Applicants must have native fluency in Japanese and an MA in the relevant fields. California State University, Hayward occupies 342 acres in the Hayward hills overlooking San Francisco Bay. Cal State Hayward's central Bay Area location provides easy access to museums, art galleries, aquariums, planetariums, theaters, sports events, and concerts. Its proximity to both the Pacific Ocean and the Sierra Nevada Mountains offers recreational diversion as well as excellent laboratories for educational studies. The University has approximately 13,000 students and 600 faculty, and a library that contains over one million items, accessible on-line.
Additional programs lead to teaching and other credentials.
CSUH also operates a second campus in nearby Contra Costa County, which provides full instructional support for over 2,500 upper division and graduate students. We offer the Master of Arts degree in Literature and the Master of Arts degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. A major responsibility of the Department is the teaching of writing. In addition to general education writing courses, we offer all levels of composition, including developmental, creative, and on-line writing courses. Our graduate offerings include seminars in composition theory and writing across the curriculum.