Yale University is a private university located in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. It was founded in 170 1 and was originally named "Collegiate School". Yale University is the third university established in American history, and now it is a member of the Ivy League.
In 2006, Yale University ranked fourth in the world in the world in the Higher Education Supplement of The Times. In 2006, Princeton Review ranked Yale University as the second most difficult university in the United States. Yale University is famous for its humanities, arts, history and law. Yale's science and engineering is relatively weak in the top universities in the United States.
In 2006, the Times Higher Education Supplement ranked Yale University fourth in the world on average. In 2006, Princeton Review ranked Yale University as the most difficult university in the United States. Yale is most famous for its humanities, art, history and law. Yale is a first-class science and engineering school in the United States, which is relatively weak.
Yale University's industry includes donations of $654.38+052 billion (the second university institution in the world), and more than 10 libraries have more than 654.38+0654.38+0 million books. Yale has about 3,200 faculty, 5,200 undergraduates and more than 6,000 graduate students. Apart from Harvard University, Yale University has the largest number of Roche scholarships.
Yale University has a donation of15.2 billion dollars in various industries (the second academic institution in the world), and has more than 10 libraries with a collection of more than110 million volumes. Yale has about 3,200 faculty members, 5,200 undergraduates and more than 6,000 graduate students. Apart from Harvard University, Yale University is the university with the largest number of Roche Scholarships.
Yale University regards undergraduate education as the core of the university. This kind of attention is rare in similar universities in the United States. Yale College (the undergraduate department of Yale University) has 70 majors focusing on general education, and only a few undergraduate departments focus on professional preparation. Even the engineering department of Yale University encourages and requires students to explore and study fields outside the engineering discipline. About 20% of students in Yale College major in natural science, 35% in social science and 45% in humanities and arts. Yale University requires all professors to teach undergraduate courses. The study plan (or blue book) of Yale University has more than 2,000 courses to choose from every year.
Yale University focuses on undergraduate education. It is rare to pay such attention to similar universities in the United States. The 70 majors of Yale College mainly focus on general education, and only a few undergraduate teachers focus on professional preparation. Even the engineering department of Yale University encourages and requires students to explore and study fields other than engineering disciplines. About 20% of the students in Yale College are science professionals, 35% are social science professionals and 45% are humanities and arts professionals. Yale professors are required to teach all undergraduate courses. There are more than 2,000 courses to choose from in each course catalogue of Yale University (Yale Learning Plan or Blue Book).
The English Literature Department of Yale University once belonged to the New Critical Movement. Among them, critics such as robert penn warren, Wemsart and Klein Brooks are all professors at Yale University. After the New Criticism Movement, Yale Literature Department became the center of American deconstruction. At that time, the French Department and the Comparative Literature Department around Paul de Man were supported by the English Department. This is the later "Yale School". The history department of Yale University also leads an important academic trend. Historian C. Vann Woodward is famous as an important southern historian in the1960s. Similarly, the famous labor historian David Montgomery has trained many contemporary labor historians. The most striking thing is that from 1960s to 1980s, a large number of very active Latin American historians studied at Yale.
The English and Literature Department of Yale University has always been critical of the new school movement. Critics including robert penn warren, WK Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks are all professors of Yale University. After the New Criticism Movement, Yale became the center of deconstruction ideology in American literature. At that time, the French Literature Department and the Comparative Literature Department in Paul de Man were supported by the English Department. Since then, this school has been called "Yale School". The history department of Yale University has also led an important academic trend. Historian C. Wan Woodward is 1960s, an important and famous southern historian; Similarly, David Montgomery, a famous labor historian, has cultivated the labor force in many contemporary historians. The most concerned is a large number of very active latin american history scientists who studied under Emilia Viotta da Costa in Yale University from1960s to1980s.
Yale University Library is the second largest university library in the world, with a collection of 1 1 10,000 volumes. It is located in 22 buildings, including the largest Sterling Memorial Library, Benec Rare Book Library and Law School Library. The school also set up a library in the suburbs of New Haven to collect books that have not been used for a long time.
Stirling Memorial Library is located in the center of the school, with a collection of 4 million volumes, which is the center of the library system of Yale University. As for ancient books, the earliest Gutenberg Bible has been found in the collection of Benec Library so far. Most library books use the catalogue of the Library of Congress, and some early collections still use Yale law catalogue. All the collections are registered in the Orbis catalogue (Morris catalogue is used in another collection system of the Law School) and the interlibrary loan agreements of major American libraries, and individual universities and libraries have implemented the next-day delivery service, so that professors and students can get the information they need quickly. In addition to many facilities in the school, such as Eli Express service connection, students can choose to borrow and return books from the library. These services are free for undergraduates and professors.
Yale University is famous for its beautiful campus environment. And some modern buildings are often used as models in the history of architecture in textbooks, including the Yale University Art Museum designed by Louis Kahn and the British Art Center of Yale University. Ingels skating rink, Ezra stiles College and Morse College designed by Eero Saarinen; There are also art buildings designed by paul rudolph.
The ancient buildings in Yale are mostly in Gothic style, mostly built in the period of1917-1931. A large number of reliefs show the university life at that time: writers, athletes, celebrities drinking tea, students dozing off while studying, and so on. The sculpture of Yale Law School Building (officially named Sterling Law Building) also shows some contemporary scenes, including the police chasing robbers and arresting prostitutes. In order to make the building look old, the architect James Gamble Rogers used acid splashing on the stone wall, deliberately broke the glass, repaired it by medieval methods, and artificially added many empty decorative niches, as if the sculpture had been lost for a long time. Although the buildings in the central campus of Yale University are mostly medieval buildings with large stones, in fact, most of them use the universal steel frame of 1930, with the exception of Haqqnista, which is 2 16 feet high. At the time of construction, it was once the tallest all-stone building in the world. The tower was reinforced at 1964 to install the Yale Memorial Clock in it, with a total of 54 openings. Today, the clock is played by the special student group of Yale University at 6:5438+02:30 and 5: 00 every afternoon, and the selected music ranges from the classical group Zhong Le to the Beatles. & lt/P & lt； p & gt