What about separating the humanities and sciences and integrating the humanities and sciences?

Morikami: I think there are many other opinions, but Professor Fuse will continue to give us his opinions on the fusion of literature and science that is currently attracting attention.

Alms: Our school changes classes when going up from 16st year to 18nd year, but does not divide the humanities and progresses in the same class until graduation. In the third year, there is only a difference in the elective courses corresponding to the university entrance examination, which is one of the attractions of our school. There are students coming.It is natural that students with higher academic ability are interested in various things and can do both humanities and science, and it may be impossible to decide their own future between the ages of XNUMX and XNUMX.Even after I enter university, I come across various things, so I think it would be good if I could find what I really wanted to do.

Yamagiwa: Noriko Arai, who wrote "AI vs. Children who can't read textbooks," was converted from liberal arts to science, but it would be difficult if there was no literacy in mathematics.Waseda University has decided to impose a mathematics test on liberal arts students at the School of Political Science and Economics, but in the coming ICT era, it may be necessary to have some knowledge of mathematics in higher education.

Morikami: How about Professor Hagiwara of Nishitaka, who has many students going on to Kyoto University at public high schools in the metropolitan area?

(I.e.: Classes are divided into 30 years, but practically only the difference in the amount of elective courses. On the E-tele program, we had a dialogue with XNUMX students from our school, alumni, and working people, asking, "Which way should I choose, humanities or science?"Among them, I have to choose liberal arts and science for university entrance exams, but I am taking the liberal arts faculty, but there are various students who are interested in studying mathematics and science, including science and social sciences. Some students knew that it wouldn't work if they didn't understand.After the broadcast, the teachers seemed to feel the significance of learning various subjects in a well-balanced manner for a year or two.I felt once again that I should do a wide range of things with the idea of ​​basic education rather than specializing in either one toward the new curriculum.

 If you learn a little more and go to college by high school, it will be useful somewhere.Also, if you read well, no matter what field you go to, you will be able to read what you are looking for and absorb your knowledge.Especially in the future, if you go abroad, you can't do anything unless you know about Japan and the other country, including the political and economic situation.After all, high school is about to make such a base, and at the same time, I strongly believe that it must be a school that can realize it.

Inagaki: The number of students enrolled at Kyoto University this year is 11 in total, an increase of 14 or 5 compared to the year before last.While the University of Tokyo is strongly oriented, there are a certain number of students who want to go to Kyoto University because they want to do different values ​​and academic research.The average is XNUMX or XNUMX people every year, but I think it's partly because they come back to summer vacation and talk to their juniors about the fun of Kyoto University through club activities.

 Our school's curriculum is basically the same as Nishitaka, aiming for liberal arts.For liberal arts and science, do not divide the course, just prepare a half-year course in the second half of the third year and thicken either one, and learn the liberal arts as a matter of course until the first half.Perhaps because of this, I hear that there are many graduates such as Lully Miura, an international political scientist, who move to science in the undergraduate school and liberal arts in the graduate school, as in Western universities.

 The aspirations of the top performers have been broadly divided into four in the last few years.Although the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University (including Hitotsubashi University and Tokyo Institute of Technology) are the first choices, there are cases where the medical school is becoming more oriented and the university is directly aimed at American universities by receiving SAT.This is to emulate Urawa High School and create a public interest incorporated foundation for our alumni association to support students with a global orientation, so that we can provide financial support of about 10 to 20 yen for short-term and long-term study abroad. It may also be affected by the fact that it became. The fourth is a group that focuses on research and aims at engineering and science at Tohoku University and Hokkaido University.

Sato: "Traditional" to have all students take all subjects.There are XNUMX subjects including earth science in science, and all in society. It will be divided into liberal arts and science in three years, but just because of the relationship between science and society, even in liberal arts, the first part of number III is taken out and a setting subject called "analysis basics" is created and only a small amount is done.

 Some of the students are wondering about the humanities and sciences, and at the class division meeting for second graders the other day, those who ask, "I can't decide because I'm interested in both humanities and sciences." I hear that there was quite a lot.In fact, there are some students who want to go to the composition department of Tokyo University of the Arts in science.Teachers recognize that these traditions should be preserved, but they have limited time.When it comes to taking everything, it is really difficult to secure 1 hours and XNUMX hours a week for each subject.We are proceeding with research on the new curriculum, how to make up for it by devising lessons, and how to connect it within one to three years.However, many graduates say that their first and second year of college education was easy.Because I've already come in various forms in high school, and quite deeply.

 In Kyoto University's efforts, I am very interested in the "Funny Challenge" for undergraduate students.I talk at school, but unlike studying abroad in general, I think other universities don't have a plan to help you with what you want to do.

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