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.

Major qualifications

  • Social Researcher
  • Social Education Specialist / Social Educator
  • Librarian
  • Curator
  • 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

To understand the world,
and contribute to the local community.

Pursuable Career paths

  • Hotels
  • Airlines
  • Travel industry
  • Junior high school and high school teacher (English)
  • Specialized trading companies
  • Apparel companies
  • etc.

Major qualifications

  • Junior high school and high school teacher (English)
  • The Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC)
  • The Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK)
  • 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
  • Business
  • Education industry
  • 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
  • General business (retail and services)
  • Product development for food manufacturers and others.

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＊

We do not accept applications for the Beauty Course through the international student admissions process.

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

Pursuable Career paths

  • Designer
  • Patternmaker
  • Stylist
  • Make-up artist
  • Hairdresser
  • Sales person
  • Junior high and high school teacher (Home Economics)
  • 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.

Beauty Course only

Faculty of Childhood Education

Department of Childhood Education＊

To be established April 2027

  • 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.