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Unit З

Chemical technology,

Civil engineering and building,

Computer science,

Computer systems, automation and control engineering,

Computer technology,

Economics,

Electrical engineering,

Electrical mechanics,

Electronic devices,

Electronics,

Environmental engineering,

Food technology,

Geodesy, cartography and land management,

Laser technology and opto-electronics,

Management,

Mechanical engineering,

Metrology and measurement,

Military specialisms,

Power engineering,

Radio engineering,

Telecommunications,

Transport engineering,

Welding.

A modular system of academic programmes has been introduced, following the ex­ ample of the world’s leading technological universities. In addition to engineering de­ grees in various specialisms, these programmes lead to the degrees of Bachelor and Master. It takes four years to complete a course leading to the degree of Bachelor, five years to gain the degree of Engineer and six years to gain the Master’s.

There are opportunities to study modem languages. The Department of Foreign Languages, which belongs to the Institute of Humanities Education, offers courses in English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. Advanced students may defend their diploma projects in a foreign language.

The University provides the requisite teaching, research and recreation facilities for its daytime and distance learning students, postgraduates, lecturers and other staff. There are numerous spacious lecture theatres, laboratories, study rooms with up to date equipment, a computer centre, design studios etc.

The academic library is one of the largest university libraries in Ukraine. Its two buildings are on adjacent sites at the heart of the University campus. The library now contains over two million titles and it provides 1,600 study places. Many University students, including those from abroad, live in a students’ village consisting of 15 halls of residence, within walking distance from the campus. A club, a medical centre, a hospital and other services are available there.

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Many students participate in amateur cultural groups. The “Prosvita” cultural asso­ ciation is very active in promoting Ukrainian culture. There are nine amateur groups, including a symphony orchestra, a choir, a dance group, a staff male voice choir, and music and song groups. A cultural festival called the “Polytechnic Spring” is held, an­ nually.

The University’s sporting achievements are well known. Physical education is pro­ vided for students of all years. There are two physical education buildings with nine specialised sports halls, a swimming pool, skiing facilities, a summer sports ground etc. There are also University sports and recreation centres on the Black Sea coast, where students can spend their summer vacations. A recreation centre in the Car­ pathian mountains caters for summer recreation, winter sports, skiing and tourism.

The University has a proud record of achievement in teaching and research and in cultural, artistic and sporting activities and it is highly rated by our young people.

Admission to the University is highly competitive. Ukrainian students need to pos­ sess a certificate of secondary education and they have to sit an entrance examination and achieve high marks in order to be admitted. The students come from all over Ukraine and there are also international students from many parts of the world.

A survey by the Canadian Association of Engineers has rated Lviv Polytechnic University among the 20 most authoritative universities of its kind in the world. We pride ourselves in being at the forefront of educational innovation in Ukraine.

Exercise 1. Practice with the text Studying at Lviv Polytechnic University

Listen to the recording o f the text, then practise reading it aloud. Read the text. Di­ vide it into logical sections and provide each section with a suitable sub-heading. Write a summary of the text in approximately 300 words.

Give an oral summary of the text.

Exercise 2.

Complete the following texts, adding ideas of your own:

1.The University provides the requisite teaching, research and recreation facilities for its daytime and distance learning students, postgraduates, lecturers and other staff. There are numerous spacious lecture theatres, laboratories, study rooms with up to date equipment, a computer centre, design studios ...

2.It takes four years to complete a course leading to the degree of Bachelor, five years to gain the degree of Engineer and six years to gain the Master’s. Each year of study consists of two semesters, during which students...

Exercise 3.

Re-arrange the following jumbled sentences toform a coherent text:

1.In 1877 it was renamed the Polytechnic College with the status of a higher technical education institution.

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Unit 3

A full medical service is available. The surgery is located in Priory Hall, where ap­ pointments can be made to see the doctor or nurse.

The campus chaplains are fully involved in the life of the campus and serve the community in any way they can.

Counsellors try to help students who have personal difficulties.

The University welcomes students with disabilities. It recognises that education is a right for all who can benefit from it. All parts of the campus are suitable for wheel­ chair access and there is an increasing number of specialist facilities available for dis­ abled people.

The campus offers an enormous range of arts activities. There is always something of interest happening on campus organised by staff or by the Students’ Union. The University has a chamber orchestra and a concert band. Anyone who enjoys singing can join the University choir and there is also a chamber choir for more advanced singers.

Study Opportunities

Each course consists of a specified list of modules from which most of the given programme of studies must be chosen. However, one or two “free-choice” modules are allowed, and these may be selected from any area of study.

Most degree courses are completed in three years, but some take four years to com­ plete. For example, in the case of Modem Languages, students spend the first two years at Coventry University, the third year in the country or countries of their main language studies, and the final year back at Coventry University.

The Associate Student Scheme is an ideal way to sample higher education. This scheme offers the opportunity to study on virtually any full-time or part-time course, taking one or two subjects at a time. Examinations are optional.

The В.A. General Degree offers the most flexible option for those students who do not wish to specialise in any particular subject area but prefer to choose from a wide range of modules in different subject areas.

In the words of the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Dr. Michael Goldstein, “Coventry University is certainly an exciting and rewarding place to be”

Exercise 1. Practice with the text Studying in Coventry

Listen to the recording of the text, then practise reading it aloud.

Read the text. Divide the section on University Support Services into logical sec­ tions and provide each section with a suitable sub-heading.

Write a summary of the text in approximately 300 words.

Give an oral summary of the text.

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Exercise 2.

Complete the following texts, adding ideas of your own:

1.Coventry University offers more than 180 courses, taught by an academic staff of over 600. The diversity of learning opportunities attracts a good mix of students of all ages and nationalities.

2.There are over 1,500 international students from 90 different countries at Coventry University. It is important to bear in mind that all tuition and examinations are carried out in English...

3.Coventry University and the city have much to offer students from across the world. There are excellent facilities here and of course you will be warmly welcomed. Every enrolled student is provided with a range of Student Support Services, such as: Accommodation and Catering Services, medical service, chaplaincy service, disabilities office and support for the performing arts. Each of the above-mentioned services provides the following:

Exercise 3.

Re-arrange the following jumbled sentences to form a coherent text:

1.Such an identity was recognised as a fitting reminder of the way in which the City of Coventry rebuilt itself after the Second World War and as a symbol with which the Polytechnic was proud to be associated.

2.Fabled to be the only one of its kind, it lived for five or six centuries, after which it burned itself to death on a funeral pyre of aromatic twigs ignited by the sun and fanned by its own wings.

3.It rose from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle.

4.In 1987 Coventry Polytechnic took the phoenix as its symbol.

5.It is a symbol with which Coventry University is proud to be associated and to have adopted as its own.

6.The Phoenix was a mythical bird with splendid plumage, reputed to have lived in the Arabian desert.

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In 1920 the Polytechnic College was renamed the Lviv Polytechnic.

In the 1930s the Polytechnic comprised seven faculties - the Faculties of Archi­ tecture, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Land and Marine Transport Engineering, Agriculture and Forestry and General Technology. >

From Polytechnic Institute to University

In August 1939 the fate of Western Ukraine was sealed at the hands of the leaders of two totalitarian states, Stalin and Hitler. As a result of the division of the region into two spheres of interest, Lviv was incorporated into the Soviet Union in September of the same year. In October 1939, teaching began again in the Polytechnic, now renamed Lviv Polytechnic Institute. The invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany in June 1941 interrupted the teaching and research activity at the Institute. Shortly before the out­ break of German-Soviet hostilities, NKVD agents deported many leading academics from Lviv, and subsequently murdered them. In July, the Nazis shot dozens of scholars on the Vuletsky Hills, including Polytechnic professors S.Pilyat, V.Stozek, V.Krukowski, K.Weigel and others. The occupying forces stole or destroyed valuable exhib­ its in the faculty museums, laboratory equipment and library holdings. The buildings of the Institute were also damaged. In 1944, after the Nazis had been driven from Lviv, Lviv Polytechnic was re-opened. The academic staff had to be reconstituted, as dozens of professors had perished and others had emigrated to Poland. There was not a single academically qualified Ukrainian among the teaching staff. Eminent staff from institu­ tions of higher education elsewhere in Ukraine and in Russia expressed the wish to work at Lviv Polytechnic. The departments re-opened and in 1944 the Polytechnic had 438 students. The numbers admitted grew year by year, as in the 1950s industry began to expand rapidly in Lviv and other cities in Western Ukraine, creating a demand for highly qualified engineers.

