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Hong Kong 1,000 km Saga Taipei Oita Dhaka Nagasaki Yangon Hanoi Kumamoto 2,000 km Manila Miyazaki Fukuoka City, situated on the north coast of the ruins of Fukuoka Castle; and many temples Bangkok Kagoshima Kyushu, is the seat of the Fukuoka prefectural and shrines, including the first Zen temple in government. It is the sixth-largest city in Japan Japan, Shofuku-ji. To Kitakyushu in terms of population, with about 1.5 million Kuala Lumpur residents, making it larger than Kyoto. The Fukuoka also offers an array of cultural and Singapore climate is warm, generally resembling the entertainment facilities such as historical and art southern coasts of the United States or southern museums, and theaters. The Fukuoka SoftBank Europe, with an average temperature of about Hawks professional baseball team and the Avispa Fukuoka Expressway Kashii Route JR Sanyo JR Railway Lines Hakata Bay Subway Shinkansen Line 17°C. The seasons are distinct. Fukuoka professional soccer team are based here, Hakozaki Shinkansen Lines Line and the national sumo wrestling tournament is Private Railway Lines Wakaba High School Tenjin-kita Ramp JR Sasaguri Line Its geographic location close to the Korean held here each autumn. The friendly, hospitable Subway Lines Momochi Ramp Kuko Ramp Kyushu peninsula and China have kept Fukuoka a center residents of Fukuoka love festivals, welcoming Fukuoka Expressway Expressway for commerce and culture for over two thousand tourists from across Japan and internationally to Subway Kuko Line Tenjin Tenjin- Fukuoka Airport Meinohama minami years, and it continues to develop today as the the Hakata Dontaku and Hakata Gion Yamakasa Nishijin Tojin-machi JR Chikuhi Line JR Hakataeki-higashi center for government, economy and culture in festivals, and the month-long Asian Party events. To Karatsu Hakata Ramp Station the western Japan and Kyushu regions. Ropponmatsu Yakuin Fukuoka City is attracting attention worldwide. Fukushige Junction Fukuoka Airport, only ten minutes by subway It has been selected as the “most livable city in Ohori High School Ohori Junior High School from downtown, is a hub for air travel, served by Asia” three times by Asiaweek magazine, and in Tsukiguma Junction twenty-six domestic and twenty international 2006 Newsweek placed it on its list of the ten Subway Nanakuma Line Nishitetsu JR Kagoshima Line routes. Fukuoka also boasts Hakata Port, the highest-growth cities in the world, along with Tenjin largest international port in Japan; Hakata Munich and Las Vegas. Fukuoka Omuta Line Hashimoto Dazaifu Station for the Shinkansen bullet train service, University Interchange with the Kyushu Shinkansen network now Monocle, a British international lifestyle N completed to serve passengers throughout magazine, lists it every year as one of the 25 Noke Ramp Fukudai-mae Fukuoka Expressway Circular Route Nishitetsu western Japan and Kyushu; and the high-speed most livable cities in the world, and in 2014 it Fukuoka Univerisity Subway JR Kyushu Futsukaichi Station Tsutsumi Ramp Shinkansen Line roadway network interlinking the first was ranked in the Top Ten for the very first Hospital Asakura bidirectional beltway in western Japan with the time. Ranking takes a variety of factors into Tempaizan Gaido Kyushu Expressway and the Fukuoka Urban account, including not only economic, social and CONTENTSExpressway. About 90% of business in Fukuoka functional aspects, but also the ease of daily life, Fukuoka University City is tertiary, including wholesale, retail, food urban greenery, cultural activities, and support Kuko Line Nanakuma Line Chikushi Hospital Hakata Station Tenjin-minami and beverage establishments, and other service for entrepreneurs. The city was ranked above Fukudai-mae 8 min. walk Tenjin Greetingsindustry businesses. With twenty2 universities■ Sports and and Health ScienceSydney, Singapore25 International and Paris. Programs 38 Institute for the Development5 min. 6 min.Universityfor Hospitals transfer 16 min.54 Fukuoka University Facts 49 Fukuoka University Missioncolleges, Statement Fukuoka City also has3 the third-highest International House 38 and Support of Higher EducationFukuoka Airport Fukuoka University Hospital 54 and Figures 60 Fukuokaratio University of students in Japan, followingGraduate only KyotoSchools 26 Information Technology Center 49 Fukuoka University University Organization 60 Subway 49 Visionand 2014-2023 Tokyo. 3 ■ Humanities 27 Extracurricular Activities 39 Admissions Office Chikushi Hospital 54 History 61 Academic Calendar 4 ■ Law 29 Center for General Education 50 Student Enrollment 62

■ Economics 30 Educational Facilities Language Education and JR Hakata Affiliated Schools 55 Alumni 62 UndergraduateFukuoka FacultiesCity offers diverse 5fascinations,■ Commerce with a 30 and Institutes 40 Research Center Station 50 Ohori Junior High School 55 International Students 63 30 min. by car or taxi ■ Generalrich urban Education culture featuring world-class6 ■ Science shopping 31 Central Research Institute 40 Teaching Profession Course Ohori High School 55 Teaching Staff 64 50 ■ Humanitiesand outstanding local and international7 ■ Engineering cuisine, 32 Academic, Industrial and Education Center Wakaba High School 55 International Teaching Staff 64 ■ Law 11 ■ Medical Sciences 34 Governmental Liaison Center 40 Center for International Programs 50 Tuition and other fees 65 45 min. by car or taxi ■ Economicsyet with mountains and beaches12 close■ Pharmaceuticalat hand. Sciences 36 Intellectual Property Center 41 Career CenterCar or Taxi 50 School of Japanese Language and Fukuoka University’s Partner ■ CommerceThe city is also rich in historical14 artifacts■ Sports andand Health Science 37 Central Research Organization 41 Extension Center 51 Culture for International Students 56 Institutions 66 ■ Commercesites, including Evening Schoolthe Gold Seal15 (a national■ Institute for Legal Practice Academia, Industry and Center for Experimental Animals 51 ■ Science 16 (Law School) 37 Government Collaborative Health Care Center 51 Tokyo Office 56 68 treasure); the former site of the Korokan, a Note: The times given above are estimates. Campus Map ■ Engineering 19 Research Organization 44 Radioisotope Center 51 56 Please note that heavy traﬃc during certainHarbin hours mayBranch increase Office, travel China time. Fukuoka City 70 ■ Medicinediplomatic guest house used 22in the Heian period; University Libraries 48 Environmental Protection Center 51 Access Map 71 ■ Pharmaceutical Sciences 24 Other Facilities 52 International Student Admissions 57

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Greetings 2 ■ Sports and Health Science 25 International Programs 38 Institute for the Development University Hospitals 54 Fukuoka University Facts Mission Statement 3 International House 38 and Support of Higher Education 49 Fukuoka University Hospital 54 and Figures 60 Fukuoka University Graduate Schools 26 Information Technology Center 49 Fukuoka University University Organization 60 Vision 2014-2023 3 ■ Humanities 27 Extracurricular Activities 39 Admissions Office 49 Chikushi Hospital 54 History 61 Academic Calendar 4 ■ Law 29 Center for General Education 50 Student Enrollment 62 ■ Economics 30 Educational Facilities Language Education and Affiliated Schools 55 Alumni 62 Undergraduate Faculties 5 ■ Commerce 30 and Institutes 40 Research Center 50 Ohori Junior High School 55 International Students 63 ■ General Education 6 ■ Science 31 Central Research Institute 40 Teaching Profession Course Ohori High School 55 Teaching Staff 64 ■ Humanities 7 ■ Engineering 32 Academic, Industrial and Education Center 50 Wakaba High School 55 International Teaching Staff 64 ■ Law 11 ■ Medical Sciences 34 Governmental Liaison Center 40 Center for International Programs 50 Tuition and other fees 65 ■ Economics 12 ■ Pharmaceutical Sciences 36 Intellectual Property Center 41 Career Center 50 School of Japanese Language and Fukuoka University’s Partner ■ Commerce 14 ■ Sports and Health Science 37 Central Research Organization 41 Extension Center 51 Culture for International Students 56 Institutions 66 ■ Commerce Evening School 15 ■ Institute for Legal Practice Academia, Industry and Center for Experimental Animals 51 ■ Science 16 (Law School) 37 Government Collaborative Health Care Center 51 Tokyo Office 56 Campus Map 68 ■ Engineering 19 Research Organization 44 Radioisotope Center 51 Harbin Branch Office, China 56 Fukuoka City 70 ■ Medicine 22 University Libraries 48 Environmental Protection Center 51 Access Map 71 ■ Pharmaceutical Sciences 24 Other Facilities 52 International Student Admissions 57

FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 1 projects between industry, academia and Greetings government, tie-ups with high schools and other Mission Statement President Takuya Eto, PhD universities, and stronger cooperative links with the Fukuoka University is dedicated to holistic education, local community. We have positioned these cooperative arrangements as crucial to the the cultivation of the whole person and the reintegration fulfillment of our obligation to society. of knowledge through interdisciplinary education and research. In teaching and research, we seek to embrace There is rising demand from society to prepare both specialist and generalist approaches, nurturing graduates with the knowledge and skills needed in both academic excellence and the highest ideals of the today’s world of accelerating globalization, and to human spirit. In this way, we strive to fulfill our better fulfill this need we have launched the As one of the largest universities in western Japan, mission of contributing to society by producing creative Fukuoka University carries on a history and Fukuoka University Global Graduate Educational and spontaneous graduates who can think and act both tradition dating back 80 years, and continues to Initiative. At the founding of the Fukuoka Higher locally and globally in pursuit of truth and liberty. play a vital part in the region. The University’s Commercial School, the origin of the University, large campus in the southwestern part of Fukuoka the founders declared that Fukuoka would continue City incorporates a wide range of facilities, to thrive as a gateway between Japan and other including the University Hospital. It is home to over nations, and that there was a pressing need to 20,000 students in a diverse range of undergraduate nurture graduates with the broad perspectives that (31 departments in 9 faculties) and postgraduate (34 would be needed. From its home in Fukuoka, the majors in 10 schools) programs, and is the hub for a “Gateway to East Asia,” the University continues to Academic contribute to society through graduates with an excellence community of about 250,000 alumni. & international outlook, active on the global stage. Holistic The University remains committed to its constant education goal of providing high-level support in the three key Universities today face a harsh operating areas of education, research and medicine. We environment. We are implementing a variety of believe in responsible education, in research driven policies and plans designed to further improve our Education and research by a questing spirit and backed up by hard work, competitiveness, and stabilize and strengthen at Fukuoka University and in quality medicine at the forefront of the field. financial soundness. We will continue to strengthen our performance in Regional Specialized these three activities, educating and developing the The value of the University, sited here in the contribution knowledge talented professionals who will shape the region, Nanakuma region of Fukuoka, has been widely & & recognized thanks to our constant commitment to Interdisciplinary the nation, and the international community, in Global education accordance with our founding philosophy and our close regional interaction, and collaborative projects perspective and research commitment to education and research. within it. Our approach and performance have earned the respect and trust of the people of the In recent years these three basic functions have area, and we will continue to evolve together with been further strengthened through a variety of them to remain a leading educational institution. cooperative agreements, including collaborative

Fukuoka University Vision 2014-2023

As a leading university in the Kyushu region, Fukuoka University continues to work closely with the communities it serves, contributing to society as a center for education, research and medicine that meets the requirements of the era. Our credo incorporates the following four key objectives:

1. Provide education, research and medicine that meets the requirements of the era and society 2. Support advanced, high-level research 3. Nurture a global perspective through close relations with other nations, especially in East Asia 4. Help vitalize and develop Fukuoka and the surrounding region.

2 3 projects between industry, academia and Greetings government, tie-ups with high schools and other Mission Statement President Takuya Eto, PhD universities, and stronger cooperative links with the Fukuoka University is dedicated to holistic education, local community. We have positioned these cooperative arrangements as crucial to the the cultivation of the whole person and the reintegration fulfillment of our obligation to society. of knowledge through interdisciplinary education and research. In teaching and research, we seek to embrace There is rising demand from society to prepare both specialist and generalist approaches, nurturing graduates with the knowledge and skills needed in both academic excellence and the highest ideals of the today’s world of accelerating globalization, and to human spirit. In this way, we strive to fulfill our better fulfill this need we have launched the As one of the largest universities in western Japan, mission of contributing to society by producing creative Fukuoka University carries on a history and Fukuoka University Global Graduate Educational and spontaneous graduates who can think and act both tradition dating back 80 years, and continues to Initiative. At the founding of the Fukuoka Higher locally and globally in pursuit of truth and liberty. play a vital part in the region. The University’s Commercial School, the origin of the University, large campus in the southwestern part of Fukuoka the founders declared that Fukuoka would continue City incorporates a wide range of facilities, to thrive as a gateway between Japan and other including the University Hospital. It is home to over nations, and that there was a pressing need to 20,000 students in a diverse range of undergraduate nurture graduates with the broad perspectives that (31 departments in 9 faculties) and postgraduate (34 would be needed. From its home in Fukuoka, the majors in 10 schools) programs, and is the hub for a “Gateway to East Asia,” the University continues to Academic contribute to society through graduates with an excellence community of about 250,000 alumni. & international outlook, active on the global stage. Holistic The University remains committed to its constant education goal of providing high-level support in the three key Universities today face a harsh operating areas of education, research and medicine. We environment. We are implementing a variety of believe in responsible education, in research driven policies and plans designed to further improve our Education and research by a questing spirit and backed up by hard work, competitiveness, and stabilize and strengthen at Fukuoka University and in quality medicine at the forefront of the field. financial soundness. We will continue to strengthen our performance in Regional Specialized these three activities, educating and developing the The value of the University, sited here in the contribution knowledge talented professionals who will shape the region, Nanakuma region of Fukuoka, has been widely & & recognized thanks to our constant commitment to Interdisciplinary the nation, and the international community, in Global education accordance with our founding philosophy and our close regional interaction, and collaborative projects perspective and research commitment to education and research. within it. Our approach and performance have earned the respect and trust of the people of the In recent years these three basic functions have area, and we will continue to evolve together with been further strengthened through a variety of them to remain a leading educational institution. cooperative agreements, including collaborative

Fukuoka University Vision 2014-2023

2 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 3 Academic Calendar〈 2015 to 2016 〉 Contents

1 Academic Year Begins 1 Entrance Ceremony General Education 6 8 First Semester Begins

21 Anniversary of the Founding Undergraduate Faculties of the University Humanities 7 Science 16 ● Culture ● Applied Mathematics ● History ● Applied Physics ● Japanese Language and Literature ● Chemistry ● Education and Clinical Psychology ● Earth System Science ● English ● German Engineering 19 23 Classes End ● French 24 Term Examinations Begin ● East Asian Studies ● Mechanical Engineering ● Electrical Engineering ● Electronics Engineering Law 11 and Computer Science 2 Term Examinations End ● Jurisprudence ● Chemical Engineering 4 Summer Vacation Begins ● Business Law ● Civil Engineering ● Architecture 13 Summer Vacation Ends Economics 12 Medicine 22 14 Second Semester Begins ● Economics 26 Graduation Ceremony（First Semester） ● Industrial Economics ● Medicine ● Nursing Commerce 14 Pharmaceutical Sciences 24 ● Commerce ● Business Management ● Pharmaceutics ● International Trade Sports and Health Science 25 15 Commerce Evening School ● Sports Science ● Commerce ● Health and Exercise Science

27 Winter Recess Begins

4 Winter Recess Ends 18 Classes End 19 Term Examinations Begin 28 Term Examinations End

19 Graduation Ceremony 31 Academic Year Ends

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1 Academic Year Begins 1 Entrance Ceremony General Education 6 8 First Semester Begins

27 Winter Recess Begins

4 Winter Recess Ends 18 Classes End 19 Term Examinations Begin 28 Term Examinations End

19 Graduation Ceremony 31 Academic Year Ends

4 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 5 Undergraduate Faculties Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Humanities General Education The Faculty of Humanities exposes students to a wide range of knowledge and culture, instilling the core As part of our dedication to holistic education, as described in our mission statement, Fukuoka knowledge essential in the field, including philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, education, literature, University maintains a liberal arts-centered general education system that helps ensure that our language and education. The objective is to nurture professionals with a sense of ethics solidly based on students graduate with enlightened and broad-minded thinking capabilities, the ability to view problems comprehensively and thereby make sound judgments, and genuine humanity. It is designed consideration for others, freedom and responsibility. Under this approach, the Faculty promotes a broad to stimulate natural curiosity and the zeal to learn in students, nurturing the abilities needed for understanding of the role of individuals within society, and the role of society itself, as viewed through analyzing and integrating information. These are all crucial skills that will be essential throughout diverse senses of value, training students to act responsibly and effectively, and to understand foreign their study at the university. The general education program is composed of courses from the three culture from a global perspective. fields of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, as well as interdisciplinary courses, fundamental courses, courses in foreign languages, health and physical education courses, and credited courses taken at other universities. The core characteristic of our general education program is that the curriculum is designed so that most students can complete the program within their first two years while still being able to take specialty courses at the same time. Department of Culture

Foreign language education at the university is one example of how this works. Languages offered The Department of Culture aims at providing its in their first year. Then, from the second year on, in the program include English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Russian and Japanese (international students only). The purpose of language education is to help our students develop students with a comprehensive, multi-faceted they decide the course of study they will pursue by broad cross-cultural perspectives, and to equip them with communication skills that enable them to understanding of human beings and cultures. choosing from a range of seminars covering an understand what others have to say while being able to express their own thoughts and ideas. Students study the methods of cultural analysis array of fields. This curriculum is offered in from multiple perspectives, including those of accordance with the Department’s belief that in philosophy, religion, sociology, psychology, cultural this age of specialization and the increasing Humanities anthropology, geography and art history. The goal subdivision of knowledge, society needs people who Philosophy; logic; ethics; religion; Japanese history; analysis of Japanese of the Department is to produce graduates who have the ability to make accurate judgments based history; East Asian history; Western history; analysis of foreign history; have broad cultural perspectives and highly on an integrated and holistic interdisciplinary Japanese literature; Chinese literature; Western literature; human geography; art; history of Japanese education; history of Western education developed problem-solving skills and are thus able approach. to contribute to society. To achieve this goal, Social sciences members of the Department’s teaching and Law; Japanese constitution; legal theory; government; governmental theory; research staff come from a wide range of economics; economic theory; commerce; sociology; education theory; basic education theory; geography; geographic inﬂuences on nature and disciplines, including philosophy, religion, civilization; psychology; cultural anthropology sociology, psychology, cultural anthropology, geography and art history. Natural sciences Introductory mathematics; basic mathematics; introductory statistics; Students learn the basic skills of cultural analysis Liberal Arts introductory physics; world of physics; the natural world and chemistry; daily life and environmental chemistry; introductory earth system science; new earth observation; microbiology; introductory natural science; natural science and humanity; physical geography; mathematics; graphic information; statistics; physics; chemistry; earth science; biology; mathematical statistics; mathematical information science; introductory chemistry; biochemistry; Department of History General chemistry experimentation; physics experimentation; biology experimentation Education Northern Kyushu has played a crucial role in Japanese History and Archaeology majors can also Interdisciplinary courses Japanese history as the gateway through which study the histories of other nations, and students in Global environment; life, health and medicine; internationalization and Japan; science, technology, information, and society; culture and education; the cultural influences have flowed into Japan from the Asian or Western History majors can study modern world China and the Korean Peninsula since ancient Japanese history as well. Careers students enter times and, in modern times, through its after graduation include junior high and high school Fundamental courses longstanding and deep relationship with Europe. teaching, excavation engineering and museum Career design for Fukuoka University students; seminar on academic skills; Drawing on this rich historical heritage, the curatorship. Many students find their way into information about Fukuoka University and how to learn there Department of History was established in 1987 as state and local government service or enter the a department dedicated solely to the study of general business community, embarking on careers Freshman English; Intermediate English; Advanced English; German; Foreign languages French; Chinese; Spanish; Korean; Russian; Japanese (for international history. The aim of the Department is to offer in mass communication companies, travel agencies, students) historical education and research from both and local and national enterprises. regional and international perspectives. Health and physical Lifelong sports practice; Lifelong sports theory education In the first year, students study a wide range of

As part of the ongoing cooperative program between ﬁve universities in historical themes and approaches. Then, in their Credit transfer western Fukuoka City, classes are mutually open to students, and credits second year, they may choose from among the four received for speciﬁed classes are transferred. majors offered: Japanese History, Asian History, Western History or Archaeology. In their last two years, students engage in field-specific research and write their graduation theses. Students in the

