The Faculty of Law and Letters fosters the development of a “glocal” mindset (global and local) that organically ties one’s own region with the world at large and finds ways of solving issues that are germane to both local and global contexts. This mindset is used to consider new approaches to society and culture, with students pursuing ongoing learning to achieve these ends and translate their academic performance into practical solutions. The program fosters a fundamental skillset and knowledge in the humanities and social sciences and trains talent who are widely conversant in global subjects. Therefore, students graduating from the faculty of law are required to have the following skills and abilities.
Admissions policy(Student intake and abilities required upon admission)
- Knowledge/Understanding
- The student has the knowledge and skills equivalent to a high school graduate in subjects such as Japanese, foreign language, geography, history, civics, mathematics, science, information, and others studied in high school or other equivalent schools.
- Thinking/Judgment
- The student has the ability to consider things from multiple perspectives and summarize their ideas.
- Interest/Enthusiasm/Attitude
- The student is interested in various issues raised by human beings, cultures created by human beings, and real-world situations, and hopes to pursue them through university studies and to apply the results of these studies to today’s globalized society.
- Skills/Expression
- The student has the ability to express their thoughts on a given issue in Japanese in a clear manner.
Curriculum policy(Academic curriculum structure, trajectory, features, etc.)
- Students engage in a range of fundamental courses that follow the academic curriculum and are designed to install a general skillset and language abilities as they work towards their academic degree. Studying a wide variety of academic courses allows the student to obtain a fundamental set of university-level knowledge and comprehensive skills.
- Building on this core knowledge, students then take courses that introduce them to specialized disciplines and study the fundamentals of the humanities and social sciences, contemporary Japanese culture, and the Japanese language.
- Students take specialized courses in a given field, with foundational and advanced courses. In addition, the “active learning” methodology is incorporated throughout a curriculum of practicum courses in order to foster a practical approach that is relevant to today’s world. In addition, the course includes an Elective that allows students to freely explore their interests in a deeper fashion.
Diploma policy(Conferring of diplomas/abilities needed to graduate)
- Knowledge/Understanding
- Students possess a wide range of fundamental knowledge and skills in the humanities and social sciences.
- Students have specialized knowledge and skills in a field within the humanities and social sciences.
- Thinking/Judgment
- Students are able to objectively and logically analyze and study humanity, culture, and society from a global and multi-polar perspective.
- Students are able to set tasks and goals for themselves and consider solutions towards these based on methodologies germane to their discipline.
- Interest/Enthusiasm/Attitude
- Students have a desire to continue learning and utilize the skills and knowledge they obtain towards contributions in today’s global society.
- Students are able to collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders in today’s global society.
- Skills/Expression
- Students are able to widely obtain the requisite information for a task and organize and analyze it.
- Students have the requisite communication skills needed to engage in today’s global society.
