The Faculty of Economic Sciences fosters individuals with professional knowledge of humanities and social sciences, focusing on economics and management, to solve social issues, including regional revitalization, from global perspectives. In order to gain comprehensive decision-making skills and sociability, various opportunities to learn together with people with abundant experience in the society as well as international students with different cultures are being prepared for students. We, in cooperation with experts who have been taking leaderships in business, contribute to the local and global society by producing core individuals who can support in regional revitalization.
The Faculty of Economic Sciences has one department with four distinctive major programs; Economic Studies Program, Management Studies Program; Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies Program; and Regional Leadership Studies. Students first take general education courses, which can be applied for all four major programs, to acquire university-level learning methods, and each student will choose one major program at the end of the first year. Once students’ academic program is determined, they pursue their expertise in the program through taking various courses and practical trainings. As there are some overlaps in learning areas among the four programs, students can also take some courses offered by different programs and benefit from the interdisciplinary education.
Learning together with people who have abundant experience in the society and international students with different culture is one of the attractive features of the Faculty of Economic Sciences.
Each major program differs in;
Economics is the study that focuses on production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services necessary for human beings to live. In this program, students will learn various perspectives of economics to acquire skills to analyze economic problems we face on a daily basis. They also gain professional knowledge of not only the Japanese, but also the global economy, including Asian and European economies.
Students will systematically learn professional knowledge of economics to acquire skills to accurately understand and analyze social phenomena and current events observed in the modern society. Furthermore, through studying and exploring solutions for actual social cases in depth, students will be able to connect the acquired economic knowledge with the real cases, inspiring them to explore solutions for various problems from broad perspectives.
Our daily life is closely connected with the economic activities of business enterprises. The main learning objective of Management Studies Program is to academically analyze phenomena regarding business management. Students will deliberate, accurately analyze, and solve various issues found in economic activities of enterprises by logically applying business administration and management theories.
Students will systematically learn professional knowledge of management, accounting, and taxation and will acquire skills to accurately assess and analyze current situation and problems that business enterprises are facing. In a small group seminar-style course, students will also logically study actual social problems and explore solutions, which will lead them to be able to connect the knowledge of management, accounting, and taxation to the real cases and to gain the problem-solving ability.
Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies Program targets various problems of Japanese society and culture beyond academic fields of social science and humanities, which vary from politics, economics, ideology to animation. The curriculum of this program offers cooperative activities among Japanese and international students with different backgrounds and sense of values. These opportunities enable them to have positive attitudes in assessing problems and enthusiastically conveying information seen in the modern Japanese society to the relevant entities.
With the broad basic knowledge of humanities and social science, students further learn the methods to understand and analyze ‘Japan’ from multiple angles. This program also focuses on learning foreign languages in order to understand problems surrounding Japan from global perspectives. Repeating active discussions on various topics with international students in a small group seminar-style course will help students improve their abilities in communication, collaboration, and solving problems in a tenacious manner.
Those who contribute in the local society are required to be able to take leaderships in assessing and exploring solutions of local issues, in addition to holding the broad knowledge and wisdom in economics, business management, finance, law, arts, and more. In this program, students will acquire necessary knowledge and skills to understand and analyze current situation of the modern society and to solve issues of economy and the society at a local level.
Students will gain professional knowledge of social sciences, mainly economics and management, to acquire skills to accurately assess and analyze current social situations. They will also learn methods step by step to think critically, investigate, and to make appropriate statements on various issues. In a small group seminar-style course, students deeply analyze the modern society by applying the knowledge they have gained. Exploring and solving problems of the modern society together with other students and experts will lead students to be able to improve their skills to cooperate with diverse people in solving problems.