三、开普敦大学的教研情况
1.Faculty of Commerce
The Commerce Faculty is the largest of all the faculties in the University of Cape Town and continues to expand the programmes it offers its students. Commerce degree programmes prepare students for the personnel needs of the fast-growing world of financial service industries and prepare them for participation in the global economy. The Commerce Faculty receives strong support from international agencies, and remains committed to engagement with the African continent.
The Faculty offers two undergraduate degrees: a four-year Bachelor of Business Science (BBusSc) and a three-year Bachelor of Commerce (BCom). Both of these degree programmes are divided into a variety of streams to cater both for the interests of our students, and the employment needs of the country.
1、商学院
商学院是开普敦大学最大的学院,并且还在扩大其课程规模。商学院的学位计划将学生培养成符合金融服务行业需求的人才(金融行业在迅速发展),帮助他们做好参与全球经济的准备。商学院得到一些国际机构的大力支持,并始终保持对非洲大陆的参与。
商学院在本科阶段提供两个学位:四年的商务理学士学位和三年的商学士学位。这两个学位又细分为各种分支,借以满足学生学习的需求和南非的人才需求。
2.Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
At the heart of our vision is the desire to foster strong analytical skills, practical ingenuity and creativity, good communication and high ethical standards and professionalism, as well as the ability to be lifelong learners. One of the core aspects of our vision as a faculty is to develop outstanding graduates and scholars, who contribute to society and address socioeconomic challenges through their work. Our UCT graduate engineers and professionals of the built environment are ideally equipped to rise to the complex challenges and global problems of the 21st century.
2、工程与建筑环境学院
工程与建筑环境学院的核心理念是培养分析能力,独创的实践能力和创造能力,良好的沟通能力和职业道德高标准,以及终身学习的能力。作为学院,我们理念的一个重要方面是将学生培养成优秀毕业生和学者,通过他们的工作对社会做出贡献,应对社会经济面临的挑战。工程与建筑环境学院的毕业生有能力成为工程和专业人才,应对21世纪复杂的挑战和全球性问题。
3. Faculty of Health Sciences
We offer a variety of educational, training and academic career options within the context of health care and research - from clinical and public health to health and rehabilitation sciences. We are a Faculty of choice for those seeking world-class training - owing to our strong reputation for having trained some of the best health practitioners and scientists globally, and for our Clinical achievements and cutting-edge research.
In 2012 we had two reasons to celebrate: our centenary as the first medical school in sub-Saharan Africa, and our rating among the top 50 health sciences faculties worldwide (by Times Higher Education) - a first for any university in Africa and the developing world.
The Faculty has 13 academic departments, over twenty multi-disciplinary research groupings, and more than 4000 students. Our programmes are embedded in four main themes, namely undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, clinical services and research.
3、健康科学学院
健康科学学院提供领域内的各种教育、培训和学业选择,涵盖从临床健康、公共健康到健康和康复学的多个方面。健康科学学院招收有意接受世界级训练的学生。学院世界级的培训归功于我们在培养顶级健康护理人员和全球科学家方面的响亮的名声,得益于我们的临床成就和尖端研究。
2012年,学院有两点是值得庆祝的。第一点是作为撒哈拉以南非洲地区成立最早的医学院,我们有了一百年的历史。第二点是我们被《泰晤士高等教育》评为世界前五十顶尖的健康科学学院之一——这对于非洲乃至发展中国家大学来说还是第一次。
健康科学学院下设13个学术部门,有20多个多学科科研团队和4千多名学生。学院的学位计划涵盖四大主题,即本科教学、研究生教学、临床服务和研究。
4.Faculty of Humanities
With close to 6000 students, the Faculty of Humanities is the second largest faculty at the University of Cape Town. 75% of our student population is at undergraduate level. The Faculty comprises 16 vibrant academic departments located in three main clusters: the Arts, the Social Sciences and the Performing and Creative Arts. Common to all is a focus on the human condition, in all its dimensions.
