Center for Liberal Arts

Aiming for a comprehensive education that will equip our graduates to deal with various issues that arise in society

Courses studied at Meiji Gakuin University can be broadly divided into specialized classes provided by the department to which a student belongs and the Meiji Gakuin University Core Curriculum featured in this section. The Meiji Gakuin University Core Curriculum provides the opportunity to also study extensively, over the space of four years, academic fields other than the student’s major or subjects in the faculty or department in which they are enrolled. To be more specific, a real diversity of courses are available, ranging from humanities subjects such as languages, philosophy and Japanese literature, to social science subjects such as history and cultural anthropology, natural science subjects such as biology and chemistry, information processing subjects, health and sports science subjects, and even AI and data science subjects. To deal with intricately entwined contemporary issues which transcend the categories of arts and sciences, it is essential to understand the background to those issues and see things from a nuanced multifaceted perspective. The Meiji Gakuin University Core Curriculum is intended to make the specialized knowledge acquired at university even more meaningful by broadening the students’ horizons and opening up more knowledge to them.

Katsuya Fukuyama, Dean, Center for Liberal Arts