Educational Program for Better Understanding of Whole River Basin Environment

Abstract

Toyama Prefecture has five government-controlled rivers and a complete water hydrologic basin from 3000 meter-level mountains to estuaries. Taking advantage of these unique geological benefits, College of Technology, Toyama Prefectural University has established an educational program for better understanding of whole river basin environment. The program consists of regular lectures and Field practice. Field practice is a newly offered and core course. Educational effectiveness of Field practice was evaluated through submitted reports and questionnaires results from current and graduated students. According to the results, the students took Field practice in highly positive way and thought that Field practice played a very important role to help them to understand knowledge and skills which they had learned in lectures and laboratory experiments. On the other hand, several weak points were also found and need to be improved.