6 7 Undergraduate Faculties Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Humanities General Education The Faculty of Humanities exposes students to a wide range of knowledge and culture, instilling the core As part of our dedication to holistic education, as described in our mission statement, Fukuoka knowledge essential in the field, including philosophy, sociology, psychology, history, education, literature, University maintains a liberal arts-centered general education system that helps ensure that our language and education. The objective is to nurture professionals with a sense of ethics solidly based on students graduate with enlightened and broad-minded thinking capabilities, the ability to view problems comprehensively and thereby make sound judgments, and genuine humanity. It is designed consideration for others, freedom and responsibility. Under this approach, the Faculty promotes a broad to stimulate natural curiosity and the zeal to learn in students, nurturing the abilities needed for understanding of the role of individuals within society, and the role of society itself, as viewed through analyzing and integrating information. These are all crucial skills that will be essential throughout diverse senses of value, training students to act responsibly and effectively, and to understand foreign their study at the university. The general education program is composed of courses from the three culture from a global perspective. fields of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, as well as interdisciplinary courses, fundamental courses, courses in foreign languages, health and physical education courses, and credited courses taken at other universities. The core characteristic of our general education program is that the curriculum is designed so that most students can complete the program within their first two years while still being able to take specialty courses at the same time. Department of Culture

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Faculty of Humanities Department of Japanese Language and Literature Department of English Faculty of Humanities

Students of this Department study Japanese cultures and dialects. Acquisition of the English language is skills, about 60 percent of classes are common for language and literature in a unique curriculum that indispensable if, individually and collectively, we both majors. These classes aim at strengthening brings together traditional and more recent For the graduation thesis, the culmination of the are to actively play an international role on the the four basic skills of reading, writing, listening comparative and interdisciplinary approaches. four-year course, each student selects his or her world stage. The Department of English responds and speaking. Moreover, students of one major can Emphasis is laid, for example, on exploring and own theme, and engages in original research. to this crucial need of Japanese society by training take classes in the other. Cultural studies are also understanding Japanese language and literature Students in education courses hoping to become students to have both high-level language skills and emphasized, including the opportunity to through comparison with those of foreign countries, educators enjoy opportunities to find employment broad international perspectives. This is participate in an elective intensive English rather than viewing them from a narrow, isolated in their chosen field, whether teaching Japanese at accomplished through intensive study of the language and culture course at the University of standpoint, which is why there are comparative junior and senior high schools, or the Japanese English language and the culture and literature of Bath in England or the University of Calgary in literature courses such as Introduction to language to foreign students. English-speaking countries. Canada every summer. In their third and fourth Comparative Literature and Special Comparative years, students’ academic research is focused Literature. Seminars in research methodology and There are two courses, the Linguistics and Speech primarily on seminars in which they deepen their techniques for the linguistic and literature fields Communication Course and the Culture and knowledge of their chosen field. provide students with essential research skills. Literature Course. In their first year, students Moreover, in order to deepen students’ take introductory courses in each of the understanding of language and literature, the Department’s four main disciplines: Linguistics, Department also offers classes focusing on regional Speech Communication, British Culture and Literature, and American Culture and Literature. At the end of their first year, they choose to major in either language or culture and literature; however, in order to reinforce fundamental English

Department of Education and Clinical Psychology Department of German

In the Department of Education and Clinical through the combination of the two disciplines, Among all the private comprehensive universities final year. Psychology, students utilize knowledge and graduates with general and practical abilities that in Kyushu, the Department of German of Fukuoka techniques of education and clinical psychology to can be used to support and assist others. University is the only one dedicated to the study of One of the Department’s goals is to provide learn how to approach a variety of problems and German. Since almost all students enter the students with an international perspective through challenges being faced by modern society. Offering Department without having studied the German a broader understanding of German culture as a a unique feature not found at other universities, language during their school career, in the first whole. To this end, German Studies in German the Department allows students to freely choose year students take basic classes (Basic German Speaking Areas is offered as an elective. Foreign and take courses related to the fields of both Conversation and Elementary Seminar on German) exchange programs with two sister schools, education and clinical psychology simultaneously intended to help them acquire the four basic skills Friedrich Schiller University Jena and and in accordance with their needs. The ‒ listening, speaking, writing and reading ‒ in Duisburg-Essen University, are also available. educational goal of this Department is to produce, addition to a Basic Grammar Class. Also, in Foundations of European Studies and Foundations Students must choose either the Course in of German Studies, lectures are given to provide European Studies or the Course in German students with the basic knowledge essential in the Studies upon admission. field.

From the second year, students choose from one of three fields according to their interest, namely Area Studies, Language and Culture, or Representations of Cultures. Students enter a seminar of their choice in the third year, and are encouraged to write graduation theses in their

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Faculty of Humanities Department of Japanese Language and Literature Department of English Faculty of Humanities

Department of Education and Clinical Psychology Department of German

8 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 9 Undergraduate Faculties Undergraduate Faculties Faculty of Humanities Department of French Faculty of Law Faculty of Law French-speaking areas of the world are far larger Studies, Language and Culture, and than generally thought, and in some countries Representations of Culture. Third-and fourth-year By providing specialized education in law and government in a systematic and hierarchal fashion, the Faculty French is even designated as a national language. seminars cover all of these fields, each seminar of Law provides students with a deeper understanding of legal concepts, instilling the knowledge necessary Because many students learn French for the first consisting of about twelve students who have to determine the significance of laws and understand discussion of their interpretation, and heightens an time in their life when they enter the Department, chosen that specialty. In these seminars, students awareness of the systems of law, the courts and government, and their operation at the international, the emphasis is put on the acquisition of the four find their own themes and engage in their own national and regional levels. The courses are designed to provide students with the specialized knowledge in skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. In research, guided by their seminar teachers. The law and politics needed to flexibly resolve a wide variety of issues. To implement this educational approach, the first year, students learn basic conversation, curriculum also includes an exchange program with the course of study consists of classes and practice based on research results in individual areas within the grammar and reading through such classes as the University of Paris 7 Denis Diderot, the broad fields of law and government, providing students with legal minds through specialized knowledge and Elementary Seminar on French and Basic French University of Cergy-Pontoise and the Catholic practical competence. The goal of the Faculty is to train legal minds capable of offering practical solutions Conversation, taught by native French speakers. In University of Louvain, all of which are our sister to the complex issues, incidents and discords of modern society, applying flexible thinking, a systematic the Foundations of European Studies and universities. approach and balanced judgment in a comprehensive and ethical manner. Foundations of French Studies courses, students can grasp the outline of the various fields of study Students must choose either the Course in open to them during the remaining three years of European Studies or the Course in French Studies the course. Integrated in the curriculum at the end upon admission. of the second year is an elective one-month French Department of Jurisprudence Studies in French Speaking Countries course, in which students experience a French-speaking Established in 1959, the Department of find occupations in education, the media, or in environment and French culture at the Catholic Jurisprudence has served Kyushu as a crucial public service such as in national or local University of Louvain in Belgium. The training department within the Faculty of Law for over half governments. The Modern Citizen Law course is course includes a one-week stay in Paris. a century, and its many alumni are making designed to train students to deal effectively with important contributions in society. The educational the complex interactions of law within the The fields of specialty in the Department are Area goal of the Department is to nurture talented activities of citizens in modern society. Model graduates with a solid understanding of the legal courses have been developed for a variety of basics, who can interpret things from a legal specialty and related fields to better meet the perspective. future career strategies of students. Our graduates play active roles as researchers, judges, public Department of East Asian Studies The teaching staff of the Department of prosecutors, lawyers, and local and national Jurisprudence spares no effort in responding to the government officials. Due to its nearness to China and Korea, Fukuoka either Chinese or Korean. In addition to intensively diverse needs of students. In order to strengthen has long played an important role as a gateway to studying the language, they also acquire knowledge its support for the various careers students pursue other Asian countries. Taking advantage of the of their chosen country in the Elementary Seminar after graduation, the curriculum is divided into university’s location in this historic city, the on Chinese/Korean Studies. In their third and three courses: General Law, Legal Policy and Department of East Asian Studies was established fourth years, students take a variety of seminars Modern Citizen Law. The General Law course is in 1999 to provide regional studies and education according to their own interests, further improving designed for students who aim to become legal on East Asia. In this Department students mainly their ability to understand the region, and specialists such as lawyers, while the Legal Policy study the languages, cultures and regional affairs thoroughly analyze and digest literature in the course is intended for students whose goal is to of China and South Korea. field.

In their first year, students study the languages of China and Korea, and in the Introduction to East Asian Studies course they are given an overview of Chinese and Korean studies. They also learn various approaches to area studies in the Methodology of East Asian Studies course. From their second year onward, students specialize in

10 11 Undergraduate Faculties Undergraduate Faculties Faculty of Humanities Department of French Faculty of Law Faculty of Law French-speaking areas of the world are far larger Studies, Language and Culture, and than generally thought, and in some countries Representations of Culture. Third-and fourth-year By providing specialized education in law and government in a systematic and hierarchal fashion, the Faculty French is even designated as a national language. seminars cover all of these fields, each seminar of Law provides students with a deeper understanding of legal concepts, instilling the knowledge necessary Because many students learn French for the first consisting of about twelve students who have to determine the significance of laws and understand discussion of their interpretation, and heightens an time in their life when they enter the Department, chosen that specialty. In these seminars, students awareness of the systems of law, the courts and government, and their operation at the international, the emphasis is put on the acquisition of the four find their own themes and engage in their own national and regional levels. The courses are designed to provide students with the specialized knowledge in skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. In research, guided by their seminar teachers. The law and politics needed to flexibly resolve a wide variety of issues. To implement this educational approach, the first year, students learn basic conversation, curriculum also includes an exchange program with the course of study consists of classes and practice based on research results in individual areas within the grammar and reading through such classes as the University of Paris 7 Denis Diderot, the broad fields of law and government, providing students with legal minds through specialized knowledge and Elementary Seminar on French and Basic French University of Cergy-Pontoise and the Catholic practical competence. The goal of the Faculty is to train legal minds capable of offering practical solutions Conversation, taught by native French speakers. In University of Louvain, all of which are our sister to the complex issues, incidents and discords of modern society, applying flexible thinking, a systematic the Foundations of European Studies and universities. approach and balanced judgment in a comprehensive and ethical manner. Foundations of French Studies courses, students can grasp the outline of the various fields of study Students must choose either the Course in open to them during the remaining three years of European Studies or the Course in French Studies the course. Integrated in the curriculum at the end upon admission. of the second year is an elective one-month French Department of Jurisprudence Studies in French Speaking Countries course, in which students experience a French-speaking Established in 1959, the Department of find occupations in education, the media, or in environment and French culture at the Catholic Jurisprudence has served Kyushu as a crucial public service such as in national or local University of Louvain in Belgium. The training department within the Faculty of Law for over half governments. The Modern Citizen Law course is course includes a one-week stay in Paris. a century, and its many alumni are making designed to train students to deal effectively with important contributions in society. The educational the complex interactions of law within the The fields of specialty in the Department are Area goal of the Department is to nurture talented activities of citizens in modern society. Model graduates with a solid understanding of the legal courses have been developed for a variety of basics, who can interpret things from a legal specialty and related fields to better meet the perspective. future career strategies of students. Our graduates play active roles as researchers, judges, public Department of East Asian Studies The teaching staff of the Department of prosecutors, lawyers, and local and national Jurisprudence spares no effort in responding to the government officials. Due to its nearness to China and Korea, Fukuoka either Chinese or Korean. In addition to intensively diverse needs of students. In order to strengthen has long played an important role as a gateway to studying the language, they also acquire knowledge its support for the various careers students pursue other Asian countries. Taking advantage of the of their chosen country in the Elementary Seminar after graduation, the curriculum is divided into university’s location in this historic city, the on Chinese/Korean Studies. In their third and three courses: General Law, Legal Policy and Department of East Asian Studies was established fourth years, students take a variety of seminars Modern Citizen Law. The General Law course is in 1999 to provide regional studies and education according to their own interests, further improving designed for students who aim to become legal on East Asia. In this Department students mainly their ability to understand the region, and specialists such as lawyers, while the Legal Policy study the languages, cultures and regional affairs thoroughly analyze and digest literature in the course is intended for students whose goal is to of China and South Korea. field.

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Faculty of Law Department of Business Law Department of Economics Faculty of Economics

Established in 1970 as a new department of the The International Studies course is designed for A main focus of the Department of Economics is on International Finance and Labor Economics. In Faculty of Law, the Department of Business Law students interested in trade, foreign-capital economic theories and, as mentioned above, the aim Social Economics, through English Reading and aims at producing graduates prepared for the businesses, the travel industry and similar fields, of the Department is to provide undergraduates Discussion, Comparative Economics and other responsibility of business management, aided by a providing them with the practical legal knowledge with manifold abilities so as to approach economic courses such as on economic history, students thorough knowledge of both law and management as well as with the language skills essential for problems theoretically and analyze them examine national economic growth and historical and an international perspective on business. As in careers in the international business world. practically. From their second year on, students contexts, and improve their linguistic abilities. the case of the Department of Jurisprudence, many Courses have been developed for a variety of major in one of three fields of study: Practical graduates are playing an active role in public specialty and related fields to better meet the Analysis of Economics, Applied Economics and administration and the business world, utilizing future career strategies of students. Graduates are Social Economics. The students in the field of their legal knowledge, while others are successful equipped with the legal knowledge and language Practical Analysis of Economics choose from as inheritors of businesses formerly operated by abilities needed to serve in the front lines of among courses or subjects such as Microeconomics, their parents. business and society. Macroeconomics and Econometrics. Students majoring in the field of Applied Economics learn to To better address present needs, the curriculum is apply economic theory to concrete problems divided into two courses: Business Management and through courses such as Economic Policy, International Studies. The Business Management course serves the needs of students planning on becoming entrepreneurs or operating their own businesses, providing them with practical legal knowledge in corporate activity, including Department of Industrial Economics corporate management and office business practice. The Department of Industrial Economics is Models, Regional Administration and Regional designed to produce graduates with demonstrable Innovation Practice, nurturing graduates capable of analytical capability and problem-solving expertise applying scientific and theoretic tools such as data applicable in real economic activity. There are no analysis and numerical modeling to identify, predefined courses in the curriculum, and students quantify and resolve problems faced by regions and are instead free to pursue one of two programs: corporations. Faculty of Economics Entrepreneurial Development or Regional Faculty of Economics Innovation. The Entrepreneurial Development program provides students with real-world problem Since modern life depends heavily upon economics, to study economics is vital for understanding the current solving abilities from the entrepreneurial viewpoint social situation, both domestic and international, and for better understanding what the future may bring. through courses such as Start-Up Business The aim of the Faculty of Economics is to provide undergraduate students with manifold abilities to perform Theory, Start-Up Strategy, Kyushu Economics and well in increasingly complicated and information-oriented global markets. This Faculty has two departments: Theory of Corporate Decision Making. The the Department of Economics and that of Industrial Economics. The Department of Economics emphasizes Regional Innovation program offers a variety of learning to logically consider economic issues, while the Department of Industrial Economics stresses courses including Data Science, Analysis of Social analysis in actual industry.

One characteristic of the Faculty is the content shared by the two departments. All students study the core areas of Macroeconomics and Microeconomics to learn how to understand and consider economic issues. Guest speakers such as government officials and corporate managers provide invaluable insights into modern society. Seminars play an important role in both departments, promoting active debate and discussion through small class sizes. International outlooks are nurtured through classes held in collaboration with overseas universities, and lectures by invited foreign researchers.

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Faculty of Law Department of Business Law Department of Economics Faculty of Economics

12 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 13 Undergraduate Faculties Undergraduate Faculties Faculty of Commerce Faculty of Commerce Department of International Trade Faculty of Commerce/Faculty of Commerce Evening School In today’s globalized world the volume and and commerce, and choose their primary field of The Faculty of Commerce boasts the longest history of all the university’s faculties, and a total of over complexity of international goods, services and study according to their own interests from among 60,000 alumni (including the Evening School) are active in a broad range of roles in business and regional financial transactions is growing exponentially. various specialized areas of study, such as society. The Faculty emphasizes both theoretical and practical aspects of distribution, finance, insurance, Established in 1967, the Department of Business Communication, Practice of International traffic, management, accounting, international trade and international business in its task of preparing International Trade produces globally aware Trade, Theory and History of International Trade, students to identify and constructively resolve the diverse problems of modern society. graduates who have a wide knowledge of International Finance, and the economies of nations international business practice and can smoothly in Asia, the Americas and Europe. Students of the The Accounting Program, launched in April 2012, is a multi-disciplinary program designed for students perform international transactions even as they Department of International Trade may also elect pursuing careers in professional accounting. For more details, refer to the Faculty of Commerce website. grow more complex and diversified every year. to enter the Accounting Program. Another goal of this Department is to cultivate the language skills that form the basis of smooth international business performance. As globalization accelerates across the world, the Department of Commerce significance of this Department continues to rise.

Since its establishment, the Department of the essential basic business capabilities, capable of In their first year, the students of the Department Commerce has provided Japan ̶ especially utilizing their professional knowledge in a acquire basic knowledge about international trade western Japan ̶ with graduates possessed of comprehensive manner to accurately analyze and outstanding knowledge and ability. Together with solve problems. Students of the Department of the Department of Business Management, which Commerce may also elect to enter the Accounting was split off in 1999 as an independent department, Program. it is proud of the fact that it numbers among its alumni more top business executives in western Faculty of Commerce Evening School Japan than any other university. Students of this Department gain a thorough grounding in theory, history, systems and policy in the fields of Department of Commerce distribution, commerce, finance, securities, insurance, transport and information processing. The Faculty of Commerce Evening School was founded in 1953 as a school for working people and has made The Department’s goal is to equip students with a major contribution to society over the last half-century by giving working students eager to study the opportunity of higher education. The Department boasts more than 13,100 graduates, many of whom have played an active role in the development of the local economy and society. The Department’s core mission, to provide opportunities for recurrent education and lifetime education for working people, remains unchanged. Taught primarily by the staff of the Faculty of Commerce, classes are held every evening from Monday to Department of Business Management Saturday from 18:00 to 21:10, with a 10-minute break. Graduation from the program in four years is possible. Established in 1999, the Department of Business decision-making, and international accounting and Management is one of the newest departments in management ability is crucial as corporate activity In order to fulfill the varied needs of students, almost all of the courses in the full-time Department of Fukuoka University. The business environment in expands into the global stage. To provide graduates Commerce, Department of Business Management and Department of International Trade are available in the Japan is undergoing radical changes, as seen in with the required knowledge and skills, the Evening School. Courses consist of high-level specialty subjects such as distribution and finance, industrial restructuring, increasingly international Department emphasizes specialized and management, accounting and international business, as well as covering areas common to all fields, including capital markets nurtured by the borderless international issues in a wide variety of courses in seminars, information processing, business English, and reading and discussion of textbooks written in economy, intensifying corporate competition and both management and accounting fields. Students of English. Additional courses on law and economics are offered by staff from other faculties. Students may diversifying consumer values. This Department was the Department of Business Management may also also participate in a special accounting program from a university-approved vocational college offering established to help create a new generation of elect to enter the Accounting Program. practical experience with the objective of acquiring professional licenses in public accounting, tax accounting managers able to cope flexibly with such dramatic and related fields. changes. The Department’s aim is to produce graduates equipped with advanced professional The Working Adult Students Course, a special one-year course designed managerial and accounting knowledge and skills. to systematically teach business management, is offered to company employees, mid-level managers and upper management, and local and As information resources become increasingly national government officials, as well as retirees. sophisticated, management must be able to utilize computer-based statistical methods in

14 15 Undergraduate Faculties Undergraduate Faculties Faculty of Commerce Faculty of Commerce Department of International Trade Faculty of Commerce/Faculty of Commerce Evening School In today’s globalized world the volume and and commerce, and choose their primary field of The Faculty of Commerce boasts the longest history of all the university’s faculties, and a total of over complexity of international goods, services and study according to their own interests from among 60,000 alumni (including the Evening School) are active in a broad range of roles in business and regional financial transactions is growing exponentially. various specialized areas of study, such as society. The Faculty emphasizes both theoretical and practical aspects of distribution, finance, insurance, Established in 1967, the Department of Business Communication, Practice of International traffic, management, accounting, international trade and international business in its task of preparing International Trade produces globally aware Trade, Theory and History of International Trade, students to identify and constructively resolve the diverse problems of modern society. graduates who have a wide knowledge of International Finance, and the economies of nations international business practice and can smoothly in Asia, the Americas and Europe. Students of the The Accounting Program, launched in April 2012, is a multi-disciplinary program designed for students perform international transactions even as they Department of International Trade may also elect pursuing careers in professional accounting. For more details, refer to the Faculty of Commerce website. grow more complex and diversified every year. to enter the Accounting Program. Another goal of this Department is to cultivate the language skills that form the basis of smooth international business performance. As globalization accelerates across the world, the Department of Commerce significance of this Department continues to rise.

