Graduate Schools

The Graduate School of Humanities consists of six Major in Philosophy, Japanese Literature, English Literature, History, Major in Geography, and Psychology, as well as the Institute of International Japanese Studies, a cross-divisional program. Faculty members of the Graduate School of Humanities are expected to share the same understanding of the educational philosophy of the Graduate School and to be proficient in their own specialized areas of research and to have broad academic interests without being confined to those areas. At the same time, they are expected to promote and guide students' self-exploration, self-realization, and commitment to study based on the educational goals of each department and the Diploma Policy, Curriculum Policy, and Admission Policy. This requires a high level of humanity and communication skills that take into consideration the holistic development of students. In addition, internationality and interdisciplinarity are essential for the Institute faculty in order to conduct education at the Institute of International Japanese Studies.

The Graduate School of Humanities as a whole has organized a faculty organization to build a research guidance system that enables students to acquire the ability and skills to develop original research based on a basic research foundation in the master's course and to write a master's thesis and doctoral dissertation as the culmination of each course in the doctoral course. In doing so, the faculty members are organized to provide a well-balanced curriculum system. In doing so, it is important that the faculty organization is not biased toward a particular field of specialization or age group, based on a well-balanced curriculum system. In today's rapidly changing world, the educational needs described above may not be met by a fixed full-time faculty structure alone. Therefore, a flexible cooperative system of multiple faculty members and the cooperation of concurrent and adjunct faculty members both within and outside the university are also necessary.

In terms of the division of roles in the faculty organization, there will be a Dean who will oversee the entire graduate school and will be elected from among the department chairs of each major. In addition, the Institute of International Japanese Studies has a chairperson of the Steering Committee, and through regular consultations among these officers, a system has been established for the entire Graduate School to be involved in education and research.

The faculty members of the Graduate School of Intercultural Communication are responsible for education in accordance with the philosophy and objectives of the Graduate School, as well as the curriculum policy, diploma policy, and admission policy. In particular, faculty members are expected to possess the research and teaching abilities and enthusiasm to provide the guidance necessary to nurture highly skilled intercultural professionals and researchers.

The faculty organization is based on assigning faculty members with a high level of expertise in the three specialized areas of intercultural correlation research, multicultural conviviality research, and multicultural information space research, and organizing them so that the benefits of interdisciplinarity are fully utilized in classes and thesis guidance. In addition, regular and associate faculty advisors provide thesis guidance from the viewpoint of their expertise, and faculty members take charge of common courses for the graduate school on a rotating basis to form academic knowledge across the three areas of specialization. The Graduate School of Economics has established a cooperative system to create an interdisciplinary research and education environment.

The Graduate School of Economics seeks faculty members who, in order to realize the philosophy and objectives of the Graduate School of Economics, will practice education in accordance with the Graduate School's curricular policy (Curriculum Policy) to achieve the educational goals of the Graduate School of Economics, and who will be able to provide education in accordance with the Graduate School's degree awarding policy (Diploma Policy) to be established for each master's course and doctoral course. In addition, the faculty members are capable of providing guidance in basic graduate school education as well as in advanced specialized education in various fields. The faculty composition policy of the Graduate School of Law is as follows.

(1) A diverse faculty organization spanning many areas of specialization to achieve the human resource development stated in the educational objectives.
(2) The faculty members should be capable of providing education in accordance with the curriculum policy.

Faculty members are the most important actors, along with students, in ensuring the implementation of the educational objectives, diploma policy, and curriculum policy (hereinafter referred to as "educational objectives, etc."), with a view to the objectives of the Graduate School of Law. Faculty members are expected to achieve high performance in both education and research based on these educational goals.

In order to implement these educational goals, the Graduate School of Law has established the following "Desired Image of Faculty Members" and "Policy on the Organization of the Faculty Organization," which are based on Hosei University's policy on the organization of the faculty organization.

Desired Faculty Members

1. In light of the Graduate School of Law's objective of conducting advanced and diverse research that is ahead of its time and returning the results of its education and research to society, the basic image of faculty members sought by the Graduate School of Law is those with advanced research skills that will enable such education.
2. In order to stimulate the intellectual curiosity of graduate students and satisfy their needs for advanced specialized education, faculty members themselves must conduct excellent research based on a precise awareness of the issues and backed by advanced specialized knowledge.
3. Faculty members must have the communication skills and passion for education to fully convey their advanced research abilities to graduate students.
4. Faculty members are expected to be able to provide detailed and individualized guidance to graduate students, such as one-on-one thesis guidance.

