Three Policies
(Faculties)

Diploma Policy

 Kansai University awards a bachelor’s degree to students who have acquired the following knowledge and skills, abilities of thinking, judgement, and expression, and proactive attitudes by completing prescribed curricula in the degree programs:

• Knowledge and Skills
  Students have specialized knowledge and skills backed up by a wide range of liberal arts, and are able to utilize them comprehensively.
• Abilities of Thinking, Judgement, and Expression
  Students are able to think for themselves from a global perspective, to keep smooth communication with others, and to contribute to society by practicing Kansai University’s “Think and Act” academic philosophy.
• Proactive Attitudes
  Students are able to take responsibility for their learning and to face proactively against problems to be solved.

Curriculum Policy

 Kansai University configures general subjects of liberal arts, specialized subjects, and other necessary subjects systematically based on the following items in order that the students can acquire knowledge and skills, abilities of thinking, judgement, and expression, and proactive attitudes according to the Diploma Policy:

• Educational Contents:

  Liberal Arts:

  1. To foster a wide range of liberal arts and flexible way of thinking necessary to play an active role in society.
  2. To configure the programs that enable the students to discover academic knowledges around them, encourage their interest in academic learning, and master how to advance their studies.
  3. To foster abilities to understand different cultures, and think from the standpoint of people with different opinions, and also to cultivate communication skills by using the foreign languages.

  Specialized Subjects:

  1. To aim to acquire the expertise efficiently through systematic configuration of lectures, seminars, and practices.
  2. As for the freshmen, to foster the basic capabilities of “Think and Act”, according to each academic field through introductory subjects in order that those with varied academic backgrounds can convert their way of learning.
  3. As for the students in higher grades, to practice intensively the education for acquiring the “Think and Act”capabilities, by preparing the opportunities to enable them to meet the essence of academics through small class learnings in order to promote academic research of the individual students.

• Evaluation of Learning Achievements:

  As for evaluation of acquisition of knowledge and skills, to grasp the achievements by integration of total GPA analysis, various researches of learning activities, and results of achievement tests.

  As for evaluation of abilities of thinking, judgement, and expression, that is the “Think and Act”capabilities, to grasp the aggregation results of the University Competency Research in Student Assessment.

  As for evaluation of proactive attitudes, to grasp the aggregation results of various student assessment researches.

Admission Policy

 Kansai University widely accepts those who have the following knowledge and skills, abilities of thinking, judgement, and expression, and proactive attitudes as the students of the undergraduate courses according to our Diploma Policy and Curriculum Policy through various entrance examinations:

• To have a wide range of basic knowledge and skills through the learning of their senior high school courses.
• To have the fundamental capabilities of “Think and Act”, such as flexible way of thinking, vigorous intellectual curiosities, and strong motivation to contribute to society, through learning both of the regular and extracurricular curricula of their senior high school courses.
• To have strong willingness to proactively learn a specific academic field.

Diploma Policy

 The Faculty of Letters aims to foster students who have acquired mastery of a particular field of humanities and a grasp of humanities as a whole, in order to contribute sufficiently to society through their knowledge and abilities.  The Faculty awards a bachelor's degree (Arts) to those who have completed the course of study in accordance with the Curriculum Policy of the Faculty, and have acquired the following abilities through their undergraduate studies:

• Knowledge and Skills
  Expertise can be acquired not only in a wide range of liberal arts but also in a specific field of humanities, based on an understanding of humanities as a whole.
• Abilities of Thinking, Judgment, and Expression
  Ability to take a broad perspective on humanities through deeper insights and proper methodologies in their research field.  One should be able to think from a global perspective and contribute to society and the local community within the paradigm of “Think and Act”, Kansai University’s academic philosophy.
• Proactive Attitudes
  Ability to continuously develop their own learning, and to proactively comprehend the world surrounding us, in communication with people from various social and cultural backgrounds.

Curriculum Policy

 The Faculty of Letters configures general subjects of liberal arts, specialized subjects, and other necessary subjects, into a systematic way of enhancing students’ achievements, and provides a curriculum based on the following points, according to the Diploma Policy of the Faculty:

• Educational Content:

  Liberal Arts:

  1. A variety of liberal-arts subjects are offered for students to acquire a wide range of knowledge, across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and international relations, and to situate their learning within the vast field of human intellectual activity.
  2. A number of foreign-language subjects are offered for students to understand foreign cultures and to communicate with people from various cultural backgrounds.
  3. A cluster of distinctive liberal-arts subjects is offered for students to objectively understand the current state of affairs in Japan and abroad, and to prepare them for lifelong learning.