14 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 15 Undergraduate Faculties Undergraduate Faculties Faculty of Science Faculty of Science Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science The comforts and conveniences of everyday life courses: Material Chemistry or Life Chemistry. In The Faculty of Science provides graduates with a wide knowledge of general science and the ability to today have been created in large part through the each course, students choose from among more comprehend natural phenomena from a broad perspective. They are capable of identifying and probing remarkable developments of modern chemistry and advanced specialty courses. In their final year, they unresolved issues, and as well-rounded human beings with an awareness of global issues can effectively apply the endless flow of new medicines and materials it are assigned to one of the Department’s their knowledge. The Faculty has four departments (Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, Chemistry and produces. In the Department of Chemistry, laboratories to undertake graduation research to Earth System Science) and two institutes (Social Mathematics Information Institute and Nanoscience students learn about the nature of various complete their studies. The themes students choose Institute), offering seminars, lectures, and practice and experimentation with the goal of producing graduates substances. The curriculum has been designed to for their graduation theses vary with laboratory, equipped with logical, creative minds, broad perspectives, and social skills applicable on the regional and allow students to study basic theory and ranging from fundamental questions in chemistry to global levels. experiment in a parallel fashion, making chemistry the latest issues in environmental protection and both easily understandable and pleasurable and disease. helping them discover its diversity and depth.

In the first and second years, fundamental Department of Applied Mathematics experimental courses include general chemistry, inorganic and analytical chemistry, organic The Department of Applied Mathematics offers a them. Many of them obtain teaching certificates in chemistry, biochemistry, physical chemistry and selection of courses designed to efficiently instill mathematics or information technology, or find quantum chemistry. From their third year on, the skills needed to identify the core of employment in the information services industry. students major in one of the Department’s two main mathematical problems. These courses include Some students advance to graduate school for small seminars to facilitate active discussion. To further education. ensure that students can handle computers and information as needed to resolve real-world problems, the course of study also covers content Department of Earth System Science related information and information systems theory, as well as an outline of multimedia content. From the birth of the earth, natural phenomena In their first and second years, students learn such as changes in climate, the formation of the about the foundations of science in courses that Graduates of the course are capable of developing ozone layer, movements of the earth’s crust, the cover practically every scientific field, including methods of approaching problems and resolving processes and activities of life, and the evolution of physics, chemistry, biology, geology and plants and animals have occurred on various scales mathematics. In their third year, students are and in different time scales. Students of the exposed to the specialties of geology, geophysics Department of Earth System Science engage in and biology, and select one for in-depth interdisciplinary study of the mechanisms and experimentation. Their four years of study and Department of Applied Physics components of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, research culminate in the graduation theses all lithosphere and biosphere. The Department students are required to write in their fourth year. Born out of essentially simple questions about field through basic seminars and classes in physics provides graduates with the broad perspectives familiar phenomena, physics reveals the and mathematics, then build on their knowledge of needed to contribute to the realization of a future fundamental principles of the universe. On a physics and acquire scientific ways of thinking by society that will live in harmony with the natural practical level, physics has served as the driving taking courses in subjects such as dynamics, environment by resolving the problems posed by a force in the evolution of our highly industrialized electromagnetics, thermodynamics, modern physics range of natural and societal phenomena. modern world as represented by leading-edge and quantum physics. In the third and fourth years, technologies embodied in products like the staff works to help each student achieve his or semiconductors, superconductors and high her maximum potential, including studying topics polymers. In this age of rapid progress and radical such as solid state physics, functional organic change, the Department of Physics sees its mission materials sciences and laser physics to bring them as cultivating students’ logic and problem-solving into contact with the frontiers of modern physics. capabilities as well as their practical knowledge and technical skills.

The curriculum is mainly comprised of lectures, laboratory classes and seminars. The Department places an emphasis on experimental classes in which students tackle a wide range of research themes in small groups. In their first and second years, students start with an introduction to the

16 17 Undergraduate Faculties Undergraduate Faculties Faculty of Science Faculty of Science Department of Chemistry Faculty of Science The comforts and conveniences of everyday life courses: Material Chemistry or Life Chemistry. In The Faculty of Science provides graduates with a wide knowledge of general science and the ability to today have been created in large part through the each course, students choose from among more comprehend natural phenomena from a broad perspective. They are capable of identifying and probing remarkable developments of modern chemistry and advanced specialty courses. In their final year, they unresolved issues, and as well-rounded human beings with an awareness of global issues can effectively apply the endless flow of new medicines and materials it are assigned to one of the Department’s their knowledge. The Faculty has four departments (Applied Mathematics, Applied Physics, Chemistry and produces. In the Department of Chemistry, laboratories to undertake graduation research to Earth System Science) and two institutes (Social Mathematics Information Institute and Nanoscience students learn about the nature of various complete their studies. The themes students choose Institute), offering seminars, lectures, and practice and experimentation with the goal of producing graduates substances. The curriculum has been designed to for their graduation theses vary with laboratory, equipped with logical, creative minds, broad perspectives, and social skills applicable on the regional and allow students to study basic theory and ranging from fundamental questions in chemistry to global levels. experiment in a parallel fashion, making chemistry the latest issues in environmental protection and both easily understandable and pleasurable and disease. helping them discover its diversity and depth.

16 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 17 Undergraduate Faculties Undergraduate Faculties Faculty of Science Social Mathematics Information Technology Institute Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Engineering Modern society is composed of a multitude of practical understanding. Freshmen study essential systems, and specialists who understand and can mathematical models, learning fundamental As the economy becomes increasingly global in nature, new technologies are urgently required to resolve effectively use these complex systems are in techniques to explain and analyze social phenomena global environmental and energy problems, and help achieve a sustainable society. The goal of the Faculty, demand. Students learn to express these social using models. From the third year an integrated recognizing the responsibility of graduates in supporting the societal infrastructure with technology, is to systems using mathematical models, thereby seminar program nurtures skills in practical nurture specialists with knowledge in advanced engineering fields, capable of contributing to the sustainable clarifying the fundamental principles involved and analysis and system construction. Classes in theory development of society through a realization of their social responsibility, judgment to match the changing learning how to adapt them to the changing world and practice are also offered on a variety of needs of the era, and creative science and technology. for utilization in a wide range of applications. specialties to provide experience in high-level Mathematical models are studied from both the mathematical models. theoretical and practical utility approaches, and students are trained in the development and Department of Mechanical Engineering construction of the network systems required to accurately model real-world systems. Since mechanical engineering is the foundation of engineering courses begin from the second year. almost all kinds of engineering and technology, the From their third year on, students confirm what Courses at the Institute are limited to 15 students, Department of Mechanical Engineering’s aim is to they learn in lecture courses through and even freshman-level basic courses in produce young engineers who have broad corresponding experimental courses using the mathematics and information technology emphasize perspectives and can play an active role in many Department’s state-of-the-art facilities. Students hands-on work to assist students in gaining a industries. To realize this, the Department also learn the process of machine designing from organizes its learning areas, educational staff and the second term of their second year to their laboratory divisions into five fields: strength of fourth year through seminars in mechanical materials, thermal engineering, fluid engineering, engineering design. In the fourth year, students design and manufacturing science, and system specialize in one of the five fields mentioned above Nanoscience Institute dynamics and control. This ensures that our and undertake a graduation research project as students gain a comprehensive knowledge of final preparation Modern industry looks to science and technology to backgrounds in both physics and chemistry, and mechanical engineering. for their careers create nanomaterials with powerful new functions, other specialists in the field. in mechanical by controlling atoms and molecules. This Institute In order to respond to the rapid developments in engineering. provides a focused course of study on the technology, engineers need both solid academic fundamentals of the field, limited to 20 students. knowledge and the ability to use their knowledge in The curriculum combines chemistry and physics, practice. For this reason, mechanical engineering providing students with the ability to perform the majors study physics and mathematics intensively full sequence of tasks from nanomaterial synthesis during their first year, while the main mechanical to analysis and evaluation, and is designed to nurture graduates who can put their knowledge to work in new creations, instructors with strong Department of Electrical Engineering

As one of the key technologies in the evolution of engineering, with a thorough grounding in modern our modern civilization over the past century, control theory and its applications, the rapidly electrical engineering continues to grow in developing field of communications, and energy importance, ensuring its role as one of the centers conversion engineering, including studies on energy of future industry. The Department produces and environmental issues. Courses for other skilled electrical engineers capable of fully relevant fields include computer science and answering the needs of modern society. information processing. The Department attaches great importance to seminars in which final-year The Department’s curriculum has the following students tackle advanced graduation research in features. From their first year on, students take small classes that specialized courses in electrical circuitry and nurture their electromagnetics as well as physics and creativity and mathematics. Corresponding to current needs, problem-solving specialty courses cover a broad spread of capabilities. technological fields: electric power systems, power electronics, advanced functional materials, and electrical and electronic materials, including studies of advanced superconductivity, system

18 19 Undergraduate Faculties Undergraduate Faculties Faculty of Science Social Mathematics Information Technology Institute Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Engineering Modern society is composed of a multitude of practical understanding. Freshmen study essential systems, and specialists who understand and can mathematical models, learning fundamental As the economy becomes increasingly global in nature, new technologies are urgently required to resolve effectively use these complex systems are in techniques to explain and analyze social phenomena global environmental and energy problems, and help achieve a sustainable society. The goal of the Faculty, demand. Students learn to express these social using models. From the third year an integrated recognizing the responsibility of graduates in supporting the societal infrastructure with technology, is to systems using mathematical models, thereby seminar program nurtures skills in practical nurture specialists with knowledge in advanced engineering fields, capable of contributing to the sustainable clarifying the fundamental principles involved and analysis and system construction. Classes in theory development of society through a realization of their social responsibility, judgment to match the changing learning how to adapt them to the changing world and practice are also offered on a variety of needs of the era, and creative science and technology. for utilization in a wide range of applications. specialties to provide experience in high-level Mathematical models are studied from both the mathematical models. theoretical and practical utility approaches, and students are trained in the development and Department of Mechanical Engineering construction of the network systems required to accurately model real-world systems. Since mechanical engineering is the foundation of engineering courses begin from the second year. almost all kinds of engineering and technology, the From their third year on, students confirm what Courses at the Institute are limited to 15 students, Department of Mechanical Engineering’s aim is to they learn in lecture courses through and even freshman-level basic courses in produce young engineers who have broad corresponding experimental courses using the mathematics and information technology emphasize perspectives and can play an active role in many Department’s state-of-the-art facilities. Students hands-on work to assist students in gaining a industries. To realize this, the Department also learn the process of machine designing from organizes its learning areas, educational staff and the second term of their second year to their laboratory divisions into five fields: strength of fourth year through seminars in mechanical materials, thermal engineering, fluid engineering, engineering design. In the fourth year, students design and manufacturing science, and system specialize in one of the five fields mentioned above Nanoscience Institute dynamics and control. This ensures that our and undertake a graduation research project as students gain a comprehensive knowledge of final preparation Modern industry looks to science and technology to backgrounds in both physics and chemistry, and mechanical engineering. for their careers create nanomaterials with powerful new functions, other specialists in the field. in mechanical by controlling atoms and molecules. This Institute In order to respond to the rapid developments in engineering. provides a focused course of study on the technology, engineers need both solid academic fundamentals of the field, limited to 20 students. knowledge and the ability to use their knowledge in The curriculum combines chemistry and physics, practice. For this reason, mechanical engineering providing students with the ability to perform the majors study physics and mathematics intensively full sequence of tasks from nanomaterial synthesis during their first year, while the main mechanical to analysis and evaluation, and is designed to nurture graduates who can put their knowledge to work in new creations, instructors with strong Department of Electrical Engineering

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Faculty of Engineering Department of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science Department of Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering

Advanced-technology industries are developing Graduates have the knowledge and skills needed to Civil engineering is involved in the design of public The curriculum is certified by the Japan with phenomenal speed, including information and construct new electronic information systems to spaces, and is therefore significantly different from Accreditation Board for Engineering Education communications technology (ICT), serve the changing needs of the era. the other departments in the Faculty of (JABEE), and students are recognized as engineers high-performance computers, LSI circuits and Engineering that specialize in manufacturing. The working to international standards upon graduation, high-density optical memory. All of these fields field covers a wide range from the spaces of daily along with certification equivalent to an Assistant rely on electronics and information technologies. life to those large enough to be shown on the map, Professional Engineer and an Assistant By studying both electronic communications and from the local environment to the global. Professional Surveyor. engineering (hardware) and information processing (software), students grow into electronic To nurture professionals capable of resolving communications engineers with a solid problems in many realms, the curriculum stresses understanding of information processing, and the formation of a solid foundation while ensuring information engineers who know their electronics. student interest in a wide range of fields. The well-balanced curriculum is divided into six field groups to ensure mastery. The program is also known for its strong emphasis on environmental issues. Department of Chemical Engineering

Modern chemical engineering covers a broad range skills needed to pursue their chosen career paths. of technologies that contribute to the development and manufacture of chemical products indispensable Chemical Systems Engineering Course Department of Architecture to our daily lives, including synthetic fibers, (JABEE-approved program): This course has ceramics, solar cells, semiconductors, liquid slightly more required courses in chemical The three fundamental elements required for a facilities that put it in the top rank among crystals, optical fibers, paint, detergent, cosmetics, engineering to nurture chemical engineers to the building are safety, functionality and beauty. Japanese universities, such as a testing facility for medicinal supplies and synthetic seasonings. In the global standard. Graduates earn Japan Therefore, the Department of Architecture offers earthquake simulation and an environmental Department of Chemical Engineering, students Accreditation Board for Engineering Education students a broad range of courses covering these laboratory where temperature and humidity learn about chemical reactions, the preparation and (JABEE) certification, a key asset in gaining fundamentals. Architecture courses begin from the conditions can be minutely controlled, as well as a separation of materials, and the design of chemical employment, as well as exemption from the primary first year; then, as they progress through their CAD (Computer Aided Design) room. In their products manufacturing systems. level engineering examination defined in the four years, students select their own areas of study fourth year, students are individually guided to Japanese Professional Engineer Act. They are according to their interest and aptitude. The work toward the completion of a graduation project Students take courses in chemistry qualified to serve as chemical process engineers. Department has also established a JABEE (Japan or graduation thesis as the culmination of their experimentation and physics experimentation, as Accreditation Board for Engineering Education) university careers, and to fully demonstrate the well as differentiation and integration, physical The themes students choose for their graduation certified course. depth of their knowledge of architecture. chemistry and dynamics as basic courses. Major research center on current problems such as specialty courses include courses on organic and microreactor systems, supercritical fluid, gas Architecture courses cover a broad spectrum of inorganic chemistry, chemical kinetics, reaction absorption, superheated stream drying, fluidized themes including the design of residences, office engineering, polymer chemistry, heat transfer, mass and spouted beds, flow-through chemical buildings, theaters and museums, environmental transfer, diffusion and separation, powder equipment, environmental catalysts, biomass engineering that creates comfortable interior technology, environmental technology, and process utilization, multi-functionalization of inorganic environments, structural and materials engineering systems engineering. In the third year students materials, functional polymeric materials and to withstand earthquakes, storms and floods, and must choose which of the following courses to process control. urban planning to design the future of our cities pursue: and communities. The Department has experimental

Chemical Systems Engineering course: A wide-ranging program designed to meet student needs, allowing them to freely study topics from industrial chemicals, engineering and bioscience to the service industry. Graduates have mastered the chemical systems engineering technologies and

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Faculty of Engineering Department of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science Department of Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering

20 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 21 Undergraduate Faculties Undergraduate Faculties Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Medicine School of Nursing Faculty of Medicine The educational goals of the School of Nursing are nursing skills in students, which is the core concept Since its foundation in 1972, the School of Medicine within the Faculty of Medicine has graduated about to produce nursing specialists who respect human of the School of Nursing program. Graduates have 3,900 professionals who today play active roles in the medical community, including universities throughout life and dignity through rich personal and mastered these skills, and developed into clinicians Japan and overseas hospitals and research institutes. In an age when advanced medical science contributes character development, who have acquired the equipped with knowledge and conscience. As greatly to increased longevity, every doctor must face the question of how medicine can better contribute to ability to consider issues logically and ethically nursing professionals they can apply their high human happiness. The establishment of the School of Nursing in 2007 has further strengthened the Faculty’s from the international, academic and personal technical expertise and ethical approach flexibly to ability to provide medical professionals capable of making a real contribution to comprehensive health and perspectives, and who can contribute to local and a wide range of work both in Japan and overseas, medicine. Students probe how medicine and nursing can help improve human happiness, and discover their global society. supported by the sensitivity they have gained own answers to this fundamental question. The aim of the Faculty is to produce graduates who have toward other cultures and senses of value. thoroughly explored this question for themselves, and are thus capable of practicing medicine and medical Keeping these educational goals in mind, the treatment based on a deep respect for life. School aims to achieve the following goals: Medicine today demands increased cooperation and collaboration between health, medical care and ● To nurture in our students sensibility, cultured welfare, and students learn to utilize the team sensitivity, humanity and strict ethical values; approach that brings a variety of specialists ● To equip students with advanced knowledge and together in mutual respect to deepen their School of Medicine skills and help them to develop flexible, understanding and assist each other in finding the independent and creative thinking power so that optimal resolution. This basics-oriented approach The School of Medicine is dedicated to producing real medical treatment from an early stage, they can consider health issues comprehensively of the School of Nursing seamlessly links the physicians with the following capabilities and including nursing and introductions to medical from a scientific perspective; general education of the university with the qualities, with the educational goals of training facilities. The curriculum has 10 courses on basic ● To equip students with the basic skills and requisite specialty education. students to be clinical physicians with humanity, medicine and 25 courses on clinical medicine, along knowledge needed for professional nursing contributing to regional society through medicine, with the Medical Education Promotion Lecture through education, practice and research, and the The social environment surrounding nursing is and establishing a comprehensive and systematic launched in fall 2014. Both sets of courses are interdisciplinary ability needed to work changing dramatically, and a variety of emergency medical research stance: integrated so as to provide comprehensive medical effectively and flexibly with other medical staff; situations must be dealt with promptly and education based on organs and functions. From the ● To develop in students the ability to practice correctly. At the School of Nursing, students ● Comprehensive clinical capability: the medical fifth year on, guided by their professors, students team care, and cultivate in them a sense of develop into professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to be able to perform any take practical training courses in clinical medicine scientific inquiry, so that they may continue to knowledge and practical skills. medical procedure in any field, now and in the at the university’s two hospitals, Fukuoka contribute to healthcare, medicine and social future; University Hospital and Fukuoka University welfare throughout their professional lives; ● Self-learning ability: the ability to actively Chikushi Hospital. ● To develop in students the ability to become continue the study of medicine throughout their engaged in a broad range of social activities and whole lives without a teacher; As for educational facilities, the School of international medical care activities as ● Problem-solving capability: the ability to Medicine has various kinds of experimental rooms professionals in the future; and approach and solve problems in a scholarly equipped with experimental apparatus and a PC ● To provide students with an understanding of the manner; room with 140 computers for the study of basic characteristics and commonalities of each ● Rich humanity: the warmth, compassion and medicine, as well as various study rooms equipped specialty, and effective communication skills in communication skills necessary for achieving with audiovisual facilities for small group training team care. genuine rapport with patients and other medical and the practice of clinical medicine. The School is workers; and, particularly proud of its Center for Experimental The curriculum is designed to develop practical ● Leadership and a cooperative stance: the skills Animals, one of the largest and most advanced and attitudes necessary for leadership and active facilities of its kind in Japan, the Radioisotope cooperation in medical treatment or welfare Center, the Medical Information Center, where teams. students and staff have instant access to up-to-the-moment medical research and data, and In order to attain these goals, it is imperative that basic research institutes. These and other students think deeply about the kind of doctor integrated facilities combine to create a top-level desired by the community, incessantly questioning educational environment. themselves and finding answers. The School of Medicine offers this opportunity consistently throughout its six years of comprehensive medical education.

