Diploma policy

Diploma Policy for Master’s Program

Common diploma policy of laboratories

  • In the Master’s Program of Animal Science and Agriculture, the degree shall be conferred on persons who have taken the courses set up in the curriculum and obtained the required credits to complete the program, who have obtained advanced research skills and wide perspectives that enable them to resolve issues of food safety and other issues in agricultural and livestock science using their up-to-date knowledge and skills in animal science and agriculture such as veterinary life science, animal production, ecology and environmental science, food science, agricultural economics, engineering for agriculture, plant production science, and interdisciplinary fields including these, and who have acquired the following skills:
    1. Ethics: Ethics and morals correspondent to social standards and commensurate with a specialist,
    2. Abilities to identify and resolve issues on their own in life, food, and environmental science while keeping globalization in mind, and resolve them,
    3. Communication skills: Presentation skills necessary to explain their process of thinking and making judgments with a global viewpoint,
    4. Technical knowledge and skills: knowledge and skills on respective Specialties in this Master’s program commensurate with advanced professionals, or basic skills commensurate with researchers on issues in respective Specialties, from the perspective of fusing agriculture, animal science, and veterinary medicine.
Diploma policy for Graduate Degree Program of Animal and Food Hygiene
  • The degree shall be conferred on persons who have acquired advanced and comprehensive knowledge and skills in hygienic management and quality assurance of livestock products and other foods under international safety and hygienic standards, and superior abilities in their practice and application.

Diploma policy for each laboratory

Veterinary Life Science
  1. Ethics: ethics and morals based on knowledge of veterinary life science and deep understanding about social activities,
  2. Issue-resolving skills: abilities to identify issues on their own in veterinary life science, and resolve them,
  3. Good communication skills: presentation and communication skills necessary to precisely express their thoughts and opinions, and exchange opinions in veterinary life science fields while respecting others’ thoughts and opinions,
  4. Technical knowledge and skills: a wide range of technical knowledge of veterinary life science including basic veterinary life science, animal pathobiology, studies of animal infectious diseases, studies of etiology and control of animal diseases, and animal clinical science, and ability to apply and develop these skills and knowledge in society, based on their knowledge of basic biology, and agriculture and animal science.
Animal Production Science
  1. Ethics: ethics and morals based on knowledge of animal production and deep understanding of social activities,
  2. Issue-resolving skills: abilities to identify issues on their own in livestock and life sciences, and resolve them,
  3. Communication skills: presentation and communication skills necessary to precisely express their thoughts and opinions, and exchange opinions in the field of animal production while respecting other’s thoughts and opinions,
  4. Technical knowledge and skills: understanding of the physiology and behavior of domestic animals, and possession of systematic technical knowledge and skills from the basics to applications that lead to genetic improvement and improvement in productivity.
Ecology and Environmental Science
  1. Ethics: ethics and morals based on knowledge on ecology and environmental science and deep understanding about social activities,
  2. Issue-resolving skills: abilities to identify issues on their own on ecology and environmental science, and resolve them,
  3. Communication skills: presentation and communication skills necessary to precisely express their thoughts and opinions, and exchange opinions in the field of ecology and environmental science while respecting other’s thoughts and opinions,
  4. Technical knowledge and skills: comprehensive and systematic knowledge and skills in roles, functions, and interactions of various organisms that constitute environment, and in conservation, management, and utilization of ecosystems.
Food Science
  1. Ethics: ethics and morals based on knowledge on food science and deep understanding about social activities,
  2. Issue-resolving skills: abilities to identify issues on their own in food science, and resolve them,
  3. Communication skills: presentation and communication skills necessary to precisely express their thoughts and opinions, and exchange opinions in food science while respecting other’s thoughts and opinions,
  4. Technical knowledge and skills: advanced knowledge, skills and application for production and processing of foods made from agricultural and livestock ingredients, and about the functionality and safety of such foods.
Agricultural Economics
  1. Ethics: ethics and morals based on knowledge on agricultural economics and deep understanding about social activities,
  2. Issue-resolving skills: abilities to identify issues on their own in agricultural economics, and resolve them,
  3. Communication skills: presentation and communication skills necessary to precisely express their thoughts and opinions, and exchange opinions in the field of agricultural economics while respecting other’s thoughts and opinions,
  4. Technical knowledge and skills: advanced knowledge and skills in agricultural economy in order to utilize local resources and support the improvement of food productivity and food safety.
Engineering for Agriculture
  1. Ethics: ethics and morals based on knowledge of engineering for agriculture and deep understanding about social activities,
  2. Issue-resolving skills: abilities to identify issues on their own engineering for agriculture and resolve them,
  3. Communication skills: presentation and communication skills necessary to precisely express their thoughts and opinions, and exchange opinions in the field of engineering for agriculture while respecting other’s thoughts and opinions,
  4. Technical knowledge and skills: advanced knowledge and skills in production techniques and environmental control in order to support the improvement of food productivity utilizing local resources.
Plant Production science
  1. Who have acquired advanced knowledge, skills, and research abilities in quantitative and qualitative improvement of plant production based on advanced knowledge of plant physiology, biology and heredity as well as soil, and who intend to contribute to society from a viewpoint of plant production science,
  2. Who have acquired undergraduate-level basic knowledge and skills in plant production science,
  3. Who can set up research plans on their own in the field of plant production science based on knowledge and skills for improving and producing crop plants, and skills in soils and pests,
  4. Who can use knowledge and information to think logically about issues on quantitative and qualitative improvement of plant production, and explain the results.

