is a co-educational private university

Private university

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 in Shizuoka city

Shizuoka, Shizuoka

is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in terms of both population and area. It became one of Japan's 19 "designated cities" in 2005.-Geography:...

, Shizuoka Prefecture

Shizuoka Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Shizuoka.- History :Shizuoka prefecture was formed from the former Tōtōmi, Suruga and Izu provinces.The area was the home of the first Tokugawa Shogun...

 Japan

Japan

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.

History

The Shizuoka Eiwa Girls’ School was founded in 1887 by missionaries from the Methodist Church of Canada

Methodist Church of Canada

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 with the support of the Shizuoka prefectural government, and continues to be affiliated with the Methodist church

Methodism

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. It was the first institution in Shizuoka Prefecture to offer secondary education

Secondary education

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 for girls.

A two-year Shizuoka Eiwa College was established in 1966. A third year program in English language

English language

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 and Japanese literature

Japanese literature

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was added in 1992, which became a four year coeducational university in 2002. Today over 1400 students are enrolled in two and four year programs.

Academic Programmes

• Four year programmes
  • Department Humanities and Social Sciences
    • Psychology
    • Literature
    • Culture and Tourism
    • International Inter-Disciplinary Studies
  • Department of Community and Social Welfare
    • Education
    • Social Welfare
• Two year programmes
  • Department of Contemporary Communications
    • Business management
    • Tourism
    • Health care
  • Department of Food Science
    • Food and Nutrition

External links

• Official website