Welcome to NANZAN 2020
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- This is our University
FROM MODEST BEGINNINGS as a College of Foreign Languages in 1946, Nanzan took the small step to a single Faculty of Arts and Letters in 1949 and has since grown into a fullyfledged university with a worldwide reputation for academic excellence. In April 2000, Nanzan University established two faculties—the Faculty of Policy Studies and the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences and Information Engineering (now the Faculty of Science and Engineering since 2014) at the Seto campus, and with the addition in April 2017 of the Faculty of Global Liberal Studies, the University now has eight faculties. The integration of all Nanzan University faculties on the Nagoya campus began with the Faculty of Science and Engineering in 2015 followed by the Faculty of Policy Studies in 2017. This integration sees us complete the “One Campus” part of our “One Campus Many Skills” vision. In order to realize the “Many Skills” part of our vision, from the 2017 academic year onward, we will now strive to create a borderless learning environment with a genuinely unified campus where the fences between faculties and departments have been made lower. In April 2017 Nanzan University consolidated its faculties and departments on its Nagoya Campus, thereby concentrating all its educational resources in one location. The purpose is the creation of an environment in which better education and research systems are offered, with faculties actively engaging in exchange and students and teaching staff working closer together and cooperating in order to aim higher. In addition, the Quarter system has been introduced, allowing students to enroll in courses in a year that is divided into four segments. From June, there is an expansion of options for independent learning such as summer courses that involve short-term overseas study or service learning. We are sure that this will enhance the benefits of intensive short-term learning opportunities and promote the acceptance of
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foreign students into our midst. With the consolidation of our campuses, we have started on the Raymond Renovation Project, which involves the refurbishment, improved safety and user-friendliness of the buildings that were designed by Antonin Raymond and completed in 1964. Based on Raymond’s design concept of “with nature as our foundation,” our intention is to take the legacy of Raymond architectural style into the next generation, in the process enhancing both the students learning and living environments. In 2018, we commenced a program that uses COIL-style classes. An international bi-directional approach to education that uses on-line tools such as SNS or video chat, in 2018 it was selected by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) for Support for Forming Collaborative Programs with U.S. Universities through Collaborative Online International Learning under the “Re-Inventing Japan Project – InterUniversity Exchange Project.” As a program that combines COIL-style classes with overseas study opportunities and internships in companies, it will foster the capabilities needed by those who wish to excel on the global stage.
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