Queen's University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The largest of all faculties at Queen's University, and one of the original three faculties that founded the school in 1841.
The faculty’s student government is the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society. ASUS sends eight representatives and its executive to the university-wide undergraduate student government, the AMS. It also has its own assembly and manages its own set of events, organizations, and committees.
Computing
The School of Computing makes its home in Goodwin Hall. It has the highest graduate-undergraduate ratio of any department at Queen's (nearly 2:1). The Turing Award (called the "Nobel Prize of Computing") has only ever been award to 2 Canadians, one of which was a Queen's alumnus.
Psychology
Psychology is one of the departments at Queen's with the highest enrollment. The psychology department is mostly located in both the Crane and Humber buildings.
Political Studies
The Department of Political Studies is one of the oldest departments of political science in Canada. Former faculty members have included John Meisel who pioneered voting studies in Canada, former principal Ronald Lampman Watts an expert in federalism and development theorist Colin Leys, among others. It offers undergraduate and graduate courses in International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Theory, Canadian Politics and Gender and Politics. At 23 faculty members, it is a medium-sized political science department but offers both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. It is among the top six in undergraduate enrollment at the university. The Head is Kim Richard Nossal, a specialist in Canadian foreign policy.
History
The Department of History makes its home in Watson Hall. Historian and author Donald Akenson is a Professor of History at Queen's.
Mathematics
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics makes its home in Jeffrey Hall. Queen's is one of only three Canadian Schools (along with Toronto and Waterloo) to win first prize in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
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