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With
the introduction of the
new Graduate
School/Graduate Faculty
system in 2000, all faculty
members belonging to the
former Faculty of Letters
have been transferred into
the Graduate Faculty of
Humanities from which they
are assigned to teach
in both the Graduate School
of Humanities and the
School of Letters.
The original Faculty of
Letters was founded in
1924 by an imperial decree
as an adjunct
curriculum of the Faculty
of Law and Literature of
Kyushu Imperial University.
It then came into
being as an independent
faculty in 1949. The
Graduate School was later
established in 1953.
The School
of Letters now offers 21
subjects of
study within four disciplinary
fields: Philosophy,
History, Literature, and
Human Sciences. The
Graduate School consists
of a two-year masterfs
course and a three-year-plus
doctorate course in 10 specialized
fields including: Philosophy
& Ethics, Oriental Ideas,
Art Studies, Japanese History,
Asian History, History of
Wide Area Civilization,
Geography, Japanese &
Chinese Literature, Western
Literature, and Linguistics. |
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Undergraduate
and Masterfs course students
are expected to study not
only in their major fields
but also over a wide range
of cross curricular humanities
subjects offered by other
fields.
Programs of study seek to
familiarize students with
a broad range of fields
in the belief that this
will contribute positively
to the development of
individual character.
Our Faculty/Schools
have a strong desire to
promote international exchange
and have recently accepted,
mostly into the Graduate
School, a larger number
of students from Europe,
North and South America,
Asia and the Pacific regions.
Approximately
10,000 students have now
graduated from the Undergraduate
and Graduate schools. Most
of them are currently, or
have been, actively engaged
in education, research work,
the civil service, business,
journalism and various other
fields. |
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