Thus there was a department for the study of Buddhism within the School of Literature, but when the department was reorganized it joined with the Department of History and the Department of Japanese Language, and in the 2004 academic year the Department of Literature became the Department of the Humanities.
尚、仏教学を学ぶ学科として文学部に仏教学科があったが、2004年度の学科再編に伴い、史学科、日本語日本文学科と統合されて人文学科となった。