大学概要

Curriculum

School of Management and Information Sciences
School of Global Studies
Tama Graduate School of Business Management & Information Sciences

The Hope of the School of Management and Information Sciences：

Educating aspiring people who will be at the forefront of solving the problems of an industrial society

Japan is entering a new era of unprecedented problems, including globalization and an aging society. As businesses confront these problems, they can no longer utilize rules of thumb or past successes. They need people that can discover and solve problems.

Our department has created an education curriculum founded on the principle of educating aspiring people who will be at the forefront of solving the problems of an industrial society.

We will shift to our new curriculum system (Industrial Society, Problem Solving Studies, Examples from the Front Line) from fiscal 2014 and tie this in to concrete educational outcomes.

Many of our faculty members come from business, marketing, business strategy, financial accounting, ICT, global business, Web design, and research. This allows them to use various methods to teach cutting-edge actual "Problem Solving Studies."

The curriculum focuses largely on seminars, with small group interactive and participatory lectures that often include group work and fieldwork.

School of Management and Information Sciences Curriculum System

Industrial Society: In this curriculum, students can learn a broad range of approaches and knowledge that will be useful in analyzing problems in an industrial society, developing solutions for these problems, and tackling these problems.
Problem Solving Studies: Instead of teaching knowledge in a fragmentary way, you will be taught what sort of knowledge and methods are needed for different types of problem solving. All classes have been developed as one problem solving methodology.
Examples from the Front Line: Students will study in a small group, interactive seminar format. This practical learning educational program will raise various problems facing industrial societies and local communities and teach the practical skills to propose and implement solutions. There will be four types of seminars: pre-seminars, home seminars, project seminars, and internship seminars.

Two subjects and three study models to choose from to match your interests and goals

Project Conceptualization Studies
(currently submitting notification and paperwork for establishment)

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Global Business
(Human Resources for Project Management)

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Local Business
(Human Resources for Local Innovation)

Management and Information Sciences
Students will be trained as business ICT experts with a customer’s point of view and marketing sensibilities.

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Business ICT
(Human Resources for Business ICT)

Educational curriculum focusing on seminars

The basic learning style of the School of Management and Information Sciences is small group, interactive seminar formats. This hands-on education will give students the practical skills to analyze the various problems facing industrial societies and local communities and solve them through proposing and implementing solutions.

Lecture curriculum to give students practical knowledge

We have prepared courses from an interdisciplinary and international perspective that allow students to learn a broad range of approaches and knowledge that will be useful in analyzing problems, developing solutions, and tackling these problems. The lectures will not teach knowledge in a fragmentary way; the curriculum has been designed to allow students to systematically learn what knowledge and methods are effective for solving various problems.

The Hope of the School of Global Studies：

Educating people who will solve global problems and be active on a global stage

Matters that happen in one country or region can become global problems in an instant, as witnessed by recent financial crises, environmental problems, infectious disease policies, and so on. An approach that transcends borders is needed to solve these problems. Anime, video games, and other aspects of Japanese culture also spreading around the world, and with more and more people actively getting around through tourism, vacations, and the like, the hospitality industry that supports them has also grown.

However, these developments have been one cause of global problems, and the future of Japan depends on how we can address, develop, and solve these problems.

The School of Global Studies aims to produce people that can solve global problems and be active on a global stage. In the future, people will need English skills to convey their own thoughts and understand others. Our department will hold each student’s aspirations in high esteem while teaching them the intelligence and problem solving skills used worldwide.

Broad array of options in the School of Global Studies

The School of Global Studies aims to nurture students that can be active globally. But we do not focus solely on foreign countries. There has been a spike in businesses in Japan as well that are deepening their relationship with foreign countries. One very important mission of our school is to nurture students that can contribute to these kinds of companies.

Two courses with an eye toward your future path (from your second year)

International Studies Course: The goal of this course is to nurture students that can be active on a global stage, such as in the business and international relations fields. Students will not only learn about the various senses of value and ways of thinking around the world, but a broad variety of education that will deepen their knowledge of Japanese culture and history. At the same time, students will also study the English communication skills necessary for solving global problems.
Hospitality Management Course: This specialized course will train skilled workers for the tourism, leisure, and hospitality industries. Professors with a rich background in and experience with highly globalized tourism industries will painstakingly teach hospitality skills and mindsets. Students will deeply understand hospitality and the skills to practice it.

