HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY

Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences


Graduate School of
Humanities and Social Sciences

Overview

Science and Technology create an affluent future of the world.

Today, as the reach of globalization continues to expand, the entire world is becoming a place where cultures and values must coexist. At the same time, the challenges that we face every day in the real world have grown more complex and diverse, demanding that we respond with a strong sense of our inter-connectedness.
On the other hand, there are also moves to educate the upcoming generation through the active application of academic knowledge that can be employed to protect and sustain distinctive and unique cultures. These autonomous and symbiotic approaches to education are beginning to gather momentum across the globe.
In order to better understand this complexity and diversity, it is imperative that we start by considering the fundamentals of human history and cultures. We must also strive to keep up with the transformations that are occurring throughout the world by exercising a deeper understanding of culture and art and an historical and global awareness of how human beings have coexisted. To meet these needs, analytical tools necessary to grasp policies and institutions and a flexibility to utilize the theories and methodologies that traverse specialized disciplines are of great importance.
The Hirosaki University Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (master’s course) offers a well-rounded educational program in the humanities and the social sciences that prepares students to become highly skilled specialists and researchers.

Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Courses

The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences is made up of a single department, the “Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,” under which three major programs (Courses) have been established.

Cultural Arts Course

This graduate program was established with the explicit purpose of turning out graduates who will pass on the cultural resources of Japan, as well as those of other societies, to upcoming generations as cultural heritages common to all humanity. With this in their background, our graduates, while respecting the cultural values of other nations, will use their knowledge of local, domestic and international cultural heritages for the development of human society as a whole.

Cultural Arts Course

Modern Inter-Cultural Studies Course

In this Course, students will, apropos to this age of globalization and inter-connectedness, make themselves familiar with the social conditions of different parts of the world and the unique historical backgrounds and diverse local and regional characteristics of these areas. By doing so, our graduates will be able to contribute to the realization of symbiotic and harmonious societies that establish legal and social systems that take into consideration the human rights of each individual from a perspective of diversity.

Modern Inter-Cultural Studies Course

Policy Science Course

Given today’s ever-advancing globalization, national governments, local governments, corporations and other institutions face evermore complex and diversified policy challenges. To meet these challenges, graduates of this Course will, thanks to the background they have gained in policy analysis and evaluation as well as data collection and utilization, be able to provide accurate advice and appropriate policy recommendations.

Policy Science Course

Number of students (As of May 1, 2024)


TOTAL
39
M 23 / F 16

Access and Contact

Address 1 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki-shi, Aomori 036-8560
E-mail jm3940@hirosaki-u.ac.jp