Nurturing students with a broad ranging of knowledge and points of view to address issues in both the local and global communities.
In the Course of Area and Cultural Studies, you can learn about a wide range of subjects from media and contemporary culture to world history, culture, literature and the environment. Students can balance learning fundament knowledge in humanities with more specialized subjects that better suit their personal interests. This course fosters talented, versatile individuals that will use their knowledge and specialized skills to analyze and address issues in their local community and the greater world around them.
Staff
ISHIDA Tomoko – Archaeology, Earth Science
UCHIYAMA Hiroshi – Japanese Language Studies, Japanese Medieval Literature
OTA Ichiro – Sociolinguistics, Media Language
OTA Yoshitaka – Media Studies, Aesthetics, Art History
OTA Yukio – History of Human Interaction in the Sea of East Asian, Chinese Early Modern History
OZAKI Takahiro – Cultural Anthropology, Central Asian Regional Studies
KANAI Shizuka – Japanese Early Modern History
KANESHIRO Itoe – Cultural Anthropology, Regional Studies
KOBAYASHI Yoshito – Human Geography
KONDO Kazunori – Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, French Philosophy History, Philosophy of Science History
SAKURAI Yoshio – Contemporary Culture
SHIBATA Kenji – Philosophy, Ethics
SUEMATSU Nobuko – English Language Studies, Sociolinguistics
Steve Cother – English Communication
TAKATSU Takashi – Song Dynasty Literature, Literary Criticism, Biography, Natural History
TAKEUCHI Katsunori – American Literature
TAKEOKA Kenichi – German Literature, Publication Research
TADA Kurahito – Japanese Modern Literature
TONAI Tetsuya – Western History, Italian Early Modern History
TORAO Tatsuya – Japanese Ancient History
NAKAJIMA Sachiko – Japanese Language Education, Intercultural Education, Sociolinguistics
NIWA Kenji – Japanese Early Modern Literature
FUKUNAGA Yoshitaka – Asian History, Chinese Ancient History
HOSOKAWA Michihisa – Western History (Canadian History, History of the British Empire), Canadian Studies, Global History.
MIKI Natsuka – Chinese Language Studies
MIYASHITA Masaaki – Journalism and Local Media
YANAGAWA Hidetoshi – Celtic Studies, Western History, Foreign Literature, Local Culture Research, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnomusicology
YAMATO Takayuki – English Literature
YOKURA Andrea – Austrian Literature, German Literature, Modern German Language
YOSHIDA Akihiro – Physical Geography, Quaternary Geology
WATANABE Yoshiro – Ceramic Archaeology, Material Culture Studies