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The educational aim of Nagoya University of Foreign Studies is to give
students various kinds of practical learnings which will serve the demands
of the rapidly developing present-day world.
The School of Foreign Languages comprises the Department of British and
American Studies. French Studies, Chinese Studies and Japanese Studies,
and the Division of Common Courses. The study of foreign languages naturally
presupposes the attainment of the four skills of listening, speaking,
reading and writing. However, equally important in college language courses
is the content of the language, that is, what to speak about as well
as how to speak it. Considering this, the main study areas we offer in
these departments are, in addition to specific languages, "humanity",
"culture", "society" and "economy", because these study areas represent
every feature of the age of "borderlessness", the age of transnational
communications. More specifically we provide students with the studies
of culture behind foreign languages so as to strengthen their practical
language skills through the knowledge of the ways of thinking, attitudes
and values of people who use those languages. Students are encouraged
to broaden their views from their own languages or cultures to others
related to them for better understanding and fairer judgements.
The new Department of Japanese Studies aims at training college teaching
staff to teach Japanese to foreign students, retraining school teachers
who will receive non-Japanese speakers, and educating office workers
who have a good knowledge and command of wirtten and spoken Japanese.
The study of Japanese language and culture, by providing a new insight
into ourselves, will enrich the quality of learning and skills pursued
in our College. The coordination of the Departments in academic pursuits
and education forms the characteristic of our School, which will be extended
to our Graduate School.
The introduction of the semester system in 1994 has facilitated students'
long-and short-term language training seminars and academic studies in
overseas universities we have concluded with when exchange agreements.
A variety of programs are organized providing substantial scholarships
to encourage students to study abroad. And, since this is the age of
information, courses of information processing are provided by the newest
types of computers and other facilities provide. This will develop not
only students'language abilities but their proficiency in the knowledge
and techniques of handling modern equipment used in communication media.
In short, the bringing up of people of great energy and ability who will
be fitting for the new era is the very aim of our School. |
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