We are laying the foundation for common education with the pinnacle of fostering global citizens who are active in the value design society.
This center is an Educational Guidelines that helps students acquire International perspectives a wide range of knowledge through Open mindedness Practical learning, in order to cultivate independent global citizens with a strong sense of ethics and responsibility, who are equipped with the university's educational guidelines of "practical learning," "internationality," and "openness." To achieve this, the center changed its name from "Teikyo University General Education Center" to "Teikyo University Learning and Research Support Center" in 2017, and in April 2020 to "Teikyo University Center for General Education," and is promoting general education with an emphasis on cultivating global citizens who will be active in a value-design society.
About General Education Center
The position of common education in universities differs from university to university. Many universities are competing with the enhancement of specialized education in order to embody the diploma policy. However, in order to improve the quality of specialized education, it is essential to enhance common education. How we perceive common education has changed with the times. Many universities still position it as basic education in specialized education. Common education should foster critical thinking, insight, and compound-eye vision that will be useful to students in society. Common education is a barometer of the quality of university education. With the importance of "global human resources" and "global society" being aroused these days, the question is how to position university education, especially common education. With the goal of fostering global citizens with "knowledge," "inquiry," and "communication skills," this center provides common education aimed at by the university in close cooperation with each faculty and department. .. The activities of this center are not limited to the first year level, but also cover the study and research support of the entire university. In other words, not only the curriculum policy of each faculty and department, but also the diploma policy reflects this philosophy of fostering global citizens.
The introductory education that students learn when advancing from high school to university is a major turning point that influences their motivation to learn later. This center aims to stimulate the potential enjoyment of learning that students have by setting up various forms of "transition of learning" in general education as well as introductory education. Mechanisms for the "transition of learning" from high school to university are inadequate. It's not just that the name changed from student to student. Specifically, it will change from passive learning to proactive and active learning. Through the "comprehensive basic subjects", "language education subjects", and "self-development support subjects" that the center is involved in, we cultivate the fundamental ability and human power that are common to all occupations and specialized fields.
The Center for General Education promotes common education through the development and improvement of subject content, the development of teaching materials, and the proposal of curriculum that contribute to the development of human resources who will play an active role in the value design society of the future. Universities are also members of society, and it goes without saying that they are affected by medium- to long-term or short-term social changes. Regarding the entire common education system, including basic education at the literacy level, including higher-level connected subjects, it is necessary to provide common education in line with Teikyo University's Educational Guidelines while considering areas where classes should be improved by incorporating social change, or where existing educational content should be enhanced. For example, in the revision of the course of study, programming education from elementary school was introduced, and students who learned the basics of data analysis through the compulsory "Information I" in high school entered university, and the content of information processing literacy subjects at universities was required to be consistent. In addition, for the advent of a data-driven society that incorporates AI (artificial intelligence) technology and utilizes big data, it is urgent to develop literacy-level mathematics and data science subjects and provide learning opportunities for students. Furthermore, if we consider the social image we should aim for in the future as a value design society or a society of Society 5.0, the introduction of literacy-level intellectual property education as one of the human resource development programs that can propose new systems is also an issue to consider. The center will continue to steadily improve each of the existing General Education as before, while moving forward with the above developments.
History of establishment
This center was established in 2007 as the Teikyo University General Education Center to bring together departments that do not fall under the specialized education category of the university curriculum across faculties and departments, and to carry out practical reviews and improvements of various educational issues and liberal arts education. In particular, with regard to FD activities, in addition to having strong ties with the FD Committee, the center has also collaborated with Teikyo University Center for Teaching and Learning, which was established in 2011, to conduct further FD research and development, and has evolved into an indispensable organization for the entire university as an organization responsible for the practice of FD. After changing its name to the Teikyo University Learning and Research Support Center in 2017, the organization was renamed the "General Education Center" in April 2020. This change is based on existing efforts to improve liberal arts education with a focus on cultivating global citizens, and takes into account the creation of a system for developing human resources, including liberal arts students, who will be able to utilize AI and intellectual property in order to live in a predictable era.
Organization / Member
The Common Education Center is active in the General Basics Department, Language Education Department (English and Second Foreign Languages), and Information Education Department.
