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Queen's University. Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering

  • CA QUA01544
  • Organisation
  • n.d.

Geology was first taught at Queen's University at Kingston in 1858, by Dr George Lawson, Professor of Chemistry and Natural History. The first specialist in geology at the University was Robert Bell, who arrived at Queen's in 1861. When the Ontario School of Mining and Agriculture was established in 1893, it included separate departments of Geology and Mineralogy, headed by Professors Willet Miller and William Nicol, both of whom have major buildings at Queen's named in their honour. The two departments moved from Carruthers Hall to Ontario Hall in 1903, and subsequently to Miller Hall in 1930. The large Bruce Wing was added to Miller Hall in 1972. The Department of Geological Sciences was formed in 1950, when Geology and Mineralogy amalgamated. The Department has a long tradition of research in the fields of mineralogy-petrology, structural geology, and the geology of mineral deposits, along with research in sedimentary geology and geophysics. It is administered by the Faculty of Arts and Science, but offers undergraduate programs in both Arts and Science and the Faculty of Applied Science; in the latter, it offers a program in Geological Engineering with options in mineral exploration, geotechnical engineering, and geophysics. The Department also has one of the largest graduate programs at Queen's, as well as being one of the biggest geology departments in Canada.

Queen's University. Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

  • CA QUA01554
  • Organisation
  • 1893-

The School of Mining and Agriculture, established in 1893, was designed to provide Queen's with an engineering faculty. The provincial government was not permitted to provide Queen's with any funding as long as it was a denominational university, which it remained until 1912. But Principal George Munro Grant, and Premier Oliver Mowat (son of one of Queen's founders and brother of one of its senior professors), got around this technicality by establishing the provincially-supported School as an independent institution. Sharing the newly-built Carruthers Hall, as well as its professors with Queen's Faculty of Applied Science, that latter was deliberately founded at the same time.

The School of Mining and Agriculture opened in 1893, and the faculty was created in 1894, with Nathan Dupuis as its first Dean. There was some dispute about what to name the new faculty, and, although it was officially called the Faculty of Applied Science, it was usually referred to as the Faculty of Practical Science (then the most common term elsewhere) in its early years. The School of Mining vanished from the campus scene in 1916, when it and the faculty united to become the Faculty of Applied Science. In 1993, the Faculty celebrated its Centennial Anniversary.

After Arts and Science, the Faculty of Applied Science is the second largest on campus, with close to 4600 students at the undergraduate level. Its students have long been known for their boisterous faculty spirit and are easily identified on campus by their dyed purple leather jackets.

In March 2010, and upon the formal approval of the University Senate, the name of the Faculty of Applied Science was changed to the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. In the words of the Dean, Kimberley Woodhouse, "by including [the word] 'Engineering' in our name, we more accruately reflect what we do and who we are."

Queen's University. Faculty of Arts and Science

  • CA QUA01555
  • Organisation
  • 1841-

This Faculty traces its origins to Queen's Royal Charter of 1841, which declared that the University would both train students as Presbyterian ministers and instruct youth "in the various branches in Science and Literature." In the University's first 30 or 40 years, however, there was no hard and fast distinction between arts and theology, and professors taught in both faculties.
Queen's first two professors, the Rev Thomas Liddell and the Rev Peter Colin Campbell, initiated the Arts and Science curriculum with courses in three subjects: Classics, Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy (the Victorian term for Natural Science). By the end of the 19th century, the faculty also offered courses in Chemistry, English, French, German, History, Philosophy, Physics, Political and Economic Science (since divided into Economics and Political Studies), and Psychology.
Today, the Faculty offers a broad range of undergraduate degree programs in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts, and languages.

Queen's University. Faculty of Law.

  • CA QUA01557
  • Organisation
  • 1860-1864, 188-, 1957-

This is one of the oldest, as well as one of the newest faculties at Queen's. It was first founded in 1860, but closed down for financial reasons in 1864. It was revived for another three years in the 1880s, but did not become a permanent fixture at the University until 1957, when the Law Society of Upper Canada decentralized the teaching of law in Ontario, allowing lawyers to be taught in institutions other than Osgoode Hall in Toronto. Queen's Principal, William Mackintosh, was a leader of the campaign to convince the Law Society to change its rules, arguing that universities could offer a more varied and wider understanding of law. Vice-Principal (later Principal) James Corry was the first Acting Dean, followed by William Lederman, the first permanent Dean. Corry took on some teaching duties, with Professors Daniel Soberman (LLD'08) and Stewart Ryan (LLD'91) as the faculty's only full-time academic staff for the first class of 24 students. In 2008, the faculty changed its LLB (Bachelor of Laws) designation to a JD (Juris Doctor) designation to align itself with international universities. It also offers a Masters of Law (LL.M) and PhD programs through the School of Graduate Studies.

