Laurea in Design dell'Innovazione Industriale

Innovation can be described as an expansive change or movement that provides new meanings to the existing society with new ideas and a proactive attitude. Industrial innovation seeks to give new function or significance to objects and mechanisms that exist in our everyday life and the field of industrial design by utilizing new technologies and theories. Therefore, the Department of Industrial Innovation Design aims to develop students who would be capable of making such change with great emphasis on 'design'.

This department will provide students the opportunity to understand the basic principles and techniques in the above field through 1) graphic design, 2) product design, and 3) applied information engineering.

The predecessors of Nagoya City University (NCU) are Nagoya Women's Medical College and Nagoya Pharmaceutical College. In 1950, NCU made a start by merging both into two faculties, namely: the Medical School under the old education system, and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences under the new education system. In 1955, NCU set up the Medical School under the new education system.

Looking back into the histories of its two predecessors, Nagoya Pharmaceutical College originated in 1884 as a private school named "Nagoya School of Pharmacy." It then grew to Nagoya Pharmaceutical Training School in 1936 and to Nagoya Pharmaceutical College in 1949. On the other hand, Nagoya Women's Medical College came into being in 1943 as a five-year school formerly named "Nagoya Municipal Women's Higher Medical School" in response to the calling of the time. It was the nation's first public "women's medical college." Instituting additional three preparatory courses in 1947, it became Nagoya Women's Medical College.

Meanwhile, Nagoya Municipal Hospital, the predecessor of the University Hospital of NCU, was established in 1931 together with a nursing school affiliated with it. This affiliated nursing school evolved into Affiliated Women's Welfare High School, then into the Nursing School of NCU, and then into Nagoya City University College of Nursing, and finally into the present School of Nursing of NCU.