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Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is a creative and interactive learning environment where our students acquire the skills they need to engage critically and constructively with our society. With 14 undergraduate degree programmes and a range of postgraduate degree programmes on offer, students have the opportunity to develop as intellectually curious, independent, and informed thinkers, as well as engaged citizens.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Food and Sanitary Wear Drive

We are excited to announce the launch of our food bank and sanitary pads drive for FASS. This drive aims to address the issue of food insecurity among our students. Following a recent survey conducted to assess the need for support among our students and a sandwich...

Confronted by ethical issues is your profession? Pursue an MPhil in Applied Ethics in 2025.

MPhil specialisation fields: Bioethics, Business Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, or Social and Political Ethics. These programme streams aim to engage the challenges of a developing nation by equipping professionals in in the fields of...

Overview of types of African Languages postgraduate Honours, Master’s and PhD study fields and their value to professional development and careers.

Overview of types of postgraduate Honours, Master’s and PhD study fields and their value to professional development and careers requiring scholarly? knowledge and competencies? of African languages. The Department of African Languages at Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 has...

The mental health crisis in Gaza by Dr. Diab

中国体育彩票 the talk DR MARWAN DIAB TUESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2024 13:00-14:00   Hybrid event In person Room 3002, Krotoa Building Online Join the meeting now The Gaza Strip, besieged by decades of conflict and deprivation, presents one of the most challenging environments...

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CREDO Launches Democracy Essay Award for Undergraduates in South African Universities

CREDO Launches Democracy Essay Award for Undergraduates in South African Universities To advance the study of democracy by African students, the Centre for Research on Democracy (CREDO) at Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 is pleased to announce the third edition of our annual...

Drama Student, Courtney Schelhase, Riding the Wave of Success at this Year’s Waveski Surfing Championship in East London

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences first-year drama student, Courtney Schelhase, proved that she is more than just a drama queen and bagged herself podium position number three in the Ladies Junior division and placed in ninth position overall in the Women’s Open...

Department of Social Work Alumna and Benefactor, Dr Orton and her Family, Visit Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票

On 29 July 2024, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Department of Social Work pulled out all the stops to host a luncheon in honour of Dr Dianne Orton and her family. Dr Orton is an alumna and, along with her late husband, Gordon Howard, a long-standing...

Call for Contributions [En]countering Transformation!

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS [En]countering Transformation! 1-2 November 2024 Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study The critical scope of this symposium is staked out by the notion of [en]counter: to attend to transformative encounters and energies sparking...

Reading Biko and Race in the Afterlife of Colonial-Apartheid

CIRCoRe invitation - Joel Modiri seminars We invite you to two seminars that the Committee for the Institutional Response to the [Khampepe] Commission’s Recommendations (CIRCoRe) will be hosting, with guest speaker Professor Joel Modiri in conversation with CIRCoRe...

Our research, teaching and learning, and social impact initiatives are focused on understanding the challenges of being human in an interconnected and complex world.

We are interested in human ideas, human behaviour and human creativity. We study how human beings think, reason and communicate, how we live together in families in societies, and how we design our environment, deal with information, and express ourselves in language, literature and the creative arts. We also investigate human history and consider what the future might look like, and what it ought to look like.

Our teaching and research are internationally recognised, while remaining relevant to the region, country and continent.

Our degree programmes

We offer 14 undergraduate degree programmes and a wide range of Honours, Master’s and doctoral programmes. Postgraduate students are supervised by highly rated researchers, while our Graduate School provides them with the necessary support required to complete their degrees with success.

Our research

Our Faculty boasts one DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence, four NRF SARChI chairs funded by the national Department of Science and Innovation, and 79 researchers rated by the National Research Foundation (NRF). These researchers are recognised by their peers as having made a substantial and significant contribution through their research.

Our social impact

Through our social impact work, the Faculty makes a considerable contribution towards realising Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票’s goal of becoming Africa’s leading research-intensive university producing inclusive and innovative research in service of society.

Learn more about social impact at Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 HERE.

Why a BA degree?

