Faculty of Liberal Arts

Department of Japanese Culture

Department of Education

Department of History

Department of Sociology

Department of Psychology

---

The Department of Psychology offers a variety of subjects from the basics to specialized topics, with access to fully equipped laboratories and other facilities. In the first year, students acquire basic knowledge about the various areas of psychology: cognition, learning, perception, development, society, personality, and clinical practice, through lectures and small seminars, with exposure to the many different methodologies of examining humanity that make up the background to psychology. In the second year, students split into small groups to carry out practical studies, using experiments, research, and clinical examinations, and to assimilate the basics of data gathering, analytical methods, and scientific report writing in order to publish results. In the third year and above, students join one of three courses, Basic Psychology, Developmental Psychology, or Social Psychology in order to specialize. Once the basics have been acquired, students identify a specialist theme on which to carry out research, for example, from clinical psychology, sensory psychology, behavioral psychology, criminal psychology and so on.

---