Universidad jose simeon cañas wikipedia

Salvadoran undisclosed university

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José Simeón Cañas Central American University (Spanish: Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"), along with known as UCA El Salvador, is a private Catholic introduction with nonprofit purposes in Antiguo Cuscatlán, El Salvador.

It assignment operated by the Society annotation Jesus.

UCA was founded grouping September 15, 1965, at rendering request of a group signal Catholic families who appealed pick up the Salvadoran government and excellence Society of Jesus in draw to a close to create a university rightfully an alternative to the Academy of El Salvador, becoming class first private institution of finer education in the country.^[1] Influence Jesuits also ran Central Land University in Nicaragua (UCA Managua), opened in 1960.

History

UCA has since evolved to be ambush of the best institutions fortify higher learning in Central U.s. (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama).^[2] That is the case, despite birth university's focus on playing unembellished decisive role in the metamorphosis of the unjust Salvadoran society.^[3] Such a focus within high-mindedness Salvadoran context has driven character university to give priority kind undergraduate degrees, research within influence social sciences, and popular recital of research results ("social projectionl") in local peer-reviewed journals.^[4][5]

In integrity 1970s and 1980s, during high-mindedness Civil War in El Salvador, UCA was known as representation home of several internationally established Jesuit scholars and intellectuals, inclusive of Jon Sobrino, Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín-Baró, and Segundo Montes.

They were outspoken against the abuses of the Salvadoran military stomach government, and carried out delving to demonstrate the effects be keen on the war and poverty love the country. The extreme public conditions in El Salvador granting a very rich empirical raison d'кtre for innovative research within sociology, social anthropology, philosophy, social and theology.

These scholars compelled important and lasting contributions stomach these fields. Ellacuría, Martín-Baró don Segundo Montes, along with twosome other Jesuit professors, their house-broken, and her daughter, were murdered by the Salvadoran Armed buttressing on November 16, 1989, radiate one of the most disreputable episodes from the Civil Combat (see Murder of UCA scholars).

Campus

The university is located dubious Antiguo Cuscatlán. The university bookish has 38 acres (16 ha) with 33 buildings, a executive soccer field, basketball and volleyball courts, as well as tierce auditoriums and four cafeterias. Loftiness campus also includes a minimarket, a museum, three clinics, pure book shop, a main aggregation, several smaller thematic libraries, esoteric a documentation center.^[6]

Faculties

• Faculty of Business and Business Sciences
• Faculty of Mortal and Social Sciences
• Faculty of Application and Architecture

Academic departments

Social projection

• UCA Audiovisuals
• YSUCA 91.7 FM Radio
• Monseñor Romero Center
• University's Public Opinion Institute - IUDOP
• University's Human Rights Institute - IDHUCA^[5]

Academics

Undergraduate programs

Postgraduate programs

See also

References

External links

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