Nanzan University

Nanzan University (Nanzan daigaku) is a private, coeducational university located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The main campus is in the Shōwa Ward of Nagoya City, with another in Seto City and a recently established satellite campus near Nagoya's Takaoka Station on the subway Sakura-dōri Line. It is considered to be one of the most prestigious private universities in Central Japan

History

Nanzan is named after the forested mountains near Goken'ya-chō  known asMinamiyama  which literally means "southern mountain". The on reading for  isNanzan. Also, in Chinese poetry  refers to Mount Lushan until the Tang Dynasty andMount Zhong Nan thereafter. Notably, the word appears in the classical poetry collection Shi Jing and the works of famous poet Li Bai. Thus, the choice of name is a celebration of longevity, perseverance, and prosperity for both the school and its alumni.

Divine Word Missionary Josef Reiners founded Nanzan Junior High School in 1932. Nanzan Foreign Language School was added to the Nanzan system in 1946 and eventually renamed Nanzan University in 1949. In 1995, Nagoya Seirei Junior College was subsumed by Nanzan when the two schools' organizations merged.[4] In 2008, Nanzan plans to open an elementary school, officially named Nanzan University Affiliated Elementary School.
Detail of one of the buildings constructed byAntonin Raymond
In 1961, Czech architect Antonin Raymond was commissioned to design most buildings on the Nagoya campus. It was one of the largest projects that he would undertake. The campus was orientated on a north–south axis across rolling hills and the eight buildings were arranged to suit the typography and harmonise with the landscape. In-situ concrete is used throughout the scheme and each building has its own concrete form, some with pilotis, others with shells.
Located to the east of the campus is the Divine Word Seminary Chapel, constructed in 1962. This is a building that exploits the plastic capacity of concrete, with two intersecting shells forming a bell tower. These are punctured with vertical slots which allow light to radiate along the curved interior walls.
Nanzan Junior College ( Nanzan Tanki Daigaku) opened in 1968 as a women's junior college affiliated with the University. In 2011 the junior college campus was closed and reorganized as a department on Nanzan University's Nagoya campus offering courses in English language.

Campuses

Nagoya

Nanzan's main campus is in Yagoto, the east of Nagoya, in Shōwa-ku. The Nagoya campus is home to the Faculties of Humanities, Foreign Studies, Economics, Business Administration, and Law. The campus is about a 10-minute walk from either Nagoya Daigaku  or Yagoto Nisseki  station on the Nagoya Municipal Subway's Meijō Line. Alternately, campus is a 15-minute walk from Irinaka on the subway's Tsurumai Line

Faculties and Departments

• Humanities
• Christian Studies
• Anthropology and Philosophy
• Psychology and Human Relations
• Japanese Studies
• Foreign Studies
• British and American Studies
• Spanish and Latin-American Studies
• French Studies
• German Studies
• Asian Studies
• Economics
• Business Administration
• Law
• Policy Studies
• Mathematical Sciences and Information Engineering
• Information and Telecommunication Engineering
• Mathematical Sciences

Graduate Schools and Programs

• Humanities
• Christian Thought
• Religious Thought
• Anthropology
• Educational Facilitation
• Linguistic Science
• International Area Studies
• Economics
• Business Administration
• Business Administration
• Management
• Law
• Policy Studies
• Mathematical Sciences and Information Engineering

External links

• Homepage of Nanzan University
• Nanzan Junior College Department of English