Features of the Care Welfare Major

Cultivating Care Professionals who Possess the Knowledge and Techniques in Care Giving and Social Welfare by Fostering a Wide Range of Knowledge and Understanding of Humanity, while Nurturing the Human Perspective Expected of Care Givers.

Students, in their 1st and 2nd years, study basic educational subjects to learn the foundations of human understanding. They get the opportunity think about things from a wide range of perspectives and cultivate a rich-sense of humanity, while acquiring a deeply refined education. In addition, students also get to nurture a "welfare mind" through practical education such as activities that contribute to the local community. Furthermore, since the curriculum of the Care Welfare Major requires that students take the national examinations for Care Welfare Worker and Social Worker certification before graduation, students learn specialized subjects from the 1st year onward in order to acquire both of the national certifications, while also being providing with practical care giving training, which consists of 1 week during their 1st year and 6 weeks during their 2nd year.
The 2nd and 3rd years of the curriculum arrange for the students to take specialized care welfare subjects as well as subjects required for expertise in social welfare. The 3rd year also provides for 4 weeks of care giving training and 4 weeks of social work training, which is essential for social workers. The Care Welfare Major nurtures the students' practical skills in care welfare and social welfare through a total of 15 weeks of training during the first 3 years of the curriculum.
Furthermore, the 3rd and 4th years of the curriculum give students the opportunity to exhibit their cultivated knowledge and techniques in graduation research work, while also giving them the chance to consider what area of care giving and welfare to work in. The end goal of the curriculum is to develop highly specialized care welfare workers and social welfare workers.