In the Department of Resource Policy and Management, students acquire deep insights into law, politics, economics and international cooperation as they relate to natural resources. These essential insights are further refined by incorporating contextual information, like culture, history, geography and religion when considering resource locations.
The Department provides a unique curriculum, designed to train future professionals that will solve energy and mineral-related problems and environmental issues from angles of social sciences and humanities. After establishing a solid foundational knowledgebase in resources in both Japanese and English, students build upon their understanding using perspectives developed in the interdisciplinary sciences all taught in English, to work internationally as resource-focused and environment-oriented professionals. The curriculum includes the Resource Sciences Fieldwork Abroad, a three to four week program, in which students gain hands-on experience in the best practices in resource exploration, development and management outside Japan. As a truly international department, in the last eight years, this Department has accepted international students from Vietnam, Malaysia, Mongolia and China, and has sent Japanese students to get them to pursue their independent academic interests in Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Iran, Germany, Poland, Finland, New Zealand, Kenya, Botswana and USA.
By studying natural resources, including materials, water and land, through interdisciplinary points of view, students will be able to better understand complex world affairs surrounding resource policy and management and gain the skills necessary to handle global issues with corporate responsibility.