Introduction of University's Faculties
Faculty of Art Department of Music
Small-group instruction done by players who represent Japan. We offer complete facilities and a wide range of experiences in collaboration with other departments. We also collaborate with the Pacific Music Festival of Sapporo, the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, and the Sapporo Cultural Arts Theater hitaru.
Piano Course
Enhance your musicality and gain the ability to be deeply involved through the extensive study of composers throughout the ages, the background of musical composition, and the development of each era.
Vocal Course
Maintain the basics and learn vocalization and expressiveness revolving around it. Also, challenge advanced pieces in your 4th year.
Orchestral Course
Build your foundation as a performer and musician through private lessons. We put importance on cooperation that shares values through the experience of collectives such as ensembles, wind bands, and orchestras putting together a single collaborative work.
Composition / Sound Creation Course
Select and learn elements that suit the music you want to create from various fields of sound creation such as composition, arrangement, sound design, recording, and mixing.
Electric Organ Course
Gain the skills of composition and arrangement by learning the arrangement of classical songs. You can also learn ensembles between electronic organs and ensembles with other musical instruments.
Music Therapy Course
Learn a good balance of clinical knowledge, music skills, and communication skills required for human service work to be a music therapist who can cater to the needs of medical care, welfare, and the local community.
Integrated Music Course
Choose two or more minors and challenge various musical instruments and fields. Those who aim to become directors of piano, chorus, or wind bands can also learn hands-on direction through "practical teaching materials."
Faculty of Art Department of Art and Design
After experiencing a wide-range expression in art and design, choose a specialty that suits you and pursue it.
Artist and designer instructors that are active in Hokkaido will support everyone and develop the next generation expressers and planners who will support the society.
Oil Painting
Look at yourself through drawings, search for methods of expression you need, and deepen your own world of work while acquiring basic formative skills.
Japanese Painting
Open up new expression that only you can do through Japanese paintings while learning about the traditional art materials and techniques that Japanese paintings have.
Printmaking
With a background in the history of printmaking, learn specialized knowledge, advanced skills, and deepen your understanding of the process through work production. You will not only learn self-expression, but you will also learn the importance of having a broad perspective, such as the ability to communicate to the world and understand others.
Sculpture
You will acquire three-dimensionality and skills, and explore self-expression through production using various materials such as wood, stone, and metal, including molding.
Photography, Video and Media Art
Explore original methods of expression across the medium, regardless whether it is analog or digital. Deepen your consideration about the relationship between skills and expression while focusing on the characteristics of each medium.
Graphic and Illustration
In addition to acquiring the method of expression required by designers and illustrators, you will develop the ability to visually convey ideas that come from observations and concepts.
Information and Product Design
We will design new products, services, and experiences considering the relationship between people and objects. Learn the thought process and method of expression required by designers, and acquire the ability to suggest.
Fashion and Digital Fabrication
You will learn not only all the knowledge and skills related to fashion, from planning design, pattern, sewing, and sales, but also learn a wide range of fields, from learn a wide range of fields, from acquiring skills that uses CAD and 3D printers to photography.
Faculty of Sociology Department of Community Studies
We provide social studies programs that address community challenges in areas such as community management, corporate management, social welfare and education, community design, tourism and local industries, as well as information and media.
Course on Administrative Law
This course is targeted at those who seek careers in local governments, such as Hokkaido and its municipalities, by equipping them with the skills to accurately identify regional issues, develop solutions, and effectively engage the community.
Course on Economic Management
This course explores the management and administration strategies of market-leading companies. With a strong focus on innovation, you will gain hands-on experience in developing new products and services and bringing them to market.
Course on Education and Welfare
This course is aimed at those who can foster 21st-century welfare through comprehensive learning in education and welfare, guided by three key themes: social welfare, community care, and community education.
Course on Tourism and Media
This course cultivates professionals who can revitalize and promote local cultural resources while addressing diverse regional issues. With a focus on community design, tourism, and information and media, students engage in activities that contribute to society from multiple perspectives.
Introduction of Junior College's Department
Department of Early Childhood Education
Sapporo Otani Junior College's Department of Early Childhood Education offers a 2-year course to train kindergarten teachers and childcare workers. With a history of over half a century since establishment, we have adopted the educational goal of "developing highly sensitive childcare workers with a field of expertise and practical skills" and have since produced a large number of childcare workers.

Department of Early Childhood Education
In addition to the curriculum that provides the knowledge, skills, and theory necessary to become a childcare worker, we offer elective courses for each student to extend their field of expertise. Another major feature of the curriculum is the routine, repeated on-site training at affiliated kindergartens and the on-campus child-rearing support center.

the post-graduate course
This is a 2-year course entered by those who have graduated from the Junior College and will continue their studies. By acquiring the prescribed credits, you can obtain a higher-level license than the kindergarten teacher license you get at the Junior College. We provide thorough small-group learning, with a prescribed minimum of 10 students per class.
Overview of the University
Name
Sapporo Otani University
Junior College of Sapporo Otani University
President
Jun Chiba
Tel. no.
011-742-1651
nyushi@sapporo-otani.ac.jp
Address
Kita 16-jo Higashi 9-chome 1-1 Higashi-ku, Sapporo 065-8567 Japan