Faculty of Human Environment of Sciences – Department of Environmental Science
Special characteristics and educational goals of the department
Our pursuit of comfort and convenience has led to today’s prosperity, but we are consuming natural resources and destroying and polluting our environment. Representative examples of this include global warming and the pollution of the environment with toxic substances. Understanding the mechanism of environmental change brought on by human living and learning about the impact these environmental changes have on living things is very important to our future as well.
This department investigates problems mainly concerning the regional environment centered on Fukuoka Prefecture and aims to make contributions to the regional community. We also help students acquire general knowledge pertaining to environment science and develop the ability to make a scientific analysis of environmental problems.
Through two courses – the physical science course and biological science course - we conduct specialized education consisting of education and research pertaining to the mechanism behind environmental changes and the impact of environmental change on living organisms.
In this specialized education, students can acquire fundamental skills which are in high demand in current society, such as environmental chemical analysis, computer programming, and biotechnology, and this also opens the path to acquiring qualifications such as those needed to become a certified environmental measurer or an information processing technician. Moreover, we provide a curriculum for acquiring a junior and senior high school teacher’s license (science).
Admissions Policy (Student Acceptance Policy)
This department is looking for students who are concerned with environmental problems and have a desire to analyze and understand them from a natural sciences perspective. We welcome students who in addition to possessing academic ability in the sciences such as mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry, and geology have also acquired a generalized knowledge of Japanese language, English language, sociology, and the like.
Acquirable Qualifications
The graduates receive a bachelor’s degree. Also, students who complete necessary courses will obtain the following qualifications:
- First-Class Junior High School Teacher’s License (Science)
- First-Class High School Teacher’s License (Science)
- Teacher-Librarian Qualifications
Fields in which students can become active following graduation (Career Options)
- Technicians in the research divisions of corporations and universities
- Research technicians in environmental analysis institutions
- Science teachers in junior and senior high school
- Computer related industry
- Biological and physical (chemistry) science related industry
- Advancement to graduate school
