Difference between revisions of "Faculty of Arts"

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Following [[Reconstitution of Faculties into Colleges, 2002|restructuring]] in 2002, the university's nine Faculties were reconstituted as three Colleges, while Departments were reorganised and replaced by Schools. The Departments previously contained within the Faculty of Arts were incorporated in three Schools of the newly founded [[College of Humanities and Social Science]]:
 
Following [[Reconstitution of Faculties into Colleges, 2002|restructuring]] in 2002, the university's nine Faculties were reconstituted as three Colleges, while Departments were reorganised and replaced by Schools. The Departments previously contained within the Faculty of Arts were incorporated in three Schools of the newly founded [[College of Humanities and Social Science]]:
  
*[[History, Classics and Archaeology]]
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*[[School of Arts, Culture and Environment|Arts, Culture and Environment]]
*[[Literatures, Languages and Cultures]]
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*[[School of History, Classics and Archaeology|History, Classics and Archaeology]]
*[[Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences]]  
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*[[School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures|Literatures, Languages and Cultures]]
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*[[School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences|Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences]]  
  
 
[[Category:Academic Administration]] [[Category:Incomplete]]
 
[[Category:Academic Administration]] [[Category:Incomplete]]

Revision as of 11:47, 5 December 2014

Although it can be said that the it dates back to the very start of the University, a distinct Faculty of Arts was established in 1708, as the Regenting system was phased out. The original Chairs within it were: Mathematics, Humanity, Greek, Logic and Metaphysics, Moral Philosophy and Natural Philosophy. To those were added Universal Civil History and Antiquities (1719), Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1762), Practical Astronomy (1786), Agriculture (1790), Music (1839), Technology (1855), Sanskrit (1862), Engineering (1868), Geology, Education, Fine Art and Celtic.

Following restructuring in 2002, the university's nine Faculties were reconstituted as three Colleges, while Departments were reorganised and replaced by Schools. The Departments previously contained within the Faculty of Arts were incorporated in three Schools of the newly founded College of Humanities and Social Science: