Graduate School of International Tourism Management

■ Master's program

Course curriculum and timetable

[Course of International Tourism Management（Master's program）]　Course Curriculum and Timetable【PDF】

Credits and other completion requirements

1. Students are required to earn a minimum of 30 credits in the required courses. However, students who are going to be assessed in the examination of their research results on specified subjects, as provided for in Article 12 of the Toyo University Graduate School Academic Rules and Regulations, must earn 32 credits or more in the required courses.

2. Students are required to, in each semester, take a “Special Lecture for Internatonal Tourism Studies” (Research Advising) provided by their main academic supervisor on international tourism management and earn the credits.

• The supervisor’s “Research Advising” course is required to be taken in order from the first semester and the credits must be earned.

The students in the long-term study system and repeating students who have been enrolled for 5 semesters or more (with credits already earned for Semesters 1 to 4) must repeatedly take the course and earn credits for Semester 4.

• Up to 8 credits earned will  be recognized as requirements for completion.

Course requirements

1. 1. Students must determine which courses to take according to instructions from their supervisors.

   2. A total of 2 supervisors must be chosen: 1 academic supervisor and 1 co-supervisor. However, 2 co-supervisors may be chosen at the discretion of the academic supervisor.

   3. As for “seminars” or “lectures,” students may repeatedly take the same course and earn credits during their enrollment in the Course. However, it should be noted that only the academic results and credits earned in the first participation in such a course will be counted as credits for completion requirements.

   4. In addition to the courses listed in the above table, students are allowed to take courses offered by other graduate schools and courses of Toyo University and by other universities (partner universities) on Article 8 of the Graduate School Academic Rules and Regulations, when their academic supervisors consider this necessary for education and research purposes. (In such cases, each subject can be counted toward the or more can be approved but will not be counted toward the completion requirements.)

Moreover, the credits earned from the subjects taken through the above-mentioned method, together with credits which students earned before the admission to the graduate school that are treated as credits earned by taking the subjects given by this graduate school based on Article 10-2 of the Graduate School Academic Rules and Regulations (already earned credits), can be counted toward the completion requirements up to a maximum of 20 credits.

1. 5.  “Advanced Theory of Practical International Tourism” is offered exclusively to students enrolled under the JICA KAIGAI KYORYOKU-TAI (JICA Volunteer category)“ Seminar on Practical International Tourism I to IV” are offered exclusively to students enrolled under the JICA volunteer, and JETRO overseas internship category.

 *  In this Course, we encourage participation and presentation in overseas surveys, researches and academic conferences as part of research advising in order to deepen students’ own researches.

Classes taught in English

Subjects noted in the “Eng.” will be offered in English.

Course requirements for students dispatched as JICA KAIGAI KYORYOKU-TAI (JICA volunteers)

1. Students must take “Advanced Theory of Practical International Tourism” and “Seminar on Practical International Tourism I” to earn 2 credits for each course in the first semester after returning from dispatch.

2. Students must take “Seminar on Practical International Tourism II to IV”, in this order, to earn credits for the courses in the second and subsequent semesters after returning from dispatch.

3. Regarding the credits earned for the courses described in Course requirements 1 and 2, only the credits that students earned for each course for the first time and up to 10 credits can be included in the number of credits required for completion requirements.

4. Students must take one of the “Special Lecture for International Tourism Studies” courses offered by their academic supervisor in each semester from the 1st semester to the 4th semester consecutively, and earn the credits for the courses during both the dispatch period and the period of attending the university. When long-term course students and students who stay behind another year and are enrolled for 5 or more semesters have already earned the credits for the Special Lecture on Regional Development Studies courses during the 1st to 4th semesters, they are required to take the course taken in the 4th semester again. Up to 8 credits that they have earned for the courses can be included in the number of credits required for completion.

5. Students must attend the university for at least 1 year, excluding the dispatch period.

Course requirements for students dispatched as internship by JETRO

• During the dispatch period, students are required to take the following 2 courses, and earn 4 credits in principle:

Take 1 course from the “Seminar on Practical International Tourism I – IV” and earn 2 credits.

Take a “Special Lecture for International Tourism Studies,” and earn 2 credits.

These courses will be offered via online media.

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