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Faculty & Graduate school

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Outline of the Department / Features of the Curriculum

The School of Biology and Integrated Sciences provides a single-discipline curriculum that allows students to build a broad knowledge of basic science. In the first year, students take liberal arts education subjects, including natural science experiments and elementary information processing, and, at the same time, take specialized basic subjects, including an introduction to comprehensive basic science experiments and an overview of comprehensive basic science. Through the substantial first-year education, students develop academic self-awareness. Full-scale specialized education starts from the second year. To assist students in making a smooth transition from basic subjects to specialized subjects, the school provides two courses: the Biological Science Course and the Mathematical and Material Science Course.
In the first semester of the third year, students gain practical training in comprehensive basic science through visits to a series of laboratories: these visits also inform student laboratory selections. Students join their chosen lab in the second semester of their third year: there they conduct undergraduate research over a period of a year and a half.

Biological Science Course

In this course, students learn the basics of science, including life science, materials science, mathematics, and information sciences, and then undertake the specialized study of life science. Thus, this course produces researchers, engineers, teachers, etc. who can actively participate in the life science field with their wide perspective of science.

Mathematical and Material Science Course

In this course, students learn the basics of science, including life science, materials science, mathematics, and information sciences, and then undertake the specialized study of either materials science or mathematics and information sciences.
This course aims to cultivate human resources who can actively take part in material science or mathematics and information sciences fields with the advantage of familiarity with life science and an extensive knowledge of mathematical and material sciences.