Vision & Education

A key to understanding psychological issues is to have a multifaceted approach that combines the perspectives of experimental psychology, which focuses on commonality, with clinical psychology, which focuses on individuality. The School of Psychology provides a systematic curriculum in psychology from both perspectives, and 13 members of the faculty cover a wide range of fields, from the basic psychological field to applied and neighboring disciplines. Through comprehensive education and research in psychology, we develop students’ ability to analyze and resolve the questions of how people’s minds work in various environments and how people behave as manifestations of their minds.

In the first year, through the Systems and Sustainability classes and the School’s introductory classes, students will grasp the essence of issues in modern society as interactions between diverse elements, and they will learn about how a sustainable society should be from a human perspective. In the second year, the curriculum has 20 psychology-related classes, including “Data Science,” “Understanding Different Cultures,” and “Social Welfare and Educational Issues A (Poverty and Society),” so that students can gain a well-balanced understanding of a wide range of knowledge and skills and acquire cross-disciplinary application skills, which will help them strive to resolve issues in modern society. In the third year, PBL Seminars are given to foster practical skills to resolve issues in collaboration with students from other Schools. In this way, students will learn from their experience of working hard to solve real-world problems by integrating expertise in multiple academic fields, and we help them acquire the ability to take a panoramic view of complex modern society as a system and play a role in realizing a sustainable society.