Aoyama Standard Education for Employment Skills Development

*Although the grant project period has ended, this initiative will continue as an in-house project at our university.

Business Overview

In 2003, Aoyama Gakuin University launched the "The Aoyama Standard" education, a radical reform of the university-wide liberal arts education that had been in place up until then. This The Aoyama Standard education, which is open to students from all faculties, has offered a variety of subjects to improve students' employability, based on the school motto of Aoyama Gakuin University "Salt of the Earth, Light of the World." This initiative aims to raise students' awareness of professional and social independence more than ever before by separating and reorganizing the various subjects related to career development and career guidance that have been offered up until now into "career skills," and by developing and systematizing new subject groups, to further improve students' employability and social independence.

the purpose

The purpose of this initiative is to establish and systematize the area of "career skills" that aims to develop employability within The Aoyama Standard Education System. By making the various subjects related to employability development, which previously existed separately, independent and clearly defined, it is possible to raise students' awareness of professional independence from an early stage when they enter university, and to clarify the path to social independence in conjunction with specialized education.

Fiscal 2010 implementation plan

In 2010, in order to establish and systematize "career skills," we will lay the foundation for the following years and beyond by hiring a specific teacher (project teacher), introducing a distance learning system between the two campuses, establishing an in-house system for the "career skills" field, and experimentally offering new subjects related to employability development.