At large, multi-faculty universities in Japan, students generally study English in their first year or two before focusing on the specialized subjects of their faculty. In these English classes, if my own exposure as a full time and part-time university teacher is typical, there is little, if any, requirement laid down by universities to teach content that is related to a class's actual faculty. This, in large part, may be due to the average English teacher's lack of specialty knowledge of the content that is taught in any given faculty. This does not mean that English teachers, with some assistance, cannot contribute in some small way to bridge the gap between the language department and the area of specialty.