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The Graduate School of Environmental and Information Studies

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Educational goals and human resources to be developed

The Graduate School of Environmental and Information Studies aims to develop human resources who explore science, technologies and human nature in relation to the Environment, Information and Urban Life areas, as well as to develop human resources who contribute to the society with research, education and practice using expertise of these specialized areas.

Admission Policy

Master's Program

Purpose of Education, Research and Human Resource Development

The purpose of the Master’s Program is to develop human resources who have critical awareness to find out specific issues in the field of environment, information or urban life and are willing to struggle to solve these issues. For this purpose, we are inviting students who can share with us the following points of view.

Invited Personality

  1. Having sympathy with our philosophy of education
  2. Critical thinking about modern society
  3. International, future oriented and interdisciplinary points of view
  4. Practical mind for solving problems
  5. Communication ability with others
  6. Morality and ethical mind as a scientist

Doctoral Program

Purpose of Education, Research and Human Resource Development

The purpose of the Doctoral Program is to develop human resources who have profound insight and ambition to explore new academic areas in relation to environment, information or urban life from interdisciplinary broad perspective, and advanced research and teaching ability

Invited Personality

We invites students who have critical mind to the issues and problems on modern human society, research mind to seek practical resolutions in order to maintain sustainable society, and ambitious mind for exploring brand new academic field.

Curriculum Policy

Master's Program

Required Subjects

Students should take required subjects in order to complete master thesis under guidance and instruction by teachers of belonging laboratory.

Specialized Studies

Students should take subscribed number of “basic specialized subject” in order to acquire interdisciplinary broad knowledge, and also should take subscribed number of “specialized subject“ in order to understand more specialized knowledge of each study field.

General Common Subjects

Student should take some general common subjects in order to be a human resource with practical capability for success in the international society, and are required to make presentations including by English on your research.

Doctoral Program

Advanced Skills for Professionals

In order to be a professional researcher as well as a teacher and an academic member of the society, students are required to acquire various advanced skills in the circumstance of easily taking advices from any teachers in the graduate school.

Research for Doctoral Dissertation

Students are promoting and making progress of their doctoral research under consultation, guidance or instruction by professor and other teachers of their laboratory. Presentations of each semester are required.

Diploma Policy

Master's Program

Specialized Knowledge and Applicable Skills

Acquired the abilities of profound consideration with specialized knowledge for seeking practical resolutions on specific issues in the field of environment, information or urban life.

Abilities for Analysis and Planning

Acquired the abilities to find practical resolutions through scientific way of thinking, survey, investigation and analysis.

Communication Ability and Sense of Responsibility

Having potentialities for making more progress on research and practices with communication ability and sense of responsibility in order to contribute to international society.

Research Ethics

Having morality and ethical mind as a scientific researcher.

Doctoral Program

Advanced Capability for Scientific Research

Acquired the advanced and profound research capabilities in terms of to accomplish a specific research project, to integrate a consistent output, to apply to practical resolutions as well as to make contribution by accumulation of wisdom to the society.

Interdisciplinary Perspective

Acquired interdisciplinary broad capabilities in terms of to contribute to create brand new value through finding various issues with bird eye’s view and connecting them with advanced knowledge on environment, information or urban life.

Research Ethics

Having morality and ethical mind as a scientific researcher.

GIPS

The students with a strong interest in solving global scale issues, motivation to act as future innovators and leadership for collective impact are welcome to apply to GIPS. The Global Scale Innovator Program for Sustainable Society (GIPS) provides a trans-disciplinary innovator education program based on environmental and information studies. The program seeks to equip students with knowledge for solving issues and ethics, insights, backcasting method, systems thinking, perspective, strategic planning, and management capability in addition to high-level research skills.

The theme or methodology you can learn in GIPS

Short lecture in GIPS by Prof. Hom B. Rijal

Thermal Adaptation of Buildings and People for Energy Saving (Outline)

Lecture in GIPS by Prof. Hom B. Rijal

Thermal Adaptation of Buildings and People for Energy Saving

Short lecture in GIPS by Prof. Genku Kayo

Built Environment (Outline)

Lecture in GIPS by Prof. Genku Kayo

Built Environment

Short lecture in GIPS by Prof. Ryuzo Furukawa

Backcasting for the future society (Outline)

Lecture in GIPS by Prof. Ryuzo Furukawa

Backcasting for the future society