One of the features of the School’s curriculum is that specialty courses begin from the ﬁrst year so that students can have opportunities to experience

22 23 Undergraduate Faculties Undergraduate Faculties Faculty of Medicine Faculty of Medicine School of Nursing Faculty of Medicine The educational goals of the School of Nursing are nursing skills in students, which is the core concept Since its foundation in 1972, the School of Medicine within the Faculty of Medicine has graduated about to produce nursing specialists who respect human of the School of Nursing program. Graduates have 3,900 professionals who today play active roles in the medical community, including universities throughout life and dignity through rich personal and mastered these skills, and developed into clinicians Japan and overseas hospitals and research institutes. In an age when advanced medical science contributes character development, who have acquired the equipped with knowledge and conscience. As greatly to increased longevity, every doctor must face the question of how medicine can better contribute to ability to consider issues logically and ethically nursing professionals they can apply their high human happiness. The establishment of the School of Nursing in 2007 has further strengthened the Faculty’s from the international, academic and personal technical expertise and ethical approach flexibly to ability to provide medical professionals capable of making a real contribution to comprehensive health and perspectives, and who can contribute to local and a wide range of work both in Japan and overseas, medicine. Students probe how medicine and nursing can help improve human happiness, and discover their global society. supported by the sensitivity they have gained own answers to this fundamental question. The aim of the Faculty is to produce graduates who have toward other cultures and senses of value. thoroughly explored this question for themselves, and are thus capable of practicing medicine and medical Keeping these educational goals in mind, the treatment based on a deep respect for life. School aims to achieve the following goals: Medicine today demands increased cooperation and collaboration between health, medical care and ● To nurture in our students sensibility, cultured welfare, and students learn to utilize the team sensitivity, humanity and strict ethical values; approach that brings a variety of specialists ● To equip students with advanced knowledge and together in mutual respect to deepen their School of Medicine skills and help them to develop flexible, understanding and assist each other in finding the independent and creative thinking power so that optimal resolution. This basics-oriented approach The School of Medicine is dedicated to producing real medical treatment from an early stage, they can consider health issues comprehensively of the School of Nursing seamlessly links the physicians with the following capabilities and including nursing and introductions to medical from a scientific perspective; general education of the university with the qualities, with the educational goals of training facilities. The curriculum has 10 courses on basic ● To equip students with the basic skills and requisite specialty education. students to be clinical physicians with humanity, medicine and 25 courses on clinical medicine, along knowledge needed for professional nursing contributing to regional society through medicine, with the Medical Education Promotion Lecture through education, practice and research, and the The social environment surrounding nursing is and establishing a comprehensive and systematic launched in fall 2014. Both sets of courses are interdisciplinary ability needed to work changing dramatically, and a variety of emergency medical research stance: integrated so as to provide comprehensive medical effectively and flexibly with other medical staff; situations must be dealt with promptly and education based on organs and functions. From the ● To develop in students the ability to practice correctly. At the School of Nursing, students ● Comprehensive clinical capability: the medical fifth year on, guided by their professors, students team care, and cultivate in them a sense of develop into professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to be able to perform any take practical training courses in clinical medicine scientific inquiry, so that they may continue to knowledge and practical skills. medical procedure in any field, now and in the at the university’s two hospitals, Fukuoka contribute to healthcare, medicine and social future; University Hospital and Fukuoka University welfare throughout their professional lives; ● Self-learning ability: the ability to actively Chikushi Hospital. ● To develop in students the ability to become continue the study of medicine throughout their engaged in a broad range of social activities and whole lives without a teacher; As for educational facilities, the School of international medical care activities as ● Problem-solving capability: the ability to Medicine has various kinds of experimental rooms professionals in the future; and approach and solve problems in a scholarly equipped with experimental apparatus and a PC ● To provide students with an understanding of the manner; room with 140 computers for the study of basic characteristics and commonalities of each ● Rich humanity: the warmth, compassion and medicine, as well as various study rooms equipped specialty, and effective communication skills in communication skills necessary for achieving with audiovisual facilities for small group training team care. genuine rapport with patients and other medical and the practice of clinical medicine. The School is workers; and, particularly proud of its Center for Experimental The curriculum is designed to develop practical ● Leadership and a cooperative stance: the skills Animals, one of the largest and most advanced and attitudes necessary for leadership and active facilities of its kind in Japan, the Radioisotope cooperation in medical treatment or welfare Center, the Medical Information Center, where teams. students and staff have instant access to up-to-the-moment medical research and data, and In order to attain these goals, it is imperative that basic research institutes. These and other students think deeply about the kind of doctor integrated facilities combine to create a top-level desired by the community, incessantly questioning educational environment. themselves and finding answers. The School of Medicine offers this opportunity consistently throughout its six years of comprehensive medical education.

One of the features of the School’s curriculum is that specialty courses begin from the ﬁrst year so that students can have opportunities to experience

22 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 23 Undergraduate Faculties Undergraduate Faculties Faculty Sciences of Pharmaceutical Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty of Sports and Health Science Faculty Science Health and of Sports

As an educational and research institution for sport and health science, this Faculty offers a broad range of Department of Pharmaceutics studies in the fields of exercise, sports, recreation, leisure, physical training, health and welfare. The Faculty aims to produce professionals equipped with highly specialized knowledge and practical coaching Since this Faculty, the School of Medicine and the six-year system for pharmaceutical education in capabilities, and thereby contribute to the realization of wellness in society. University Hospital are all concentrated on one April 2006 to enhance the education and training of campus, the Faculty’s full time clinician-teachers professional pharmacists. With the admission of To achieve these goals, the curriculum is strongly oriented toward future employment, advancing specialized cooperate with the School of Medicine and the students to the new Department of Pharmaceutics education on a planned annual schedule seasoned with various course choices defined in course hospital in order to contribute to the enrichment of in April 2006, the Faculty started this six-year recommendations. education in pharmaceutics and medical treatment. course and the fourth class graduated in March We look back with pride at over 50 years of 2015. Faculty history and our more than 9,000 graduates who take an active part in the broad range of fields The Department is designed to answer social needs Department of Sports Science related to pharmaceutics. by emphasizing the importance of clinical pharmaceutical sciences in addition to conventional With sports techniques and tactics becoming them to choose courses they are interested in, or Faculty with practical experience teach about their bio-pharmaceutics, while placing a priority on increasingly sophisticated in the field of which are important in their chosen specialties. In competitive sports, coaching and training methods the second and third years, work focuses on study on-site experiences and pass on hands-on achieving qualitative and quantitative improvement based on the latest advances in sports science are and practice of coaching methodology, helping knowledge to first year students in the omnibus in education through our curricular structure and now indispensable. As specialization in a particular students master the intricacies of their chosen class, Introduction to Pharmacy. Our curriculum facilities in order to build a new system for sport is increasingly determined at younger ages, specialties. All students attend faculty seminars emphasizes both practical knowledge and basic pharmaceutical education and research. We early discovery of a person’s aptitude for a from the third year, and in the fourth complete pharmaceutical education in addition to practical welcome students who have the desire to help particular sport and training programs designed their graduation theses, which are presented training, which stimulates students’ motivation and people through medicine, and we send them out into specifically for each stage of his or her formally to all undergraduates at the research results in outstanding results in the national society not only as pharmaceutical professionals development become necessary. Responding to paper presentation pharmacist examination every year. The new but also as responsible human beings. these needs, the Department of Sports Science is meeting. Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences building dedicated to training coaches and instructors with (Building 16) was completed in 2005, and the annex a deep knowledge of sports science as a whole and for the six-year course (Building 17) was considerable expertise in their chosen sport. completed in 2009, enhancing the educational environment. First-year students study fundamental courses in their individual fields, and the number of mandatory courses has been minimized to allow The amendment of the School Education Law (21 May 2004), which was related to pharmaceutical education, led to the establishment of a new Department of Health and Exercise Science

With Japan facing the prospect of an ultra-aged their first and second years, students take courses society, ensuring a healthy and fulfilling life has such as Sports Psychology, Physical Fitness, become an important challenge. Moreover, it is now Sports Physiology, Sports Medicine and essential to encourage people of all ages from Musculoskeletal Medicine. In their third and fourth infants to senior citizens to form a habit of lifelong years, they take more practical courses such as exercising and playing sports to prevent mental seminars on health and sports and enhance their disorders caused by stress, which worsens year by practical expertise as instructors through seminars year, and lifestyle-related diseases such as heart for off-campus training on fitness, exercise therapy disease, cerebral apoplexy and hypertension, all of and lifelong sports. Like students of the which can result from a lack of exercise. The Department of Sports Science, third-year students Department of Health and Exercise Science is attend faculty seminars, while students in the dedicated to the task of training experts in the fourth year write graduation theses and present provision and development of exercise programs them to all undergraduates at the research paper aimed at improving health and quality of life for presentation people of all ages, based on the latest scientific meeting. advances in this field.

The basic structure of the four-year course is designed so that students first study the foundations of sports medicine and science, after which they learn the methodology of sports and recreation instruction for health. Specifically, in

24 25 Undergraduate Faculties Undergraduate Faculties Faculty Sciences of Pharmaceutical Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty of Sports and Health Science Faculty Science Health and of Sports

24 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 25 Graduate Schools Graduate Schools Graduate School of Humanities Playing a vital role since 1965 in the university’s Contents Graduate School of Humanities educational mission of contributing to cultural 27 development, the Graduate Schools are dedicated to Humanities in-depth research and education in the arts and ● History (MA, PhD) sciences, from theory to a broad spectrum of real-world ● Japanese Language and Literature (MA, PhD) ● English Language and Literature (MA, PhD) applications. At present, the university has ten ● German Language and Literature (MA, PhD History (MA, PhD) Graduate Schools offering 34 programs covering a wide ● French Language and Literature (MA, PhD) range of academic fields, as listed on the right. The ● Socio-Cultural Studies (MA) The History graduate program offers four majors history from the Qin and Han periods through the programs comprise two-year master’s programs, ● Education and Clinical Psychology (MA, PhD) covering a wide range of research themes: Japanese Ming and Qing. Studies in the Western History five-year doctoral programs (two years for MA and 29 History, Asian History, Western History and major include the history of Britain, America and three years for PhD), four-year doctoral programs in Law Archaeology. For the Japanese History major, Germany in the modern age. The Archaeology the medical sciences, and three-year professional ● Public Law (MA, PhD) research themes range from ancient and medieval major mainly focuses on archaeological research of master’s degree programs. ● Civil and Criminal Law (MA, PhD) history to the modern and contemporary eras. The the primeval, ancient and medieval periods. Economics 30 themes of the Asian History major cover Chinese The master’s programs are designed to give students both a deep knowledge of their chosen field and the ● Economics (MA, PhD) ability to approach it from various perspectives, Commerce 30 equipping them either for higher level research or ● Commerce (MA, PhD) careers demanding specialized knowledge. The aim of Japanese Language and Literature (MA, PhD) the doctoral programs is to give students the high-level Science 31 theoretical knowledge and research skills necessary for ● Applied Mathematics (MS, PhD) Students in the Japanese Language and Literature Japanese. In the Japanese Literature major, advanced research in their chosen fields as independent ● Applied Physics (MS, PhD) graduate program major in either Japanese courses offered include classical literature, modern ● Chemistry (MS, PhD) researchers. The professional master’s degree Language or Japanese Literature. Students can literature and comparative literature. One of the ● Earth System Science (MS, PhD) programs are designed to instill in students a deep choose from the multiple specialties offered by features of the program is the way in which sense of scholarship and equip them with the Engineering 32 each major in order to focus their learning while education and research is informed by the most capabilities necessary for them to pursue careers ● Mechanical Engineering (MS) taking other courses as well. In the Japanese advanced research in comparative literature and requiring highly specialized knowledge and skills. ● Electrical Engineering (MS) Language major, the courses offered include linguistics. ● Electronics and Computer Science (MS) studies of classical, modern and contemporary Responding to increasing specialization, diversification ● Chemical Engineering (MS) and internationalization in all academic fields, the ● Architecture and Civil Engineering (MS) graduate schools admit overseas students from Japan ● Energy and Environment Systems (PhD) and abroad, while proactively striving for the ● Information and Control Systems (PhD) ● Recycling and Eco-Technology (MS) development of the graduate schools by increasing the English Language and Literature (MA, PhD) number of teaching staff and enhancing welfare Medical Sciences 34 services. Graduate students can study at other graduate Students in the English Language and Literature English Language Education major may take ● Human Biology (PhD) schools or research institutes both at home and abroad ● Regulatory Biology (PhD) graduate program major in English Language, courses in design of English learning environments if relevant study is recognized as being beneficial for ● Pathomorphology (PhD) English Literature or English Language Education. and English language education methodology, among their education and research. ● Pathological Biodynamics (PhD) Each major offers multiple courses: English others. Students are assigned to an academic ● Social Medicine and Environmental Health (PhD) Language courses offered include syntax, and supervisor who helps them deepen their knowledge Through the use of entrance examinations, a system ● Frontier Medical Sciences (PhD) phonology, while English Literature courses in their specialized field and guides them through ● Nursing (MS) whereby outstanding students can skip their fourth year offered include courses in British and American research culminating in their MA or PhD theses. of undergraduate study to enroll in graduate courses Pharmaceutical Sciences 36 culture, fiction, drama and poetry. Students in the was adopted by the Graduate Schools of Science and ● Pharmaceutical Health Science (MS) Engineering in 1991 (except for the Schools of ● Pharmaceutical Science (PhD) Architecture and Civil Engineering, and Recycling and Eco-Technology), and Sports and Health Science in Sports and Health Science 37 1992. All Graduate Schools, except the Graduate ● Sports and Health Science (MS, PhD) School of Medical Sciences, organize entrance examinations for mature students with relevant work Institute for Legal Practice (Law School) 37 experience to answer social requests and expectations, ● Legal Practice (JD) thereby attracting many applicants. (Professional degree programs)

26 27 Graduate Schools Graduate Schools Graduate School of Humanities Playing a vital role since 1965 in the university’s Contents Graduate School of Humanities educational mission of contributing to cultural 27 development, the Graduate Schools are dedicated to Humanities in-depth research and education in the arts and ● History (MA, PhD) sciences, from theory to a broad spectrum of real-world ● Japanese Language and Literature (MA, PhD) ● English Language and Literature (MA, PhD) applications. At present, the university has ten ● German Language and Literature (MA, PhD History (MA, PhD) Graduate Schools offering 34 programs covering a wide ● French Language and Literature (MA, PhD) range of academic fields, as listed on the right. The ● Socio-Cultural Studies (MA) The History graduate program offers four majors history from the Qin and Han periods through the programs comprise two-year master’s programs, ● Education and Clinical Psychology (MA, PhD) covering a wide range of research themes: Japanese Ming and Qing. Studies in the Western History five-year doctoral programs (two years for MA and 29 History, Asian History, Western History and major include the history of Britain, America and three years for PhD), four-year doctoral programs in Law Archaeology. For the Japanese History major, Germany in the modern age. The Archaeology the medical sciences, and three-year professional ● Public Law (MA, PhD) research themes range from ancient and medieval major mainly focuses on archaeological research of master’s degree programs. ● Civil and Criminal Law (MA, PhD) history to the modern and contemporary eras. The the primeval, ancient and medieval periods. Economics 30 themes of the Asian History major cover Chinese The master’s programs are designed to give students both a deep knowledge of their chosen field and the ● Economics (MA, PhD) ability to approach it from various perspectives, Commerce 30 equipping them either for higher level research or ● Commerce (MA, PhD) careers demanding specialized knowledge. The aim of Japanese Language and Literature (MA, PhD) the doctoral programs is to give students the high-level Science 31 theoretical knowledge and research skills necessary for ● Applied Mathematics (MS, PhD) Students in the Japanese Language and Literature Japanese. In the Japanese Literature major, advanced research in their chosen fields as independent ● Applied Physics (MS, PhD) graduate program major in either Japanese courses offered include classical literature, modern ● Chemistry (MS, PhD) researchers. The professional master’s degree Language or Japanese Literature. Students can literature and comparative literature. One of the ● Earth System Science (MS, PhD) programs are designed to instill in students a deep choose from the multiple specialties offered by features of the program is the way in which sense of scholarship and equip them with the Engineering 32 each major in order to focus their learning while education and research is informed by the most capabilities necessary for them to pursue careers ● Mechanical Engineering (MS) taking other courses as well. In the Japanese advanced research in comparative literature and requiring highly specialized knowledge and skills. ● Electrical Engineering (MS) Language major, the courses offered include linguistics. ● Electronics and Computer Science (MS) studies of classical, modern and contemporary Responding to increasing specialization, diversification ● Chemical Engineering (MS) and internationalization in all academic fields, the ● Architecture and Civil Engineering (MS) graduate schools admit overseas students from Japan ● Energy and Environment Systems (PhD) and abroad, while proactively striving for the ● Information and Control Systems (PhD) ● Recycling and Eco-Technology (MS) development of the graduate schools by increasing the English Language and Literature (MA, PhD) number of teaching staff and enhancing welfare Medical Sciences 34 services. Graduate students can study at other graduate Students in the English Language and Literature English Language Education major may take ● Human Biology (PhD) schools or research institutes both at home and abroad ● Regulatory Biology (PhD) graduate program major in English Language, courses in design of English learning environments if relevant study is recognized as being beneficial for ● Pathomorphology (PhD) English Literature or English Language Education. and English language education methodology, among their education and research. ● Pathological Biodynamics (PhD) Each major offers multiple courses: English others. Students are assigned to an academic ● Social Medicine and Environmental Health (PhD) Language courses offered include syntax, and supervisor who helps them deepen their knowledge Through the use of entrance examinations, a system ● Frontier Medical Sciences (PhD) phonology, while English Literature courses in their specialized field and guides them through ● Nursing (MS) whereby outstanding students can skip their fourth year offered include courses in British and American research culminating in their MA or PhD theses. of undergraduate study to enroll in graduate courses Pharmaceutical Sciences 36 culture, fiction, drama and poetry. Students in the was adopted by the Graduate Schools of Science and ● Pharmaceutical Health Science (MS) Engineering in 1991 (except for the Schools of ● Pharmaceutical Science (PhD) Architecture and Civil Engineering, and Recycling and Eco-Technology), and Sports and Health Science in Sports and Health Science 37 1992. All Graduate Schools, except the Graduate ● Sports and Health Science (MS, PhD) School of Medical Sciences, organize entrance examinations for mature students with relevant work Institute for Legal Practice (Law School) 37 experience to answer social requests and expectations, ● Legal Practice (JD) thereby attracting many applicants. (Professional degree programs)

26 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 27 Graduate Schools Graduate Schools

Graduate School of Humanities German Language and Literature (MA, PhD) Graduate School of Law

The majors offered in the German Language and Romanticism, Modern German Fiction including the Literature program are German Language and literary criticism of Karl Kraus, works by Franz Graduate School of Law German Literature. Courses offered in the German Kafka and Max Frisch, literature of the Jewish Language major include sociohistorical linguistics German tradition such as Christian Heine and and German syntax. The German Literature major Wolfgang Hildesheimer, comparative culture offers courses such as History of German between Japan and Germany, and the sociology of Classicism and its Influence, Jacob Grimm and art. Public Law (MA, PhD)

The subjects offered in the Public Law program students’ purposes after completing the course (e.g. are Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Tax students aspiring to be research staff members and Law, International Law, Economic Law, Legal students aspiring to be legal specialists or public French Language and Literature (MA, PhD) Sociology, Legal History, Political Science and servants), or according to social status such as History of Political Thought. The staff works with working members of society and international Students in the French Language and Literature grammatical theory. The French Literature major the staff of the Civil and Criminal Law program students. Students are required to write a master’s program major in either French Language or offers a balanced program ranging from the 17th to and collaborates with specialists from other major thesis to complete the master’s degree course. French Literature. The courses offered in the the 20th centuries, including courses on universities in Japan and overseas in research. When giving advice on researching and writing a French Language major focus mainly on modern contemporary French thought. This approach has earned praise for research into thesis, we reflect on the student’s purpose for French linguistics, centering on syntax and constitutional law through comparative legal study, choosing this program as much as possible. We also and into international law with respect to strive to give lectures in each course in line with fundamental ethics. the students’ purposes for choosing this program.

