University of Stellenbosch
Description:
Stellenbosch University is internationally recognized university which is located in the city Stellenbosch, South Africa. Other nearby universities are University of Cape Town and Western Cape University. Microsatellite African designed and manufactured at the University of Stellenbosch first, SUNSAT, released in 1999.Students also nicknamed Maties. Some claim the term arising from your brown rugby colors: a tamatieis Afrikaans translation for tomato. It is more likely to come from the Afrikaans colloquialism Matie (meaning “buddy” or “companion”) originally used by students diminutively University of Cape Town predecessor, the South African University.
History:
The town of Stellenbosch is the second oldest in South Africa. Since 1685, when Dutch Reformed Church founded its second parish here, a beginning was made with regular school instruction. By the 1840s Cape Colony running a public school system centrally controlled. Under this system, Stellenbosch was recognized as a divisional center for education.In 1866 under new act of the local public school education was reorganized as a public school in the first class, also to be known as the Stellenbosch Gymnasium. To help meet demand, the Stellenbosch Gymnasium in 1874, under act of higher education, set up its own professorial division. This, called the art department, may be regarded as the germ of the present faculties of arts and science. It initially consisted of the rector (the Rev.. Charles Anderson) and two teachers, namely teacher. A. MacDonald for the classics and literature and English teacher. G. Gordon for mathematics and physical science.
In 1879 the town of Stellenbosch celebrated its two-hundredth anniversary, in commemoration was resolved to erect a large university and suitable building to contain the art department. The foundation stone of the new building was laid by the administrator, Sir George Cumin Strachan, on December 22, 1880.In 1881 the Arts Department received its charter as a university, and a special act of parliament the state and the constitution of the University of Stellenbosch were conferred upon it.The new building was completed and taken occupation phase.
The formal opening took place on November 6, 1886. In 1887, the jubilee year of the reign of Queen Victoria, Her Majesty consented to the name of the university was changed to Victoria University of Stellenbosch. In 1887 the department of agriculture began with five students. In 1898, although the number of agriculture students had increased to 31, the Agriculture Department was removed from the Victoria College and removed to Elsenburg. Twenty years later there was another reversal of policy, a full faculty of agriculture was established in the new University of Stellenbosch.
The period from 1897 to 1900 was also important because of the construction of the laboratory of physics and Christian Marais Library, made possible by the generosity of the brothers JH and CL Marais. In 1899 the “class matriculation greater than” 44 strong, was transferred from university to school, leaving the Victoria College with 116 fully matriculated students of the “arts”.This led to the separation of the chairs of philosophy and English literature, and Greek and Latin, the establishment of chairs in zoology, botany and history and, shortly thereafter, in applied mathematics as well.When South African Union was founded, the issue of reform of higher education came up for discussion again. Instead of only one university, the government gave the letters to three, and their respective centers in Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Pretoria.
The creation of a university in Stellenbosch was made possible by Mr. January Coetzenburg Marais, to the cause of higher education in Stellenbosch, he had donated the sum of £ 100,000. The University Act, for which the Victoria College became an independent university, with all its privileges and duties, was passed by the parliament of the union in 1916. The number of students enrolled in college in the last year before his promotion to university status was 503. In the same year the faculty numbered 40, 22 of whom were professors and 18 lecturers. The University Act, replacing the Victoria College of Stellenbosch University, went into effect on April 2, 1918. The decades since have seen their student numbers grow from about 500 to about 22 000.
Location:
Stellenbosch is a university town with a population of about 90,000 (excluding students). It is located about 50 kilometers from Cape Town and is situated on the banks of the Eerste Rivier (“First River”) in the famous wine region and is surrounded by picturesque mountains. Teaching at the University of Stellenbosch is divided between the main campus of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg Campus, where the faculty of health sciences is located, the Bellville Park campus, where the graduate school of business, and Saldanha campus, containing the power of military science.
Language:
Stellenbosch University is a predominantly Afrikaans university media, especially on the student and enrolled in honors level. However, it allows students to write their assignments, tests and examinations in both English and Afrikaans. The language of the fee also varies depending on the faculty, the faculty of arts such as English being 40%, most if not all courses are given a lecture bilingually and the language of most of the brochures or material required is determined by the student.
At the graduate level the language of the fee is determined by the composition of the class. Lead to the most advanced graduate courses in English. Under the current language profile of the university, 60% of students indicated Afrikaans as their home language, 32% have English as their home language, while only 1.6% of students have Xhosa as their home language.The politics of language remains an ongoing issue for college, since it is one of the very few tertiary institutions left in South Africa share offer in Afrikaans. Because of this, is held in very high regard by the Afrikaner community, even with the university is considered a central pillar of Afrikaner life. Most other institutions have been English or have changed over time provided an English-only policy.
Facilities:
The university has an extensive library , the JS Gericke Library, which is notable for being underground, at two levels and occupy a surface area equivalent to two media and rugby fields. The library has collections scattered around the campus outside the main facility, and are cataloged in a computerized database, using the original chassis of the university, UNIVAC . There are several other satellite libraries that hold the various faculties, including Library of Theology, Law Library and Tygerberg Medical Library.
Stellenbosch University also has a modern greenhouse, including two concert halls where concerts take place regularly. The larger of the two,Endler Hall, is famous for its excellent acoustics and modern technology of the recording suitable for rapid post-production of live concerts.
The greenhouse is home to the internationally acclaimed Choir of the University of Stellenbosch, which, along with being the oldest South African choir has received numerous awards over the seas and is noted as the finest choir in the country.The university also boasts a fully – fledged 430-seater theater, known as HB Thom Theatre and an outdoor amphitheater. The support of these facilities is typical of the drama department of the university, under the guidance of the faculty of arts and social sciences. The department regularly puts on plays, dramas, productions, cabarets and musicals.
Langenhoven Students Center (Neelsie) contains SRC, a food court, a cinema, a shopping center, office of the board and all student societies. The student bands often known to play during lunchtimes for students and perhaps the famous band to play as there was then possible Saron Gas in 2000 and 2001, now known as Seether.The university has its own radio station known as MFM (Matie FM), which broadcasts on 92.6 FM in Stellenbosch whole. The Universtity also has two publications that come out every fortnight, Matie Since Kampus for your students and your staff.