Department of Business and Commerce

Department of Business and Commerce

Creating keen insights into changing times and substantial expertise to explore business scenes of the future generation

Purposes of Study

To cultivate a wide range of knowledge, practical skills, and the ability to see one step ahead - to take a major role in the world of business today.

The international business environment remains a fast-changing one. Under such circumstances, future business leaders must have both substantial expertise and a fl exible mindset that allows them to capitalize on their expertise. The fl exible curriculum of our Department of Business and Commerce covers a wide range of the latest areas of specialization, ranging from international business, sports, environmental management. We also offer foreign language courses as well as politics, social science, natural science, and various other subjects to cultivate human resources with expert business skills.

Points of Study

Seven courses selectable in accordance with future objectives

Studying specialized subjects, you can select from seven courses available. An ideal choice based on your own career plan. By systematically selecting subjects that best suit your objectives, you can cultivate a specialized skill set of your own. Subjects of other courses and two or more courses can also be taken at the same time.

Practical subjects that help you acquire skills to put thinking into practice

We offer various practical subjects, including “Market Research” and “Business
Workshop,” as well as practical training courses allowing you to experience
actual business operations. Knowledge on marketing, decision-making skills,
and various other methods required in the real world will be acquired through
practical training.

Computer techniques essential in society

The students learn basic PC operations covering Word and Excel from the fi rst term of their freshman year via various opportunities, such as lectures and seminars. Both beginners and advanced learners can thus acquire the PC skills required to do business effectively.

Steps in Four years

Step1, Freshman year

Expand interests in various subjects while narrowing down one’s own area of specialization

Step2, Sophomore year

Select one from eight courses and starting study in the area of specialization

Step3, Junior year

Pursue highly specialized studies, enhancing understanding of practical business operations

Step4, Senior year

Pursue studies in a specialized field, enhancing practical skills


Marketing Course

This course helps students gain specialized knowledge on marketing

International Business Course

The students in this course learn about the actual business network that is constantly changing between nations. This course also trains you to

Business Administration Course

This course trains students to give them the practical management
skills to solve various problems that may occur in the real world, and
create future strategies essential to become knowledgeable professional
managers.

Business Inauguration Course

This course is designed to give students the management skills, strategic thinking, and innovative management capabilities required to accurately assess change in the business environment; namely for starting, maintaining, and developing new businesses. The innovative ideas and the sense of independence necessary in modern business as well as practical skills are nurtured in this course.

Social Economic System Course

Major system trends that drive society, the economy, and politics are
studied from both economic and legal perspectives. By identifying
current circumstances and locating future trends, the students develop
skills to devise plans to cope with a changing social environment as well
as to transmit such plans to society.

Sports Business Course

This course allows students to study sports-related subjects they
are currently interested in fi rst, and then to proceed to the study of
specialized subjects in business and commerce.

Environment Management Course

At the present day, consideration for environment is indispensable. In this course, students learn how to save environment and to unite it with every aspects of business such as distribution, business planning, or marketing.

Unique departmental awards given to support students’ studies

To encourage students to study, each department of the School of Business and Commerce gives students various awards, depending on the progress of their study. The “Start Dash Award” is given to students with outstanding academic performance in the freshman and sophomore years, and the “Recovery Award” is given to those who have achieved good grades in the second semester and the “Academic Dean Award” is given to juniors. It is not uncommon for students to be given those awards twice or more times.

“Exercise drills” hosted by the department started in 2005

Students in each seminar focus on their own theme, competing with each other for research results. Seminars recognized as having made excellent presentations are awarded prizes, such as the Academic Dean Awards. The students will remember the experience of conducting their own research as an unforgettable memory of college life. The themes of the exercise drills in 2006 include the following:

  • “Why does Otokomae Tofu sell well?”
  • “Sports Marketing”
  • “Age of Mobile Mega-competition”
  • “About Excessively Expensive Products”
  • “Banks and Bad Loans”