Universidad Nacional de Colombia

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Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UN)
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motto la : Inter-Aulas-Academiæ-Quære-Verum
founding September 22, 1867
Sponsorship state
place Bogotá
Rector Dolly Montoya Castaño
Students 53,582 (2016)
Professors 3007 (2016)
Website www.unal.edu.co

The National University of Colombia ( Spanish Universidad Nacional de Colombia ) is the largest and most prestigious university in Colombia and, as the country's first public and state university, is one of the leading educational institutions in all of Latin America . The university, founded in 1867, has exemplary equipment and infrastructure. It is located in the heart of Bogotá with a huge, park-like campus .

The main campus ( Ciudad Universitaria de Bogotá ) is located in the Teusaquillo district , in the north-west of Bogotá. With an area of ​​300 hectares, it is the largest campus in Colombia and is home to the Auditorium León de Greiff and Plaza Francisco de Paula Santander , also known as Plaza Che in honor of Ernesto Che Guevara . It has its own stadium, where matches of the Colombian football leagues were played.

history

The university was founded on September 22, 1867 with six courses. A further 20 courses were added between 1903 and 1940, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México served as a model for the future university campus in Bogotá for the Colombian president at the time . Two German emigrants played an important role in the realization of the project: the architect Leopold Rother and the Berlin school reformer Fritz Karsen .

Fritz Karsen wrote for the new university project

“The curriculum and suggested, among other things, the creation of specialized classrooms. Instead of the traditional faculties, departments should be planned, thereby avoiding the repeated construction of laboratories and special classrooms. As in the platoon system, it is the students who constantly move to the various departments, not the teachers. To explain his educational reforms, Karsen designed a circular scheme with the subject structure. This circular scheme by Karsen was the preliminary stage to the circular campus scheme and the origin of the subsequent proposals by Leopold Rother. In relation to this, Hans Rother writes the following: "It was also the educator Fritz Karsen who suggested that the central area should be circular, with the buildings arranged around a park or central square and surrounded by a main road for vehicle traffic".

This idea was realized by Leopold Rother: an oval or elliptical arrangement, which is now known to all residents of Bogotá. Rother also defined five basic areas for the university: human sciences (law), medical sciences, chemistry, engineering and applied arts and sciences (architecture, fine arts, music). "

The implementation of the joint planning was then the sole responsibility of Leopold Rother, since Fritz Karsen left Colombia in 1938 for health reasons and moved to the USA with his family.

The first master’s degree courses were offered in 1967; In 1986 the university awarded its first doctoral degrees. The headquarters are in Bogotá ; the university also has facilities in Medellín , Palmira , Manizales , Arauca , Leticia and San Andrés and Providencia . The university campus in Bogotá was designed by the German architect Leopold Rother . 11 faculties ensure the teaching of the central campus. There are also seven inter-faculty institutions and seven museums.

The University City of Bogotá has been on a provisional list for inclusion as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2012 .

Education

The range of courses includes business administration , anthropology, architecture, humanities, life sciences, political science, physics, industrial design, philology (German, French, English, Spanish), accounting, statistics, mathematics, literary studies, law, industrial design, graphic design, film art, pharmacy, philosophy, Psychology, history, geology, medicine, engineering (mechanical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechatronics, chemical engineering); Veterinary medicine and social work.

Book series

In its publishing house Unibiblos, the university publishes an important series of books with contributions from its members on cultural and academic topics. 1500 titles have been added in the last 10 years.

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Universidad Nacional de Colombia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑
    es : Busca la Verdad en las Aulas de la Academia
    de : Find the truth in the classrooms of the academy
  2. ↑ http://lineadetiempoun.unal.edu.co/linea-de-tiempo/
  3. ↑ http://rectoria.unal.edu.co/
  4. ↑ About the Universidad Nacional de Colombia . f03.th-koeln.de. Accessed April 25, 2017
  5. ↑ In his dissertation on Leopold Rother, accessible on the Internet, Ernesto Vendries Bray described the founding history of the university campus (pp. 181–204) and the development of the first institute buildings (pp. 205–258) in detail.
  6. ↑ Ernesto Vendries Bray, Leopold Rother and the modern movement in Colombia , pp. 188–189. The Hans Rother quoted here is the son of Leopold Rother.
  7. ^ University City of Bogotá

Coordinates: 4 ° 38 '17.5 "  N , 74 ° 5' 2.6"  W.