Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences

The Roadto Your Dream
Starts HereFaculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences
Creating a Better Social Environment that Benefits Everyone
Consistently a pioneer in higher education, JWU is the ﬁrst to name a faculty“Integrated Arts and Social Sciences.” Encompassing much more than social
sciences, it presents a new challenge, and a movement to study people andsociety in a comprehensive way. And it all started on this campus.

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Department ofEducation
Fully Supporting Your Dream of Entering the Teaching Profession!

You will study a wide variety of ﬁelds in theory and pract
ice of education such associology, psychology, history, philosophy, curriculum resear
ch, and educational methods.
This department also provides opportunities for studying,
lifelong learning, community
activities, and multicultural education. In addition, it includ
es full curriculums for theteaching profession, such as Japanese language, mathematics, social studies, and music.
These studies help unlock studentsʼ capabilities to open up
the future by deepening theirunderstanding of human beings and society
through the window we call “education.”

Department ofPsychology

Gaining a Deeper Understanding of the Mind
through Practical Small-group LearningogyThis department utilizes many small-group lessons to help students learn psychols tothrough a more practical approach. You will learn experimental and survey method
andentstudy psychology and human behavior, and gain skills in psychological assessm
socialcounseling. These skills are essential not only in education, mental health, andwelfare, but are also invaluable in ﬁelds such as sales andmarketing, advertising, planning, service, and law.

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Learn Practical Abilities and Basic Skills”

As a pioneer of social welfare education in Asia,
the department develops personnel who
create multicultural societies. You can learn pract
ical abilities in diversiﬁed ﬁelds related tosocial welfare and basic skills that you canapply in society at large. It provides awide-ranging curriculum through which you will
study the history of the ideas and practices
of social welfare, and how they developed up to
the present time, focusing on the future.
Learning about the social security system will
help you gain an understanding of theconcept of equal rights for all human beings. You
will also practice interpersonal support
and work with communities in small-grouppractical curriculums including a social practicalwork experience seminar. You can also gain
qualiﬁcations for licensing exams for social
worker, psychiatric social worker, and otherpositions by completing the prescribed courses.

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Experiencing Our Global Society through the Study of Foreign Languages

You will gain a general understanding of European, American, and Asiancultures,
focusing on foreign language studies. The department also provides curriculums
related toJapanese culture, which is on the basis of our understanding of foreign culture, andJapanology taught in English. It also offers a wide-ranging curriculum in ﬁneart. One
workshop focuses on dance, while another course gives students a solid backgro
und indoing ﬁeldwork. Short-term intercultural programs on Europe, Asia, and Southea
st Asia
are presen ted by Depart ment of Cultur e
professors, and are especially popular withstudents year after year.

A FewWords

Becoming an Elementary School Teacher

From Graduates

These pages feature the voices of graduates fromeach department, who made their dreams come trueand today play active roles on the front linesof various fields.

Yuka Ikeda

Learning the Mindset of“I Want to Tell You”

Ichika Shingyo
Graduated from theDepartment of Studies
on Contemporary Societyin 2015
Corporation or Institution
joined: Nippon
Broadcasting System,Inc.

I am very humbled to be asked for my comments so early in
my career. The job of the newscaster is to convey
information accurately. And I learned from my seniors thatthe mindset of “I want to tell you” is the most important.
The newscasterʼs thorough understanding of theinformation supports that. In this department, I learned tosharpen my curiosity about things that happen around me
and to think about them more deeply. This is really valuable
in my present job.
Whatever you want to learn, you can ﬁnd it in theDepartment of Studies on Contemporary Society.

