Homepage: Search for "Kwansei Gakuin University" Instagram: @kwanseigakuinuniversity Twitter: @KwanseiGakuin General inquiries: Kwansei Gakuin Public Relations Office TEL: +81-798-54-6017 2019-2020 Center for International Education and Cooperation TEL: +81-798-54-6115 Published July 2019 Overview K wansei Gakuin, as a learning community based on the principles of Christianity, inspires its members to seek their life missions, and cultivates them to be creative and capable world citizens who embody its motto, "Mastery for Service," by transforming society with compassion and integrity. e Spirit of is motto, coined by Dr. C.J.L. Bates, the fourth Chancellor of Kwansei Gakuin and the rst President of Kwansei Gakuin University, Mastery for Service reects the ideal for all its members to master their abundant “We aim to be strong, to be masters – masters of God-given gifts to serve their neighbors, society and the world. knowledge, masters of opportunity, masters of our- selves, our desires, our ambitions… but having become masters, we desire not to inate, and enrich ourselves Table of Contents for our own sake, but to render some useful service to 2 The Spirit of Mastery for Service humanity in order that the world may be better for our 4 A Top Global University in the Heart of Western Japan having lived in it.” 5 History of Kwansei Gakuin 6 Undergraduate Schools and Departments (Dr. C.J.L. Bates, 1915) 10 Graduate Schools 12 Degree Programs Conducted in English at KGU 14 Exchange Programs for International Students 16 Training Future Global Leaders 18 Relevant Education in an Era of Drastic Change 19 The Kwansei Competencies 20 List of Partner Institutions Around the World 22 Fact Sheet 2 2019 ▶ 2020 OVERVIEW 3 A Top Global University History of in the Heart of Western Japan Kwansei Gakuin In 2014, Kwansei Gakuin University was chosen as one of 37 universities to take part in the Top Global University (TGU) Project by the Ministry Timeline of Kwansei Gakuin Who is W.R. Lambuth? of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, a funding program 1889 W.R. Lambuth establishes the Kwansei Walter Russell Lambuth, born and raised in China, to boost the international competitiveness of Japanese universities. Gakuin Harada-no-Mori Campus in Kobe, was an American missionary of the Methodist with a seminary and an academy Episcopal Church, South. He came to Japan from 1912 Kwansei Gakuin opens a college with literary China in 1886 to serve as the superintendent of the and commercial courses church's Japan Mission. He chose Kobe as the 1929 A growing Kwansei Gakuin relocates to the center of the Mission's base line, and founded current Nishinomiya Uegahara Campus Kwansei Gakuin in 1889. After leaving Japan in K wansei Gakuin University’s TGU concept, establishing the “Global 1948 In response to Japanese school system reform, 1890, he spent his life evangelizing through Academic Port,” centers on facilitating more substantial academic Kwansei Gakuin establishes the Junior High education and medical work all over the world, School, Senior High School and University including Africa, South America, Europe, and Asia. exchange for students, faculty and sta, both within Japan and overseas. 1995 e Kobe-Sanda Campus is established In the state of Mississippi, a monument built in his e ve points below are the keys to this initiative. 2000 e Osaka Umeda Campus is established family's memory is inscribed with the words "World 2007 e Tokyo Marunouchi Campus is founded Citizen and Christian Apostle to many lands." 2008 e Elementary School is founded ● Implementing the Dual Endeavor 2009 Seiwa University merges with the Kwansei International Program—the centerpiece of the Gakuin Educational Foundation e School Symbol Program initiative—which encourages all 2010 e Senri International School Foundation merges with the Kwansei Gakuin Educational Adopted as the Kwansei students to gain experience outside of Foundation Gakuin symbol in 1894, their major specialization through the 2019 e Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi Campus is the crescent moon International Program, established represents the journey of Multidisciplinary Studies and the Kwansei Gakuin students, Hands-on Learning Program as they gradually grow to ● Becoming Japan’s top university in Mastery for Service fullness in knowledge and wisdom. It also represents terms of the number of students the students and graduates of Kwansei Gakuin as studying abroad under partnership As the school motto of Kwansei Gakuin, they spread God's blessings like a light, just as the moon reects the rays of the sun. agreements, with a goal of sending "Mastery for Service" reects the ideal for all of its members to master their abundant God-given 2500 students overseas annually in gifts in order to be of service to their Multidisciplinary Hands-on 2023 Studies Learning Program communities, both locally and globally. In this e School Song Christian context, a “master” refers to someone who has achieved excellence in terms of their e school song, Sora no Tsubasa ( “Wings of the ● Establishing a gateway to the United Nations and other international organizations through humanity, learning and daily life. Sky” ) was created in 1933 by Hakushu Kitahara, courses that equip students with the skills to become future global leaders in public aairs at base serves as a starting point for a life a poet, and Kosaku Yamada, a Kwansei Gakuin ● Establishing a quality assurance system which meets international standards “in service to God,” one which is dedicated to alumnus and one of Japan ’s most renowned ● Setting up a comprehensive management system through governance reform helping neighbors and society. composers. 