Faculty of Arts

The Faculty of Arts is a centre for research in the disciplines of the humanities, which at Carleton includes not only history, art history, music, religion, classics, philosophy, and languages and literature, but also linguistics, Canadian studies, journalism, communication, and film studies. Currently, there are 17 departments, institutes, and schools in the Faculty, and each is the source of scholarly work.

In addition to such units, the Faculty is home to 22 organized research units. Prominent among them is the Carleton Media and Communications Research Centre, the Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts, the Centre for Studies in Cinema and Nation, the Centre for Art and Technology, and the Centre for Research on Comparative Literary Studies. A project in the research unit on Canadian music is funded by a five-year collaborative research grant of $785,000 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

The work each year is rich and varied. Every unit can identify new work in scholarly journals and books. By way of illustration, such published work in 1995 by members of the Department of Religion included a new study of Jung's account of belief and religious life, and another described and analyzed the relations between Jews and Christians in the first and second centuries. A member of the Department of Philosophy published a major work on the rights of minorities. Seven books were written or edited by members of the Department of French, and six by members of the Department of History. The latter included a monograph on Vera Brittain, a British feminist, and yet another provided a detailed synthesis of writing by historians on twentieth-century Europe under the rubrics of society, state, and nation.

G.S. Adam

Dean of Arts