  Specialist Subjects:

  1. Introductory courses are offered for freshmen to help students understand the diversity and characteristics of humanities, and to acquire the skills necessary for university study.
  2. Compulsory subjects (which may be taught through lectures, seminar classes, or practicums) are offered for students to learn about their majors systematically and to tackle problems that they will solve independently.
  3. Various elective subjects are offered for students to gain an overview of the humanities and to deepen their study of a particular field.
  4. Foreign-language subjects are offered to help students further their skills to communicate with people from abroad.
  5. Some of the above-mentioned subjects are treated in small classes to provide experience-based learning opportunities.

• Evaluation of Learning:

  At the beginning of the fall semester of the 1st year, and at the start of the spring semester of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years, individual students’ progress is assessed based on the number of credits earned and GPA scores.  Personal guidance is provided to students who are having difficulty.

  At the end of the four-year program, students are required to submit a graduation thesis and pass an oral examination on its content.

Admission Policy

 The Faculty of Letters accepts applicants, in accordance with the Diploma Policy and the Curriculum Policy of the Faculty, as follows:

• Those who have acquired the basic knowledge and skills taught at senior high schools.  Specifically, the following knowledge and abilities are called for:

  Fundamental reading and comprehension ability, and the capacity to express one’s ideas clearly with a sufficiently vocabulary (Japanese and foreign languages);

  Basic knowledge of current affairs, including historical and geographical background, both in Japan and around the world (history, geography, and civics);

  Ability to follow the fundamental reasoning processes of mathematics and the natural sciences (mathematics and natural sciences).

• Those who have acquired fundamental language skills for self-expression and are able to interact with others.
• Those who have an active interest in human cultural activities and an eagerness to explore them on their own.

Diploma Policy

 The Faculty of Business and Commerce aims to cultivate business leaders capable of solving a variety of complicated and diversified business, economic and social issues.  The Faculty awards a bachelor's degree (Business and Commerce) to those who have acquired 1) the knowledge and skills; 2) the abilities of thinking, judgement, and expression; and 3) the proactive attitudes described below.

• Knowledge and Skills
  Students must complete all compulsory subjects to learn basic knowledge in business administration and commercial science in addition to liberal arts, business English and accounting.  They will also acquire expert knowledge and problem solving skills in specialized subjects by choosing a course of study: "Distribution," "Finance," "International Business," "Management" and "Accounting."
• Abilities of Thinking, Judgement and Expression
  Students will gain a broad perspective on, and deeper insights into, business, economy and society.  They will be able to contribute to society by applying their leadership skills in a paradigm of "Think and Act" and by understanding not only the means of pursuing profits but corporate ethics and social responsibility.
• Proactive Attitudes
  Students will learn how to take responsibility for their own learning and discover a range of business, economic and social issues to address in a proactive and flexible manner.

Curriculum Policy

 The Faculty of Business and Commerce configures its curriculum in order for students to learn liberal arts, specialized subjects and other necessary subjects systematically, based on the following points, with a view to enabling students to acquire in addition to the knowledge and skills, abilities of thinking, judgement, and expression, as well as proactive attitudes according to the Diploma Policy of the Faculty:

• Educational Contents:

  Liberal Arts:

  1. The Faculty provides the groups of basic subjects, self-organizing subjects, and global subjects in order for students to acquire a wide range of cultures essential for developing knowledge of business, economics and society as well as problem solving skills.
  2. The Faculty provides foreign language subjects (English, German, French, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, and Korean) in order for students to acquire communication skills utilizing foreign languages.

  Specialized Subjects:

  1. The Faculty configures its curriculum in order for students to acquire the abilities to use freely "Business English" as a common language of the international community and "Accounting" as a common language of the business world, and specifically in order for first and second year students to learn thoroughly the basics of Business and Commerce crossing over five specialized courses.  Thus a number of introductory and basic subjects are placed in their curriculum.
  2. For the students of the third and fourth years, the Faculty provides the specialized subjects in order for students to select and learn one of five specialized courses of "Distribution," "Finance," "International Business," "Management," and "Accounting".  In the center of them, specialized seminar, graduation research, project research, and workshop of small class of 15 students at the maximum are placed.
  3. The Faculty provides special programs related to Business English, Business Leadership, Accounting, and Data Science to meet the expectations of students who are willing to play an active role in all areas of business.