Working from the Viewpointof Social Welfare

Graduated from theDepartment of Educationin 2013
Corporation or Institution
joined:Yokohama City Onda
Elementary School

I have been working as an elementary school teacher. This has been
my dream since childhood. I got this job, I have spent wonderful days
with my students, smiling, playing, and studying together. I think I
made my dream come true thanks to the four years at the Departmentof Education. There, I got to know so many inspiring friends, and weworked hard together towards our dream ̶ becoming teachers.
Everything I learned there is useful in my current job. The place where
you enjoy studying, and where you will ﬁnd what you want to do inyour future ̶ that is the Department of Education! Please have fun,study a lot, and have great times there.

Leveraging My University Experiences
I work in advertising sales, which involves proposing ideas
for business promotion using a news website called“Mynavi News.” Through my daily activities, I keenly feelthat “sales” is not a one-person job, but is based on thecooperation of many people, such as customers, internal
staff, and partner companies.
In the Department of Psychology, you will have many
opportunities, such as experimental seminars starting inyour freshman year, to form small groups and jointly
produce reports and make presentations with your friends.
The experience ̶ sharing roles and cooperating with eachother toward a shared goal ̶ is a valuable edge when you
are involved in the daily operation of a business.

I work at hospital as a medical social worker, and provide
assistance from the viewpoint of social welfare forpatients and their families who are at critical points intheir lives due to illness or disability.
In my work, I encounter various people, from newborn
babies to the elderly. Patients and family members
consult with me on topics ranging from medical expensesubsidies and education to joining the workforce and life
after discharge from the hospital. It is a very rewarding
job. I really feel the strength of patients and their families
who must carry on with their lives in the face of illness
and disability, and I learn a lot from them.
As a medical social worker who studied in theDepartment of Social Welfare, I look forward to meeting
you and helping you someday.

Miki Shu
Graduated from theDepartment of Psychology
in 2013
Corporation or Institution
joined:Mynavi Corporation

Expanding My Possibilities

Megumi Takeno
Graduated from the
Department of Social Welfare
in 2007
Corporation or Institution
joined:Juntendo University
Hospital

Aoi Nagasaka
Graduated from theDepartment of Humanities
and Cultures in 2013
Corporation or Institution
joined:All Nippon
Airways Co., Ltd.

In the Department of Humanities and Cultures, you can gain abroad cultural understanding of the country you are interested
in from various viewpoints. I felt I wanted to do a job thatwould allow me to spend time interacting with people fromother countries, and I decided to be a ﬂight attendant. Thanks
to the careful, attentive, supportive environment of theuniversity, I sought and successfully applied for a job at theairline I wanted to work for. I am working to enhance myproﬁciency working in the international airline business.
Please expand your possibilities through learning, and enjoy arewarding campus life.

Learn About the World
Developing Personnel who Can Learn Foreign Cultures
and Contribute to International Society
The Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences has university-authorized
short-term intercultural programs that allow students to participate
during summer and spring holidays and study abroad programs
at partner universities or authorized institutions that last up to a year.
Feasibility study on mutual
understanding of foreign culture★VietnamGerman arts and culture program★GermanyKorean language
and culture program★South KoreaFrench language/culture program★FranceStudy tour focusing
on social welfare
systems and practices
in North America★U.S.A.

Southeast Asian culture program★VietnamItalian art andculture program★ItalyField Work

Foreign Language Education

You will learn techniques of ﬁeld work to gather information in
the ﬁeld, such as observation, interviews, and questionnaires.
It is also important to analyze the information you absorb in theﬁeld through academic
procedures and summarize it inyour own words. You must
acquire skills you cannot gainfrom books or lectures if you areto help realize a modern society
based on your experiences.

This department aims to develop personnel who can learn to understandthe world from various facets, acquire the capabilities to deal with foreigncultures, and broadly contribute tosociety through a wide-ranging
curriculum and a productive
environment. In the language
lounge, you will learn many tricks tomake learning a foreign language
more enjoyable and swiftly upgrade
your language skills.

Japan Women s University

Faculty of Integrated Arts and Social Sciences
Nishi-ikuta Campus 1-1-1 Nishi-ikuta, Tama-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture 214-8565