Objectives

　Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences has Multicultural Symbiosis Program in the Master’s course and Cultural Symbiotic Department in the Doctor’s course, and offers education for building cultural symbiosis society. It tries to develop human resources who have appropriate cognition and behavior for cross-cultural situation.
→ Education for understanding cultural diversity (Target 4.7), Cultivating global partnership (Target 17.17).

Overview of the activity

　Class of “Cross-cultural Psychology” offers active learning of coeducation for Japanese and international students using Japanese and English. Students follow three steps; “Awareness” of existence and the effect of culture, “Understanding” of reactions and dynamics in cross-cultural situation and “Coping” with cultural differences. In the step C, they learn cognition and behavior to cope with cultural differences. Each steps has two levels; Culture-General and Culture-Specific. These combination makes six cells which construct the AUC-GS learning model for psycho-education.

Future plan

　This education has meanings of real problem solving for international students in Japan, of pre-learning of staying in different culture for Japanese students who hope studying abroad, and of wisdom for everybody for daily cross-cultural contact. This class is recommended for various students. Developing teaching material adjusted to learner’s needs is planned.