4 2019 ▶ 2020 OVERVIEW 5 Undergraduate Schools and Departments School of eology School of Law and Politics As the oldest School at Kwansei Gakuin University, the two courses in the School of ● Law eology aim to provide students with a wide range of specialized theological knowledge by ● Political Science taking an objective and theoretical approach to Christianity, set against the backdrop of the history of Western thought. While the Christian Missionary Work Course is for Christian Since its founding in 1934, education at the School of Law and Politics has focused on “the students, the Christian ought and Culture Course is open to non-Christians. social approach,” which uses law as a lens to gain insight into the broader workings of society. e School comprises two departments: the Department of Law, which aims to produce people who can contribute to society by cultivating their legal expertise and decision-making, and the Department of Political Science, which trains people to exercise leadership in any situation, based on analyses of political issues at home and abroad. School of Humanities ● Culture and History ● Literature and Linguistics ● Integrated Psychological Sciences At the School of Humanities, students begin by learning about the basics of the wide-ranging discipline referred to as the humanities, before proceeding to more School of Economics For the past four decades, small-group education has been a hallmark of the School of specialized study in small classes. In the Department of Culture and History, students Economics, starting with the required rst-year seminars. With debates and other examine the essence of human experience, while students in the Department of Integrated inter-seminar competitions, as well as a wealth of exchange with other universities in Japan Psychological Sciences analyze people’s lifestyles and the challenges that people face in and across Asia, Europe and North America, the School emphasizes the mastery of ethical modern society, and students in the Department of Literature and Linguistics seek to economic thinking and analytical skills that will be useful in the real world. understand human behavior through what they write and what they say. School of Sociology School of Business Administration e School of Sociology has been a trailblazer in the eld of sociology in Japan, e creed of the School of Business Administration is “fostering creative minds for business,” having engaged in cutting-edge research since 1960. With the Biblical quotation and the six courses at the School (Management; Accounting; Marketing; Finance; Business of “the truth shall set you free” as its core tenet, the School aims to equip students Information; International Business) provide students with basic knowledge for generalists, with the skills to analyze and address social issues from a variety of perspectives. as well as specialist knowledge required for professionals. According to the School’s As such, the School’s curriculum is composed of six research clusters: conviction that the corporation constitutes the core unit of the economic system, it focuses contemporary sociology, quantitative sociology, qualitative sociology, anthropology on helping students discover the principles that govern corporate behavior. and folklore, media and communication, and social psychology. 6 2019 ▶ 2020 OVERVIEW 7 Undergraduate Schools and Departments School of Human Welfare Studies School of Policy Studies ● Social Work ● Social Organization Development ● Policy Studies ● Applied Informatics ● Holistic Human Sciences ● Urban Studies ● International Policy Studies rough rigorous research and eldwork, the School of Human Welfare Studies trains In order to nurture graduates who can “think globally and act locally,” the School of Policy students who will contribute to improving the quality of human life by nurturing their Studies aims to provide students with opportunities to obtain excellent English communication empathy, fostering their open-mindedness, and giving them the advanced problem-solving skills and ICT skills so that they can use them in international settings. e School comprises skills to address various social welfare and health issues. Although the three departments in four departments: Policy Studies, which fosters the ability to make concrete policy proposals to the School share several courses, each one oers unique research programs related to its deal with global problems; Applied Informatics, which helps students explore information respective area of study.