Brief introduction of Tsukuba University
School time: 1973
Nature of the school: national
Province: Ibaraki Prefecture
City: Tupou City
Current Chairman: Nobuhiro Yamada
University of Tsukuba is a newly-built national comprehensive university in Japan. Compared with those established universities with a long history, which have trained countless scholars and dignitaries, and are famous for their rich academic achievements, it is famous because it conforms to the trend of world scientific and technological development, stands at the forefront of Japanese university reform, and appears in modern universities in the East with a brand-new school-running model.
University of Tsukuba is the oldest university in Japan, with a history of over 130 years. Formerly known as Tokyo Normal University, Premier Zhou Enlai studied in Japanese Language School for one year. It is said that he returned to China after the failure of Tokyo Normal University. University of Tsukuba is located at the foot of Tsukuba Mountain in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo. According to 1973, the University of Tsukuba Act passed by the Japanese Parliament was expanded on the basis of Tokyo Education University. Since then, the Japanese government has established 43 new educational and research institutions in this field to form Tsukuba Science and Technology Center. University of Tsukuba does not adopt the departments and disciplines of traditional Japanese universities, but establishes new teaching organization forms such as study groups, study categories and specialized fields, and new research organization departments, aiming at cultivating students with broad horizons and carrying out interdisciplinary scientific research. The study group and the study category are responsible for the general education guidance and specific education guidance for students respectively.
Students study in a certain category set by the study group, and the category is the basis for students to organize classes. There are six study groups: the first study group is a basic study group, which is composed of humanities, society and nature; The second study group is culture and biology, which consists of four categories: comparative culture, humanities, biology and agriculture and forestry. The third learning group is management and engineering, which consists of social engineering, information and basic engineering. In addition, there are three professional study groups, namely, medicine, physical education and fine arts, which set up professional fields directly without learning categories. There are 26 departments as research institutions, and teachers belong to the corresponding departments according to their respective majors. Except for the medical professional group, the academic system is 5 years, and the other groups are 4 years. The graduate school offers master's courses (2 years) and doctoral courses (5 years). There are 8 research topics in the master program and 18 research topics in the doctoral program.
Teaching objectives of University of Tsukuba
University of Tsukuba is committed to all-round construction? Open University? Don't stick to the inherent concept, we should take the lead in realizing it? Flexible education research organization? And then what? A new university institution? As a basic idea, it leads the university reform in Japan. As a cultural base to promote the coordinated development of human society, universities shoulder a great social mission. As a comprehensive university, our school has extensively carried out educational research activities of various majors.
In order to enrich and strengthen the educational research system and cultivate high-level talents with the ability to solve world problems on the basis of individuality and self-reliance, the University of Tsukuba has set the following goals:
1. University of Tsukuba should actively promote interdisciplinary tolerance and cooperation beyond the existing fields, from nature to human beings and from society to culture, while pursuing professional deepening in various academic fields, so as to achieve world-leading scientific research development.
2. University of Tsukuba activates students' personality and ability, enriches students' moral cultivation, and enables them to accumulate more creative knowledge and energy, so that they can shine independently on the international stage in the future.
3. As the core of Tsukuba Research Park where many scientific research institutions gather, Tsukuba University actively strengthens cooperation with various educational research institutions and industries, trying to enrich and strengthen its educational research functions and make more contributions to social development.
4. As a comprehensive university open to all countries and regions in Asia and the world, Tsukuba University actively carries out general education research activities and cooperation and exchanges in line with international standards, and strives to build our university into an international authoritative university.
5. Explore the university model in the new era and lead the university reform under the new system by coordinating the development of the personality and diversity of teachers and employees.
The founding concept of University of Tsukuba
In basic and applied science, University of Tsukuba has maintained and deepened flexible and close communication relations with educational research institutions and society at home and abroad, and achieved academic exchanges and cooperation on the basis of educational research work. At the same time, it promotes the progress of academic culture while cultivating talents with both ability and political integrity.
Traditional universities are often confined to narrow professional fields, and education and scientific research are stagnant, resulting in academic rigidity and scientific research divorced from social reality. Therefore, our school reflects on the previous mode of running a school and defines it as an all-round open university at home and abroad.