Policy for Organizing Faculty Organization

1. In principle, education and research at the Graduate School of Law will be conducted by full-time faculty members of the Faculty of Law concurrently serving as instructors.
2. The Graduate School of Law will assign necessary faculty members while paying attention to the systematics for research and graduate student education in jurisprudence and giving due consideration to the balance of specialized fields.
3. Personnel appointments of full-time faculty members shall be made in cooperation with the Faculty of Law.
4. In order to ensure a cooperative system among faculty members and to conduct organized education and research, appropriate roles will be assigned in curricula, university and graduate school administration, etc.
5. Along with FD activities by the FD Curriculum Committee within the Graduate School of Law, the educational and research qualifications of faculty members will be constantly improved in the course of organizing and reviewing the curriculum.

The Graduate School of Politics seeks faculty members who will conduct education and research in accordance with the Graduate School's Curriculum Policy in order to achieve the philosophy, objectives, and educational goals of the Graduate School, and who will also fulfill the Graduate School's degree-awarding policies (Diploma Policy) for the Master's and Doctoral Programs, respectively. The faculty members of the Graduate School of Political Science are capable of developing human resources who can meet the achievement objectives set forth in the Graduate School's Diploma Policy for each of the Master's and Doctoral Programs.
The faculty of the Graduate School of Politics is composed of faculty members who are capable of conducting education and research in accordance with the curriculum policy in specialized areas of political science, such as theory, history, policy, and administration, as well as international political theory, history of international relations, area studies, global issues, and other areas of international political science.

Faculty members of the Graduate School of Sociology are required to engage in educational activities for graduate students in accordance with the Diploma Policy and Curriculum Policy of the Graduate School, based on the basic premise of the educational philosophy and objectives of the university and the Graduate School. The faculty organization policy of the Graduate School of Business Administration is to organize a research guidance system that meets these requirements and enables students to write a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation at the end of each course.

In cooperation with the Faculty of Business Administration, which is the foundation faculty of Major in Business Administration, full-time faculty members with outstanding abilities and achievements in both research and education will be hired. Fields of specialization will be considered based on the progress of business administration, practical needs, and the areas of specialization of existing faculty members. In addition to full-time faculty members, the Graduate School will appoint a variety of human resources, including visiting graduate school faculty members, visiting foreign faculty members, fixed-term faculty members, adjunct faculty members, and adjunct lecturers, to provide a curriculum that can flexibly respond to diverse needs.

Faculty members of the Graduate School of Social Well-being Studies are required to educate students based on a basic understanding of the educational philosophy of the university and the graduate school, the educational goals of each department, and the diploma policy and curriculum policy of the graduate school and the department. In particular, in order to nurture advanced professionals and researchers, faculty members are required to be able to guide students in determining their research topics, approaches to research and methodologies, and other aspects of high-quality research. At the same time, faculty members are required to have high research ability in their specialized fields and to be engaged in advanced research.

The Graduate School of Social Well-being Studies has three majors, and the faculty organization is designed to take into account the academic fields of these majors. Specifically, the faculty in Major in Social Policy and Community Development is composed of full-time faculty members specializing in Social Work, Major in Engineering and Design, and Major in Clinical Psychology is composed of full-time faculty members qualified as Certified Psychologists, Clinical Psychologists, and Psychiatrists. In addition, in the Major in Social Policy, Community Development, Clinical Psychology (Doctoral Program), which integrates the Major in Social Policy and Community Development, Clinical Psychology in the Master's Program, a professor-level faculty member in charge of both Major in Social Policy and Community Development, Clinical Psychology is assigned to the program. Full-time faculty members serve as regular and sub-supervisors in the preparation of master's theses and doctoral dissertations, and a multiple-supervisor system is in place. Therefore, the policy of having faculty members who have not only high quality research skills in their specialized fields, but also flexible thinking skills with an interest in adjacent academic fields is understood and organized.

Based on the university's founding spirit of "Freedom and Progress," the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences is required to educate its students with a proper understanding of the philosophy, objectives, and educational goals of the school. In order to realize education in accordance with the Diploma Policy, Curriculum Policy, and Admission Policy, the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology must determine the appropriate educational content to foster the knowledge of computer science necessary for information technology specialists and researchers, while providing students with the opportunity to acquire and study the technological foundations that will not become obsolete in the rapidly advancing field of information technology. The education and research guidance must be conducted with constant awareness of what kind of educational content is appropriate for students to acquire and research the technological foundations that will not become obsolete in the rapidly advancing field of information technology.

