There are many important features in the Department of Psychology. First of all, the teaching staff covers practically the whole range of psychology, hence the undergraduate courses are thorough and well organized. There are dark rooms, soundproof rooms, a mini-computer room, breeding rooms for laboratory animals, and a psychological clinic. Thirdly, the Department Library contains many important books and 220 foreign and 60 Japanese psychological journals, most of which are complete collections. Graduates from the Department have made great contributions to Japanese society and hold important positions in governmental organizations and companies.
Graduates work as family court officers, and as advisors in the juvenile classification center.
Graduates also become clinical psychologists in child guidance centers, school psychologists, teachers, industrial psychologists, and college teachers and professors. The Department of Curriculum and Instruction inherits a long tradition of training secondary school teachers from its predecessors, Hiroshima School of Secondary Education and Hiroshima Women's School of Secondary Education. It also aims at developing an interdisciplinary approach between the various subjects. This approach is achieved in close cooperation with the Departments of Education and Psychology. Students come from all over the country to join the Department, and graduates from the Department take up key posts in schools throughout the country.