Faculty or faculties may refer to:

Academia

Faculty (academic staff) Academic staff, also known as faculty (in North American usage) or academics (in British, Australia, and New Zealand usage), are vague terms that describe teachers or research staff of a school, college, university or research institute. In Brit ...

, professors, researchers, and teachers of a given university or college (North American usage) *

Faculty (division) A faculty is a division within a university or college comprising one subject area or a group of related subject areas, possibly also delimited by level (e.g. undergraduate). In North America, academic divisions are sometimes titled colleges, ...

, a large department of a university by field of study (used outside North America)

Biology

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ability Abilities are powers an agent has to perform various Action (philosophy), actions. They include common abilities, like walking, and rare abilities, like performing a double backflip. Abilities are intelligent powers: they are guided by the person ...

of an individual **

Cognitive skill Cognitive skills are skills of the mind, as opposed to other types of skills such as motor skills, social skills or life skills. Some examples of cognitive skills are literacy, self-reflection, logical reasoning, abstract thinking, critica ...

s, colloquially ''faculties'' **

Sense A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of Stimulus (physiology), stimuli. Although, in some cultures, five human senses were traditio ...

s or ''perceptive faculties''—such as sight, hearing or touch **

Faculty Psychology Faculty psychology is the idea that the mind is separated into faculties or sections, and that each of these faculties is assigned to certain mental tasks. Some examples of the mental tasks assigned to these faculties include judgment, compassion, m ...

, suggests the mind is divided into sections, each assigned specific mental tasks.

Business

Faculty (company) Faculty is a British technology company based in London, UK. It provides software, consulting, and services related to artificial intelligence. The company was founded in 2014, as a fellowship programme for PhD graduates. Some of its government ...

, a British tech firm (formerly ''ASI'')

Film and television

* ''

The Faculty ''The Faculty'' is a 1998 American science fiction horror film directed and edited by Robert Rodriguez with a screenplay by Kevin Williamson. It stars Jordana Brewster in her film debut, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Ha ...

'', a 1998 horror/sci-fi movie by Robert Rodriguez * ''The Faculty'' (TV series), a 1996 American sitcom

Religious law

Faculty (canon law) A faculty is a legal instrument or warrant in canon law, usually an authorisation to do something. Catholic Church In the canon law of the Catholic Church, a faculty is "the authority, privilege, or permission, to perform an act or function. In ...

, a judicial instrument or warrant in Christian canon law * A priest's right to perform Christian liturgies {{disambiguation