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The Dialectic Society of Queen's College was formed by the early students of Queen's. It predates the Alma Mater Society, thereby making it the first student society at Queen's. According to an article written by Rev George Bell in the Queen's Journal Dec 30 1893, Bell along with fellow students Wardrope, Mowat and Bonner decided in the summer of 1842 that they needed to form a student society for the promotion of literary culture, public speaking, etc. So they drafted a Constitution, came up with a name, and the Dialectic Society began. The society met every two weeks during which a student Essay was read and criticized, and also often had debates too.

The Department of Women's Studies grew out of the Institute of Women's Studies, which was established in 1994. Its primary aims were to make the diversity of women's experiences, ideas and values in all areas of human inquiry and to create structures, theories, and methodologies that make such visibility possible. The specifc approach in the program was: to help rectify the omission of women from the traditional curriculum; to approach the contributions and conditions of women from a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary perspective which is exciting in a world of specialization; to encourage students to look critically at androcentric scholarship and its assumptions about institutions, ideologies, human nature, sexuality, and language; and to emphasize the necessity of women's self-perception and self-definition.

In 1999 Sue Hendler became Director of the Institute of Women’s Studies and then in 2003 it’s first Head. Sue recognized that it was important for Women’s Studies to become a department within the Faculty of Arts and Science. She oversaw the growth of the Department in terms of courses and concentrators into a Major degree program. Under Hendler’s leadership, the LGBT(later Sexual and Gender Diversity (SXGD)) Certificate was created; she wrote the first draft proposal for a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies; and she navigated through the departments first Internal Academic Review. The Department of Women’s Studies added an M.A. program in Gender Studies in September 2009.

The Department of University Services was created in 1971 by Principal John J. Deutsch to bring together a number of services. This included the office of the Conference Coordinator, room booking and timetabling office, all services provided by Administrative Services, the Division of Concerts and the newly established office of Coordinator of Social Arrangements (Olive Higdon). George Wattsford was appointed as director in 1971, a position he held until the dismantling of the department in 1976.

Philosophy professor John Watson taught Queen's first courses in psychology in the 1870s, though courses in the precursor of psychology, mental philosophy, had been taught since the 1850s. Psychology became an increasingly important part of the Department of Philosophy's work in the 1920s and 1930s, thanks to the distinguished Professor of Psychology, George Humphrey, who left Queen's in 1947, to take up Oxford's first Chair of Experimental Psychology. A separate Department of Psychology was founded in 1949, with just three faculty members. The Department has grown enormously since that time. It now has more than 35 faculty, offers its introductory course to more than 1800 students, and has the largest PhD program at Queen's. It occupies two large buildings, Humphrey Hall (named after George Humphrey), and the Craine building (after Agnes Craine). It offers a broad range of courses and conducts research in all the main areas of psychology, including perception, cognition, learning and motivation and their biological underpinnings, child development, individual differences, social psychology, and behaviour disorders. It is part of the Faculty of Arts and Science.

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The Queen's University Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology traces its history to the founding of the Faculty of Medicine in 1855, when J.P. Litchfield was appointed Professor of Midwifery and Forensic and State Medicine. When Queen's officials discovered to their shock that Litchfield was not qualified to teach midwifery - indeed, he had never even attended a birth - they removed him from his post.

He was replaced in 1861 by Michael Lavell, who held the post of Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. Obstetrics and Gynaecology were taught in conjunction with Children's Medicine until well into this century. The Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology was established as a separate unit in 1928.

Today, the department is centred in Kingston General Hospital, where practising faculty provide care for patients, conduct research, and teach. Major changes over the years include the expansion of pre-natal care and the development of a birthing centre in the hospital.