书城外语英语PARTY——高地之邦·苏格兰
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第21章 名校风采Famous Universities(5)

King,s College forms a quadrangle with interior court, two sides of which have been rebuilt, and a library wing has been added. The Crown Tower and the Chapel, the oldest parts, date from 1500. The former is surmountedsurmounted [建]拱[拱顶]的高度大于起拱线长度的一半的 by a structure about 40 ft (12 m) high, consisting of a sixsided lantern and royal crown, both sculptured, and resting on the intersections of two arched ornamental slips rising from the four corners of the top of the tower. The choir of the chapel still contains the original oak canopied stalls, miserere seats, and lofty open screens in the French flamboyantflamboyant adj.辉耀的, 华丽的, 火焰似的, 艳丽的 style, and of unique beauty of design and execution. Their preservation was due to the enlightened energy of the principal at the time of the Reformation, who armed his folk to save the building from the baronsbaron n.男爵(英国世袭的最低级的贵族爵位) of the Mearns after they had robbed St Machar,s of its bells and lead. Today, King,s returns the favour by providing needed funds for the university as it fulfils its sometime occupation as corporate reception and exhibition area.

Marischal College is a stately modern building, having been rebuilt in 1836~1841, and greatly extended several years later at a cost of £100,000. The additions to the buildings opened by King Edward VII in 1906, form one of the most splendid examples of modern architecture in Great Britain; the architect, Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, a native of Aberdeen, having adapted his material, white granite, to the design of a noble building with the originalityoriginality n.创意, 新奇 of genius. The beautiful Mitchell Tower is so named from the benefactor (Dr. Charles Mitchell) who provided the splendid graduation hall. The opening of this tower in 1895 signalled the commemoration of the four hundredth anniversaryanniversary n.周年纪念 of the foundation of the university. The University Library comprises nearly 100,000 books. A botanic garden was presented to the university in 1899.

The University of Dundee

邓迪大学

邓迪大学是一所古老传统的大学,创建于1881年,那时它还是一座学院,1967年皇家特许邓迪大学恢复其独立地位。邓迪有一百多年的教学和研究经验,是世界公认的最优秀的教学研究中心之一。邓迪大学的优秀与杰出可以以一些排名和数字来表明,邓迪大学向本科生开放的科目全苏格兰排名第一,其科研成果苏格兰第三,是全英十大就业去向最好的大学之一。该校的毕业生就业情况在苏格兰排名第一,在全英排名第六,绝大多数研究项目都评到4.5级或5级。1998年颁给邓迪的皇后奖再次证明其对英国的高等教育及科学研究做出的先锋式的贡献。邓迪的校友会中,有许多在学术、政治、政府机构、政府间国际组织、艺术、商业、工业、体育领域有影响的国际知名人士。

邓迪大学是苏格兰大学中课程设置最多的一所。学校设有人文与社会科学学院,约旦斯通邓肯学院,法律与会计学院,医学、牙医与护理学院和理工学院。该校有学生12 000名(国际留学生超过10%),攻读200多门研究生、本科课程。其中,计算机,生化,土木工程,设计,美术和电视与影像专业在全英专业排名中均名列前茅。

苏格兰高等教育基金会(SHEFC)监督教学质量和学生服务,报告表明,邓迪大学三分之二的系被教学质量评估达到“优秀”或“非常满意”。毕业生一直保持英国最好就业记录的大学之一,统计数字表明,邓迪大学毕业生就业率排英国第十名。

该校校园是一个整体,中心区域有教学区、体育中心、社交场所等。保证为学生提供的住宿设施也集中在中心区。学校有10个信息技术组,拥有数百台个人电脑,学生可以在这些电脑上运行视窗软件上网或是收发电子邮件。该校的主图书馆藏书50多万册。此外,法学系、艺术设计系、医学护理系还有自己的专业图书馆。许多学生宿舍都有互联网和局域网接入。

The University of Dundee originated as a university college in 1881 and spent much of the first century of its existence as a constituent college of the University of St Andrews. It was granted full University status in 1967.

The University has five faculties: Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, Science & Engineering, Law & Accountancy, Arts & Social Sciences and the Duncan of Jordanstone Faculty of Art & Design. In late 2001 it will add a sixth FacultyEducation & Social Work-following a merger with the Dundee campus of Northern College.

Dundee has research strengths in many areas, most notably biomedical science, materials science, engineering, computing and art and design. The Wellcome Trust Biocentre has one of the biggest concentrationsconcentration n.集中, 集合, 专心, 浓缩, 浓度 of scientists in the world working on the causes and potential cures of cancer. In the past 18 months research teams from Cambridge, Oxford and Philadelphia have moved to Dundee and biotech companies are setting up at the rate of 2 or 3 a year. We have blended world ranking researchers with strong support from Government, the City Council, Scottish Enterprise Tayside and the pharmaceuticalpharmaceutical n.药物 adj.制药(学)上的 industry.

Academic Program Highlights

The University of Dundee offers excellent academic program, with twothirds of its departments or schools having received “Excellent” or “Highly Satisfactory” teaching quality assessment ratings. The academic calendarcalendar n.日历, 历法 is based on the U.S. semester schedule. CCIS students in this program enroll in three courses for fifteen U.S. college credits. Students can choose courses from the following academic faculties:

Arts and Social Sciences (Politics, History, Geography, Economic Studies, Mathematics, Psychology, English Literature, Environmental Science, American Studies)

Art and Design (Design, Fine Art, Architecture)

Life Sciences (Anatomical and Physiological Sciences, Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Pharmacology)

Engineering and Physical Sciences (Civil/Electronic/Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Applied Computing)

The program is open to students who have completed a minimum of 15 U.S. college credits and have a 3.0 cumulative GPA.

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