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The Faculty of Humanities at UJ is about human connections, multiple moments of meaningful messages between human beings! We are committed to high quality programmes, innovative and committed teaching through blended platforms.
The University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Humanities Research Centre serves as a dynamic hub for interdisciplinary research and scholarly collaboration. It promotes critical inquiry into pressing social, political, cultural, and economic issues affecting South Africa, the continent, and the globe.
The Faculty of Humanities at UJ provides a dynamic teaching and learning environment structured around comprehensive undergraduate, postgraduate, and short-learning programmes across disciplines like psychology, sociology, languages, social work, and community development.
The Division for Global Engagement at the University of Johannesburg steers the university’s internationalisation strategy. It works across multiple fronts to cultivate global partnerships, support international student recruitment, and enrich academic and research collaborations worldwide.
The Faculty of Humanities Annual Reports offer a comprehensive overview of the faculty’s yearly achievements and developments, across teaching, learning, research, and institutional partnerships.
The Faculty of Humanities at UJ actively contributes to several United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through its research, teaching, and public engagement strategies.
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The Faculty of Humanities at UJ is about human connections – multiple moments of meaningful messages between human beings! We are committed to high quality programmes; innovative and committed teaching through blended platforms; illustrious research outputs in high-impact journals; public, intellectual activities and community engagement; and an intellectually stimulating and culturally diverse environment which encourages students to overcome perceived obstacles and to make their academic dreams come true.
Humanities has authors, communicators, deep thinkers, activists, poets, dreamers and doers all working together in one collective, inspired group of committed teaching and Faculty support staff with national, regional and global networks!
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