Tezukayama University

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Tezukayama University
帝塚山大学
Tezukayama University-2.jpg
Type Private
Established1941
President Hiroshi Iwai
(岩井洋)
Academic staff
143 full-time
313 part-time [1]
Administrative staff
665
Students4,609 [1]
Undergraduates 4,530
Postgraduates 79
20
Other students
484 (international)
Location
Nara
,
Nara
,
Japan

34°41′11″N135°43′20″E / 34.686324°N 135.72209°E / 34.686324; 135.72209 Coordinates: 34°41′11″N135°43′20″E / 34.686324°N 135.72209°E / 34.686324; 135.72209
Campus Urban
Colors Blue     
Website http://www.tezukayama-u.ac.jp/

Tezukayama University(帝塚山大学,Tezukayama Daigaku) is a private university in Nara, Japan. Tezukayama University has two campuses—one in Gakuen-mae (学園前) in Nara city, and the other in eastern Ikoma (東生駒). Tezukayama University has many facilities in a historical setting.

Nara, Nara Core city in Kansai, Japan

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History

Tezukayama Gakuen was founded with an ideal of creating a new college town in Nara in celebration of Osaka's Tezukayama Gakuin 25th anniversary in 1941.

In 1961, Tezukayama Women's Junior College was established with two departments, the Department of Arts and Literature and the Department of Family and Consumer Science. In 1964, Tezukayama University was established as a woman's college with the Faculty of Liberal Arts. In 1982, the Tezukayama Archaeological Research Institute was founded (from 1997, reorganized as Research Institute for Archaeology).

Tezukayama University was changed to co-education in 1987 with establishing a more faculty, the Faculty of Economics. In 1991, the Graduate School of Economics was established, and in 1993, the doctoral degree program in Economics was established. After that, other faculties and graduate schools were established, such as the Graduate School of Humanities in 1996.

The Graduate School of Humanities at Tezukayama University is notable in the studies of Traditional Japanese Culture. Both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees are offered by this program. The Ph.D. programs in Law and Policy and Psychology were launched in 2003 and 2012, respectively.

Women's junior college

Tezukayama College
帝塚山大学短期大学部
TypePrivate women's junior college
Active1961 (1961)–2005 (2005)
Location
Nara
,
Japan

Tezukayama University Junior College(帝塚山大学短期大学部,Tezukayama Daigaku Tanki Daigakubu) was a private junior college associated with Tezukayama University. The junior college opened in April 1961 by Tezukayama Gakuen Education Group as a women's college. The junior college was affiliated with Tezukayama University from 1964 to 2005. [2] It closed in 2005. [2]

A junior college is a post-secondary educational institution designed to prepare students for either skilled trades or for additional education at another college with more advanced academic material. Students typically attend junior colleges for 1–3 years.

Organization

Colleges

Humanities academic disciplines that study human culture

Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the time. Today, the humanities are more frequently contrasted with natural, and sometimes social, sciences as well as professional training.

Economics social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services

Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

Law system of rules and guidelines, generally backed by governmental authority

Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior. It has been defined both as "the Science of Justice" and "the Art of Justice". Law is a system that regulates and ensures that individuals or a community adhere to the will of the state. State-enforced laws can be made by a collective legislature or by a single legislator, resulting in statutes, by the executive through decrees and regulations, or established by judges through precedent, normally in common law jurisdictions. Private individuals can create legally binding contracts, including arbitration agreements that may elect to accept alternative arbitration to the normal court process. The formation of laws themselves may be influenced by a constitution, written or tacit, and the rights encoded therein. The law shapes politics, economics, history and society in various ways and serves as a mediator of relations between people.

Graduate school

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope and diverse interests that, when taken together, seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, and all the variety of epiphenomena they manifest. As a social science it aims to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases.

Research institutes

Other institutes

Notable faculty members

Takashi Inukai was a professor at Osaka University and Kōnan Women's University, and a noted scholar of Japanese literature and especially the Man'yōshū poetry. He earned his bachelor's degree in Japanese literature from the University of Tokyo in 1932, as well as its Ph.D. in 1962. He received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon from the Japanese Government in 1978. He was qualified as a person of cultural merit in 1987. Upon his death, the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star, was posthumously granted on him.

List of partner universities

China

Beijing Language and Culture University Linguistic university in China

Beijing Language and Culture University, colloquially known in Chinese as Yuyan Xueyuan, has the main aim of teaching the Chinese language and culture to foreign students. However, it also takes Chinese students specializing in foreign languages and other relevant subjects of humanities and social sciences, and trains teachers of Chinese as a foreign language. It used to be the only institute of this kind in China. After the push for massification of higher education starting in the 90's, nowadays many other universities in almost every major city in China have a similar offer. Thus bachelor, master or post-doc degrees in, "Teaching Chinese as a second language to Foreigners", as well as bachelor's and master's degrees in several foreign languages are no longer only to be found at BLCU. Beijing Language and Culture University is often called "Little United Nations" in China because of its very large number of international students from various countries.

Shanghai Normal University (SHNU) is a public university in Shanghai, China. As one of the three major municipal universities in Shanghai, it is a comprehensive university with salient features of teacher training and a particular strength in liberal arts.

New Zealand

South Korea

Spain

United Kingdom

United States

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References

  1. 1 2 "About Tezukayama University Basic Data" . Retrieved 2012-12-29.
  2. 1 2 帝塚山学園の沿革(History of Tezukayama Gakuen) (Japanese). Retrieved 2013-7-21.
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