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Graduate School of Modern Society and Culture

The Graduate School of Modern Society and Culture is a comprehensive graduate school of the humanities and social sciences. Classes with small numbers of students and a multiple-guidance system help to produce highly specialized professionals with the ability to investigate various issues. The School also welcomes many mature and international students.

Master’s Degree Programs

Major in Contemporary Cultural Studies

This program systematically imparts advanced knowledge and interdisciplinary methods of analysis, related to information, culture, arts, philosophy, psychology, and domestic and health sciences, thereby cultivating an ability to discover and pursue issues related to contemporary culture, and developing specialists and researchers with specialized knowledge in information culture, artistic culture, philosophy, psychology, and domestic and health sciences.

Major in Social and Cultural Studies

This major systematically imparts advanced knowledge and interdisciplinary methods of analysis, related to the languages, histories and cultures of Asia (including Japan) and of other parts of the world, thereby cultivating specialists and researchers with specialized knowledge of those subjects, as well as systematically fostering an advanced and multifaceted understanding of the Japanese language and Japanese culture, and developing individuals able to contribute to the further development of international relations, especially in East Asia.

Major in Law and Politics

This major systematically imparts advanced knowledge and interdisciplinary methods of analysis, related to legal systems and public administration, thereby cultivating an ability to discover and pursue problems related to peace, human rights and the environment, and developing specialists and researchers with specialized knowledge of legal systems and public administration.

Major in Economics and Management

This major systematically imparts advanced knowledge and interdisciplinary methods of analysis, related to economics and management, thereby cultivating an ability to discover and pursue problems related to the multilayered and complex economic phenomena involved in today’s increasingly globalized society, and developing specialists and researchers with specialized knowledge in economics and management.

Degrees Offered

Master of Arts; Master of Laws; Master of Public Administration; Master of Economics; Master of Public Management; Master of Business Administration; Master of Philosophy

Fast Facts (as of May, 2016)

Academic staff: 154 (Affiliated with either the Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Education, or Global Education Center)
Students enrolled: 134
Percentage of International Students: 57%

Doctoral Degree Programs

Major in Human Developmental Studies

This program cultivates an ability to analyze and solve problems related to human development in the home, school and elsewhere, from the perspectives of the living environment, culture and education, and develops researchers with advanced and specialized knowledge, and an ability to solve problems related to human development.

Major in Multicultural Studies

This program cultivates an ability to diversely and comprehensively analyze and solve problems related to the languages, histories and cultures of Asia (including Japan) and of various other parts of the world, from a coexistence-promoting perspective of mutual understanding and progress, and develops researchers with advanced and specialized knowledge, and an ability to solve problems related to the languages, histories and cultures of Japan, Asia, and elsewhere.

Major in Multisocial Studies

This program cultivates an ability to diversely and comprehensively analyze and solve problems related to the legal, political and economic systems and structures in the societies of East Asia (including Japan) and in other parts of the world, from the coexistence-promoting perspective of mutual understanding and progress, and develops researchers with advanced and specialized knowledge, and an ability to solve problems related to law and economics.

Degrees Offered

Doctor of Philosophy; Doctor of Philosophy in Literature; Doctor of Laws; Doctor of Philosophy in Economics; Doctor of Philosophy in Education.

Fast Facts (as of May 2016)

Academic staff: 190 (Affiliated with either Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Education, or Global Education Center)
Students enrolled: 95
Percentage of International Students: 45%

Doctoral Degree Programs

Student Exchange

We receive exchange students (six-month or one-year programs) from our overseas partner institutions based on our student exchange agreements. During 2016, we received 34 exchange students. Our overseas partner institutions (as of January 2017) are as follows:

Overseas Partner Institutions

○ Agreement for cooperation and student exchange agreement
● Agreement for cooperation only

China

● Beihang University
○ Capital Normal University (School of History)
○ China Foreign Affairs University (Faculty of Foreign Languages; Institute of International Relations)
○ Fudan University (Department of Chinese Language and Literature; Department of History)
○ Huazhong Normal University (School of Foreign Language and Literature)
○ Huazhong University of Science and Technology (School of Foreign Languages)
○ Ocean University of China (College of Liberal Arts, Journalism and Communication)
○ Peking University (Department of History; Department of Law; School of International Relations)
● Peking University (School of Economics)
○ Renmin University of China (School of International Studies)
○ Shandong University (School of Foreign Languages and Literature)
○ Tianjin Foreign Studies University (Japanese Studies)

France

○ University of Bordeaux 3
● University of Paris 13

Germany

○ Bielefeld University (Faculty of Linguistics and Literature; Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology)
○ Ruhr University Bochum (Faculty of East Asian Studies)

India

○ Jawaharlal Nehru University (School of International Studies)

Indonesia

● Warmadewa University
● College of Foreign Languages STIBA Sarawati

Thailand

● Surindra Rajabhat University

Russia

○ North-Eastern Federal University (Institute of Foreign Languages and Regional Studies)

Taiwan

○ Chang Jung Christian University (College of Humanities and Social Sciences)
○ I-Shou University (College of Language and Communication; College of Management)
○ National Changhua University of Education (College of Management)
○ National Kaohsiung Normal University (College of Humanities)
● National University of Kaohsiung (College of Humanities and Social Sciences)
○ Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology (College of Humanities and Social Sciences)

Niigata University has also concluded university-level student exchange agreements with other 62 overseas institutions, including Inha University (South Korea), Hanyang University (South Korea), National Central University (Taiwan), National University of Mongolia (Mongolia), Saint-Petersburg State University (Russia), Ankara University (Turkey), and University of Nantes (France). Our Graduate School of Modern Society and Culture also receives graduate students from these partner institutions as exchange students. More information about these university-level overseas partner institutions is available here (http://www.niigata-u.ac.jp/en/university/data/partner.html).