Guide to the School

Prof. T.Watanabe
Dean of the School

• The education and studies at the School of Human Science and Environment covers a very wide sphere. It challenges the problems that are never solved by existing professional domains. We try to solve problems from various viewpoints with mutual cooperation and collaboration of various kinds of specialties. For example, the destruction of the natural environment or the aggravation of the living environment cannot be solved by mere technical measures. Human beings inevitably take part in the problems. 　The curriculum at the school of Human Science and Environment involves searching for solutions through the harmony of many different specialties such as ethics, thought, administration, law, culture, and education. The School of Human Science and Environment pursues how human beings can integrate with the environment, based on symbiosis with the natural environment, cooperation with the cultural environment, and sympathy with the living and social environment.
• The students at the School of Human Science and Environment can learn a wide range of subjects in liberal arts and global communication at the Himeji Syosya Campus in the first year. From the second year, they move to the Himeji Shinzaike Campus that is surrounded by green woods and focus more on specialized education.
• After the third year, they learn rather professional subjects and attend specialized seminars and graduation study in small classes.
• The School of Human Science and Environment provides detailed education and study systems for teachers and students to work together, which forms a close relationship between them. We are waiting for students who show great enthusiasm for pioneering the future.

School of Human Science and Environment

Human activities have now reached a level whereby global environment conditions are so stretched that have resulted in serious environmental problems. It has become a matter of urgency to realize an environment that is able to maintain sustainable development, whereby people may live together within the globe. We recognize that human beings have a relationship with the environment around the world and have been coping with various kinds of environmental problems creatively. Thus, the School of Human Science and Environment was established to explore new social systems, new lifestyles, and to promote inter-cultural and international understandings. Moreover, we aim toward an integrated university and to contribute to the region and the development of science and technology of the nation.

Student Quota and Number of Teachers

The quota of students in the School : 200 persons per year
Number of teachers in the School : 80 persons

Basic Concepts

• The school deals with a new academic region, harmonized with environmental policies and technologies on the basis of human studies.
• The school forms professional fields on the premise that the environment is a place of information exchange and/or conversation between human beings and the globe, moreover the conversation is practiced through human thoughts, activities, and societies.
• We take student education, which involves various kinds of special fields organized into six education courses and one department extending over these special fields.
• The school calls on a high level of information technology and international understanding, according to the special character of the study measures and education.
• The school aims at the fusion of Human Science and Environment as an academic discipline that extends outside the school, through organic cooperation with not only other faculties or research organs in the university, but also laboratories or government offices outside the university.

History of the campus