History of Japanese
Language Field
Japanese
language field opens for teaching in
Bachelor's Degree by making the
Japanese language subject to be an
elective subject of students of Tourism
Industry Program and elective subject of
students of Business English Program
which has many more students to enroll
every year; moreover, at the present
time, Thailand needs more personnel
possessing knowledge in Japanese
language in Bachelor's Degree in
order to perform in several agencies in
both public and private sectors because
Thailand has several cooperative aspects
with Japan, especially tourism,
business, trading and
education.
Rajabhat
Suansunandha University, therefore,
considered that it is proper to
establish Japanese Language Program to
support in opening for teaching of
Bachelor of Arts Curriculum, Japanese
Language Field. An approval for
establishing (to be the program) was on
July 15, 2002 and opened for teaching at
the first time in 1st
semester, 2003.
In the first
opening for teaching, the Japanese
Language Field opened for enrollment for
only one group, which received many
interested students for enrollment,
until in academic year of 2005, the
Japanese Language Field opened for
enrollment for 2 groups and in this
academic year, Japanese Language Program
have changed the name into Japanese
Language Field; furthermore, the
Japanese Language Field improved the
Curriculum, B.E. 2003 to be more
flexible by adjust total GPA to be in
conformity with the Higher Education
Commission.
As Rajabhat
Suansunandha University had an academic
cooperation with Japan's University
in Kansai Region, total 5 universities,
which increases to 6 universities at the
present time to be an opportunity for
the students in Japanese Language Field
to participate in student exchange to be
the opportunity for studying Japanese
language and culture in Japan for 3
months. The Japanese Language Field
selected the students to be participated
in this project since academic year of
2004- there are 4 persons at the present
time. From 2006-2014, the Japanese
Language Field has selected the students
for participating in Japanese language
and culture exchange project for short
term period for 2 weeks, total 26
persons and the student received
scholarship to study Japanese language
and culture in Japan by JASSO
scholarship for 1 year, total 3 persons,
JENESYS, the short term exchange project
by the cooperation with Japanese
Government, total 2 persons.