Overview of this program

Terumi Hotokeyama
art professor

Starting in 2, our university has transitioned to an educational system centered on degree programs so that faculty from a wide range of academic fields can work together to provide education, transcending organizational boundaries.We are expected to develop educational research that goes beyond traditional frameworks and accurately respond to the increasingly sophisticated and diverse needs for human resource development in a modern society that is rapidly changing and facing complex issues.

The Fine Arts degree program conducts specialized research in theory and practical skills related to plastic arts from a wide perspective, and uses advanced skills, practical application abilities, and planning ability to respond to the diverse developments in plastic arts today and contribute to society. We train highly specialized professionals and researchers who can play leadership roles (master's program).In addition, we train researchers who have creative research skills related to plastic arts and who can contribute to various areas of society through their outstanding specialized knowledge and practical skills, as well as university teachers who have solid teaching and research skills. (Doctoral course).

In addition to deepening specialized knowledge and skills, cultivate the ability to proactively discover issues based on a wide range of knowledge and develop research creatively and uniquely. I hope that a method will be established to lead to research results that can contribute to the advancement of the field.

Terumi Fuyama, Degree Program Leader

Overview of this program

The Arts degree program (master's program) conducts specialized research on theory and practical skills related to plastic arts from a wide perspective, and uses advanced skills, practical application abilities, and planning ability to contribute to the diverse development of plastic arts today. The purpose of this program is to develop highly specialized professionals and researchers who can respond to the globalization of society and play a leadership role in a globalized society.

In this course, which has a capacity of 45 students, each education and research area of ​​art history, art support, Western painting, Japanese painting, printmaking, sculpture, calligraphy, composition, general modeling, crafts, visual design, and environmental design is a highly specialized expression. We will provide education to equip students with skills and rich knowledge.To this end, we encourage cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning and research based on an educational policy that takes advantage of our unique characteristics, and aim to cultivate a wide range of abilities.It is also possible to expand your international perspective by taking advantage of programs such as study abroad programs.

After graduation, career options include entering the University of Tsukuba Graduate School of Fine Arts degree program (doctoral course), as well as becoming teachers at junior high and high schools, curators of art museums and museums, researchers at government agencies and companies, painters, printmakers, etc. Highly specialized occupations with creative expressive abilities in the figurative arts such as painters, sculptors, calligraphers, craftsmen, potters, lacquer artists, sculptors, photographers, architects, designers, illustrators, videographers, critics, etc. Intended for people and researchers.

History

The University of Tsukuba has its roots in Japan's oldest school established in 1872 (later Tokyo Higher Normal School), and is a new concept university that opened in Tsukuba Science City in 1973.

Graduate school education in the arts began with the Department of Fine Arts, Graduate School of Education, Tokyo University of Education, which was established in 1967, but if you include the Department of Fine Arts, Department of Education, Tokyo University of Education, which was established in 1955, it has been going on for over 60 years. It has a history.

Related chronology

1975 Opening of the School of Arts and Sciences
1976 Graduate School of Arts (5-year doctoral course) established
1977 Graduate School of Arts (Master's Program) established
2001 Graduate school doctoral program Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences established; graduate school doctoral program Graduate School of Arts relaunched as Department of Arts (5-year integrated system)
2006 The Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences transitions to a sectional doctoral program, and opens a master's program in art and a doctoral program in art.
2020 The Faculty of Comprehensive Human Sciences Research Group was established, and a transition to a degree program system was established. Master's program), Arts degree program (Doctoral program), and Design degree program (Doctoral program).
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