King Abdulaziz University - Faculties - Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

The faculty established in 1970. The English language department was the first department opened in 1970 which was changed to Department of European Languages. The establishment of the faculty passed through a number of stages. In 1992-93 the separation of two faculties (Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Economics) took place as it was a combined for the first year as a preparatory year, and the preparatory year was abandon entirely before. The faculty of Arts is the second biggest faculty in the KAU, contains nine departments:

• Arabic Language & Literature
• European Languages & Literature
• English Language Centre
• Geography
• History
• Library & Information Science
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Mass Communication
• Islamic Studies

The College of Arts and Humanities, King Abdul Aziz University in the academic year 1389/1390 1389/1390 AH 1969/1970 1969/1970 at the direction of the Advisory Committee of Experts filed its report to the Foundation of King Abdul Aziz University, after careful study showed the relationship between the establishment of the faculty needs of the Kingdom of qualified scientists and qualified for the supply of organs of the State competencies to contribute to national development plans in various fields.

It was the opening of the first department in the faculty of the school year itself when it was a college English department that was subsequently transferred to the Department of European Languages and Literature and graduated the first installment of it in the academic year 1392/1393 e 1392/1393.

Programs in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities are no longer limited to theoretical studies, but beyond this concept of intervention by the developer and curriculum departments and fields of scientific laboratory and large requires a lot of laboratories and equipment, labs and studios until it became to refine the source of human thought and civilization radiation is referred to Mendez, Is no longer a method of conservation and indoctrination is the method used in social studies or humanitarian, but have come to rely on clinical applications and scientific research Vtaatnagm and respond with all the modern age and progress.

In the context of overall development plan for the Academy programs, the development of new specialized courses in some departments keep pace with scientific development experienced by Saudi Arabia, to provide academically and practically qualified resources as required by the labor market and its own development plans are as follows:

1. Subtitle track, Department of European Languages and Literature.
2. Path tourist guides, Department of History.
3. The course of social service, Department of Sociology
4. Path Declaration Department of Information.
5. Four lanes, Department of Geography as follows:
• Path of Urban Planning
• Environmental Studies course
• path resources and regional development
• Path GIS and Maps

College does not ignore the importance of global standards in management and quality of education. College where she received the ISO international quality (ISO 9001-2000 9001-2000 9001-2000) will be held on Sunday, 2/12/1429, corresponding to 30/11/2008 AD after the completion of the requirements of the certificate from the donor Bureau Veritas. And most recently was nominated for the faculty to get a certificate of academic accreditation from the American liberal education (AALE).

As part of the overall orientation toward serving the scientific research, issued by the Royal Court on 19/3/1430 to establish its Center for Social Research and humanity altogether, which includes twelve research unit deals with the study of humanitarian issues and social problems related to the Saudi society through the provision of Studies and Research, training and advice to all sectors of society and its institutions.

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