OVERVIEW

To increase students' ability to use foreign languages and to deepen their understanding of different cultures

Since its founding, Doshisha University has considered the promotion of internationalism as one of its most important educational goals. Educating students with a high level of practical foreign language ability and a flexible attitude foreign cultures and societies is also part of our mission.
The Institute for Language and Culture, housed in the Kohaku-kan at Kyotanabe Campus, unifies language course offerings and curricular development in order to provide students from all majors with the resources necessary to maintain a high level of foreign language ability.
The Institute's systematic, four-year curriculum offers courses in a total of seven languages: English, as well such languages as German, French, Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and Korean, which students may be encountering for the first time. In accordance with student needs and wishes, it provides a flexible system of total language education that allows students to apply the skills they have learned.