Global Society

专业详情

The Graduate Program on Global Society is dedicated to bringing together students from across the humanities and social sciences interested in studying, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the phenomena and practices that constitute the unfolding process of globalization. The program combines resources from multiple departments, institutes, and programs at the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, allowing students to benefit from access to courses and specialists across an array of disciplines, including Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, International Relations, Law and Development, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Sociology, and more.

In the Graduate Program on Global Society, the international community is conceived as a global society where people from different cultural backgrounds holding diverse values interact with each other on multiple levels. This program explores the conditions and possibilities of global society by drawing together relevant disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Consequently, students are expected to take core courses exploring the nature of global society, as well as elective courses and research seminars. To be awarded the Master of Arts in Global Studies degree, M.A. students must write a master’s thesis or submit the results of their research on selected subjects. Ph.D. students are required to write a doctoral dissertation in order to earn a Ph.D. in Global Studies.