The admission system offers different admission (MA) Socio-Cultural Studies standards and examinations according to the The Socio-Cultural Studies program comprises to both branches. The Sociology branch aims at the two branches: Sociology and Culture Theories cultivation of specialist techniques to analyze (Cultural Anthropology). The Sociology courses social structures and trends, including survey, stress lectures and practice in the theory of social statistical and mathematical approaches. The Civil and Criminal Law (MA, PhD) systems, while the Culture Theories (Cultural Culture Theories (Cultural Anthropology) branch Anthropology) courses focus on lectures and aims to produce specialists with the knowledge and The subjects offered in the Civil and Criminal Law The admission system offers different admission practice in empirical and theoretical analysis of skills required for fieldwork, including practical program are Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law, standards and examinations according to the cultural phenomena. Several courses on the language ability, and intellectuals who have Commercial Law, Criminal Law and Procedure, students’ purposes after completing the course (e.g. fundamentals of socio-cultural studies and related professional knowledge and a solid grounding in Social Security Law, International Private Law, students aspiring to be research staff members and methodology courses are required courses common Western philosophy. East Asian Corporate Law and Intellectual students aspiring to be legal specialists or public Property Law. Collaborative research projects are servants), or according to social status such as advanced with the staff of the Public Law program, working members of society and international and with researchers from other universities in students. Students are required to write a master’s Japan and overseas. Research results in the thesis to complete the master’s degree course. Education and Clinical Psychology (MA, PhD) environmental field in particular have earned high When giving advice on researching and writing a praise, and have led the Ministry of the thesis, we reflect on the student’s purpose for This evening program includes two fields of study: techniques of clinical psychology. The program also Environment to commission a study of choosing this program as much as possible. We also Education and Clinical Psychology. The Education offers intensive continuing education opportunities environmental administration policies. The East strive to give lectures in each course in line with course is designed for students who wish to deepen for working people. Emphasis is placed on meeting Asian Corporate Law program begun in 2008 is the students’ purposes for choosing this program. their knowledge of education and school teachers the varied needs of students, and the program attracting considerable attention as a unique who wish to upgrade their professional skills. The offers as many as 50 courses. Upon completion of course taught by a non-Japanese professor. course promotes practical and comprehensive the MA program, students are qualified to take analysis of the factors involved in education at examinations for the Advanced Class Teacher’s schools and in the social environment. The aim of Certificate and the Certified Clinical Psychologist the Clinical Psychology course is to produce highly qualification authorized by the Clinical qualified professionals in the field of clinical Psychologist Certification Board of Japan. psychology, focusing mainly on the theory and

28 29 Graduate Schools Graduate Schools

Graduate School of Humanities German Language and Literature (MA, PhD) Graduate School of Law

28 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 29 Graduate Schools Graduate Schools Graduate School of Economics Graduate School of Science

Graduate School of Economics Graduate School of Science

Economics (MA, PhD) Applied Mathematics (MS, PhD)

Graduates of the school are professionals, Applied Econometrics, Economic Time Series To meet the needs of the rapidly developing equations, probability theory, statistics and equipped with the specialized knowledge needed to Analysis, Statistics, Statistical Economic Theory, information-oriented society, the Applied mathematics of society are offered. In recent years, contribute to societal growth on the global stage. Social Engineering, Income Redistribution Theory, Mathematics program provides a broad education in the staff’s cutting-edge research on homotopy Urban Informatics, Analysis of Urban Models, pure and applied mathematics. The subjects offered theory, Riemannian geometry, unbounded operator are Fundamental Mathematics, Geometry, Analysis, algebra, non-linear differential equations, Subjects in the MA program include Analysis of Urban Systems, Operations Research, Applied Analysis, Applied Mathematical Science, stochastic approximations, theory of multi-variable Micro-Economics, Advanced Economic Theory, Game Theory, Cooperative Game Theory, Regional Statistics and Mathematics of Information. Courses functions, computerized image processing and Applied Macro-Economics, Economic Dynamics, Economics Theory, and Relationship between Asian in algebra, topology, differential geometry, network programming has attracted widespread History of Economics, Monetary Theory, Economic Economies and Cultures. In addition to regular functional analysis, complex analysis, differential attention. History I (Asia), Economic History II (Japan), classes by school faculty, special lectures are also History of Social Theories, Theory of Economic offered by guest lecturers. Policy, Industrial Organization, International Trade Theory, Modern Economic Analysis of the The subjects offered in the PhD program include U.S., China and Japan, Theory of Economic Economic History, Social Engineering, Analysis of Applied Physics (MS, PhD) Development, Socioeconomics, Economics of Urban Models, Operations Research, Game Theory, Negotiable Securities, Public Finance, Taxation Social Economics, and Economic Time Series The Applied Physics program is dedicated to Physical Properties course they study the producing scientists with the knowledge, skill and properties of functional molecular coagulates, Theory, Public Economics, Social Choice Theory, Analysis. vision to apply physics in a wide range of fields. magnetic materials, superconductors and alloys. In Mathematical Economics, Quantitative Economics, Core subjects offered are Basic Physics, Physical the Nanophysics course the emphasis is on Properties, Nanophysics and Physical Information nanoscale structures, with study on the properties Acquisition. In the Basic Physics course, students of materials used in semiconductors and ultra-small study nuclei and other structures of multi-quantum electronic components. The course on Physical structures, astrophysics such as nebulas, and Information Acquisition probes methods of Graduate School of Commerce material properties including magnetism. In the measuring physical properties. Graduate School of Commerce Chemistry (MS, PhD)

The program consists of research and education organic compounds and related biological functions; (MA, PhD) designed to contribute to the continued Physical Chemistry, which examines the Commerce development of chemistry and to provide answers relationship between the ordered structures of to society’s needs, by clarifying the processes of matter and its physical properties; Inorganic and Subjects in the Commerce program include Management, Human Resource Management, life, pioneering environment-friendly “Green Analytical Chemistry, probing the creating of Commercial Science, Distribution Systems, Modern Corporations, International Management, Chemistry,” and creating powerful new functional functional materials and clarification of function; Marketing, Information Industry, Market Analysis, Operations Research, Management Strategy, materials. Fields of specialty are Organic and Nanochemistry, which researches the creation Marketing Models, Consumer Activity Theory, Financial Reports, Financial Accounting, Chemistry, covering reactions and syntheses of and exceptional functions of nanoscale materials. Banking, Insurance, Transport Economics, Bookkeeping, Management Accounting, Business International Transport, International Economics, Analysis, Financial Auditing, International Trade, Trade Policy, Commercial Trade, Accounting and Corporate Taxation. With its array International Finance, Currency Exchange, of advanced specialized courses, the aim of the (MS, PhD) Comparative Financial Systems, American program is to produce topflight researchers and Earth System Science Economics, Asian Economics, Development educators, tax accountants, certified public In the Earth System Science program, students Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Hydrospheric Economics, Management, Management accountants and other professionals who can play investigate various phenomena occurring in the Material Chemistry, Geodynamics, Structural Administration, Management Organization, Finance active roles in the business world. atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and Adaptation Biology and Functional Adaptation biosphere of the earth, and explore their Biology. This interdisciplinary postgraduate mechanisms and interactions from systematic and program, which integrates physics, chemistry, historical perspectives. Majors offered in this biology and earth science, is unique among course include Physics of the Global Environment, universities in western Japan.

30 31 Graduate Schools Graduate Schools Graduate School of Economics Graduate School of Science

Graduate School of Economics Graduate School of Science

Economics (MA, PhD) Applied Mathematics (MS, PhD)

30 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 31 Graduate Schools Graduate Schools

Graduate School of Engineering Architecture and Civil Engineering (MS) Graduate School of Engineering

Construction technology, which creates the spaces issues, offering seven majors: Structural Design, Graduate School of Engineering and facilities supporting a wide range of social Aseismic Engineering, Construction Materials, activity including living, working, playing and Liquid Systems, Regional and Housing Design, moving, faces a severe economic and financial Construction Environmental Planning, and Roadway climate, but must continue to ensure safety and and Foundation Environmental Planning. The environmentally aware products, making further program also offers courses fulfilling requirements Mechanical Engineering (MS) advancement in the field essential. This program is for practical experience defined in the national intended to train researchers, engineers and qualification examination for Grade 1 architect. The Mechanical Engineering program includes five knowledge in the field of mechanical engineering, designers capable of addressing and resolving these majors: Strength of Materials, Fluid Engineering, which, coupled with research closely linking to Thermal Engineering, Manufacturing Science, and advanced science and technology, provide them with System Dynamics and Control. In each major, two comprehensive problem-solving ability and a broad faculty members are in charge of education and perspective. research. Students gain far-reaching basic Energy and Environment Systems (PhD)

The Energy and Environment Systems program is research on energy generation, conversion and composed of six majors: Thermal Energy transfer for solving energy problems, Engineering, Electrical Energy Engineering, Urban environment-friendly chemical systems approaches Electrical Engineering (MS) Environmental Engineering, Environmental to overcoming environmental problems, Material Engineering, Environmental Process technologies for waste treatment and recycling, and The Electrical Engineering program is comprised materials, superconductivity, control systems, Engineering and Recycling System Engineering. material development for the prevention or of the four majors of Basic Electrical Engineering, energy conversion, high voltage insulation and laser Interdisciplinary studies are promoted through amelioration of environmental degradation. Power Electronics, Electrical Power Engineering applications. Progress is rapid in all of these and Applied Electrical Engineering. These courses fields, and this program promotes an embrace such fields as the environment, interdisciplinary approach designed to produce information and communications, functional professionals able to answer the needs of society. Information and Control Systems (PhD)

This program is composed of four majors: processing, information transmission including Computer Science, Information Transmission digital communications technology, power Electronics and Computer Science (MS) Engineering, Power Electronics and Mechatronics, conversion using semiconductor devices, robot and Solid State Electronics. Research covers a control, and the functional devices to support such Composed of eight majors ̶ Integrated Circuits, computer engineering, robotics, natural speech wide spectrum of specialty fields including systems. Communication Systems, Optoelectronics, processing, audio and video data processing, and intelligent information processing, natural language Computing Systems, Information Architecture, system software engineering. The program is Knowledge Engineering, Information Systems designed to produce professionals with high-level Development Engineering, and Media knowledge and research ability to drive Engineering ̶ the program offers courses and technological innovation in the key fields of research in semiconductors, electronic circuits, electronics, communications and information. Recycling and Eco-Technology (MS) digital communications technology, optoelectronics, In a world with limited natural resources and Environment in East Asia. Established in the energy sources, this program was established in the Graduate School of Engineering, the program 2002 academic year aiming to produce engineers welcomes not only new graduates but also members necessary to realize a recycling-based society. The of the general population and students from Chemical Engineering (MS) program consists of six majors: Sustainability of overseas, regardless of their majors, aiming to Resources, Control of Environmental Chemicals, integrate elements from both the engineering and The Department’s goal is to ensure that our functional catalysis technologies, surface analysis Ecological Control, Regional Environment, humanities fields. students master high-level knowledge and advanced of catalysts, high-performance chemical plants, Environmental Management, and Cultural skills in chemical engineering, and through engineering of bio- and soft-interfaces, safety and educational and research programs gain proficiency environmental technology, self-organized function as engineers capable of making a significant materials, and advanced recycling technologies, contribution to the advancement of the sustainable providing graduates with a broad perspective and society. The teaching staff specializes in advanced sophisticated knowledge. fields including biofuels, supercritical fluids,

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Graduate School of Engineering Architecture and Civil Engineering (MS) Graduate School of Engineering

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Graduate School of Sciences Medical Pathological Biodynamics (PhD) Graduate School of Economics

Research in this program centers on the normal Cardiovascular Surgery, Applied Radiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences functions of the human body and the morbid Anesthesiology, Emergency and Critical Care changes induced by diseases. The majors offered Medicine, Functional Neurology, and Oral are Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Pathobiology. Neuro-Otology, Research of Locomotive Organs,

Human Biology (PhD)

This program focuses on the basic structure and Among the noteworthy studies currently underway functions of the human body. The majors offered are studies on cell structure, cell physiology and Social Medicine and Environmental Health (PhD) are Biological Morphology, Molecular and Cellular biochemical studies on cellular function, and Biology, and Molecular and Cellular Physiology. research into systems computation. This program offers majors in Preventive Medicine and their social environment, prevention of and Public Health, Social Medicine, Criminal occupational diseases and health control in the Medicine, and Psychiatric Therapeutics. Major workplace, and social and environmental factors in research themes include studies on diseases the development of human diseases. induced by the relationship between human beings Regulatory Biology (PhD)

This program offers majors in Host Defence and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Studies focus Immunobiology, Regenerative and Transplantation, on microorganisms, eumycetes and parasites Pathophysiology of Respiratory Diseases, and pathogenic to the human body and immune system. Frontier Medical Sciences (PhD)

This program has the following majors: Metabolism, Surgical Gastroenterology, Organ Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, Reconstruction and Biopathological Surgery, Cardiovascular Diseases and Physiochemistry, Gastroenterology, Developmental Pediatrics, Pathomorphology (PhD) Molecular Reproductive Medicine, Clinical Clinical Oncology, and Clinical and Applied Laboratory Analysis, Pathophysiobiochemistry of Science. Ongoing research includes studies on the This program conducts research focused mainly on Pathophysiology, Tumor Pathology, Anatomic Cardiovascular Deseases, Dermatologic Tumor chemical mediators that affect the functions of the the microscopic analysis of human body tissues and Pathology, Central Nervous System Pathologic Immunobiochemistry, Pathophysiology of Infectious human body, their kinetic metabolism and the pathological changes induced in them by diseases Physiology, Visual Medicine, Nephro-Urology, Diseases, Pathophysiology of Endocrinology and pathological changes they induce. and on the mechanism of the development of Gastrointestinal Medical Science and Practice, various diseases and their therapies. Majors Neuropathology, and Renal Immunology and offered include Morphologic Pathology, Geriatric Metabolism.

Nursing (MS)

The nursing program was established in 2011 as a nursing to existing thesis-based courses in adult graduate school serving the local community, and lifestyle disease support, regional and mental the program and curriculum is continually revised health support, and nursing staff training and and improved to ensure the acquisition of management, enhancing program content to a level sophisticated, practical nursing skills. Plans call appropriate to a core education institution for for the addition of courses in high-level practical Kyushu.

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Graduate School of Sciences Medical Pathological Biodynamics (PhD) Graduate School of Economics

Human Biology (PhD)

Nursing (MS)

34 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 35 Graduate Schools Graduate Schools Graduate Sciences School of Pharmaceutical Graduate Science Health and School of Sports Graduate School of Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Sports and Health Science

Pharmaceutical Health Science (MS) Sports and Health Science (MS, PhD)

Pharmaceutical Health Science is divided into two science field. The General Pharmaceutical The Physical Education program aims at producing Methods, Coaching Methods, and Exercise and programs: Pharmaceutical Health Medicinal Sciences program is mainly intended for first-rate physical education specialists and leaders Health. Research and education extends beyond Science and General Pharmaceutical Sciences. The on-the-spot pharmacists, providing them with who can develop their professional abilities to meet traditional school and university sports to include aim of the Pharmaceutical Health Science program systematic and methodical support toward the needs of society. To accomplish this, six majors medical and municipal institutions, private is to produce human resources such as health acquiring state-of-the-art medical and are offered: Physical Education, Physical Fitness, organizations and commercial sports facilities. science-related researchers/technical experts, pharmaceutical scientific knowledge through Sports Medicine, Physical Education Teaching medicinal science-related researchers/technical lectures and seminars, thereby fostering their experts, medical representatives, and health food ability to develop and assess information through and perfumery and cosmetics safety officers who research and become leading pharmacists who can

can play active parts in the interdisciplinary health make community-based medical contributions. Practice forInstitute Legal

Institute for Legal Practice (Law School) Pharmaceutical Science (PhD)

The Pharmaceutical Science course is divided into Pharmacological Analysis, and Clinical eleven majors: Clinical Side Effects, Clinical Pharmacological Chemistry. This course aims to Pharmacology, Clinical Pharmaceutics, Medical produce pharmacologists and researchers who can Legal Practice (JD) (Professional degree programs) Information Science, Pharmacological Patient apply deep specialized knowledge and outstanding Management, Pharmacology Design, Clinical research capabilities to speedily and precisely We have a structured curriculum beginning with abbreviated two-year course for students with Patient Pharmacology, Pathological Function resolving problems in the clinical field. the fundamental subjects and progressing on to undergraduate law degrees attend courses together. Analysis, Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical practical legal subjects, including all the things The emphasis is on practice, training students to needed to acquire the necessary abilities to work apply the fundamentals mastered in the first year as a lawyer, judge or public prosecutor. These two to resolve real-world issues. Both civil and types of subjects are well linked to each other in criminal cases are practiced, and students the curriculum. participate in externships and legal clinics to gain practical knowledge and experience. The course All of the basic subjects such as Constitutional includes a number of developmental subjects Law, Civil Law and Criminal Law are directed including Medicine, Welfare, Human Rights and towards first-year law students in the three-year Labor Disputes, backed up by legal practice. course for students without undergraduate law degrees, on the assumption that they have no legal These classes are taught by former judges and backgrounds. The goal is to provide them with a prosecutors as well as college researchers with fundamental understanding of law based on many years of university education experience. In practical application. addition to receiving their Law Doctorate, those who complete this degree course also gain the From the second year, students in the standard qualification to take the National Bar Examination. three-year course and those studying in the

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Pharmaceutical Health Science (MS) Sports and Health Science (MS, PhD)

can play active parts in the interdisciplinary health make community-based medical contributions. Practice forInstitute Legal

Institute for Legal Practice (Law School) Pharmaceutical Science (PhD)

36 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 37 International Programs International International Programs Extracurricular Activities Activities Extracurricular

In this age of globalization, one of the University’s with opportunities to learn about the culture, The extracurricular activities in which students Committee for General Affairs, which is composed missions is to produce graduates who can history, natural environment and languages of the are voluntarily engaged during their free time help of 20 student representatives each of whom is understand the rich diversity of cultures and country they visit and gain an international students cultivate individuality, a spirit of elected by their class. As of April 2015, there are senses of value in the world, and participate in perspective by interacting with the local people. independence, spontaneity and camaraderie, and in 42 clubs and one society in the sports section and global society with a broad perspective. To this Every student is entitled to take the examination this way they are also able to develop their 39 clubs and one society in the academic and end, Fukuoka University has formed cooperation for this program, with the university contributing characters. cultural section. Besides these, there are 78 hobby agreements with many universities all over the to travel expenses. The University also organizes world to promote educational and research intensive language courses, which do not require an circles. In the Faculty of Commerce Evening exchanges and is striving to foster individuals who examination and in which students wishing to Fukuoka University recognizes these School, there are 19 clubs, one society and two can play an active role in the global arena by improve their English or Chinese proficiency can extracurricular activities as a field of training and hobby circles. providing a wide variety of international programs. participate at their own expense. Students taking a supports them as an integral part of our holistic As of 1 May 2015, the University has academic course in English visit our sister university, education. Altogether about 7,000 students, or All of these clubs and societies are very active and exchange program agreements with 53 universities Newcastle University in the UK, in the summer, some 36% of all students, participate in these play a crucial role in university life. Some of the and one institute in 19 countries and regions. and in the spring students taking a course in extracurricular activities, cultivating their minds academic and cultural clubs are engaged in unique Chinese visit Yangzhou University, another one of and training their bodies as they gain a sense of research activities, while other are highly The University’s international programs include our sister universities. one-year exchange programs, short-term study autonomy and self-motivation while building evaluated for their voluntary service. Fukuoka abroad programs and intensive language courses. Some faculties offer original programs, such as character in an ideal environment. University has a long and proud tradition of The one-year exchange programs are based on exchange programs and overseas training programs sporting prowess. Its sports clubs have a agreements with overseas universities. We involving their field of study as part of Our extracurricular activities are organized by the successful record in national and other exchange a similar number of students with tuition international education. Moreover, Fukuoka Student’s Union, whose membership is comprised championships and have produced excellent athletes fees mutually waived and a grant provided for their University accepts exchange students from our of all Fukuoka University students and some in the sport industry, who have gone on to study overseas. The academic credits our students sister universities as well as short-term members of the staff. The union plans and participate in the Olympic Games and Universiade gain abroad count toward their degrees. The international students, and organizes student organizes its activities in coordination with the competitions or become professional baseball, short-term study abroad programs, which comprise seminars to promote exchange with our sister standing managers of clubs in both the academic soccer or golf players. 3‒4 weeks of study at one of our sister universities in Asia. universities, are designed to provide our students and cultural section and the sports section and the

International House

Situated in lush natural surroundings where students can enjoy the changing seasons, International House is a unique complex consisting of a self-catering Residence Hall and a multipurpose building comprised of meeting rooms and short-term accommodation for students and teachers.

In the Residence Hall, overseas exchange students and Japanese students live together under the same roof, ensuring a genuine international exchange experience and helping to promote mutual understanding. The hall can accommodate 100 students (40 overseas students and 60 Japanese students), all in single rooms. It also has spaces for common use: a lounge and Internet access corner on the second ﬂoor and a kitchen, dining room, lounge and laundry room on each residential ﬂoor.

The adjacent building, known as the Activities Center, has 19 rooms of various sizes and provides overnight accommodation for up to 212 people. The large meeting room here is equipped with audio equipment and can seat 150 people. If necessary, this room can be partitioned into three areas for a variety of uses.

