Miyagi Gakuin Women's University

Miyagi Gakuin Women's University (宮城学院女子大学, Miyagi gakuin joshi daigaku) is a private university in Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. Tohoku Gakuin University is its brother school.

Miyagi Gakuin Women's University
宮城学院女子大学
Miyagi Gakuin Women's University
TypePrivate
Established1886 / 1949
Location, ,
WebsiteOfficial website

History

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The Miyagi Girls' School was founded by the Reformed Church in the United States in Japan with the assistance of missionaries Masayoshi Oshikawa and William Edwin Hoy in 1886, and later by the American missionary Sadie Lea Weidner.[1][2] It was expanded into a high school in 1911, and chartered as a university in 1946.

Organization

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Undergraduate

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  • Faculty of Arts
    • Department of English
    • Japanese Literature Department
    • Department of Human Culture
    • Psychology Department of Behavioral Sciences
    • Music department
    • Food and Nutrition Department
    • Life and Culture Department of Design
    • Department of clinical development
    • International Culture Department
    • Children's Department of Education

Graduate

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  • Humanities Graduate School of Humanities
    • English, Department of English and American Literature
    • Japanese Language and Literature Department
    • Human Culture Department
    • Life and Culture Design Department
    • Health and Nutrition Studies

Affiliated schools

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Alumni

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References

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  1. ^ "Miyagi Gakuin Women's University". www.mgu.ac.jp. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
  2. ^ Hardacre, Helen (2017). Shinto: A History. Oxford University Press. p. 420. ISBN 978-0-19-062171-1.
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