Laurea in Educazione

Since 2016, the Faculty of Education has provided a single program for teacher training, the School Teacher Training Program, which contains two subsidiary courses: Elementary School Education and Special Needs Education.

The aim of the School Teacher Training Program is focused to develop teachers who are highly qualified in the field of elementary school education and to play a central role in education in the Oita region, which should ultimately contribute to the development of education for the nation.

The curriculum for the School Teacher Training Program covers subjects necessary for obtaining a teacher’s license for elementary school education. The Program also offers many other subjects to enhance educational skills needed for elementary school teachers, some of which are compulsory: understanding and teaching of the contents of all the nine subjects in the curriculum of elementary school (compulsory), effective writing on the chalkboard, communication skills for teachers, and teaching English at elementary school. In addition to these subjects for teacher training at elementary school, the Program provides subjects required for teacher’s license for education at middle school, kindergarten, and special needs school, which makes it possible for students to obtain plural teaching licenses.

Oita University was established under a new system in 1949, consisting of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (currently the Faculty of Education) and the Faculty of Economics, and was integrated with Oita Medical University in 2003. Now it consists of 5 faculties (Education, Economics, Medicine, Science & Technology, and Welfare & Health Science) and 5 graduate schools (Education, Economics, Medicine, Science & Technology, and Welfare & Health Science), and it has about 5,600 students studying on both Dannoharu and Hasama campuses. In September of this year, we held a ceremony and reception to celebrate Oita University's 70th anniversary.

Our country has recently faced many challenges, such as the declining birthrate and aging population, environmental issues, and disparities between urban and rural areas, and national universities also face new challenges. To meet these new challenges, in April 2016 we added our first new faculty in 44 years, the Faculty of Welfare and Health Science. At the same time, we reorganized the Faculty of Education and Welfare Science into the Faculty of Education. Finally, in April 2017, we reorganized the Faculty of Technology into the Faculty of Science and Technology.