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- The School of Human Science and Environment offers various kinds of studies and education focusing on technology and policy that are connected with the environment and human beings. It is our aim that students acquire specialized knowledge sufficiently and become talented individuals with creative abilities.
- The School of Human Science and Environment emphasizes global communication and information literacy. We develop various and flexible curriculums working in close cooperation with cultural and scientific fields. We also provide specialized learning environments such as fieldwork, basic seminar, or specialized seminar in small classes.
- The system of education in the school has six courses and one department, aiming for complete professional education. Students that belong to any course from the second year receive professional education. In the Department of Food Science and Nutrition, students belong to the department from the first year. In the master’s and doctoral postgraduate course, they carry out research on deeper relationships between the environment and human beings.
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Removing the limit between cultural and scientific fields |
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The School of Human Science and Environment has curriculums and courses that aim to achieve a wide range of common sense and knowledge without any distinction between cultural and scientific courses. Thus, students have sufficient time to discover their talents and specialization in either a cultural or scientific range. We support students for four years so that they can live on their own as professional individuals with specialties best adapted for them. |
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Out-and-out small class education |
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As the school has 80 teachers for 200 students in the admission quota, it can offer close and personal education rather than production-line education. In experiments, practical, and fieldwork subjects, we provide small classes of 10 to 35 students. From the first year, students attend basic seminars, in which they have the opportunity to research, present, and discuss in classes comprised of about ten students. In specialized seminars or graduation study placed after the second year, students can enjoy ideal circumstances for carrying out work under a teacher with one to five students. |
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Free choice of subjects |
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The first year is set as a term for trial and error, and students should choose specialized fields from the second year. Students can decide which field they are suited to and get a wide range of related knowledge. |
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Full teaching in information and language education |
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The school puts full emphasis on information education. In the first year, students learn subjects such as data processing exercises and introductory information science. Thus, they can acquire fundamental knowledge on information machines. Furthermore, after the second year, many information subjects are provided, so that any student can surely acquire professional knowledge by the time of graduation, even in any specialized field. As there are a number of foreign teachers that take part in language education, students have the resources to have conversations with them at any time. The school also provides unique subjects enabling communication while learning professional knowledge, such as reading foreign books. |
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Satisfaction in fieldwork |
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You may know the word “fieldwork.” It means learning various matters through actual experiences in order to acquire knowledge that students can never learn through ordinary lectures, and additionally it makes their work more interesting. For example, students investigate environmental problems during practical surveys and make analyses, find solutions, and have discussions with respect to them. They visit official facilities, professional organs, or laboratories outside the school, and stay there to learn on occasion. The school is one of the few colleges where students can experience a considerable amount of fieldwork. |
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Six education courses and one department |
- The first year is assumed to be a term of trial and error. Students should then choose a specialized field from the second year, except in the case of the Department of Food Science and Nutrition.
- The specialized fields consist of six education courses and one department. Also, their curriculums are devised such that students can systematically learn in every specialized field.
- Each education course is able to accept a limited number of students. Students can choose any course freely within the limit.
- Students entering the School of Human Science and Environment from the year 2009 can choose one of the following education courses. However, the Department of Food Science and Nutrition has its own quota for entrance.
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The educational purpose of this course is to study various environments, including atmospheric, aquatic, geological, organism-based, information, and economics and politics in reference to their “systems.” Interdisciplinary efforts between these fields could be crucial to the resolution of the global or local environmental problems confronting us today. The course provides subjects for the understanding of natural laws, as well as in technology to protect environmental resources. Lectures in information science will help develop advanced analytical techniques in three areas: data, systems, and communications. The goal of this course is to propagate graduates who will work for companies and governments as experts in the fields of environmental or computer sciences.
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The Health and Human Performance (HHP) course is designed to teach theories and practices in order to contribute to developing healthy lifestyles in a society. Recently, we have begun to face various issues such as metabolic syndrome, lifestyle-related diseases, and social changes due to a low birth rate and an increasing older adult population. HHP aims to enhance physical and psychological health as well as social welfare health by integrating multi-disciplines. The HHP course prepares students for careers in administration, research, and education, health-related business corporations, and public offices. HHP graduates can be certified as junior high and high school physical education teachers.
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In this course, we study the relationship between human beings and the spatial environment. This consists of interiors, residences, architecture, and urban areas etc. We then studied how to design a sustainable environment through the subjects architecture design, housing planning, and urban planning. These can cultivate our sensitivity and skills too. After this course, students should be able to enter professions such as an interior designer, housing planner, architect, or urban planner, in both private and public sectors. |
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This course explores ways, through political measures, to realize a sustainable symbiotic society and its environment at local and global levels. We take a multidisciplinary approach that transcends the boundaries of existing academic fields in order to address increasingly serious and complex environmental issues.
The curriculum focuses on “environmental coexistence,” “environmental strategies,” and “local environmental creation,” with the aim of developing our human resources by fostering in students the motivation as well as analytic, creative, and technical expertise to organize and draw up sound political measures.
We anticipate that students will be active in the future as corporate and public employees, NPO/NGO workers, journalists, and will be ready to fully put to use the high level of conceptual power that they have acquired in this course.
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This course seeks environments for humans to exist socially by achieving self-actualization and full participation in society, while focusing on human development and the educational environment. Our courses bring together the theory and practice that develop students’ local/global perspectives, communicating skills, and attitudes to caring for others, as well as basic knowledge about education and human development. Graduates are expected to work in educational professions in order to provide a better environment for human development, as teachers, counselors, and administrative/professional staff in different institutions including secondary schools, nongovernmental organizations, local governments, and other institutions. |
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The educational goal of this course is to attain a thorough knowledge of foreign countries and their cultures, whilst attaining advanced skills in language, information, and communication. A capable person in the 21st century will most probably require not only a deep understanding of international issues but also computer skills and language ability. In this information-oriented society, handling information efficiently, with multiple views of the world, should be enhanced with the development of knowledge in practice. In order to acquire these abilities, this course offers a curriculum that contains the academic interests of language and culture. Students have opportunities to learn second and foreign languages, such as English, Chinese, German, and French, as well as studying European, Japanese, and Asian culture, and computer-related technical areas. By participating in international programs, thereby communicating with a variety of non-Japanese people from abroad, learners will also be able to achieve a wider view and vision of the globalized world. Having satisfactorily completed this course and successfully assimilated advanced language skills and a wider world view, students should be more than adequately prepared for employment in the field of global business, as well as in public and educational institutions. |
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With the declining birth rate and a growing proportion of elderly people, the role of registered dietitians as specialists for food and health care has steadily expanded in our country. This includes nutritional support for senior citizens and patients, prevention of life style-related diseases, and nutrition education in schools and communities. On the basis of their special knowledge of nutrition and food science, our department supports the acquisition of abilities and skills useful for dietitians in practice through experiments and practicum. The sophisticated field training for registered dietitians also improves their problem-solving skills in terms of nutritional management. Alumni from our department expect to work at medical institutions, food companies, pharmaceutical companies, and food service divisions in schools, hospitals, and welfare institutions, as key players. Public health dietitians and scientists of research laboratories are also potential professions for these graduates. |
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