Faculties and Departments

Women’s education at Shoin, with over 100 years of ‘experiencing the real thing,’ embraces a diverse range of people. We have a wide variety of studies developing the ability to think and act independently through a multifaceted and comprehensive assesment of the goal-reaching process.

Faculty of Liberal Arts

Department of Liberal Arts

Gracefully, Beautifully Living in the modern world in your own way.

Pursuable Career paths

  • Information and communication industry
  • Service industry
  • Civil servants (police officers, city hall employees, etc.)
  • NGO/NPO
  • Tourism/hotel industry
  • Finance/insurance industry
  • etc.

Expected occupations and roles

  • Planning and marketing
  • Research and analysis
  • IT engineer
  • Business
  • Sales
  • etc.

Department of Japanese Language and Literature

  • Japanese Language and Literature Course
  • Calligraphy Course
  • Creative Writing and Expression Course

Reading, writing and speaking.
Beautiful words will guide you to your dreams.

Pursuable Career paths

  • Junior high school and high school teacher (Japanese)
  • Calligraphy teacher (high school)
  • Librarian teacher, librarian
  • Civil servant
  • etc.

Major qualifications

  • Junior high school teacher (Japanese)
  • Senior high school teacher (Japanese, calligraphy)
  • Librarian
  • etc.

Department of Language, Culture and Communication

Talking, communicating, understanding.
Dialogue teaches us the beauty of one another.

Pursuable Career paths

  • Hotels
  • Airlines
  • Travel industry
  • Junior high school and high school teacher (English)
  • etc.

Major qualifications

  • Junior high school and high school teacher (English)
  • Librarian
  • curator
  • etc.

Department of Psychology

  • Comprehensive Psychology Course
  • Clinical Psychology Course

Listening to the voice of the heart.
Forming beautiful relationships with people and society.

Pursuable Career paths

  • Child guidance
  • Medical institutions
  • Hospitals and others
  • etc.

Major qualifications

  • Licensed psychologist＊
  • Clinical psychologist (eligibility for admission to post-graduate studies)
  • Mental Health Social Worker (PSW/eligibility to sit national examination)
  • School Social Worker (SSW)
  • Clinical psychologist (can be obtained upon graduation by fulfilling credit requirements)
  • etc.

After graduation, students must complete a postgraduate course to train as a licensed psychologist or obtain prescribed work experience to be eligible to sit the examination.

Department of Life Planning

  • Life Design Course
  • Food Design Course

Enjoying today. Looking ahead to tomorrow.
Skills and know-how for beautiful living.

Pursuable Career paths

  • Financial Planner
  • Finance/insurance industry
  • Product development for food manufacturers and others.
  • etc.

Major qualifications

  • Financial Planning (FP)
  • The Official Business Skill Test in Book-keeping Levels 2 and 3
  • Junior high school and high school teacher (home economics)
  • etc.

Department of Beauty and Fashion Studies

  • Fashion Studies Course
  • Cosmetology Course
  • Beauty Course＊

Applications for the beauty course will close when the maximum number of places (40) is reached.

Fascinate, feel, think.
The creation of beauty enriches the world.

Pursuable Career paths

  • Designer
  • Patternmaker
  • Stylist
  • Make-up artist
  • Hairdresser
  • etc.

Major qualifications

  • Junior high school and high school teacher (home economics)
  • National examination for beauticians (eligibility to sit examination)
  • Textiles Evaluation Specialist (TES)
  • etc.

Faculty of Childhood Education

Department of Childhood Education

  • Early Childhood Education and Care Course
  • School Education Course

Staying close, watching over and guiding.
For the beautiful future of children.

Pursuable Career paths

  • Primary schools teacher
  • Kindergarten teacher
  • Childcare teacher
  • Nursery school teacher
  • Nursery teacher
  • Junior high school teacher (English)
  • etc.

Major qualifications

  • Nursery school teacher
  • Kindergarten teacher
  • Elementary school teacher
  • Junior high school teacher (English)
  • Librarian
  • Librarian teacher (dual study with Elementary school teacher license course)
  • etc.

Faculty of Health and Nutrition

Department of Health and Nutrition

  • Dietitian Major＊
  • Food and Nutrition Major

The dietitian major is not open to international students.

Nourishing the body and mind.
Good food is the source of life and health.

Pursuable Career paths

  • Planning and development in food-related companies
  • Nutritionist in food service companies
  • Nutritionist at nursery schools, kinder-gartens, and childcare centers
  • etc.

Major qualifications

  • Nutritionist
  • Junior high school and high school teacher (home economics)
  • Nutrition teacher 2nd class
  • Food specialist
  • etc.