• Evaluation of Learning Achievements:

  The level of acquisition of credits for the compulsory specialized, liberal arts and foreign language subjects is checked at the end of the second grade in order to determine whether students have acquired enough basic knowledge to take the specialized seminars.

  Students who have earned the prescribed number of credits including research thesis and project report, and have fulfilled the evaluation criteria of the Faculty are considered to have acquired the qualification of the four-year study.

Admission Policy

 The Faculty of Business and Commerce accepts those who have the following knowledge and skills, abilities of thinking, judgement, expression, and proactive attitudes as the students according to the Diploma and Curriculum Policies of the Faculty:

• It is essential for students to have basic knowledge of domestic and overseas historical and present political economy, society, and regional matters in order to realize more comprehensive learning at the Faculty.  It is also important to have communication skills to express their opinions clearly in Japanese and English.  In addition, it is desirable to have acquired the basic ability of mathematics to make data-based analyses.
• The Faculty seek for those who have potentiality to develop problem solution abilities and take the leadership in the various business fields.
• Most importantly, the faculty seek for those who have willingness to learn about business, economies, and societies based on understanding the Curriculum Policy of the Faculty.

Diploma Policy

■ Department of Policy Studies

 The Faculty of Policy Studies regards the creation of diverse global civil society as an important educational philosophy.  A global civil society is a society realized by each citizen who has a sense of belonging to a global community that transcends national borders and takes actions that are aware of their social responsibility to the community.  In particular, the Department of Policy Studies aims to foster those who have the ability to look at a new generational change and the power to think, act, and critically analyze existing paradigms to tackle contemporary social problems at home and abroad from various integrated interdisciplinary perspectives and also who can contribute to the creation of an essentially sustainable civil society.  Thus the Faculty awards a bachelor's degree (Policy Studies) to those who have acquired the following knowledge and skills, abilities to think, judge and express themselves, and proactive attitudes, and have the ability to understand and consider diverse issues in the modern society and give solutions to them in a comprehensive and interdisciplinary manner.

• Knowledge and Skills
  Students have acquired knowledge and skills about policy studies that deal with issues faced by the modern society based on broad and rich humanity and have the ability to put them into practice.
• Abilities of Thinking, Judgement, and Expression
  Students have acquired practical communication skills necessary in the modern community, have the “Think and Act” capabilities, and foster highly developed ability to consider issues of communities and organizations, by participating in actual fieldworks and also to plan and practice for solution.
• Proactive Attitudes
  Students can address themselves to unsolved issues of the modern society in collaboration with others based on close communication and also create new values proactively.

■ Department of Global and Asian Policy Studies

 The Faculty of Policy Studies regards the creation of diverse global civil society as an important educational philosophy.  A global civil society is a society realized by each citizen who has a sense of belonging to a global community that transcends national borders and takes actions that are aware of their social responsibility to the community.
 In particular, the Department of Global and Asian Policy Studies aims to foster those who have the ability to look at a new generational change and the power to discover and consider various issues facing the international community and to find policy solutions, especially through the learning of the politics, economy, and laws of Western and Asian countries.  In other words, the Faculty awards a bachelor's degree (Policy Studies) to those who have acquired the following knowledge and skills, abilities to think, judge and express themselves, and proactive attitudes that allow them to grasp and comprehensively and academically consider diverse issues in the modern society and give solutions to them.

• Knowledge and Skills
  Students can understand objectively diversified internationalization era based on true humanity and have acquired knowledge and skills about policy studies to foster policy planning abilities that can be put into practice and accepted by global communities.
• Abilities of Thinking, Judgement, and Expression
  Students have acquired practical communication skills necessary in the international society, have the “Think and Act” capabilities, and foster highly developed ability to consider issues of real society, by participating in actual fieldworks and also to plan and practice for solution.
• Proactive Attitudes
  Students can address themselves to unsolved issues of the modern society in collaboration with others based on close communication and also create new values proactively.

Curriculum Policy

■ Department of Policy Studies

 The Faculty of Policy Studies (Department of Policy Studies) configures general subjects of liberal arts, specialized subjects, and other necessary subjects in a systematic manner as its curriculum based on the following points with a view to enabling students to achieve the goals according to the Diploma Policy of the Faculty:

• Educational Contents:

  Liberal Arts:

  1. In order for students to acquire a broad range of knowledge and perspectives as well as flexible thinking ability and to foster comprehensive human capacities, the Faculty arranges general liberal arts subjects such as groups of self-organizing subjects:
  2. The Faculty arranges foreign language subjects in order for students to acquire the ability to read foreign literature and improve communication skills, so that they can develop their practical English skills throughout the four-year.

