International exchange andcollaboration

The Univer sit y of Tsukuba has concluded exchange agreement s with
universities and research institutions in 69 countries and regions, and theHeritage Studies degree program has concluded exchange agreements with thefollowing important partner schools in Heritage Studies and actively facilitatesexchanges between researchers and students.
Germany ’s Br andenburgische Technische Univer sität (BTU) Cot tbus
‒Senftenberg was the ﬁrst school in the world to open a Master’s program inWorld Heritage Studies and has been actively facilitating exchange between
faculty and students ever since our program was ﬁrst established in Japan. Even
though it is a technical school, its ﬁelds run the gamut from the social sciences
and natural sciences to architecture, and it has developed programs related tothe World Heritage specialization.
The University of Tsukuba is a member school of the Asian Academy forHeritage Management (A AHM), which is a cooperative network made up of
educational institutions, governmental organizations, and private organizations.
Students from our program participate in AAHM’s Field School.
We are cooperating to the opening of Heritage Science Program in theEgypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST).

Certiﬁcate Programme on
Nature Conservation

Program member

Yoshida Masahito Uekita Yasufumi
Conservation ofNature

Ito Hiromu

Development /Tourism Planning

Project Managementof Heritage Sites

Yagi Haruo
History ofEastern Art

Take Masanori Shimoda Ichita
Ecotourism

Architectural
Heritage

Kuroda Nobu

Matsui Toshiya

Ikeda Mariko

Iida Yoshihiko

CulturalLandscape

Civil Participation,
Preservation andUsage

Conservation
Science

Landscape andSocio-EcologicalPlanning

http://www.conservation.tsukuba.ac.jp/

Heritage studies degree program in the Graduate School of Comprehensive
Human Science and Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences of theUniversity of Tsukuba oﬀers certiﬁcate programs for graduate students since2014. This program aims to develop human resources who are active ininternational and domestic organizations related to nature conservation basedon the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills of nature and culture.

Graduate Status

The master’s and doctoral degree students could ﬁnd
employment in the following organizations:
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology,
The Ministry of Foreign Aﬀairs,

The Nature Conservation Society of Japan,
Japan Patent Oﬃce,

Matsui Keisuke Nonaka Katsutoshi Takizawa Makoto

Geography ofCulture and Tourism

City Planning

JapaneseArchaeology

Graduate Admissions

Please refer to the following website and contact the admission oﬃce.

https://eng.ap-graduate.tsukuba.ac.jp/

1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
Division of Educational Promotion, Department of Educational
Promotion, University of Tsukuba
Phone: +81-29-853-2230/2231

The Japan Foundation,

Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties,

Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties,
Japan International Cooperation Agency,
Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau,
The Japan Foundation Center

National Museum of Japanese HistoryNezu Museum

Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre, Shizuoka

University of Tsukuba
Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences
Heritage Studies Degree Program
1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8571, Japan
E-mail: oﬃce@heritage.tsukuba.ac.jp

https://www.heritage.tsukuba.ac.jp/

University of Tsukuba

Japan Travel Bureau Foundation,

Credits & Copyright

HERITAGE STUDIES
Degree Program

世 界 遺 産 学
学 位 プ ロ グ ラ ム

World Heritage Today

The World Heritage Convention will welcome the half-centennial of its adoption in2022. To date, 193 countries have joined the treaty, and the number of World
Heritage properties has reached 1,121. The expansion of the World Heritage list hascontributed to a greater recognition of the cultures and natural wisdom of humanity
and helped people from many countries and regions share the value and meaning of
their heritage. However, World Heritage properties also pose modern challenges for
us: environmental change, conﬂict, disasters, and other negative inﬂuences onculture and nature; forging a harmonious relationship between protecting heritage
sites and improving the lives of their local residents; and launching synergisticinitiatives for tourism and heritage management, to name a few. For this reason,
World Heritage has always been an important space for the discussion of various
issues involved in the preservation and use of nature and culture. 2022 will also
mark the 30-year anniversary of Japan’s ratiﬁcation of the Convention. Japan now
has 23 properties inscribed on the World Heritage list, and the number is expected
to continue to grow in the future. World Heritage arguably assumes the role ofbridging Japan with the rest of the world in terms of approaches and techniques forheritage conser vation, as well as the role of paving the way for cutting-edge
examples of preserving and leveraging Japan’ s heritage.

The Heritage Studies degree programs
at the University of Tsukuba

In the Heritage Studies degree programs, we welcome students who are
motivated to pursue work that contributes to the preser vation and use ofcultural and natural heritage within and outside of Japan.
This program is intended for students to develop the ability to identify issues
within the big picture, acquire excellent communication skills backed byexpertise, and be ready to take on complex problems. To facilitate this, theprogram will feature a variety of lectures and many opportunities for discussion
between students and faculty. In order to bring the program content to life andconnect it to the real world, much of the teaching will even take place at actual
heritage preser vation sites. The faculty have been actively involved withheritage within and outside of Japan, gathering cutting-edge information fromaround the world through conferences at relevant international bodies, such asth e Wor ld H e r it age Commit te e or th e Confe re n ce of th e Par tie s to th eConvention on Biological Diversity.
Those who enroll in the Heritage Studies degree program may be surprised todiscover all that is involved in preserving cultural and natural heritage. The
preservation and use of heritage is a newly emerging academic discipline, whichdraws on many specialized ﬁelds and their practitioners. It requires quick
responses to real-world issues, which makes it a truly practical science. We
welcome the enthusiasm that has greeted this collaborative project.

