Catholic University of Pernambuco

Catholic University of Pernambuco
Universidade Católica de Pernambuco

Coat of arms of the university
Other name
 Unicap
Motto Veritati et vitae
Motto in English
 Truth and Life
Type Private, non-profit
Established March 31, 1943 (March 31, 1943)[1]
Affiliation Roman Catholic, Jesuit
Chancellor Dom Pedro Rubens Ferreira Oliveira
Rector Aline Maria Grego
Vice rector Luciano José Pinheiro Barros
Academic staff
 249[2]
Students 15,000[2]
Undergraduates 14,309[2]
Postgraduates 691[2]
Location Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Campus Urban
Colors Grey and White          
Sports Athletics, basketball, indoor soccer, handball, judo, karate, swimming, water polo, tennis, shoes table, volleyball, and chess
Website www.unicap.br

The Catholic University of Pernambuco (Portuguese: Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Unicap) in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, is a Catholic University run by the Society of Jesus.

History

Unicap was founded on September 27, 1951, and recognized by the Federal Government (Decree 30,417) on January 18, 1952. It grew out of the first Catholic school in the region, Manoel da Nóbrega College of Philosophy, Sciences, and Letters, founded by the Jesuits of the northeast region in 1943. In its development, the University faced incorporation and aggregation or creation of Colleges, Institutes, or Schools, to implement in 1974 the university reform law, adopting the model homogeneous ternary Rectory, Centres, and Departments. Unicap today includes an educational complex with 15,000 students from first-degree courses to graduate school. Some 50,000 have graduated.[3]

The Central Library, named for Aloísio M. de Carvalho, SJ, has 15,000 registered users, 400,000 visits per year, and more than 700,000 loans, with on average of 3,500 readers per day.[4] Its 450,000 volumes are indexed on internet.[5]

Programs

In 2010, in its first evaluation by the Ministry of Education, Unicap received a 4 out of 5. Singled out for commendation were "The policy for teaching undergraduate and postgraduate, research, extension," the policy of incentives for graduates (with the payment of grants and agreements for internships), the approval of the trained law course in the examination of the Bar Association of Brazil (more than 60%), 33 Unicap research groups registered with the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), and the program of scholarships for teachers and employees.[6]

Unicap’s Student Exchange Program offers one or two semesters in an IES exchange program at the national or international level. This is encouraged by the Association of Universities entrusted to the Society of Jesus in Latin America (AUSJAL), for a beneficial integration of students from Latin American Jesuit higher education institutions. Unicap also receives foreign IES students in exchange.[7]

Courses

People during a test in Unicap.
Students in the Campus of Bela Vista.
Professions
Course Campus
Law Boa Vista
Philosophy Boa Vista
History Boa Vista
Geography Boa Vista
Pedagogy Boa Vista
Social service Boa Vista
Theology Boa Vista
Social communication Boa Vista
Letters Boa Vista
Executive secretary Boa Vista
Occupational therapy Boa Vista
Chemical engineering Boa Vista
Business administration Boa Vista
Biological sciences Boa Vista
Accounting Boa Vista
Economics Boa Vista
Physical education Boa Vista
Speech therapy Boa Vista
Civil engineering Boa Vista
Environmental engineering Boa Vista
Physiotherapy Boa Vista
Mathematics Boa Vista
Computers Boa Vista
Tourism Boa Vista
Architecture Boa Vista
Computer Science Boa Vista
Medicine Boa Vista

Culture collection

Universidade Católica de Pernambuco maintains a microbial culture collection whose strains are qualified using the UCP epithet (for instance Cunninghamella elegans UCP 542).

References

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