DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY OF EDUCATION

Central Laboratory of the Agroecology

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTRE

FOREIGN LANGUAGES TEACHING CENTRE
 

ul. Poniatowskiego 1, 20-060 Lublin, Poland

tel./fax (+ 48 81) 531 83 19
e-mail: spnjo@up.lublin.pl
http://www.jezyki.up.lublin.pl/english 

Head: Grazyna Roguska, M.A.

The Foreign Languages Teaching Centre of the University of Life Sciences in Lublin (FLTC) provides language courses for the university undergraduate and postgraduate students.
 

We also offer language courses, coordinated by the Continual Education Centre, preparing for TELC exams. FLTC is an official TELC Certification Centre organizing examination sessions offering a chance of obtaining an international language certificate.

We teach four European languages: English, French, German and Russian.

Veterinary students also attend an obligatory Latin course. At present most faculties provide their full-time students with a course in one chosen foreign language (120 hours) lasting four terms. At some faculties there is also an obligatory course of a second foreign language (60 hours).

Part- time (extramural) students also have foreign language courses in their syllabus – their length differs depending on the programme of studies at a particular faculty.

Each obligatory language course at our university involves a module (10-30 hours depending on the level of a course) of language for specific purposes including the specialist language of a given field of study.

We aim at providing our students with efficient foreign language skills to help them build successful careers in the future.

While teaching foreign languages we also make an effort to enhance interpersonal skills in our students and raise their intercultural awareness: these qualities being key concepts on the international labour market nowadays.

FLTC is a member of the Association of Academic Foreign Languages Teaching Centres SERMO.

The Foreign Languages Teaching Centre of the University of Life Sciences in Lublin (FLTC) provides language courses for the university undergraduate and postgraduate students.

We also offer language courses, coordinated by the Continual Education Centre, preparing for TELC exams. FLTC is an official TELC Certification Centre organizing examination sessions offering a chance of obtaining an international language certificate.

We teach four European languages: English, French, German and Russian.

Veterinary students also attend an obligatory Latin course. At present most faculties provide their full-time students with a course in one chosen foreign language (120 hours) lasting four terms. At some faculties there is also an obligatory course of a second foreign language (60 hours).

Part- time (extramural) students also have foreign language courses in their syllabus – their length differs depending on the programme of studies at a particular faculty.

Each obligatory language course at our university involves a module (10-30 hours depending on the level of a course) of language for specific purposes including the specialist language of a given field of study.

We aim at providing our students with efficient foreign language skills to help them build successful careers in the future.

While teaching foreign languages we also make an effort to enhance interpersonal skills in our students and raise their intercultural awareness: these qualities being key concepts on the international labour market nowadays.

FLTC is a member of the Association of Academic Foreign Languages Teaching Centres SERMO.

DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY OF EDUCATION
Lublin 28 Głęboka Street, tel. +48 81 445-61-00
Head: Ryszard Siwiło, D.Sc.

The Department of Technology of Education conducts didactic research, training and other services. The Department includes the Laboratory of Scientific-Teaching Aids.

The workers supervise and maintain teaching aids; they prepare plastic models, provide services in arts, film, photography and audio-visual aids, they also prepare scientific and didactic posters, announcements, decorations for the University and Faculty celebrations, transparencies; they prepare graduation, doctoral and habilitation diplomas and identity cards.

The Department prepares slides, pictures and both colour and black and white photos. All the important University celebrations are documented by the photographers. The Department has SVHS video cameras and video cassette recorders, amateur ones but of fairly good quality. The filmed chronicle continued by the Department for 35 years is a mine of information about the Agricultural University. The film archives gather the materials about the most important events and people; these are film fragments of the life of our University and historic documentation.
 

Central Laboratory of the Agroecology

Lublin, 13 Akademicka Street, tel. +48 81 445-66-57
Head: Radosław Kowalski, D.Sc.

The Laboratory began its activity on 29 January,1970. The laboratory uses typical, serial production equipment to conduct good quality chemical analyses of the components of soil, plants and animal products.

At present, the Laboratory employs 13 members of technical-research and technical staff and 1 research-didactic worker. The Workshop of Environmental Studies provides limited services, dealing mainly with marking harmful chemical substances encountered within the University posts.

