Letter from the Dean

The Faculty of Humanities

The Faculty of Humanities comprises nineteen academic departments, including modern and ancient languages, social sciences, human sciences and the humanities, with over 150 permanent members of staff. The faculty offers more than thirty undergraduate degree programmes, catering for a wide range of study and career opportunities. Moreover, within each programme, there is ample choice, allowing students to tailor the contents of their programmes to suit their interests and needs. The courses within each programme contain information, analysis and theory that are relevant, up to date and of the highest academic standard. Academic departments offer postgraduate programmes up to doctoral level.

Intellectually, the faculty is vibrant, with a strong research output, numerous public seminars, and a healthy tradition of debate. Students are encouraged to question and explore, and to interrogate knowledge paradigms rather than simply accept them. A principal objective of the faculty is to produce graduates capable of advanced analytical and critical thinking skills, independent and progressive thinking and dynamic interventions in their chosen professions.

Professor Rory Ryan

Dean: Faculty of Humanities