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Opening of the "´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Mita Open College"

Publish: March 27, 2019

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  • Yutaka Oishi

    Other : Vice-President

    Yutaka Oishi

    Other : Vice-President

In April 2019, the "´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Mita Open College" will begin. For the purposes of lifelong learning and recurrent education, 13 courses in the spring semester and 11 courses in the fall semester will be held at the Mita Campus (see the left page). These courses consist of lecture formats (50¨C80 participants) and seminar formats (10¨C20 participants). Each course will consist of eight sessions, held on Saturdays.

Mita Campus is often described as being "like a miniature garden." Due to its limited space, it is usually overflowing with ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app students. However, visiting this campus on weekends or during long breaks reveals a completely different landscape. The buildings are arranged in an orderly fashion, and one can fully feel the weight of history. In this land of Mita, on Saturdays, courses for lifelong learning and recurrent education will be held, following undergraduate and graduate education.

´ºÓêÖ±²¥app already has a Correspondence Education Program. It opened in 1948, over 70 years ago, and currently has more than 8,000 ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app students enrolled. Additionally, there is the "Fukuzawa Bunmeijuku," the "´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Marunouchi City Campus (´ºÓêÖ±²¥app MCC)" run by ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Academic Enterprise, and various public lectures held at different campuses (among these, the "Fukuzawa Bunmeijuku" will end in March 2019, but its courses are being integrated into this college). ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app has a long history and many achievements regarding lifelong learning and recurrent education.

Within this context, the ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app Mita Open College will add a new page. "I want to return to my student days once more," "I want to challenge myself with a field of study I don't know," "I want to open a book as my curiosity leads me," "I want to meet new friends"¡ªany motivation is fine. For ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app alumni who feel nostalgic for the campus but have few opportunities to visit, this will be an excellent opportunity to close the distance with ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app. Eligibility for students is, of course, open to those other than ´ºÓêÖ±²¥app alumni as well.

In the age of the internet, information can be obtained easily. However, it should not be bad to share a place and space, confirm each other's expressions, listen directly to the instructor's voice, ask questions, and debate with other students. Rather, this is precisely where the starting point of education lies. The keywords for communication are access and participation. Please access this Mita Open College and actively participate in the lectures and seminars. The threshold is by no means high. I hope you will invite old friends, bring your families, and come to Mita.

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