  Specialized Subjects:
  The Faculty configures its curriculum that enables students to learn Policy Studies, which is a practical problem-solving discipline that integrates interdisciplinary knowledge of various fields of social science including International Relations, Political Science, Economics, Business Administration, and Subjects on Law, through which the Faculty aims to foster those who have the abilities to find out public social issues to solve from global perspectives and manage to put them into practice.

  1. In the first grade, the introductory subjects such as politics, economics, management, law, international society etc. are placed as basics for specialization, and especially the seminars of the Introductory Seminar I and Introductory Seminar II in small class are provided for encouraging to progress to the specialized studies.
  2. The “data analysis subjects” are placed with the aim to develop the ability to understand and solve social issues by utilizing data.
  3. International Relations, Political Science, Economics, Business Administration, Subjects on Law, and intermediate content of policy studies, which is a practical problem-solving discipline that integrates them are placed as the main subjects, and further various development subjects which bear a close relationship with their future research fields and path are also available.
  4. In order for students to improve their English proficiency for overseas study and business purposes, a high-level professional English subjects are provided (corresponding to various themes).  In addition, in order to promote the understanding of politics, economy, and society of various countries and regions, the “Global Studies Seminar” is placed in which students can learn them through the languages available in these countries and regions.
  5. Other development subjects designed to enable students to develop a more specialized perspective are placed according to the two major courses of Politics and Economy, Politics and Policies, Regions and Management.

• Evaluation of Learning Achievements:

  The level of acquisition of credits focused on compulsory subjects and foreign language subjects is evaluated at the end of each semester for a smooth transition to specialized seminars and graduation seminars.

  Students who have fulfilled the evaluation criteria of the Faculty including graduation research and final reports are considered to have acquired the qualification of the four-year study.

■ Department of Global and Asian Policy Studies

 The Faculty of Policy Studies (Department of Global and Asian Policy Studies) configures subjects of general liberal arts, specialized subjects, and other necessary subjects in a systematic manner as its curriculum, based on the following points with a view to enabling students to achieve the goals according to the Diploma Policy of the Faculty:

• Educational Contents:

  Liberal Arts:

  1. In order for students to acquire a broad range of knowledge and perspectives as well as flexible thinking ability and to foster comprehensive human capacities, the Faculty arranges general liberal arts subjects such as groups of self-organizing subjects:
  2. The Faculty arranges foreign language subjects in order for students to acquire the ability to read foreign literature and improve communication skills, so that they can develop their practical English skills throughout the four-year.

  Specialized Subjects:
  The Faculty configures its curriculum that enables students to learn Policy Studies, which is a practical problem-solving discipline that integrates interdisciplinary knowledge of various fields of social science including International Relations, Political Science, Economics, Business Administration, and Subjects on Law, through which the Faculty aims to foster those who have the abilities to find out public social issues to solve from global perspectives and manage to put them into practice.

  1. In the first grade, the introductory subjects such as politics, economics, management, law, international society etc. are placed as basics for specialization, and especially the seminars of the Introductory Seminar I and Introductory Seminar II in small class are provided for encouraging to progress to the specialized studies.
  2. The “data analysis subjects”placed with the aim to develop the ability to understand and solve social issues by utilizing data.
  3. International Relations, Political Science, Economics, Business Administration, Subjects on Law, and intermediate content of policy studies, which is a practical problem-solving discipline that integrates them are placed as the main subjects, and further various development subjects which bear a close relationship with their future research fields and path are also available.
  4. In order for students to improve their English proficiency for overseas study and business purposes, a high-level professional English subjects are provided (corresponding to various themes).  In addition, in order to promote the understanding of politics, economy, and society of various countries and regions, the “Global Studies Seminar” is placed in which students can learn them through the languages available in these countries and regions.
  5. Development Subjects for comparative study of societies and policies of Asian countries and regions as well as Western countries are also arranged.

• Evaluation of Learning Achievements:

  The level of acquisition of credits focused on compulsory subjects and foreign language subjects is evaluated at the end of each semester for a smooth transition to specialized seminars and graduation seminars.

  Students who have fulfilled the evaluation criteria of the Faculty including graduation research and final reports are considered to have acquired the qualification of the four-year study.

