48 monthsProgramme duration
AprStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Modern Languages
Degree
BA
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
With classical studies as the foundation of its education and research, the department emphasizes the discipline while developing reading comprehension, thinking, and expression skills. As a department that plays a central role in the study of Japanese culture, we aim to cultivate perspectives that question the essence of people, society, and culture, while at the same time reexamining Japanese culture in the context of globalization and acquiring the academic cultivation and insight that will enable us to communicate this to the world. We respect the characteristics of each student, and in order to achieve this, we continue to have small sized classes to enforce students to be self-directed.
The Department of Japanese Literature will continue its tradition of producing many researchers and educators, and will strive to nurture human resources who will be responsible for the next generation of research and education, combining expertise and interdisciplinarity.
Curriculum
Students will find research themes while linking the three fields of Japanese literature, Japanese linguistics, and Chinese literature, and cultivate the ability to solve problems based on new ideas through examining materials, individual analysis, and the pursuit of logic.
In the first year, students acquire basic academic skills and knowledge of Japanese literature, Japanese linguistics, and Chinese literature through basic and introductory courses. From the second year onward, emphasis is placed on learning techniques for conducting research. Another feature of this course is that students can take one course in succession in the seminar and special lecture courses for the second through fourth years. Students spend a long time in the original texts, learning profoundly and extensively, leading to the bachelor’s project to be written in the fourth year.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Modern Languages
Degree
BA
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
With classical studies as the foundation of its education and research, the department emphasizes the discipline while developing reading comprehension, thinking, and expression skills. As a department that plays a central role in the study of Japanese culture, we aim to cultivate perspectives that question the essence of people, society, and culture, while at the same time reexamining Japanese culture in the context of globalization and acquiring the academic cultivation and insight that will enable us to communicate this to the world. We respect the characteristics of each student, and in order to achieve this, we continue to have small sized classes to enforce students to be self-directed.
The Department of Japanese Literature will continue its tradition of producing many researchers and educators, and will strive to nurture human resources who will be responsible for the next generation of research and education, combining expertise and interdisciplinarity.
Curriculum
Students will find research themes while linking the three fields of Japanese literature, Japanese linguistics, and Chinese literature, and cultivate the ability to solve problems based on new ideas through examining materials, individual analysis, and the pursuit of logic.
In the first year, students acquire basic academic skills and knowledge of Japanese literature, Japanese linguistics, and Chinese literature through basic and introductory courses. From the second year onward, emphasis is placed on learning techniques for conducting research. Another feature of this course is that students can take one course in succession in the seminar and special lecture courses for the second through fourth years. Students spend a long time in the original texts, learning profoundly and extensively, leading to the bachelor’s project to be written in the fourth year.
Admission Requirements
- Students who are interested in Japanese literary works from ancient times to the present day, and who are willing to further develop their ability to read and understand each source material with deeper and more detailed judgment, to discover new independent ways of reading, and to refine them in dialogue with others.
- Students who are interested in the Japanese language, which has consistently been a “national language” from ancient times to the present day, and who are willing to elucidate the structure of the Japanese language on their own initiative, sometimes by comparing it with other languages.
- interested in the Chinese literary style, which has always been one of the foundations in the history of the Japanese language and literature, and willing to further develop their ability to appreciate works in the Chinese literary style.
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