University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
| Západočeská univerzita v Plzni | |
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| founding | 1991 |
| Sponsorship | public |
| place | Pilsen |
| country | Czech Republic |
| Rector | Miroslav Holeček |
| Students | 13,118 |
| Employee | 2,264 |
| Website | www.zcu.cz |
The University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (Czech: Západočeská univerzita v Plzni ) came into being in 1991 with the merger of the Faculty of Education in Pilsen and the University of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Today the university consists of nine faculties.
history
In 1949 the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering was founded as a higher education institution of the Czech Technical University in Prague . In 1953 it was separated as an independent university and in 1960 it was divided into two faculties (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Faculty of Electrical Engineering). In 1990 the Faculties of Economics and Applied Sciences were established. The Pedagogical Faculty was founded in 1948 as a branch of the Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University in Prague . From 1953 it existed independently as a high pedagogical school, later as a pedagogical institute. From 1964 it was an independent faculty. In 1991 both universities were merged into the University of West Bohemia by Act No. 314/1991 Coll . The Faculty of Law was established in 1993 and the Faculty of Philosophy in 2001 (until 2005 under the name Faculty of Humanistic Disciplines). In 2008, the private Pilsen University joined the university and was integrated as the Faculty of Health Sciences. The Institute of Art and Design became the ninth faculty in 2013.
Faculties and Institutes
Faculties:
- Philosophical Faculty
- Law Faculty
- Pedagogical Faculty
- Faculty of Economics (part of the Faculty in Cheb )
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering
- Faculty of Applied Sciences
- Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Art and Design
Institutes and centers without a faculty affiliation:
- Institute for Foreign Languages
- Center for New Technologies
Other facilities:
International summer schools
- Since 1990 the University of West Bohemia has held the International Summer School for Languages every summer . It is a three-week language school which, in addition to Czech, also offers foreigners English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish and, since 2006, Portuguese. Both local teachers and native speakers are responsible for teaching foreign languages. There is great interest. In 2005 and 2006 the number of participants reached 700, in 2007 it exceeded 800. Since 1996 the summer school has been held on the university campus in the Bory district
- Since 2005, the university has also organized the international summer school for art - ArtCamp .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ingo T. Herzig: Mezinárodní letní jazyková škola v Plzni. In: Globalizace versus regionalism. Technická univerzita Liberec 2006, pp. 365–371, ISBN 80-7372-088-4
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