With its Faculty of Foreign Language Studies (FFLS), Kansai University is meeting two goals. The first is to offer teacher training courses where prospective students can develop extremely high levels of proficiency in communicating in their respective target languages and to be successfully qualified as teachers of either English or Chinese as a foreign language. The second is to produce graduates armed with outstanding communication skills which will enable them to serve as leaders and pioneers in one or another among a range of fields in the international arena. The university anticipates that FFLS graduates, equipped in both information technology and media-use, will pursue productive careers as ‘professional adepts in use of a foreign language’. While our students concentrate on studying English and Chinese, those enrolled in the Foreign-language Communication course are required to study one or more of foreign languages other than English and Chinese. Those include German, French, Spanish, Russian, and Korean.
  In addition, by acquiring the requisite number of credits, those students that pursue either of our teacher-training courses will be able to gain a first-class license to teach the language in which they focus on (i.e., either English or Chinese) at secondary-school level. The credits from required training courses are also counted among those necessary for graduation.

  Three majors are offered:

1. English-language Education

  Those completing this course will be truly professional educators in this field. They will have profited from a curriculum that places a strong emphasis on classroom praxes, provides a thorough understanding of the theory of second language acquisition, and provides the technology of information-communication. The program equips students with a proper academic grounding from which to meet the challenge of teaching a foreign language at primary level as well as the secondary level.

2. Foreign-language Communication

  Those completing this course will have a high degree of proficiency in their language of specialization, a deepened understanding of the patterns of thought that underpin the culture where the target language is used, and skills for strategic problem-solving and active intellectual contributions.

3. Chinese Cultural Studies

  The goal of this course is to educate students who will be highly versed not only in Chinese language and culture but also information-communication technology, and capable of performing valuable service to society-at-large by deploying their advanced Chinese-language skills. A further goal is to produce certified secondary-school teachers qualified and prepared to teach either Chinese or English, thus flexibly serving requirements imposed by educational diversification.