Cultural Events

Get Out off the Classroom

We place great emphasis on experiential learning and using our location in Kyoto to our best advantage. Students can expect to be out exploring the city in field trips and workshops every week, and together with our faculty we organize some 30 field trips across all courses each Quarter. These range from short visits to nearby venues, to trips which take a whole day (Fridays are reserved for major field trips). In addition, students will learn from invited guest speakers who are leading experts in their subject areas.

Learn with Local Students

Unique to the Kyoto Program, we invite a number of local students to take many of our elective courses. Learning together with these students (from Doshisha and Kyoto University) greatly enriches our class discourse through the sharing of experiences and perspectives, besides being another opportunity to make new friends. Some local students who studied with us in the past have gone on to do graduate studies at Stanford!