The Faculty of Arts in Niš () is an independent department of the

University of Niš The University of Niš () is a public university in Serbia. It was founded in 1965. As of the 2018-19 school year, it consists of 13 faculties with 1,492 academic staff and around 20,500 students. It has a university library "Nikola Tesla"; th ...

in Niš, Serbia. The Faculty was established on 3 October 2002 by the

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History

Department of Visual Arts and Music

In 2000, the Department of Visual Arts and Music was created within the

Faculty of Philosophy 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, sc ...

. Its original programs were in

Visual Arts The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics (art), ceramics, photography, video, image, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual a ...

Applied Arts The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them aesthetically pleasing."Applied art" in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Art''. Online edition. Oxford Univ ...

, and

Music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...

. The Faculty was place into small quarters in the College of Music building The original faculty council contained seven members; its task was to set up the regular Faculty bodies and create policies for developing the faculty. All educational issues were handled by this temporary council, Djuro Radonjić, associate professor of the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš, was appointed Acting Dean of the Faculty and Suzana Kostić was elected Vice Dean for academic affairs. When the temporary council was created, the Serbian Ministry of Education created a plan for the implementation of four-year undergraduate studies in the field of Music and five-year

undergraduate Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education, usually in a college or university. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, ...

studies in the areas of Applied and Visual Arts. On 22 October 2002, the Temporary Council adopted the Faculty Statute and Annual Work Program, and finalized the process of recruitment and appointment of the teaching staff.

Faculty of Arts

In the 2003–2004

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, the first class of

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at the Faculty of Arts was admitted. The faculty bodies were created in December 2003 and the Temporary Council was disbanded. In 2004, Professor Doctor Dragoslav Aćimović was elected Faculty Dean. He was reelected on1 October 2006, 30 September 2009, and 1 October 2009. Aćimović resigned on 30 September 2012. In April 2012, Professor Doctor Suzana Kostić, was elected Dean for the period 1 October 2012 to 30 September 2015. In compliance with the 2005 Law on Higher Education, the Faculty Council adopted its new Statute on 2 November 2006, and the Senate of the

passed a resolution on approval of the study programs offered by the Faculty at the level of bachelor's and master's degrees. The Faculty received

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for all the study programs conducted at the bachelor's and master's level. As of 2017, 707 students had graduated from the Faculty, and 57 students had completed their master studies.

Study programs

* Department of Music Art * Department of Visual Arts * Department of Applied Arts

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.artf.ni.ac.rs/ 2002 establishments in Serbia *