School of Global Studies Curriculum

Teaching the English communication skills and problem solving skills needed in a global society
Rapid globalization involves Japanese companies too. This sort of stage requires people that can solve global problems and be active on a global stage. The School of Global Studies (SGS) emphasizes studies focusing on increasing English communication skills and having an global outlook while utilizing the merits of small group interactive education.

There is a learning support room that students can use freely every day as our system to support curriculum learning. Here, students can increase their desire to learn while receiving individual guidance from advisors. There is also a peer support system in place for students to receive study support from their peers.

The mission of the School of Global Studies: Four elements needed to nurture global people

1.Small group system: To increase language abilities and communication skills
2.English education: Students will learn and speak English as a common language. Freshmen students will spend 8 classes of intensive learning per week.
3.Study abroad program: Students will experience a cultural environment totally unlike Japan’s and understand a different way of thinking.
4.Career education – Internships and career courses: Global people do not just work overseas – they work in Japan as well. We will nurture students that will help globalize medium-sized enterprises as well.

Tama Graduate School of Business Management & Information Sciences has Aspirations

The practical science-oriented Tama Graduate School of Business Management & Information Sciences educates students to become managers to support business (reform-oriented middle management, project managers, presidents) and entrepreneurs who will start businesses (entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs)

The long-term blockage of Japanese economy and society in an ever globalizing and complexifying environment is a strong message that drastic and speedy reforms of traditional senses of value and awareness is necessary. Managers who have mastered the essence of total management and successfully practice the true meaning of "aspirational business" will blaze a new era as an intrapreneur of new projects in an already existing organization or as an entrepreneur who creates new organizations.

Our graduate school is always searching for what theories are for, and what knowledge will be useful for. Our fundamental educational policy is to foster theoretical foundations that will give students logic and confidence to tackle any issue, and the language skills and energy to understand reality in an intrinsic, rather than superficial way. The imagination to creatively find intrinsic (and not short-term) solutions, in addition to various knowledge and flexible multi-faceted approach skills for analyzing and solving actual problems, is desperately needed. Practical management science is not an academic subject – it is a practical subject that creates theories out of experience.

Much of our faculty is people with a lot of actual experience in the industrial world. We have arranged five domains that have been made as theoretical as possible using valuable experiences gained from confronting reality to be useful in a variety of situations. We also provide "neo-liberal arts" and "knowledge creation management," as well as "business outlets" and "thesis seminars" so that the study of these topics produces living results, to be useful to managers in creating management theory. Through the above, we hope that students will want to master the skills to analyze real problems, rich imagination for the solution to these problems, and the energy to face an uncertain future.

Five Domains

Finance Management: Study comprehensive finance, accounting, law, and risk management.
Supply Chain Management: Study total management through looking at SCM in an SCM domain.
Human Resource Management: Systematically study practical knowledge with the starting point that corporations are made of people.
Marketing Management: Features a complete array of courses that allow students to study broadly study marketing so that they can become marketing professionals.
Integration Management: Focus on integration management in addition to the above four features.

Business Data Science Course

Becoming a businessperson that can utilize data to solve business problems
5 Features of the Business Data Science Course

Feature 1 You will not study analytical methods as just knowledge: Tama University Graduate School is practical science oriented.
Our goal is for you to learn business data science as a weapon, and not a theory.
For that reason, you will master statistical problem solving abilities (and gain statistical test qualifications).
Feature 2 You will not have to wait two years to see results: Oftentimes you have to wait two years to see results. We have secured a place from graduate students to present and talk about issues they are facing once a month (Saturdays). The nature of these meetings is to tackle the matters now that you want to resolve now.
Feature 3 Management and practical science guidance from abundant faculty: The fusion of practical science and science. In addition to specialists in data analysis and data management, you will learn from faculty with a rich background in consulting and strategy proposal.
Feature 4 Learn from cutting-edge examples and data scientists active in the field: We provide omnibus lectures from data scientists active on the front lines to create a learning environment that links academics and real business data science.
Feature 5 Learning support characteristic of businesspersons: We hold lectures twice during the week and on one Saturday every month in a new easy to reach metropolitan campus (Shinagawa). There are also supplementary video lectures as well. Students can take lectures for MBA courses, and people can take advantage of subsidies for courses to support learning in working adults. (These courses are part of an education benefit system from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare.)