Diploma Policy (Graduate Schools)
Shizuoka University's Diploma Policy (Graduate Schools)
Shizuoka University engages in education and research under the vision of"Freedom and Enlightenment, Creation of the Future" with the aim ofcontributing to the creation of a peaceful and radiant future society, respecting
the independence of its teaching faculty and students and their mutual
inspiration. Based on this vision, the educational objective for our university isto foster people of education and culture with international mindsets and a highdegree of expertise, full of the spirit of challenge and humanity. Accordingly,
the conditions for receiving a diploma from this university rest upon theacquisition of the qualities and abilities shown below.
1. In the master's course professional degree course, the student will havegained abilities enabling them to engage in an advanced professional
career, as well as research abilities based on a deep knowledge of a
specialized field.
2. In the doctoral program, the student will have gained abilities enablingthem to be actively engaged in an advanced professional career and to
be a researcher able to undertake independent research in a specializedfield.

Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences has three departments:
the Department of Clinical Human Sciences, the Department of Comparative
Studies in Language and Culture, and the Department of Economics.
Specifically, the school awards master's degrees in clinical human sciences, inliterature or in economics to those students who have gained the following
abilities. The acquisition of the respective qualities and abilities outlined below
is the condition for the receiving of these diplomas.
Qualities and abilities required for all majors
1. Fundamental professional abilities
Have a wide cultural education and deep knowledge as required forcarrying out high-level professional research in the humanities andsocial sciences, and an accurate and systematic understanding ofacademic research methods.
2. Research performance abilities
Have the ability to perform research on contemporary issues in
specialized fields of humanities and social sciences based on precise
execution of advanced research and a personal awareness of the issues.
3. Applied professional abilities
Have the ability to apply and put to actual use specialized knowledge
and methods enabling them to solve various issues facing modernsociety, with a comprehensive grasp of each field concerned withhumanities and social sciences.
4. Communicating with and contributing to society
Having the ability and qualities as a professional, make their own
research into a contribution to society through actively exchanging
opinions with others while respecting the different views in each field ofhumanities and social sciences.
Qualities and abilities required for each major
The Department of Clinical Human Sciences will grant master's degrees inclinical human sciences to students who have acquired the ability to carry out
demonstrative research contributing to resolving social issues taking into
account diverse cultures, social structures, ethics, laws and systems.
The Department of Comparative Studies in Language and Culture will grantmaster's degrees in comparative studies in language and culture to students who
have acquired independent powers of thought over a wide area applicable toboth the local community and international society, who have the power tocreate a path to a future vision based on history from the past to the present, andwho have analytical and applied abilities appropriate to their degree.
The Department of Economics will grant master's degrees in economics tostudents who have acquired abilities to undertake comprehensive,interdisciplinary analysis and policy / strategy planning in regards to current
economic conditions and corporate management, based upon a professional
knowledge of economics and business management.

Graduate School of Education
The Graduate School of Education consists of the three majors of theDepartment of School Education Research (master's course, the Division ofAdvanced Practice in School Education (professional degree course), and theCooperative Doctoral Course in Subject Development (doctoral program). It
will grant a master's degree in education, a professional degree in teaching, or adoctoral degree in education for each major respectively to students who haveacquired the qualities and abilities outlined below.
Department of School Education ResearchWith the aim of fostering schoolteachers and others pursuing careers ineducation with a high degree of professional competence and insight concerning
education, the department will grant a master's degree in education to students
with an understanding of school education in society, with professional
knowledge and thinking in regards to education, and who have acquired theability to logically consider and research various problems in subjects,development and learning, plus the ability to practically handle educational
issues directly in the local community.
Division of Advanced Practice in School Education
With the aim of fostering the education of new teachers able to actively forge
new schools, or core middle-level teachers with advanced practical teachingabilities, the department will grant a professional degree in teaching to students
who are engaged in constructing new intellectual systems fusing theoretical andpractical knowledge, having the logical and academic fundamentals for solving
issues in contemporary school education, and having high-level practicalteaching skills.
Cooperative Doctoral Course in Subject Development
With the aim of clarifying the principles for constructing subject contents
through pursuit of subject development, developing subject pedagogy andcreating educational environments, while also fostering the ability to develop
educators with superior qualities in secondary school institutions, the course will
grant a doctoral degree in education to those students with the abilities to engage
as researchers or as professionals in subject pedagogy fusing high-levelpedagogy with studies on school environments to cope with the increasingly
complex and diverse problems facing school education.
Graduate School of Informatics
The Graduate School of Informatics master's course will confer a master's
degree in informatics to students on the condition of gaining the following
abilities, based upon wide-ranging and enriched insight into informatics
combining Division of Computer Sciences and Division of Information arts
(fusing humanities and industry) and a foundation in advanced professional
knowledge and research abilities in a specialized field.
1. Having the ability to engage in issues with a multifaceted approachlinking / compounding information sciences and information arts.
2. Having adaptable career skills with superior practical applicability
through education and research in informatics.
3. Having powers of logical thinking, comprehension, expression, problem
recognition, and comprehensive research skills and high-level practicalcapabilities for problem solving.