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International House

38 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 39 Educational Facilities Institutes and Educational Facilities and Institutes Intellectual Property Center Educational Facilities Institutes and In addition to existing roles in education and publications. The Intellectual Property Center research, contribution to society is assuming handles patent applications for this valuable Central Research Institute increased importance for the university today, and intellectual property while actively promoting its this contribution demands making the intellectual creation, practical application and protection. The The Central Research Institute began in 1956 and Institute, the Academic, Industrial and resources of the university available to society. We Center helps the university make a real social since then has been engaged in academic research Governmental Liaison Center, and the Intellectual aim at constructing a framework for collaborative contribution to the community and industry through and study in various ﬁelds in a close cooperative Property Center. eﬀort by industry, academia and government to the utilization of these intellectual resources. relationship with society at large. In April 2011 couple university intellectual resources and the Institute was restructured into the Research The two departments work together to promote a research results with the knowledge and Department and the Industrial Intellectual wide range of research activities and collaborative information of private industry. Properties Department, between them combining projects, making research results available to the former groups handling research, collaboration society and supporting projects designed to The many faculty members and students here between academia, government and industry, and promote and extend research results. create valuable intellectual resources on a daily intellectual property. basis, including inventions, databases, concrete

research results, technical expertise and The Research Department consists of the Basic Research Institute, the research promotion project, and the general scientific field research groups, with eight research institutes and a number of Central Research Organization research teams. The Industrial Intellectual Properties Department has twelve research Research Institute for Sustainable Communities (Fukuoka and East Asia) institutes, comprising the Academic, Industrial and Governmental Collaborative Project Research This Institute was established in ● Planning and operation of a theory and contribute to the fiscal 2011 as a basic research variety of systems utilizing foundation of the study of institute, as part of the regional cooperative sustainable communities in the Academic, Industrial and Governmental Liaison Center restructuring of the Central agreements between local East Asian region, through the Research Institute. Basic governments in the extended issuance of a regularly In addition to conducting education and research, training; organizes seminars; provides consultation research and regional trials are Fukuoka metropolitan region published magazine. another responsibility of universities is to provide on technologies and management; and builds designed to contribute to to meet diverse resident needs. resources for industrial development and thereby networks among academia, industry and regional activation, the ● Hosting lectures and contribute to society. Fukuoka University is a government. development of a gender-equal workshops in public halls and comprehensive university consisting of nine society, disaster prevention and civic centers in Jonan Ward, faculties in the fields of humanities and sciences, Moreover, in coordination with municipalities, our response, and regional medicine Fukuoka City. and many of our graduates are now active as the liaison offices in key cities in northern and southern networking in the Fukuoka ● Public dissemination of presidents of companies in Kyushu. Taking Fukuoka prefecture are involved in activities to metropolitan area from the research results via advantage of this wealth of business contacts and build a recycling-based society by contributing to following four key approaches: symposiums, newsletters and the local features of Kyushu, the Liaison Center is the promotion of the environmental and recycling other means. working with the business community and local industries. ● Work to continuously improve governments to promote collaboration among academia, industry and government. In order to build a collaborative model based on a business Research Institute for Advanced Molecular Medicine perspective, we offer to individuals in these three sectors opportunities to make presentations and This Institute is a basic research Infrastructure Formation for young and women researchers network with one another through technology facility established under the Development of Patient with avenues for growth and exchange and presentation meetings. The Liaison Strategic Academic Research Management Methodology. Now development. Center also scouts for research seeds; supports Infrastructure Formation integrated with the Central business and research matching, and manager Support initiative of the Research Institute of Life Ministry of Education, Culture, Sciences for the Next Sports, Science and Technology. Generation of Women Scientists, It is advancing basic research it is also an active part of and clinical application R&D Fukuoka University programs to with young researchers under support women researchers. The the theme of Clarification of Institute serves as a core for Cellular- and Life-Related research into life sciences at Programs and Research Fukuoka University, providing

40 41 Educational Facilities Institutes and Educational Facilities and Institutes Intellectual Property Center Educational Facilities Institutes and In addition to existing roles in education and publications. The Intellectual Property Center research, contribution to society is assuming handles patent applications for this valuable Central Research Institute increased importance for the university today, and intellectual property while actively promoting its this contribution demands making the intellectual creation, practical application and protection. The The Central Research Institute began in 1956 and Institute, the Academic, Industrial and resources of the university available to society. We Center helps the university make a real social since then has been engaged in academic research Governmental Liaison Center, and the Intellectual aim at constructing a framework for collaborative contribution to the community and industry through and study in various ﬁelds in a close cooperative Property Center. eﬀort by industry, academia and government to the utilization of these intellectual resources. relationship with society at large. In April 2011 couple university intellectual resources and the Institute was restructured into the Research The two departments work together to promote a research results with the knowledge and Department and the Industrial Intellectual wide range of research activities and collaborative information of private industry. Properties Department, between them combining projects, making research results available to the former groups handling research, collaboration society and supporting projects designed to The many faculty members and students here between academia, government and industry, and promote and extend research results. create valuable intellectual resources on a daily intellectual property. basis, including inventions, databases, concrete

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Epilepsy is the second most Japanese population. It is not a creation of induced pluripotent Pancreatic islets, located in the it results in diabetes. This cure for diabetes. common neurological disorder, single disease, however, and its stem (iPS) cells from patient human pancreas, are groups of Institute utilizes proprietary cell following headaches, but its molecular pathomechanisms, cells. These research results are cells primarily responsible for transplantation and molecular biological causes have not yet namely its related conditions, being utilized in the development generating insulin, the only biological techniques in basic been fully identified at the have yet to be clarified. The of innovative new therapies with hormone capable of lowering research into the problems, molecular level. The Institute is Institute is one of the few reduced side effects. blood sugar. They are essential regeneration, origins, division engaged in research to clarify research institutes in the world in controlling sugar metabolism, and creation of insulin in the the involved molecular working in this field, welcoming which is itself a critical part of pancreatic islets in mice and pathomechanisms. researchers from many nations life processes, but when these human beings, working toward to investigate epilepsy through cells cease to function normally the development of a fundamental Epilepsy is a general term advanced genetic analysis applied to symptoms including equipment and techniques, the the sudden fading of creation of experimental animal consciousness and fits, affecting models using abnormal genes Research Institute for Cardiovascular Medicine approximately one percent of the found in human epilepsy, and the The Institute opened in fiscal insufficiency and high pulmonary (PAD), and improving 2011, drawing on the experience blood pressure are being rehabilitation programs for use gained through over 1200 developed here, together with after cardiac events. Research Institute for Physical Activity angiographs, over 350 clinical applications. The percutaneous coronary Institute is active in fundamental The Institute for Physical through collaborative programs lifestyle-related diseases, interventions (PCI), coronary and clinical cardiovascular Activity was established in 2008 by researchers both at the minimize the need for long-term artery bypass surgeries, valve research, with young researchers under the Strategic Academic Institute and elsewhere. medical care and alleviate replacements and arterial stent developing new devices for Research Infrastructure Researchers primarily from the aging-related issues, as well as grafts performed safely. difficult-to-treat cardiac Formation Support initiative of Faculties of Sports and Health developing a system to assist Advanced therapies and insufficiency, along with new the Ministry of Education, Science, Pharmaceutical people in making physical pharmaceuticals for the diagnostic and treatment methods Culture, Sports, Science and Sciences and Medicine and the activity a daily habit. treatment of arteriosclerosis, for arteriosclerosis and Technology. The goals of the University Hospital work ischemic heart disease, cardiac peripheral arterial disease Institute are research into the collaboratively with Japanese health aspects of physical and foreign research institutions activity, the development of on a wide range of themes scientifically based physical related to health and physical Research Institute for Regenerative Medicine activity programs to help prevent activity. Key research topics and treat lifestyle-related include the development of Regenerative medicine has with a panel on life ethics studies and applications for new diseases, and the promotion of physical activity programs to achieved tremendous progress in (through the Faculty of Law) and clinical trials. research into health science, help prevent and treat recent years, made possible by researchers specializing in the cooperation, collaboration and field of cellular engineering, the integration with a large number Institute is formed into four of specialized clinical and teams: stem cell selection and Research Institute for Endoscopy research fields. Most evaluation, nerve regeneration, regenerative medicine vascular and lymphatic tube Optical medicine consists of the demonstrate the scientific enhance the foundation for implementations are achieved regeneration, and endocrine cell diagnosis and treatment of efficacy of newly developed future research in optical through cellular treatment, but a regeneration. Each team handles medical issues using endoscopy. techniques, helping to provide medicine, maintaining Japan’s range of ethical issues remains all phases of its specific theme, Japan was the first in the world high-quality optical medicine leading position in the field. to be resolved. In cooperation from basic research to clinical to develop the gastroscope in the from Japan to the world. 1950s, and has remained a world leader in the field ever since. Designed primarily for Fukuoka University has researchers in clinical and basic consistently been in the forefront medicine, this multi-disciplinary of optical medicine development organization brings together in Japan, applying new top-level experts from Japan and techniques in actual treatment. overseas, as well as training new, The unique advantages of the young researchers. The University make it possible to Laboratory is working to further

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42 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 43 Educational Facilities Institutes and Academia, Industry and Government Collaborative Research Organization Research Institute of Materials Science and Technology Educational Facilities Institutes and Materials technology is a basic on interaction between the students from around the world, Research Institute of Quantitative Behavioral Informatics for City technology not only involved in medical and engineering fields, helping the university become and Space Economy the design and manufacture of while steadily building the more international and nurturing industrial products, but also organizational foundation, but in graduates with an international Designated in 2000 by the visitors to a specific locale. utilizing smartphones and ICT to essential in making society safer the future the Institute plans to perspective. Ministry of Education, Culture, Consumer shop-around patterns leverage big data and provide and more secure. The Institute widen its range of activity to Sports, Science and Technology were continuously observed in real time decision-making researches a wide range of include not only engineering but as one of the country’s Academic downtown areas of major cities support for visitors. topics related to materials also create new academic fields Frontier Promotion Centers, the in Kyushu including Fukuoka, technology, constructing a in the humanities. The Institute Institute has pioneered methods Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, platform for academic and will develop into a hub of of community development based Miyazaki, and Kagoshima, international research and research activity for not only on empirical research into providing accurate counts of helping create new industries. Fukuoka University researchers consumer shop-around behavior. visitors and clarifying the effect Current projects focus on and students, but also One is the consistency estimation of the recent opening of the improving material strength and researchers and exchange method for shop-around patterns Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train based on destination-based service. surveys, which provides a theoretical method for accurate R&D now focuses on the measurement of the number of development of a business model Research Institute for Recycling & Environmental Control Systems

The Institute was established in Practical technologies are being government and private 1997 with the support of the created through a variety of enterprise as it continues to Eco-Town Project of Kitakyushu collaborative research projects. develop into a comprehensive Research Institute for Next Generation Human Resource Development City and designated as one of the Research results are being environmental research institute. Ministry of Education, Culture, transferred to the private sector The next breakthrough in the established in 2011, the same learning by noticing, thinking in Sports, Science and for use in rendering waste safer evolution of Fukuoka, Kyushu year that the full route of the the first person, and finding your Technology’s Academic Frontier and recycling it more effectively, and Japan itself will be achieved Kyushu Shinkansen bullet train own answers. Promotion Centers. Trial and new collaborative projects through human resources was opened, with the facilities have been constructed are under way with academia, development. Society looks to collaboration of Kyushu NPOs in Kitakyushu’s Eco-Town industry and government. The Fukuoka University to promote involved in social activity, local Project for rendering waste Institute operates the only the development of Fukuoka, and government and private non-hazardous, reducing waste large-scale experimental waste contribute to the development of enterprise. The Institute tonnage through recycling, and facility in Japan, and handles Kyushu, Japan and East Asia. develops and implements recovery of usable resources. research and consulting for local This Institute educates and programs utilizing Lego blocks, trains the human resources to social media services, and drive the future, and it was no external collaboration to assist coincidence that it was learning through teaching, Research Institute of Microelectronics Assembling and Packaging

Electronic equipment such as Fukuoka Prefecture, it covers personnel from other mobile phones is becoming the complete process from universities, private enterprise, Research Institute of Medicine & Engineering for Safety Systems rapidly smaller in size as developing the constituent and the Fukuoka Industry, performance improves, and such technologies needed for Science & Technology Today, safety and security have a single error, for example the array of disciplines to ﬁnding equipment relies on assembling 3D semiconductors, Foundation. become crucial concepts in development of new devices for new solutions to safety issues. semiconductors and other to design, prototyping, analysis society, but we are surrounded improved vehicular airbag safety electronic components mounted and testing. The Institute will by a variety of dangers in our and performance (a priority on substrates. This Institute was also be working on design daily lives, making it critical to theme), and research into established in April 2011 to methodologies, reliability test develop technologies to avoid or preventing recurrences of develop high-performance methods and standardization. minimize them. The Institute is industrial explosions. equipment capable of Collaborative research programs focusing on technologies to Researchers from industry, high-precision 3D assembly of by academia, industry and prevent or ameliorate the academia and government work electronic components. Located government involve Fukuoka damage in traﬃc or industrial with medical and engineering inside the 3D Semiconductor University researchers and accidents that could be caused by professionals, bringing a diverse Research Center in Itoshima, graduate students, as well as

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As the average age continues to studied in detail, and new government as one of the first Composite materials with The Institute is developing application and establishment as rise in modern society, there is a therapies and pharmaceuticals facilities of its type in Japan. sophisticated functions are significant new functional standard solutions in the field. corresponding increase in being developed to minimize needed in many areas of modern materials utilizing technologies age-related disease, including their effects. The research is society, and this Institute was to minimize environmental senile dementia due to being advanced in continuous established in April 2012 to impact. The broad utility and Alzheimer’s. The Institute is collaboration with clinical provide comprehensive support applicability of this research bringing together knowledge medicine in the University for the development of such makes it an excellent theme for related to preventive Hospital. Concretely, research composites through the collaboration with industry, and pharmaceuticals as part of a focuses on identifying valuable commercialization and the Institute hopes to rapidly research program to find ways of foodstuffs and treatments, application of composite material develop manufacturing improving personal health to leading a new wave in medical technologies expected to be technologies with minimal resist the onset of such diseases. treatment at Fukuoka University crucial in the future. environmental impact, for The molecular pathomechanisms through collaborative research of the diseases are also being between academia, industry and

Research Institute for Water Cycle and Ecosystem Restoration Research Institute of Translational Medicine for Life Innovation Conventional urban development lost ecosystems. Collaborative has destroyed natural water projects with government and Established in fiscal 2011 as a all-important transition from products at Fukuoka University cycles and severely damaged private enterprise concentrate on collaborative research institution non-clinical (test tube or animal) in East Asian and global local ecosystems. The results two major themes: developing at Fukuoka University, the trials to clinical (human) trials, markets. have become apparent through a technologies and application Institute works to apply the from initial identification of number of developments, many of frameworks to restore the water latest research results from potential utility to final which directly affect our lives. cycle lost in urban environments, academia and enterprises in the application for certification. By This Institute, established in and observation and research life science field in medicine and promoting the development of April 2012, is working to into water environments to health, making their benefits clinical researchers and establish technologies for establish technologies to restore available to society. The collaborative international restoring sound water cycles and lost ecosystems. Institute is working to construct clinical trials, the Institute is a platform handling the entire contributing to the international process, especially the competitiveness of life science Fukuoka Institute for Atmospheric Environment and Health

Economic development in East state of atmospheric composition a sound atmospheric Research Institute for International Study on Eruptive History Asia is inducing changes in the change, and the effects of that environment, and to a healthy and Informatics atmospheric environment, and change on health, along with society. raising a variety of social issues. related processes. Fukuoka The interpretation of eruptive detailed history. An electronic Informatics, and promotes The Institute is sited in University, in collaboration with history is a fundamental issue in library (database) is being international academic exchange. Fukuoka, one of the cities in other research institutions volcanology, and critical in constructed to share information Japan subject to manmade involved in advanced research, preventing and minimizing efficiently, and actively promote emissions and other atmospheric has been continuously monitoring damage from volcanic eruptions. its utilization in volcano risk substances from the Asian the atmospheric environment, but The Institute has functioned as a assessment and outreach mainland, and is engaged in this monitoring activity will be center for collecting and programs. The collected observation of changes in expanded and linked to related disseminating related information information will significantly atmospheric composition, medical medical research to better since April 2012, supported by improve the quality of research surveys, and the development of understand the atmosphere of on-site surveys in Japan, the in the field. The Institute also new observation and Fukuoka and of East Asia as a Philippines, Indonesia and publishes the International measurement methods. It has whole. The Institute will elsewhere to create a highly Journal of Eruptive History and been tasked with clarifying the contribute to the preservation of

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educational research and information-related newspapers including the Times, the New York Faculty Education Development activities at the University. The collections of the Times and the Wall Street Journal. Support Office Support Office libraries comprise about 1.95 million books, and a wealth of information sources covering all academic Furthermore, the libraries function as an academic fields are easily accessible to users both inside and information center providing a wide variety of Education outside of the campus. information services. Here, through the Internet, Salon users have access to academic papers that have The University’s library system is composed of been published in journals, newspaper articles and this new Central Library, the Science Library, the statistical data. By improving electronic journals Engineering Library, the Pharmaceutical Sciences and multimedia systems, introducing external Library, the Sports and Health Science Library databases to allow for searching of judicial prece- Information Technology Center and the Medicine Library. All of these libraries dents and academic information in the fields of can be used by staff and students of any faculty. economics, finance, natural sciences and others, and The Information Technology Center has introduced high-speed network, providing network access in The Central Library’s collections cover a wide fully utilizing the electronic functionality of the the FUTURE5 education and research support research and experimental facilities. The Center range of fields in the humanities and social scienc- library to build a library navigation system, we are platform to serve as the university’s information for International Programs, Seminar House and es and include numerous reference materials and taking all possible steps to provide users with infrastructure, and handles operations and other facilities are connected via a standard-speed textbooks. Information sources specific to other necessary information while responding to the ever management. The FUTURE5 system includes the network, which also enables Internet access. disciplines are distributed among the other five increasing and diversifying demands for academic information processing education system, specialist libraries. information. information network system, and a number of The Information Technology Center will continue information processing systems for various to maintain the information infrastructure services. supporting Fukuoka University education, research and medicine, providing a safe and secure The information processing education system environment. controls about 1400 thin-client PCs used for education and self-directed research, in 20 on-campus PC classrooms and eleven open terminal areas. The PC classrooms are utilized to improve student capabilities in communication and ICT (information and communication technology) application, providing an education environment for students and teachers that leverages ICT to enhance learning. The information network system interconnects buildings on campus with a

Admissions Oﬃce

European Law Book Collection: The Admissions Office handles admission services, as well as Among the rare books in evaluating new admission standards and examinations, providing the library’s holdings is a world-class collection of information on admission examinations, and offering detailed European medieval and Online Public Access Catalog: modern common law Books, journals and other library assistance to help resolve the diverse requirements of people seeking books comprising 1,089 information sources can be admission to the University. books in 1,609 volumes searched online, as can the published between 1480 databases of external and 1876. organizations.

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The Central Library in the center of campus was The computer database, which can be accessed The Institute promotes Faculty Development at To promote self-motivated learning on the part of completed in July 2012. With an elegant exterior through the Internet both on and off campus, Fukuoka University, ensuring organized, continuing the students, the Institute provides places for well suited to its role as a central repository for catalogs 1.95 million books, around 20,000 journals improvement in educational content and teaching extracurricular study, and support for educational knowledge and information, the interior is designed and audiovisual materials. In particular, methods. activities closely related to class content, via with refined black carpeting and wooden furniture “F-Search”, a portal service for electronic jour- offices to support FD and education. The work of to make it a comfortable place for long sessions. In nals, allows users to view full text versions of The term Faculty Development (FD) is used to the Institute is performed in collaboration with addition to browsing and referencing the collection, various research papers and provides links to describe organized activity by teaching, research faculty members, but an Education Salon has also rooms are provided for electronic information academic information databases for secondary and operational staff to improve performance. been opened to encourage students to freely engage access, group study and discussion, while library documents. The library’s holdings include a rare Fukuoka University has adopted this specifically in information sharing and discussion. assistants (postgraduate students) are available to collection of authentic European common law for teaching faculty. The Institute collects and provide assistance in self-directed study. The books, Grimm’s Fairy Tales and documents related analyzes educational information and requirements, The two support offices and the Education Salon automated book archive on the ground floor is one to the Kyushu region from the Edo Period. A and plans and manages a variety of seminars and constitute the core of the Institute, but to ensure of the largest in Japan, with a storage capacity of portion of these collections may be viewed other events including holistic education that information and recognition of problems are 1.72 million volumes, and can promptly service user electronically from our official website by the development and faculty training, providing shared by all departments, FD is active throughout valuable assistance in FD implementation by the University. requests. general public. In addition, the University individual departments and faculties. subscribes to 48 Japanese and foreign newspapers, Since its foundation, Fukuoka University has and holds microfilm or reduced scale copies of past Institute for the Development and strived to improve its libraries as the center of issues of ten Japanese newspapers and 13 foreign Support of Higher Education educational research and information-related newspapers including the Times, the New York Faculty Education Development activities at the University. The collections of the Times and the Wall Street Journal. Support Office Support Office libraries comprise about 1.95 million books, and a wealth of information sources covering all academic Furthermore, the libraries function as an academic fields are easily accessible to users both inside and information center providing a wide variety of Education outside of the campus. information services. Here, through the Internet, Salon users have access to academic papers that have The University’s library system is composed of been published in journals, newspaper articles and this new Central Library, the Science Library, the statistical data. By improving electronic journals Engineering Library, the Pharmaceutical Sciences and multimedia systems, introducing external Library, the Sports and Health Science Library databases to allow for searching of judicial prece- Information Technology Center and the Medicine Library. All of these libraries dents and academic information in the fields of can be used by staff and students of any faculty. economics, finance, natural sciences and others, and The Information Technology Center has introduced high-speed network, providing network access in The Central Library’s collections cover a wide fully utilizing the electronic functionality of the the FUTURE5 education and research support research and experimental facilities. The Center range of fields in the humanities and social scienc- library to build a library navigation system, we are platform to serve as the university’s information for International Programs, Seminar House and es and include numerous reference materials and taking all possible steps to provide users with infrastructure, and handles operations and other facilities are connected via a standard-speed textbooks. Information sources specific to other necessary information while responding to the ever management. The FUTURE5 system includes the network, which also enables Internet access. disciplines are distributed among the other five increasing and diversifying demands for academic information processing education system, specialist libraries. information. information network system, and a number of The Information Technology Center will continue information processing systems for various to maintain the information infrastructure services. supporting Fukuoka University education, research and medicine, providing a safe and secure The information processing education system environment. controls about 1400 thin-client PCs used for education and self-directed research, in 20 on-campus PC classrooms and eleven open terminal areas. The PC classrooms are utilized to improve student capabilities in communication and ICT (information and communication technology) application, providing an education environment for students and teachers that leverages ICT to enhance learning. The information network system interconnects buildings on campus with a

Admissions Oﬃce

48 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 49 Educational Facilities Institutes and Center for General Education Extension Center Educational Facilities Institutes and

Fukuoka University aims at producing graduates who have an accurate The Extension Center is designed to fulfill two objectives: to provide understanding of and deep insight into modern society, intelligence and opportunities for lifelong learning, not only for our current students but sensitivity, a sense of social responsibility and a broad perspective on life. also for our alumni and other members of the community; and to make our For this reason, all of our students are required to take general education intellectual resources available to the local community. The Center offers courses. The courses are divided into the fields of humanities, natural two programs: the Extension Course, which is mainly for our enrolled or sciences, foreign languages and physical education, and credited courses registered students preparing for qualifying examinations or trying to taken at other universities. The Center manages the courses of humanities, improve their practical skills, and the Fukuoka University Extension natural sciences and physical education, and conducts related research. College, which offers extensive opportunities for lifelong learning and is open to local citizens, including alumni.

