Objectives of the Curriculum
Enhancing students' motivation to learn and develop economic thinking
The purpose of education in the Faculty of Economics is to cultivate leaders who can thrive in an increasingly uncertain and diverse world. With this goal in mind, the curriculum is designed to enable students to acquire both knowledge and strong analytical and logical thinking skills.
Features of the Curriculum
Two different pathways to learning
First- and second-year students in the Faculty of Economics study general education and the fundamentals of economics at the Hiyoshi Campus. The curriculum offers two distinct "pathways to learning": Type A (deductive, with focus on economic theory and mathematics) and Type B (inductive, with focus on contemporary and historical economic evidence). Both curricula serve as a foundation for more specialized study in their third and fourth years at the Mita campus.
There are three reasons for offering two distinct pathways. First, both the deductive and inductive approaches are essential in learning to think logically using economics. Second, this separation allows students to start their learning with an approach most familiar to them, increasing their motivation and productivity. Third, students from both types of curriculum go on to attend classes at Mita with both deductive and inductive orientations, creating synergy.
Students thus spend four years learning both the deductive and inductive methods with varying emphasis on the two, to graduate with the comprehensive skill to think logically using economics.