About Faculty of Policy Management
Training Students to Become Professionals
The Faculty of Policy Management trains students to identify and resolve social problems. These "problem-solving professionals" can then lead the world. The world today faces many problems such as environmental pollution, energy crisis, economic gap between rich and poor, regional wars, ethnic conflicts and religious tension. None of these problems can be understood or resolved through a single field of study. A more comprehensive approach is needed to resolve these problems. The Faculty of Policy Management creates the right environment for students to experience the way policies are made, through the process of demonstration, experiment and evaluation of results. By experiencing these processes and employing new information network, students can find an integrative approach to problem solving. The Faculty also encourages students to conduct fieldwork and participate in internship programs to acquire practical experience.
Borderless Education Integrating the Arts and Sciences
The educational structures of the two faculties do not lay down a boundary either between the arts and sciences or the two faculties. Students who belong to either one of the two faculties can enroll in any courses and Seminars offered by the faculties.
SFC believes that some of the wide-ranging problems faced by contemporary society arise from many different reasons. None of these problems can be understood or resolved by taking recourse to a single conventional field of study. A more comprehensive and integrated approach is required to resolve these problems. SFC, therefore, provides a borderless education in the hope of resolving some of these intricate and wide-ranging social problems.
In fact, many science-oriented students belong to the Faculty of Policy Management, which is generally perceived as an arts-centered faculty, while many arts-oriented students belong to the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, which is understood to be a science-centered faculty.
Students at both faculties are offered the same curriculum with some minor procedural differences, such as a requirement for advancement to the following year.
Admission Quota for Academic Year 2011
Regular Examination quota: 275
Self-Recommended Admission (A.O. Nyushi in Japanese) quota (total of April and September admissions): 100
Number of Full-time Faculty Members
43
(excluding non-tenured faculty members, as of 1 April 2011)
Location
Students spend their first to fourth years at the Shonan Fujisawa Campus.