Nanzan University

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Nanzan University
南山 大学
motto 人間 の 尊 厳 の た め に
( ningen no songen no tame ni)
Hominis Dignitati
founding 1932
(university status since 1949)
Sponsorship private (church)
place Nagoya
country JapanJapan Japan
president Michael Calmano, SVD
Students 9,564 ( May 1, 2018 )
Networks FIUC , IAU
Website www.nanzan-u.ac.jp
Divine Word Seminary Nanzan University 2014 (7) .jpg

The Nanzan University ( Japanese 南山 大学 , Nanzan daigaku ; English Nanzan University ; abbreviation: Nanzandai ( 南山 大 )) is a private university under Catholic ownership in the Shōwa district of the city ​​of Nagoya on Honshū , Japan .

General

The Nanzan University was founded in 1932 by the Steyler missionary Joseph Reiners as a Nanzan Middle School according to the old system ( kyūsei Nanzan chūgakkō ). In 1946 it became the Nanzan School of Foreign Languages ​​according to the old system ( kyūsei Nanzan gaikokugo semmon gakkō ). With the major educational reform of 1949, it finally got the status of a university and its current name. In 1995 it was merged with the Nagoya seirei tanki daigaku in Seto , with which it had previously had a university partnership. Nanzan University is the only Catholic university in the Chūbu region with co-education . The current president is the German theologian Michael Calmano.

Nanzan University tries to provide an "education based on the Catholic worldview" ( katorikku sekaikan ni motozuita gakkō kyōiku ). Her motto is “For the dignity of man” ( ningen no songen no tame ni , lat. Hominis Dignitati ). There are international university partnerships that provide annual student exchange programs. So she is z. B. Member of the Association of Southeast and East Asian Catholic Colleges and Universities and participates in the International Student Exchange Program . Exchange students from western countries concentrate on the campus in Nagoya and exchange students from other Asian countries on the campus in Seto. Nanzan University also has partnerships with other Catholic universities in Japan, such as B. to Sophia University , and organizes an annual sports festival as part of these partnerships.

The university's name derives from the area in which it was founded, which was previously known as Minamiyama ( kun readings of the Kanji for nanzan ). In addition, the name Nanzan is intended to be an association with perseverance and hardship, and to express the hope of permanently producing high-performing graduates. The term nanzan has this connotation due to its use in the poetry of the Chinese poet Li Bai , in which the term (or its characters) occasionally appears.

Locations, faculties and graduate colleagues

Nanzan University has seven faculties and graduate students spread across three locations in Nagoya and Seto. In Nagoya, the Nagoya campus is located in the Shōwa district and a so-called satelite campus in the Higashi district . The Seto campus is located in Seto, which was previously an independent university (see above).

The faculties are:

  • Faculty of Human and Literary Studies ( jinbun gakubu )
  • Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​( gaikokugo gakubu )
  • Faculty of Economics ( keizai gakubu )
  • Faculty of Business Management ( keiei gakubu )
  • Faculty of Law ( hōgakubu )
  • Faculty of General Politics ( sōgō seisaku gakubu )
  • Faculty of Computer Science, Natural and Engineering Sciences ( jōhō ri kō gakubu )

In terms of their subject structure, the graduate colleagues largely correspond to the faculties, although some graduate colleagues have different names. So is called z. B. the graduate college of the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​"Graduate college for international regions and culture" ( kokusai chiiki bunka kenkyūka )

See also

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/English/about/president/index.html
  2. ^ Number of Students by Faculty. In: www.nanzan-u.ac.jp. Nanzan University, May 1, 2018, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Members. In: www.fiuc.org. International Federation of Catholic Universities, accessed October 3, 2019 .
  4. ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed August 4, 2019 .

Coordinates: 35 ° 8 '53.3 "  N , 136 ° 57' 47.3"  E