Seisen University

清泉女子大学
Former names	Seisenryōgakuin
Motto	VERITAS et CARITAS
Motto in English	TRUTH and LOVE
Type	Private college
Established	1938
President	Takahiro Saeki, Ph.D.
Academic staff	52 (full time), 218 (part time)[1]
Students	1,906[1]
Undergraduates	1,887[1]
Postgraduates	19[1]
Location	Shinagawa , Tokyo , Japan
Website	www.seisen-u.ac.jp/eng/index.php

Seisen University (清泉女子大学, Seisen Joshi Daigaku) is a private Catholic liberal arts women's college in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan.

History

The predecessor of the school, Seisenryōgakuin (清泉寮学院), was founded in 1938 by the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It was chartered as a women's four-year college in 1950.

Organization

Undergraduate studies

• Department of Spanish Language and Literature
• Department of English Language and Literature
• Department of Global Citizenship Studies
• Department of Cultural History
• Department of Japanese Language and Literature

Graduate School of Humanities

• Master's Program in Language and Culture
• Master's Program in Thought and Culture
• Master's Program in Global Citizenship Studies
• Doctoral Program in Humanities

Research institutes

• Research Institute for Cultural Studies
• Research Institute for Christian Culture
• Research Institute for Language Education

Campus

Address

3-16-21 Higashi Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141-8642, Japan

Facilities

The university's Italian Renaissance style main building designed by Josiah Conder was built as Prince Shimazu Tadashige's mansion in 1917.^[2]