Due to the departmental reorganization in April 2024, the department in question will cease to recruit new students starting from April 2024.
The Faculty of International Communication aims to educate and train students to become internationally minded persons who can handle the challenges of internationalization and of the 21st century by deepening their understanding of other cultures and enhancing their communication skills. The Faculty of International Communication focuses on fostering individuals skilled in general communications by introducing a curriculum that emphasizes media, broadcasting and publishing, and incorporates courses in linguistics and psychology to produce professionals "who understand people and are capable of true communication."
The Faculty of International Communication - Features of Study
The Faculty of International Communication has established three fields for learning living "language." The first is "international," which imparts knowledge of world economics and politics. The second is "international culture," which teaches about the lifestyle, history, art, religion, etc., of the people of the country or region where the language is used. The third is "media communications," which imparts knowledge of the media and human psychology. These three fields can be studied in accordance with the student's interests and needs.
Experiencing culture is also important. Because understanding your own culture and others as well makes one worthy of being called "cosmopolitan," courses stimulate cultural awareness of students by giving them the opportunity to appreciate foreign cultural entertainment such as musicals and classical Japanese performing arts such as bunraku and kabuki.
Experiencing culture is also important. Because understanding your own culture and others as well makes one worthy of being called "cosmopolitan," courses stimulate cultural awareness of students by giving them the opportunity to appreciate foreign cultural entertainment such as musicals and classical Japanese performing arts such as bunraku and kabuki.
Educational Goals of the Department/Courses
The educational goals of the department/course are to temper student's thinking by pondering churning international society by "international" study and providing a relative perception of multiple cultures by studying "international culture," and to provide students with the ability to make effective presentations and ability to communicate and astutely analyze information by studying "media communication."
There are a variety of unique courses that propel students along a colorful path to the future such as the "Dignitary Interview Course," in which academic staff experienced in interviewing distinguished people teach the way to conduct an interview to get real opinion and true nature of the person being interviewed, the "Motion Picture Caption Course" where students learn to produce the best captions according mouth movements, psychological state and personalities of the characters, and "Romantic Psychology," where students scientifically observe differences in the way men and women behave towards love of the way them become acquainted with each other.
There are a variety of unique courses that propel students along a colorful path to the future such as the "Dignitary Interview Course," in which academic staff experienced in interviewing distinguished people teach the way to conduct an interview to get real opinion and true nature of the person being interviewed, the "Motion Picture Caption Course" where students learn to produce the best captions according mouth movements, psychological state and personalities of the characters, and "Romantic Psychology," where students scientifically observe differences in the way men and women behave towards love of the way them become acquainted with each other.