Faculty Introduction
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
The Field of Modeling and Expression deepens expressiveness in the field of fine art. The Field of Media Expression expands into 2 majors, which pursue expression following the diversifying media environment.

Deepen your expressiveness through the Fields of Fine Art.
"Field of Fine Arts Expression"
- Oil Painting Major
- Printmaking Major
- Japanese Painting Major
- Sculpture Major

Create what you envision.
"Field of Media Expression"
- Photography, Video and Media Art Major
- Graphic and Illustration Major
- Information and Product Design Major
- Fashion and Digital Fabrication Major
Faculty of Sociology Department of Community Studies
We offer social studies that solve community issues concerning community management, corporate management, community welfare and community education, community design, tourism and local production, and information and media.
Course on Administrative Law
A course to develop active human resources for local governments such as Hokkaido and the municipalities by gaining the ability to accurately grasp local issues, solve them, and manage appropriate involvement of the local community.
Course on Economic Management
This is a course to learn about the management and administration methods of companies that lead markets. Focusing on "innovation" in particular, you will learn hands-on how to develop new products and services and introduce them to the market.
Course on Education and Welfare
We develop human resources that can nurture welfare well suited to the 21st century through a wide range of learning regarding education, welfare, and sports based on three keywords: child welfare, community care, and sports education.
Course on Tourism and Media
This course develops human resources who can learn from a glocal perspective and engage in activities that contribute to society from various standpoints on a wide range of local issues centered on community design, tourism and local production, and information and media.
Overview of the University
Name
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