Doctoral degree program
Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences

Human sciences should be advanced more by association and cooperation of individual research areas on human, which is also necessary for solving the increasing human problems in near future. In response to the demand of the new era, the Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences started in 2001. The graduate programs consist of 18 main fields. They can be divided into the following 4 areas:

Humanities
5 main fields - Education, School Education, Psychology, Disability Sciences, and Lifespan Development
Physical Education and Arts
6 main fields: Physical Education, Sports and Health Promotion, Health and Sport Sciences, Coaching Science, Art and Design, and World Heritage Studies
Medical Sciences
4 main fields - Medical Sciences, Nursing Sciences, Life System Medical Sciences, and Clinical Sciences
Interdisciplinary Sciences
3 main fields - Human Care Sciences, Kansei Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and Sports Medicine.

The Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences with 18 programs intends (1) to train students to become researchers who have excellent research capability to perform high quality studies, and as well (2) to train students to become highly specialized professionals, both having broad vision on humans based on the plenty of the multi-disciplinary knowledge of human body and mind.