Keio University

Faculty Courses

General Education Courses

A Liberal Arts Education for Critical Thinking and Decision-Making

I: Natural Science Courses

II: Humanities and Social Science Courses

III: Interdisciplinary and Comprehensive Courses

IV: Independent Study Courses

V: Physical Education Courses

*These courses can be taken throughout your four years of study.

General Education Seminars

These are small seminars taught by full-time Hiyoshi Campus faculty. Classes are designed to help students acquire a variety of skills, including foundational skills in reading books and deciphering data, scrutinizing information, writing reports and papers, and making presentations.

Examples of Seminar Topics

  • Creative approaches to understanding corporations

  • Dialogue with the regional community

  • Thinking about work and career design

  • Assorted topics concerning Japan-China cultural exchange

  • Ig Nobel Prize seminar

  • Strengthening mathematical skills using coordinates

  • Kimono making: Modern and premodern clothing

  • History of tacos

  • Exploring the wonders of language

  • Reading early modern British drama in the original

Foreign Language Courses

Develop Global Communication Skills

English, German, Chinese, French, and Spanish

*Students must take two foreign languages

*Intermediate and advanced foreign language classes are available as independent courses for further study and specialized courses and related seminar courses.

Core Courses

Build a Foundation of Knowledge in Business and Commerce

I (Required Core Courses)

Fundamentals of Economics I and II, Fundamentals of Business Administration, Fundamentals of Business and Commerce, Fundamentals of Accounting, Fundamentals of Calculus, Fundamentals of Statistics

II Class (Core Electives)

Calculus, Linear Algebra, Probability Theory, Basic Game Theory, Economic History I & II, Private Law

Specialized Courses

Develop a Specialization in Business and CommerceFirst and Second Year

I (Specialized Elective Required Courses)

Business Administration (Organization and Strategy), Business Administration (Corporations), Commercial Science (Macro Marketing), Commercial Science (Micro Marketing), Accounting (Financial Accounting I), Accounting (Financial Accounting II), Accounting (Basic Management Accounting), Economics (Macro Economics), Economics (Micro Economics)

II (Specialized Elective Courses)

Auditing, Basic Cost Accounting, Applied Bookkeeping I and II, Corporate Law I and II, Industrial Economics A and B

Third and Fourth Year

III (Specialized Field Electives)

Students systematically develop their knowledge centered around specialized fields and cross-disciplinary programs

Conceptual Diagram

IV (Specialized Field Seminar Courses)

Study thoroughly in the Keio tradition of “learning while teaching, teaching while learning”

  • Seminars

  • Research Practicum

  • Research on specialized foreign-language books

  • GPP Passport Members' Workshop

  • Global Learning

Marketing Science Courses

A Liberal Arts Education Explored Through a Variety of Seminars

  • Social Mathematics

  • International Studies Seminar

  • Seminar in Foreign Language

  • Law

  • History of Economic Thought

  • Other

Lectures and Courses