Faculty of Letters

Faculty Overview
- language, history, thought as paths to a deeper grasp of the human situation -

In the Faculty of Letters students embrace a broad spectrum of disciplines with the aim of enriching their understanding of humanity, its patterns of life, and that crystallization of its wisdom, its cultural legacy. It is anticipated that the student's fundamental undertaking will be to reach, by tracing in turn the paths pursued by their predecessors, a more thorough awareness of how the present may best be addressed, and from there pursue those two most urgent problems, the proper figure of humanity in the coming century, and the worlds that it must fear to find and strive to create for the better.

To this end, the Faculty offers three basic approaches. These begin from the study of, respectively, (1) language and its creative application, (2) the constructions and the behavior of the mind, and (3) the varied patterns of history and ethnography. These approaches are facilitated by a basic grid of eight departments: English Literature, Japanese Literature, Philosophy, French Literature, German Literature, History and Geography, Chinese Literature, Education; and within each of these the student is offered a further choice from a number of specialist courses. With this variety, the Faculty hopes to afford each student the means of identifying the entrance to higher education that most suits her or his needs, aims and strengths, and constitutes the most immediate route to the understanding that he or she aspires to reach.

Departments

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