Environment Protection and Disaster Prevention Course Program
The curriculum of the Environment Protection and Disaster Prevention Course Program consists of fundamental as well as applied subjects related to global environment, nature of cold regions, environmental engineering, and disaster prevention engineering, etc. The aim of this course program is to cultivate human resources who in the future can be active in the fields of environmental engineering and disaster prevention engineering.
Curriculum
Environmental Earth Science Glaciology Introduction to Environmental Studies Geotechnical Engineering I Hydraulics I Structural Mechanics I City Planning Integrated Study in Environment and Disaster Prevention I Practical English Introduction to Gas Hydrate Research Water Environmental Engineering Integrated Study in Environment and Disaster Prevention II Experiments on Envionment and Disaster Prevention Engineering I Experiments on Envionment and Disaster Prevention Engineering II Bachelor’s Thesis Analytical Chemistry I Environmental Materials Surveying Exercise in Computer Aided Drawing for Disaster Prevention and Environmental Engineering Remote Sensing Analytical Chemistry II Cold Regions Rock Mechanics |
Geotechnical Engineering II Hydraulics II Structural Mechanics II Reinforced Concrete Structure Mathematical Methods for Planning GIS Practice for Environment and Disaster Prevention Surveying Practice and Drafting Introduction to Ice Physics Meteorology Water and Wastewater Treatment Engineering Measurement Science in Environmental Analyses Introduction to Ecology Analyses for Geo-disasters Geo-environmental and Geo-disaster Prevention Engineering River Engineering Coastal Engineering Snow and Ice Disaster Prevention Engineering Ice Covered Sea Engineering Experiments in Environmental Chemistry Integrated Study of Career Advance Applied Ecological Engineering Hydrology Earthquake Disaster-Mitigation Engineering Explosives Engineering |
Lecture
Introduction to Gas Hydrate Research
The so-called “burning ice”, methane hydrate, which is attracting attention as a future energy resource, is a large storage of greenhouse gas. Students will learn about its properties and importance from the viewpoint of environmental science and global environmental science.

Geotechnical Engineering I
Through lectures and exercises students will learn about the fundamental nature and phenomena of soil, which is essential for considering disaster prevention or the reduction of the effects of a ground disaster such as slope failures due to heavy rainfall or snow melting, liquefaction due to earthquakes, frost phenomenon characteristic to cold regions and so on.
