Faculty of Arts

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Personification of the Faculty of Arts (decoration of the pedestal of the statue of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor; Křižovnické Square, Prague, Czech Republic)

The Faculty of Arts was one of the four traditional divisions of the teaching bodies of medieval universities, the others being Theology, Law and Medicine. The Faculty of Arts was the lowest in rank, but also the largest as students had to graduate there to be admitted to one of the higher faculties.[1]

The Faculty of Arts took its name from the Seven Liberal Arts: the Trivium (grammar, rhetoric, dialectics) and the Quadrivium (arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy).

In the universities of continental Europe, this faculty has 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 teaching humanities.

References

  1. ↑ The Faculty of Arts - Catholic Encyclopedia article

See also

  • All pages beginning with "Faculty of Arts"
  • All pages beginning with "Faculty of Philosophy"
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