International exchange and education ｜ HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY FISHERIES SCIENCES

Creation date:2018/12/06
Update date:2018/12/06

International exchange and education

From its beginning, Sapporo Agricultural College was an international school, introducing western culture, science and technology, and providing English-language lectures taught by teachers from abroad. Since then, Hokkaido University has continued to increase the international awareness of students by improving their communication skills in foreign languages and by providing opportunities for study and research abroad.

At the Hakodate campus, there are two groups responsible for promoting internationalization: (1) the International Exchange Committee (Kokusai kouryuu iinkai) and (2) the International Education Office (Kokusai kyouiku shitsu).

(1) International Exchange Committee

国際交流委員会
Kokusai kouryuu iinkai

The main objective of the committee is to create and reinforce international exchanges with universities and institutions. The fisheries schools currently have agreements with 34 partner institutions in 15 countries (Table 1), which provide a wide range of exchange opportunities for students and faculty members. The committee also promotes these exchange programs to our students.

The committee comprises nine members:
•SAKAI Ryuichi(Leader)
•John BOWER
•JOE Ga-Hyun
•MATSUISHI Takashi Fritz
•ONISHI Hiroji
•SAEKI Hiroki
•TAKAGI Shogo
•TANAKA Hiroyuki
•TOJO Naoki

(2) International Education Office

国際教育室
Kokusai kyouiku shitsu

The main objective of the office is to provide opportunities for students to study abroad to learn about international fisheries and aquaculture. Ten short-term summer courses are currently offered:

Summer courses organized by the International Education Office:

Course	Partner institution(s)	Course coordinator(s)
Humans and the marine environment	University of Washington (USA)	UENO Hiromichi
Hydrobiology and inland environmental science in Poland	University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Poland)	FUJIMOTO Takafumi
JICA-HU marine-resource sustainable use and value chain fishery development facilitation program	JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency)	TOJO Naoki
JICA St. Lucia fisheries development dispatch program	JICA	SAKAI Ryuichi
JICA St. Lucia fisheries development dispatch program	JICA	TOJO Naoki
Leadership program for sustainable coastal fisheries in Asia	Southeast Asia Fisheries Development Center (Thailand)	ONISHI Hiroji
PARE Program – Spring and Summer schools	Bandung Institute of Technology (Indonesia)	John BOWER
	Bogor Agricultural University (Indonesia)
	Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
	Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia)
	Kasetsart University (Thailand)
	Mahidol University (Thailand)
	Thammasat University (Thailand)
Resilience building on a local scale by a Hokkaido city: Hakodate as a case study	Hakodate City	Anthony CHITTENDEN
Resilience building through aquaculture and tourism [Taught in Japanese]	Bifuka City (Hokkaido)	Anthony CHITTENDEN
Seafood supply chains in Japan and Singapore	National University of Singapore	KISHIMURA Hideki
Seafood supply chains in Japan and Singapore	National University of Singapore	John BOWER
Sustainable aquaculture and resource enhancement for salmon	Miyagi University of Education	SHIMIZU Munetaka
	Nagoya University
	St. Mariannna University School of Medicine
	University of Bergen (Norway)
	Uni Research (Norway)
	University of Tokyo

A secondary objective has been to provide fisheries students with domestic opportunities to interact with students from overseas partner universities. We do this by hosting introductory programs on approaches to regional revitalization every summer and autumn.

Another objective of the office is to teach undergraduate courses in English at the Sapporo campus:

Undergraduate courses taught at the Sapporo campus by the International Education Office
Course	Instructor	Semester	Credits
Contemporary Issues in Human Ecology	Anthony CHITTENDEN	Fall	2
Marine Pollution	Anthony CHITTENDEN	Fall [to begin in 2020]	1

The office comprises two full-time faculty members (in bold) and eight affiliated members:
•John BOWER (Leader)
•Anthony CHITTENDEN (Sapporo campus)
•FUJIMOTO Takafumi
•KISHIMURA Hideki
•KUMAGAI Yuya
•MUKAI Tohru
•ONISHI Hiroji
•SHIMIZU Munetaka
•TOJO Naoki(Hakodate campus)
•UENO Hiromichi