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Department of Education
Considering the purpose of education, the Department of Education is the core of the School of Education. In other words, any department cannot accomplish Waseda’s unique missions without the academic cooperation of the Department of Education. The Graduate School of Education shows this structure clearly. To approach challenges in the new era, students of the Department of Education analyze education based on various viewpoints and approaches, and technically, learn how to develop people and a healthy society, and how to build educational systems and policies for that purpose by focusing on this cooperative relationship.
The Department of Education provides four majors: Education Major, Adult and Community Education Major, Educational Psychology Major and Primary Education Major.
Top performers who want a higher education can attend the Graduate School of Education with recommendations.
The Education Major
The Education Major of the Department of Education forms the core of the School of Education.
Education has become increasingly complex in modern society. This trend makes the university subject, or discipline, of education more than a system of vocational knowledge and expertise to be acquired by students who wish to become teachers. Education today must make full use of philosophical, historical, psychological, sociological and administrative (both central and local government) approaches and insights in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The discipline of education is, thus, a process of elucidation from various angles, using various approaches and calling for a deep understanding of man's essential growth and development. The curriculum of this Major is founded on such considerations.
Students in the second year and above are required to take subjects, including experimental work and seminars inwhich they receive face-to-face individual instruction.
Social Education Major
This was the first Major in social education ever established in a Japanese university and it has developed its own individual character.
In order to encourage social educational activity centering on young people, women and adults and to study lifelong education, the curriculum is designed with the goal of supporting study and research in the theory and practice of all aspects of social education, comparative studies of social education, social education for women and the family,and educational engineering.
Educational Psychology Major
The characteristic of this major is that it covers broad areas of psychology. The Major, thus, covers general psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, clinical psychology, psychological and educational statistical methods, educational psychology, psychological measurement, and special education.
The students in the second year and above are required to take subjects, including experimental work and seminars in which they receive face-to-face individual instruction.
Primary Education Major
The main purpose of this major is to develop primary teachers. Elementary school is the starting point of education and a crucial time for young people. Nowadays, the educational world has a plethora of problems and challenges. To develop excellent primary teachers and to send them to the educational world are important tasks of Waseda University. The major aims are to develop teachers who can understand the developmental stages and personalities of children, conduct interesting classes, and develop well-rounded character and academic skills in children. For that purpose, students learn specific knowledge and skills about children’s minds and bodies and course instruction, and participate in volunteer activities in the university and teaching practices to improve clinical ability. Also, by selecting a subject of each special course in the Education Major, they can improve academic research ability, or acquire a teaching certificate for junior high school (for Japanese language, social studies, mathematics, science, or English language) to lift their skills for course instruction.
It is hoped that a high number of graduates participate actively in the educational world as primary teachers. Also, students who want to develop their skills further can go on to the Graduate School of Education or the Graduate School of Teacher Education.
Department of Japanese Language and Literature
The principal aim of this Department is to train Japanese language teachers for junior and senior high schools by giving its students a thorough knowledge of both Japanese linguistics and Japanese literature. The Department provides the courses necessary to educate students in (1) classical and contemporary literature; (2) Japanese linguistics (to deepen their understanding of the Japanese language); and (3) classical Chinese literature (which has greatly influenced Japanese literature). To train teachers who have a thorough knowledge of Japanese linguistics and literature, as well as individuals who can work in a wide range of education-related fields, the Department provides a wide range of specialized compulsory subjects to be studied starting in the first year.
The Department strives, by providing thorough guidance in small groups and establishing specialized subjects which encourage independent learning, to produce graduates with superior powers of thought and perception.
Department of English Language and Literature
The Department of English Language and Literature gives instruction in literature, linguistics and practical use of the language to meet the needs of students (1) who plan to teach English in secondary schools, (2) who plan to make use of their proficiency in English in careers in business, and (3) who plan to study language or literature at graduate school. The Department thus offers a curriculum (a) which aims to provide students with a communicative competence in English, (b) which includes courses ranging from those with a research orientation to those with a practical emphasis, and (c) which requires students to earn credits both from courses in literature and from those in linguistic analysis.
Department of Social Studies
This department consists of Geography and History Major and the Social Science Major. Both majors aim to develop human resources that can play a leading role in the general public. For that purpose, they provide a variety of fundamental studies about building an ideal society so that students can acquire high-level scholarship and judgment.
Geography and History Major
This major aims to enable students to study both geography and history and to acquire specialized knowledge based on the fundamentals of both areas.
