Faculty of International Communication

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.

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.