Admission Policy

■ Department of Policy Studies

 The Faculty of Policy Studies (Department of Policy Studies) widely accepts, through various entrance examinations, those who have the following knowledge and skills, abilities of thinking, judgement, and expression, and proactive attitudes as the students according to the Diploma and Curriculum Policies of the Faculty:

• To have general basic academic ability at a high school level.  Specifically, it is recommended that they have the following abilities; (1) Japanese language: to be able to appropriately use Japanese language and accurately understand the works of classic and modern ages.  (2) Geography and History: to be able to understand the historical process of the formation of Japan and the rest of the world, and the regional characteristics of their lives and cultures.  (3) Civics: to be able to consider contemporary society proactively and understand political, economic, and international matters under democratic system.  (4) Mathematics: to be able to recognize mathematical viewpoints and ideas of mathematical equations, functions, diagrams, calculus, the theory of sets, probability, the sequence of numbers, vectors, etc. and mathematically consider and process various phenomena.  (5) Foreign Languages: to be able to understand deeply languages and cultures of the other countries and regions through foreign languages, and to communicate positively as well as to read and write.
• To have the basic capabilities of “Think and Act” to foster the real practical ability to seek out future problems of their own and make flexible and comprehensive judgments from a broad perspective.
• To have working experiences on various problems of local communities.

■ Department of Global and Asian Policy Studies

 The Faculty of Policy Studies (Department of Global and Asian Policy Studies) widely accepts, through various entrance examinations, those who have the following knowledge and skills, abilities of thinking, judgement, and expression, and proactive attitudes as the students according to the Diploma and Curriculum Policies of the Faculty:

• To have general basic academic ability at a high school level.  Specifically, it is recommended that they have the following abilities; (1) Japanese language: to be able to appropriately use Japanese language and accurately understand the works of classic and modern ages.  (2) Geography and History: to be able to understand the historical process of the formation of Japan and the rest of the world, and the regional characteristics of their lives and cultures.  (3) Civics: to be able to consider contemporary society proactively and understand political, economic, and international matters under democratic system.  (4) Mathematics: to be able to recognize mathematical viewpoints and ideas of mathematical equations, functions, diagrams, calculus, the theory of sets, probability, the sequence of numbers, vectors, etc. and mathematically consider and process various phenomena.  (5) Foreign Languages: to be able to understand deeply languages and cultures of the other countries and regions through foreign languages, and to communicate positively as well as to read and write.
• To have the basic capabilities of “Think and Act” to foster the real practical ability to seek out future problems of their own and make flexible and comprehensive judgments from a broad perspective.
• To have international experience in various forms, because they will learn policy studies from an international perspective.

Diploma Policy

 The Faculty of Health and Well-being aims to foster human resources who study basic theories and practical approaches on human health and well-being to maintain and improve health so that people can live a happy and affluent life and thus engage in health and livelihood supports in local communities.  The Faculty of Health and Well-being awards a bachelor's degree (Health and Well-being) to those who have acquired the following abilities along with sophisticated expertise in comprehensive health and well-being.

• Knowledge and Skills
  Students have acquired specialized knowledge and skills on human health studies designed to maintain and improve health based on a broad range of knowledge and perspectives as well as flexible thinking way, and have abilities to put them into practice.
• Abilities of Thinking, Judgement, and Expression
  Students have acquired abilities to communicate smoothly with others and to conceive the future society, and have the “Think and Act” capabilities, and have abilities to act responsively on behalf of society and others based on their expertise on human health studies.
• Proactive Attitudes
  Students can autonomously inquire into various problems while keeping relation to society and collaborate sympathetically with others in the practical fields.

Curriculum Policy

 The Faculty of Health and Well-being configures its curriculum based on the following points with a view to enabling students to achieve the goals according to Diploma Policy of the Faculty under the educational and academic philosophy of the University, “Gaku no Jituge”, or Harmonization of Academia and Practice.

• Educational Contents:

  Liberal Arts:

  1. The Faculty aims for students to develop learning attitude and acquire communication skills through small class education （“Study Skills Seminar”）incorporating experiential learning.
  2. In order for students to acquire a broad range of knowledge and perspectives as well as flexible thinking ability and to foster comprehensive human capacities, the Faculty arranges general liberal arts subjects such as groups of self-organizing subjects:
  3. The Faculty aims to cultivate abilities to understand different cultures, to think the matters from other person’s perspective with different opinions, and to improve communication skills in foreign languages.

