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=Western University Faculty of Arts and Humanities=

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities is one of the 12 academic faculties at Western University, located in London, Ontario Canada. The faculty offers degrees from a variety of departments at both an undergraduate and graduate level.

History
The faculty of Arts and Humanities is one of the four original faculties that the University had to offer when it opened its doors in 1881. It is now one of 12 faculties that the university hosts and the 7th largest with 979 full time students enrolled in the 2016-2017 academic year. The faculty of Arts and Humanities offers a range of courses and degree programs for students. In 2013, the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities began running as one of the departments housed in the faculty. Previously, Film Studies was a separate department, but in 2016 the degree program was discontinued until the courses and modules could undergo a restructuring. The faculty of Arts and Humanities has traditionally been located in the University College Tower, but in 2015 the building was shut down due to renovation that is slated to be finished in the summer of 2018.

The dean for the academic year of 2017/2018 is Michael Milde who is supported by the Associate Dean of Academics Tracy Isaacs and the Associate Dean of Research Nandi Bhatia.

Departments
Western's faculty of Arts and Humanities offers 9 different departments in which students can engage with different subject matter. A degree can be obtained in the department of Classical Studies, English, French, Modern Languages and Literature, Philosophy, School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities, Women Studies and Feminist Research, Writing Studies, and Visual Art.

SASAH
This unique to North America program started in 2013 under the Director Joel Falflak. The incoming director for the upcoming 2018 year is Patrick Mahon. The program offers students to have an enriched experience of the Arts and Humanities as a whole rather than a focus on one specific aspect. Students are required to take a language course, theory classes, and focus on a self directed study, which the department encourages the student to study abroad to get a rounder world view of the arts. These classes are all expected to be taken alongside another program that the student is enrolled in, such as a major in French or a Honours Specialization in Philosophy. This program can also be combined with the Ivey School of Business HBA program.

Degree

 * Honours Bachelor Degree: 15 courses after the first general year in either an honours specialization module (a 9 course program), or a double major module (two 6-7 course programs) with options such as a minor (3-4 course program), certificate (1-3 course program) or optional courses.
 * Bachelor Degree (Four-Year): 15 courses after the first general year in at least a specialization module (a 9 course program) that could be combined with a double major, a major and minor combination or a major module with optional courses.
 * Bachelor Degree (Three-Year): 10 courses after the first general year in at major module, major and a minor, or a double minor module with optional courses.

Modules
There are four modules a student can enter after their first year. Each of the departments, excluding SASAH, offers a variety of different programs within each of these modules. The SASAH program is a program that has additional courses on top of of the original major or program of choice by the student.
 * Honours Specialization: 13 different modules offered
 * Specialization: 9 different modules offered
 * Major: 17 different modules offered
 * Minor: 35 different modules offered

Certificates and Diplomas
The faculty of Arts and Humanities also offers a number of certificates and diplomas programs that students from any faculty can enroll in.
 * Certificate in Business French
 * Certificate in Ethics
 * Certificate in Practical French
 * Certificate in Intercultural Communications (Arabic, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish)
 * Certificate in Practical German
 * Certificate in Practical Italian
 * Certificate in Practical Spanish
 * Certificate in Professional Communication
 * Certificate in Theatre Arts
 * Certificate in Writing
 * Certificate in Digital Spanish
 * Diploma in Business French
 * Diploma in Ethics
 * Diploma in Practical French
 * Diploma in Writing
 * Diploma in Professional Communication

Graduate

 * Classical Studies MA, PhD
 * Comparative Literature MA, PhD
 * English Studies, MA, PhD
 * French Studies MA, PhD, Direct Entry PhD
 * Hispanic Studies MA, PhD, Direct Entry PhD
 * Linguistics MA
 * Philosophy MA, PhD, Direct Entry PhD
 * Visual Art MA, MFA, PhD
 * Women's Studies and Feminist Research MA, PhD

Programming
The faculty offers a writer in residence and a unique student writer in residence program alongside of it. The expectation of the writer in residence program is to provide support for the writer while the writer provides a learning and enriching environment for amateur and aspiring writers on campus.

Clubs
The faculty is home to a number of clubs run either directly through a department such as English, or underneath the Arts and Humanities Student Council.
 * Coterie: The club run through the department of English, it puts on events such as poetry slams, and write ins to encourage students to interact and share their work with other students in the department.

Arts and Humanities Student Council
Working in conjunction with the faculty, the student's council provides programming for the undergraduate students in the arts in the form of events that are either academic or social in nature. The council also partners with a local charity to give back to the community and works with the University Student's Council to make changes to student policies that benefit the faculty as a whole. The Arts and Humanities Student Council has a number of clubs underneath it's folio such as the Visual Arts Student Association, and the Linguistics Society.

Faculty Buildings
The major buildings used for the faculty of arts and humanities are the Arts and Humanities building, previously called the Old Ivey Building, the Labatt Visual Arts Center and the UC Tower. The tower underwent renovation beginning in 2015 with the new building slated to be open during the summer of 2018.Many classes from the faculty have also been known to be held in other buildings such as the Spencer Engineering Building, the Chemistry building, the Social Science Center are some of the locations classes have been held. The academic counselling for the faculty is located in the basement of the International and Gradute Affairs Building (IGAB), and a number of professors in the faculty have their offices in that building, as it is combined with the Arts and Humanities Building.

Notable Alumni

 * Alan Thicke - actor
 * Alice Munro - author
 * Anita Gaffney - executive director of the Stratford Festival
 * Cameron Bailey - artistic director of Toronto International Film Festival
 * David McPherson - author
 * Sandor Johnson - Winemaker, Potter Settlement Artisan Winery
 * Shannon Proudfoot - writer at Macleans Magazine
 * Simona Atzori - artist, dancer