The school building occupies the main block of Vilnius Old Town. Adjacent to it are Vilnius Cathedral Square and Gedimino Castle in the city center. Boarded a bird's eye view of the castle, surrounded by the ancient Biles pedestrian street and the ivory presidential palace. The university building is magnificent, which is a unique landscape integrating Gothic, Baroque, Renaissance and classical styles. Deep and narrow ancient courtyards, winding cloisters and arches, exquisite relief art, towering old trees and green lawns … all these create a very warm and romantic artistic conception, which brings people to that ancient era. Things change, generations pursue, famous teachers gather together, and talents come forth in large numbers. For centuries, this highest hall of comprehensive education in humanities and natural sciences has trained thousands of outstanding talents for Lithuania, such as writers, scientists and social activists. Therefore, it is called the cradle of cultivating Lithuanian national elites. Now it is only the university headquarters, where about 1/5 students attend classes, the principal's office and library are also here, and other departments are located in the newly-built modern university town in the suburbs.
school environment
Walking into Vilnius University, you seem to have walked into a beautiful academic park in Zhong Ling. Spring scenery in colleges and universities, jade clouds. No matter in the spring with flowers, in the summer under the shade of trees, in the autumn with golden breeze, or in the dead of winter covered with snow and ice, there is always the sound of books here. Wandering in the quiet campus, you won't think about what vicissitudes it has experienced and how to enter the ranks of the world's higher education army in the footsteps of pioneers.
School history
As early as 1568, the Lithuanian aristocratic parliament passed a resolution to establish the Lithuanian Institute. The Grand Duke of Lithuania approved the resolution. He appointed Catholics and Jesuits to set up Lithuanian institutions of higher learning in 1570. But the above believers are not satisfied with this initiative. At that time, there was also a University of Konigsberg, adjacent to Lithuania. In order to compete with it, Christians decided to upgrade Lithuania's higher education institutions to universities. In this way, Vilnius University was established in 1579 according to the will of the Grand Duke of Lithuania. It was the highest institution of learning in Eastern Europe at that time and enjoyed a high reputation. At first, the university set up two departments: the philosophy department and the theology department. According to the school regulations, students who have graduated from the philosophy department and believe in Catholicism can transfer to the theology department. At that time, the classical language offered by the school was very popular, because Latin could be mastered through this course and other courses could be taken in this language. At the beginning, the school developed steadily. It was not until 164 1 that the university added a law department with two teaching and research sections, namely, civil law and religious law. 1775, opening the medical department.
School teaching
On the original basis, the school has opened some new departments, new specialties and new teaching and research sections. The quality of teaching has improved significantly, and the number of teachers and students has increased rapidly. In the first decade after the war, this school trained more than 3,000 experts, and in the second decade it increased to more than 5,000. In the decades after the war, this school trained more experts than the graduates of the past 365 years combined. The school has more than 6000 students/kloc-0, with 12 departments: Chinese Department, History Department, Economics Department, Physics Department, Chemistry Department, Mathematics and Information Department, Natural Science Department, Medicine Department, Transportation Department, Philosophy Department, Law Department, kaunas Humanities Department and International Relations and Politics College. There is also a preparatory course for foreign students.
The Chinese Department is the largest department in the school and the largest language and cultural center in Lithuania. The department offers Lithuanian and literature, Russian and literature, English, German, French and classical languages. Cultivate talents in language and literature research, editing and publishing, tourism and archives, and college teachers. Many graduates become Lithuanian writers, poets, scholars and educators.
The history department offers four majors: the history major was founded in the early days of the school and is the oldest major in the school; Journalism majors train editors and journalists; The library major is offered in1949; 65438-0968 set up psychology majors, including educational psychology, social psychology, labor psychology and engineering psychology.
The Department of Economics consists of industrial economy, economic cybernetics, trade and finance. The major of industrial economics mainly teaches the comprehensive analysis of social production process, the production basis of various industrial departments, and the scientific organization and management of labor. The major of economic cybernetics mainly teaches operational research and mathematical statistics.
The majors of physics department mainly include radio, spectroscopy, theoretical physics, quantum electrodynamics and astrophysics. The scientific research achievements completed by teachers in this department have been translated into many languages and published all over the world.
The main courses offered by the Department of Chemistry are analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, biochemistry and polymer compound chemistry. The department also cooperates with the medical department to develop drugs for cardiovascular diseases and rheumatism.
In recent years, the reform trend of Lithuanian higher education has also blown into the campus of Vilnius University, and some teaching reform measures adapted to modernization have been introduced one after another. In the past, the teaching plan and syllabus of universities were completely formulated by the Ministry of Education, and schools had no initiative. Now, schools and departments have the right to make necessary adjustments, modifications and supplements according to the latest achievements of scientific and technological development and the actual situation of their own departments, so that students can keep up with the new situation of modern scientific and technological development. Schools are also constantly updating their educational concepts and reforming their educational policies. First of all, pay attention to improving students' comprehensive quality, broaden their professional foundation, change the narrow training methods in the past, optimize the curriculum structure and improve the management system. Reduce students' required courses and class hours, and stimulate students' creative thinking in more vivid ways such as discussion, practice, simulation production and on-site teaching. Secondly, pay full attention to students' personality development, establish an educational concept to promote students' personality development, and make students become conscious learners from passive recipients. Third, strengthen the cultivation of students' ability. The education that focuses on imparting knowledge is changed to pay attention to the cultivation of students' ability while imparting knowledge, forming a new concept and method of ability cultivation. In the past, universities implemented the traditional teaching mode based on the above-mentioned specialized courses.