IntroductionCharacteristics of the Graduate School of Sustainability Science
Our country is required to deal with unprecedented global issues, such as aggravation of the global environmental issues of global warming and desertification, and domestic issues, such as a shrinking and aging population and depopulation in rural areas. In order to achieve a sustainable society, it is essential to make both global and regional conditions sustainable.
The Graduate School of Sustainability Science of Tottori University provides an educational system that comprehensively combines the sustainable society-related characteristics and strengths of the former Graduate School of Regional sciences, Graduate School of Engineering, and Graduate School of Agriculture while maintaining expertise in specialized fields. Under this educational system, the Graduate School of Sustainability Science aims to develop human resources who have a bird’s eye, interdisciplinary perspective and high expertise and who are capable of addressing challenging issues from global environmental issues to social issues, such as depopulation and population aging in rural areas.
Characteristics of Education
Under the structured and systematic graduate school education that goes beyond the boundaries of conventional graduate schools, students acquire scientific knowledge concerning the creation of a sustainable society through core subjects common to all departments in the graduate school and subjects that go beyond the boundaries of majors.
The Graduate School of Sustainability Science enables students to acquire an interdisciplinary, broad perspective and creativity by providing opportunities for students from different academic fields to improve themselves through friendly competition and by introducing instructors from various fields, including natural science, humanities, and social science.
Characteristic Curriculum
<Common Subjects> Core Subjects
Through core subjects, students acquire, in a comprehensive manner, basic knowledge required of advanced professionals to create a sustainable society. The core subjects are designed to deepen students’ understanding of a sustainable society and develop their ability to view things from a broad perspective.
<Common Subjects> Minor Subjects
These subjects are designed to allow students to acquire broad expertise, which goes beyond the boundaries of their majors, in a systematic manner.
<Major Subjects> Core Subjects (common subjects for each major)
These are subjects required in all fields of a major to deepen expertise.
<Major Subjects> Advanced Subjects
These subjects are subdivided from the core subjects (common subjects for each major) to deepen students’ expertise.
Tottori University Regional Strategy Program
This is a program that enables students to systematically acquire basic knowledge on arid land and underpopulated areas (regions), which are the strengths of Tottori University and the practice fields for the creation of a sustainable society (development of arid land and regional revitalization).
Regional Management Studies
This is a program that enables students to acquire interdisciplinary knowledge on regional development by leveraging educational resources in regional science and engineering that have been accumulated through the University’s program to develop human resources who can contribute to regional development.