Graduate School of Letters
Course of International Culture and Communication
■ Master's program
Course curriculum and timetable
Credits and other completion requirements
Students are required to acquire a minimum of 30 credits in required courses.
Students are required to, in each semester, take a “Special Lecture” provided by their main academic supervisor.
Students are required to take 2 or more courses and acquire a minimum of 4 credits from each field: Language Communications field and International Cultures field.
Course requirements
Students must determine the courses to take according to instructions from their supervisors.
A total of 2 supervisors must be chosen: 1 main academic supervisor and 1 co-supervisor. However, 2 co-supervisors may be chosen at the discretion of the academic supervisor. Students are allowed to take up to 3 “Special Lectures” (1 offered by their main academic supervisor and 2 offered by their co-supervisors) and earn credits in each semester.
Students can repeat the same “seminar” or “lecture” provided by their main academic supervisor and earn credits during their enrollment in their course. The grades and credits earned by repeating the same course more than 3 times (in the case of long-term course students and repeating students etc.) can be approved, but will not be counted toward the completion requirements.
As for “seminars” or “lectures” excluding those mentioned above (No. 3), students can take and earn credits only once during their enrollment in their course.
In addition to the courses listed in the table above, students are allowed to take courses offered by other graduate schools and courses of our university and by other universities (partner universities) based on Article 8 of the Graduate School Academic Rules and Regulations, when their academic supervisors consider it necessary for education and research. (In such cases, each subject can be counted toward the completion requirements only once. The grades and credits earned by taking the same subject for the second time or more can be approved but will not be counted toward the completion requirements.)
Moreover, the credits earned from subjects taken through the above-mentioned method, together with credits students earned before the admission to the graduate school treated as credits earned at 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.
* 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.