Faculty (division)
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Afacultyis a division within auniversityorcollegecomprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate).[1]In North America, academic divisions are sometimes titled colleges, schools, or departments, with universities occasionally using a mixture of terminology, e.g., Harvard University has aFaculty of Arts and Sciencesand aLaw School.
History
[edit]The medievalUniversity of Bologna,which served as a model for most of the later medieval universities in Europe, had four faculties: students began at the Faculty of Arts, graduates from which could then continue at the higher Faculties ofTheology,Law,andMedicine.The privilege to establish these four faculties was usually part of medieval universities' charters, but not every university could do so in practice.
TheFaculty of Artstook its name from the sevenliberal arts:thetrivium[Notes 1](grammar,rhetoric,dialectics) and thequadrivium[Notes 2](arithmetic,music,geometryandastronomy). In German, Scandinavian, Slavic and related universities, it would more often be called theFaculty of Philosophy.[Notes 3]The degree ofMagister Artium(Master of Arts) derives its name from the Faculty of Arts, while the degree ofDoctor Philosophiae(Doctor of Philosophy) derives its name from the Faculty of Philosophy, German name of the same faculty. Whether calledFaculty of ArtsorFaculty of Philosophy,it taught a range of subjects with general and fundamental applicability.
The higherFaculty of LawandFaculty of Medicinewere intended, much like today, for specialized education required for professions. TheFaculty of Theologywas the most prestigious, as well as least common in the first 500 years—and generally one that popes sought most to control. Although also a professional education for clergy, theology (until the Enlightenment) was also seen as the ultimate subject at universities, named "The Queen of the Sciences", and often set the example for the other faculties.
The number of faculties has usually multiplied in modern universities, both through subdivisions of the traditional four faculties and through the absorption of academic disciplines that developed within originally vocational schools, in areas such as engineering or agriculture.
Faculty of Arts
[edit]AFaculty of Artsis a university division teaching in areas traditionally classified as "liberal arts" for academic purposes (fromLatinliberalis,"worthy of a free person", andars,"art or principled practice" ), generally includingcreative arts,writing,philosophy,andhumanities.
A traditional division of the teaching bodies of medievaluniversities(the others beingLaw,MedicineandTheology), the Faculty of Arts was the lowest in rank but also the largest (the higher faculties admitted only Arts graduates).[2]Instead of "Arts", this faculty often had the name "Philosophy".Nowadays this is still a common name for faculties teachinghumanities (e.g.,)Norwegian:Det filosofiske fakultet,Slovene:Filozofska fakulteta).
Faculty of Classics
[edit]AFaculty of Classicsmay be focused on ancient history, culture and ancient literature. The title may refer to the following faculties:
Faculty of Commerce
[edit]Faculty of Commerceexamples include:
- Faculty of Commerce:Banaras Hindu University
- Faculty of Commerce:University of Wollongong
- Faculty of Commerce, Social Welfare & Business Management:University of Calcutta
- Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy:Thammasat University
Faculty of Economics
[edit]Faculty of Economics(Ekonomski fakultetin most South Slavic languages) may refer to, amongst others:
- MSU Faculty of Economics,located in Moscow, Russia
- University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics,located in Belgrade, Serbia
- University of Montenegro Faculty of Economics,located in Podgorica, Montenegro
- Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb,located in Zagreb, Croatia
- University of Osijek Faculty of Economics,located in Osijek, Croatia
- School of Economics and Business Sarajevo,located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- University of Kragujevac Faculty of Economics,located in Kragujevac, Serbia
- Makerere University School of Economics,located in Kampala, Uganda
Faculty of Education
[edit]Faculty of Educationexamples include:
- Faculty of Education, NWU University
- Faculty of Education, McGill University
- Faculty of Education, Queen's University
- Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
- Faculty of Education, University of Colombo
- Faculty of Education, University of London
- Faculty of Education, University of Osijek
- Faculty of Education, University of Strathclyde
- Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario
- Faculty of Education, University of Zagreb
- Faculty of Education, Victoria University of Wellington
Other faculties
[edit]- Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
- Faculty of Education, Law and Social Sciences (Birmingham City University)
Faculty of Engineering
[edit]Faculty of Engineeringexamples include:
- Faculty of Engineering,University of Kragujevac
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing,University of Zagreb
- Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology,Bandung Institute of Technology
- Faculty of SIET Nilokheri
Faculty of Graduate Studies
[edit]The title,Faculty of Graduate Studies,refers not to a specific area of study, but to agraduate school.Examples include:
- Faculty of Graduate Studies,of theUniversity of Colombo
- Faculty of Graduate Studies,of theBrock University
- Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, of theCarleton University
- Faculty of Graduate Studies, of theUniversity of Kelaniya
Faculty of Health
[edit]AFaculty of Healthis a university faculty that can teach a range of disciplines which can includenursingandmidwifery,public health,health services managementandsports science.Examples include:
- Faculty of Health, of theUniversity of Technology Sydney[3]
Faculty of Humanities
[edit]AFaculty of Humanitiesis a university faculty teachinghumanities.
