TAGA, Hidetoshi
The modern world is facing unknown problems and complex issues with few clues leading to solutions. Yet these global-scale problems are pressing and demand exact and immediate answers how to deal with. In order to address these problems, multiple viewpoints exceeding conventional ideas, an interdisciplinary approach beyond the existing barrier of respective disciplines, a great challenging spirit, speed of intelligence and flexibility are required. Unlike other undergraduate schools, we not only train human resource into merely talented person with excellent expertise and skills, but also foster “figure” with discernment who master expertise, acquire interdisciplinary intelligence to understand things from multiple viewpoints and a comprehensive standpoint, and learn from field work in a practical manner.
Any study has a basic field and applied branches which are increasingly divided into segments and at the same time integrated. I personally think that one of the most important roles of social sciences is to improve society. In order to make out a prescription for “maintenance of healthy society,” we make a point of showing that social sciences should be a field to establish policies that help realize an ideal society. For that purpose, you have to observe, measure, describe, analyze, and forecast society from many angles, sometimes, by deconstructing it into smaller parts. It can be said that “angles” mean specialized fields and “parts” mean the basics. Interdisciplinary research is the approach to consider social phenomena from a comprehensive standpoint. For that purpose, the School of Social Sciences makes full use of 4 years to configure a curriculum that equips students with at least one expertise and an all-around view. In an “Era of Intensive Knowledge Competition, ”students of the School of Social Sciences embark on a global adventure with disciplinary intelligence in their hands that is unavailable elsewhere.