FACULTY OF ARTS
The new University of Calabar started academic work in three
Faculties in October 1976. The Faculties were of Arts, Science,
and Social Sciences.
Right from that start, the unit was complicated
and somewhat unique. In the Faculty of Arts, students were inherited
from the University of Nigeria, Calabar Campus, in the Department of
History and English and Literary Studies. The mission was unique too;
its vision complex.
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FACULTY OF SCIENCE
One of the main achievements of the Faculty has been its development
into one of the most important and recognized science-based faculties in
Nigeria for the production of highly trained and knowledgeable undergraduate
and graduate scientists as well as scientific research.
Faculty also provides the basic scientific education for students in
the professional faculties such as Agriculture, Basic Medical Sciences,
Clinical Sciences and Laboratory and Allied Health Sciences. In addition,
it provides, through joint efforts with the Faculty of Education,
the training of the much needed science teachers.
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FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Faculty began in 1976 with only 235 undergraduate students
spread as follows: 37 in the Department of Economics, 26 in Geography
and Regional Planning, 18 in Management studies,
105 in Political Science, and 49 in Sociology
The Faculty of Social Sciences has carved a niche for itself during
the past twenty-five years of the University’s existence.
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION
The Faculty of Education, University of Calabar, is at present one
of the largest Faculties of the University. It came into existence in
1975 as a single Department of Education under the Faculty of Arts with
Professor Okon Uya as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts.
In 1976, the Department of Education developed into a full-fladged
Faculty of Education with Dr. A.O. Anderson as Acting Dean.
The first substantive Dean of the Faculty was Professor Robert Fisk.
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FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE
The Faculty of Agriculture, which came on stream in the
1981/1982 academic session, ab initio, intended to focus
attention on practical agriculture with a view to
addressing the pressing food needs of the country.
During the first four years of its existence,
the Faculty was organized and administered as a single unit.
In 1986, the Faculty was split into three Departments,
namely Animal Science, Crop Science and Soil Sciene
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FACULTY OF LAW
The Faculty of Law of the University of Calabar
commenced in earnest in October 1980 with 100 students
half of whom had transferred from other departments.
Students had been invited the previous year when law was first
advertised and had been sent to other departments because
the Faculty was not yet ready. Such students seized the
opportunity to revert to the discipline of their original choice.
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FACULTY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
The College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar,
was established in 1978 with the objective of training manpower
in the area of Clinical Sciences (Medical and Surgery) and Basic Medical Sciences.
Qualified candidates in the former are awarded the degree of
MBBCh while the latter are awarded B.Sc. in Anatomy, Biochemistry,
Physiology, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Radiography and Nursing.
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GRADUATE SCHOOL
The Graduate School was established on September 30, 1982,
when the University Senate approved its board and statutes,
thereby introducing the current set of Regulations Governing Graduate Studies.
A feature of the Graduate School was the constitution of the
Graduate Faculty out of the senior academic members of the undergraduate faculties.
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UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
The University of Calabar Library was established in
October 1973, as a Library of the Calabar Campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
By August 1978, the University of Calabar Library had acquired
over 40,000 volumes of books and 11,000 volumes of bound journals.
The volumes of books and journals acquired were greatly influenced
by the uncrease in the number of disciplines being taught in the University.
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