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Location
  
London, United Kingdom

Address
  
Al Wehda, Homs‎, Syria

University College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Dean
  
Professor Jonathan Wolff

Administrative staff
  
180 (Academic and research staff (as at October 2009))

Students
  
2,034 (Undergraduate (2008/09)) 826 (Graduate (2008/09))

Website
  
UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities

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The Faculty of Arts and Humanities (popularly known as UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities) is one of the 11 constituent faculties of University College London (UCL).

Contents

The current Executive Dean is Professor Jonathan Wolff.

History

In October 2013 it was announced that the Translation Studies Unit of Imperial College London would move to UCL, becoming part of the UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society.

Departments

The Faculty currently comprises the following departments:

UCL School of European Languages, Society and Culture (SELCS), which constitutes:

  • UCL Department of Dutch
  • UCL Department of French
  • UCL Department of German
  • UCL Department of Italian
  • UCL Department of Scandinavian Studies
  • UCL Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies

    • In addition the Faculty comprises:

  • UCL Department of Arts and Sciences
  • UCL Department of English Language and Literature
  • UCL Department of European Social and Political Sciences
  • UCL Department of Greek & Latin
  • UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
  • UCL Department of Information Studies
  • UCL Department of Philosophy
  • UCL Slade School of Fine Art

    • Research

    The Faculty is currently home to or closely involved with the following research centres and institutes:

  • UCL Centre for Digital Humanities
  • UCL Centre for European Studies
  • UCL Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research
  • UCL Centre for Intercultural Studies
  • UCL Centre for Italian Studies
  • UCL Centre for Publishing
  • Cultural Informatics Research Centre for the Arts and Humanities
  • Institute of Jewish Studies
  • International Centre for Archives and Records Management Research and User Studies
  • Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art

    • BASc Arts and Sciences programme

    UCL began intake in 2012 of a new interdisciplinary, undergraduate degree called Arts and Sciences. It is part of the UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The degree offers a bespoke programme incorporating both arts and sciences specialisms with students graduating with a Bachelors in Arts and Sciences (abbreviated as BASc). The programme offers material from almost all UCL departments, including new modules specifically designed for the course by leading UCL academics.

    Rankings

    In the 2013 QS World University Rankings, UCL was ranked 8th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for Arts and Humanities. In the 2014 QS World University Rankings by Subject, UCL was ranked 15th in the world (and 4th in Europe) for English Language and Literature, 8th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for Modern Languages and joint 51st-100th in the world (and joint 16th in Europe) for Philosophy. In the 2016/2017 QS World University Rankings, UCL is currently ranked 7th in the world. It also holds its highest historical ranking for Arts and Humanities at 4th in the world, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

    References

    University College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities Wikipedia
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