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The Department of Film Studies at Queen's began in the 1960s when Dr. George Whalley, Head of the Department of English, saw a need to give academic attention to the important place that cinema had come to take in modern life. He appointed the Canadian film critic and scholar, Peter Harcourt to teach film classes in the English Department. A separate Department of Film Studies was established in 1969, and by the mid-1970s, offered students a BA (Honours) program in film. The Department combines historical and critical studies with production courses in film and video, on the premise that graduates should be well-versed in both the contexts and the techniques of the art. The two converted Victorian houses at 154/160 Stuart Street that house the Department contain classrooms and offices, cinemas, workshops, and viewing rooms packed with editing machines, advanced computing technology, laserdisc hardware, digital editing technology, and video cameras. A growing archive of films, video cassettes, video discs, and DVDs that includes significant collections of work by Canadian filmmakers such as Michael Snow, Allan King, and Atom Egoyan, provides material for instruction and research. At its 26 April 2007 meeting, the University Senate approved the proposal to change the name of the Department of Film Studies to the Department of Film and Media, effective 1 May 2007.

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The study of electricity began at Queen's in 1894, with a special series of lectures and, as the calendar boasted, "demonstrations of this wonderful form of energy...on telegraphy, telephony, electric lighting, and the driving of machinery." Queen's first real specialist in electricity, L.W. Gill, arrived at the University in 1900, and is generally considered the founder of the Department of Electrical Engineering. Electrical studies have changed drastically since then, but the Department's late Victorian goal to study "electricity in all its variations" still holds. The Department now teaches and conducts research in such fields as communications, fibre-optics, micro-electronics, power and transportation, electromagnetism, biomedicine, and electronic signal and image processing. There are approximately 25 full-time faculty in the Department, which has been located, since 1987, in Walter Light Hall [named after one of the Department's most successful graduates, Walter Light, former CEO of Northern Telecom, and Chair of Queen's Board of Trustees (1985-1990)], and the Stewart-Pollack Wing of Fleming Hall. The Department is part of the Faculty of Applied Science.

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Latin and Greek have been subjects of instruction and research at Queen's since the University held its first classes in March of 1842. The first professor the University ever hired, in fact, was a Professor of Classics, the Reverend Peter Colin Campbell. Classics were at the core of the Arts curriculum throughout the 19th century and were considered indispensable to a complete education. Early on, the focus was exclusively on Latin and Greek grammar and translation, but by the 1860s, there were lectures on "subjects connected with Grecian Literature and History," and by 1900, professors were enlivening their classes with social commentary and literary appreciation. As the century progressed, the Department lost much of its central position at the University, as educational philosophy and ideals changed. But there has been a strong revival of interest in recent years. Undergraduate registration has increased dramatically since 1980, and the number of MA students has grown tenfold. The Department has a number of permanent faculty, and their areas of interest include Greek archaeology (Attica, Crete, Peleponnesus), Greek philosophy and literature, Roman history, and Latin literature. Women's history, Japanese art, and comparative studies of Canadian literature have also become research interests in recent years. The Department is located in John Watson Hall, and is part of the Faculty of Arts and Science.
Adapted from the "Queen's Encyclopedia".

Civil Engineering first appeared in a Queen's Course Calendar in the 1850s; the earliest mention of any engineering courses at the University. However, these courses were only the result of wishful thinking; Queen's had neither the facilities, nor the professors to teach the subject at the time and, not surprisingly, no students registered for the courses. The real beginning of Civil Engineering had to wait until the establishment of the Queen's-affiliated Ontario School of Mining and Agriculture in 1893. Robert Carr-Harris, a professor at the Royal Military College, taught the first courses in the subject that year, coming over from RMC for several hours each week. Work in the Department originally focussed on structural and railway engineering and surveying, with hydraulics and highway engineering being added in the early decades of this century. Today, faculty in the Department teach and conduct research in five main areas of engineering: Environmental, Geotechnical, Hydrotechnical, Structural, and Transportation; utilizing mathematical modelling with computer simulation, physical model studies in various laboratories, and field studies. One of the Department's most visible activities is the Survey School for first year students after final exams, during which Queen's is crowded with students taking physical measurements of the campus. The Department, which has close to 20 full-time faculty, has been housed in Ellis Hall since 1958.