Course of Area and Cultural Studies

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