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Former names | Faculty of Communications and Culture; Faculty of Fine Arts; Faculty of Humanities; Faculty of Social Science; Faculty of General Studies; Faculty of Arts and Sciences |
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| Motto | Mo Shùile Togam Suas (Scottish Gaelic) |
Motto in English | I will lift up mine eyes |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 10 April 2010 |
Academic affiliation | University of Calgary |
| Dean | Dr. Aoife MacNamara |
Academic staff | 359[1] |
Administrative staff | 132[1] |
| Undergraduates | 7,100 +[1] |
| Postgraduates | 725 +[1] |
| Location | , , 51.079154, -114.126859 |
| Website | arts |
The Faculty of Arts is the largest faculty of the University of Calgary.[1] It is also one of the university's founding faculties, along with commerce, education, engineering, graduate studies, science, and physical education. The official establishment of the current Faculty of Arts was in 2010, following the amalgamation of the four former Faculties of Communication and Culture, Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.[2] However, the Faculty of Arts can further trace its origins back to 1951 under the Faculty of Arts and Science, as it was originally merged with the university's natural sciences departments.[3] This curious measure of dates makes the Faculty of Arts the second oldest faculty as well as the youngest faculty of the university simultaneously, depending on where one counts. Since then, the Faculty of Arts has expanded to become the university's most comprehensive and interdisciplinary faculty, incorporating fields from the humanities, fine arts, and social sciences.
Due to its extensive nature, the Faculty of Arts is housed in various buildings throughout the main campus. The Faculty of Arts currently has more than 7,100 undergraduate students with more than 725 graduate students.[1] The student population is overseen by 378 academic faculty members with the aid of 132 administrative and support staff.[1] Since 1966, the Faculty of Arts has produced 10 Canada Research Chairs,[1] 20 fellows of the Royal Society of Canada,[4] and well over 46,000 alumni throughout the world.[1]
The current Dean of the Faculty of Arts is Aoife MacNamara who was appointed on 1 July 2022.[5] Her previous roles include: president of NSCAD University in Halifax; dean of Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology; and dean of Emily Carr University’s Audain Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice. She also served as director of Contemporary Art at the University of the Arts (Wimbledon College of Art), and as director of Programmes: Art and Design at Middlesex University. Originally trained as an artist herself, MacNamara holds a doctorate in art, design and the built environment from the University of Ulster in Belfast, pursued a doctorate in art education at Concordia University, holds a master’s degree in the social history of art from the University of Leeds, and she holds a master’s in fine art from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Why Arts? Faculty of Arts". Faculty of Arts. 2016.
- ^ "Faculty amalgamation, Board of Governors vote to unify arts and social sciences faculties". UToday Magazine. June 30, 2009. Retrieved 2016-08-22.
- ^ Physical Plant Department (1992). "History of the Campus". University of Calgary Digital Collections. University of Calgary Publications. p. 5. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
- ^ "Royal Society of Canada". University of Calgary Research. 2015. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ^ "Dean Aoife Mac Namara". Faculty of Arts. 2022.
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