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Educational Sciences

What Makes Us Human?
Comprehensive Human Science Exploring Fundamental Themes

What makes us human? Educational sciences tackle this question.

Understanding human development involves combining the results and methods of almost every field of science rather than studying from the perspective of a single narrow academic discipline.

Students in the Educational Sciences program take a theoretical and practical approach using comprehensive human science to examine the ultimate mysteries of humanity—such as the formation of our own characters and the process of development—employing a diverse range of research methods.

Students will evolve from recipients of existing knowledge who only acquire and accumulate knowledge to producers of creative knowledge who apply their own perspectives and theories.

This program is aimed at giving students the basic and applied skills necessary to transform themselves through higher education and use these strengths in educational and other social regions.

Objective: Refine Practical Intelligence in Five Areas

The goal of this program is to foster the insights necessary to discover problems, the methodology and skills necessary to accurately observe and analyze phenomena, and the practical intelligence needed to form conclusions and practical solutions.

The Educational Sciences program consists of five different areas, which include basic science related to human development and practical science focused on the resolution of problems related to human development. Each area has full-time faculty members.

Basic science: educational philosophy, history, and sociology of education
Practical science: educational methodology and educational development studies

Students explore a wide range of disciplines related to human development, which will create job opportunities in the world of research as well as in many other occupations. Approximately 20 percent of program graduates continue on to graduate school, another 20 percent enter teaching, and 60 percent find work in the civil service, media, or general corporations.

Features: Learn in the field and lead the way to individuality

The courses shared across the department (taken during the first year) present an invitation to the world of educational research. Strengthen your interest and polish your sense of human development. Specialized lectures start mainly with introductory courses in the first year, during which students learn the basics of educational sciences and discover approaches that match their own interests. In seminars that begin from the second year, students deepen their approaches. These small-class seminars, which are taken on students’ own initiatives, offer students an opportunity to discover their own individuality.

The action research program designed for first- and second-year students involve observing a wide range of life-span development at schools, educational facilities and other locations. This helps expand the student’s perspective on human development. The graduation thesis is a monument to the results of four years of research conducted during the student’s academic career.

Students taking this program can obtain a teaching license for elementary, middle and high schools.

Educational Sciences