My Favourite University

Hey, I have my favourite University too XD I want to tell you about it! My favourite University is Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music or (東京芸術大学, Tōkyō GeijutsuDaigaku) or Geidai (芸大)


The History of Geidai

The university was formed in 1949 by the merger of the Tokyo School of Fine Arts (東京美術学校 Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō) and the Tokyo Music School (東京音楽学校 Tōkyō Ongaku Gakkō), both of which were founded in 1887. Originally male-only, the schools began to admit women in 1946. The graduate school opened in 1963, and began offering doctoral degrees in 1977. After the National University Corporations were formed on April 1, 2004, the school became known as the Kokuritsu Daigaku Hōjin Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku (国立大学法人東京芸術大学). On April 1, 2008, the university changed its English name from "Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music" to "Tokyo University of the Arts."

The school has had student exchanges with a number of other art and music institutions such as the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA), the Royal Academy of Music (UK), the University of Sydney and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (Australia), the Korea National University of Arts, and the China Academy of Art.

Department of Fine Arts

(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs)

• Japanese Painting
• Oil Painting
• Sculpture
• Craft
• Design
• Architecture and Planning
• Aesthetics and Art History
• Inter-media Arts
• Conservation
• Film and New Media (Graduate school only)
• Animation
  

Department of Music

(Includes undergraduate and graduate school programs)

• Composition
• Conducting
• Vocal Music
• Piano
• Organ
• String Instruments
• Wind and Percussion Instruments
• Early Music
• Musicology
• Traditional Japanese Music
• Musical Creativity and the Environmental

I hope I can enter Geidai!(≧▽≦)


By: Vylda