Newcastle University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Type Faculty
Established 1871 (1871) as Armstrong College
Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Nigel Harkness [1]
Location Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England
Colours      Old Gold
Affiliations Newcastle University
Website www.ncl.ac.uk/hss

The Newcastle University Faculty of Humanities and Social Science (HaSS) is the largest of the three faculties at Newcastle University.

In its current form, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science contains nine schools, a graduate school and a language centre (INTO).[2]

The faculty offers over seventy undergraduate degrees, postgraduate degrees and research opportunities, and has a number of research centres.

Schools

The nine schools within the faculty are:

  • Architecture, Planning & Landscape
  • Arts & Cultures
  • Newcastle University Business School
  • Education, Communication & Language Sciences
  • English Literature, Language & Linguistics
  • Geography, Politics & Sociology
  • Historical Studies
  • Newcastle Law School
  • School of Modern Languages

Research centres

  • Centre for Gender and Women's Studies
  • Centre for Learning and Teaching
  • Centre for Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Enterprise
  • Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences
  • Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies
  • Global Urban Research Unit (GURU)
  • Northern Centre for the History of Medicine
  • Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences

References

  1. ↑ "Executive Office". ncl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-24.
  2. ↑ "About". Newcastle University HSS. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
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