In the Department of Psychology and Human Relations, students learn about relationships between themselves, partners, and others through theory and practice. It is being said that human relations are becoming sparse in modern society. However, it is not that humans are avoiding personal relations. Rather they are simply unable to acquire the pragmatic skills to understand how to connect with themselves and with others.

This department’s curriculum is unique across the nation in its ability to facilitate learning about the problem of the mind such as interpersonal relations through a combination of theoretical and experiential learning. Students also engage in specialized learning in the areas of psychology, pedagogy, and human relations. Through this process of objectively grasping movements of the human mind and physical and mental developments, as well as an abundant amount of experiential learning, students come to capture the “living human being.”

Human relations fieldwork consists of students making weekly visits to schools for the disabled, or welfare institutions, where they experience first-hand human relations. Based on submitted reports of thoughts and learning, students gradually deepen observations of relations between self and the other through analysis and theory applied to experience.