Admissions Policy
Faculty of Fine Arts
Admissions Policy (Prospective Students)
The Faculty of Fine Arts is seeking students with the following characteristics.
1 Students who have a wide range of interests and strong curiosity about art and culture.
2 Students with strong artistic aspirations.
3 Students with the motivation to identify and solve challenges by themselves.
4 Students who possess foundational academic and artistic abilities, and the ability to think flexibly.
Curriculum Policy
The Faculty of Fine Arts designs and implements its curriculum based on the following objectives.
1 The Faculty provides an open site for creativity that is unique to the university through an educational curriculum that deepens expertise and transcends different disciplines.
2 The Faculty aims to promote not only the expressive abilities of students but also a rich, unrestrained creativity and intellectual capacity for the generation of new artistic expression by focusing on both technical and theoretical education.
3 The Faculty fosters students’ ability to set their own goals according to individual themes and motivates them to learn independently in a highly concentrated curriculum conducted in small classes.
Diploma Policy
The Faculty of Fine Arts expects students to achieve the following goals before graduation.
1 Acquire wide-ranging perspectives related to art and professional knowledge.
2 Acquire a flexible intellectual capacity and unique creative power.
3 Acquire skills that enable students to express their own choice of subject matter.
Faculty of Music
Admissions Policy (Prospective Students)
The Faculty of Music is seeking students with the following characteristics.
1 Students who demonstrate the foundational skills and knowledge sufficient for specialist music education, and a strong motivation to learn.
2 Students who are highly individual and artistically creative.
Curriculum Policy
The Faculty of Music designs and implements its curriculum with the aim of enabling students to learn skills and knowledge in their specialized fields, cultivate their sensibilities, and gain a broad education that serves as a foundation for various forms of art, in addition to the following.
1 In the field of performance, students acquire foundational physical skills necessary for the control of instruments and singing voice, and an intellectual capacity to freely apply these skills.
2 In the production field, students acquire the foundational ability to handle musical sound necessary for composing and the intellectual capacity to apply them, in addition to strong powers of recollection.
3 In the academic field, students acquire foundational cognitive skills in order to grasp problems, as well as information literacy.
Diploma Policy
The Faculty of Music expects students to achieve the following goals before graduation.
1 Acquire a musical or academic foundation, and applicable skills as a musician in the performance, production, and academic fields respectively.
2 Acquire abilities to creatively disseminate the broad education gained as a student and contribute to art and culture.
Graduate School of Arts (Master’s Course)
Admissions Policy (Prospective Students)
The Graduate School of Arts (Master’s Course) is seeking students with the following characteristics.
1 Students who have broad interests in and a deep understanding of art and culture.
2 Students with strong aspirations for creating new types of artistic expression.
3 Students who possess the insight to identify challenges independently, and the necessary knowledge, intellectual rigor, and creative capacity to overcome them.
Curriculum Policy
The Graduate School of Arts (Master’s Course) designs and implements its curriculum based on the following objectives.
1 The School enables students to deepen their specialized fields through providing an open site for creativity that is unique to the university and that transcends different disciplines.
2 The School teaches students highly professionalized knowledge necessary for artistic creation and the implementation of research.
3 The School trains students to be able to conduct research independently based on robust instruction appropriate to their individual themes.
Diploma Policy
The Graduate School of Arts (Master’s Course) expects students to achieve the following goals before completing the course.
1 Deepen their specialization in fields related to art.
2 Establish a unique creative expression and research methodology based on a wide range of perspectives.
3 Acquire abilities to solve their own challenges and disseminate the results to society.
Graduate School of Music (Master’s Course)
Admissions Policy (Prospective Students)
The Graduate School of Music (Master’s Course) is seeking students with the following characteristics.
1 Students who demonstrate the skills, knowledge, and strong motivation necessary for conducting professional and highly advanced research in music.
2 Students who are highly individual and artistically creative.
Curriculum Policy
The Graduate School of Music (Master’s Course) designs and implements its curriculum with the aim of enabling students to refine their music sensibility and acquire advanced skills and knowledge in their specialized fields based on the fundamental skills and adaptability gained at undergraduate level, in addition to the following.
1 In the field of performance, students acquire abilities to imagine and express their unique artistic visions.
2 In the production field, students acquire the abilities to conceptualize sounds that reflect their worldviews and communicate them to others.
3 In the academic field, students acquire the intellectual capacity to identify their research problems, and gain the information literacy needed to solve them.
Diploma Policy
The Graduate of Music (Master’s Course) expects students to achieve the following goals before completing the course.
1 Acquire excellent musical or academic abilities to imagine, express, conceptualize, and think as a professional musician in the performance, production, and academic fields.
2 Acquire abilities to propose their broad creative view of music to society and contribute to the development of art and culture with a global perspective while also possessing a wide range of insights in different disciplines.
Graduate School of Arts (Doctoral Course)
Admissions Policy (Prospective Students)
The Graduate School of Arts (Doctoral Course) is seeking students with the following characteristics.
1 Students who are specializing in art, and have a wide range of interests in and a deep understanding of art and culture.
2 Students who strive to create a new relationship between art and the world based on their own unique expression and research methods.
3 Students who are actively cultivating the ability to disseminate the outcome of their research to society.
Curriculum Policy
The Graduate School of Arts (Doctoral Course) designs and implements its curriculum based on the following objectives.
1 The School enables students to explore their specialized fields through providing an open site for creativity that is unique to the university and that transcends different disciplines.
2 The School teaches students highly advanced and professional knowledge and skills necessary for artistic creation and the implementation of research.
3 The School trains students to actively disseminate creative and research activities to society.
Diploma Policy
The Graduate School of Arts (Doctoral Course) expects students to achieve the following goals before completing the course.
1 Acquire highly advanced expertise concluded from various matters related to art, culture, and society.
2 Establish creative expression and research methods that can open up new horizons based on cutting-edge perspectives and broad viewpoints.
3 Acquire a capacity to lead new art and culture through the development and dissemination of their creative and research activities.
Graduate School of Music (Doctoral Course)
Admissions Policy (Prospective Students)
The Graduate School of Music (Doctoral Course) is seeking students with the following characteristics.
1 Students who demonstrate the skills, knowledge, and strong motivation necessary for conducting professional and highly advanced research in music.
2 Students who are highly individual and artistically creative.
Curriculum Policy
The Graduate School of Music (Doctoral Course) designs and implements its curriculum based on the following objectives.
1 Students acquire an unwavering creativity based on a musical sensibility and outstanding abilities to imagine, express, conceptualize, and think critically that students gained during master’s courses.
2 Students acquire an ability to identify challenges that require resolution and develop a path to solve them independently.
3 Students acquire broad and deep knowledge and an awareness of issues that are not limited to the student’s own specialized field but extend to other disciplines.
4 Students acquire an ability to engage in two-way communication with society.
Diploma Policy
The Graduate School of Music (Doctoral Course) expects students to achieve the following goals before completing the course.
1 Acquire excellent musical or academic abilities to imagine, express, conceptualize, and think critically as a professional musician in the performance, production, and academic fields.
2 Acquire abilities to profoundly contribute to the development of art and culture based on a global perspective while creatively engaging in two-way communication with society about a wide range of insights that students possess in different disciplines.