Faculty of Social Sciences

The Faculty of Social Sciences was established in 1967 and has since undergone rapid expansion and transformation. The faculty comprises the departments of Geography, Politics and Public Administration, Psychology, Social Work and Social Administration, and Sociology, and Journalism and Media Studies Centre. It also has six multidisciplinary research centres that provide a platform for research interaction and collaboration among colleagues on campus and further afield.

The Faculty offers six full-time first-degree programmes with a total enrolment of more than 1,500 students. The undergraduate programmes aim to provide a broad education and establish a foundation for lifelong learning. The faculty has made a major commitment to multidisciplinary education in the conviction that, as scholars, we increase the power brought to bear on a problem by combining ideas, methods and approaches from many disciplines. As educators, we have an obligation to prepare students to bring this approach to the problems they will face at the University and beyond, and to look naturally to problem-solving approaches at the intersection of different bodies of knowledge.