Head of Center Professor Tomohisa Kimura
Full-time faculty Professor Yoshikazu Inoue Professor Makiko Ueoka Professor Takashi Kido Professor Yoshihiro Mori Associate Professor Rena Mori Associate Professor Makiko Watanabe Senior Assistant Professor Fumio Tsutsui
(As of May 2025)
Research / activities
The Center is working to enhance the common education of the Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Language Studies, and Faculty of Education located on the Hachioji Campus. Within this center, we have three departments in charge of general education, language education, and information education, and we are promoting activities related to general education. We are also engaged in activities such as providing actual learning opportunities.
1. Common Education Review Committee
Mainly, we will consider various ways of studying the overall basic subjects such as subject structure, contents, and educational methods, and make concrete proposals. In 2020, we will discuss the direction of subjects that respond to social changes such as data science introduction education assuming liberal arts students, the ideal way of comprehensive basic subjects as universal education, etc., and partially precede the data science education video teaching materials. We are also developing such as. We also considered how to provide common education with an eye on the new normal era as a response to new coronavirus infections.
2. English Education Review Committee
We are involved in the development and implementation of the Placement Test and Achievement Test, measuring the English proficiency of 1st and 2nd grade students so that students can study at the appropriate level. We also produce supplementary vocabulary materials to improve vocabulary.
3. Second Foreign Language Education Review Committee
At Hachioji Campus, second foreign language classes (French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Korean) are offered as language subjects for students of all faculties. The Review Committee is examining a variety of issues, including fundamental questions such as what second foreign language education at universities should be like, as well as what and how students should specifically learn each language, and is working to reflect these findings in actual classes.
4. Information Education Review Committee
We aim to enhance information literacy education. At the end of each semester, we carry out an effect measurement to measure the degree of achievement of MR (Minimum Requirement), and based on the result, we are trying to improve the syllabus to further improve the educational effect. We are also working on improving MR.
Support for life design exercises
Editing and publishing the recommended textbook for life design exercises, "How to Study at University" "How to Study at University" is intended as a textbook for learning academic skills in the required "Life Design Seminar I & II" courses at our Hachioji Campus, and was compiled by the Comprehensive Education Center (Academic Skills Working Group of the Introductory Education Review Committee), the predecessor of this center. The booklet was distributed to new students every year until 2017, but from 2018 onwards, a PDF version has been made available on Hachioji Campus portal site.
Life Design Seminar: Survey of learning status of retakers and lesson improvement The Higher Education Development Center's 2017 SoTL Grant Program adopted the survey on learning status and class improvements for those retaking the Life Design Seminar. The survey results were published as a journal article in the 6th issue of Teikyo University Center for Teaching and Learning Forum (2019) after a SoTL Grant Program report meeting, and are available on the Teikyo University Education and Research Repository.
July-December 2020 The points to keep in mind regarding copyright law related to education and research activities were serialized 10 times in the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun. Under the guidance of PBL, we explain the risks associated with educational practice, such as what to be careful about when conducting learning activities in collaboration with society.
October 2020 I made a video for FD about the lesson practice based on Article 35 of the revised copyright law. It can be viewed from the YOUTUBE distribution site of the Center for Higher Education Development (CTL).
December 2020 Regarding the introductory education of intellectual property, we proposed the monthly "Law Plaza December issue" p51-60 (Gyosei Co., Ltd.) including specific teaching materials.
Publication
Teikyo University Center for General Education publishes a collection of papers once a year as a forum for presenting the educational and research results of faculty members affiliated with the Center. Past collections can be viewed from the link below.
The qualifications, subject areas, and screening criteria for authors are as follows:
Authorship qualifications (Updated: March 31, 2025)
Applicants must meet one of the following criteria:
Full-time teachers belonging to the Common Education Center
Faculty members involved in general education at Hachioji Campus
Those who have been introduced by "1" and approved by the journal committee and Head of Center
Target field
Research, research, and practical reports related to general education (liberal arts education) at universities
Research, research notes, book reviews / translations, and reprints related to each faculty member's specialty.
Dissertation review The publication committee will decide whether or not to accept the paper. The bulletin board members may request the author to correct the content of the paper. Members of the bulletin board can ask the opinions of experts as necessary regarding the acceptance or rejection of papers.
