The School of Human Sciences was founded in 1987 in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, to celebrate the centennial of Waseda University. The campus is located on Sayama Hill and is surrounded by the natural beauty of the woods near Sayama Lake. Human Science is the product of a shift in the paradigm of human study from a discipline centered on physics, to one centered on biology. This new paradigm of human study features interdisciplinary collaborations and synthetic science. The school started with three departments: Basic Human Sciences, Human Health Sciences, and Sports Sciences. The main study areas of the Department of Human Sciences were biology, psychology, and sociology, and it has worked towards melding these areas in instruction as well. The Department of Human Health Sciences has had a relatively broad practical application, focusing on the study of human wellbeing from the personal side, from the environmental side, and from the point where the person and the environment come together. The subject of the Department of Sports Sciences was humanity itself, and its objective was the scientific study of human behavior at its best in the world of sports.

We have been establishing a better identity and focus for the School, and have worked to make it more relevant to the modern world. Therefore, in 2003, the Department of Sports Sciences separated from the School of Human Sciences and became independent. Now, the new School of Human Sciences is comprised of three departments: the Department of Human Behavior and Environmental Science, addressing the interaction between environment and humankind, the Department of Health Science and Social Welfare, consisting of well-balanced study areas in social science and medical science, and the Department of Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences, covering ergonomics, educational technology, cognitive science, and communication science, fortified by information science. In addition, a distance-learning course utilizing the IT milieu also has been established. This new School of Human Sciences together with the re-organized Graduate School of Human Sciences provides a high standard and highly professional academic system.

Each class period is either 45 or 90 minutes long or 45 minutes, and classes are held between from 9:00 a.m. (8:50 a.m.) and to 9:00 p.m., from Monday through to Saturday.

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