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●Fundamental Physics●Materials Engineering●Electronic Device Engineering ●Geoscience●Environmental Geology●Natural Hazard Engineering23The Department of Physics and Materials Science invites prospective students with vigorous academic interests in theoretical physics, applied physics, and materials science, or in the interrelations of these disciplines.The Department of Chemistry includes three educational courses designated as the basic chemistry course (offered to students who wish to undertake broad studies in chem-istry), environmental chemistry course (offered to students who wish to apply their skills in chemistry on environmental preservation), and functional materials chemistry course (offered to students who wish to specialize in engineering and applied chemistry). All courses contain lectures from a wide range of chemistry for their educational purposes. Students enrolled in this department choose one of the three ●Basic Chemistry●Environmental Chemistry●Functional Materials Chemistry Courses for freshmen and sophomores are carefully organized to provide the exercises, experiments, funda-mental knowledge and skills, required for future scientists and engineers, including calculus, mechanics, electromag-netism, solid-state physics. A wide range of advanced lectures in modern physics and materials science subfields are available to juniors. Seniors are given research opportu-nities at the very frontier of individual disciplines. The research fields are diverse: superconductor, semiconductor, functional materials, strongly correlated electronic systems, quantum, computational, and mathematical physics. Indi-vidual supervision by our active researchers guarantees the awarding of bachelor’s degrees upon completion of the graduation thesis.http://www.phys.shimane-u.ac.jp/courses at the beginning of the third year. In their final year, students execute their own research study under the guid-ance of professors who are accomplished researchers. Throughout this research study, students efficiently gain their skills and knowledge required to complete their educa-tional course and graduate.http://www.chem.shimane-u.ac.jp/Research and education in the Department of Earth Science are based on geology and some aspects of engineering geology. The aims of the department are: (1) to encourage systematic understanding of earth materials and resources, (2) to promote better understanding of the mutual relation-ships among humanity, living things, and the earth from geological viewpoints, and (3) to establish effective preven-tion engineering against natural hazards based on a wide knowledge of geological processes and environmental changes.Our education programs are aimed at producing high-level scientists and engineers in earth sciences and related fields. Field work and practical skills are important compo-nents in our undergraduate courses.https://www.geo.shimane-u.ac.jp/e/index.htmlThe Department of Mathematics was formed in 1949 to coincide with the establishment of Shimane University. Mathematics is an indispensable part of human activities, and is one of the three basic elements in primary education reading, writing and math. Advanced mathematics seeks beauty in numbers, and also provides tools and language to analyze and describe various phenomena.The education program of the department provides two majors, pure mathematics and applied mathematics, to acquire the knowledge and skills of mathematics, statistics, and computer science for living in today’s high-tech society. Pure mathematics includes algebra, topology, differential ●Pure Mathematics●Applied MathematicsDepartment of Physics and Materials ScienceDepartment of ChemistryDepartment of Earth ScienceDepartment of Mathematics