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Charles University is an accredited public university, it is an autonomous scientific and educational establishment. The Rector is the head of Charles University; the Academic Senate is the supreme self-regulating academic body. Other organs: the Academic Council and bursar, the Board of Directors, responsible for the implementation of public interest in Charles University's policies. The Senate consisting of the prorectors, the bursar and the chancellor make up the advisory body of the rector. The deans are heads of faculties which are independent to a large extent; other parts of Charles University are managed by their directors. history of the university Charles IV., a Czech and Roman king, founded Prague University by a deed of foundation on April 7, 1348 as the first university (studium generale) north of the Alps and east of Paris. Charles University belongs among the oldest European universities. It followed the example of the Bolognese and Parisian universities and in a short time became internationally renowned. The original university consisted of four faculties: the Faculties of Theology, Arts, Law, and Medicine. Not only Czechs but also many foreign teachers and students were members of the academic community of the university, particularly those from Central European areas for whom the university in Prague became an accessible and erudite university of studium generale. Charles IV.’s son and successor, Wenceslas IV., extended his influence on the university and in 1409 strengthened the position of the native members of the academic community with the Kutná Hora Decree. The territorial character of the Prague studium generale was emphasized by the protest departure of a number of scholars from the University. Shortly afterwards the University was influenced by the Hussite movement, which preceded the European Reformation, and changed the University’s character. The university rector, Jan Hus, became very influential at the university. In the following social and political revolution the University was reduced to one faculty – the Faculty of Arts. At the beginning of the 17 th century the University was influenced profoundly by provincial political estates which were involved in the anti-Habsburg opposition whose political representatives stirred up a conflict at the beginning of the first European war (the Thirty Year War from 1618 to 1648). Their defeat caused a radical change at the university. The victorious Roman emperor and Czech king Ferdinand III united the Carolinian university with a Jesuit university in the Klementinum (whose beginnings go back to 1556) into a university with a new name, Charles-Ferdinand University (the name survived until 1918). This university re-established all four Faculties which had existed before the Hussite movement and began growing from a free corporation of intellectuals into a public educational institution. This process was finished with reforms carried out by the absolutist regime of the emperor Joseph II in the 1780s. The University started to grow into a modern institution of higher education during the reforms of 1848/49, as it gradually changed into a public institute educating a professional intellectual class. In 1882, during the period of a high national political movement, the Charles-Ferdinand University in Prague was divided into two universities: Czech and German. By the turn of the 20 th century both universities had reached high scientific levels. Professor Albert Einstein worked at the German part of the university. Several excellent personalities who played an important part in the political emancipation process of the state, worked at the Czech part, including Prof. Thomas G. Masaryk, who became the first President of an independent Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. The Charles University – i.e. the Czech university in the independent state – took advantage of its new circumstances to expand scientific research, some of whose results achieved world standards. We should remember in particular the discoveries of Professor Jaroslav Heyrovský in the field of polarography, which brought him a Nobel Prize in 1959. Hitler’s occupation of Czechoslovakia caused terrible disaster and loss. After student demonstrations of 1939 (especially during the funeral of a medical student Jan Opletal, shot dead by the Nazis), Czech universities were closed on November 17, 1939, followed by the persecution of students and university teachers. Charles University was authorized to resume its activity after World War II. The German University in Prague, which had joined the association of Reich universities in 1939, came to an end at the same time as the Nazi Reich. Free development of activity at Charles University was interrupted after the communist coup in February 1948. For many years the regime subordinated all education and research to ideological and political control, and international relations and the impulses of science at the University were affected. Students loyal to the tradition of liberal principles protested against the totalitarian system on November 17, 1989 and initiated the removal of the regime Aided by international cooperation, modern university life has developed rapidly. Today Charles University continues to develop systematic research cooperation and takes part in both European and international programs. 18 19
Faculty of Arts The Faculty of Arts is one of the original four faculties established in 1348, and currently offers 89 subjects of study run by 46 departments and institutes. Since it gained independence at the beginning of the 19 th century, the Faculty of Arts has been concentrating on its principal concerns — the humanities. As a result it is now one of the largest and most important humanities institutions in the Czech Republic. With almost 8,000 students and 700 members of teaching staff, the Faculty ranks among the largest at the University. It occupies four buildings in the city centre, whose addresses are: J. Palacha Square 2 Main Building, Faculty administration, International Office, Computer Laboratory, Interpreter Laboratory, Self-Access Language Centre, and the majority of departments; Celetná Street 13 and 20 ➸ Adult Education, Archaeology, Cultural Studies, Education, History of Art, Psychology, Sociology, Information and Advisory Centre Hybernská Street 3 ➸ Translation Studies, Ibero-American Studies, Comparative Literature 20 21 ➸ U Kříže 8 (Jinonice, Prague 5) Political Science, Information Science and Social Work ➸
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