King's College London Faculty of Arts

Faculty

King's College London Faculty of Arts

1893-1985

The origins of the Faculty of Arts lay in the Department of General Literature and Science. The Department came into being in 1839 in response to the need for a greater differentiation of the syllabus for students of the Senior Department at King's College London. As its name suggests, it constituted a broad faculty or grouping of subjects and classes that provided a core liberal syllabus in the arts and sciences available to all students of King's, including Medical students. Principal subjects included English Literature, Theology, Modern History, Classics, Modern Languages and Mathematics, but later instruction covered subjects as diverse as Geology, Law, Political Economy and Oriental Languages. The division between General Literature and Science Departments, that took place in 1888, foreshadowed the replacement of General Literature by the new Faculty of Arts in 1893. In 1904 the Department of Architecture and the Divisions of Laws and Economics were integrated into the Faculty of Arts until the Transfer Act of 1908 when the governance of King's College London was transferred to the University of London and a separate Faculty of Laws was established. The Faculty of Arts was replaced by the School of Humanities in 1989.

King's College London Faculty of Arts and Music (1985-1989)

King's College London Department of General Literature (1888-1893)

King's College London, 1829- (1829-)

King's College London Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (1971-)

King's College London Department of English (1922-)

King's College London Department of French (1893-2014)

King's College London Department of Geography (1893-)

King's College London Department of German (1893-2014)

King's College London Department of History (1893-)

King's College London Department of Classics (1893-)

King's College London Department of Education (1922-1968)

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