The Graduate School of Community Engagement and Development (CED) was established in 2022 to foster highly skilled professionals as promising contributors to creating sustainable regional and international societies. Our educational curriculum thus addresses pressing issues that must be resolved to sustain autonomous and future regional societies. CED takes advantage of the regional characteristics of Okinawa Prefecture as a superb educational resource in an academic manner to produce and develop “practical and universal knowledge.”
CED’s five degree programs—Public Policy and Public Relations, Economics and Management, Language and Representation, Culture and Environment, and Clinical Psychology—address local societal issues with interdisciplinary awareness and perspectives. Each program offers courses that would have been traditionally recognized as different areas of specialization but in a way that allows you to engage in research on the key issues the local communities are facing.
We offer dual paths to the M.A. degree—the Thesis Track, which requires you to write a master's thesis, and the Specific Practical Research Track, in which you are expected to devise practical solutions to specific problems.※
For more information on the educational programs of the Graduate School, please visit our website < https://www.ced.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/en/>.
※ The Clinical Psychology Program has the Thesis Track only.
Master’s Program
| Majors | Areas of Study | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Public Policy and Public Relations | The program focuses on the issues in public systems such as laws, politics, society, and welfare in terms of the regional characteristics of the community, and students take courses related to such research areas as politics and peace, laws, sociology, and social welfare. | M.A. in Public Policy and Public Relations |
| Economics and Management | The program focuses on the issues related to promoting industry based on the characteristics of the local economy, and students take courses related to such research areas as economics, business administration, and tourism and industry. | M.A. in Economics and Management |
| Language and Representation | The program focuses on the issues related to human-centered expression and logical and smooth communication practices, and students take courses related to such research areas as human sciences, language and communication, and transcultural representation. | M.A. in Language and Representation |
| Culture and Environment | The program focuses on the issues related to the inheritance and promotion of geography, history, and culture of local communities, including Ryukyu/Okinawa, and students take courses related to such research areas as history and anthropology, Ryukyuan and Asian studies, and island studies. |
M.A. in Culture and Environment |
| Clinical Psychology | The program focuses on the issues related to the maintenance and improvement of the physical and mental health of the local people, and students take courses related to psychology and clinical psychology. | M.A. in Clinical Psychology |
