Building stronger relationships in off-campus program

   As for the university, junior college division and kindergarten teacher training college, we incorporate off-campus programs under a class called “Off-Campus Study Program.”  “Off-Campus Study” is placed in the “Seitoku Education” program as a required subject, like “The Performing Arts Series” and where students earn credit.
   In off-campus study program, students not only acquire extensive knowledge and helpful abilities, one of its aims is to build new relationships through gathering with other students and teachers.  In a student life without many opportunities to act as a group, students learn to deepen relationships with others, which is hard to do in a classroom, and to cultivate human relationships to live together.  Students also learn the rules for acting in a group and self-control through the off-campus program.
   In addition, experiential study is substantial.  For “Off-Campus Study Program III,” we hold classical performing arts appreciation and table manners classes.  In classical performing arts appreciation, students see Noh theater, bunraku and kabuki with an aim to deepen their understanding of Japanese traditional culture.  The table manners class takes place at the Imperial hotel as a gathering to try French food and to learn table manners.  It is a program where students acquire table manners appropriate for an adult, and learn from one of the chefs French dietary culture and recipes.