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Revision as of 16:52, 4 July 2016
Foundation of the Faculty of Arts
A distinct Faculty of Arts was established in 1708, as the Regenting system was phased out. The original Chairs within it were:
18th-Century Chairs
In the course of the 18th century the following Chairs were added:
- Universal Civil History and Antiquities (1719)
- Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1762)
- Practical Astronomy (1786)
- Agriculture (1790)
19th-Century Chairs
The 19th century saw the institution of the following Chairs:
- Music (1839)
- Technology (1855; abolished 1859)
- Sanskrit (1862)
- Engineering (1868)
- Political Economy (1871)
- Geology (1871)
- Education (1876)
- Fine Art (1880)
- Celtic (1882)
- History (1893)
When the Faculty of Science was created in 1893, the Chairs of Astronomy (previously Practical Astronomy), Engineering, and Geology were transferred to it.
20th-Century Chair
Many new Arts chairs were created in the 20th century though others were transferred to the Faculties of Science and Social Sciences.
- 1901 – Scottish History and Palaeography
- 1918 – French
- 1919 – Accounting
- 1919 – German
- 1922 – Natural Philosophy
- 1925 – Archaeology
- 1925 – Organisation of Industry and Commerce
- 1931 – Geography
- 1931 – Psychology
- 1947 – English Language
- 1948 – Architecture
- 1951 – French Literature
- 1954 – Medieval History
- 1954 - Modern History
- 1956 – Economic History
- 1962 – Hispanic Studies
- 1962 – Italian
- 1963 – Commonwealth and American History
- 1963 – Russian
- 1965 – Masson Chair of English Literature
- 1965 – Saintsbury Chair of English Literature
- 1964 – General Linguistics
- 1964 – Arabic
- 1964 – Philosophy
- 1966 – Richard Lodge Chair of History
- 1970 - Applied Linguistics
- 1970 – Richard Pares Chair of History
- 1987 - Classics
- 1990 – Chinese
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 four Schools of the newly founded College of Humanities and Social Science: