To Gain a Broad Interdisciplinary Basis of
Knowledge and Understanding
in a Small Setting of Class

The Division of Social Sciences hopes to attract students who are sensitive to issues ranging from the minor problems of everyday life to broad global concerns relating to the future of human society. It is from this sense of engagement that studies in the social sciences take their beginning.

It is an advantage of the Division of Social Sciences in the framework of a liberal arts education that students can learn widely across all areas of the social sciences. The small student population at ICU allows teachers and students to take up common problems and work together to solve them. It is hoped that students of the social sciences in particular will develop the kind of sensitivity that will lead them to confront actual social problems as their own problems.

The Division includes such specialized areas as Economics and Business Administration, History, Political Science (including Law), and Sociology and Anthropology. In each area, the object is to gain a broad interdisciplinary basis of knowledge and understanding and to develop skills in critical thinking. Moreover, special programs such as American Studies, Japan Studies, Asian Studies and Peace Studies allow the investigation and analysis of concepts as well as the pursuit of improvement in a wide range of areas and from a broad international and comparative perspective.

The Division of Social Sciences aims to bring up leaders who are committed to solving problems in order to realize world peace and a global structure which allows even the weak and disadvantaged to pursue a meaningful life.