Agreement
College of Foreign Languages
From April 2022, the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Niigata University, is starting a “Double Degree Program (DDP)” with partner universities abroad to facilitate meaningful co-learning with international students in the Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies Program.
The DDP enables the students of the home university and the partner university to obtain both a Bachelor’s degree from the partner university and a Bachelor’s degree from the home university by fulfilling the requirements for completing the DDP.
This program goes one step further than conventional study abroad programs, which focus on imparting foreign language skills, as its purpose is to enable students to study a specialized subject in a foreign language and obtain a degree (bachelor’s degree) equivalent to that of their home university.
The Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies Program at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, which is responsible for the DDP at Niigata University, offers a wide variety of courses covering each student’s interests, including political history, history of social thought, global history, history of religion, representation and culture, audio-visual culture, animation, pop culture studies, and gender studies. For more information, please see the Program Introduction, Asian Link Research Center.
The credits earned at the host university are transferrable and can be regarded as equivalent to those awarded for completing the courses offered at the students’ home university. Similarly, the credits earned at the home university is also transferable to the host university. The credit transfer scheme enables students to fulfilling the requirements for their degrees at the partner universities and the home university.
The program aims to facilitate meaningful co-learning (learning through dialogue) between international students from partner universities studying and Niigata University students, and develop students' abilities to think interactively and see things from multiple perspectives.
Note that exchange students shall not be charged any fees associated with admission, registration, or tuition at the host university.
Here are some comments from international students studying at Niigata University. (in Japanese Chinese, and Korean)
If you want to enroll in the DDP, you must have Japanese language skills. International students from partner universities are required to have Japanese language proficiency (JLPT N2 level) upon arrival at Niigata University. For more information on the foreign language proficiency standards that Niigata University students must meet to study at partner universities abroad, please talk to your foreign language instructor.
https://www.niigata-u.ac.jp/en/
