Global talents are required to solve the problems of the globalizing world. Through the creation of the Special Program for Global Human Resource Development, Okayama University has been making great efforts to train global talents who possess, besides linguistic proficiency and broad knowledge, such leadership qualities as negotiation skills employing these competences, independent judgment, and spontaneity. The students of the Special Program for Human Resource Development, while pursuing general and professional education in their respective disciplines, train also global leadership through its unique curriculum.
　　The Special Program’s curriculum has been designed to help the students grasp globally pressing issues as identified by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and also to increase their understanding of the global circumstances, intercultural relationships, Japanese culture and natural sciences, as well as to hone in on their linguistic and communicative skills necessary for working on the global stage. To develop global perspectives and insights, the students experience and learn, systematically, the histories, societies, cultures, the nature and sciences of various countries and regions as well as Japan. By experiencing first-hand the global societies through internships and study abroad, the students transform themselves into globally-capable talents.
   Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have set agendas concerning poverty, public health, sanitation, economic development and employment, inequality, global warming, marine resources, etc. of the global society. Tackling these SDGs agendas requires the dedicated work of globally capable human resources equipped with great competences in professional knowledge and intercultural understandings. The Special Program has benefit from Okayama University's partnerships of partner universities, International Alumni, and other organizations to develop the students' overseas activities concerning SDGs.
 

 

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