Information on faculties and graduate schools
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences/Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has over 100 teachers and about 2,500 students, and is Japan’s largest comprehensive faculty of humanities and social sciences. The four departments cover almost every field of humanities and social sciences and aim to foster educated persons/citizens with specialist knowledge in each field and, at the same time, a wide-ranging culture and well-rounded character.
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences was established to foster advanced professionals with a sense of internationality, regional characteristics, specialist skills and interdisciplinary abilities. As a new and full-scale graduate school of humanities and social sciences, the most advanced education is given in response to international and regional expectations.
Faculty of Education/ Graduate School of Education
Faculty of Education
The Faculty of Education has attained a presence deserving special mention on the national scale in terms of the ample number of teaching staff and content variety of the lessons.
The Teacher Training Course, which is attended by many students, trains mainly elementary school and junior high school teachers. What is required first of a teacher is the “lesson planning” skills. How can a teacher make a lesson interesting and easy-to-understand? This faculty cultivates the ability to teach in line with the level of understanding of students while deepening their knowledge of the taught content.
Graduate School of Education
The Graduate School of Education is for graduate students who once became teachers and want to thoroughly study education based of the knowledge mastered in the university, undergraduate students and current teachers. Trainees from overseas countries are increasing.
Faculty of Informatics/Graduate School of Informatics
Faculty of Informatics
The striking progress of information and communication technology has caused great changes in society. Among those changes are some big social issues. To harmonize information technology with society and mankind, it is socially required to study in an interdisciplinary way while maintaining interactivity in the academic fields of “information technology” and “informational society and culture” that had conventionally been separated.
The Faculty of Informatics is a new faculty that was born in 1995 as the first “culture-technology fused faculty” at a national university.
Graduate School of Informatics
In order to solve the various problem that Japan and international society face in the sophisticated information-based age from the standpoint of the fusion of information science and technology and informational sociology, the Graduate School of Informatics aims to promote the academic sophistication of informatics and, at the same time, foster professionals required by society.
Faculty of Science/Graduate School of Science
Faculty of Science
The five departments of the faculty of Science -- namely, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biological Science and Geosciences -- are the so-called fields of pure science and are challenging the mystery of natural phenomena around us and fields of life, materials, space and mathematics.
Located in a rich natural environment that includes Mt. Fuji, the Southern Alps and Suruga Bay and having the Radiochemistry Research Laboratory, which is the core of radiation research in Japan, and many young excellent staff, the Faculty of Science of Shizuoka University provides a complete environment for learning the pure sciences.
Graduate School of Science
The Graduate School of Science provides specialty studies corresponding to the five basic sciences of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and radiogenics that form the foundation for the development of science and technology. This school intends to foster researchers who will be able to clarify the universal truths of the natural world seen in space, life, materials and mathematics by the power of scientific ideas, and return excellent results to applied scientific research and industrial activity.
Faculty of Engineering/Graduate School of Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Currently, the Faculty of Engineering is engaged in many international-level research and development projects, centered around the three pillars of “nano”, “photo” and “environment/energy,” in cooperation with outside research organizations and enterprises. The Nano-Vision Science Base Creation (21st Century COE) program is ongoing jointly with the Electronic Engineering Research Institute. As for the relation with the local area, a project related to manufacturing industry centered around transport machines and opt electronics industry is going on. Besides, a proposal from our university has been adopted by the “Area Regeneration Consortium” program of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry that aims at creating new industries and new business. Also, new industry-academic-government joint research has started.
Graduate School of Engineering
The school aims at fostering advanced researchers and technologists well-versed in state-of-the-art science and technology, with the realization of affluent prosperity for mankind via the harmonious coexistence of nature and science as its fundamental principles. In Shizuoka Prefecture, there are many venture companies and enterprises having unique technologies and products, centering on Hamamatsu City, and many studies and researches in cooperation between industry and academia that have direct relation with the real world are also carried out.
Faculty of Agriculture/Graduate School of Agriculture
Faculty of Agriculture
The Faculty of Agriculture is proud of its high level of research. The frequency of references to these biology and agriculture projects is top level in Japan and ranked top among all of the universities in 2005. Also in the industry-academic joint evaluation conducted in 2003 by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, an A+ evaluation was given abreast with Tokyo University and Nagoya University. In 2006, to make the best use of this power, a joint research space named the “Project Promotion Room” was newly installed on the school grounds. Offered as a rental lab, this is a facility where graduate students and researchers from private companies can do joint research and it is expected to be utilized as a core facility for collaboration with the local area.
Graduate School of Agriculture
The Graduate School of Agriculture aims to enhance education and research positioned as important pillars for bearing the environmental issue of the agricultural field in the 21st century. On the campus, a gene testing facility shared by the whole university and an instrument analysis center have been built, and state-of-the-art research equipment is introduced there. It can be said that a campus surrounded by rich nature is the optimum environment for studying agriculture.
Shizuoka Law School
School of Law
The School of Law designs the 3-year course curriculum specifically for those will study law for the first time so as to aggressively admit persons who have learned other subjects and well-experienced members of society. The school fosters professionals for legal affairs who can tie up with and learn from the local area, and shoulder the urban community.
Graduate School of Science and Technology
Graduate School of Science and Technology
The Graduate School of Science and Technology aims to develop advanced education specialized for the regional characteristics and modern needs of Shizuoka Prefecture, and to foster researchers and technical experts who have deep specialist knowledge, broad accomplishments to meet the needs of time and knowledge rich in internationality.
Unlike conventional graduate schools, the separation between the education system and research system enables the realization of a highly unique and unprecedented educational research activity in Japan.
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- Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Faculty of Education
- Graduate School of Education
- Faculty of Informatics
- Graduate School of Informatics
- Faculty of Science
- Graduate School of Science
- Faculty of Engineering
- Graduate School of Engineering
- Faculty of Agriculture
- Graduate School of Agriculture
- Shizuoka Law School
- Graduate School of Science and Technology
