Message from Dean Tsutomu Aoki
Our faculty's name is "Faculty of Human Development". And "human development" is a keyword for use in settling global society problems in the 21st century.
While the development of scientific technology in the 20th century has brought about a significant increase in productivity, it has also caused serious destruction of the global environment. And beyond the 20th century, a century of war, human beings are and still will be in danger of war and the use of force.
Human beings have attained various abilities in the course of their development as individuals, groups and other categories, and have then developed them as cultures. The development of human beings must not be just the concrete power to move the actual world, but something bigger. I believe that the necessary point of view for use in clearing up cosmopolitan problems in the global society is that of "human development".
It is difficult to consider "Human Development" by merely relying on any single academic field or methodology. It is necessary to coordinate and integrate the various sciences, including art and literature and nature studies commonly based on the development and advance of the various lifelong abilities of human beings.
The Faculty of Human Development targets a wide range of academic fields, from science to art and provides diversified study courses. We are waiting for you, who have the spirit of challenge for the task of a global Scholarships society in the 21st century.
Tsutomu Aoki
Dean, Kobe University Faculty of Human Development
Updated: 2007/09/27 (Thu) 13:08