Our social and political world, our environment, and the world of work are all changing rapidly. To meet the uncertainties and ambiguities of the present and future, we need knowledge workers who are able to understand and solve complex issues, interpret and analyse data, imagine and create solutions, and find meaning in our new ways of living. A BA degree will not prepare you for a single career path; it will equip you with the foundational knowledge and analytical thinking skills that are highly prized in a wide variety of workplaces, and that allows for flexible career pathways. Expect to receive a well-rounded education that will enable you to learn, grow and flourish as a person.

Graduate School

The?Graduate School is an initiative of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. It facilitates and administers the awarding of international postgraduate Masters and Doctoral scholarships across departments within the Faculty.

The School aims to provide a supportive space that is dynamic and collegial and that enables students to engage with research that addresses the challenges of our time.

Global partnerships

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences has research networks and strategic partnerships with universities across Africa and the rest of the globe. Our partnership agreements make student and faculty exchanges and joint degrees, workshops and summer schools, short courses and other collaborative projects possible. Read more about our current partnerships HERE.

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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Food and Sanitary Wear Drive

We are excited to announce the launch of our food bank and sanitary pads drive for FASS. This drive aims to address the issue of food insecurity among our students. Following a recent survey conducted to assess the need for support among our students and a sandwich...

Confronted by ethical issues is your profession? Pursue an MPhil in Applied Ethics in 2025.

MPhil specialisation fields: Bioethics, Business Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, or Social and Political Ethics. These programme streams aim to engage the challenges of a developing nation by equipping professionals in in the fields of...

Overview of types of African Languages postgraduate Honours, Master’s and PhD study fields and their value to professional development and careers.

Overview of types of postgraduate Honours, Master’s and PhD study fields and their value to professional development and careers requiring scholarly? knowledge and competencies? of African languages. The Department of African Languages at Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 has...

The mental health crisis in Gaza by Dr. Diab

中国体育彩票 the talk DR MARWAN DIAB TUESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2024 13:00-14:00   Hybrid event In person Room 3002, Krotoa Building Online Join the meeting now The Gaza Strip, besieged by decades of conflict and deprivation, presents one of the most challenging environments...

CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS 2025 ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION “TURNING THE TIDE” MASTERS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 2025(Closing date: 31 October 2024)

CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS 2025 ?????ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION “TURNING THE TIDE" MASTERS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 2025 The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 is pleased to announce, in partnership with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a...

CREDO Launches Democracy Essay Award for Undergraduates in South African Universities

CREDO Launches Democracy Essay Award for Undergraduates in South African Universities To advance the study of democracy by African students, the Centre for Research on Democracy (CREDO) at Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 is pleased to announce the third edition of our annual...

Drama Student, Courtney Schelhase, Riding the Wave of Success at this Year’s Waveski Surfing Championship in East London

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences first-year drama student, Courtney Schelhase, proved that she is more than just a drama queen and bagged herself podium position number three in the Ladies Junior division and placed in ninth position overall in the Women’s Open...

Department of Social Work Alumna and Benefactor, Dr Orton and her Family, Visit Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票

On 29 July 2024, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Department of Social Work pulled out all the stops to host a luncheon in honour of Dr Dianne Orton and her family. Dr Orton is an alumna and, along with her late husband, Gordon Howard, a long-standing...

Call for Contributions [En]countering Transformation!

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS [En]countering Transformation! 1-2 November 2024 Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study The critical scope of this symposium is staked out by the notion of [en]counter: to attend to transformative encounters and energies sparking...

Reading Biko and Race in the Afterlife of Colonial-Apartheid

CIRCoRe invitation - Joel Modiri seminars We invite you to two seminars that the Committee for the Institutional Response to the [Khampepe] Commission’s Recommendations (CIRCoRe) will be hosting, with guest speaker Professor Joel Modiri in conversation with CIRCoRe...

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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票
Private Bag X1
Matieland 7602

Phone: 021 808-2138
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Arts and Social Sciences Building
Room 492
Merriman Avenue and Van Ryneveld Street?

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