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.
Some graduates also enter the graduate schools and eventually teach at the university level.
Error Analysis, Developing Teaching Materials, Intercultural Education, Japanese Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Contrastive Linguistics, Aspects of Japanese Culture, Comparative Studies of Culture, and Modern Japanese Literature. After graduation, some students are expected to enter the graduate school, and this may lead to an academic post in a University. Others are expected to become Japanese language teachers at various institutions in Japan and overseas. Dept.of Education Dept.of Psychology Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction Dept. of Teaching Japanese as a Second Language Japanese Language Ed. English Language Ed.