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- Faculty of Informatics for Arts / Department of Music Expression
Faculty of Informatics for ArtsDepartment of Information Expression
- Features of the Courses
- Students' Benefits from the Department
- Diploma Policy
- Characteristics of Class Subjects
- Future Vision
- Faculty Members
6 Courses
Acoustic - Movie - Stage Lighting Course
This course is designed for the students who want to acquire professional skills in the studios of film, television and sound recording.
CG - Illustration - Animation Course
This course is designed for the students who want to become 2D/3D animators, CG generalists and art leads.
Art - Design Course
This course is designed for the students who want to acquire skills of sculpting, drawing and graphic design.
Game - Game Sound Course
This course enables students to acquire business knowledge and game design skills by developing games as part of the curriculum.
Applied Computing Course
This course enables students to learn production methods of various types of application software and helps to acquire hand-on skills through developing original applications practically. Students are also able to learn the concept and the use of computing applied to digital artworks, digital humanities and computer vision.
SNS Course
This course provides student with skills of managing or promoting business projects using social media or social networking service(SNS), based on the statistical analysis of target market, as well as the skills of creating magnificent video contents for contributing to SNS. Graduates from this course are expected to be active in the field of the SNS business or to start a new business by their own.
Features of the Department
We offer 6 courses with crossover learning system. Highly motivated students can add classes from other courses than their own course.
Students can freely use professional cutting-edge digital equipment and facilities available on campus.
Our graduates are highly skilled professionals with high employment rate.
Diploma Policy
Faculty of Informatics for Arts pursues various artistic and media-based expressions, and cultivates a wide range of professional skills in the students.
Class examples
Concert SR
Organize live concerts at Pastoral Hall. Planning, acoustic and lighting operation, publicity is included.
TV・Studio program production
Students learn production techniques by using professional film studios and professional photography and recording equipment available on campus.
SFX&VFX
Learning about video composition with visual effects. Students make their own CG work.
Illustration
Learning of various illustration rules and techniques. Students establish their own way of express themselves by the end of the course.
Practical Game
Planning
Master presentation capabilities that are used in actual work locations by practicing everything from drafting game content through to writing proposals.
Future Vision (Aspired Occupations)
| Acoustic - Movie - Stage Lighting |
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| CG - Illustration - Animation |
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| Art - Design |
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| Game - Game Sound |
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| Applied Computing |
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| SNS |
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Faculty Members
Department of Information Expression, ChairmanProfessor Makoto Sadahira（定平 誠）
Graduated Nihon University Faculty of Science and Engineering. Doctor of Engineering.
Responsible for media literacy, media communication theory, network business theory, and more at Shobi University. He implements project-based learning in research centers through subcontracted projects and contracted research and provides a practical and creative education that promotes student independent learning by means of collaborative work with on-site staff through fieldwork activities. In addition to information-related publication writing activities, he makes video-based web promotions, website content, and e-publications as well as plans and produces audiobooks.
He is an adviser to Japan Telework Society, a member of the Information Processing Society of Japan, and a member of the Japan Society for Management Information.