Literary Arts Department

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Look at the world, and listen carefully. Spin out the art of words from the voice of the heart.

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10 ch. Literary Arts Department

Students find their creative themes and polish their power of writing.

Students find their creative themes and polish their power of writing.

It is the characteristics of the Literary Arts Department that leading writers directly teach students. Students find the theme which they want to express and master their creative techniques while treasuring originality of their own. Lectures are held by the faculty members who belong to the other departments to accommodate students’ diverse interests, and abundant opportunities are offered to meet stimuli. Students obtain specialized knowledge and practical skills by learning diverse viewpoints so that they play active parts as specialists of literary arts, nonfiction writing, publishing, and translation with sharp observing powers and deep insights.

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Creative Writing (Novels, Poetry, Scripts)

What do you want to transmit?
What is the technique to transmit?

For writing ability to send out the message accurately, students master basics for writing such as “Japanese grammar” and so on. They deepen understandings of the literary works and expand their abilities to express themselves by writing. They are encouraged to find their themes and expressive methods, and to actually spin up the stories. Through faculty members’ guidance, criticism, and critique among peer students, they become excellent expressionists of words by practice.

Nonfiction and Literary Criticism

To obtain the original story-telling that does not exit anywhere.

From history in literary and theatrical arts to current affairs, students deepen understandings of various fields and master viewpoints to discuss them in their own words, rational thoughts and techniques. They foster sensibilities to catch information and polish thinking powers to test the information accurately. They have training for cutting-edge narration.

Publishing and Editing

We thoroughly train the editing power which is effective for the present-day business.

Students study practical subjects such as marketing, planning, composition, editing, and printing system. They totally master knowledge and techniques which are ready fighting powers in the mass-communication industry. In practice of “book design”, student taste themes and messages and select words and photographs, and decide design. They are trained editing power applicable to various business scenes.

Translation and Reading Course

In some cases, a translated novel is more impressive that it is in the original.

Without damaging the appeal of the work, in order to carry out touching translation, it is necessary to widely and deeply understand not only the work but also its backgrounds. In the Course of Translation and Reading, students study histories and characteristics of all parts of the world carefully and absorb extensive knowledge of movies and literature while developing good command of languages and leaning translating techniques.