Academic Programs

This department focuses on regional and global issues – especially those related to economics, the environment, and conflict. The department's goal is to understand and gain insight into international problems, and to offer appropriate policies and solutions requiring a global perspective. The education of our students reflects this, and as such, they are expected to study subjects in an interdisciplinary manner across four fields:

• International Relations
• International Business
• Global Studies (offered cross-departmentally)
• Global Tourism Studies (offered cross-departmentally)

This department aims at helping students cultivate ability related to fields of international relations so that they can cope with new situations emerging in the fluidized international community.

In these globalizing times when people, products and services circulate even more rapidly, we see many problems and conflicts arising between those variously separated by language, culture and religion. To overcome global issues and conflict, the department believes there is a need for a multiculturalism which enables people to engage and understand the world beyond their own shores. Accordingly, students study foreign languages and also the history, thought, art and religion of other nations to enable them to interact and integrate in an increasingly connected and complicated world. Students can select one of the following fields so that they can attain more expertise:

• International Culture
• International Communication
• Global Studies (offered cross-departmentally)
• Global Tourism Studies (offered cross-departmentally)