The School Of Oriental And African Studies, University Of London

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런던대학교의 17개 칼리지 가운데 하나로, 1916년 당시 해외 식민지를 경영하던 영국이 '동양학학교(School of Oriental Studies)'로 설립하였다. 1938년 아프리카학과를 신설하였고, 이후 아시아와 아프리카 각 지역의 언어·역사·정치·종교·문화·경제 등에 대한 수준 높은 연구대학으로 발전하였다. 1941년 현재의 자리로 이전하였고, 1946년 스카보로논문(Scarborough Report), 1961년 헤이터논문(Hayter Report) 등 아시아·아프리카, 사회과학에 대한 수준 높은 연구실적이 발표되는 등 질적인 발전도 이루어졌다.


2004년 영국의 《타임스》가 선정한 세계 대학순위 44위, 《가디언》이 선정한 영국 대학 4위, 《선데이 타임스》가 선정한 영국 대학 5위에 선정되었다.

영국에서 유일하게 아시아·아프리카·중동학을 전문으로 하는 대학으로, 예술·인문학부, 언어문화학부, 법학 및 사회과학 학부에 16개 학과, 3개 프로그램이 있다. 한 국가를 대상으로 한 학과는 중국학과와 일본·한국학과뿐이며, 전공과정은 200개에 이른다. 외국인 학생을 위한 대학·대학원 예비과정인 파운데이션 코스와 영어과정 등도 개설되어 있다. 학기는 수업 위주의 1, 2학기와 시험을 치는 3학기, 학기 중 부족한 공부를 보충할 수 있는 '리딩위크(reading week)'로 이루어진다.

메인 캠퍼스는 런던 시내 브룸베리의 러셀광장에 있으며, 2002년 이즐링턴(Islington)에 있는 버논광장에 제2캠퍼스를 열었다. 1973년 확충한 도서관은 아시아, 아프리카 지역에 관한 영국 국립도서관인데, 세계 4, 000여 개 언어로 씌어진 100만 권의 장서를 보유하고 있다.

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About SOAS
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) is a college of the University of London and the only Higher Education institution in the UK specialising in the study of Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle East.

SOAS is a remarkable institution. Uniquely combining language scholarship, disciplinary expertise and regional focus, it has the largest concentration in Europe of academic staff concerned with Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

On the one hand, this means that SOAS remains a guardian of specialised knowledge in languages and periods and regions not available anywhere else in the UK. On the other hand, it means that SOAS scholars grapple with pressing issues - democracy, development, human rights, identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, social change - confronting two-thirds of humankind.

This makes SOAS synonymous with intellectual enquiry and achievement. It is a global academic base and a crucial resource for London. We live in a world of shrinking borders and of economic and technological simultaneity. Yet it is also a world in which difference and regionalism present themselves acutely. It is a world that SOAS is distinctively positioned to analyse, understand and explain.

Our academic focus on the languages, cultures and societies of Africa, Asia and the Middle East makes us an indispensable interpreter in a complex world.

SOAS at a glance:
SOAS is above the national average for student satisfaction at 85% (National Student Survey 2010)
SOAS has more than 5, 400 students from more than 130 countries.
Over 50% of students are from countries outside the UK
There is a roughly equal split between undergraduates (55% ) and postgraduates (45% )
24% of undergraduates are over 21 when they start their course
More than 400 degree combinations are available in social sciences, arts, humanities and languages, all with a distinctive regional focus
SOAS offers an unparalleled range of non-European languages, all of which may be studied without prior knowledge
More than a quarter of our degree programmes offer the opportunity to spend a year studying in another country
SOAS has the largest concentration of specialist staff (350 + academics) concerned with the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East at any university in the world
Small group teaching remains an important feature of study at SOAS – our student-staff ratio (11: 1) is one of the best in the UK
SOAS has over 100 postgraduate programmes (taught and distance learning) in the social sciences, humanities and languages with a distinctive regional focus and global relevance
According to the latest Research Assessment Exercise, SOAS is the national leader in the study of Asia, and is in the top 10 in most other subjects
The SOAS Library is one of the UK's five National Research Libraries. It houses more than 1. 5 million items and extensive electronic resources for the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and attracts scholars from all over the world

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The School Of Oriental And African Studies, University Of London is located at Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square,, WC1H 0XG London, United Kingdom
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