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Calendars > Faculty of Social sciences > History of the Faculty
Faculty of Social sciences
HISTORY OF THE FACULTY
1936, the creation of the School of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts was the first of many steps which led to the existence of today's Faculty of Social Sciences. Under the leadership of Gustave Sauvé, o.m.i., the new school, with its social and diplomatic studies sections, aimed at training candidates for administrative positions in the federal public service.
In 1939, a commercial and a financial studies section were added to the school and, to promote the theory of co-operation, the Social Centre was founded the following year.
In 1949, the school under its first full-time director, Jean-Marcel Bélanger, o.m.i, underwent many changes and became the School of Political and Social Sciences. Bélanger introduced the first undergraduate program and, in 1951, revised the graduate courses in order to insure a certain balance between courses offered in political science and those offered in economics.
That same year, Jean-Luc Pépin became the school's first full-time professor. In 1952, the school became known as the School of Political, Economic and Social Sciences.
The School's final orientation was defined under the leadership
of Father Henri Legaré in 1954. The following year, the School became the Faculty of Social, Economic and Political Sciences, and included three departments offering courses toward a baccalaureate in arts or sciences, with options in political science, economics and sociology. Courses at the graduate level lead to a master's degree in arts and a doctorate in philosophy.
The Faculty was also responsible for the Inter-American Institute and the Research Centre in Social Sciences.
In 1962, it was named the Faculty of Social Sciences, under the mandate of Jean-Marie Quirion, o.m.i., whose successor, Louis Sabourin, sets up a certificate in industrial relations and one in public administration for federal public servants. The Faculty's Programme d'administration publique Canada Outre-Mer, inaugurated in 1966 by Leopold Senghor, President of Senegal, led to the registration of Francophone trainees from Asia and Africa, thus broadening the Faculty's reputation to the international scene. The Programme d'étude en développement international was created for high-ranking public servants from French-speaking Third World countries. These two programs resulted in the creation of the Faculty's
Department of Public Administration in 1966-1967.
A study commissioned by the Senate in 1972 to revise the teaching and research structures within the Faculty resulted, five years later, in a reorganization. It now includes the departments of Economics, Political Science and Sociology, as well as the School of Psychology, formerly a Faculty. Two other departments, Leisure Studies and Criminology, joined the Faculty in 1978. In 1991, in order to offer professional training in social work to Francophones, especially Franco-Ontarians, the School of Social Work was added to the Faculty.
Since the mid-90s, the Faculty, recognized for having developed and maintained a tradition of excellence throughout its undergraduate programs, consolidates its achievements at the graduate studies and research levels. It is the doctorate program political science that first welcomed its students in 1994, soon followed by the approval of a doctorate program in criminology in 2002. In 1999, the Faculty inaugurated three international level research centres: the Research Centre on Women and Politics, the Centre for Research on Community Services and the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Citizenship and Minorities. Three years later, laboratories housing three new research chairs affiliated to the Faculty have completed these new research installations.
More than sixty years following its debut and with the coming of the double cohort, the Faculty will undertake an important reorganization of its undergraduate programs. New programs such as: public administration, international development and globalization, gerontology, social intervention, international studies and modern languages will complete a litany of interdisciplinary initiatives aimed at revamping its baccalaureate programs and multiplying the number of choices offered to students.
Through the quality of its teaching personnel, its programs and activities, the Faculty of Social Sciences contributes to the promotion of teaching and research not only in the nation's capital, but also throughout Canada.
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