Nara Women's University

It is a national university corporation. Its predecessor was Nara Women's Higher Normal School, founded in 1908 (Meiji 41). Until the Second World War, together with Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School to the east, it played a central role in training female teachers for women's normal schools and girls' high schools. After the war, it became a new national university in 1949 (Showa 24) consisting of the Faculty of Literature and the Faculty of Science and Home Economics, as a women's university that did not have the direct purpose of training female secondary school teachers. In 1953, the Faculty of Science and Home Economics was separated and reorganized into the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Home Economics, making it three faculties. In 1993 (Heisei 5), the Faculty of Home Economics was reorganized as the Faculty of Life and Environment. In addition to the three master's courses (Literature, Science, and Life and Environment), the Graduate School of Human Culture (Comparative Cultural Studies, Life and Environment Studies) was established in 1981, consisting of only doctoral courses (three years). Since then, after undergoing several reorganizations, as of 2010, the graduate school has been consolidated into the Graduate School of Humanities, with 16 majors including International Social and Cultural Studies, Language and Culture Studies, Social and Environmental Studies, and Information Science. In April 2004, with the enforcement of the National University Corporation Law, the university became a National University Corporation. Its headquarters are located in Kitauoya Higashicho, Nara City.

[Toru Magose]

"The 80-Year History of Nara Women's University" (1989), edited and published by Nara Women's University

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国立大学法人。前身は1908年（明治41）に創設された奈良女子高等師範学校。第二次世界大戦前までは東の東京女子高等師範学校とともに、女子師範学校、高等女学校の女子教員の養成の中心的役割を果たしてきた。戦後は女子中等教員の養成を直接の目的としない女子大学として、1949年（昭和24）文学部と理家政学部からなる新制国立大学となった。1953年、理家政学部が理学部と家政学部に分離改組され、3学部となる。1993年（平成5）には家政学部が改組され生活環境学部となった。大学院は修士課程3研究科（文学、理学、生活環境学）のほかに、1981年には博士課程後期（3年）だけからなる人間文化研究科（比較文化学、生活環境学）が設置された。以後、数度に及ぶ改組を経て、2010年（平成22）時点で、研究科は人間文化研究科に一本化され、国際社会文化学、言語文化学、社会生活環境学、情報科学など16の専攻がある。2004年4月、国立大学法人法の施行に伴い、国立大学法人となる。本部は奈良市北魚屋東町。

［馬越　徹］

『奈良女子大学編・刊『奈良女子大学八十年史』（1989）』

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