StudyQA — Bachelor: Human Sciences

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The new Human Sciences International Undergraduate Degree Program aims to cultivate self-motivated, reflective students who have a sophisticated knowledge base and the necessary practical skills to meet the challenges that they will face in our fast-changing, globalized world. At the same time, it aims to nurture students who have a well-defined area of expertise and who are able to bring workable solutions to a variety of problems and issues in their field.
This exciting and innovative program is being offered from October in the 2011-2012 school year by the School and Graduate School of Human Sciences in collaboration with other schools, graduate schools, and research centers at Osaka University. In addition to providing an English language-based program that develops critical thinking and human science research skills (both qualitative and quantitative), it is also expected that students will develop a high-level proficiency in Japanese.
From the fourth semester, students will major in either Global Citizenship or Contemporary Japan. The Global Citizenship Major is intended to provide a learning environment in which students acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and attitude for reflecting critically on and engaging positively with global issues. The Contemporary Japan Major aims to provide students with a Japanese studies curriculum that encourages the development of informed, critical and multicultural perspectives on Japan, Japanese culture and its international relations in the world. Japanese language study will be compulsory in the freshman and sophomore years for both majors and optional thereafter.
These two majors are not separate, but will be effectively integrated in order to nurture ‘GLocal actors’ who can think and act both locally and globally.

General Education Subjects

Autumn Semester

Basic Subjects(Required)

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
13A401	Wed 4	Academic Writing I	HUS-IN-002
13A403	Mon 4	Critical Thinking Skills	HUS-IN-006
13A405	Wed 3	Presentation Skills	HUS-IN-103
13A425	Mon 5	Quantitative Research Methods	HUS-IN-101
13A426	Wed 4	Qualitative Research Methods	HUS-IN-102

Basic Subjects(Elective)

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
13A002	Thu 4	Approaches to Understanding Cultures	HUS-EX-102
13A039	Tue 4	Media and Communications in Japan	HUS-EX-103
13A407	Thu 2	Japanese Literature, Modern and Contemporary	HUS-EX-008
--	--	Promoting Human Rights Education	HUS-EX-006
--	--	Urban Disaster Prevention	HUS-EX-101
--	--	Bioethics and Health Law: Legal Issues Concerning Biotechnology, Medicine and Health Care System	HUS-EX-104
--	--	Introduction to Japanese Legal / Political System and Culture	HUS-EX-105

International General Education(Elective) *Japanese

Foreign Languages(Elective) *Japanese

Information Literacy and Processing(Required)

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
13A419	Tue 4	Data Processing Skills	HUS-EX-013

Health and Sports(Required)

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
13A020(TBA)	Fri 1	Health & Sports 1	--

Basic Major Subjects(Required)

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
13A408	Tue 2	Sociology I	HUS-IN-008
13A410	Thu 4	Global Citizenship	HUS-IN-014
13A411	Wed 2	International Education Ⅰ	HUS-IN-013
13A417	Fri 4	Economics Ⅰ	HUS-IN-022
13A436	Fri 3	Gender Studies	HUS-IN-104

Basic Major Subjects(Elective)

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
13A412	Wed 3	Introduction to Social Psychology	HUS-IN-016
13A414	Mon 2	Politics in Post-War Japan	HUS-IN-019
13A415	Tue 5	Religion in Japanese Society	HUS-EX-017
13A432	Wed 5	Japanese Myths and Legends	HUS-EX-019
13A437	Thu 2	Sociology II	HUS-IN-105
13A438	Wed 2	Anthropology II	HUS-IN-106
13A439	Mon 3	Japanese Law	HUS-IN-108
13A440	Fri 2	Media Sociology	HUS-IN-109
13A441	Mon 2	Cross Cultural Psychology	HUS-IN-110
13A443	Thu 3	Introduction to Civil Society Movements	HUS-IN-111
13A444	Mon 4	Economics II	HUS-IN-112
13A445	Wed 2	Politics II	HUS-EX-106
13A446	Tue 5	International Law	HUS-EX-107

Spring Semester

Basic Subjects(Required)

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
13A421	Wed 4	Academic Writing Ⅱ	HUS-IN-003
13A423	Mon 4	Statistics for Social Research	HUS-IN-005
--	--	Academic Writing II (Advanced Class)	HUS-IN-004