Language Education and Research Center Center for Experimental Animals The Language Education and Research Center is designed to provide our The Center for Experimental Animals is composed of about 30 breeding students with language education as a part of their general education rooms in which ten species of animals including rats, mice and dogs are program, and to improve their cross-cultural communication ability. The kept, an operating room, a laboratory and a tissue culture room. This fully Center develops and organizes language education programs, and conduct equipped Center is used by the Faculty of Medicine and other faculties for studies and research on language education. The Center is equipped with purposes of research, education and training for surgical skills. Recently, education research facilities, such as small and large audiovisual rooms, many experiments are conducted using transgenic mice and rats for self-study rooms and an editorial office, in addition to Computer-Assisted research on the functional analysis of genes and related research. Language Learning (CALL) classrooms in Building 7 and A-Building.

Teaching Profession Course Education Center Health Care Center

The Teaching Profession Course Education Center supports students who All university students take an annual health examination at the Health wish to become teachers in obtaining teaching certificates at their gradua- Care Center, which also offers other medical examinations. Services tion by providing them with programs intended to acquire the abilities and provided at this Center include health consultation, advice for the over- knowledge required of teachers. The Center also provides assistance to weight, emergency first aid, medication provision and BP measurement, students who desire certification as Museum Curators and Social Educa- greatly contributing to the prevention and early detection of disease. tion Directors. The Center also serves as a clinic, offering medical services in internal medicine for students and staff. Depending on individual specifics, patients may be referred to external medical institutions.

Center for International Programs Radioisotope Center The Center for International Programs is mainly engaged in administrative The Radioisotope Center provides support for academic research involving procedures for students planning to study at one of our sister universities radioisotopes, and includes the Experimental Facility at the Center and and for overseas students planning to study at Fukuoka University. The the Radioisotope Facility in the Medical School. Both facilities are highly Center also provides advice and information to students who wish to study secure, and incorporate a measurement room equipped with highly-ad- abroad independently and offers support to overseas students so that they vanced radioisotope instrumentation as well as laboratories and a room for can make the most of their time at the University. animal experimentation. All people handling radioisotopes receive periodic training and health checks. The facilities are not only used for educational purposes, but also for advanced research in the field.

Career Center Environmental Protection Center

The staff of the Career Center host events related to career opportunities The Environmental Protection Center was established to minimize the and placement, as well as providing employment information, vocational environmental impact of educational, research and medical activities at the guidance, support in applying for internships, and other services. Through University, to ensure the safety of the local environment for students and a variety of services and an intensive support system centered on university staff as well as for the people of the local community, and to one-on-one consultation, the Center helps students choose future career contribute to the preservation of the natural environment. The staff paths tailored to their individual aptitudes and abilities. members are dedicated to the carrying out of tasks related to environmental preservation.

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Teaching Profession Course Education Center Health Care Center

Career Center Environmental Protection Center

50 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 51 Educational Facilities Institutes and Other Facilities 60th Anniversary Memorial Hall (Helios Plaza) Educational Facilities Institutes and Helios Plaza is a multipurpose building completed in 1996 to commemorate Humanities and Social Sciences Center Building the 60th anniversary of the University'’s founding. It houses a hamburger restaurant, a bookstore, an information plaza, a lobby, a hall, music prac- This high-rise building houses offices for the deans and teaching staff of tice rooms, an exhibition gallery, the student information center (NASIC), the Faculties of Humanities, Law and Economics, common research rooms, a Japanese-style room, a tea ceremony room and a conference room. The reference rooms and conference rooms, as well as a restaurant on the 16th Plaza is an oasis on the campus, providing a comfortable space where floor. On the first floor is Plaza 50, a popular place for students to gather students can meet, chat and relax, as well as participate in extracurricular and talk together freely. The lower building is a multipurpose facility activities. housing the University’s Educational Affairs Section, offices of the Faculties of Humanities, Law and Economics, the Center for General Education, the Language Education and Research Center, the Admissions Office, the Information Technology Center, the Central Research Institute Track and Field Stadium and the International Conference Room, which is equipped with audiovisual aids and a simultaneous interpretation system. One of the best facilities of its type at any Japanese university, the Stadium includes an all-weather eight-lane track with a circumference of 400 meters; facilities for shot put, javelin, hammer-throw, discus, high jump, triple jump and pole vaulting; equipment for photo-finish judgment A-Building and night illumination; and 1,036 roofed spectator seats. A-Building was completed in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the University’s foundation. With eight stories and a basement, the building houses 56 large and small classrooms, and affords students not only an ideal place to study but also a relaxing and open atmosphere with many light-filled and airy public spaces, including a lobby and lounge. Seminar House

The Seminar House is used for various purposes such as hosting seminars and study sessions during which teachers and students lodge together, as well as for holding small-scale professional society meetings and symposiums, and for carrying out international exchange activities.

Building 2

Constructed as part of the commemoration of the University’s 75th anniversary, the building has nine stories and one basement. It houses lecture rooms, seminar rooms, information processing classrooms, offices for the Yamanami-So teaching staff of the Faculty of Commerce, the Faculty of Commerce offices and meeting rooms. Yamanami-So is a hotel-style lodging facility owned by Fukuoka Universi- ty, under outsourced management. Located in Chojabaru, in the Handa highlands of Aso Kuju National Park, this three-story reinforced concrete building can be used by students, teachers, alumni and the general public.

Medical Information Center

The Medical Information Center is a diversified facility used for continuous provision of the latest and most accurate information to medical students, alumni and those involved in medical services. This Center houses the Medicine Library, a PC room for accessing medical information, a specimen exhibition room, seminar rooms and study rooms for 6th-year students, and other facilities. Available here is a system that gives users immediate access to up-to-the-moment medical data vital for staff and students of the Faculty of Medicine, which was created to produce responsible clinicians.

52 53 Educational Facilities Institutes and Other Facilities 60th Anniversary Memorial Hall (Helios Plaza) Educational Facilities Institutes and Helios Plaza is a multipurpose building completed in 1996 to commemorate Humanities and Social Sciences Center Building the 60th anniversary of the University'’s founding. It houses a hamburger restaurant, a bookstore, an information plaza, a lobby, a hall, music prac- This high-rise building houses offices for the deans and teaching staff of tice rooms, an exhibition gallery, the student information center (NASIC), the Faculties of Humanities, Law and Economics, common research rooms, a Japanese-style room, a tea ceremony room and a conference room. The reference rooms and conference rooms, as well as a restaurant on the 16th Plaza is an oasis on the campus, providing a comfortable space where floor. On the first floor is Plaza 50, a popular place for students to gather students can meet, chat and relax, as well as participate in extracurricular and talk together freely. The lower building is a multipurpose facility activities. housing the University’s Educational Affairs Section, offices of the Faculties of Humanities, Law and Economics, the Center for General Education, the Language Education and Research Center, the Admissions Office, the Information Technology Center, the Central Research Institute Track and Field Stadium and the International Conference Room, which is equipped with audiovisual aids and a simultaneous interpretation system. One of the best facilities of its type at any Japanese university, the Stadium includes an all-weather eight-lane track with a circumference of 400 meters; facilities for shot put, javelin, hammer-throw, discus, high jump, triple jump and pole vaulting; equipment for photo-finish judgment A-Building and night illumination; and 1,036 roofed spectator seats. A-Building was completed in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the University’s foundation. With eight stories and a basement, the building houses 56 large and small classrooms, and affords students not only an ideal place to study but also a relaxing and open atmosphere with many light-filled and airy public spaces, including a lobby and lounge. Seminar House

Building 2

Medical Information Center

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Fukuoka University Hospital Ohori Junior High School

Following the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine in 1972, the A junior high school for students aged 13‒15 and a year, students study in an improved environment Hospital was opened in August 1973. The Hospital consists of seven university affiliate, Ohori Junior High School was offered by the new school building. Furthermore, founded in 1996 on the campus of Ohori High from the 2011 academic year, the school has buildings: the Main Building, the New Building, the West Annex, the School, thus enabling students to complete their become a co-educational school. Emergency Center, the Day Care Center, and the Training Center A- and six years of secondary education via an integrated B-Buildings. Together, they have a total floor space of 90,216.54 square program on a single campus. Adapting its meters. A total staff of about 1,988, comprised of 470 physicians, 79 educational objectives to the times, the school clinical trainees, 1,005 nurses, 267 co-medical staff and 167 other staff, places the highest priority on the cultivation of character, international mindedness, intelligence provide advanced medical treatment to an average of 1,270 outpatients and sensitivity while pursuing enjoyable and per day, and 915 beds are available for in-patient care. Over 8,500 fulfilling school lives, and encourages the free and surgeries are performed at the Hospital every year. Since its foundation, unconstrained activity of students. The educational the Hospital has continued to make every effort to improve its technolo- objectives of the school form the foundation of daily study, club and extracurricular activities and gies, equipment and organization to provide better care and thereby overseas study tours. From the 2010 academic contribute to the local community. Most outpatients have been transferred to the Organ Center in the New Building, which is directly connected to the Fukudai-mae station of the Nanakuma subway line. In-patient facilities were established in the Perinatal and Mother/Child Medical Center, Ohori High School the Pediatric Medical Center, the Heart Center and the Digestive Tract Center. Adjacent to it is the Medical Hall, with seating for 300, while the A high school for students aged 16‒18 and a are participating in nationwide championship Medical Fitness room is situated on the basement level, providing an university affiliate, Ohori High School was founded competitions, and the all-male cheerleading club, in 1951 and espoused the provision of a moral the only one of its kind in Japan, is attracting a lot integrated approach to health, nutrition, pharmaceutical creation and education in its founding spirit. The school is of attention. medicine. dedicated to cultivating students’ all-round abilities and character. Students have responded to this by The junior and senior high school’s new main The Hospital’s medical departments are as follows: Oncology, Hematology displaying remarkable achievements in not only the building and gymnasium was completed in February and Infectious Disease, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Cardiology, Gastro- academic, but also cultural and sports spheres. As 2010 as part of activities to celebrate the 75th a result, the school is widely recognized by the anniversary of Fukuoka University and the 60th enterology, Pulmonary Medicine, Nephrology and Rheumatology, Neurolo- local community as an educational institution anniversary of Ohori High School. From the 2012 gy and Health Management, Psychiatrics, Pediatrics, Gastrointestinal emphasizing the intellectual, emotional, ethical and academic year the school has become a Surgery, Thoracic/Mammary Gland and Endocrine/Pediatric Surgery, physical development of its students through co-educational school. Orthopedics, Plastic Surgery, Neurosurgery, Cardiovascular Surgery, academic and sporting activities. Scholastically, classes are formed according to the students’ Dermatology, Urology, Obstetrics-Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryn- future course, and every spring a large percentage gology, Radiology, Anesthesiology, and Dental and Oral Surgery. of Ohori graduates are admitted to prestigious universities. Extracurricular activities are a dynamic part of school life. Sports clubs include basketball, baseball, volleyball, judo and kendo Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital (Japanese fencing), while cultural clubs include brass band, the school newspaper, biology, art, calligraphy and igo (Japanese chess). Many clubs The new hospital, an aseismic nine-story reinforced concrete structure with a total floor area of 26,016 square meters, was opened on 7 May 2013. It is licensed for 310 beds and 21 medical departments. It is equipped for intensive care, including Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Stroke Wakaba High School Care Unit (SCU), and High Care Unit (HCU) facilities, providing even more advanced medical care. The new pediatrics wing provides improved Fukuoka University Wakaba High School, whose future; it also fosters a sense of purpose in service to the region as a core pediatrics hospital for emergency care. forerunner was Kyushu Women’s High School, has learning at university, thereby enhancing personal Hospital capabilities are further enhanced by the Respiratory Disease strived since its founding to foster talented growth. Under its school slogan “Determination, graduates who can contribute to society. As a high Integrity, Courtesy,” Wakaba High School aims to Center, the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, the Cerebral Embolism school attached to Fukuoka University, since 1 produce individuals who can contribute to social Center, Outpatient Chemotherapy Treatment Room and the Rehabilitation April 2010 Wakaba High School has been development with a spirit of enterprise. Center. implementing an ideal high school-university combined education system. The Hospital’s medical departments are as follows: Internal Medicine, Wakaba High School’s combined education system Cardiology, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Respiratory Disease, programs include: creating “educational portfolios,” Gastroenterology, Pediatrics, Surgery, Digestive Surgery, Respiratory commitment to assignments and participation in Surgery, Orthopedics, Rheumatology, Neurosurgery, Dermatology, Urology, lectures provided by Fukuoka University. This Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, Radiology, Emergency Treatment, system is designed to enable learning in many fields through active student participation in Anesthesiology, Rehabilitation and Clinical Pathology. extracurricular activities with an eye toward the

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Fukuoka University Hospital Ohori Junior High School

54 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 55 Affiliated Schools School of Japanese Language and Culture for International Students International Student Admissions StudentInternational Admissions This course is designed for international students hoping to enter undergraduate or postgraduate programs at Fukuoka University, or other Admissions to Fukuoka University are in April every year, and the academic year begins the same month. The great majority of classes are held in Japanese and thus a sufficient command of the language is essential. universities in Japan. It includes not only Japanese language, but also provides a useful understanding of Japanese culture and daily life, as well A variety of documentation is required to apply for admission, some of which must be obtained from your as helping students master the academic skills they will need to pursue homeland. We urge to you begin preparation well in advance and ensure sufficient time to obtain the necessary documents. their studies effectively. The course was newly established in April 2012.

Classes on Japanese language and culture are included in a diverse curriculum, and because the course is offered on-campus students can take Undergraduate Faculties advantage of university facilities including library and cafeterias. Faculties and departments open to international students A variety of financial assistance programs are available for this course, Faculty Department Faculty Department including various scholarships and assistance for admission, assistance in Culture Applied Mathematics History Science Applied Physics locating inexpensive student housing, and other support essential in Japanese Language and Literature Chemistry Education and Clinical Psychology Earth System Science enjoying a productive and meaningful student life. Humanities English Mechanical Engineering German Electrical Engineering French Electronics Engineering and East Asian Studies Engineering Computer Science Chemical Engineering Jurisprudence Civil Engineering Law Business Law Architecture Economics Medicine Medicine Economics Industrial Economics Commerce Pharmaceutical Sciences Pharmaceutics Commerce Business Management Sports Science Tokyo Oﬃce International Trade Sports and Health Science Health and Exercise Science The Tokyo Office handles the following: 1. External affairs involving government agencies, education-related Admission examination schedule Humanities, Law, Economics, Commerce, Science, Engineering, organizations, etc. Faculty 2. Collection of corporate and employment information, surveys on Medicine, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sports and Health Science employment trends, introduction of graduates to prospective employers, Application submission period 24 Nov. to 4 Dec. 2015 and employment consulting and assistance, based on visits to employers Examination date 30 Jan. 2016 in the Tokyo region. Results announcement date 23 Feb. 2016 3. Hosting alumni reunions and networking in the Tokyo metropolitan Deadline for admission fee payment 2 March 2016 region, primarily through the Yushinkai Fukuoka University alumni Deadline for admission procedure completion 23 March 2016 public corporation. Financial Assistance Fukuoka University has financial assistance programs designed to provide financial support for international Harbin Branch Oﬃce, China undergraduate students with superior performance but who face financial difficulty.

This office was established in August 2009 as the University’s first 1. Fukuoka University tuition fee reduction program for international students overseas branch. Harbin is the capital of Heilongjiang Province, controlling ・Applicability: All international undergraduate students eight districts, four prefectural-level cities and seven prefectures. It has ・Description: Tuition fee is reduced by 30% (and by an additional 20% for students with superior GPA) ・Remarks: Recipients will be decided based on attendance, GPA, financial status and other factors. also been designated as a sub-provincial city, and is situated in the central ２． Fukuoka University scholarship program for self-supporting international students southern region of the province, along the Songhua River flowing north ・Applicability: All international undergraduate students into the Amur River. This region was the birthplace of the Qing dynasty of ・Monthly allowance: 20,000 yen ・Assistance period: One year ancient China. The construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway at the end ・Number of recipients: 25 maximum (no more than 15 to be freshmen) of the 19th century supported major population growth in the region, and ・Remarks: Recipients will be decided based on international student admission examination results (for 1st year), today Harbin is home to a host of leading engineering universities including and GPA (for 2nd year and above), character, financial status and other factors. ３． Fukuoka University scholarship program for international undergraduate students from specified Asian regions the Harbin Institute of Technology, the Harbin University of Science and ・Applicability: All international undergraduate students who are citizens of Asian nations, excluding East Asia Technology, and the Harbin Engineering University. ・Monthly allowance: 20,000 yen ・Assistance period: One year ・Number of recipients: 3 maximum To increase recognition of Fukuoka University in northeastern China, ・Remarks: Recipients will be decided based on international student admission examination results (for 1st year), which is home to so many of our foreign students, the office is engaged in a and GPA (for 2nd year and above), character, financial status and other factors. range of promotional activities in the city and surrounding regions. By The University also recommends candidates to various foundations providing scholarships. helping to forge new inter-university exchange agreements and ensure a stable supply of high-level foreign students, as well as promoting personal For more information on application qualifications, tuition, and related matters, contact: Center for International Programs, Fukuoka University exchange and cooperation in education and research, the office continues to 8-19-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan advance the University’s international performance. Tel: +81-92-871-6631 Email: [email protected]

56 57 Affiliated Schools School of Japanese Language and Culture for International Students International Student Admissions StudentInternational Admissions This course is designed for international students hoping to enter undergraduate or postgraduate programs at Fukuoka University, or other Admissions to Fukuoka University are in April every year, and the academic year begins the same month. The great majority of classes are held in Japanese and thus a sufficient command of the language is essential. universities in Japan. It includes not only Japanese language, but also provides a useful understanding of Japanese culture and daily life, as well A variety of documentation is required to apply for admission, some of which must be obtained from your as helping students master the academic skills they will need to pursue homeland. We urge to you begin preparation well in advance and ensure sufficient time to obtain the necessary documents. their studies effectively. The course was newly established in April 2012.

