ir3s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/index.html. 4 We offered two pilot core courses of sustainability science in the fall semester Selleck MS-275 of 2007 in the Schools of Engineering and Economics, respectively. These courses can be included for the current program’s requirements. Thus, technically speaking, the RISS program started in this semester. 5 The Graduate School of Engineering is the largest school at Osaka University, consisting of ten divisions. 6 There is JSH-23 purchase another campus in Minoo near the two main campuses. Only the School of Foreign Studies is located in
the campus.”
“Introduction In October 2007, the University of Tokyo started a new international master’s program, the Graduate Program in Sustainability Science (GPSS), as an interdepartmental program of the five departments in the Division of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences (GSFS). The GPSS is also an educational activity of the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S), a nationwide research–education network founded in Japan to establish sustainability science as a new transdisciplinary academic field. The IR3S has five participating universities: the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Osaka University, Hokkaido University, and Ibaraki University. The Division of Environmental Studies
and the IR3S have been collaborating in the development of the GPSS since its inception. Those who have completed the GPSS are awarded a master of FGFR inhibitor sustainability science degree. The present paper describes how the GPSS has defined and designed sustainability education at the postgraduate level. GNA12 Objectives of the GPSS Sustainability science has been described by
Kates et al. (2001) and Clark (2007) as “improving society’s capacity to use the earth in ways that simultaneously meet the needs of a much larger but stabilizing human population, sustain the life support systems of the planet, and substantially reduce hunger and poverty.” The IR3S recognizes sustainability science as an academic field that points the way to understanding the diverse issues associated with sustainability in a holistic manner and to propose visions and methods toward the development of a sustainable society (Komiyama and Takeuchi 2006). As the GPSS is a part of the educational activities of the IR3S, the objective of it is to educate future leaders who can contribute to building a sustainable society according to the philosophy of sustainability science recognized by the IR3S. Higher education, which has the task of producing future leaders, should play an important role in creating a sustainable future (Cortese 2003). Development of the GPSS curriculum To meet the aforementioned objectives, the GPSS has developed the curriculum shown in Table 1. It consists of three parts: Knowledge and Concept Oriented Courses, Experiential Learning and Skills Oriented Practical Courses, and the Master’s Thesis.