With the authorization from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) on October 22, 2020, Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Economics, the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow and the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona have confirmed the establishment of a new joint master’s degree program, “International Joint Master Degree Program in Global Markets, Local Creativities” in September 2021.
This is a two-year master’s program. Over the course of two years, students study at the University of Glasgow (UK) during the first semester (six months), the University of Barcelona (Spain) during the second semester (six months), and Kyoto University (Japan) during the third and fourth semesters (one year), and are conferred a joint degree from the three universities.

This program is one of the courses (called “study track”) that consist of the integrated international program “Erasmus Mundus International Master Degree Program in Global Markets, Local Creativities (GLOCAL)” comprised by a consortium of seven universities.
We aim to provide students with interdisciplinary and international academic training and practical skill through the complementary and interdisciplinary expertise, resources and networks of seven leading universities in seven innovative cities by utilizing intellectual, human, and institutional resources of the GLOCAL program.

Please visit the program website for more information.

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As part of a series of International Collaborative Courses offered by AGST, the Division of Natural Resource Economics (GSA) will hold two intensive lecture courses given by guest scholars invited from overseas universities.

[Course contents]
Click here to see the poster.
Visit the following links for further information:
Special Lecture VB:
http://www.reseco.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/news/20200918_1819/
Special Lecture IVB:
http://www.reseco.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/news/20200918_1837/

[Registration for Academic Credit]
Please contact the student affairs office of your affiliated graduate school for details about the course registration procedures.

[Contact]
Makoto KURODA (Mr)
Division of Natural Resource Economics, GSA.
kuroda.makoto.6a[at]kyoto-u.ac.jp (please replace [at] with @)

[Course contents]
Access the KULASIS for details.
Click here to see the poster.

[Course registrations]
Students who need credits: register during the period of course registration at the Student Affairs Office.
Students who want to audit: contact the coordinator (GSE professors) and apply for participation.
GSE professors in charge of each courses are indicated in syllabus.

[Note]
For general questions, please contact International Affairs Office, GSE

We welcome your participation!

In April 2020, the KyotoU School of Letters and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, or EHESS), France, jointly launched a cotutelle (double-doctoral-degree) program.

EHESS is a world-leading research institution in the humanities and social sciences (HSS), and Europe’s largest HSS graduate school enrolling around 2,000 PhD students. EHESS and KyotoU concluded an MoU in 2015, and have since been collaborating in fields such as sociology, economics, law, Asian studies, and African studies.

In the cotutelle program, participants will belong to both KyotoU and EHESS as regular PhD students, and conduct research under the co-supervision of faculty from the two institutions. Each student is required to submit one dissertation to both schools, and will receive two degrees after passing a joint review and completing the necessary administrative procedures at KyotoU and EHESS. For KyotoU, the program is the third of its kind and the first in HSS.

While contributing to KyotoU’s ongoing efforts to accelerate the international mobility of HSS students and early-career researchers, the cotutelle program enables the participating students to conduct advanced research using resources from both institutions, and to gain international experiences that can potentially broaden their career horizons. The program is also anticipated to facilitate academic collaboration between the two institutions, as their researchers work together as co-supervisors.

[Further information]
https://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/for_students/student_index/

[Contact]
Office for Promotion of International Exchange, Graduate School of Letters
Faculty of Arts Bldg. 1F
E-mail: bun.kokusaikoryu[at] mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp

(please replace [at] with @)

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コース参加者は、海外から招へいした研究者・専門家による集中講義の受講に加え、海外協定校等において現地研究者のもとで研究指導を受けることを推奨しております。条件を満たした修了者には、学位記とは別途、本コースのアカデミックポートフォリオを含む修了認定証が授与されます。

今回対象となるのは、2020年4月に課程に入学した修士課程および博士後期課程1年生で、今回の募集が本コースに参加する唯一の機会となります。
在外研究を志している方、研究留学を検討中の方や海外研究者の講義に興味があるなど、皆さんの参加をお待ちしています。
質問、お問い合わせは所属する研究科の担当事務室まで。

[応募受付]
2020年7月1日～8月31日
[参加資格]
応募時点において、経済学研究科、文学研究科または農学研究科生物資源経済学専攻の修士課程または博士後期課程1年生として在籍する者。
[申請方法]
下記のページを確認し、所定の書類を所属する研究科の担当事務室まで提出してください。
http://agst.jgp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/top-global-course

Registration for joining the AGST Top Global Course is now open!

This programme offers participants the chance to take part in intensive courses by invited scholars from abroad. Participants are also encouraged to advance their research at our partner universities in Europe and Asia. Participants who successfully meet all the requirements will be awarded a certificate that contains their detailed academic portfolio separately from the diploma at the time of graduation.

We currently accept students who were enrolled in a Master or Doctoral course in April 2020, and this is your only chance to join this course. We are waiting for your application if you have interests in studying abroad, conducting research abroad or if you are just interested in joining the courses by invited scholars.

