Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2115/38786

JaLCDOI : 10.14943/J.HighEdu.16.31

A graduate-level introductory course on gender studies started at Hokkaido University in the fall of 2007. This is the second achievement in this field for the university, which introduced a course on gender studies for freshmen in 2002. After considering both domestic and overseas programs, we decided to offer such topics concerning gender as ethics, history, literature, mass media, linguistics, theory, education, economics, law, ethnicity, globalization, biology, reproductive health, and public health/AIDS, and the end of the course was highlighted by an open lecture, Frontiers of Gender Studies: Gender Medicine. The graduate course was taught by 13 professors, 11 from the five Hokkaido University Graduate Schools and Centers and two guest lecturers from other universities. More than 20 students from various majors registered for this omnibus style course. The course was very successful. However, we understand it needs to improve so that students can fully understand issues of gender and apply them to their own fields of study. By pursuing an ideal combination of both humanities and sciences as a research-oriented university graduate school, our gender education program should realize its potential.