The Central Apparatus Laboratory gives methodological advice and provides a variety of consultations on preparing samples for analyses and on analytic procedures. The Laboratory workshops are also used for classes conducted for the students of Food Technology and Human Nutrition, Veterinary Medicine, Biology and Animal Breeding as well as the students of Biology and Soil Sciences at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University.

The work of the Laboratory includes the following:

• gathering more valuable equipment and providing analyses and measurements to all the organisational units of the University as well as to other research centres in Lublin;

• conducting their own studies on the improvement of instrumental methods of chemical analysis, popularizing such methods and training the specialists of instrumental laboratory techniques.
   

20-950 Lublin, Akademicka 15 
tel. + 48 81) 445-65-34,  445-66-47,  445-65-14, 445-65-32
fax: (+ 48 81) 445-65-42
e-mail: osrodek.informatyki@up.lublin.pl

The activities of the Information Technology Centre concentrate on the following areas:
 

• assurance of proper functioning of  the local computer network, e.g. the establishment, upgrade, modernization, administration of the University network LAN/WAN, current repairs and maintenance assuring a safe Internet access   

• administration and programming data bases and data base applications for scientific, didactic purposes and requirements of  the University organizational units               

•  University WWW and BIP supervision, hardware and software administration               

• Administration and co-ordination of University organizational units’ servers and websites               

• creating, implementation and use of Information Technology systems, University administration IT infrastructures, the dean system “Modern University”, upgrade and modernization of the personnel and salary system TETA, development of the finances and accountancy system SIMPLE, implementation and maintenance of home banking applications (including PKI), security and maintenance of co-operation with GUS reporting portal                

• administration and service of various servers and network operating systems (MS Windows, Unix/Linux)               

• maintenance of proper functioning of desktop user systems (help-desk, software and hardware service)               

• preparation of technological specifications for IT auctions and auction committee attendance for planned IT hardware and software purchases                  

• Co-ordination of hardware and software purchases in all University organizational units in various auction modes               

• active and advisory assistance in hardware and software purchases and installation               

• servicing of open IT laboratory and consulting services for employees, students and department laboratories        

• safety policy implementation based on AD Microsoft              

• development and maintenance of electronic mail corporation system               

• technical service and development of didactic IT laboratories              

• management of IT courses for personnel under the assigned licensed programme agreement Microsoft Academic Alliance (MSDN AA)               

• Improving of University IT systems including the technical analysis of effectiveness, use and quality                

• training courses in developed IT systems 

• preparation of materials and documentation including the creation and development of IT systems   

• constant supervision over implementation and maintenance of teleinformation systems 

• IT infrastructure service under SELS (Students Identity Card System) 

• co-operation with external companies in implementation of various applications necessary for effective and proper functioning of the University (IT students enrolment system, dean’s offices, scholarships and structural wiring installation
   
• Designing and implementation of IT safety policy in accordance with PN-ISO/IEC 17799:2003 

•  IT support of University didactic processes 

• technical co-operation in obtaining UE funds as a long-term framework programme “University IT Implementation Strategy” 

• IT servicing of electronic teaching quality assessment system 

• co-organisation and co-ordination of teleinformation conferences and workshops
   

• conducting of Microsoft IT Academy - continuous education model directed at constant improvement and development of the personnel’s and students’ IT skills 

• assurance of reliable teleinformation infrastructure functioning – the students’ computer network in UP dormitories   

• IT safety maintenance of UP archives management system 

•  implementation and maintenance of service quality policy in accordance with ISO 9001:2000 requirements

The Information Technology Centre is currently headed by Rafał Magdziak, Ph. D.

       

Joker and Hosting servers, which use Linux as the operating system, are available for UP employees and students.            

The present-day activities of the Information Technology Centre do not only concentrate on computers and software but also include numerous technologies, tools and devices which enable the use of computers in different University domains. 

The rapid development of the Internet and local networks necessitates the interaction of various types of software installed on different computers connected in the network.

The UP local computer network (LAN), despite the fact that University offices are located in different parts of Lublin, is being migrated to 1Gbps throughput.             

The permanently growing number of physical and virtual servers in the Information Technology Centre enables the distribution of key applications efficiency on individual devices, which guarantees the reliability and security of working computer systems and minimizes possible failure consequences.