Faculty of Arts
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The '''Faculty of Arts''' was one of the four traditional divisions of the teaching bodies of medieval universities, the others being [[Theology]], [[Law]] and [[Medicine]]. The Faculty of Arts was the lowest in rank, but also the largest as students had to graduate there to be admitted to one of the higher faculties.<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01757a.htm The Faculty of Arts] - [[Catholic Encyclopedia]] article</ref>
The Faculty of Arts took its name from the [[Seven Liberal Arts]]: the [[Trivium (education)|Trivium]] (grammar, rhetoric, dialectics) and the [[Quadrivium]] (arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy). In German (and Scandinavian) universities this faculty has more often been known as the Faculty of Philosophy. Nowadays it is a common name for the faculties teaching [[humanities]].
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