Educational Policy

Curriculum

Educational Objectives and Policies

Education and Research Objectives

To impart high-level expertise and broad general knowledge and cultivate a capacity to understand and practice management using a diversity of approaches in actual social engagement.

Human Resource Development Objectives

To produce individuals who understand management in its local and global social contexts, and who can contribute not only to corporate management but also to the local and international communities through rational decision-making grounded in specialist knowledge.

Diploma policy

The Department of Management sets standards for the skills and knowledge students should acquire before graduation as follows. Those who fulfill the graduation requirements shall be deemed to have acquired these qualities and will be awarded a diploma.

1. The knowledge and skills required to appropriately analyze management environments that are undergoing globalization and increasing complexity.
2. The ability to understand and explain the approaches and concepts of Management Studies as well as specialized knowledge.
3. The ability to efficiently collect and process complex and diverse information and take the lead in solving issues challenging society.
4. The ability to respect differences and diversity, engage in open and fair discussion and communicate information, in order to make appropriate decisions under strict constraints
5. The ability to acquire high-level communication skills and contribute to problem-solving by taking the initiative in international forums.

In addition to the above, the SPSF course sets the following abilities which students should acquire before graduation as common requirements across its six departments (Department of Journalism, Department of Education, Department of Sociology, Department of Economics, Department of Management, Department of Global Studies).

6. The ability to learn the basic knowledge on “Sustainable Futures,” to understand its importance, and to take action towards resolving challenges to the sustainable futures by drawing upon their academic discipline as well as from the other five disciplines in the SPSF course they learn.
7. The ability to understand and apply the interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies, learned in their academic discipline and in the other five disciplines of the SPSF course, when addressing issues and presenting their ideas.

Curriculum policy

With an aim to achieve the Diploma Policy, the Department of Management constitutes its curriculum as follows:
1. Have freshmen acquire the learning skills, fundamental understanding of specialized knowledge, communication skills, logical thinking, and social ethics required in promoting specialized learning in the Main Core Courses, “Introduction to Management 1” and “Introduction to Management 2.”
2. Have students deepen their expertise in Specialized Courses and Seminars, and have them acquire the ability to solve the issues challenging society today.
3. Aim to foster a self-motivated attitude towards learning and improve communication skills through small-group courses offered throughout the four years of enrollment.
4. Offer courses taught by experienced business managers and practitioners that foster a realistic and practical sense of management and/or teach business in practice.
5. To have students intensively improve their proficiency in English, the language commonly spoken internationally, through English Courses, and at the same time offer Foreign Language Courses in order to have them acquire other foreign language skills.

In addition to the above, the SPSF course constructs its curriculum in the following manner, for the purpose of achieving the common diploma policy across the six departments:

6. To enable the students during the first year to acquire a basic knowledge on “Sustainable Futures” and the relating issues through the SPSF General Studies Courses, drawing on the perspectives of six disciplines. Based on the acquired knowledge, the students will be able to deepen their understanding in various challenges related to the sustainable futures through Elective Courses in the University-wide General Studies Courses, and they will be also able to learn about the approaches, contents, and methodologies of the different disciplines through Specialized Courses offered by each department.
7. To enable students to gradually gain knowledge of the different disciplines of each Department and also acquire a wide range of knowledge through the courses offered by other faculties and departments which have been designated to offer Elective Compulsory Courses or Elective Courses. Thus, the students will be able to acquire the various perspectives, contents, and methodologies, as well as comprehensive approaches from the courses.

Admissions policy

The Department of Management aims to foster individuals who can systematically study highly professional expertise regarding corporate business management activities and can simultaneously understand business management in the context of global society and contribute to society by making management decisions.
1. We seek students interested in the various issues challenging society and motivated to play an active part in dealing with them.
2. We seek students with the Japanese and foreign language skills required to logically analyze and understand social phenomena from a multidimensional perspective, a grounding in social studies, including history, and excellent logical thinking skills.
3. We seek strongly motivated students who will be future leaders in both commercial and non-profit organizations and projects in Japan and overseas.

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