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The program offers innovative interdisciplinary courses for future leaders.

Research in this field aims at the actualization of information systems that focus primarily on the “human element” rather than on just sending and receiving information. Students can learn how to skillfully develop information systems, and how to pursue effective processes to ensure performance and safety.

In order to design and construct the social infrastructure that supports people's lives from various perspectives, in addition to the basics of the conventional civil engineering field, we will improve our ability to collaborate with interdisciplinary fields such as community design, disaster prevention management, and overseas projects. Is a feature. In addition, we will enhance practical human power by actually experiencing local issues and construction technology sites. In this way, we will train construction engineers who can play an active role in Japan and overseas by developing technologies and proposing measures according to the actual region, taking into consideration the social conditions, the lives of local residents, and the natural environment from various angles.

Through education and research in the fields of architectural planning and theory, architectural design, architectural environment and equipment, traditional wooden architecture, and structural engineering in architecture, we cultivate talent who can contribute to the realization of comfortable urban and residential spaces by pursuing harmony between the characteristics of individual architecture and the concepts of urban and community planning. To this end, we welcome the following students. 1.Students who aim to play an active role in businesses such as major construction firms, housing manufacturers, and architecture-related companies, as engineers in architectural structures or architectural environments. 2.Students who aim to play an active role in businesses such as architectural design offices, design ateliers, and the planning department of companies, as an architect or designer. 3.Students who aim to play an active role in a broad range of fields from research and development to education and government, as an architectural specialist.

This field aims to deepen knowledge of architecture and urban environments, such as housing and social infrastructure. Students learn technologies for creating safe and secure buildings as well as urban spaces in terms of functionality, disaster prevention, and environmental consideration.

The 21st century is an era of the environment. It can be said that it is an era of designing a "mechanism" that enriches people's lives by utilizing local resources. There are many natural resources available around us, such as solar power, hydraulic power, and forests. Social problems such as an increase in vacant houses and abandoned cultivated land due to the declining population are also occurring. In the Department of Environmental Design, you will study environmental studies related to the future creation of the region, such as living environment, living and water, resource energy, biomass, environmental risk assessment, and environmental policy, and also practically learn international understanding through overseas activities. I aim to be an environmental science professional who understands the movements of the world and Japan and can see the future of the area where I live from the perspective of the world.

The Graduate School of Architecture has five divisions in the master’s degree program, and four divisions in the doctoral degree program. Architects have always striven to create architectural designs realizing the connection between society, nature, and living spaces. Our courses are designed to provide students with both professional architectural skills and a strong sense of creativity. In order to obtain a master’s degree in the subject, students have the option of writing a thesis or creating and presenting an architectural design.

This program is intended to help you learn architecture design that at the same time facilitates functionality and durability. This curriculum, based on environmental studies, enables you to acquire skills to design and construct structures and landscapes that are friendly to human beings and the natural environments. The curriculum is appropriate for people aspiring to become architects and designers and people hoping to be involved in environmental design. Our curriculum includes many subjects, such as Nature and Cities, Wooden Architecture Design, Housing Studies, Structure Design, Interior Planning and Construction Total Design.

The Department of Architecture and Urban Design will familiarize students with design theories and techniques that focus on architecture and urban environments that could be inhabited by civilians with a sense of assurance and pleasure.

In addition to acquiring a wide range of education necessary to understand the formation and issues of the local community, we will visit various sites in collaboration with the local community and deepen learning while experiencing it. Furthermore, while majoring in specialized fields such as public policy, local autonomy, economy, nature, culture, eating habits, tourism, social welfare, social education, and NPO, we will cultivate regional design abilities that apply these to the 21st century. We will develop human resources who can take the lead in government agencies, private companies, NPOs, etc. as leaders of the local community.

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

GSUM aims to create leaders, advanced professionals, and practical researchers (from governmental/public institutions, private companies, non-profit organizations, etc.) who are able to solve urban management problems through the concepts of ‘Innovation’ and ‘Sustainability’ from the viewpoint of economics, management, policy sciences, regional studies, and law/public administration study.

You will learn the basics of architecture, acquire the qualifications to acquire the national qualification of a first-class registered architect, and understand the advanced technology of architecture and the structural changes of the society surrounding architecture. Furthermore, we will learn risk countermeasures for an aging society, energy, disaster prevention and mitigation, and cultivate the ability to apply them to each region. In addition, by tackling actual regional issues, we will cultivate the ability to collaborate with people from different industries involved in construction work, and develop human resources who support society from both hardware and software perspectives.