Current Academic Programs
European Studies Program (ESP)
About ESP
The European Studies Program is designed to educate future leaders who act as a bridge between Europe and Japan in various fields of the society. In the program, the students acquire basic knowledge and methodologies of European studies through the program’s core courses.
In April 2006, the program is founded in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo. The Center for German and European Studies is coordinating this program in partnership with other graduate schools and research institutes at Hongo campus of the University of Tokyo.
The Students belonging to four departments in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Komaba campus can register for the program. The departments are Department of Advanced Social and International Studies, Department of Area Studies, Department of Language and Information Sciences, and Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies. The standard term to complete the program is four semesters i.e. two years. In the program, the students have to take required courses, that is, Methodology for European Studies and Supervised Readings, and choose at least two elective-required courses, which are History of European Integration, EU Law, Modern European Thought, German Politics, and Contemporary German History. Field research in Europe is highly recommended and the Center for German and European Studies gives top priority to ESP Students for its field research stipend. After completion, the "M.A in European Studies" is granted.
In 2007, the Center for German and European Studies began to organize the European Fall Academy in cooperation with the ASKO-Europe-foundation and the European Academy Otzenhausen in Germany. This academy is two week course to take lecture by the Professors in Europe and to visit European organizations including the European Parliament and the European Court of Justice. The main theme of the academy was “History and Future of European Constitutionalization Process” in 2007 and will be “The EU as a Global Actor” in 2008. The academy becomes an important part of the ESP and students can have an opportunity to lean in Europe.
Students' Research Topics in 2011
- Language Policy of Latvia
- Theories of Totalitarianism and the Image of the GDR in the Federal Republic of Germany
- The reception of immigrants and foreign workers in the Federal Republic of Germany
- Nation building in Socialist Montenegro
- Transition of social policy in Germany under the Schroeder Government
- Catholics and National Socialism in the Saar region
- From sustainable development to a De-growth society
- Franz List from the viewpoint of national identity in the modern civil societies of Germany and other European countries
Students' Research Topics in 2008
- Culture and Cultural Policy in the Democratic Republic of Germany
- German Foreign Policy to the Fomer Yugoslavia in the 1990s
- Ideology of the Frence Republic and Social Integration
- Blitish Political Thought from Nineteenth Century to Twentieth Century
- Nationalism in the Interwar Yugoslavia
- Study of Japanese-German Translation Literature by Ogai Mori
Students' Research Topics in 2007
- Effect of Nazi at Wemar in Immediate Postwar Period
- Economic Ethics in Germany and Japan
- Carl Schmidt's View of State
- France in Single European Electricity Market
- Clash of Economic and Cultural Norm in France
- Migration and Terrorism in Swedish Security Policy
- Heath’s U-turn in British Politics
- Cathoric Social Movement in the Irish Free State
- Yoshihiko Amino and Structuralsim in Europe
- Cultural Policy in France and Japan
- French Dance Policy since the 1980s
Students' Research Topics in 2006
- "Voluntary Ecologial Year" in Germany
- Integration of Expellees in Germany
- City Planning in Modern Europe
- Turkish Minorities in Bulgarian History Textbooks and Bulgarian History Educational Policies to Join EU
- Nationalism in Ireland