  Specialized Subjects:

  1. The Faculty provides Basic Subjects to study systematic knowledge on human health and well-being in order to convert into specialized learning.
  2. From the second grade, the Faculty will divide the students into Sports and Wellness Course, and Social Work and Well-being Course, and provides Applied Subjects (there are common ones for both courses and other different ones for each course) for further specialized learning and more comprehensive approaches, and “Coordination Subjects” to organically coordinate the two courses to improve practical learning.
  3. The faculty has in place four programs: a "Humor Studies Program" to learn about the relationship between health and "humor" using an interdisciplinary approach, a “Human Relations Studies Program” to learn about “creating environments” that are healthy and comfortable for everyone, a “Community Design Studies Program” to learn about the nature of “community design” that is suitable for our society going forward and a “Clinical Psychology Program” to learn about mental health using the findings of clinical psychology. These programs are intended to provide a holistic approach to human health and cultivate the ability to build a sustainable society.
  4. The Faculty provides step by step and continuous educational system from basic to applicable learning stage, and thus “Seminars” by selecting practical research themes from the acquired subjects and inquiring issues through elaborate small class guidance, and “Selective subjects” and “Free Subjects” required for acquisition of special qualifications are placed.
  5. As for Seminars as compulsory and core subjects, the Introductory Study (for the first grade), basic Seminar (for the second grade), Specialized Seminar (for the third grade) and Graduation Seminar (for the fourth grade) are placed consistently in small class education system from the acquisition of academic skills to specialized application program.  In Graduation Seminar, students can choose either graduation thesis or graduation research, and the academic advisors will individually guide graduation thesis, graduation products, and research publication according to their research themes.

• Evaluation of Learning Achievements:

  The levels of acquisition of credits of compulsory subjects and foreign language subjects are checked at the end of each semester for a smooth transition to specialized Seminar and Graduation Seminar.

  Learning achievement for four years is evaluated through and graduation thesis or graduation research as well as Graduation Seminar, and students who have fulfilled the evaluation criteria of the Faculty are considered as qualified.

Admission Policy

 The Faculty of Health and Well-being, through various entrance examinations, widely accepts those who have the following knowledge and skills, abilities of thinking, judgement, expression, and proactive attitudes as students according to the Diploma and Curriculum Policies of the Faculty:

• To have positive interest in human mental and physical health and also have the basic academic ability to develop their interest scientifically.
• To have interest in society and foundation of the “Think and Act” capabilities recommended by the University along with a wide range of cultural and practical abilities.
• As for Sport and Wellness Course, to have interest in sports and health as well as willingness to play active roles in the local community while exploring character building, community reconstruction, and innovative ways of human health through sports activities.
• As for Social Work and Well-being Course, to have interest in welfare and health, to be able to grasp the conventional method and practice of social welfare from the point of view of relationship between living environment and health, and to have willingness to actively contribute to constructing and developing welfare culture in the local community.

Diploma Policy

 The Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences, for the creation of a safe and secure society, aims to foster human resources to contribute to the society with advanced information processing capability through learning of disaster prevention/reduction measures and accident prevention, as well as policy planning for crisis management and the implementation thereof.  Specifically, the Faculty awards a bachelor's degree (Sciences) to those who have learned the methods to comprehensively analyze, consider and manage the regional, national and international safety issues, have acquired the following abilities as specialists in disaster prevention/reduction, and are able to contribute to the realization of a safe and secure society:

• Knowledge and Skills
  Students have acquired the basic knowledge to understand the safety issues in community life and social activities and can plan policies to solve the issues from professional perspectives and implement them.
• Mentality, Judgment, and Expression
  Students can understand the mechanism of maintenance and inheritance of safety, devise measures to ensure safety and contribute to society by demonstrating their capabilities of “Think and Act” through communication with professionals and engineers in the different fields.
• Proactive Attitudes
  Students can voluntarily seek challenges to solve safety problems and proactively deal with them from a social perspective and are capable of collaborating with professionals and engineers in a variety of fields

Curriculum Policy

 The Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences aims to foster excellent interdisciplinary human resources who can understand the various safety issues facing modern society and provide solutions using their practical abilities. The academic fields need an interface with society, and the Faculty configures its curriculum in a well-balanced manner from basic to applicable knowledge considering the following points.

