Message from the Dean

Humans establish societies, and societies raise people and create cultures.
The College of Human and Social Sciences searches for eternal truth and investigates the changing nature of humans and society.

 

Shogo Ikuta
Dean, College of Human and Social Sciences

The rapid progress of globalization has been promoting cross-border relations in every field, but it also brings with it the risk of denying cultural diversity and standardizing our values. Now more than ever, because we are facing very complicated and difficult problems with regard to human existence and the state of society, we need to foster intelligence and the ability to take action in our students; they will need these to confront and solve the problems of today.

Kanazawa University established the College of Human and Social Sciences in response to the needs of society. It consists of six schools for the study of humans and society. In this age of globalization, we need not only to learn about the past academic accomplishments of our seniors in a long academic history, but also to study new interdisciplinary fields. That will enable us to cope in a flexible manner with our rapidly changing society and to foresee our future. Our college provides a new learning environment for the study of eternal truth and the changing nature of humans and society.

In establishing our education program, we placed importance on our students’ interests. Students can select courses for specialized study after they learn the fundamentals and recognize their own goals and aptitudes. They can select an additional field they are interested in as their second major without any school or course restrictions.

The charter of Kanazawa University declares that we will respect our students’ individuality and their right to study based on self-learning. In order to realize this principle, we have established a system to support students’ self-learning at all stages from admission to graduation. We hope to make improvements to our fledgling college in cooperation with students who have the desire to study on their own.