The following three majors are offered in the Graduate School. The Master's Program accept working people and non-degree students, to make the Graduate School more open to the public. Courses are diversified and the curricula and teaching staff are being supplemented, to establish education and research systems able to respond rapidly with the ever changing and widening technological society. *Those who have completed the Masters Program in either major are awarded teaching certificates. Philosophy Major (Master's) Kuniyoshi Obara, the founder of Tamagawa University, was educated by teachers at the philosophy faculty of Kyoto Imperial University (the forerunner of today's Kyoto University) who were active in the early years of what is known as the Kyoto School of philosophy. Such teachers, who included Kitaro Nishida (philosophy), Sei'ichi Hatano (religious philosophy), and Sanjuro Tomonaga (Western philosophical history), were instrumental in educating people who later assumed leadership roles in many fields of thought. Their philosophical spirit and thinking are the foundation of this concentration's research orientation. Philosophy is an academic discipline that emphasizes institutions and thinking that seek out the truth. The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel's invocation of "The courage of truth" should be understood in this light. Philosophy has as its mission the elucidation of truths that have survived the test of time. The Philosophy Major at Graduate School of Humanities seeks to learn from illustrious predecessors and build on their spirit and thinking as a basis for developing one's own philosophical spirit and thinking. In an age when items such as the state of the world and the actions that people are being called upon to take become issues, developing the ability to think, judge, and criticize, are vital. We are being called upon to ponder over what is important, fundamental, and intrinsic. Master's Programs Philosophy research; history of Western philosophy research; and philosophical human science research English Major (Master's) Four research programs are being offered in the major. In addition to English education, literature and language, a broad array of education and research is being conducted, to cover translation, international relations and intercultural studies. Master's Programs English Language/English Language Teaching (ELT) Research; Applied Linguistics Research;Anglo-American Literary Research; and Intercultural Relations/Information Culture Research