• Educational Contents:

  Liberal Arts:

  1. The Faculty provides the basic theories required for creation of a safe and secure society and a variety of academic knowledge related to the tool system in order for the students to acquire a broad range of academic knowledge on various issues of social safety.
  2. The Faculty configures the curriculum which incorporates simulations and experience-oriented training to nurture practical ability to think and judge in order to solve various issues of social safety.
  3. The Faculty arranges compulsory English subjects in the first to the third years to enable students to acquire reading ability in foreign languages and communication skills.  Thus, students will acquire practical English skills.

  Specialized Subjects:

  1. Through the “basic subjects”, students will acquire a broad range of knowledge which serves as the basis of Societal Safety Sciences step-by-step.
       Through the “general specialized subjects”, students will acquire the newest expertise on disaster prevention/reduction, accident prevention, and crisis management in a systematic manner.
  2. In order to enhance expertise on disaster prevention/reduction, accident prevention, and crisis management, and to deepen the understanding of safety, with the subjects of ‘social disaster management” and “natural disaster management” placed as specialized subjects.
       Through “social disaster management” subjects, students will learn about accident prevention, disaster reduction, work safety, human errors, risk management, crisis management, corporate social responsibility, legal systems for safety and the like.  Through “natural disaster management subjects,” students will learn about measures for disaster prevention/reduction, support of disaster victims and recovery/reconstruction planning as well as ways of self-help, mutual assistance, and public assistance (administrative roles and self-responsibility, and public policies), and crisis management systems.
  3. Through “integrated subjects”, students will not only learn the attitude to study and academic skills in small class seminars (introductory and basic seminars), but also acquire specialized knowledge and skills through practical exercises and sophisticated information processing exercises on social and accident surveys.
  4. Through “specialized seminars” and “graduation research seminars,” students set the specialized and practical research themes based on acquired knowledge of the above subjects, and acquire sophisticated expertise and practical ability in order to comprehensively understand the current situation of natural disasters or accidents and plan policies through investigating the problems under seminar-based intensive guidance.

• Evaluation of Learning Achievements:

  Level of acquisition of knowledge and skills for lecture subjects is evaluated based on the regular tests implemented at the end of the semester.

  For seminars, abilities of logical thinking, deductive and critical thinking, and capabilities to discover and solve issues are evaluated based on report, debate, and presentation on specific issues.

  Students who are judged not to have sufficiently acquired the necessary knowledge and skills based on the credit acquisition and GPA will be individually guided about their way of study and subject registration.

  The acquisition of credits is checked at the end of the second year in order to determine whether students have acquired sufficient basic knowledge and skills to qualify for taking “specialized seminars”.

  The final evaluation of the academic achievements of the four-year study is made by the compulsory subject of “graduation research seminars”. The processes of research activities in addition to the graduation thesis are inclusively evaluated.

Admission Policy

 The Faculty of Societal Safety Sciences (hereinafter referred to as “the Faculty”) is dedicated to creating a safe and secure society. Thus, the faculty offer admission to those who aspire to contribute to the establishment of a safe and secure society, and those who have a will to contribute to society by learning knowledge and skills pertaining to the prevention and mitigation of natural disasters and accidents, and by obtaining the abilities to think, to judge, and to express themselves on the safety issues in general, with the basis of broad knowledge and skills learned in high school. A wide variety of admission exams are prepared to evaluate the following qualities.

• Those who studied on a wide variety of subjects offered in high school curriculum, demonstrating high achievement.
• Those who have the basis of the ability to think and move by themselves, and are proactive in acquiring new knowledge and experiences, as well as in seeking new challenges and trying to solve said challenges.
• Those who have the knowledge of history and geography and linguistic ability, are willing to communicate with others with different perspectives and opinions and work together with them to solve problems based on mutual understanding.
• Those who have the knowledge of science and ability of basic mathematics to capture the safety issues with a logical and scientific approach.

Diploma Policy

 The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Engineering aims to foster professionals of urban planning who will create and reconstruct more comfortable and harmonized sustainable environmental cities by using comprehensive and interdisciplinary new science and technology with the focus on environment, urban design, architecture, social infrastructure, information, resources, energy and environmental chemistry and awards a bachelor's degree (Engineering) to those who have acquired the following capabilities:

• Knowledge and Skills
  Students have abilities to understand the Faculty’s philosophy; “Creation and Reconstruction of Urban Space in which civil and productive activities of the industrial society are integrated”, to acquire expertise and skills of the Faculty, and to deal with and solve various environmental and other issues facing cities by using the capabilities of “Think and Act” and also have basic academic abilities and logical thinking power required for their activities.
• Abilities of Thinking, Judgement, and Expression
  Students have the ability to think and judge to demonstrate their knowledge on the most advanced science and technology acquired through the specialized education in the Faculty and also have the ability to think from a global perspective.
• Proactive Attitudes
  Students can try to solve issues proactively for creating more comfortable and safer cities in harmony with nature by using energy more effectively and efficiently by sharing awareness with citizens.

