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• Expressive skills
• Creativity
• Perspicacity
• Information-gathering capacity
• Pursuit skills
• Presentation skills
• Digital skills

• Knowledge of history of Art and Art theory regarding Art and Design
• Knowledge of techniques regarding Art and Design

• Communication ability
• Capacity to think logically
• PerspiProblem solving skills / Independencecacity
• Career formation ability
• Sense of ethics / Social responsibility

Yokohama University of Art and Design has set the following attitudes of mind as a foundation in order to set Curriculum Policy.

1. Through a well-developed first-year education, students acquire basic expressive skills and build a foundation for conceptualization.
2. Encouraging students to choose special fields flexibly from cross-sectional curriculums.
3. Through liberal arts courses, students will acquire social skills, a broad education, and theoretical knowledge of art and design.
4. Students will acquire specialized expressive techniques in art and design by taking specialized courses.
5. Encouraging students to obtain the essential digital skills (including using ICT, Information and Communication Technology) to activities Contemporary Art and Design.
6. The final evaluation of the student's studies will be based on the graduation work and its presentation.
7. Students' graduation work and presentation will constitute the final evaluation for a course of study.
8. Organizing 1~7 into 2 sections of Specialized subjects and Common subjects.

First Year:

1. Establish a curriculum that enables students to acquire basic expressive techniques in art and design, and to learn practical skills to cultivate their conceptual abilities.
2. Establish a cross-disciplinary curriculum (Select Primary Area and Sub Area) for students to determine their own aptitude in their field of specilization.
3. We set up Digital Literacy (Digital expression basics, Digital presentation, Visual expression basics) as a compulsory subject in order to obtain results by learning specialized subjects.
4. A group of courses in plastic arts and expressions will be established to supplement the necessary practical skills training.

2nd Year:

1. In order for students to master specialized techniques and a knowledge of Art and Design, we set up 9 curriculum course models: Painting, Sculpture, Craft, Textile Design, Product Design, Visual Communication Design, Image and Media Design, Animation and Illustration.
2. In order for students to have practical training in related courses and fields, we set up Context Arts subjects (Exercise). 3rd Year:

3rd Year:

1. In order for students to master specialized techniques and knowledge of Art and Design, we set up curriculum course models: Painting, Sculpture, Craft, Textile Design, Product Design, Visual Communication Design, Image and Media Design, Animation and Illustration.
2. We set up a curriculum model of Conservation and Restoration Course which makes 10 courses in total.

4th Year:

1. In order for students to master techniques and knowledge in specialized fields, we set up a Study of Art and Graduation Work.

1st~4th Year:

1. A total of 8 subject groups are offered in the general education field: first-year education, humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, physical education, foreign languages, IT and web design, career education, and general education, with the aim of acquiring a broad range of liberal arts and knowledge to apply expertise in society.
2. In order for students to obtain theoretical knowledge of Art and Design, we set up 2 subjects: Art Theory and History of Art as Specialized Education fields.
3. We set up a Web Design practical qualification training course.
4. We set up a Teacher-Training Course in order for students to obtain Junior High School Teacher's License - Grade 1 in Art and High School Teacher's License-Grade 1 in Art.