Licencjat w Studiach Japońskich

The Minor Course for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language in SU began in 1988. More than 30 graduates who completed this course, including overseas students, have taken Japanese language teacher jobs in Japanese language institutions in Japan and overseas.

Every full-time student in SU can take this course. This course curriculum is based upon the Required Educational Content in Training Japanese Language Teachers as a Foreign Language published by the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2000.

Shigakukan University is a private coeducational four-year university founded in 1979.

The university has two faculties: the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Law. The Faculty of Humanities has two departments: the Department of Clinical Psychology (consisting of five courses for medicine, welfare, education, society and industry, and general psychology) and the Department of Humanity and Culture (which is composed of three courses: Japanese and Japanese literature, English language and British and American culture, and history and geography). The Faculty of Law also has two departments: the Department of Law and the Department of Applied Legal Studies. Moreover, the university has a Minor Course for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language which trains students (non-native speakers and native speakers) to be Japanese Language teachers and a Graduate School of Clinical Psychology.