Graduate School of Science
The Graduate School of Science aims to foster human resources with a scientificspirit in pursuit of truth with a deep level of learning in fundamental sciencesand problem-solving abilities based on such. In addition, high-level research isundertaken in each specialized field with the aim of developing powers ofobservation and insight and the ability to take action, in order to meet thediverse needs of society. In line with these aims, the department will confer
master's degrees in science to students who have gained the qualities andabilities shown below through completing the set subjects and gaining therequired number of credits.
1. Having deep learning in each field of science and being able to take aleading role in solving various issues in contemporary society from a
professional position.
2. Able to act with personal responsibility as a member of society with asound critical sense and high ethical values.

3. Able to exercise leadership from a global viewpoint with communication
skills and an international mindset.

Graduate School of Engineering
The Graduate School of Engineering aims to foster engineers with a richcultural education and international sense, able to exercise leadership in adiversified society and to create scientific technologies full of originality, andaccordingly takes as its policy the conferring of master's degrees in engineering
to students who have acquired the qualities and abilities shown below.
1. Having advanced knowledge and technologies in a specialized field ofengineering, as well as wide-ranging knowledge in related fields.
2. Having the ability to see issues in engineering, to pursue and solve them,and to be able to engage in highly creative research.
3. Having communication and presentation skills allowing them tomaintain smooth dialog with others in the field of engineering.
4. Having the ability to acquire independently advanced knowledge andtechnologies enabling them to resolve various complex problems insociety and industry, and fundamental abilities enabling them tocontribute to society as a high-level professional.

Graduate School of Agriculture
The Graduate School of Agriculture aims to foster human resources able tocarry out education and research deepening academic learning and technologies
to provide food, clothing and housing based environmental / biosciences using
the rich environment and resources of the Tokai region, contributing to thesustainable development of the local and international society. Accordingly, it
confers master's degrees in agriculture to students who have the qualities andabilities outlined below.
1. Having advanced professional knowledge and research techniques
required in each specialized field such as biological production,environmental preservation and understanding of life phenomena.
2. Being aware of the social mission of agriculture and contributing to theongoing development of local and international societies.

3. Having the presentation skills and communication skills needed toappeal one's own research results to researchers in specialized fields.

Shizuoka Law School
The school's educational aim is the cultivation of foundational skills able to beutilized by legal practitioners with the capacity to handle the particular legal
problems arising in globalized urban regional societies, and accordingly confers
a professional degree as a Juris Doctor on students with the qualities andabilities shown below.
1. Having specialized legal knowledge and the creative intellectual
capacity to critically consider such knowledge and to further develop it.
2. Having the necessary legal analytical and debating skills to solve
specific legal problems in accordance with actual facts.
3. Having the essential abilities of comprehension for advanced legal
disciplines.
4. Having the independent power of judgment to select conscious actions
based upon the social roles, responsibilities and ethical values of a legal
practitioner.

Graduate School of Science and Technology, Educational Division
The Graduate School of Science and Technology, Educational Division follows
the educational philosophy of the graduate school in "aiming at fostering highlevel engineers and researchers with broad sophistication matching the times,
specialized professional knowledge and fully internationally groundedknowledge," and accordingly will confer doctoral degrees in engineering, ininformatics, in science, in agriculture or in academic affairs to students with theabilities shown below.
1. Meeting the guideline standards such as the number of academic as laid
down for their major / field, and having deep knowledge of their
specialized field.
2. Having broad sophistication matching the times and fully internationallygrounded knowledge, and having creative powers, problem recognition

abilities, independent problem-solving powers and communication skills
able to meet the expectations of local and international societies.