Cross-Cultural College Brochure
Professor Norie Yazu, Rector & Chief Academic Director of Cross-Cultural College, Kwansei Gakuin University
What sort of person will be able to contribute to the sustainable development and growth of a global society? From a survey of 70 organizations, we found that although foreign language skills are essential, what these organizations regarded as most important was the ability to perceive and solve problems effectively, and to work in a multicultural environment, unhampered by cultural biases and preconceptions. The Cross-Cultural College program is built around a core of practically-oriented courses in which Canadian and Japanese students work together to understand and solve problems. Its courses will nurture the abilities needed in the future for students to act effectively on the global stage.
It will also be an opportune occasion for students of KGU and Canada to know each other.
Kwansei Gakuin University (KGU), Japan, received a subsidy from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), "Re-Inventing Japan Project" from AY 2011 to 2015, to establish a Canada-Japan collaborative education project - a "Cross-Cultural College (CCC)" in collaboration with Mount Allison University, Queen's University, and the University of Toronto. In AY2020, King’s University College at Western University joined CCC. Although the government funding has ended, KGU will continue to run the CCC programs after AY 2015 and will hold programs in both countries.