Basic Subjects(Elective)

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
13A424	Tue 4	Psychology of Human Information Processing	HUS-IN-007
13A447	Thu 2	Osaka in Modern Japanese Literature	HUS-EX-007
--	--	Human Motivation and Behavior in Social Context	HUS-EX-003
--	--	Japan's Relations with Asian Countries after the Second World War	HUS-EX-010

International General Education(Elective) *Japanese

Foreign Languages(Elective) *Japanese

Health and Sports(Required)

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
13A021	Fri 1	Health & Sports 2	--
13A051	Fri 1	Health & Sports 2	--

Basic Major Subjects(Required)

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
13A409	Fri 4	Contemporary Japan	HUS-IN-010
13A428	Tue 2	Anthropology I	HUS-IN-009
13A429	Mon 3	Japanese History	HUS-IN-012
13A433	Thu 3	Human Rights	HUS-IN-023

Basic Major Subjects(Elective)

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
13A413	Thu 4	Introduction to Sociology of Marriage and the Family	HUS-IN-017
13A418	Mon 2	Introduction to International Relations	HUS-EX-015
13A427	Mon 2	Japan in the World	HUS-IN-011
13A430	Wed 2	Self,Identity and Society	HUS-IN-015
13A431	Thu 2	Anthropology and Contemporary Global Issues	HUS-IN-021
13A434	Wed 3	Politics I	HUS-EX-014
13A435	Tue 4	Introduction to International Organizations	HUS-EX-016
13A416	Studying Osaka	HUS-EX-018	--
13A442	International Educatin ll	HUS-IN-107	--

Major Subjects

Autumn Semester

Required Subjects

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
Z25501	Wed 4.5	Independent Study	HUS-IN-400
Z25510	Year-round	Fieldwork	HUS-IN-401
Z25530	Wed 4.5	Dissertation Tutorial	HUS-IN-403

Elective subjects

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
Z26001	Thu 2	Sexuality and Education	HUS-IN-301
Z26002	--	Gender and Education	HUS-IN-302
Z26004	Thu 3	Peace and Conflict Studies II	HUS-IN-304
Z26008	Thu 4	Gender and Development	HUS-IN-308
Z26009	--	Diversity and Human Rights in Japan	HUS-IN-309
Z26011	Mon 4	Primatology in Japan	HUS-IN-311
Z26012	Mon 4	Multivariate Data Science	HUS-IN-312
Z26013	Fri 3	Issues in Asian Anthropology	HUS-IN-313
Z26015	Wed 3	International Development and Collaboration Ⅱ	HUS-IN-315
Z26016	Tue 2	Issues in Global Human Sciences	HUS-IN-316
Z26019	Wed 3	Contemporary Japanese Thought	HUS-IN-319
Z26023	Tue 3	Global Issues in Education	HUS-IN-323
Z26024	Wed 3	Psychology of Aging	HUS-IN-324
Z26025	Fri 2	Special Topic in Human Sciences I	HUS-IN-325
Z26026	Mon 3	Special Topic in Human Sciences II	HUS-IN-326
Z26027	Mon 2	Special Topic in Human Sciences III	HUS-IN-327
Z26029	Thu 3.4	Special Topic in Human Sciences V	HUS-IN-329
Z26031	--	Global Environment-Development Balance	HUS-EX-300
Z26032	--	Global Civil Society	HUS-EX-301
Z26034	Thu 2	World Affairs and the Media	HUS-EX-303
Z26035	Tue 2	Economic Development	HUS-EX-304
Z26036(TBA)	Fri 3.4.5	Diplomacy, Economics and Politics in Japan	HUS-EX-305
Z26037	Mon 5	Topics in Japanese Culture I	HUS-EX-306
Z26039	--	Topics in Japanese Culture III	HUS-EX-308
Z26041	Tue 2	Topics in Japanese Society I	HUS-EX-310
Z26043	Tue 2	Topics in Japanese Society III	HUS-EX-312
Z26045	Mon 3	Topics in Japanese Religion I	HUS-EX-314
Z26047(TBA)		Topics in Japanese Political Thought I	HUS-EX-316
Z26052	Thu 5	History of Meiji Japan	HUS-EX-321
Z26053	Wed 2	Traditional Performing Arts in Contemporary Japanese Society	HUS-EX-322
Z26054	--	Gender in Contemporary Japanese popular Culture	HUS-EX-323
Z26501	Tue 4	Ethnographic Fieldwork	HUS-IN-330
Z26505	Fri 4	Seminar in Cultural Icons in Manga and Anime	HUS-IN-334
Z26507	Mon 3	Seminar for Contemporary Philosophy	HUS-IN-336
Z26508	Tue 2	Seminar in International Labor Theory	HUS-IN-337

