Intensive Chinese and Russian courses to open in April 2026 - Developing advanced language skills and international understanding required in the global community

Starting in the 2026 academic year, our university will be launching new language education programs for undergraduate students: the "Intensive Chinese Course" and the "Intensive Russian Course." These courses are special, cross-departmental programs specializing in Chinese and Russian. "Intensive" means "intensive," and their distinctive feature is that they allocate more time and credits than regular language learning, aiming to acquire advanced language skills in a short, intensive period.
In addition to studying in their own field of expertise, students can develop a second specialization, which will allow them to develop advanced language skills and a deep understanding of the culture and history behind the language, thereby acquiring expertise that will be directly linked to their future careers.

Course Overview

This course aims to not only learn a language, but also to develop the ability to be used in the international community by combining the study of a specialized field with advanced language skills.
For example, Faculty of Economics students learn in the Chinese Intensive Course and analyze the trends of the Chinese market directly in the local language, and Faculty of Science and Engineering students read cutting-edge Russian papers through the Russian Intensive Course.

In addition, we also offer related lecture courses such as "Russian History and Culture" and "Modern and Contemporary Chinese History" to cultivate a deep understanding of the society, culture, and history behind the language. This allows you to connect with people from different cultural backgrounds and develop a true international understanding.
We also place great importance on practical learning, and we recommend exchange students to partner schools in Russian-speaking and Chinese-speaking countries that our university has. In addition, there is a system in place to recognize credits for students who score high in the Russian Language Proficiency Test (ТРКИ), Chinese Language Test (Intermediate Examination), and HSK (Chinese Proficiency Test).
Students who have completed 22 or more credits in the designated courses will be recognized as "course completion", 18 credits or more will be recognized as "minor completion", and 14 credits or more will be recognized as "basic course completion".

This course will develop and reorganize the achievements of Chinese and Russian language education that the University has cultivated so far, and provide students with the necessary skills to acquire the ability to use it in the international community in the future, and to play an active role as a peacemaker in the world of division and chaos.

Main faculty

Chinese

Associate Professor

Motoko Sato

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Specialized Field

Foreign Language Education

Research theme

Chinese communication expression method and Chinese language teaching method

Associate Professor

Li Dan

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Specialized Field

Pragmatics

Research theme

Chinese communication research for native Japanese speakers, Japanese communication research for native Chinese speakers

Russian

Professor

Mitsuru Eguchi

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Specialized Field

Philosophy/ethics, foreign language education

Research theme

Japanese-Russian language communication research, Russian language teaching methods, Russian thought (especially Tolstoy's thought)

Associate Professor

Masahiro Nakahori

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Specialized Field

Russian folklore, Russian folk culture, Slavic mythology

Research theme

Russian funeral laments and funeral rites, folk culture of the Russian North