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Junior College

Empowering students to design and achieve their lives in their own ways

“I hope to have a dream in my own way throughout my lifetime, and to have many more opportunities to explore possibilities for my life.”—If you hope so, Aichi University Junior College is an ideal place for you to find your own dream and design your own future. You can design your own curriculum of learning by selecting from courses across a wide variety of fields according to your interests. Combined with a four-year university, the Junior College builds on the reliable educational foundation, and has helpful facilities, equipment and systems, as well as offering you high-quality classes and valuable opportunities for career development and transfer to the university.

Designing your life to be full of various possibilities, so that you can sculpt a way of life that stays true to who you are

Life design refers to designing your own life. To develop the ability to think about yourself in order to design your life will give students an insight into how to lead a prosperous life. Aichi University’s Junior College offers subjects in a wide variety of areas, to help students find a way of life that stays true to who they are, in accordance with individual students’ objectives and interests. Students of the Junior College can pick and choose courses from a broad range of fields, flexibly designing a curriculum that best suits their wishes. The Basic Field is intended to develop the fundamental abilities essential to serving as a full-fledged member of society, and the skills for career planning and communication in English and other languages. In seminar classes, students pursue the themes of their interests to write a graduation research thesis, and improve their communication and presentation skills through discussions. The Select Field allows students to freely select a specialized field from 5 areas: Japanese Culture, English Communication, Office, Information, and Psychology and Sociology. Students then deepen their understanding in the area of their choice. The Junior College curriculum expands the scope of options for students’ future career paths, by offering preparatory courses for students hoping to acquire a qualification as a medical administrative worker and to pass the secretarial skills test. Moreover, students who participate in the short-term overseas training program at Hawaii University are also eligible to receive academic credits. As unique features of our Junior College, we can cite the facts that students can use the facilities of the Toyohashi Campus, and that they are allowed to attend classes and earn credits in the undergraduate programs. For those who want to take their learning one step further, the Junior College has established a well-developed system to enable them to apply to transfer to one of Aichi University’s undergraduate courses.

Curriculum Features

Short-term training at the University of Hawai’i

Providing students first-hand experience in actual communication in English, which is available only in an English-speaking area
For about 10 days during the spring break of their first year, interested students can participate in a short-term English-speaking area training at Leeward Community College, University of Hawai’i. In preparation for training, participants attend the “Speaking Skill I & II” courses, the course “Introduction to the Short-term English-speaking Area Training,” and other courses. In Hawaii, participants can receive English lessons every day, and tackle assignments in collaboration with local students, to learn actual English communication and deepen their understanding of diverse cultures. Participants stay in a guest house at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. They can also enjoy Hawaiian food culture, which they could not enjoy on the U.S. mainland. The training program includes study tours at museums, courts, Pearl Harbor attack memorial facilities, etc., enabling participants to have hand-on experience with the long history and unique culture of Hawaii. At the weekend, participants can fully enjoy the natural environment of Hawaii by climbing Diamond Head and swimming in the sea together with local students. Participation in this training program is counted as credits necessary for graduation.

Fieldwork

Students visiting local companies, and learning the importance of career design
Fieldwork is a method of social survey by actually visiting places to be examined as research themes, and collecting data through interviews, observation, and review of written materials, with the aim of understanding the thoughts and values of local people. To understand the characteristics of local industries, students visit local companies in the Higashi-Mikawa and Enshu areas. Visiting the actual front line of local companies, listening to alumni working there, and interacting with many working adults, students learn what kinds of thoughts and human resources are needed by local industries. Listening to real voices in the field helps students become aware of the importance of designing their own careers and enhance their ability to act on their own initiative.

Other Opportunities for Junior College Students

Aichi University Junior College boasting reliable career support ability

Graduates from the Junior College win jobs at various companies in the local and other areas every year. This is because their predecessors have accomplished remarkable achievements at work based on the ability they acquired at the Junior College, and consequently have won great social trust. Graduates’ great advantages in job-hunting have resulted from the Junior College’s career support aimed at not only assisting in students’ job-hunting activities but also, in coordination with the college’s traditional liberal arts curriculum, allowing students to foster their own working skills and vision of work and occupation, as well as acquiring the ability to plan their own lives. A good combination of classes and career support immensely helps students in their job-hunting activities.

Support for license acquisition

Upgrading students’ learning through regular courses
Supporting students in their efforts to obtain a license as medical clerk through regular courses
A growing number of students aim to obtain licenses in the field of medical clerical work. Aichi University Junior College supports such students’ efforts to obtain a medical clerk’s license (issued by the Japan Ability Development Promotion Association) through regular courses. Students can receive practical instruction on the mechanisms of health insurance systems, the fundamentals of calculation of health insurance points, preparation of detailed statements of medical expenses, and patient service. In AY2018, 27 among 28 examinees passed the license exam. (Aichi University Junior College achieved a pass rate of 96.4% in the exam.)

Offering prep courses on campus, enabling students to devote efforts to both studies and qualification acquisition
The Junior College offers career development programs targeting students who wish to obtain qualifications. In the programs, experts from various industries and specialized instructors give thorough guidance to students. The programs offered on campus allow students to prepare to obtain qualifications without spending time committing to ordinary qualification education facilities or covering high costs, and to devote themselves to both studies and qualification acquisition. Not only qualifications acquired using the programs during enrollment but also qualifications acquired before enrollment, such as the Eiken test grade and a qualification for bookkeeping can be counted into credits necessary for graduation.

Career planning

Helping students develop their own basic ability to live and explore their own lifestyles
Career planning denotes developing your basic ability to consider your own life and creating a future vision. Contemporary society, where women’s life models have been changing, requires women to have the ability to closely consider the significance of working and their own desired lifestyles. Career planning courses are taught by those working in various ways while establishing their own work-life balance, including independent announcers and corporate managers. Students can draw valuable suggestions for their lives from active discussions, while considering what kinds of human resources are needed in the region and the business world and what vision they should have about work, and becoming keenly aware of what they should do during their student days. Learning about career planning allows students to acquire the basic ability as working adults and the capability to survive contemporary society.

Transfer to university—an alternative choice offered to students after two years of studying at the Junior College

To help students deepen their interest stimulated through studies at the Junior College, we have a system whereby students can transfer to a four-year university. Students can receive learning guidance anytime in preparation for advancing to the four-year university. The Junior College also has a credit transfer system whereby students can attend undergraduate courses offered at Aichi University and earn credits in preparation for transfer to a university during their enrollment at the Junior College. If students wish to transfer to Aichi University, they can use recommendation quotas for all faculties and departments, and a system for switching the admission fees they paid to the Junior College to those for Aichi University.

Allowing students to attend courses offered at Aichi University

To help students further deepen their learning at the Junior College, some undergraduate courses offered at Aichi University are open to junior college students as Special Courses Open to Auditors. The credits earned from these courses are counted into credits necessary for graduation from the Junior College.