Academics

Faculty of Policy Management
Department of Policy Management

Aiming to be a business manager, sales representative

3 Courses of Study

Public and Social Contribution Course

Covering the political science and law as the main components, and sociology and the communication studies as subsidiary components, this course will train students to succeed in such fields as political administration, police, fire services, education, and welfare.

Management Planning Course

Involving economics and business administration as the main components, and law and politics as subsidiary components, this course will improve students' business acumen and will train students to succeed as entrepreneurs or corporate managers, as well as in the business development departments of companies.

Business Professional Course

With sociology and communication studies as the main components, and economics and business administration as subsidiary components, this course aims to train business personnel who can provide advanced-level customer services.

Students' Benefits from the Department

Point 1

Helps students develop a sense of independence through 3 courses.

Point 2

Choose the courses that match your interests by the second year of study

Point 3

Acquire the ability to understand problems comprehensively by learning the main and sub aspects

Diploma Policy

The Faculty of Policy Management aims to nurture students to become individuals capable of confronting a variety of policy issues in modern society within a diverse range of fields to formulate policies based on problem detection and problem solution thought patterns.

Characteristics of Class Subjects

Public Administration

Students will acquire basic knowledge and ideas about administrative law in general and develop a practical foundation that will enable them to formulate their own opinions based on this knowledge and ideas.

Business Planning

Students will learn practically about how to start a new business, the know-how required to make the business a reality, and the considerations that should be made for business profitability.

Practical English

By actually using English to communicate with other students, skills of speaking and listening to English will be acquired which will be useful in a business context.

Future Vision (Aspired Occupations)

Public and Social Contribution
  • Local Government Worker
  • Police Officer
  • Nonprofit Organization
  • (NPO) Employee
  • ...and more
Management Planning
  • Entrepreneur
  • Small Business Owner
  • Corporate Planning Officer
  • Corporate Business Development Officer
  • ...and more
Business Professional
  • Corporate Business Department Worker
  • Corporate Sales Department Worker
  • Shop Assistants
  • Service Industry Worker
  • ...and more

Faculty Members

Department of Policy Management, ChairmanProfessor Hiroyuki Mino (三野 裕之)

Born in Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1965. Graduated from the Department of Sociology, School of Education, Waseda University. Completed the master's degree at Waseda University Graduate School of Political Science. Left Keio University with a doctoral degree from the Graduate School of Law.M
After working as a contract researcher at the Telecommunications Policy Research Institute (now the Multimedia Promotion Center) and as an employee of the Multimedia Software Promotion Association (now the Digital Content Association), he became a full-time lecturer at Shobi Gakuen Junior College in 1994.
In April 2000, he became a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of Policy Management, at Shobi Gakuen University. After serving as an associate professor, he assumed his current position in April 2009.
His books include: “Objective Reporting: Another Theory of Journalism” (Seibundoh, 1999, Co-author), “Digital Media Overview” (Muisuri Publishing, 2003), “Politics of Communication” (Keio University Press, 2003, Co-author), “Governance” (Hokuju Publishing, 2005, Co-author), “Perspectives on the Digital Media Society” (Muisuri Publishing, 2011, Co-author), and “Thinking Informatics 2.0 Case Studies for Active Learning” (Jusonbo, 2016, Co-author).