First, pedagogy.
Pedagogy is a social science that studies educational phenomena and their laws. It exists widely in human life. Through the study of educational phenomena and problems, the general laws of education are revealed.
Pedagogy has many courses to learn. Students should learn basic knowledge in basic fields (educational philosophy, Japanese educational history, foreign educational history, educational sociology), practical fields (school pedagogy, lifelong pedagogy) and international fields (international pedagogy, cross-cultural pedagogy), and at the same time learn related disciplines of related education.
Pedagogy faces many topics and research directions, mainly focusing on what is educational activity, what is learning, methods aimed at educational objects and their psychology and actions, educational values, educational social environment, systems, regulations, policies, educational facilities, teaching technology, educational history, educational purposes and methods, school management and educational administration.
Many students think that they will become teachers after studying pedagogy. It is true that many graduates majoring in education choose the post of teacher, but in fact, after graduation, students majoring in education can be active in finance, manufacturing, service, retail, reporting, international cooperation institutions, education, consulting, civil servants and other fields. Among them, the most is to continue to do research or teach in the field of education after obtaining teacher qualifications.
Recommended schools: Kobe University, Kyoto University, Nagoya University, Osaka University and Hiroshima University.
Second, sociology.
Sociology is a good choice for liberal arts or Japanese majors who want to study in Japan.
Sociology, as a comprehensive discipline, has a wide range of research, which is usually juxtaposed with economics, politics, anthropology, psychology, history and other disciplines in the field of social science.
Sociology graduates have a broad field of employment, and they can not only engage in basic work closely related to the national economy and people's livelihood, but also engage in frontier work that keeps up with the development of the times. Can be engaged in social research and investigation, policy research and evaluation, social planning and management, development research and prediction in education, scientific research institutions, party and government organs, press and publication, enterprises and institutions, and social organizations.
Recommended schools: Well-known universities in Japan's metropolitan area offer sociology majors, including the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tokyo University, the Department of Sociology of hitotsubashi university, the Department of Sociology of Keio University, the Department of Humanities and Sciences of Tokyo Capital University, the Department of Social Sciences of Waseda University, and the Department of International Japanese Studies of Meiji University.
In addition, tokyo university of foreign studies, Tsukuba University and Imperial Tea Women's University (sociology from a female perspective) all have sociology or related majors. The examination of sociology major mainly focuses on sociology strategy, basic knowledge of sociology (such as sociological terminology analysis) and interview, which requires candidates to master sociology professional knowledge and apply it to their own research, especially to have a full grasp of their own research topics.
Third, literature.
Generally speaking, when we talk about literary studies, many students think of writers like Natsume Sasaki and Ryunosuke Sasakawa. In fact, the study of Japanese literature is different according to time (divided into classical literature like short songs, China's poems and modern literature), style (novels and modern poems, among which novels are the mainstream research direction, but some professors specialize in modern poems) and research place.
What do you major in Japanese literature? Japanese literature (classical literature, modern literature), China literature (classical literature, modern literature), European and American literature (English language and literature, German language and literature, French language and literature, Slavic language and literature, other languages and literature) and so on.
The research direction of literature will be divided into many fine branches, and each branch will learn different courses. We should not only learn the basic knowledge of literature, but also learn other related subjects. For example: philosophy, ethics, history, religion, geography, literary works and writers' knowledge from all over the world, as well as culture-related knowledge and so on.
So if you just want to learn an introduction to literature, you can't apply to schools everywhere. Because different professors have different research fields, for example, some teachers are interested in romanticism, some are interested in realism and some are interested in naturalism. Therefore, to engage in literary research, it is necessary to refine it into subject research. Monks' papers should not be generalized, and they can only focus on a certain field for research.
Recommended schools: Kobe University, Hokkaido University and Tsukuba University.
Fourthly, linguistics.
Linguistics is the study of languages, not the study of a language. To put it bluntly, linguistics is not only mastering how to speak, write and understand a language, but also involving the relationship between different languages and their respective development experiences.
In Japan, linguistics is mainly divided into basic research fields and related application fields. Including phonology, phonology, morphology, conversation analysis, meaning theory, pragmatics, sign language and other branches of basic research fields and related application fields including comparative linguistics, psycholinguistics, quantitative linguistics, comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, change linguistics and so on.
There are many branches of language credit, and each branch has many courses to learn. Therefore, we should not only learn the basic knowledge of linguistics, but also learn other related disciplines of foreign languages and related language education. For example: phonology, morphology (grammar), lexicology, literature and so on.
Linguistics faces many problems and research directions. For example, a comprehensive study of many languages, trying to find out the same laws of * * *, is called general linguistics; Applying linguistic knowledge to practical work is called applied linguistics; Tracing the kinship of some languages through the comparison of pronunciation and word form is called comparative linguistics; Comparing the similarities and differences between two languages to solve teaching or translation problems is called contrastive linguistics.
Recommended schools: University of Tsukuba, Hokkaido University and Kyushu University.