The Institute was reorganised and the range of subjects offered changed. The former Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry became two independent institutes - the Agricultural Institute and the Institute of Forestry. With the aim of redesigning the academic pro­ grammes in order to educate the experts required by the industrial regions, the Institute opened affiliated colleges in Drohobych, Temopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lutsk. These colleges later became independent institutions of higher technical education.

The buildings and technological infrastructure of the Institute grew. During the twenty years following the end of the war, five teaching and laboratory blocks and thirteen students’ residences were built, as well as a students’ village containing a sports centre, three centres for recreation and sport, a refectory and other services. Staff and students of the Faculties of Civil Engineering and Architecture made a major contribution to the expansion of the Institute. Benefiting from the experience of their predecessors, especially that of the architect Julian Zakharevych, they were able to establish their own planning and construction bureau. They designed the teaching and laboratory blocks, the students’ residences and a block of flats for academic staff, to an improved technical specification and of an aesthetically more pleasing appearance.

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Since 1989 a rapid process of democratisation has been taking place in Western Ukrainian society, especially in Lviv. The Polytechnic Institute was no exception. Here, as in other higher education institutions, strikes by students led to the reform of academic programmes, with the abolition of their ideological basis and the disband­ ment of the controlling communist organisations.

On July 16th 1990, The Ukrainian Supreme Council declared the sovereignty of Ukraine and on August 24th 1991 proclaimed Ukraine an independent democratic state.

Radical reforms have taken place in the Institute. A new constitution has been rati­ fied and a new Rector, Professor Jury Rudavsky, has been democratically elected.

In June 1993, following the recommendations of a multi-disciplinary accreditation commission of the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and a resolution by the Cabinet, Lviv Polytechnic Institute acquired the status of a university, with the title of Lviv State Polytechnic University. This gave it independence and the authority to determine the content of its academic programmes, its organisation and admissions procedures and to introduce new courses, including humanities subjects. The University can cre­ ate new colleges and research institutes of various types and can independently plan and develop applied and pure research, confer academic degrees and titles and other awards.

Integration of Academic Programmes

The University has introduced a system of multi-level training and education. New educational concepts are being applied in the fields of humanities and general educa­ tion. The academic programmes incorporate an integrated system of access courses at technical college and secondary education level as well as a higher education system. It is now possible for students to follow co-ordinated access programmes in the techni­ cal college sector leading to continuation studies in the University at degree level. A modular assessment system has been introduced. The curricula and syllabuses have been thoroughly revised and modernised, following the example of the world’s leading technological universities. New technologies have been introduced into the teaching process, with the installation of modem computers and information networks.

Today, Lviv State Polytechnic University is a modem teaching and research insti­ tution, a centre for engineering education and a leading cultural centre for Western Ukraine. After fifty years of existence under the closed Soviet ideological regime, it is able once again to become an integral member of the European and world-wide aca­ demic community.

The University occupies 27 buildings containing teaching and laboratory accom­ modation and there is also a technology park. In addition, it owns a geodesy research site near Berezhany in Temopil Region and an astronomical observatory at Shatsk in the Volhynia Region. There are 15 halls of residence, including halls for married stu­ dents and their families and for postgraduate students, as well as the “Prosvita” cul­ tural centre, a students’ medical centre, pharmacy, sanatorium and clinic, and a sports

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