Policies of Dairy Science
Based on our school philosophies and tri-fold love for God, humankind, and the Earth, Rakuno Gakuen University Graduate School strives to establish a healthy earth that will ensure the health of people. To this end, our school was established with the goals of pursuing both theoretical and practical academic research in the fields of Dairy Science and Veterinary Medicine, unraveling the mysteries of these fields, and contributing to scientific development.
Based on the founding principles of Rakuno Gakuen, the Graduate School of Dairy Science pursues goals of promoting thorough, persistent research on dairy science and related scientific fields, extensively returning these results to society, and contributing to human welfare, conservation of our natural environment, and advancement of industry and culture. To this end, the School holds two courses. The Master’s Course provides thorough academic instruction based on broad viewpoints, with the goal of imparting students with the advanced knowledge required to develop research capabilities and highly refined specializations within their fields of expertise. The Doctoral Course places students into research roles in their fields of specialty where they carry out independent research activities, with the goal of instilling advanced research capabilities and fundamental, in-depth knowledge necessary to perform as a highly specialized professional in other capacities.
Admission Policy
[Master’s Course] Dairy Science
In accordance with the founding principles of Rakuno Gakuen University, the goal of the Graduate School of Dairy Science is to pursue education and research of the diversifying and advancing fields of dairy science and related sciences, cultivating in its students a rich humanity which respects life and nature, and fostering them into experts capable of developing advanced academic research in response to a variety of comprehensive issues in the field of dairy science, such as cyclic problems and energy supply issues. Accordingly, as the Graduate School of Dairy Science requires comprehensive learning incorporating natural sciences, humanities, and social sciences. It seeks students with motivation to contribute to human society through applying knowledge and technology related to dairy science and the livestock industry.[Master’s Course] Food System
Our modern society strongly demands safety and reliability of the entire food chain, from food resource and ingredient production and processing, all the way to distribution. The Food Systems Course instils advanced and wide-ranging academic knowledge to accurately evaluate and interpret consumer needs, fostering each student into a strongly-motivated future leader with a firm sense of purpose and duty, whose actions will bring affluent consumer societies to fruition, based on viewpoints ranging from global economics to local issues.[Doctoral Course] Food Production and Utility Development
The Doctoral Course on Food Production and Utility Development fosters future researchers and leaders who will perform advanced interdisciplinary research on specific policies and theories to ensure quality and quantity of safe, stable food sources with consideration for environmental conservation. They will actively and adaptively apply their research to a wide variety of social situations, coordinating their advanced specialty to suit the overall needs of society and our environment.[Master’s Course & Doctoral Course] Food and Nutrition Science
The Food and Nutrition Science Course unites core concepts of “food” and “health” through in-depth academic study and extensive experience in a number of fields, establishing international viewpoints and fostering each student into a strongly-motivated future leader with a firm sense of purpose and duty. Accordingly, the Food and Nutrition Science Course seeks applicants with both fundamental academic abilities and a natural curiosity for the sciences relating to the animals, plants, and microorganisms that constitute ingredients of food products, as well as a challenging spirit to tackle various problems on processing, preparation, nutrition, metabolism, disease, and health.Curriculum Policy
[Master’s Course] Dairy Science
The Dairy Science course will develop education diversified across a variety of related specialized fields. Functional education is carried out utilizing research results from fields such as crop production science, domestic animal production science, dairy farming information science, and environmental and symbiotic science, but education is not restricted to the frameworks of these fields. All instructors within the field of study will collaborate to plan a curriculum that furthers specific expertise, and at the same time enables students to study relationships with other subjects in the same field of specialty, instilling a broad viewpoint, and ultimately providing students with deep knowledge and advanced decision-making abilities that are not partial toward any particular specialty. This style of tuition will impart students with extensively balanced knowledge, free of bias to fields of study or specialty.[Master’s Course] Food System
The Food Systems Course is composed of three fields: Food Resource Utility Systems (Agriculture and Livestock Sitology), Food Policy Systems (Food Policy Theory, Food Distribution Theory), and Business Management Systems (Business Administration Theory, Food Information System Theory). Through these fields, the Food Systems Course cultivates analytical abilities with applications such as architecture of food product planning and development systems, cost reduction of food product distribution chains with a focus on safety and reliability in light of worldwide food supplies and demands, and examination of effectiveness of management at businesses utilizing information systems.On their way to becoming food system specialists, students will further deepen their comprehensive understanding of “food” through studies of related fields such as food economics and food culture.
[Doctoral Course] Food Production and Utility Development
The Doctoral Course on Food Production and Utility Development provides education spanning a number of diverse related specialized fields. While actively utilizing education and research results from the Master’s Course work in the specialized fields of dairy science, crop production science, domestic animal production science, dairy farming information science, environmental and symbiotic science, and food systems, students will pursue in-depth studies of new and complex knowledge and technologies, establishing mutual links. Students will further be expected to proactively and comprehensively seek out issues regarding dairy science, environmental and symbiotic science, and food systems, developing the skills to come up with their own unique solutions.[Master’s Course & Doctoral Course] Food and Nutrition Science
The cornerstones of study and research in the Food and Nutrition Science Course are “new food ingredient development” and “food and functionality”, with additional specialized fields focusing on enhancing added value of food, such as “improving quality and seeking functionality of food ingredients” and “nutrition and human health”. Furthermore, practical seminars not only develop advanced knowledge in fields of specialty, but also foster strong communication and leadership skills.Diploma Policy
[Master’s Course] Dairy Science
Degrees shall be awarded to students who have obtained the specified credits, and demonstrate the following abilities.- The ability to contribute to education and research in the fields of dairy science and related sciences, and the ability to solve problems in interdisciplinary fields or combined fields.
- Unique, creative and advanced abilities befitting a leader, technologist, or researcher in the field of dairy science, obtained through advanced, continuous and diligent study to master thorough academic knowledge based on broad viewpoints.
[Master’s Course] Food System
Degrees shall be awarded to students who have obtained the specified credits, and demonstrate the following abilities.- Awareness of issues regarding commercialization of food products, and the ability to construct systems in order to design new food products
- The ability to perform actively as a leader in food industries or a specialist in food product distribution, with attention to global food problems
[Doctoral Course] Food Production and Utility Development
Doctoral degrees shall be awarded to students who have obtained the specified credits, and have the following abilities.- The ability to contribute to education and research in the fields of dairy science, environmental and symbiotic science, food systems, and related sciences, and the ability to solve problems in interdisciplinary fields or combined fields.
- Unique, creative and advanced abilities befitting a leader, technologist, or researcher in the fields of dairy science, environmental and symbiotic science, and food systems, obtained through advanced, continuous and diligent study to master thorough academic knowledge based on broad viewpoints.
[Master’s Course & Doctoral Course] Food and Nutrition Science
Degrees shall be awarded to students who have obtained the specified credits, and demonstrate the following abilities.- Extensive, in-depth specialized knowledge of advanced fields and technologies, complemented with comprehensive reasoning and decision making abilities, and matched with a wholesome, well-developed character, respect for life, and sense of social responsibility.
- The ability to contribute to education and research regarding food product functionality and disease prevention as well as human health. The capability to further develop such research.
