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The Faculty of Arts is one of the nine academic faculties of the University of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jfn.ac.lk/academics.html )〕 The faculty was established in October 1974 as the Faculty of Humanities of the Jaffna Campus of the University of Sri Lanka. The faculty has sixteen departments and its current dean is Professor V. P. Sivanathan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jfn.ac.lk/arts/index.php/home/2012-02-28-04-04-29 )〕 As at 31 December 2011 the faculty had 2,469 undergraduate students and 142 academic staff (121 permanent, 21 temporary). ==History== The Jaffna Campus of the University of Sri Lanka was established with effect from 1 August 1974.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.jfn.ac.lk/aboutUs.html )〕 The campus started functioning in October 1974 with two faculties: Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Science.〔 The Faculty of Humanities was based at Parameshwara College in Thirunelveli whilst the Faculty of Science was based at Jaffna College in Vaddukoddai.〔 K. Indrapala, senior lecturer in history at the Peradeniya Campus of the University of Sri Lanka, was appointed the first Dean of the Faculty of Humanities.〔 The faculty had four departments: Hindu Civilization, History, Sinhala and Tamil.〔 The faculty was renamed as the Faculty of Arts in 1975.〔 The Ramanathan Academy of Fine Arts (RAFA) was taken over by the University of Sri Lanka in 1975 and placed under the Faculty of Arts.〔 RAFA had two departments: Dance and Music.〔 Eight new departments were created: Sanskrit (1975), Education (1980),〔 Language & Cultural Studies (1981), Fine Arts (1982), Economics, Geography, Islamic Civilization and Philosophy .〔 The Jaffna Campus was elevated to university status on 1 January 1979 with the creation of the University of Jaffna.〔 Following the Black July riots the Institute of Indigenous Medicine affiliated to the University of Colombo was transferred to the University of Jaffna as a department under the Faculty of Arts in 1984.〔〔 The Department of Language & Cultural Studies was split into the Department of Linguistics & English and Department of Christian & Islamic Civilization in 1989.〔 The Department of Siddha Medicine was removed from the faculty in October 1993 and now functions directly under the control of the vice chancellor.〔 The Department of Political Science & Sociology was created in July 1998 from the Department of Economics.〔 The Department of Law was created in May 2005.〔 The Department of Political Science & Sociology was split into the Department of Political Science and Department of Sociology in December 2007. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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