Please contact the appropriate office at your graduate school for inquiries and information.

[Application period]
1st July – 31st August, 2020
[Eligibility]
At the time of application, students must be in their 1st year of a Master or Doctoral course at the Graduate School of Economics (GSE), the Graduate School of Letters (GSL) or the Graduate School of Agriculture (GSA)’s Division of Natural Resource Economics.
[How to apply]
Check our website and submit the necessary documents to the appropriate office.
http://agst.jgp.kyoto-u.ac.jp/top-global-course

Our latest Newsletter is now available.
Please click the title or image to download.

AGST NEWSLETTER : Spring/Summer 2020

Past issues
AGST NEWSLETTER : Autumn/Winter2019
AGST NEWSLETTER : Spring/Summer 2019
AGST NEWSLETTER : Autumn/Winter2018

[Course contents]
Access the KULASIS for details.
Click here to see the poster.

*These courses might be cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances.

[Course registrations]
Students who need credits: register during the period of course registration at the Student Affairs Office.
Students who want to audit: contact the coordinator (GSE professors) and apply for participation.
GSE professors in charge of each courses are indicated in syllabus.

[Note]
For general questions, please contact International Affairs Office, GSE

We welcome your participation!

Given the continued global spread of COVID-19, the Division of Natural Resource Economics in the GSA has decided to cancel Prof. Kumbhakar’s and Dr. Malek’s intensive lecture course (“Special Lecture on Natural Resources Economics VIA”) scheduled for 4th to 8th July 2020.

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As part of a series of International Collaborative Courses offered by the AGST, the Division of Natural Resource Economics (GSA) will hold an intensive lecture course titled “Special Lecture on Natural Resources Economics VIA” (Code: FC10000), themed “Productivity and Efficiency Measurement,” jointly taught by Prof. Subal C. Kumbhakar from the State University of New York at Binghamton and Dr. Mohammad Abdul Malek from the University of Tsukuba on 4-8 July 2020.

Prof. Kumbhakar, Distinguished Professor of Economics at SUNY Binghamton, is internationally recognized as a leading scholar in the field of stochastic frontier analysis. He is the co-author (with Knox Lovell) of the book Stochastic Frontier Analysis (2000), and A Practitioner’s Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis using Stata (2015) coauthored with H-J Wang and A Horncastle, both published by Cambridge University Press.

[Course contents]
Click here to see the poster.

Visit the following link for further information including the syllabus:
http://www.reseco.kais.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/news/20200330_1730/

[Registration for Academic Credit]
Not only students at GSA but also students at other graduate schools can register for this course on KULASIS. However, the registration period may differ from one graduate school to another. Please contact the student affairs office of your affiliated graduate school for further information about the course registration procedure.

[Contact]
Makoto KURODA (Mr)
Division of Natural Resource Economics, GSA.
kuroda.makoto.6a[at]kyoto-u.ac.jp (please replace [at] with @)

The Courses on Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) is an English language, research-oriented package of courses that combines interdisciplinary education with a transregional focus on Japan and South (East) Asia but in a global context.

This transregional outlook is based on the perspective that cultures are not contained within ethnically closed, linguistically homogenous and territorially bounded spheres. Instead they are constituted through transformations and entanglements that follow from contacts and relationships between various agents, concepts and institutions. Asian and Transcultural Studies in this understanding thus combine methodological and theoretical approaches from a broad spectrum of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

The study package seeks to expand the regional and disciplinary competences students have obtained in previous studies. All the students from Kyoto University as well as exchange students from overseas partners are encouraged to participate in these courses. They will acquire empirical knowledge on historical and contemporary moments of exchange as well as on theories and methodologies to frame and analyse such processes. The courses are offered in English and presuppose some level of academic English but are designed as a place to further improve academic English skills in the context of content-based learning.

The CATS package is situated in the “Asian Platform for Global Sustainability and Transcultural Studies” (AGST), which is part of the “Kyoto University – Japan Gateway Project,” funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). It furthermore forms the backbone of a new study program, Master of Arts in Transcultural Studies, a joint degree program of the Graduate School of Letters at Kyoto University and the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Germany, launched in Autumn 2017. Students in this this study program will conduct their studies at both institutions to receive a single, joint diploma after fulfilling their studies.

This joint degree program will require students at Kyoto University to have a background in a discipline of the humanities or social sciences, fluency in academic Japanese language, English language capabilities of TOEFL iBT 90 or above, and a basic understanding of second foreign language.

For further information, please visit JDTS website; www.cats.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/jdts/

[Contact]
Office for Promotion of International Exchange, Graduate School of Letters
Faculty of Arts Bldg. 1F
E-mail: bun.kokusaikoryu[at] mail2.adm.kyoto-u.ac.jp (please replace [at] with @)