Difference between revisions of "Faculty of Social Sciences"

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Following university restructuring in 2002, the Faculty of Social Sciences was dissolved, and its constituent Departments became five Schools within the College of Humanities and Social Science:
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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 Social Sciences were incorporated in five Schools of the newly founded [[College of Humanities and Social Science]]:
  
 
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Revision as of 11:49, 5 December 2014

Edinburgh University's Faculty of Social Sciences was founded in 1963. It absorbed eight Chairs that had previously existed within the Faculty of Arts, and led to the creation of several new Chairs:

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 Social Sciences were incorporated in five Schools of the newly founded College of Humanities and Social Science:

Sources

  • Robert D. Anderson, 'The Construction of a Modern University', in Robert D. Anderson, Michael Lynch, and Nicholas Phillipson, The University of Edinburgh: An Illustrated History (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003), pp. 103-207.
  • University of Edinburgh, The Edinburgh University Calendar (Edinburgh: The University, 1858-2004)
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