Schools, departments and programs

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences was established in 1852 as the founding faculty of The University of Sydney, Australia's first university. The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is one of the largest faculties in the University with just under one quarter of the University€™s students enrolled in Arts degrees.

In 2011 the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will again offer a wide range of postgraduate courses, including programs designed to meet the needs for continuing professional education.

The faculty is the umbrella for four schools which, in turn, are the administrative centres for forty departments, Centres and interdisciplinary postgraduate programs.

School of Languages and Cultures

Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Asian Studies program
Buddhist Studies Program
Department of Chinese Studies
Department of French Studies
European Studies program
Department of Germanic Studies
Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies
International and Comparative Literary Studies program
Department of Indian Sub-Continental Studies
Department of Indonesian Studies
Department of Italian Studies
Department of Japanese Studies
Department of Korean Studies
Department of Modern Greek Studies
Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies

School of Letters, Art, and Media

Department of Art History and Film Studies
Celtic Studies program
Digital Cultures program
Department of English
Linguistics program
Department of Media and Communications
Centre for Medieval Studies
Department of Museum Studies
Department of Performance Studies
Department of Studies in Religion

School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry

Department of Archaeology
Department of Classics and Ancient History
Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science
Department of Gender and Cultural Studies
Department of History
Centre for Time
Department of Philosophy

School of Social and Political Sciences

Department of Anthropology
Department of Government and International Relations
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Department of Political Economy
Department of Sociology and Social Policy
Graduate School of Government
Centre for International Security Studies

The faculty also administers postgraduate coursework and research programs offered by the United States Studies Centre.

The faculty is responsible for the administration of all postgraduate enrolments, candidature records and variations, notification of the award of all degrees, and the examination of research theses. If you are intending to vary your enrolment in any way, for coursework or research candidature, you must apply to the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences office directly. Informing the school office or the academic staff member convening your course is not sufficient. Forms relating to applications to vary enrolment (adding or withdrawing from a unit of study; requesting a period of suspension; cross-listing a unit of study from outside your regular program etc) are available from the faculty office, or the faculty€™s web pages:

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Lobby H, Main Quadrangle A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

School of Economics

Merewether Building (H04), cnr City Road/Butlin Avenue
Phone: +61 2 9351 5055
Fax: +61 2 9351 4341
Website: sydney.edu.au/arts/economics