56 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 57 International StudentInternational Admissions StudentInternational Admissions Graduate Schools Institute for Legal Practice Graduate school programs open to international students ■ Graduate school programs open to international students Graduate School Field of study Graduate School Field of study Graduate School Field of study Institute for Legal Practice Legal Practice (JD) History (MA, PhD) Mechanical Engineering (MS) Japanese Language and Literature (MA, PhD) Electrical Engineering (MS) ■ Application qualiﬁcations Humanities English Language and Literature (MA, PhD) Electronics and Computer Science (MS) Persons who have graduated, or are expected to graduate, from university, and who will take the uniform national German Language and Literature (MA, PhD) Chemical Engineering (MS) admission examination for the Institute for the appropriate academic year. Engineering French Language and Literature (MA, PhD) Architecture and Civil Engineering (MS) International students who wish to take the admission examinations must contact the Institute for Legal Practice Socio-Cultural Studies (MA) Energy and Environment Systems (PhD) before submitting their applications. Qualifications may be evaluated on an individual basis. In the event an Information and Control Systems (PhD) applicant passes the examination but does not fulfill the requisite conditions by the designated date, admission Public Law (MA, PhD) shall be denied. Law Recycling and Eco-Technology (MS) Civil and Criminal Law (MA, PhD) Human Biology (PhD) ■ Admission examination schedule Economics Economics (MA, PhD) Regulatory Biology (PhD) Deadline for Application Results Deadline for admission Deadline for admission Schedule notiﬁcation submission period Examination date announcement date fee payment procedure completion Commerce Commerce (MA, PhD) Pathomorphology (PhD) Medical Sciences A 17 July 2015 17‒24 Aug. 2015 5 Sept. 2015 18 Sept. 2015 28 Sept. 2015 29 Feb. 2016 Pathological Biodynamics (PhD) 28 Sept. to S 4 Sept. 2015 17 Oct. 2015 28 Oct. 2015 6 Nov. 2015 29 Feb. 2016 Applied Mathematics (MS, PhD) Social Medicine and Environmental Health (PhD) 5 Oct. 2015 Applied Physics (MS, PhD) Science Frontier Medical Sciences (PhD) B 27 Nov. 2015 12‒18 Jan. 2016 30 Jan. 2016 12 Feb. 2016 19 Feb. 2016 29 Feb. 2016 Chemistry (MS, PhD) Sports and Sports and Health Science (MS, PhD) Earth System Science (MS, PhD) Health Science For more information, contact: Institute for Legal Practice Administration Office, Fukuoka University 8-19-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan Admission examination schedule Tel: +81-92-871-6631 Email: [email protected] ■ Fall admission examinations (for international students already enrolled in Fukuoka University) Deadline for Deadline for Application submission Announcement Graduate School Examination date admission admission deadline of results fee payment procedure completion Humanities (MA) 7 Sept. 2015 Law (MA) 8 Sept. 2015 Economics (MA) 7 Sept. 2015 Commerce (MA) 21 to 23 July 2015 8 Sept. 2015 24 Sept. 2015 13 Oct. 2015 23 March 2016 Science (MS) 4 Sept. 2015 Engineering (MS, PhD) 8 Sept. 2015 Sports and Health Science (MS, PhD) 7 Sept. 2015

■ Spring admission examinations (for all international students) Deadline for Deadline for Application submission Announcement Graduate School Examination date admission admission deadline of results fee payment procedure completion Humanities (MA, PhD) 22 Feb. 2016 Persons outside Law (MA, PhD) 23 Feb. 2016 Japan: 13 Oct. 2015 Economics (MA, PhD) 22 Feb. 2016 Commerce (MA, PhD) 23 Feb. 2016 Students enrolled in 10 March 2016 18 March 2016 23 March 2016 Science (MS, PhD) 22 Feb. 2016 Fukuoka University, Engineering (MS, PhD) 23 Feb. 2016 persons in Japan: Medical Sciences (PhD) 24 Feb. 2016 8 to 10 Dec. 2015 Sports and Health Science (MS, PhD) 24 Feb. 2016

Financial Assistance Fukuoka University offers programs designed to provide financial assistance to international graduate students with superior GPA but who face financial difficulty, including the Fukuoka University tuition fee reduction program for international students and the Fukuoka University scholarship program for self-supporting international students. In addition, the University recommends candidates to various foundations and other organizations providing scholarships. For more information on application qualifications, tuition and related matters, contact: Graduate School Administration Office, Fukuoka University 8-19-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan Tel: +81-92-871-6631 Email: [email protected]

58 59 International StudentInternational Admissions StudentInternational Admissions Graduate Schools Institute for Legal Practice Graduate school programs open to international students ■ Graduate school programs open to international students Graduate School Field of study Graduate School Field of study Graduate School Field of study Institute for Legal Practice Legal Practice (JD) History (MA, PhD) Mechanical Engineering (MS) Japanese Language and Literature (MA, PhD) Electrical Engineering (MS) ■ Application qualiﬁcations Humanities English Language and Literature (MA, PhD) Electronics and Computer Science (MS) Persons who have graduated, or are expected to graduate, from university, and who will take the uniform national German Language and Literature (MA, PhD) Chemical Engineering (MS) admission examination for the Institute for the appropriate academic year. Engineering French Language and Literature (MA, PhD) Architecture and Civil Engineering (MS) International students who wish to take the admission examinations must contact the Institute for Legal Practice Socio-Cultural Studies (MA) Energy and Environment Systems (PhD) before submitting their applications. Qualifications may be evaluated on an individual basis. In the event an Information and Control Systems (PhD) applicant passes the examination but does not fulfill the requisite conditions by the designated date, admission Public Law (MA, PhD) shall be denied. Law Recycling and Eco-Technology (MS) Civil and Criminal Law (MA, PhD) Human Biology (PhD) ■ Admission examination schedule Economics Economics (MA, PhD) Regulatory Biology (PhD) Deadline for Application Results Deadline for admission Deadline for admission Schedule notiﬁcation submission period Examination date announcement date fee payment procedure completion Commerce Commerce (MA, PhD) Pathomorphology (PhD) Medical Sciences A 17 July 2015 17‒24 Aug. 2015 5 Sept. 2015 18 Sept. 2015 28 Sept. 2015 29 Feb. 2016 Pathological Biodynamics (PhD) 28 Sept. to S 4 Sept. 2015 17 Oct. 2015 28 Oct. 2015 6 Nov. 2015 29 Feb. 2016 Applied Mathematics (MS, PhD) Social Medicine and Environmental Health (PhD) 5 Oct. 2015 Applied Physics (MS, PhD) Science Frontier Medical Sciences (PhD) B 27 Nov. 2015 12‒18 Jan. 2016 30 Jan. 2016 12 Feb. 2016 19 Feb. 2016 29 Feb. 2016 Chemistry (MS, PhD) Sports and Sports and Health Science (MS, PhD) Earth System Science (MS, PhD) Health Science For more information, contact: Institute for Legal Practice Administration Office, Fukuoka University 8-19-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan Admission examination schedule Tel: +81-92-871-6631 Email: [email protected] ■ Fall admission examinations (for international students already enrolled in Fukuoka University) Deadline for Deadline for Application submission Announcement Graduate School Examination date admission admission deadline of results fee payment procedure completion Humanities (MA) 7 Sept. 2015 Law (MA) 8 Sept. 2015 Economics (MA) 7 Sept. 2015 Commerce (MA) 21 to 23 July 2015 8 Sept. 2015 24 Sept. 2015 13 Oct. 2015 23 March 2016 Science (MS) 4 Sept. 2015 Engineering (MS, PhD) 8 Sept. 2015 Sports and Health Science (MS, PhD) 7 Sept. 2015

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■University organization ■History

Undergraduate Faculties Fukuoka University traces its origins back to 1934 when Fukuoka Higher Commercial School was Humanities established under the prewar education system. It was renamed Kyushu College of Economics in 1944, Law and two years later it became Fukuoka College of Economics. In 1949, as part of the restructured Economics postwar education system, it was reestablished as Fukuoka College of Commerce. Finally, when the Commerce Commerce Evening School Faculty of Law and Economics was established at the college in 1956, its name was changed to Fukuoka Science University. Since then, Fukuoka University has become one of the largest universities in western Japan, Engineering adding new faculties and graduate schools as shown in the charts. Medicine Pharmaceutical Sciences Sports and Health Science Undergraduate Faculties Graduate Schools 1949 Commerce 1965 Law Graduate Schools Economics Humanities 1959 Law Law Economics 1968 Commerce Economics (Reorganized from the Faculty of Law & Economics) Pharmaceutical Sciences Commerce 1970 Engineering Science 1960 Pharmaceutical Sciences Engineering 1962 Engineering 1976 Science Medical Sciences 1978 Medical Sciences Pharmaceutical Sciences 1969 Humanities Sports and Health Science Physical Education 1982 Humanities Institute for Legal Practice (Law School) 1970 Science 1990 Physical Education 1972 Medicine Educational Facilities and Institutes 2003 Sports and Health Science (Reorganized from the Graduate School of Physical Education) 1998 Sports and Health Science University Libraries (Reorganized from the Faculty of Physical Education) 2004 Institute for Legal Practice (Law School) Central Research Institute Central Research Organization - 8 Research Institutes Academia Industry and Government Collaborative Research Organization - 12 Research Institutes Academic, Industrial and Governmental Liaison Center Intellectual Property Center

Institute for the Development and Support of Higher Education Information Technology Center Admissions Office Center for General Education Language Education and Research Center Teaching Profession Course Education Center Center for International Programs Career Center Extension Center Center for Experimental Animals Health Care Center Radioisotope Center Environmental Protection Center

Special Course School of Japanese Language and Culture for International Students

Fukuoka University Hospital Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital

Ohori High School Ohori Junior High School Wakaba High School

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■University organization ■History

Special Course School of Japanese Language and Culture for International Students

Fukuoka University Hospital Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital

Ohori High School Ohori Junior High School Wakaba High School

60 FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY GUIDE 2015－2016 61 Fukuoka University Facts Figures and Fukuoka University Facts Figures and (As of 1 May 2015) ■Student Enrollment (Number of women shown in parentheses) ■International Students Undergraduate Faculties Graduate Schools MA MS PhD JD Total (As of 1 May 2015) By Country or Region (Number of women shown in parentheses) Humanities 2,430（1,724） Humanities 85（51） 28（13） 113（ 64） Graduate school students School of Law 2,769（1,010） Law 1 8（ 7） 3（ 0） 2 1（ 7） Under- Research Country or region Exchange Japanese Total Graduate Master’s Doctoral Law Students students Students Language Economics 2,829（ 816） Economics 34（19） 1 0（ 4） 4 4（ 23） course course School and Culture Commerce 2,887（1,268） Commerce 28（15） 8（ 5） 3 6（ 20） China 75（30） 58（37） 16 [1]（ 9） 22（15） 12（10） 58（44） 241 [1]（145）

Commerce Evening School 759（ 167） Science 81（16） 4（ 2） 8 5（ 18） Korea 1 3（ 2） 1 [1]（ 1） 1 3（ 7） 5（ 1） 32 [1]（ 11） Science 1,063（ 319） Engineering 150（19） 12（1） 162（ 20） Taiwan 2（ 0） 1（ 1） 4（ 4） 1（ 1） 8 （ 6） Engineering 2,985（ 362） Medical Sciences 3（ 2） 118（37） 121（ 39） Hong Kong 1（ 0） 1 （ 0）

Medicine 1,115（ 656） Pharmaceutical Sciences 3（ 2） 1 7（ 5） 2 0（ 7） Indonesia 1（ 0） 1（ 1） 1（ 1） 3 （ 2）

Pharmaceutical Sciences 1,507（1,049） Sports and Health Science 2 5（ 9） 1 2（ 4） 3 7（ 13） Vietnam 1（ 0） 1（ 1） 2 （ 1） Sports and Health Science 1,267（ 392） Institute for Legal Practice 24（11） 2 4（ 11） Malaysia 1（ 0） 1 （ 0） Total 19,611（7,763） Total 165（92） 262（48） 212（71） 24（11） 663（222） Bangladesh 1（ 1） 1 （ 1） UK 1（ 0） 1 （ 0） 2（ 2） 4 （ 2） France 4（ 2） 4 （ 2） ■Alumni (As of 31 March 2015) Germany 1（ 0） 1 （ 0） Undergraduate Faculties Graduate Schools Bulgaria 1（ 0） 1 （ 0） Humanities 15,032 Humanities 911 Finland 1（ 1） 1 （ 1） Law 41,832 Law 439 USA 1 （ 1） 1 （ 1） Economics 44,424 Economics 737 Total 94（32） 60（39） 19 [2]（11） 0 24（16） 39（27） 65（47） 301 [2]（172） Commerce 50,554 Commerce 685 Total for research students includes one student dispatched from Kyushu University. Commerce Evening School 13,495 Science 1,165 Numbers in brackets indicate international students on national scholarships. Science 8,122 Engineering 1,596

(As of 1 May 2015) Engineering 32,529 Medical Sciences 712 By Faculty or School (Number of women shown in parentheses) Medicine 4,415 Pharmaceutical Sciences 905 Graduate school students School of Under- Research Faculty or School Exchange Japanese Total Pharmaceutical Sciences 10,275 Sports and Health Science 377 Graduate Master’s Doctoral Law Students students Language Students course course School and Culture Sports and Health Science 10,222 Institute for Legal Practice (Law School) 145 Humanities 1 0（ 6） 6（ 6） 3（ 3） 33（24） 52 （ 39） Sub-total 230,900 Sub-total 7,672 Law 4（ 4） 2（ 1） 2（ 2） 8 （ 7） Institutions prior to Fukuoka University 10,332 Economics 1 2（ 4） 29（19） 8 [1]（ 4） 9（ 6） 58 [1]（ 33） Alumni Total 248,904 Commerce 52（17） 14（11） 6 [1]（ 5） 9（ 6） 4（ 1） 85 [1]（ 40） Science 1（ 0） 1（ 0） 1（ 0） 3 （ 0）

Engineering 1 4（ 1） 8（ 2） 1 （ 0） 1（ 0） 24 （ 3）

Medical Sciences 1（ 0） 4 （ 2） 1（ 1） 6 （ 3）

Pharmaceutical Sciences 0 （ 0） Sports and Health Sciences 0 （ 0）

Law School 0 （ 0）

School of Japanese Language and Culture 65（47） 65 （ 47）

Total 94（32） 60（39） 19 [2]（11） 0 24（16） 39（27） 65（47） 301 [2]（172）

Total for research students includes one student dispatched from Kyushu University. Numbers in brackets indicate international students on national scholarships.

62 63 Fukuoka University Facts Figures and Fukuoka University Facts Figures and (As of 1 May 2015) ■Student Enrollment (Number of women shown in parentheses) ■International Students Undergraduate Faculties Graduate Schools MA MS PhD JD Total (As of 1 May 2015) By Country or Region (Number of women shown in parentheses) Humanities 2,430（1,724） Humanities 85（51） 28（13） 113（ 64） Graduate school students School of Law 2,769（1,010） Law 1 8（ 7） 3（ 0） 2 1（ 7） Under- Research Country or region Exchange Japanese Total Graduate Master’s Doctoral Law Students students Students Language Economics 2,829（ 816） Economics 34（19） 1 0（ 4） 4 4（ 23） course course School and Culture Commerce 2,887（1,268） Commerce 28（15） 8（ 5） 3 6（ 20） China 75（30） 58（37） 16 [1]（ 9） 22（15） 12（10） 58（44） 241 [1]（145）

Medicine 1,115（ 656） Pharmaceutical Sciences 3（ 2） 1 7（ 5） 2 0（ 7） Indonesia 1（ 0） 1（ 1） 1（ 1） 3 （ 2）

Engineering 1 4（ 1） 8（ 2） 1 （ 0） 1（ 0） 24 （ 3）

Medical Sciences 1（ 0） 4 （ 2） 1（ 1） 6 （ 3）

Pharmaceutical Sciences 0 （ 0） Sports and Health Sciences 0 （ 0）

Law School 0 （ 0）

School of Japanese Language and Culture 65（47） 65 （ 47）

Total 94（32） 60（39） 19 [2]（11） 0 24（16） 39（27） 65（47） 301 [2]（172）

Total for research students includes one student dispatched from Kyushu University. Numbers in brackets indicate international students on national scholarships.

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Associate Senior Assistant Research Total Faculties Teaching Staﬀ Professors professors lecturers lecturers assistants Note: Screening fees are 50,000 yen for the Faculty of Medicine, and 30,000 for other faculties (Unit: yen) Humanities, Law, Pharmaceutical Sports and Humanities 86（12） 3 3（ 8） 8（ 1） 127（ 21） Fees Science, Engineering Medicine Economics, Commerce Sciences Health Science Law 2 3（ 3） 9（ 2） 4（ 2） 3 6（ 7） Admission fee 190,000 240,000 1,000,000 400,000 300,000

Economics 2 4（ 4） 1 0（ 1） 3 3 7（ 5） Tuition and other fees (annual) 840,000 1,280,000 8,600,000 1,590,000 1,060,000 Commerce 34 1 1（ 2） 2（ 2） 1 4 8（ 4） In second and following years ―― ―― 7,100,000 2,000,000 ―― Science 40 15 1 4 4（ 4） 6（ 5） 106（ 9） In fourth and following years ―― ―― 4,600,000 ―― ――

Engineering 5 3（ 1） 17 1 5 2（ 9） 2 0（ 4） 143（ 14） Note: The Faculties of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences are 6-year courses, and all other faculties are 4 years. In addition to the above, a special fee of 27,210 yen/year will be collected under consignment. Medicine 5 3（ 7） 35（14） 54（14） 72（22） 4（ 3） 218（ 60） Pharmaceutical Sciences 2 2（ 1） 15 8（ 3） 36（11） 5（ 2） 8 6（ 17） Graduate schools Note: Screening fees are 50,000 yen for the Graduate School of Medical Sciences and 30,000 for other Graduate Schools (Unit: yen) Sports and Health Science 22 3（ 1） 6（ 1） 1 5（ 1） 1 0（ 6） 5 6（ 9） Master’s course Institute for Legal Practice 1 1（ 2） 1 1 1 3（ 2） Fees Humanities, Law, Economics, Commerce Science, Engineering Sports and Health Science Fukuoka University Hospital 5 1 1（ 2） 5 5（ 6） 93（21） 180（58） 344（ 87） Admission fee 200,000 240,000 240,000 Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital 12 11 1 9（ 1） 3 6（ 8） 59（18） 137（ 27） Tuition and other fees (annual) 590,000 770,000 700,000 Language Education and Research Center, Others 6（ 1） 1 0（ 1） 31（18） 2 1（ 1） 5 0（ 21）

Total 391（31） 181（31） 192（48） 351（76） 286（97） 1,401（283） Doctoral course Fees Non-Teaching Staﬀ Humanities, Law, Economics, Commerce Science, Engineering, Medical sciences Sports and Health Science Fukuoka University 578（ 288） Admission fee 200,000 240,000 240,000

Fukuoka University Hospital 1,437（1,220） Tuition and other fees (annual) 520,000 700,000 640,000

Fukuoka University Chikushi Hospital 525（ 443） Note: The Master’s course is a 2-year course for all Graduate Schools, and the Doctoral course a 3-year course for all Graduate Schools except Medical Sciences, which is a 4-year course. Total 2,540（1,951） In addition to the above, a special fee of 18,600 yen/year will be collected under consignment.

Institute for Legal Practice ■International Teaching Staﬀ (As of 1 April 2015) Note: Examination fee is 15,000 yen. (Unit: yen) Associate Senior Assistant Research Country or region Professors professors lecturers lecturers assistants Total Fees Legal Practice

China 6 1 4 4 15 Admission fee 110,000 South Korea 1 2 2 5 Tuition and other fees (annual) 720,000 Taiwan 1 1 Note: The standard course is a 3-year course. In addition to the above, a special fee of 18,600 yen will be collected under consignment. Philippines 1 1 Thailand 1 1 Australia 1 1 3 5

New Zealand 1 1

UK 2 1 4 7

France 1 1

Germany 1 1 2

Belgium 1 1

Moldova 1 1

Spain 1 1

Ireland 1 1 USA 2 2 2 1 7 Canada 1 1

Total 16 7 20 8 0 51

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Fukuoka University Hospital 1,437（1,220） Tuition and other fees (annual) 520,000 700,000 640,000

New Zealand 1 1

UK 2 1 4 7

France 1 1

Germany 1 1 2

Belgium 1 1

Moldova 1 1

Spain 1 1

Ireland 1 1 USA 2 2 2 1 7 Canada 1 1

Total 16 7 20 8 0 51

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University of Ulsan 6 Dec. 1990 Newcastle University 28 June 1986

Pusan National University 4 Dec. 2000 UK University of Leeds 11 Dec. 1990

Ewha Womans University 4 Sept. 2001 University of Bath 8 June 2003

Dong-eui University 29 March 2002 University Paris Diderot-Paris7 21 Dec. 2006

Korea University 25 Oct. 2002 France Lyon Institute of Political Studies 20 Nov. 2012

Keimyung University 18 Dec. 2006 The University of Cergy-Pontoise 22 Nov. 2012

Korea University of Incheon 27 May 2010 Europe Catholic University of Louvain 25 June 1997 Belgium Dong-A University 2 June 2010 The University of Liege 1 July 2013

Dongseo University 29 June 2010 Germany Friedrich Schiller University of Jena 25 June 2009

Kyung Hee University 19 Aug. 2011 Italy University of Padova 24 July 2002

Pukyong National University 10 Apr. 2012 Turkey Pamukkale University 10 Aug. 2009

Dongguk University, Gyeongju 19 July 2013 Spain University of Valencia 22 Feb. 2011

Kookmin University 13 Nov. 2013 Finland University of Tampere 19 Apr. 2011

East China Normal University 30 Aug. 2000 Washburn University of Topeka 1 Oct. 1984

China University of Political Science and Law 9 July 2001 North and USA University of Kansas 9 Jan. 1988

Yangzhou University 21 Jan. 2002 South America Georgia Institute of Technology 31 July 1995

Yantai University 1 Aug. 2002 Brazil Federal University of Santa Catarina 11 Jan. 2002

Guangzhou University 22 June 2007 Asia and Oceania Central University of Finance and Economics 21 Nov. 2008

Northeast Forestry University 8 Apr. 2011 China Harbin Normal University 25 Apr. 2011

Heilongjiang University 28 Sept. 2011

Harbin University of Science and Technology 7 Sept. 2012

Harbin University of Commerce 8 Sept. 2012

Xi’an Jiaotong University 25 July 2013

Northwest University 23 Sept. 2013

National Judges College 13 Sept. 2005

Fu Jen Catholic University 30 May 2001 Taiwan National University of Kaohsiung 1 Apr. 2012

Philippines De La Salle University 9 Aug. 2002

Malaysia Sultan Idris Education University 17 May 2010

Gadjah Mada University 1 Feb. 2002 Indonesia Padjadjaran University 26 Oct. 2012

Hanoi University 29 Aug. 2013 Vietnam The University of DaNang 22 Oct. 2013

Nepal Tribhuvan University 12 Oct. 2001

Australia Griﬃth University 28 Nov. 1991

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