Kwansei Gakuin University

関 西 学院 大学 Kwansei Gakuin University
motto	Mastery for Service
founding	1889
Sponsorship	private, church-Christian sponsorship
place	Nishinomiya , Hyogo Prefecture
country	Japan
president	Takutoshi Inoue (2011)
Students	21,182 (students) (May 2010) 1,450 (Graduate School) (May 2010)
Employee	689 (May 2010)
including professors	424 (Professors) (May 2010) 118 (Associate Professors) (2011)
Website	www.kwansei.ac.jp

The library clock tower

The Kobe Municipal Literature Museum, the former chapel of the Kwansei-Gakuin

The Kwansei Gakuin University ( Japanese 関 西 学院 大学 , Kansei gakuin daigaku , short: Kangaku ( 関 学 ) or KG ) is a private Christian university in Japan . The main campus is in Uegahara-Ichibanchō, Nishinomiya in Hyōgo Prefecture . Their motto is: "Mastery for Service".

The name Kwansei is actually pronounced Kansei because it follows a transcription from the archaic Japanese Hiragana spelling (く ゎ ん せ い) for Kansei ; Kansei is an alternative reading of the Kanjis " 関 西 " (usually pronounced Kansai , "the region that is west (西, sai) of Hakone's border station (関 所)").

history

The Kwansei-Gakuin (German "Academy of West Japan", English West Japan College ) was founded in 1889 by Walter Russel Lambuth, a missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South . The school was in the village of Harada (today: Nada-ku , Kobe , 34 ° 42 ′ 34.2 ″  N , 135 ° 12 ′ 50.4 ″  E ) and had the theological department and the middle school courses.

In 1912 the school developed into a technical college for the humanities and trade and moved to today's Nishinomiya Uegahara campus in 1929. In 1932 she gained university status and was renamed Kwansei Gakuin University. At first it only had faculties of the humanities and social sciences; In 1952 she founded the Faculty of Theology and then in 1961 the Faculty of Natural Sciences (today: Faculty of Natural and Engineering Sciences).

In April 2009, the Seiwa University ( 聖 和 大学 , Seiwa daigaku ), a Christian educational university in Nishinomiya, was merged to form the Kwansei Gakuin University.

Faculties

• Nishinomiya-Uegahara-Campus (in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, 34 ° 46 ′ 10.9 ″  N , 135 ° 20 ′ 49.2 ″  E Coordinates: 34 ° 46 ′ 10.9 ″  N , 135 ° 20 ′ 49.2 ″  O ):
  • Faculty of Theology
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of Commerce
  • Faculty of Human Welfare Studies (Japanese 人間 福祉 学部 , English School of Human Welfare Studies )
• Nishinomiya-Seiwa-Campus (in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, 34 ° 45 ′ 43.1 ″  N , 135 ° 21 ′ 6 ″  E ):
  • Faculty of Education
• Kobe Sanda Campus (in Sanda , Hyōgo, 34 ° 54 ′ 46 ″  N , 135 ° 9 ′ 48.8 ″  E ):
  • Faculty of Political Science (Japanese 総 合 政策 学部 , English School of Policy Studies )
  • Faculty of Natural and Engineering Sciences

Individual evidence

1. ^ Voices from the Top. Retrieved July 10, 2011 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Overview: Data. Retrieved July 10, 2011 (English, pdf). 

Web links

Commons : Kwansei Gakuin University  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website - Japanese and English