Program Outline
Lakeland University Japan, an American Liberal Arts College located in Tokyo, is pleased to announce its first annual Women’s Studies Summer Academic Program to be held between 7th and 11th of August 2017.
The purpose of the new program at Lakeland University Japan is twofold. While its primary goal is to focus on women’s role in Japanese history and culture, in a broader sense, its objective is to foster tolerance to others, forward thinking and responsible citizenship.
The Summer Academic Program at Lakeland University Japan is the first women’s studies program in Tokyo offered entirely in English. Organized to be student-centered, it will help the participants to rediscover the women’s role in Japan and the global impact of their achievements. By comparative study of examples from the historical past until XXI century, the program participants will explore the ways in which Japan formulated and developed its ideas of female leadership in modern society. The participants will have the opportunity to meet and learn from leading women in today’s Japan and their paths to establishing themselves as experts in their respective fields.
The program is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students, Ph.D. candidates in the Humanities and Social Sciences as well as to those interested in Japanese culture and society, gender and feminist studies.
An international team of established scholars in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences will guide the participants through the world of Japan sharing with them erudite knowledge, unique experience, and life-long devotion to the cause of gender equality and human rights.
All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation.
The Women’s Studies Summer Academic Program will establish a Scholarship in support of an outstanding female student of Lakeland University Japan.