The term faculty has two major meanings that can be quite different from each other. One of the most common and used meanings of this term is the one that refers to the higher level educational establishment in which certain types of specific knowledge are taught, related to particular areas of study. Then, there is the very common meaning also that links the word faculty with the idea of ability or capacity that a person may have.
Someone's ability
We could say that the first of the two meanings indicated is the consequence of the first. While we speak of faculty as a skill or capacity of a person, the faculty as an institution will be the place in which a person is empowered with respect to certain knowledge. The faculties or abilities of an individual can be very varied, some being really scientific and academic and others of them simply facilities or abilities of the person. Normally, the notion of faculty in this sense can be used to refer to skills that require knowledge (for example, when someone has the faculty to work or exercise the position of doctor) as well as those that do not require them and that are pre-existing (for example, For example, the ability to feel certain sensations, to perform certain physical activities).
Characteristics of educational faculties
When we speak of faculty in the educational sense, we refer to that institution that has higher-level education, that is, for a person to become empowered in something. The faculties are always a unit that together forms the larger institution, which would be the university. Each university or higher-level educational institution has several faculties that are organized and grouped according to the specific type of knowledge that is transmitted in them. For example, the Faculty of Medicine, Law, Engineering, Social Sciences, Exact Sciences, etc. In general, each faculty is a world apart and cannot be easily compared even with the rest of the faculties of the same university. This has to do with the way in which the deans or higher authorities manage and govern them, their interests, the available budget, the number of students, the building and venues, etc.
Normally a faculty teaches a degree or several that have a relationship. Without a doubt, colleges are the educational centers of training par excellence at the university level, which is considered worldwide as the highest level of study after primary and secondary school.
A profession is studied that will later be the sustenance of life
What an individual studies in the faculty, generally, has to do with an interest or inclination for the career in question, that is, there is not a compulsory nature as there is with basic education. In the faculty, students study what they like, for what they feel most predisposed and that training will surely be the one that will help them to perform professionally in the future and that this profession is precisely their way of life.
Right to do something
And on the other hand, the concept can also be used to designate that power or right that one has to do a certain thing. "Due to his age, he still does not have the power to leave the country without the corresponding authorization from his parents."
In legal matters, the faculty implies the attribution of a right, which is written in a regulation, and which enables someone to do or not do something, always within the legal framework, and that then it will not suffer consequences.
What is especially not prohibited through a rule will be allowed and then people will be able to do everything that does not contradict the law.
Continuing in the same context we will also say that whoever is not qualified to carry out a certain legal act, if he perpetrates it, specifies it, it will not be valid.
Power to carry out an activity
And the concept is also often used to designate that someone has certain power to carry out some activity. Thus a doctor will have the power to diagnose and prescribe a treatment and medications to a patient if he considers it so. The lawyer, for his part, will be empowered to assist in the defense of that person who demands his legal representation.
