Introduction to the History of Nagoya University

Course Overview

The first and foremost objective of this course is to acquaint 1st year students with the history of Nagoya University, beginning with Nagoya Imperial University, which was formed 77 years ago, and including the Predecessor School, a total of 145 years. Through this course, students can deepen their understanding of Nagoya University which will be their place of learning for at least 4 years or more, if they enter graduate school. This will help establish their identities as NU students. In addition, this course intends to familiarize students with a history of Japanese higher education after Meiji Restoration, and regional history of Nagoya.

This course is divided into two modules, namely: general overview modules and in-depth modules. In the general overview modules, we will study the history of NU chronologically, and in the in-depth modules, we will set a theme for each session that will explain in more depth.

Key Features

In these lectures, we try to enable students to keep the standard academic knowledge of the Nagoya University’s history in mind while having fun. Though we will base the class on books containing proper academic content like "50 Years of History of Nagoya University", we will also make full use of other contents including "History of Nagoya University Booklet", "Bit of Nagoya University history" and other exhibition materials, movies, etc. created by Nagoya University Archives in order to make the University's history easier for students to learn. We also incorporate the regional historical perspectives by describing the University’s history in relation to the development of Nagoya city and surrounding areas. Furthermore, by inviting the current President of Nagoya University as a guest speaker, we want to make students understand what kind of vision Nagoya University has to enhance education and research activities through its history.

Course Schedule

Session	Contents
	General Overview classes
1	Orientation/Introduction
2	From Origin of Nagoya University to National Medical College
3	The Eighth Higher School
4	Nagoya Commercial College
5	Establishment of Nagoya Imperial University
6	Historical Development of Nagoya University 1949-1989
7	Recent Years of Nagoya University 1990-2016
10	What Should You Learn at Nagoya University? (Lecture by President of Nagoya University)
	In depth crass
8	Epidemic, Earthquake and Rescue Activities by Aichi Hospital,Aichi Medical School
9	First President of NU SHIBUSAWA Motoji and Nagoya Imperial University Reported by Newspapers
11	Past Presidents of NU
12	History of NU Festival
13	NU and sports
14	History of NU Campuses and Architectures,Memorials
15	Summary/Conclusion

Grading

Grading of this course will be based on the final report, however absences may affect your grade.

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