course desires students who:
  • Are strongly interested in and enthusiastic about the creation and promotion of community cultural activities,
  • Aim at acquiring higher knowledge and skills in intercultural exchange,
  • Are interested in intercultural communication and coexistence, and
  • Want to become junior or senior high school teachers of Japanese, social studies or English.
Art Course

The Art Course fosters people who can take leadership in contributing to the promotion of the community's formative arts activities. Students can use their power of expression in art, design, and art theory in the real world. The course of study also develops junior high and high school teachers of arts and crafts equipped with a wide range of knowledge and culture, creative and practical expression skills, and a confident ability to develop teaching materials.

The course desires students who:
  • Have a strong interest in the arts and are motivated to creating and promoting community cultural activities,
  • Can acquire greater knowledge and skills in formative arts, and
  • Want to become junior high or high school teachers of arts and crafts.
Music Course

Students of the course study both practical skills and theory in order to gain the ability to support and lead the improvement of applied musical activities in the community. Through teacher training courses, students will become qualified to teach music culture at junior high and high schools.

The course desires students who:
  • Have learned the basics of music and have a rich sensibility,
  • Have actively participated in extracurricular activities and learned to cooperate and act through such experience,
  • Have preferably taken an elective on art at high school and are interested in literature, art works and performing arts,
  • Excel in musical knowledge, skills and expression and are enthusiastic for music teaching and cultural creation, and
  • Want to become junior high or high school teachers of music.
Sports Course

The course fosters people who can support and teach health and sports activities, including the planning of appropriate opportunities to learn sports in accordance with individual needs. The program also nurtures well-cultured health and physical education teachers for junior high and high schools with informed scientific views on sports.

The course desires students who:
  • Are strongly interested in and motivated to creating and promoting community cultural activities,
  • Are well-equipped to gain a higher knowledge and skill of sports, and
  • Want to become health and physical education teachers at junior high or high schools.
Food Science and Nutrition Course

The course develops people who can address nutritional issues with deep wisdom, and contribute to the improvement of dietary life and the creation of food culture. The curriculum also trains nutritionists with broad expert knowledge, nutrition educators and teachers of domestic science. Students will systematically study nutrition science, food science, nutrition education and other disciplines concerning food to acquire a high level of expertise and practical skills based on scientific foundations.

The course desires students who:
  • Are eager to try new things from a broader perspective,
  • Are strongly interested in food, and
  • Want to become nutritionists, nutrition educators or domestic science teachers at junior high or high schools.
Environmental and Space Design Course

The course is designed to foster people who can understand the various characteristics of the natural environment and build a living space where people can lead rich lives. With a basic knowledge and understanding of natural sciences, students will acquire expert knowledge needed to create a sustainable harmony of dwellings and the natural environment and a space for a safe, secure, and comfortable human life.

The course desires students who:
  • Are keen to learn new things from a wider perspective,
  • Are passionate and interested in science and education in housing and the natural environment, and
  • Want to become Class One architects, interior planners, science and vocational-technical teachers at junior high schools or science and technical teachers at senior high schools.
Systems Science and Information Studies Course

The course supports learners who are capable of solving complex problems encountered in modern society by linking various academic fields and proposing better systems. It also fosters junior high and high school mathematics teachers equipped with a deep understanding of problem-solving methods based on mathematical sciences.

The course desires students who:
  • Are interested in learning new ways of doing things,
  • Want to apply mathematical sciences and information science to solving today's complex problems, and
  • Want to become mathematics teachers at junior high or high schools.