With four SARChI Research Chairs, 2 Mellon Research Chairs as well as 86 new and renewed NRF-rated researchers, UCT Faculty of Humanities enjoys a strong tradition in interdisciplinary research and teaching. Our academics equip students with skills that are crucial for engaging with the material and non-material aspects of being human. We produce exceptional graduates who possess imagination, insight, mental agility and analytical skills. We prepare young people for a variety of career paths in the public and private sectors, in the media space, in the NGO sector and in research and academia.
4、人文学院
人文学院有近6千名学生,是开普敦大学第二大的学院。其中,本科生占75%。人文学院下设16个充满活力的学术部门。这些学术部门分布在三个大的学科领域:艺术、社科和表演创意艺术。这些部门和学科有一个共同点,就是专注于人类处境的各个维度。
人文学院有4位 SARChI 职位教授、2位梅隆职位教授和86名新的和续更的 NRF级别研究员,有强大的跨学科研究和教学传统。人文学院的专业学者可以帮助学生具备介入人类物质方面和非物质方面必须的技能。学院培养出的优秀毕业生具备丰富的想象力、深刻的洞察力、敏捷的思维和出色的分析技能。学院的毕业生可以在公共部门和私人部门发展职业,也可以在非政府组织、科研和学术界追求自己的理想。
5.Faculty of Law
UCT attracts excellent students from diverse backgrounds and this makes for a rich learning environment; our graduates are highly sought after.
Student initiatives like the Social Justice Seminars and LAWCO are recognised as excellent and the student leadership (both the Law Student Council and the Black Law Student Forum) has been very strong; Orientation week in 2010 was voted outstanding.
Unique to our LLB is 60 hours of community service and so our students graduate with a sense of their role in society.
5、法学院
开普敦大学吸引了各种背景的学生,有利于创造丰富的学习环境。我们的毕业生非常被雇主看好。
社会正义研讨会和 LAWCO 等学生行动得到了优秀的认可,学生领导组织(包括法律专业学生委员会和法律专业黑人学生论坛)则强势发展。2010年迎新周经过投票被评为出色。
法学院的法学士学位特别要求社会服务达到60个小时,这样利于我们的学生在毕业的时候培养起社会角色意识。
6.Faculty of Science
The Faculty prides itself on its strong teaching programmes, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and on the strength of its research enterprise. With well developed international links with researchers across the world, the Faculty is a major contributor to cutting-edge, globally relevant research. Our goal is to be internationally recognised as a leading, research-intensive Faculty and the top Science Faculty on the African continent, producing research that is globally competitive and locally relevant.
At the same time, we strive to be a major contributor to educating scientists of the future through our many and varied undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Our degrees are internationally recognised, thus ensuring that graduates are globally mobile. The majority of our staff have strong international research profiles and have active research programmes covering a wide range of science disciplines that involve collaborations with leading researchers across the world.
6、科学院
科学院值得骄傲的地方在于它在本科生和研究生阶段都有优质的教学计划,并在它的科研企业优势也很明显。科学院与世界各地的研究员有良好的国际联系,在尖端的全球相关研究方面也做出了重大贡献。科学院的目标是成为国际公认的顶尖研究型学院和非洲大陆顶尖的科学类学院,进而做出具有全球竞争力和地区相关性的科研成果。
与此同时,学院也努力通过内容广泛的各种本科生和研究生学位计划,将学生培养成未来科学家,并努力在这方面做出重大贡献。科学院的学位得到国际认可,因此可以确保学院的毕业生具备全球流动能力。学院的大部分教职人员都有优秀的国际科研简介,都积极从事科学众领域研究,参与世界各地的顶级研究员合作。
四、开普敦大学知名校友
名字 | 身份或成就 |
Aaron Klug | 获得1982年诺贝尔化学奖 |
Allan McLeod Cormack | 获得1979年诺贝尔药学奖 |
J. M. Coetzee | 获得2003年诺贝尔文学奖 |
巴纳德 | 完成世界第一例换心手术 |
Mark Shuttleworth | 世界第二名自费旅行太空的年轻富豪,Ubuntu Linux 的创始人 |
Mamphela Ramphele | 世界银行管理总裁 |
Neville Isdell | 可口可乐公司总裁 |
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