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Faculty of Experimental Sciences
University of Huelva
The origins of this Faculty lie in the former Geology Section of La Rábida, which, since the 1981/1982 academic year, offered the Degree in Geology. The Faculty was established in 1989 and, following the creation of the University of Huelva, the Degree in Environmental Sciences was introduced from the 1996/1997 academic year and later, in the 2004/2005 academic year, the Degree in Chemistry. From the 2009/2010 academic year onwards, Bachelor’s degree programmes were implemented in all three fields.
The headquarters of the Faculty of Experimental Sciences is located on the El Carmen Campus, in a building inaugurated in the 2002/2003 academic year, designed by the Huelva architect Tomás Curbelo. It is a 13,000 square metre space with a functional structure formed by six blocks or units housing the different departments.
These facilities are complemented by the Galileo Lecture Hall complex, where theoretical teaching for the three degree programmes of the Faculty of Experimental Sciences is delivered.
It is a centre dedicated to teaching and research on topics of great relevance to the province of Huelva, such as geological, chemical and environmental aspects, reflecting the privileged location in which the centre is situated.
A bit of history…
Over the years, the creation of the Faculty in May 1989 has become a distant milestone, a date that preceded the establishment of the University of Huelva itself in 1993. The origins of the current Faculty of Experimental Sciences can be traced back to the former Geology Section, which offered the Degree in Geology at its original headquarters in La Rábida, under the supervision, during its first two years, of the Department of Geology of the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Seville.
Geology studies date back to the 1981/1982 academic year. From the 1996/1997 academic year, the Degree in Environmental Sciences was incorporated into the Centre, and in the 2004/2005 academic year, the Degree in Chemistry followed. In that same academic year, the Pilot Experience for the Implementation of the European Credit System was launched, a process that culminated in the implementation, in the 2009/2010 academic year, of the Bachelor’s degree programmes that can be studied today at our Centre.
The building of the Faculty of Experimental Sciences was inaugurated in the 2002/2003 academic year and is located on the “El Carmen” campus. It is a departmental building with a large, freely accessible ground floor where the teaching laboratories, Secretariat, Dean’s Office, Degree Hall, Assembly Hall and cafeteria are located. The rest of the building consists of six independent towers with more restricted access, which house the main facilities of the Departments. In each of the six towers, the second floor houses research laboratories, and the third and fourth floors contain professors’ offices, seminar rooms, and spaces for the management and secretariat of each Department based in the Faculty.
The Faculty of Experimental Sciences enjoys the privilege of being located in a region whose geological, chemical and environmental features offer a rich variety of materials and configurations, and where the Departments carry out much of their research projects, so that our students come into direct contact with their environment, not only from a teaching perspective but also from a research perspective, throughout their studies. The teaching experience of the academic staff involved in the Centre’s degree programmes is reinforced by highly competitive research activity at both national and international levels.
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