Osaka University, also known as OU, is a Japanese national university founded in 1931 as Japan’s sixth imperial university. It is located in Osaka, Japan, and has three main campuses: Suita, Toyonaka, and Minoh. Merged with Osaka University of Foreign Studies in 2007. More than 23,000 students have attended the institution in recent years, about two-thirds of whom are undergraduates. In the same year, approximately 9% of the students were international students. Tuition fees are the same for domestic and international students, and university accommodation is available for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Academic: GPA of 3 or above on their studies to date
English Language:
– IELTS: 6
– TOEFL iBT: 80
– Duolingo English Test: 110
Students must have biotechnology background knowledge prior to the program.
01 October 2024 – 07 February 2025
Applicants 2023
Regular Applicants: 431 students
GPA: 2.91 – 4.00
TOEFL iBT Score: 100-107
IELTS Score: 5,5-8,5
Duolingo English Test Score: 60-155
Awardees 2023
Regular Awardees: 7 students
GPA: 3.48 – 3.97
TOEFL iBT Score: –
IELTS Score: 8
Duolingo English Test Score: 145-155
Available Courses
The purpose of this course is to familiarizestudents with a range of modern Japanesewriters, focusing on five major trends: the “I Novel,” Proletarian Literature, the “New Perceptionists,” the “Third Wave” of postwar writers, and the so-called “Entertainers.” These movements will be placed in the context of Japanese literature as a whole, and we will consider to what extent these labels help us to understand individual writers and works.
To learn basic technique for research. This course is mandatory for all students.
This course provides students with both theory and practice on cross-cultural understanding. Through the course, students will be able to understand and appreciate the theories and concepts of cultural studies, which offer them strategies to survive in our globalized society. In addition to this, this course offers students opportunities to learn and embrace their own culture, as well as explore ways to deal with other cultures.
The purpose of the course is to examine the history of public meetings, which were at the core of the formation of social movements and the most important means of shaping public opinion, a means by which anyone could freely criticize and peacefully influence the policies and actions ofgovernments and powerful organizations. The outline of the course are the public sphere and the birth of public meetings: public meetings as a structure: analysis using digital history.
This course is designed to equip students with knowledge and understanding of how big data analysis can be applied to deciphering various societies, with a particular focus on Japan. It explores the potential of big data in advancing the field of social sciences, especially in the realm of psychology. Through theoretical discussions and practical examples, students will gain insights into the ways big data can contribute to the understanding and development of social science research.
This lecture is designed for students who wish to study critical readings on news stories (i.e.
media literacy). In this series of lectures, not only theories of communication, but also the history of mass media in modern Japanese society will be discussed. In so doing, several aspects of the mass media will be studied, such as newspapers, broadcast (TV), magazine journalism, and so on.
This course aims to give students basic knowledge of Japanese law and the Japanese legal system by focusing on private law. It discusses the current status of Japanese law and highlights its most recent developments in various areas, including contract, tort, property, and family law.
This course’s main objective is to explain core issues relating to common law in general and explain the way common law works and operates. This course aims at providing students with a general overview of the general features that characterize the common law legal system from the point of view of the legal mind and practice of law.
The main objective of this course is to provide a basic knowledge of the specificities of the Middle East from a legal perspective. Particular attention will be paid to the interaction between classical Islamic law and modern law in these countries. This is because various aspects of state organisation, sources of law and the regulation of rights and freedoms can only be properly understood by examining them from the perspective of Islamic law.
Understanding of modern physics, from elementary particle physics to solid state physics
Electronics appears to be quite a popular technology in everyday life; getting up with an alarm clock, watching the morning news on TV of internet, communicating by cellular phone or electronic mail, to name a few. It is virtually impossible to imagine life without electronics. Yet not many people know what electronics is all about and what is going on inside the equipment. This course will invite you into the amazing world of electronics, revealing basic principles behind technology, showing how it works, and introducing the current trends and new frontiers. This course is intended for any students who are interested in electronics, regardless of their majors.