Based on the philosophy and purpose of the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, the faculty organization will be composed mainly of full-time faculty members who are capable of providing responsible education to students, while giving consideration to keeping up with the diverse and rapidly changing field of information science. Full-time faculty members are responsible for education and research guidance in their own areas of expertise, as well as for participating in education to foster advanced engineers who can be active on a global scale. In recruiting full-time faculty members, the faculty organization will strive to cover the entire field of information science, while taking into consideration responses to new technological fields in information science.

The Graduate School is an independent graduate school whose purpose is to conduct education and research for policy making with a focus on the community. In addition to theory, it is essential for faculty members involved in policy education and research to have practical experience in policy making. In particular, many of the students who study at this graduate school work in the field of policy making, including in the corporate sector, and aim to improve their problem-solving and policy conceptualization skills in the field. In order to meet the expectations of these students, it is necessary to have faculty members who have a theoretical background but also have a career that has involved policy formation in some form. The policy of the Graduate School is to organize a faculty structure in which researchers who have been involved in policy formation are the mainstay of the faculty.

The Graduate School of Engineering and Design consists of three majors: Major in Architecture, Major in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Design. The foundation of the Graduate School of Engineering and Design is the Faculty of Engineering and Design, which was established in 2007 and consists of three departments with the same name. Therefore, all of the full-time faculty members assigned to the specialized fields of each major are also full-time faculty members in the same specialized fields at the undergraduate school.

The common image of a faculty member in all three departments is one who has outstanding achievements in one or more of the following areas: basic research, development of applied technology, or practical design practice, and in terms of education, a person who has a deep love for students and a passion for their development.

The basic policy of the faculty organization is to have a sufficient number of faculty members necessary for education and research in each department and field, and to have a good balance of researchers and those with practical experience so that the faculty can deal with a wide variety of areas from basic research to application and practice.

The Graduate School of Public Policy and Social Well-being Studies is a unique graduate school with a cross-disciplinary structure based on the faculty members of the Department of Political Science of Faculty of Law, the Department of Social Sciences of Faculty of Sustainability Studies, and the Graduate School of Social Well-being Studies, and has the broadest range of specialties in the university. As a result, the research areas of all faculty members cover an extremely wide range of specialties. In addition, the Graduate School of Science and Technology has a tradition as one of the earliest policy-related graduate schools in Japan, and has practiced education and research that is open not only to conventional graduate students with undergraduate degrees, but also to a wide range of working people.

Based on this background, the most important mission of the faculty of this graduate school is to achieve the objectives of this graduate school by implementing the curriculum policy based on the diploma policy of this graduate school, while taking advantage of the characteristics of this graduate school as mentioned above.

Specifically, the Graduate School has two majors, Public Policy Studies and Sustainability Studies, with the aim of pursuing contemporary public policy issues. Using this framework as a starting point, the faculty members of this graduate school are expected to nurture highly specialized professionals, research-oriented practitioners, and researchers who can contribute to solving a wide range of public policy issues in both the public and private sectors, from the local to the international community. In addition to providing guidance for the writing of high-quality master's and doctoral theses, and guidance and advice to support their research, the faculty of the Graduate School is expected to work as a team to provide guidance to individual graduate students in order to make use of the wide-ranging expertise of the faculty members, not limited to the faculty advisors of each graduate student.

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the field of career design, our policy is to have a faculty organization that can provide education and research guidance in a wide range of specialized fields, including management, education, psychology, and society. In research guidance, faculty members in multiple fields of specialization work together to provide guidance. Therefore, faculty members are expected to have knowledge in the specialized fields of management, education, psychology, and society, as well as the ability to provide interdisciplinary guidance, and at the same time, they are expected to have the motivation and professional ability to conduct educational activities and graduate student guidance in accordance with the Diploma Policy and Curriculum Policy.

Faculty members of the Graduate School of Science and Engineering must possess the qualities necessary to cultivate the kind of human resources that are set forth in the educational objectives of the Graduate School. They should have a high sense of professional ethics, be willing to contribute to the promotion of industry with a vision for the future of society (social contribution and industrial promotion), and be capable of continuously devoting themselves to advanced research and development in their respective fields of science and technology (advanced research). The faculty organization must be operated in a spirit of constant verification and evaluation, and be willing to change as necessary, so that these qualities can be fully cultivated in the students in the specialized fields of each department. Below are more specific faculty members and organizational policies for each department.

Major in Mechanical Engineering

The faculty members of this department must fully understand the philosophy and educational goals of the graduate school and the department, and must guide students in their education and research, as well as promote their own research activities and endeavor to return the results of their research both domestically and internationally. In addition, the faculty organization should be appropriately staffed in each field with faculty members who have sufficient educational and research abilities to provide DP1 to DP5.

