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.

AKIYOSHI Yasuharu － Sound Studies, Media Theory, Media Archaeology

ISHIDA Tomoko – Archaeology, Earth Science

USAMI Tatsuro － Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, French Epistemology

UCHIYAMA Hiroshi – Japanese Language Studies, Japanese Medieval Literature

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

SAKURAI Yoshio – Contemporary Culture

SHIBATA Kenji – Philosophy, Ethics

SUEMATSU Nobuko – English Language Studies, Sociolinguistics

Steve Cother – English Communication

TAKEUCHI Katsunori – American Literature

TAKEOKA Kenichi – German Literature, Publication Research

TONAI Tetsuya – Western History, Italian Early Modern History

NAKAJIMA Sachiko – Japanese Language Education, Intercultural Education, Sociolinguistics

NIWA Kenji – Japanese Early Modern Literature

FUKUNAGA Yoshitaka – Asian History, Chinese Ancient History

MIKI Natsuka – Chinese Language Studies

MIYAOKA Hiroshi － Linguistics, Japanese Language Studies, Japanese Dialectology

YAMATO Takayuki – English Literature

YOSHIDA Akihiro – Physical Geography, Quaternary Geology

WATANABE Yoshiro – Ceramic Archaeology, Material Culture Studies