Queen's Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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The largest of all faculties at Queen's University, and one of the original three faculties that founded the school in 1841.
The faculty’s student government is the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society. ASUS sends eight representatives and its executive to the university-wide undergraduate student government, the AMS. It also has its own assembly and manages its own set of events, organizations, and committees.
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[edit] Computing
The School of Computing makes its home in Goodwin Hall. It has the highest graduate-undergraduate ratio of any department at Queen's (nearly 2:1). The Turing Award (called the "Nobel Prize of Computing") has only ever been award to 2 Canadians, one of which was a Queen's alumnus. (Main Article: Queen's School of Computing)
[edit] History
The Department of History makes its home in Watson Hall. Queen's is particularly well renowned internationally for its History program. Historian and author Donald Akenson is a Professor of History at Queen's.
[edit] Mathematics
The Department of Mathematics and Statistics makes its home in Jeffrey Hall. Queen's is one of only three Canadian Schools (along with Toronto and Waterloo) to win first prize in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
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