Master's Program for the Program of Humanity

By attending a variety of lectures and seminars, students who specialize in this program can develop their ability to discover and resolve social issues from the perspective of the humanities, rooted in the universal values of human beings who live in this increasingly complex modern society.

The Courses of Foundational Cultural Science consist of nine course programs: Philosophy and ethics, Social sciences and cultural anthropology, Psychology and cognitive sciences, History, Japanese literature and Japanese language studies, Comparative cultural studies, Culture of the English-speaking world, Western classics, and Linguistics. These course programs aim to enable the students to gain a thorough knowledge of, and learn the disciplines of, traditional academic study and basic research.

The Courses of Study of Multicultural Co-Existence consist of eight course programs: Gender studies, Eurasian studies, East Asian studies, Islamic studies and comparative studies of society, European studies, Cultural resource studies, Japanese language education studies, and Multilingual social communication studies. These course programs focus on themed studies (field studies) and are designed to develop students’ abilities to investigate various solutions from all interdisciplinary angles.

Along with establishing a new Graduate School, we have founded the Courses of Advanced Skills of Education and Learning Support. These provide a curriculum aimed at implementing systematic training of professionals involved in learning support of students that meet the needs of modern youth. (Details will be described later.)

For this program, we have significantly reorganized the former course’s curriculum (Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences[U1] ). We have added practical subjects with which students can cultivate their literacy in cultural sciences and obtain a wide range of abilities to play an active role in our rapidly changing global society. We have also enhanced our domestic and international internship programs and provide a common subject group to encourage students’ independent and collaborative learning activities.

Note) Students taking the Courses of Foundational Cultural Science and the Courses of Study of Multicultural Co-Existence can earn a Master of Literature or a Master of Arts degree. Those taking the Courses of Advanced Skills of Education and Learning Support can earn a Master of Arts degree.

Note) Licenses that the students can obtain: Japanese junior high school teaching licenses in Japanese language, English, and Society); and Japanese high school teaching licenses in Japanese language, English, Geography and History, and Civics.

- Courses of Advanced Skills for Education and Learning Support

Jobs that require advanced skills of education and learning support are a new professional area for a person who has obtained such specialized knowledge and skills, particularly in learning support, career development, dispatch of students overseas, including study abroad, and hosting international students, as well as support for student life and study counseling, in accordance with the University’s policies of entrance examinations, study courses, and the conferment of degrees.

The Chiba University Academic Link Center has been certified by the Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology as a joint-use base for education-related activities. It has already started a program named the Academic Link Professional Training Program for the Advanced Skills of Education and Learning Support. At the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences[U3] , super university learning administrators (SULA), our university’s unique specialists in the advanced skills of education and learning support, are in place and have started their activities.

In these courses, students are required to systematically build their own portfolio of classes and curricula based on emerging study strategies, such as active learning. These courses aim to further improve students’ academic knowledge and develop human resources that will be able to produce innovation in this field. In conjunction with these on-campus activities, we have decided to establish Courses of Advanced Skills of Education and Learning Support at the Graduate School as one of the courses comprising the Program of Humanity. The aim of these courses is to further improve students’ academic knowledge and develop human resources who can innovate in this field. A variety of subjects, including course-crossing subjects, are provided so that students taking other majors or courses, who are thinking of qualifying as teaching staff at universities or other higher education institutions, can also acquire practical knowledge. They can also take subjects that are directly related to their career development beyond academic specialties.