Developing individuals capable of raising new issues in the culture of hyper-globalization
Based on a foundation of high proficiency in English, students will develop into talent able to cultivate new directions through cross-disciplinary approaches involving religion, political culture, literature, art, society, and so on.
About the Graduate School of Languages and Cultures
Educational Goals and Our Three Policies
The goal of the Graduate School of Languages and Cultures is to nurture talent with the human qualities which allows them to smoothly conduct intercultural communication via linguistic performance by being able form outlines of the problems created by modern society, which is done by asking specific questions based on unbiased perspectives and broad-ranging educational knowledge that is firmly rooted in international perspectives in the true sense.
Students can acquire qualifications for the teaching profession while improving their practical proficiency of English so that they can meet the standards required of highly specialized professionals.
We are nurturing talent able to go about achieving, through dialogue conducted with diverse arrays of people, mutual understanding that is based on global knowledge which transcends language, history, and culture, as well as based on broad perspectives which steer away from static systems of research and involve students considering perspectives and ideas which differ from their own.
Cultural phenomena are not fixed to any one country. From the beginning of the 20th century, we have already seen the merging of cultures in different regions in Europe. In modern times, that area is expanding even further. Students will observe and analyze events occurring within a wide range of regions using cross-sectional, or more specifically, comprehensive perspectives, derive pertinent hypotheses and go about demonstrating those hypotheses. That is what interdisciplinary cultural research is all about. We believe that those able to contemplate things as Japanese people, or as individuals of their own respective countries, while also possessing a command of foreign languages, are exactly the kind of people who possess the mentality that is essential for interdisciplinary cultural research. While the framework of the state is still strong, it is natural that we move away from fixed research systems of the past which presuppose the state and become increasingly fascinated by still untouched academic fields. The Division of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies welcomes people, regardless of their nationality, who are full of lively intellectual curiosity and who aim to become experts in the field, and also provides cooperation to those students when it comes to achieving their research objectives.
Graduate School of Languages and Cultures Director Masako Ohno
