This course is derived from "Global Resource Management" which was adopted in the Leading Program for Doctoral Education (Leading Graduate School), under the category of interdisciplinary programs for a harmonious multicultural society in 2012.

The GRM program is a comprehensive doctoral program providing advanced education in the interdisciplinary field of global resource management through the integration of global studies and infrastructure science/resource and energy science. Based on its philosophy and outcomes of the program over the past 10 years, the program has been reorganized as the new "Global Resource Management Program," which constitutes the "Advanced Liberal Arts Course," a common graduate school education program starting in 2023.

To be widely active in society, it is necessary for graduate students to have literacy in a broad sense. This does not refer to the ability to read and write, but rather to have "the wisdom to be able to respond to unknown problems, difficulties, and crises by utilizing a variety of information based on acquired knowledge". Of course, there is no doubt that the expertise acquired through graduate school is important and fundamental. Nevertheless, it is also true that society is changing to the extent that expertise alone is no longer sufficient.

This program emphasizes learning from perspectives beyond one's expertise. Besides acquiring basic knowledge outside of one's own field through classroom lectures, the program also values learning processes and exercises by visiting sites that are facing global issues such as disasters and natural resource shortages. The GRM students will grow from the experience of overcoming difficulties through co-learning with other students, and from the new insights and stimulation they gain from working together. This is the universal ability, or the literacy, needed to solve increasingly complex real-world problems.

This program, together with the “Next Environment” Collaborative Creation Course and the Comm 5.0 AI and Data Science Program, constitutes the "Advanced Liberal Arts Courses," a common graduate education program. The goal of the GRM Program is to produce human resources who can contribute to diverse fields of society, both in academia and non-academia, by equipping them with a broad range of literacy as graduate students and researchers.