Major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Faculty members are expected to have a broad familiarity with the academic fundamentals in the field of electrical and electronic engineering and to be able to continuously practice research activities in related fields. Each faculty member must contribute to his/her own specialized field and set an example to students of the qualities listed in the educational objectives. The faculty organization must be conscious of the educational and research content required of the department named "Electrical and Electronic Engineering" in its time, and must formulate its personnel composition and research and educational content.

Major in Applied Informatics

The faculty members should have a broad familiarity with academic fundamentals in information science and information engineering, and be able to continuously practice research activities in related fields. Each faculty member must contribute to his/her own field of expertise and set an example to students of the qualities listed in the educational objectives. In addition, they must collaborate with part-time lecturers on the content of their lectures, and always pay attention to the enhancement of education and research as a major. The faculty organization must be conscious of the content of education and research required of a major with the name "Applied Information Technology" in an advanced information society, and must formulate the composition of personnel and the content of research and education.

Major in Systems Engineering

Faculty members should have a broad familiarity with academic fundamentals in systems science and engineering, and be able to continuously practice research activities in related fields. Each faculty member must contribute to his/her own field of expertise and set an example to students of the qualities listed in the educational objectives. In addition, they must collaborate with part-time lecturers on the content of their lectures, and always pay attention to the enhancement of education and research as a major. The faculty organization must be conscious of the content of education and research required of a major with the name "Systems Science and Engineering" in an advanced information society, and must formulate the composition of personnel and the content of research and education.

Major in Applied Chemistry

The Major in Applied Chemistry seeks faculty members who are familiar with the academic fundamentals in the broad field of applied chemistry and who are able to continuously practice research activities covering even boundary areas, based on the basic philosophy of advanced and advanced chemistry that contributes to the construction of a sustainable global society. The faculty organization will formulate its personnel composition and research and educational content with an awareness of the educational and research content required of the Major in Applied Chemistry in the era of its name.

Major in Frontier Bioscience

Faculty members are expected to have a broad familiarity with academic fundamentals in life science and plant medical science, and to be able to continuously practice research activities in related fields. Each faculty member must contribute to his/her own field of expertise and exemplify to students the qualities listed in the educational objectives. The faculty organization must be conscious of the educational and research content required of the department named "biofunctional studies" in its time, and must formulate its personnel composition and research and educational content.

Faculty members of the Graduate School of Sports and Health Studies are required to provide education and guidance in accordance with the Diploma Policy and Curriculum Policy, based on a basic understanding of the philosophy of the university and the graduate school. In terms of qualifications and abilities, the Graduate School consists of three areas and subject groups: health promotion, sports coaching, and sports management, and students are required to have outstanding expertise in each of these areas, as well as broad knowledge and a global perspective.

Furthermore, in terms of research, students need to have the ability to solve advanced and practical problems using cutting-edge theories and research methods based on international trends in sports and health studies, and flexible teaching skills that allow them to appropriately demonstrate these abilities to their students. The policy for the organization of the faculty organization is to assign faculty members in a well-balanced manner so as not to bias each area, since the Graduate School is composed of the above three areas, and to set up classes and instructional situations as coursework so that each area always interacts organically in the education of students. Specifically, in the current master's program, "Research Design Philosophy," an omnibus-style class taught by all faculty members, has been established as an introductory research course. In addition, multiple meetings for the presentation of research results at stages in the process of preparing the master's thesis are set up during the course period, and guidance is provided in principle with the participation of all faculty members.

The educational philosophy and goal of the Institute is to nurture highly skilled professionals who will play a key role in building a solidarity society. The Institute selects students who are capable of realizing this philosophy and goal, teaches them a wide range of knowledge that can lead organizations (labor unions, cooperatives, NPOs) that play a leading role in solidarity society, and guides them to write papers that can prove that they have acquired sufficient research and practical skills. This is the image of faculty members that the Institute seeks. In order to achieve this, each faculty member must study the theory of trade unions, cooperatives, and NPOs, acquire detailed knowledge of the actual situation, be willing to learn from each other, and have a broad knowledge and education about solidarity society.

The Institute has three full-time faculty members, who are responsible for each program as well as for cross-program lectures. The supervisor has primary responsibility for the dissertation supervision, but the other full-time faculty members actively cooperate with him or her. In order to provide a curriculum appropriate to the Institute, the cooperation of not only full-time faculty members but also adjunct and adjunct faculty members is required. Therefore, the institute will organize an appropriate curriculum based on the initiative of full-time faculty members, listening to their opinions and requests from them.