Goldsmiths' College: Academic Departments

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENTS::
Training Department/ Department of Arts, Sciences and Education/School of Education:

Training Department: staff records 1905-1952; Examination Committee 1908-1953; Academic Board 1935-1962; student records 1907-1996; printed material 1905-1967; results of examinations 1907-1938; examination papers 1935-1964; correspondence 1958-1964
Department of Arts, Science and Education: Academic Board 1972-1975; printed material 1966-1974; examination papers 1965-1975
School of Education: Board of Studies 1985-1986; correspondence 1976-1986; printed material 1978-1986; Rachel McMillan College 1962-1990

Evening Department/Department of Adult Studies/School of Adult and Social Studies/School of Adult and Community Studies and School of Social Sciences:

Evening Department: Sessional Record 1948-1966; Logs of reports of courses and events 1953-1970; enquiries—staff, students and organisations 1954-1968; correspondence 1954-1967; staff (Ian Gulland papers)1939-1988; printed material 1910-1964
Department of Adult Studies: Degree and Professional Courses Committee papers 1973-1975; Liberal Studies Committee papers 1973-1975; general record books 1965-1970; printed material 1965-1976
School of Adult and Social Studies: correspondence 1975-1986; printed material 1976-1982
School of Adult and Community Studies: Board of Studies papers 1985-1986; Working Party/Group on Adult and Continuing Education papers 1982-1985; correspondence 1982-1987; printed material 1982-1987
School of Social Studies: correspondence 1981-1985
Lee Centre 1973-1991
Evening Students’ Association 1932-1992

School of Art/Department of Fine Art: Proposed new School of Art building papers 1959-1972; correspondence 1963-1973; printed material 1910-1975

School of Art and Design: correspondence 1977-1984

School of Humanities and Performing Arts: correspondence 1976-1988

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Goldsmiths? was established in 1905 with 3 departments:1) Training Department2) School of Art3) Evening Department

This structure continued to 1965, when1) Training Department became the Department of Arts, Sciences and Education2) School of Art became the Department of Fine Art?but appears to have continued to use the name ?School of Art? on most occasions3) Evening Department became the Department of Adult Studies

This structure continued to 1976, when these 3 departments, together with St Gabriel?s College and the Rachel McMillan College (teacher training institutions), both incorporated into Goldsmiths? in 1973-77, were reorganised into 5 schools:1) School of Adult and Social Studies2) School of Art and Design3) School of Education4) School of Humanities and Performing Arts5) School of Science and Mathematics

In 1980, the School of Adult and Social Studies was split into 2: the School of Adult and Community Studies and the School of Social Sciences

In 1986, the 6 Schools were reorganised into 3 Faculties:

1) Faculty of Education, (the former School of Education, into which the School of Adult and Community Studies?which was renamed Continuing and Community Education department-- was subsumed)2) Faculty of Arts (comprising the former Schools of Art and Design and Humanities (except Geography) and Performing Arts3) Faculty of Social and Mathematical Sciences (the Mathematical Sciences department of the former School of Science and Mathematics, plus Geography Department, renamed Resource and Environmental Management Department, which had been part of the former School of Humanities and Performing Arts)

The Earth and Life Sciences Departments in the former School of Science and Mathematics were made into a vestigial School of Natural History. However, Goldsmiths? stopped teaching these subjects shortly afterwards (1988-9), as a result of which these Science departments were transferred to Thames Polytechnic (Now University of Greenwich)