Queen's University. School of Medicine

  • CA QUA01558
  • Organisation
  • 1854-

The School of Medicine was established in 1854, as the Faculty of Medicine, after more than a decade of effort by Queen's officials to add a medical school to the young University. It began in a small limestone house at 75 Princess Street, soon thereafter moving to Summerhill, where the rest of the University was located. In 1858, it moved into the first permanent building that Queen's built for itself: the Old Medical Building. But in 1866, the Faculty split from the University after medical professors protested against having to make a public declaration of Presbyterian faith. The Faculty became the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston, which retained a loose affiliation with the University. The RCPSK eventually reunited with Queen's in 1892 in order to share resources and expertise.

The faculty grew enormously in the 20th century, evolving into one of Canada's premier centres for medical research as well as teaching. In recent decades, the most important development in medical education was the establishment in the 1960s of the Kingston Health Sciences Centre, which brought the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Nursing together with local hospitals to provide cooperative facilities for exemplary patient care, research, and training. Planning for a nursing program at Queen's began in 1941 The first students were admitted in the Fall of 1942 and the first Director of the School of Nursing was appointed in 1946. In 1979, the School of Rehabilitation Therapy, originally a stand alone unit, became part of the Faculty.

In 1998, the School of Medicine and School of Rehabilitation Therapy were joined by the School of Nursing to become the current Faculty of Health Sciences. The Faculty of Health Sciences forms the academic core of the Academic Health Sciences Centre and as part of the Health Care Network of Southeastern Ontario. Academic programs are based on campus but are distributed throughout southeastern Ontario's health care facilities. Academic programs are based on campus but are distributed throughout affiliations with Quinte Healthcare Corporation, Lakeridge Hospital, Peterborough, Perth, Brockville, Weeneebayko (Moose Factory) amongst many other sites. The innovative Alternative Funding Plan (AFP), a contractual agreement of SEAMO and the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care and the Ministry of Community & Social Services provides stable funding for the delivery of research, education and extensive tertiary , secondary and some primary care in a region of over one million people.

The Faculty offers programs in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, undergraduate education in Physical and Occupational Therapy and graduate education in Rehabilitation Science, undergraduate and postgraduate education in Nursing, including the Nurse Practitioner Program, graduate education in the Life Sciences, and collaborative programs in Respiratory Therapy and in X-Ray Technology.

School of Graduate Studies and Research

  • CA QUA01567
  • Organisation
  • n.d.

Graduate work at Queen's University at Kingston was established formally in 1889, with the adoption of regulations for the Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees. At that time the degree of M.A. was not a graduate degree, but was given on the completion of honours work in certain courses provided the candidate had first class standing. With the introduction of a new system of studies in 1919, however, a graduate program was set up requiring a year of work beyond the B.A., and prescribing advanced lecture courses, plus a thesis, or other piece of independent work. In 1926, the Master' s course was strengthened by making the Honours B.A., or its equivalent, with at least second class standing, the standard of admission, and the regulations stated that the degree was to be given "not on the grounds of general attainment, but in recognition of the candidate' s wide knowledge of a special field of study."

The degree of M.Sc. was given for the first time in 1905-06. Graduates holding the bachelor's degree could qualify for the M.Sc. by practicing engineering for two years, or spending one year at the University. In 1922-23, a formal course was set up and one year of attendance beyond the B.Sc. was required. Strong emphasis was placed on research and the thesis. The establishment of the Chown Science Research Chair in 1919, and the Miller Memorial Research Chair in 1929, did much to stimulate graduate work in the Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Geology, and Mineralogy, by increasing the number of graduate students in these fields.The administrative aspect of graduate work was first formalized by the Faculty of Arts, which set up a Committee on Graduate Studies in 1941. Other Faculties followed this example, and in 1943, the Senate constituted the Queen's University Board of Graduate Studies. This Board was reconstituted into the School of Graduate Studies in 1963. The School of Graduate Studies and Research has had responsibility for providing recommendations to the Principal and Senate on matters pertaining to University research policy, and for coordinating University-wide aspects of research administration since 1971.

The School of Graduate Studies and Research is constituted to administer the policies of the University Senate as they pertain to graduate studies, as well as coordinating research funding for all Faculties and Schools, except Medicine. The School embraces all those departments and interdisciplinary Schools which offer graduate programs, with the exception of the MBA program within the School of Business. These departments are grouped into five Divisions which govern the academic programs of graduate students in the related departments.

Membership of the School includes all faculty members engaged in teaching and supervision of graduate students. The representative body of the membership is the Council of the School. It is responsible for setting the policies for the School as recommended by the Divisions and the following standing committees: Steering Committee, Admissions and Degrees Committee, Fellowship Committee, Advisory Research Committee, and the Student Affairs Committee.

The Office of the Graduate School is responsible for the implementation of the Council's policies and the coordination of the admission and degree programs with the departments.

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