Curriculum Policy

 The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Engineering configures the curriculum including general liberal arts subjects and specialized subjects based on the following policy with a view to fostering engineers and researchers who will be able to create future cities which consider environmental and energy issues, using their high technology and application capabilities based on elaborated theories.

• Educational Contents:

  Liberal Arts:

  1. In any of Department of Architecture, Department of Civil, Environmental and Applied Systems Engineering, and Department of Chemical, Energy and Environmental Engineering, students must attend general liberal arts subjects required for the study of specialized subjects designated by the each department.
  2. The Faculty arranges foreign language subjects to acquire practical English skills which are also required for specialized education.

  Specialized Subjects:

  1. Students study along the specialized curriculum program designated by the each department after learning general liberal arts subjects and approach “urban planning” from the field in which they are interested.
  2. Students are encouraged to acquire the ability to think of “urban planning” in a multifaceted manner.
  3. The Department of Architecture arranges the basics of the three fields of “planning,” “structure” and “environment” which constitutes architecture science as compulsory subjects in order for students to learn general study of architecture, and also arranges the applied and developing contents of each field as selective subjects in order for students to deepen their knowledge and acquire practical skills and comprehensive ability through coordination of lectures, design and drawing, seminars, and practices according to their study levels.
  4. The Department of Civil, Environmental and Applied Systems Engineering divides students into the two courses of Urban Infrastructure Design and Social Systems Planning from the third grade to enable them not only to learn the specialized subjects of the each course, but also interdisciplinary general subjects designated regardless of the courses.
  5. The Department of Chemical, Energy and Environmental Engineering aims to allow students to acquire the basic knowledge by the end of the second grade.  From the second grade, the students also learn specialized subjects according to the original curriculum based on “Chemical Engineering”.
  6. Special Research is arranged to allow students to compile their learning achievements of the four-year study.

• Evaluation of Learning Achievements:

  The level of acquisition of credits is checked at the end of each semester in order to provide guidance to allow students to smoothly shift to the curriculum of the next semester.

  With respect to Special Research, students who have fulfilled the evaluation criteria designated according to the specialties of each department are deemed as qualified.

Admission Policy

 The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Engineering, under the basic concept of global environment-friendly urban planning and with the keywords of Environment, Urban Design, Architecture, Infrastructure, Information, Resources, Energy, Environmental Chemical Process, widely accepts those who have the following knowledge and skills, and abilities of thinking, judgement, and expression in order to foster the human resources who can demonstrate the power of science and technology and play active roles internationally for solution of various issues, including environmental problems towards sustainable development goals:

• Knowledge and Skills
  To have mathematical ability and basic knowledge of natural sciences, especially physics and chemistry, required for modeling and describing various phenomena.  As for the Department of Architecture, to have basic knowledge and skills closely related to architecture about geography, history, home economics, and arts.  As for the Department of Civil, Environmental and Applied Systems Engineering, to have an interest in and basic knowledge of cities and their problems.  As for the Department of Chemical, Energy and Environmental Engineering, to have basic knowledge of the current situations of energy and environmental problems.
• Abilities of Thinking, Judgement, and Expression
  To have abilities of thinking and judgment to work on various problems at the Faculty according to basic knowledge of mathematics, natural sciences, and other knowledges required for each department.
• Proactive and Cooperative Attitudes
  To have willingness to work as engineers or researchers on urban planning in order to make basic urban activities of citizens prosperous and create or reconstruct comfortable urban environments.
• “Think and Act” Capabilities
  To have the ability to act and contribute to society through their own thinking.  As for addition, in the Department of Architecture, to have a deep interest in house making and town and to have thinking ability about their ideal state and issues.  As for the Department of Civil, Environmental and Applied Systems Engineering, to have thinking ability for changes and problems of urban system and its ideal images with usual concerns.  As for the Department of Chemical, Energy and Environmental Engineering, to have an interest in problems and changes of global energy and environment, and also have thinking ability about new technologies with interest.