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Our departments and centres

Departments

Our 18 departments are divided into three broad disciplinary groups, namely Arts, Languages and Social Sciences.

Arts

  • Drama
  • Music
  • Visual Arts

Languages

  • African Languages
  • Afrikaans and Dutch
  • Ancient Studies
  • English
  • General Linguistics
  • Modern Foreign Languages

Social Sciences

  • Geography and Environmental Studies
  • History
  • Information Science
  • Journalism
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Social Work
  • Sociology and Social Anthropology

Centres

We have 14 research and service centres in the Faculty that frequently work across the boundaries of disciplinary groups and departments.

  • Africa Open Institute
  • Centre for Applied Ethics 
  • Centre for Community Psychology Services​
  • Centre for Geographical Analysis
  • Centre for Information Integrity
  • Centre for International and Comparative Politics
  • South African Research Chair in Science Communication (SciCOM)
  • Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST)
  • Centre for Regional and Urban Innovation and Statistical Exploration (CRUISE) 
  • Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and Reparative Quest (AVReQ)
  • DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and STI Policy (SciSTIP)

  • HUMARGA
  • Graduate School
  • Research Alliance for Disaster and Risk Reduction (RADAR)
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