Video Library & Student Voices

Look Inside GDP

Please explore our program and campus life at the Discovery Program for Global Learners (GDP) through presentations and interviews by faculty members and students.
Learn more about our education and community and find out what makes GDP different.

• Voice of Graduates
• Virtual Tour
• Interview with the Professors
• Sample Lectures
• Student Voices

Disclaimer: Some videos contain dated information. Please check the homepage for updates.

Voice of Graduates

Interviews with recipients of the 2021 graduate student awards from GDP’s first October batch. Find out how they spent their time at GDP since entering in October 2017 and how they accomplished academic and personal goals; click here for reading their interviews.  

Virtual Tour

“Welcome to the Discovery Program”

A group of students created this video in June 2020 as a class project in the Discovery Seminar I, a required course for first-year students. Students collaborated as a team, worked hard, and enjoyed this learning experience.

Created by
　● Tsukasa Oka (Japan/Australia) – narration
　● May Myat Su Kyi (Myanmar)
　● Natsuha Tanino (Japan)
　● Norika Mawatari (Japan)

Interview with the Professors

Five GDP professors share their passions and talk about “Unique features of the Discovery Program” and “Who will be a good fit with this program?”.

Topics mentioned by each professor in the video
　● “My teaching philosophy” by Professor CHUNG Haeng-ja (Cultural Diversity and Communities)
　● “Project-based teaching” by Professor YOSHIOKA Takayuki (Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
　● “Think globally, act locally” and “Okayama is a paradise” by Professor GONG Yuanyuan (Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship)
　● “My own student life in Okayama” by Professor Md Azhar Uddin (Transdisciplinary Sciences)
　● “Academic Japanese” by Professor USHIDA Eiko (Mentor, Japanese Language Education)

Sample Lectures

Here are some of the lectures recorded for GDP’s admission events. Please watch to get a feel of what each class is like.

What is Work?

Professor Yumiko Yamamoto（Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

Professor Yamamoto earned a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Utah and teaches many classes including “Introduction to Microeconomics”, “Japanese Economy and Gender”, and “Trade Policy and Development”. In this 13 minute sample lecture, she talks about unpaid work which closely relates to the SDG Goal 5 “Gender equality and women empowerment”.

Note. The lecture starts after a short introduction at 1:30.

Student Voices

Our faculty members and students come from diverse backgrounds and bring rich experiences from different parts of the world. Currently, students from more than 30 countries and regions are studying in an interdisciplinary and bilingual environment.

What is it like to study at the Discovery Program?