Tourism and Community Design Program

This course involves:

•Learning the expertise of community design with perspectives such as tourism, society, and natural environment

•Studies on the new tourism and exchange, and utilizing local resources

•Training to be leaders both in tourism and in community design

Today the Shonai area in the top west corner of the Tohoku region is brimming with a mood of creativity and enterprise. This new spirit has given rise to a new university. The twentieth century was the era that focused on money and material goods, and on capital and the rule of the market; but the twenty-first century is the era of people and mind/heart, that we call “Koeki”. This will be a world in which children will be able to live as they should, and people as humanely as they possibly can. The speed of globalization has accelerated in the twenty-first century and people around the world have confronted serious and sometimes increasingly intangible frictions between cultures, religions, and thoughts. We realize that not only whole countries and continents but also small communities have connected to a global world. In our university, students will broaden their minds and deepen their specialist knowledge through our education in order to respond to these changes in social ethnography and to contribute to the harmonious development of cultural exchange, welfare, and economics. We expect our students to be able to understand the different values and cultures and to find a way toward a more reliable and symbiotic society.