Therefore, while adapting to the changing social trends, University of Tsukuba will establish a new international, diverse and flexible educational research institution, and establish a corresponding management and operation system.
Subject setting of University of Tsukuba
The first study group is the basic study group, which is used as the teaching of basic courses in the whole school. Divided into three categories: humanities, including philosophy, history, archaeology and folklore, linguistics and other professional disciplines; Social science. Including sociology, law, politics, economics, etc. Natural science, including mathematics, physics, chemistry and earth science.
The second study group is culture? Biology group, an interdisciplinary group, is divided into five categories: comparative culture (including comparative literature, regional culture and modern ideology), Japanese language and culture (only Japanese language and culture is a professional direction), interpersonal relationship (including pedagogy, psychology and psychosomatic disorders), biology (including basic biology and applied biology) and agriculture and forestry (including aquatic products).
The third academic group is management? Engineering group, composed of new ideas and cutting-edge science, is divided into five categories: social engineering, including social economy, commercial engineering, urban planning and so on. International relations; Informatics, including information science and information engineering; System engineering, including knowledge engineering system and operation engineering system; Basic engineering, including physical engineering, materials and molecular engineering, transformation engineering, structural engineering, etc. Medical professional groups, including medicine and new medicine; Physical education majors, including physical education, kinematics, and healthy physique; Art majors include fine arts, fine arts, conception, creation and design.
Characteristics of University of Tsukuba
The University of Tsukuba has several characteristics: First, there are more international students. The number of international students in Tsukuba is second only to the University of Tokyo. At present, Tsukuba has more than 65,438+0,000 international students, most of whom are from Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province Province of China. Tsukuba has nearly 65,438+0,000 China students and their families.
Tsukuba advocates? A new education and research system? ,? New university autonomy? ,? Open University? And other new school-running ideas have had a great impact on Japan's education system. 70% principals of Japanese high schools graduated from Tsukuba. In the early days of Tsukuba, it was said that there were two ways for students to graduate: to teach in a university or to be a principal in a middle school.
One of the major reforms of the University of Tsukuba is to reform the traditional organization and management system of teaching and research, and establish teaching and research institutions according to the requirements of new universities that adapt to society. The teaching and research organizations in Japanese universities are generally set up according to departments and lectures, which are closed to the outside world and scattered internally, and cannot meet the requirements of the continuous differentiation and integration of disciplines in the new era.
So, the University of Tsukuba has changed? In the past, universities were often trapped in narrow professional fields, which led to the stagnation and immobilization of education and research, thus being out of touch with the real society? This tendency proposes to cancel the department and lecture system integrating teaching and research, and establish two independent study groups (learning departments) and departments.
University of Tsukuba facilities
Libraries and hospitals:
The library information system of the University of Tsukuba consists of central library, sports, art, medical group and Otsuka old campus. The whole system is managed by computer, and the books and materials are relatively concentrated. All books and periodicals are open-shelf services, which not only provide services for teachers and students of the whole school, but also provide reading, borrowing and copying services for off-campus personnel over 18 years old. The whole school has a collection of 1 745,686 volumes, including 739,622 volumes of western languages and magazines 1 1 079, which can receive 2,500 readers every day. The affiliated hospital of our school has 800 beds.
Campus:
The University of Tsukuba is located in Tupu City, Ibaraki Prefecture, 60 kilometers northeast of Tokyo. It faces Mount Tsukuba in the north and Xiapu Lake in the east, with beautiful scenery. It used to be a wasteland, but now it is a brand-new university science city in Japan, and the University of Tsukuba is located in the center of this science city. The University of Tsukuba has no fences. Although there are many buildings around, there are still some buildings in Tsukuba campus. Rich? Space, equipped with artificial lakes and green grass.
The main campus in Tsukuba is divided into four parts: North, Middle, South and West. Among them, the middle block is the teaching area, where the main academic groups and a few departments are located; The south block is the research area, where most departments and research centers are located. The west block is the medical area, and the west block and the north block are the accommodation facilities for teachers and students of the school. The main campus covers an area of 246. 50 thousand square meters. In addition, there are some campuses in bunkyo-ku and Otsuka in Tokyo, mainly affiliated schools and a few research centers. At present, the University of Tsukuba has 10 affiliated schools: primary school, high school, Otsuka Conservation School and Tongjiaqiu Conservation School.