Graduate Program in Sustainability Science (GPSS), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

URL http://www.sustainability.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/


Graduate Program in Sustainability Science (GPSS) is a new International master's program to train internationally-minded professionals that can help create a sustainable society. All lectures and practical courses will be carried in English, and those that complete the program are presented with a "Master of Sustainability Science".

This program started in October, 2007 as an inter-departmental program among five departments in the Division of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, also supported by Transdisciplinary Initiative for Global Sustainability (TIGS), the University ofTokyo and Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S). This program provides students with the basic knowledge and concepts necessary to build a sustainable society and features a unique curriculum which emphasizes exercises that enable them to master a diverse set of skills. Students from many different specializations and cultural backgrounds give serious thought to issues related to sustainability through exercises and projects and acquire practical knowledge and skills by stimulating one another intellectually.