Diploma policy for Doctoral Program of Animal Science and Agriculture

  • In the Doctoral Program of Animal Science and Agriculture, the degree shall be conferred on persons who have taken the courses set up in the curriculum and obtained the required credits to complete the program, and have acquired the following skills that enable them to shoulder advanced research using their up-to-date knowledge and skills in the fields of animal science and agriculture such as animal production, ecology and environmental science, food science, agricultural economics, engineering for agriculture, plant production science, and interdisciplinary fields:
    1. Ethics
      Ethics based on up-to-date knowledge and skills in the fields of animal science and agriculture such as animal production, ecology and environmental science, food science, agricultural economics, engineering for agriculture, plant production science, animal and food hygiene, and veterinary life science, and interdisciplinary fields, and based on deep understanding of life phenomena and asocial activities.
    2. International competence and leadership
      • Abilities to conduct international-standard, advanced research in a wide range of fields of the life sciences including the intravital micro-level, the macro-level dealing with individuals and populations, and animal production,
      • Abilities to conduct international- standard, advanced research in the field of ecological research dealing with the inside of organisms, individuals and populations,
      • Advanced knowledge and skills, and abilities to conduct international-standard, advanced research on processing and utilization of agricultural and livestock products, and their functionality and safety,
      • Abilities to conduct international-standard, advanced research on agricultural economy in order to i,prove productivity of food production utilizing domestic and overseas resources,
      • Abilities to conduct international-standard, advanced research on production techniques and environmental control in order to improve productivity of food production utilizing domestic and overseas resources,
      • A wide range of technical knowledge on veterinary life science, and abilities to conduct international-standard, advanced research.
    3. Communication skills
      Internationally competent presentation skills and communication skills necessary to explain their process of thinking and making judgments with regard to their specialty in the fields of animal production, ecology and environmental science, food science, agricultural economics, engineering for agriculture, and plant production science.
    4. Technical knowledge and skills:
      Advanced knowledge and skills on animal production, ecology and environmental science, food science, agricultural economics, engineering for agriculture, and plant production science, global views with regard to the fields of veterinary medicine, animal science and agriculture and their interdisciplinary fields, practical skills and leadership to meet various social needs according to the globalization of agricultural and livestock business, and international-standard, advanced research skills.

Diploma policy for Graduate Degree Program of Animal and Food Hygiene

  • The degree shall be conferred on persons who have acquired a wide range of knowledge and excellent abilities to resolve issues as international researchers who shoulder responsibility of securing food safety.

Diploma policy for Doctoral Program of Veterinary Science

  • In the Doctoral Program of Veterinary Science, the degree shall be conferred on persons who have taken the courses set up in the curriculum and obtained the required credits to complete the program, and have acquired the following skills that enable them to shoulder advanced research using their up-to-date knowledge and skills in the fields of veterinary medicine such as basic veterinary medicine, clinical veterinary medicine and public health, and interdisciplinary fields of the above:
    1. Ethics
      Ethics based on up-to-date knowledge and skills in the fields of veterinary medicine such as basic veterinary medicine, pathological veterinary medicine, applied veterinary medicine and clinical veterinary medicine, and based on deep understanding of highly advanced medical techniques and of social activities for companion, industrial and wild animals,
    2. International competence and leadership
      • Abilities to conduct international-standard, advanced research in a wide range of fields of life-scientific research including the intravital micro-level, the macro-level dealing with individuals and populations, and animal production,
      • Abilities to conduct international-standard, advanced research in the field of ecological research dealing with the inside of organisms, individuals and populations,
      • A wide range of technical knowledge on veterinary life science, and abilities to conduct international-standard, advanced research,
      • Abilities to contribute to the improvement of food safety and human and animal health utilizing highly advanced knowledge on food safety management systems and domestic and overseas safety monitoring of agricultural and livestock products, and excellent analysis and livestock management techniques in veterinary medicine and veterinary life science.
    3. Communication skills
      Internationally competent presentation skills and communication skills necessary to explain their process of thinking and making judgments with regard to their specialty in the fields of basic veterinary medicine, pathological veterinary medicine, applied veterinary medicine and clinical veterinary medicine.
    4. Technical knowledge and skills:
      Abilities to utilize highly advanced knowledge on food safety management systems and domestic and overseas safety monitoring of agricultural and livestock products, and to utilize excellent analysis and livestock management techniques in veterinary medicine and veterinary life science; abilities to contribute to the improvement of food safety and human and animal health; global views with regard to the fields of veterinary medicine, animal science, agriculture, and their interdisciplinary fields; practical skills and leadership to meet various social needs according to the globalization of veterinary medicine, and; international-standard, advanced research skills.