Characteristics

Learn Flexibly!1.Acquire specialized knowledge, ranging from basic to practical, in the transdisciplinary field

• Students learn the latest knowledge and technologie according to their interest ,deeply and widely in the well-balanced transdisciplinary academic fields.
• Students learn the basics for tourism and business technologies in 3 approaches: humanities; social sciences; and natural sciences.
• Students deep dive into their own “theme” by learning back and forth between 3 core areas and 2 exploratory areas.

[ Core areas x Exploratory areas ]

The curriculum systematically allows students to learn cutting-edge contents while also acquiring the fundamentals.

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Core Areas

Various projects are assigned in order to learn cocreation in the society in a practical way, including setting up project bases around the town.

Study Fields for Students

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Exploratory Areas

Based on the custom-made instruction, students study a variety of fields, charting a course towards their objectives, while going back and forth between two exploratory research areas.

Research Fields for Faculty

Parallel Study in 3 Core Areas

Students can take courses of three core areas in parallel, and decide their own projects while learning a wide range of future themes.

Core Area I

Empathic Design

Allocates courses that are useful to create a system to win empathy from the world by providing added value or discovering a new value to tourism resources, focusing on creating value in tourism.

Study Keywords

• #Sustainable Tourism
• #Culture Tourism
• #Entertaiment Management

Core Area II

Relational Design

Allocates courses that are useful to create a system to build a relationship between tourists and tourist spots by sending information and communication, focusing on the “media” of transportation and information.

Study Keywords

• #Tourism VR/XR
• #Data Science Exercise
• #Social Trend Analysis on websites and online reviews

Core Area III

Co-Created Design

Allocates courses that are useful to create a system to offer opportunities and designs of tourism places that allow tourists, tourist sites, and residents to co-create, focusing on the meeting places and spatial designs.

Study Keywords

• #Community Designing
• #Landscape Designing
• #Hospitality Management

Back-and-forth Learning between 2 Exploratory Areas

The custom-made course guidance allows students to explore diverse fields and seek clues to solve their issues, while studying both 3 courses from the core areas, and 2 courses from the exploratory areas.

Exploratory Area A

Environment and Society

Students will acquire the cutting-edge expertise and practical skills necessary for the total optimal structural development of the environment and society.

Exploratory Area B

People and Nature

Students will acquire the cutting-edge expertise and practical skills necessary for sustainable development of the basis of human race and nature.

POINTBack-casting learning

“Your future self” is the starting point to figure out and choose the learning contents that you need now.

When you envision your ideal self to be active in the future society, there may be areas where you feel you are not learning enough. In such a case, even after you have moved on to the academic knowledge phase, you can go back and study the specialized basic subjects.

I would like to work in the field of tourism marketing for visitors to Japan, utilizing statistical data, and I’ve decided to take “Basic Mathematical Statistics,” one of the specialized basic subjects because I believe it will help me analyze statistical data with a new perspective in the future to learn about global climate change.