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MattElz
Joined: 07 Jan 2004
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 Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:47 am Post subject: graduate study at Japanese universities (kyushu) |
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| Japan is a great place, believe it or not. But this loyal ELT soldier might not want to make English teaching his life's work, and he just might ... Anyway, just wondering if any universities in Kyushu offer graduate studies (in any area) in English, since I'm not fluent in Japanese. |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject: Re: graduate study at Japanese universities (kyushu) |
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| MattElz wrote: |
| Japan is a great place, believe it or not. But this loyal ELT soldier might not want to make English teaching his life's work, and he just might ... Anyway, just wondering if any universities in Kyushu offer graduate studies (in any area) in English, since I'm not fluent in Japanese. |
You may want to consider Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific university just out of Oita. 50% of the student faculty and teaching faculty are non-Japanese.
Temple University also offers a Masters degree in TESOL at its campus in Fukuoka. American University.
http://www.tuj.ac.jp |
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Vince
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| I'm an alumnus of Temple University in Philadelphia and wanted to do a graduate degree at the Tokyo campus -- until I saw the price. Go to their Web site and take a look at the tuition and fees before getting your hopes up. |
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PAULH
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| Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Vince wrote: |
| I'm an alumnus of Temple University in Philadelphia and wanted to do a graduate degree at the Tokyo campus -- until I saw the price. Go to their Web site and take a look at the tuition and fees before getting your hopes up. |
Vince, just so you know, Temple is not recognised as a university (like a Japanese university) over here to attract Japanese subsidies (though its fully recognised in the US) so the school supports itself on tuition from its student body in Tokyo and Osaka. They are trying to get official recognition in Japan at the consular level in Japan but that would mean they have to give up some of their independence.
Tuition fees are not cheap, but I am a graduate of the M.Ed program in Osaka and if you take the long term view it can be rewarding. e.g. a 12 week Masters paper of 3 credits is about 200,000 yen or 65,000 yen a month. Not cheap but not withing the realms of impossibility- many people spend that on computers and ski trips and nights out on the town. You may have to tighten the belt a bit. Most of the temple grads are teachers working part time at universities and can afford it a little more than conversation school teachers. Fairly good salaries await teachers who want to get into university teaching.
I do admit the D.Ed program is stratospheric: over 3 million yen.
I saw your other post about DL courses- I have a list of possible distance learning courses you can do, and IMHO universities in Australia offer best value for money
http://www.teachinginjapan.com/continuinged.html
University of Shenandoah and University of Indiana offer distance courses in the US as does Walden University. A lot will depend on what you want to do. |
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