This site provides information on the curriculum and syllabi of all courses in Collage of Policy and Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba.

Management Area

The educational goal of the Management area is to develop human resources with the ability to grasp problems occurring in the actual settings of management, and solve them. To achieve this goal, it provides major subjects that represent the field of “management”, as well as management science and engineering. It also helps students acquire the ability to apply their specialty in the actual settings of management, and make appropriate decisions at appropriate times through [Seminar on Management Science].

Course name Course description Target year
Seminar on Management Science Japan’s first industry-academia collaborative seminar with Accenture Japan Ltd addresses AI development for management support by dealing with real problems and data. Students will develop and introduce an AI approach to support the management of Welcia Pharmacy and resolve the challenges faced by this pharmacy using actual POS data. 2 – 4
Industrial and Organizational Psychology In this course, students will extensively review various theories of work motivation using examples of application in actual industrial organizations. They will also deepen their basic understanding of factors that activate and direct human behaviors in organizations. 2 – 4
Marketing Marketing is one of the core areas of business administration and has developed through a combination of theory and practice. Students will study traditional theories in the first half of this course and modern practices in the second half. 2 – 4
Finance Important contents of finance will be widely picked up and taught, such as financial statement analysis, method of investment decision making, bond and stock valuations, mean-variance portfolio theory, capital asset pricing model, estimation of capital cost, option theory, and risk management. 2 – 4
Management In this course, students will learn representative management theories, while understanding the most advanced theories and practice. Through such learning, they will develop insight into the unchangeable in management. 2 – 4
Production and Quality Management This course will provide an overview of production and quality control. It will also explain statistical quality control methods, inventory theory, and reliability engineering. 2 – 4