I'm not quite certain about the meaning of "faculty" in the element
"Dissertation or Thesis Information".
7.9.3.3 reads: "Record the name of the granting institution or faculty."
I assume that the example "University College, London" is supposed to
illustrate a case where the degree is granted by a faculty rather than
the university (which would be the University of London). Is this correct?
The reason for my question is that I'm wondering about German doctoral
theses. There, usually both the name of the university and the name of
the faculty within this university are given, e.g.: "Dissertation zur
Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Fakultaet fuer Agrarwissenschaften der
Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen" (i.e. "Thesis for obtaining the
doctoral degree of the Faculty for Agricultural Sciences of the Georg
August University Goettingen").
Up to now, in such a case we've only recorded the name of the
university, but not the name of the faculty. I also can't remember ever
having seen an AACR2 record including a faculty of a German university.
This impression fits in with the example "Freie Universitaet Berlin" in
7.9.3.3 (without information about the respective faculty, which
probably was given on the source of information as well).
My feeling is that in Germany, a faculty is basically an administrative
division. It's not at all comparable to the independent character of the
University College London (Wikipedia says: "For most practical purposes,
ranging from admissions to funding, the constituent colleges operate as
individual universities, and some have recently obtained the power to
award their own degrees whilst remaining in the federation."). So I
would prefer to give the name of the university only, without the faculty.
How would you handle the case of the German universities and when would
you use the "faculty"?
Heidrun
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Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A.
Stuttgart Media University
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