About Our Program
About Our Program
Global Studies for Inter-Cultural Cooperation is a new interdisciplinary program which was established at the Faculty of Letters and Education, Ochanomizu University, in 2005. This program is structured on the three interrelated themes: 1) Area Studies; 2) Cross-Cultural Communication; 3) International Relations and Cooperation. Why these three themes? Because without comprehensive understanding of cultures and acquiring the way to communicate with others, we could not establish fair relationship or collaboration between societies. Students are encouraged to develop their own idea and attitudes for inter-cultural cooperation in a globalizing world, which would be a key for them to play an active role in world-wide business, cross-cultural education and governmental and non-governmental activities related to the task.
We provide a wide variety of courses with new perspectives including a series of field studies, overseas researcher’s intensive English seminars, and collaborative workshop with overseas students. These give students good experiences, motivation and communication skills for inter-cultural cooperation. After three years’ course work, students are expected to elaborate their original work as a graduation research.
About Our Curriculum
Fundamentals
- Introduction to Global Studies
- International Relations
- Economics in Globalization
- International Gender Studies
- Comparative Study of Legal Cultures
- Global History
Area Studies
- Approaches to Area Studies
- Cultural Theory
- Creole Culture
- Islamic Society and Culture
- Oceanic Society and Culture
- Korean Society and Culture
- Chinese Society and Culture
- Southeast Asian Society and Culture
- South Asian Society and Culture
- African Society and Culture
Cross-Cultural Communication
- Inter-cultural Communication
- Language and Culture
- Culture and Human Relations
- Japanese Language Education in Globalizing World
- Japanese for Intercultural Communication
- Culture and Psychology
- Human Culture and Body
- Language and Society
- Inter-cultural Coexistence
- Transnational Communication
International Relations and Cooperation
- International Cooperation
- International Development
- Peace Building
- Labor Force in Globalization
- International Organizations
- International Educational Cooperation
- Introduction to NGO and NPO
- Method of International Cooperation
- Comparative Study of Social Policies
- Regional Development Theory
- International Finance
Field Studies
- Field Studies for Inter-cultural Communication
- Field Studies for Area Studies
- Field Studies for International Cooperation
Research Skills
- Seminar : Social Information Processing
- Method of Fieldwork