Spring Semester

Required Subjects

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
Z25001	Thu 3	Peace and Conflict Studies I	HUS-IN-200
Z25002	Wed 2	Sociology of Knowledge	HUS-IN-300
Z25510	Year-round	Fieldwork	HUS-IN-401
Z25520	Wed 4.5	Dissertation Seminar	HUS-IN-402

Elective subjects

Course Code	Day/Period	Course Title	Course Number
Z26003	Wed 3	Social Stratification in Japanese Society	HUS-IN-303
Z26005	--	Popular Culture in Japan	HUS-IN-305
Z26006	Wed 3	Current Issues in Japanese Law and Society	HUS-IN-306
Z26007	Fri 3	Global Poverty and Development	HUS-IN-307
Z26010	Thu 4.5	Contemporary Educational Issues in Japan	HUS-IN-310
Z26014	Wed 3	International Development and Collaboration I	HUS-IN-314
Z26017	Tue 4	Disaster Prevention and International Cooperation	HUS-IN-317
Z26018	--	Comparative Study of Civilization	HUS-IN-318
Z26020	Thu 2	Comparative Theories of Society and Culture	HUS-IN-320
Z26021	Fri 4	Issues in Gerontology	HUS-IN-321
Z26022	Tue 2	Food, Culture and Society	HUS-IN-322
Z26030	Thu 2	Peace Operations and the Global Community	HUS-EX-300
Z26033	Tue 4	International Trade and Investment	HUS-EX-302
Z26038	Mon 5	Topics in Japanese Culture II	HUS-EX-307
Z26040	--	Topics in Japanese Culture IV	HUS-EX-309
Z26042	Tue 2	Topics in Japanese Society II	HUS-EX-311
Z26044	--	Topics in Japanese Society IV	HUS-EX-313
Z26046	Mon 3	Topics in Japanese Religion II	HUS-EX-315
Z26048	Fri 3	Topics in Japanese Political Thought II	HUS-EX-317
Z26049	Mon 2	Japanese Aesthetics	HUS-EX-318
Z26050	Thu 3	Classic Poetry in China, Japan and Korea	HUS-EX-319
Z26051	Tue 4	Japanese Philosophical Thoughts in Global Contexts	HUS-EX-320
Z26502	Mon 3	Seminar in Critical Studies of Globalizaton	HUS-IN-331
Z26503	Fri 2	Seminar in Studies of Multicultural Societies	HUS-IN-332
Z26504	--	Seminar in Human Rights and Cultural Relativism	HUS-IN-333
Z26506	Mon 5	Seminar in Measurements of Poverty and Inequality	HUS-IN-335

Application Fee: 17,000 JPY
Enrollment fee: 282,000 JPY
International applicants (students from outside of Japan) who have completed a standard 12-year school education curriculum of a country other than Japan. Included here are applicants who have completed a standard 12-year school education curriculum in a country outside Japan in less than 12 years as a result of being promoted a grade ahead of their peers.
TOEFL iBT (Internet-based TOEFL) A minimum score of 80 is required.
IELTS Academic Module A minimum score of 6.0 is required. I
Secondary school transcripts and certificates
Application Essays- Personal statement and Additional essay
Letter of recommendation Submit a letter of recommendation from the principal and/or a senior science teacher of the last secondary school you attended, along with an evaluation of your personality and academic results. The form is not designated. A science teacher who knows the applicant well is preferable. The letter should be sealed and signed by the principal / teacher (opened letters will not be accepted).
Results of national standardized tests for university admission Submit official scores of any standardized academic test for university entrance that you have taken.

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Scholarships

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Osaka University Scholarship. This scholarship is for students with outstanding grades. A monthly stipend of 80,000 JPY is provided to those who received an OU scholarship.