University of West Bohemia

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The Západočeská univerzita v Plzni ( to German University of West Bohemia in Pilsen) was founded in 1991 with the merger of the Pedagogical Faculty in Pilsen and the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Today, the university consists of nine faculties.

History

In 1949 the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering was founded as a higher education institution of the Czech Technical University in Prague. 1953 she was abgegliedert as an independent university in 1960 and divided into two faculties ( Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering ). In 1990 the Faculties of Economics and Applied Sciences emerged. The Faculty of Education was established in 1948 as a branch of the Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. From 1953 it was independently as Higher education school, later as Pedagogical Institute. From 1964, she was an independent faculty. In 1991 both colleges were merged by Act No 314/ 1991 Sb to the University of West Bohemia. Born in 1993, the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Arts in 2001 (until 2005 under the name Faculty of humanistic disciplines ). In 2008, the private university in Pilsen joined the University and has been integrated as a Faculty of Health Sciences. The Institute of Art and Design in 2013 was the ninth faculty.

Faculties and Institutes

Faculties:

  • Faculty of Arts
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Education
  • 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
  • Faculty of Art and Design

Institutes and centers without faculty membership:

  • Institute of Foreign Languages
  • Center for New Technologies

Other Facilities:

  • Coordination Centre for German - Czech youth exchange tandem

International Summer Schools

  • Since 1990, the University of West Bohemia held every year in the summer, the International Summer School of Languages ​​. It involves a three-week language school also offers English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese since 2006, except Czech for foreigners. For the teaching of foreign languages ​​provide both local teachers and native speakers. Interest is high. In the years 2005 and 2006 the number of participants reached 700, in 2007 it exceeded the 800 since 1996 finds the Summer School on the campus of the university in Bory district instead
  • Since 2005, the university also hosts the International Summer School of Art - ArtCamp.
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