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The Faculty of Arts is the largest faculty of the University of Calgary. This curious measure of dates makes the Faculty of Arts the second oldest faculty as well as the youngest faculty of the university simultaneously, depending on where one counts. Since then, the Faculty of Arts has expanded to become the university's most comprehensive and interdisciplinary faculty, incorporating fields from the humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. Due to its extensive nature, the Faculty of Arts is housed in various buildings throughout the main campus. The Faculty of Arts currently has more than 7,100 undergraduate students with more than 725 graduate students. and well over 46,000 alumni throughout the world. The current Dean of the Faculty of Arts is Aoife MacNamara who was appointed on 1 July 2022. Dr. Aoife Mac Namaras decades of experience in academia as a student, researcher, teacher and leader span both Canada and the globe, giving her a deep understanding of the complexities of university culture at home and abroad. She recently served as the president of NSCAD University in Halifax and, prior to that, as dean of Simon Fraser Universitys (SFU) Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, and as dean of Emily Carr Universitys Audain Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice. In London, England, Dr. Mac Namara served as director of Contemporary Art at the University of the Arts (Wimbledon College of Art), and as director of Programmes: Art and Design at Middlesex University. Originally trained as an artist herself, Dr. Mac Namara holds a doctorate in art, design and the built environment from the University of Ulster in Belfast, pursued a doctorate in art education at Concordia University, holds a masters degree in the social history of art from the University of Leeds, and she holds a masters in fine art from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.Read more

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