Examples include:
- Faculty of Humanities, University of Mostar,Bosnia and Herzegovina
- AAU Faculty of Humanities,Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
- University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Humanities,Johannesburg, South Africa
- Faculty of Humanities, Kasetsart University,Bangkok, Thailand
Faculty of Information Technology
[edit]AFaculty of Information Technologyis a university faculty teachinginformation technology.
Examples include:
- Faculty of Information Technology,Polytechnic University of Tirana
- Faculty of Information Technology, University Džemal Bijedić of Mostar
- Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague
Faculty of Law
[edit]AFaculty of Lawis a university faculty teaching law, or alaw schoolfaculty.
Examples include:
- Faculty of Law:Aligarh Muslim University
- Faculty of Law:Banaras Hindu University
- Faculty of Law:Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Faculty of Law:Göttingen University
- Faculty of Law:Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Faculty of Law:Heidelberg University
- Faculty of Law:Istanbul Commerce University
- Faculty of Law:Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz Branch
- Faculty of Law:Lakehead University
- Faculty of Law:McGill University
- Faculty of Law:Monash University
- Faculty of Law:National University of Singapore
- Faculty of Law:Queen's University
- Faculty of Law:Saint Petersburg State University
- Faculty of Law:Thammasat University
- Faculty of Law:Thompson Rivers University
- Faculty of Law:Université de Montréal
- Faculty of Law:University of Alberta
- Faculty of Law:University of Belgrade
- Faculty of Law:University of British Columbia
- Faculty of Law:University of Calcutta
- Faculty of Law:University of Calgary
- Faculty of Law:University of Cambridge
- Faculty of Law:University of Colombo
- Faculty of Law:University of Copenhagen
- Faculty of Law:University of Delhi
- Faculty of Law:University of Dhaka
- Faculty of Law:University of Graz
- Faculty of Law:University of Hong Kong
- Faculty of Law:Istanbul Medeniyet University
- Faculty of Law:University of Ljubljana
- Faculty of Law:University of Montenegro
- Faculty of Law:University of Mostar
- Faculty of Law:University of National and World Economy
- Faculty of Law:University of New Brunswick
- Faculty of Law:University of Osijek
- Faculty of Law:University of Oslo
- Faculty of Law:University of Otago
- Faculty of Law:University of Ottawa
- Faculty of Law:University of Oxford
- Faculty of Law:University of Paris-XII
- Faculty of Law:University of Pretoria
- Faculty of Law:University of Sarajevo
- Faculty of Law:University of Tasmania
- Faculty of Law:University of Toronto
- Faculty of Law:University of Victoria
- Faculty of Law:University of Waikato
- Faculty of Law:University of Windsor
- Faculty of Law:University of Zagreb
- Faculty of Law:Victoria University of Wellington
Others
[edit]- Faculty of Civil Law, University of Santo Tomas
- Faculty of Education, Law and Social Sciences (Birmingham City University)
- Faculty of International Law, CUPL
- Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University
- Faculty of Law and Public Administration, University of Szeged
Faculty of Management Studies
[edit]AFaculty of Management Studiesis a university division teachingmanagement studies.
Examples include:
- Faculty of Management Studies, Banaras Hindu University
- Faculty of Management Studies (Delhi),University of Delhi
- FMS Baroda,Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
- FMS Udaipur,Mohanlal Sukhadia University
Faculty of Music
[edit]In English-speaking academia,Faculty of Musicnormally refers to a university department, especially at Oxford and Cambridge (UK). In the US, the use of 'faculty' often relates to academic and teaching staff.
Examples include:
Faculty of Natural Sciences
[edit]Faculty of Natural Sciencesexamples include
- Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences,England
- Comenius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences,Slovakia
- Vilnius University Faculty of Natural Sciences,Lithuania
Faculty of Philosophy
[edit]AFaculty of Philosophyis a university faculty teachingphilosophy,or in some cases,humanitiesin general.
In the universities ofcontinental Europe,theFaculty of Artshas more often been named the equivalent of "Faculty of Philosophy"(e.g.,Norwegian:Det filosofiske fakultet,Slovene:Filozofska fakulteta). Nowadays this is a common name for the faculties teachinghumanities.
Examples include:
- Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
- Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
- Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
- Faculty of Philosophy, University of Montenegro
- Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš
- Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb
Faculty of Political Science
[edit]Faculty of Political Scienceexamples include:
- Faculty of Political Science in Sarajevo,Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade,Serbia
- MSU Faculty of Political Science, Moscow State University, Russia
- Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University,Turkey
- Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Montenegro
- Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University
- Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University
Notes and references
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^The threeartesof the humanities
- ^The fourartesof the natural sciences
- ^The medieval university Arts/Philosophy faculty soon expanded its curriculum with the threeAristotelianphilosophies:physics,metaphysicsandmoral philosophy.
References
[edit]- ^Charles William Eliot, Association of American Universities, "Discussion of the Actual and the Proper Line of Distinction Between College and University",Journal of proceedings and Addresses of the First and Second annual conferences,Volumes 1-12 (1901), p. 38.
- ^The Faculty of Arts-Catholic Encyclopediaarticle
- ^"Faculty of Health".22 August 2013.
