admission quota is 77 Division of Social Design

Develop advanced professionals who can contribute to the design related to community.

The “Division of Social Design” provides the education and training toward advanced professionals who contribute to the design of software (community, social system, culture, policy, etc.) and hardware (building, national land conservation, environment, etc.) in relation to the community.

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Three Educational Policies

  1. Diploma Policies (Policies on academic degree conferment)

    • Acquire advanced expert knowledge and engineering related to software and hardware from local community to global scale in order to resolve new challenge to support the creation of a sustainable and prosperous community.
    • Acquire interdisciplinary intellect and practical skills to design sustainable human society and social environment for diverse people to live together.
    • Acquire information transmission abilities and communication skills to promote interdisciplinary integration and collaboration with diverse people in terms of social design.
    • Acquire the ethics as an advanced professional in terms of social design.

  2. Curriculum Policies (Curriculum to achieve academic/educational target)

    • Provide courses as the graduate program related to social design to acquire advanced expert knowledge and engineering regarding software and hardware.
    • Provide curses on interdisciplinary curriculum in order to cultivate interdisciplinary intellect in terms of social design.
    • Provide courses collaborated with internship and internal or external researchers/strategists in order to cultivate practical skills in terms of social design.
    • Provide courses to cultivate information transmission abilities and ethics to publish/apply the advanced research ability and research outcome.

  3. Admission Policies (Policies on enrollment admission)

    • Person who has basic academic skills necessary for the courses and research on design of sustainable human society and social design for diverse people to live together.
    • Person who is willing to acquire creative ability along with enhancing professional competency on social design.
    • Person who has strong interest and motivation in contributing to the community through social design.

Division of Social Design
Interdisciplinary course and program introduction

It consists of 8 programs in total as interdisciplinary curriculum based on integration of arts and sciences/interdisciplinary integration.

Interdisciplinary course (Cultivate advanced expert knowledge and engineering in interdisciplinary fields.)

Course name Semester Credits
Designing Local Society Semester Ａ?Ｄ Credits １
Comprehensive Global and Area Studies Semester Ａ Credits １
Lecture on 'Society for all' Semester Ａ Credits １
Literacy of Community & Human Development Promotion Semester Ａ Credits １

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You can check the details of Interdisciplinary course in PDF.

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Program introduction