About Faculty
The
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, which began functioning at Al Albayt
University in 1994, has been always carrying out the University's
philosophy, vision and objectives in teaching, research and community
service.
Between 1994 and 2005, the Faculty had the name ‘the Faculty of
Arts and Science’, and it used to have nine departments: Arabic Language
and Literature, History, Education and Psychology, English Language and
Literature, Translation (Modern languages), Chemistry, Physics,
Biological Science, Computer Science and Mathematics. However, since the
beginning of the academic year 2005/ 2006, a new skeleton of the
faculty under a new name “the Faculty of Arts and Humanities" has been
constructed in consequence of the restructuring renovations carried out
in the administrative and the academic frameworks of Al-Albayt
University. The recalibrated Faculty consists of six academic
departments: the Department of Arabic Language and Literature, which
affords undergraduates and postgraduates High Diploma in Arabic
Language and Literature for Non-Native Speakers and
Bachelor's, Master's and PhD degrees in Arabic Language and Literature.
It also includes the Department of English Language and Literature,
which offers students Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English
Language and Literature along with the Department of History, which
awards Bachelor's and Master's degrees in History. Three additional
departments are integrated as well: the Department of Modern Languages,
which provides Bachelor's degree in French Language and Literature;
the Department of Facultative Humanitarian Requirements, which was set
up in the academic year 2016/ 2017; and the Department of Applied
Geography, which was founded in the academic year 2019/2020, and it
offers Bachelor's degree to university students of speciality.
In view of the increasing necessity for launching an
independent faculty of foreign languages, both the Department of English
Language and Literature and the Department of Modern Languages have
been reallocated to the newly- established Faculty, the Faculty of
Foreign Languages, a consolidation that took place in the academic year
2022/ 2023.
Most of all, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities looks forward to
developing new qualitative specialities, which meet the needs of the
local, national and international community in the fields of humanities
and social sciences, such as philosophy, media, archeology, tourism,
demography, anthropology, and sociology.
