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The major in Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences of Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences aims to nurture the next generation of researchers as seekers and producers of advanced and comprehensive knowledge, that will lead to the creation of new research fields, by pursuing a group of subjects shared by contemporary scientific fields through “project research” which focuses on interdisciplinary and international knowledge production.

The major in Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences of Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences aims to produce new human resources needed in the coming era in a variety of fields, while staying one step ahead of global trends. This is to develop bold collaborative attempts with multiple fields beyond the framework of conventional disciplines, under the education and research system as a “project-based graduate school”. Thus, in addition to being professional and up-to-date, the ability to collect and comprehensively evaluate necessary information, and to develop human networks and cooperative relationships in problem-solving directions by initiating certain projects based on clear judgments are the skills we are trying to foster in this graduate school. To achieve this, we seek individuals who can think thoroughly about their own themes and questions on their own initiative.

The major in Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences of Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences aims to nurture the next generation of researchers who have the ability to collect and make comprehensive judgments of specialized, international, and up-to-date information on their own themes and fields, while also opening up new research fields through their projects. To this end, we have established the following five abilities (educational objectives), which we expect students to acquire upon completion of the program.

(1) Ability to engage in the <now>
Have a keen sensitivity and ability to respond in real time to various trends in the world.

(2) Ability to think about <history>
Have the ability to raise and respond to new signs in the world as fundamental and universal questions for human beings, based on a historical perspective.

(3) Ability to <work> in <collaboration>
Have the ability to develop these questions and answers with researchers, citizens and experts in various activities

(4) Ability to <disseminate>
The ability to effectively disseminate acquired research results not only through traditional media, but also through various other media (electronic and visual media), both domestically and internationally.

(5) Pioneering research for the <next generation>
The ability to develop newly created research into a system and pass it on to the next generation.

The Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences provides researcher training with the active participation of graduate students in project research which aims at producing interdisciplinary and international knowledge, as they pursue their doctoral thesis. In this process, we aim to lead the creation of new research fields and provide graduate students with options for new research, while maintaining a constructive tension with existing discipline-based graduate schools. In order to realize these goals, we designed a new graduate-education system, which (1) focuses on "core ethics," (2) has cutting-edge and comprehensive themes that cross the three fields of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, (3)utilizes project research which aims to build an open researcher network and obtain diverse results, and (4) has the flexible structure which can respond to the demands of the times. The Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, which has an integrated graduate school system, provides systematic researcher training in line with the educational goals and human resource development objectives of the school over the five years from admission to completion of the program. In order to obtain a degree through this training, students are required to have the abilities described above.

The acquisition of these abilities will be considered to have been achieved through the completion of the required credits as stipulated in the curriculum of this program, the examination of the doctoral dissertation based on the dissertation criteria, and the passing of the final examination. After all this, the doctoral degree(scholarship) will be awarded.

《Evaluation Criteria for Dissertation》

The doctoral dissertation must demonstrate the research ability and the rich academic knowledge that forms the basis of the skills necessary to engage in excellent research activities or other highly specialized work as a researcher in a major field of study. Furthermore, it must be of appropriate quality, quantity, content, and standard as a doctoral dissertation of the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences. In general, the following items are subject to evaluation, although it varies depending on the field and subject matter;

(1) Format requirements: the volume of the paper must be appropriate and the format must follow that of journals of national academic societies.
(2) Appropriateness/originality of problem setting and the research theme
(3) Significance and appropriateness of the research
(4) Systematics and overall structure of the paper
(5) Relevance to previous research and existing research
(6) Clarity and logical consistency of theoretical analysis
(7) Methodological relevance and systematics
(8) Appropriateness, rigor, and precision of argumentation
(9) Consistency and coherence of arguments and claims
(10) Appropriateness of expression and notation
(11) Originality and innovativeness

The major in Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences of Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences organizes the following curricula in order to achieve our educational goals.

The Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, which provides researcher training with the active participation of graduate students in project research which aims at producing interdisciplinary and international knowledge, will lead the creation of new research fields and provide graduate students with options for new research, while maintaining a constructive tension with existing discipline-based graduate schools. In order to realize these goals, we designed a new graduate-education system, which (1) focuses on "core ethics," (2) has cutting-edge and comprehensive themes that cross the three fields of humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, (3)utilizes project research which aims to build an open researcher network and obtain diverse results, and (4) has the flexible structure which can respond to the demands of the times.

The Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, which has an integrated graduate school system, provides systematic researcher training in line with the above educational and human resource development goals over the five years from admission to completion of the program, and develops education based on the following common curriculum.

The curriculum is largely divided into basic education in the first and second years, and researcher training education in the third and subsequent years. It is divided into five areas: "Reading SeminarsⅠ" (seminar), "Research SeminarsⅠ" (seminar), "Subject-specific Lectures" (lecture), "Supporting Subjects" (skill development), and "Project Seminars (seminar)," with researcher training consisting of the "Knowledge Production Seminars". In principle, graduate students are required to submit a preliminary doctoral dissertation in their second year, and after passing the examination, they are required to take the "Knowledge Production Seminars" from their third year. Graduate students in their third and later years receive guidance in writing their doctoral dissertations in the seminars, and in principle, the doctoral dissertation is set to be submitted and reviewed in the fifth year. In the "Transdisciplinary Project Development," graduate students participate in practical research projects in which faculty members of the school are involved, while also collaborating with research institutes within the university.

In addition, the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences adopts (1) a "system of multiple and collaborative guidance", which encourages graduate students to take cross-disciplinary courses and to have at least one of their three advisors be a faculty member from another field. Under such a system, education is provided in conjunction with the project. Moreover, as a (2) "project-based educational research system," core education and research are developed on a project basis, since they are operated in an integrated manner with a diverse group of projects and education/research, as represented by the "Transdisciplinary Project Development." Furthermore, (3) "systematic integral curriculum design" allows graduate students to manage their own projects on a continuous and developmental basis.