is a
private
Private or privates may refer to:
Music
* "In Private", by Dusty Springfield from the 1990 album ''Reputation''
* Private (band), a Denmark-based band
* "Private" (Ryōko Hirosue song), from the 1999 album ''Private'', written and also recorded ...
women's college
Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are composed exclusively or almost exclusively of women. Some women's colleges admit male st ...
in
Kamakura
, officially , is a city of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. It is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu. The city has an estimated population of 172,929 (1 September 2020) and a population density of 4,359 people per km2 over the tota ...
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Kanagawa Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the List of Japanese prefectures by population, second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-dens ...
,
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...
. The school specializes in home economics and child care.
History
The Keihin Women's Housekeeping Science School was established in
Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama
is one of the 18 Wards of Japan, wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 230,401 and a population density, density of 9,650 persons per km2. The total area was 23.88 km ...
in 1943 as a vocational school. It was relocated to the Iwase neighborhood of Kamakura in 1946. In 1950, it was chartered as the Keihin Women's University, and became the four-year Keihin Women's University in 1959. The present name was adopted in 1989.
Curriculum
Undergraduate
*School of Home Economics
**Department of Home Economics and Health Sciences
** Department of Nutritional Management
*School of Child Studies
**Department of Child Studies
**Department of Child Psychology
*School of Education
** Department of Education
Graduate
*School of Child Studies
**Department of Child Studies
External links
Official website
Universities and colleges established in 1943
Private universities and colleges in Japan
Universities and colleges in Kanagawa Prefecture
Women's universities and colleges in Japan
Buildings and structures in Kamakura, Kanagawa
Western Metropolitan Area University Association
1943 establishments in Japan
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