The Master’s Program in Heritage
Studies（15 students）

Through research and education across a variet y of ﬁelds related to thepreservation and use of heritage, the Master’s course in Heritage Studies degree
program is designed to train experts who will develop an active career aroundcultural and natural heritage properties.
Heritage Studies is an academic discipline that contributes to a wide range ofﬁelds from cultural heritage and natural heritage to cultural landscapes, which
straddle the boundary between those two. Students will focus on one of theseﬁelds as they study Heritage Studies and advance their research.
To help students study Heritage Studies eﬀectively and connect the ﬁeld to theirwork after completing the program, the Master’s program oﬀers three areas ofspecialization.
The ﬁrst area is International Heritage Studies, for those who would like to pursuit

the academic theor y and prac tice on the preser vation of heritage in theinternational community. The next area is Theory and Conservation of Heritage, inwhich students investigate methodologies for appraising the value of heritage
based on philosophy, aesthetics, art history, and architectural history, and acquire
the basic knowledge to become valuable specialists in preserving and restoring
heritage. Finally, we have Heritage Management and Planning, in which studentslear n landscape planning , development / tour ism planning , and proje c t
management of heritage properties in order to consider the wider societal context
of heritage in preserving it and communicating its value.
People who can thrive in doing the work of preserving and leveraging heritage
must have the creative ability to think laterally across disciplines and connect them
together and a specialization that gives them deep knowledge and high proﬁciency
in a particular ﬁeld. After acquiring broad foundational knowledge, students canchoose the courses they want to take from each area of specialization and design a
World Heritage Studies program just for themselves.
To meet students’ diverse expectations, the classes in the Heritage Studies
degree program are taught by faculty who specialize in a variety of subjects andareas related to cultural and natural heritage and who are at the forefront of theiracademic ﬁelds, which include the philosophy of conservation, religious studies, art
history, architectural history, archaeology, conservation science, architecturalplanning, landscape studies, environmental studies, geographical studies, anddevelopment/tourism planning.
Students will earn a Master of Heritage Studies upon completing the Master’scourse in Heritage Studies degree program.

InternationalHeritage Studies

The doctoral course in Heritage
Studies degree program（5 students）

Preserving and using World Heritage requires academic research on individual
heritage properties, analyzing and evaluating them, developing techniques forpreserving and restoring them, and advanced ideas and techniques for proposing
restoration and maintenance plans. It also demands a big-picture analysis of theconditions surrounding individual properties and the cooperation with relatedareas to establish comprehensive management plans and systems for thecontinued preservation of those properties.
Since the adoption of the World Heritage Convention in 1972, the preservationof World Heritage has made great strides under UNESCO’s leadership. However,though the half-centennial of the Convention’s adoption is upon us, many issues
have arisen: an increase in the number of inscribed properties, independent
preservation by developing countries, rebuilding in the wake of conﬂict anddisaster, crisis management, and reconciling community life and the promotion oftourism with the preservation of heritage. Fields related to Heritage Studies arealso attracting unprecedented interest in Japan due to its declining population
and aging society, which have weakened communities and made the transmission
and preservation of heritage an issue, and because the usage of heritage is also
being explored as a touristic resource and a way to revitalize communities.
The doctoral course in Heritage Studies degree program is designed to give
students the highly advanced expertise and research skills they need to be active
both within and out side of Japan as researcher s and specialist s in thepreservation of Heritage.
Students will challenge the academic research on the various ﬁelds, such as thepreser vation of cultural heritage, the conser vation of natural heritage, theimprovement and management of heritage sites, cultural landscapes,conservation sciences, cultural tourism, architectural and art theory and so on.
Among these ﬁelds, students will choose one from which to conduct research fortheir doctoral dissertation, and in conducting that research, they will discover thepotential for the preservation and use of heritage to contribute to the growth ofsociety and forge a path for its sustainable future.
Students will earn a Doctor of Philosophy in
Subjects in
Heritage Studies upon completing the program.

Preservation and Useof Cultural and Natural Heritages

・Heritage Theory and Policy Studies
・UNESCO and the World Heritage
Convention
・International Conventions forHeritage Conservation
・Role of International Organizations
and NGOs
・World Heritage and International
Cooperation
・World Heritage and Civil
Participation
・World Heritage and Sustainability
・Project Practice in World Heritage

・Special Seminar on World Heritage Studies
・Special Research for World Heritage Studies
・World Heritage Studies
・Cultural Heritage Theory and Policy Studies

Theory andConservation

・Art Heritage I
・Art Heritage II・Seminar on Art Heritage
・Conservation Science・Seminar on Conservation Science・Architectural Heritage
・Seminar on Architectural Heritage

Students can design yourown program by selecting
following subjects.

Management andPlanning

・Project Development andManagement of Heritage Sites
・Seminar on Project Developmentand Management of Heritage Sites
・Conservation of Cultural landscape・Heritage Tourism
・Heritage Interpretation
・Seminar for Resource Use Planning

Heritage Studies Common Subjects

・Natural Heritage Studies
・Seminar on Natural Heritage
・Seminar for Preservation of Cultural Heritage
・Internship in the ﬁeld of Heritage

the Master'sprogram inHeritage Studies

・Policy and Administrative Systems for Protection of Heritage・Intangible Heritage Studies
・Religious Studies
・Special Lecture on Heritage Studies