Newcastle University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Type Faculty
Established1871 (1871) as Armstrong College
Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Nigel Harkness [1]
Location, ,
Colours   Old Gold
Affiliations Newcastle University
Website www.ncl.ac.uk/hass

The Newcastle University Faculty of Humanities and Social Science (HaSS) is the largest of the three faculties at Newcastle University.

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In its current form, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science contains nine schools, a graduate school and a language centre (INTO). [2]

The faculty offers over seventy undergraduate degrees, postgraduate degrees and research opportunities, and has a number of research centres.

Schools

The ten schools within the faculty are:

Research centres

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References

  1. "Executive Office". ncl.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
  2. "About". Newcastle University HSS. Retrieved 18 December 2011.