The major provides courses on fundamental knowledge in both geography and history for first- and second-year students. Third- and fourth-year students are divided into geography and history groups to deepen their knowledge of their chosen field by means of seminars and practical training. For this purpose, students are required to choose from various elective subjects.
Social Science Major
This major aims to provide students with basic knowledge of social science and to enable them to pursue further study in some of its subfields.
The curriculum comprises compulsory and elective subjects. The former includes introductory courses in social sciences: political science, economics, sociology and journalism. In addition to these introductory courses, students are required to take a seminar in one of these fields. More specialized courses are offered as elective courses.
Students are encouraged to acquire extensive knowledge in social science by taking a required number of elective courses.
Department of Science
The Department of Science, consisting of Biology Major and Earth Science Major, provides a high-level education curriculum required in modern natural science with classes, professors, facilities, and equipment appropriate to each academic departments in the Department of Science. Students first learn physics, chemistry, and mathematics to acquire a good educational foundation for each special course. A wide array of common subjects provided by the university and the school help students broaden their view of things. Then, they focus on their academic subject to acquire high-level academic knowledge and skills, and become capable of working as functioning members of society in various fields. Characteristically, a lot of graduates with Bachelor's Degrees (Bachelor of Science), continue on to graduate school. Specifically, students who go on to the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering (School of Life Science and Engineering Majors, Physics and Applied Physics Majors) or the Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering (Earth/Environmental Resources Science and Engineering) which the faculties of both special courses conduct, can pursue the academic track with the total educational research system from the master's course to the doctoral course. For admission to these graduate schools, general entrance examinations and also an admission program by recommendation are available.
Biology Major
This Major aims to produce men and women who can participate actively in modern biology and related fields as researchers, teachers, journalists and members of other professions. To this end, the Major provides a systematic curriculum consisting of the fundamentals of biology and related sciences for first- and second-year students; for third- and fourth-year students, it provides state-of-the-art knowledge of biology, embracing molecular biology, physiology, ecology, embryology, genetics, biochemistry, endocrinology, microbiology, histology, morphology, systematics and related subjects. The Major puts particular emphasis on laboratory work. Students wishing to pursue graduate studies may apply or be recommended for admission to Waseda's Graduate School of Science and Engineering.
Earth Science Major
This Major focuses on the solid earth sciences based on petrology and geology. The members of its teaching faculty are specialists in (a) analytical chemistry and geochemistry, (b) mineralogy and mineral chemistry, (c) petrology, (d) ore geology, (e) tectonics and stratigraphy, (f) structural geology, and (g) paleontology and biostratigraphy.
This Major is based on the fundamental premise that earth science is a field science. Students learn the basic concepts and outline of earth sciences by means of frequent field trips and geological surveys as well as lectures in the classroom. As an educational system, this major aims to train not only high school teachers of natural science but also researchers in earth science and engineers in several fields of geology. Students wishing to pursue graduate studies can apply or may be recommended for admission to Waseda's Graduate School of Science and Engineering.
Department of Mathematics
The Mathematics Major aims to (1) permit students to study various fields of contemporary mathematics based on the fundamentals of mathematics acquired in high school; (2) train high school mathematics teachers and researchers in pure and applied mathematics; and (3) produce people well versed in mathematics who are capable of working in the wide range of industrial and business fields that require mathematics. In the first year, students take courses in calculus and linear algebra. Second-year students study algebra, analysis, topology and other subjects on which contemporary mathematics is based. Third- and fourth-year students take more specialized courses, such as commutative algebra, geometry, functional analysis, manifolds, differential equations, probability and statistics, and computer science. Students wishing to pursue graduate studies may apply or be recommended for admission to Waseda's Graduate School of Science and Engineering and also apply to Waseda's Graduate School of Education
Department of Cultural sciences
In April 2000, taking advantage of the collective strength of various academic fields from natural sciences to human sciences and social sciences, the School of Education started an interdisciplinary course with the aim of development of human resources with the ability to tackle modern varied tasks. The Department of Cultural Sciences, established in April 2007, accedes to and improves the interdisciplinary course and provides substantial content.
The Department of Cultural Sciences takes all phenomena related to humans as “cultures”, and mainly aims to develop the ability to examine them multidimensionally. In addition, in order to acquire omnidirectional thinking faculty with regard to cultures and societies, students master foreign languages other than English. They also learn communication networking skills to develop the ability to collect, edit, and transmit information.
The goal of the Department of Cultural Sciences is to create educational values addressing problem-finding and problem-solving. It aims to develop human resources with multiple viewpoints that aggressively tackle various problems and phenomena that modern societies and modern cultures face.