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Department of Language and Culture

Japanese Language and Culture Studies
Chinese Language and Culture Studies
English Language and Culture Studies
German Language and Culture Studies
French Language and Culture Studies
Philosophy, Art, and Cultural Relations Studies

The department provides the above six study areas.
image2 Japanese Language and Culture Studies provides programs on Japanese Langauge and Japanese Literature. Students learn the history of Japanese language, syntax, phonetics, dialects, and other linguistic foundations. Literature majors study the picture scrolls and manuscripts from the Edo era and novels of the Meiji period.  Chinese Language and Culture Studies provides classes that extend from the Chinese myths to contemporary literature along with the history, culture and ideas. 

 English Languages and Culture Studies cprovides classes that cover the 16th-century English poetry to 21st-century American novels, and also gives ourses on cross-cultural studies and English linguistics. Several classes are taught in English by native English speakers. German Language and Culture Studies has classes in which students read medieval to contemporary German texts, and guides students to develop understanding of German culture. French Language and Culture Studies provides courses on French linguistics and literature, Francophone cultures, and comparative studies with Asian and/or Anglophone literatures and cultures.  

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 Philosophy, Art, and Cultural Relations Studies focuses on the study of various cultural activities in which cultures are inherited, altered through collision, or newly created. It guides students to learn research methods and apply them in interpretation of art, thought and intercultural communication studies.

 

 

 

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URL:

◆Department of Language and Culture

http://www.hobun.shimane-u.ac.jp/gengobunka/ (Japanese)

 

Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences

 The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences was established in April 1997 following reorganization and expansion of the Graduate School of Law, which was founded in April 1988.
 Although each department has its own educational goal, the graduate school as a whole also has a common goal: to cope with a highly information-oriented society. In order to achieve this goal effectively, the school offers systematically organized courses.
 After a rigorous entrance process, graduate students choose one of four courses, taking into consideration their research interests and future career plans. The students then carry out individual studies under an academic adviser who instructs and guides them through their studies culminating in a thesis.

 

 

 

 

Law and Economics

Law and Politics

image3 This course is intended to improve the abilities to identify, analyze and solve legal and political problems that arise in public policymaking, administration and management in contemporary society. The design of the course is intended for students in preparation to be legal and administrative experts.


Regional Economics
 The objective of this course is to cultivate practical knowledge and the ability to handle problems concerned with regional economies, industrial enterprise, financing, statistics, and surveys.

 

 

 

 

 

Language and Culture / Socio-Cultural Studies

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 In response to the needs of an internationalized and information-oriented society, this course is designed to foster students who can analyze and resolve real problems such as intercultural exchanges and conflicts. In addition, it is designed to improve the abilities of students who are involved in academic research on comparative studies of cultures based on their language problems of choice, i.e. Japanese, Chinese, or English, and its literature. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This course consists of six branches: psychology, sociology,geography, cultural anthropology, history, archaeology and study of a welfare society. The purpose of this course is to cultivate abilities to handle social and cultural issues in the region, as well as international relations and cultural exchange from an interdisciplinary viewpoint.