Fostering Highly Specialized Professionals and Researchers Who Take on the Challenges of Education, Welfare, and Psychology
The Division of Human Sciences consists of the following three majors: Pedagogy, Social Welfare, and Psychology. The master’s course was founded in April 2005 to cultivate professionals with high degrees of expertise to approach the various issues in education, welfare, and psychology through practice and application, in addition to foster researchers with advanced knowledge and research skills. The doctoral course was added in April 2007.
In the master’s program, students take a foundation subject called Advanced Lectures on Human Sciences I & II, to learn the scientific approaches to human beings and research methods in each field. Additionally, students can take classes from a wide range of subjects, such as social welfare, mental health welfare, school education, educational philosophy, subject pedagogy, early childhood education, cognitive psychology, and more to pursue their research from broad perspectives. Classes that are required to obtain the school psychologist qualification and specialized certification are offered, and those who already acquired a Type I teacher’s certificate during undergraduate school can obtain an advanced teacher’s certificate.
In the doctoral course, students further develop their studies and academic methods obtained in the master’s course. Our goal is to nurture highly specialized professionals and researchers with advanced expertise and investigative capabilities.
Many current students had on-site experience in education and welfare, and others are presently working on various issues in these fields. Their insights on the realities of education and welfare and relevant practical issues provide them with clearer direction and highlight the significance of their respective researches.