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University, College or Faculty?
How do you call the place where you spend time learning specific skills as well as about the person you are and who you want to become, attend lectures, hand in projects, meet the best and weirdest people ever and even there’s time to party and socialize but work hard at the same time?
Why don’t you take a look and decide by yourself.
A UNIVERSITY, is an institution of higher education which is more involved in research. It’s usually larger and often contains multiple colleges within it. Besides it provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education (bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and doctorate degrees). The head of the university is the rector.
COLLEGE, is a part of the university which is focused on undergraduate education (college of engineering: degrees in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical engineering etc.) Community colleges can offer trade and technical certifications and training as well. There are 2 or 4- year-programs but they are unable to grant bachelor’s degrees.
The term FACULTY is used to refer to the academic and administrative staff of a university: professors, lecturers, and/or researchers. You can use this word to address the different divisions or branches of learning at a college or university: the faculty of law.
It’s important to mention that sometimes people use the terms University and college interchangeably. The difference is the level of degree that they can award. Colleges typically award Bachelor’s Degrees and Universities can offer Master’s and Doctorate Degrees.
No matter the university or college you are studying at, just remember that learning does not stop. Graduating it’s simply the close of one chapter that marks the beginning to the rest of the book of your life.

By: Teacher Sergio Vijosa Muñoz

Where does… come from?

ENTERTAINMENT…

HOTEL
The word hotel is derived from the french hotel (coming from hôte meaning host), which referred to a French version of a townhouse or any other building seeing frequent visitors, rather than a place offering accommodation. In contemporary French usage, hôtel now has the same meaning as the English term, and hotel particular is used for the old meaning. The French spelling, with the circumflex, was also used in English, but is now rare. The circumflex replaces the 's' found in the earlier hostel spelling, which over time took on a new, but closely related meaning.

THEATER OR THEATRE (BRITISH)

The word theater means a "place for seeing." The two most common types of theatre plays are comedy and tragedy, symbolized by the theatre masks. The first recorded theatrical event was a performance of the sacred plays of the myth osiris and isis in 2500 BC in egipt This story of the god Osiris was performed annually at festivals throughout the civilization, marking the beginning of a long relationship between theatre and religion.

DRAMA

Drama (literally translated as action, from a verbal root meaning "To do") is the branch of theatre in which speech, either from written text (plays), or improvised is paramount. And the companion word drama is also Greek, dran meaning to do.

COMEDY

The word "comedy" is derived from the Classical Greek κωμῳδία kōmōidía, which is a compound either of κῶμος kômos (revel) or κώμη kṓmē (village) and ᾠδή ōidḗ (singing); it is possible that κῶμος itself is derived from κώμη, and originally meant a village revel. The adjective "comic" (Greek κωμικός kōmikós), which strictly means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage, generally confined to the sense of "laughter-provoking".Of this, the word came into modern usage through the Latin comoedia and Italian commedia and has, over time, passed through various shades of meaning.

CINEMA

Ciné (sometimes Cine) is usually used to refer to one or more of the home movie formats including 8 mm , 9.5 mm , 16 mm film , and Super 8 . It is not generally used to refer to video formats or professional formats (such as 35mm or 70mm film).
Cine film literally means 'moving' film; deriving from the Greek 'kine' for motion; it also has roots in the Anglo-French word Cinematograph, meaning moving picture.