Diploma Policy/Curriculum Policy
Diploma Policy
Master’s Course
The Graduate School of Global Food Resources aims to develop future leaders in correspondence with the curriculum policy and confers master’s degrees on those who are admitted to have
- A broad knowledge and deep understandings of the complicated global food resources problems the world is confronted with.
- World-class communication skills.
- Insights and the analytic ability to grasp problems precisely.
- An ability to build strategies to solve problems and to promote research.
- An ability to take actions and be aware as a leader.
- An ability to be responsible for related work as a professional who is expected to solve global food resources problems.
An ability to be responsible for related work as a professional who is expected to solve global food resources problems.
Doctral Course
The aim of the Graduate School of Global Food Resources is to develop future leaders. Therefore, in correspondence with the curriculum policy confers doctoral degrees on candidates who have the following;
- An ability to take action: to identify problems and overcome them through research.
- An ability to identify problems: to reveal the core issue in a problem from a wide perspective through any field of science.
- An ability to solve problems: to propose original solutions by comprehensively applying knowledge of food, water and soil in production, environmental, and social environments.
- An ability to plan and propose: to resolve issues with the research results and develop concrete technologies and policies.
- Leadership: interpersonal relationship ability to put the plans into action.
Curriculum Policy
Master’s Course
The Graduate School of Global Food Resources aims to produce experts with a knowledge of a wide range of fields, including agriculture, fisheries science, engineering, global environmental science, health science, economics, education, and political science, as well as experts in veterinary medicine, law, and the life sciences.
The Graduate School of Global Food Resources provides a curriculum that develops generalists through education based on Wandervogel training, which reaches beyond ordinary graduate school curricula and integrates the humanities and sciences for the “T-type” production of leaders and to realize the true integration of humanities and sciences through practical communications between teachers and students; it aims to generate a new interdisciplinary area.
Doctoral Course
The Graduate School of Global Food Resources provides education on modern world affairs, economics, history, ethnicity and thought with the aim of resolving food resource problems. More than just education, the School provides students with insights and a wide knowledge perspective to cultivate their problem identification and resolution skills. Students gain knowledge from practitioners in specialized fields such as science and engineering, private enterprise and domestic and international administrative .
In the “Wandervogel Study in Global Food Resources VI”, students have on site experience with cutting-edge research on world food resource problems, and during “Problem-Based Learning”, learn about problem solving and how to apply it.
Daily research includes one-on-one education with a foreign lecturer, not only as part of their world-class doctoral research, but also to solve problems and to prepare for leadership in the fields of distribution, policy, trade and food culture.
Evaluation of Learning Outcomes
Ⅰ Criteria for Grade Evaluation
- Regarding grade evaluation, based on specific abilities required of the type of students that we aim to train (standards for degree conferment) mentioned in the degree conferment policy (diploma policy) of this institute, an achievement target will be set for each class subject and will be implemented in accordance with the level of achievement of the students’ learning outcomes.
- Criteria for the distribution of results are not given for course subjects of this institute.
- An appropriate achievement target is set for each class subject, and the results of the grade evaluation based on the achievement target are verified by the relevant academic affairs or student committee every six months. Faculty members responsible for class subjects are asked to review the achievement targets, if required.
Ⅱ Method of Grade Evaluation
- As a general rule, grade evaluation is conducted based on a range of criteria including students’ examination results, assessment reports, results presentations, and the learning attitude of students.
- Teachers cannot evaluate students solely on the basis of their attendance.
- The specific evaluation method is specified by the teacher of the course in question.