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.
宮城学院女子大学 | |
 Miyagi Gakuin Women's University | |
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Established | 1886 / 1949 |
| Location | , , |
| Website | Official website |
History
editThe 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
editUndergraduate
edit- 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
edit- 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
edit- Miyagi Gakuin Junior & Senior High School
- Miyagi Gakuin Kindergarten
Alumni
edit- Toshiko Abe - politician
- Sayaka Ando - gravure idol
References
edit- ^ "Miyagi Gakuin Women's University". www.mgu.ac.jp. Retrieved 2019-05-19.
- ^ Hardacre, Helen (2017). Shinto: A History. Oxford University Press. p. 420. ISBN 978-0-19-062171-1.
External links
edit- Official website (in Japanese)
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