Outline

The Doctoral Program provides students with a choice of three courses: the Linguistics Course, the Cultural Studies Course and the Social Studies Course. Students study the interchange, contact, friction and coexistence of cultures, all common to their fields of study, while they are also engaged in research in their respective areas of specialization. This curriculum gives students the opportunity to be original and creative, and it aims to foster those who can reshape conventional and closed fields of study into highly interdisciplinary new ones.

Program Completion Requirements

A candidate for the Doctor's degree will study at the university for three years or longer, acquire 6 credits or more from the predetermined class subjects, submit a Doctoral Dissertation and pass its screening in addition to the final examination.

Doctoral Dissertation

Doctoral students must submit an "annual study report" to their supervising professor in both their first and second years according to the "writing plan" submitted upon enrollment. Those who pass the screening of the second year report are allowed to write a Doctoral dissertation and apply for preliminary screening.　Stude