Welcome to the

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.

Exhibition: Followed by Nine Zeros: Experiments in Deep Time

How do we understand time, especially those cosmological and geological temporalities that far exceed our own human lives? In answer to this question, the exhibition Followed by Nine Zeros: Experiments in Deep Time explores our understanding of time and scale,...

US Drama presents??? –??? The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare?? 2025

The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare 2025 @The Adam Small Theatre Complex -?? Auditorium Stellenbosch Drama students will soon be performing a freshly minted production of?The Winter’s?Tale.?A large, diverse, and talented cast will be tackling one of Shakespeare’s...

Celebrate WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY with Journalism Department!

You’re Invited!Join us on?5 May 2025?as we commemorate?#WorldPressFreedomDay?with a powerful and timely conversation centered around?media sustainability and independence. ?? Gain valuable insights from?renowned journalists, media experts, and thought leaders?as they...

Recognize and Celebrate World Intellectual Property (IP) Day through music, creativity and innovation

Saturday, 26 April 2025 In celebration of World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, the Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 Technology Transfer Office has launched an exciting, student-focused competition that explores the intersection of music and science. This two-part competition...

Prof Swarts book (The Lion’s Historian) received an honourable mention-2025 ASSAf book awards.

  The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) recently announced the winners of the?2025 Humanities Book Prize Awards.? These awards recognise and celebrate outstanding scholarly contributions to humanist knowledge and intellectual discourse in South Africa....

“Somebody, Somewhere”, the inaugural PhD colloquium of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences showcased outstanding research projects

Doing a PhD can be a long, lonely journey no matter the field or year of study. ?The “Somebody, Somewhere” PhD colloquium, held on 1 and 2 April for all PhD students across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, under the custodianship of the Graduate School, proved...

SU students: Join the Ubuntu Learning Centre Information session

Students! Do you want to be part of Education for change and Empowerment? Join a unique and special Learning Programme focusing on incarcerated individuals in Brandvlei Correctional Centre? Through this programme Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 students will be learning with...

UNCHARTED CROSSINGS-The New Wits Artist-in Labs Programme in Context!

The Wits Artist-in-Lab programme, launched in 2023, seeks to stimulate new forms of practice and research questions for the arts and sciences through interdisciplinary engagements. In this seminar, Prof. Doherty situates the Wits initiative within similar programmes...

Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) Training in EAST AFRICA

Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) is one of very few relationship therapy models with evidence of effectiveness in diverse cultural contexts. However, most of this research has been conducted in North American and European contexts and more work needs to be...

PHD SKILLS SEMINARS

PhD skills seminar workshop! You are hereby invited to attend first PhD Skills Seminar, details below: https://arts.sun.ac.za/files/2025/02/2025_PHD-SKILLS-SEMINARS_Semester-1-.pdf

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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Exhibition: Followed by Nine Zeros: Experiments in Deep Time

How do we understand time, especially those cosmological and geological temporalities that far exceed our own human lives? In answer to this question, the exhibition Followed by Nine Zeros: Experiments in Deep Time explores our understanding of time and scale,...

US Drama presents??? –??? The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare?? 2025

The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare 2025 @The Adam Small Theatre Complex -?? Auditorium Stellenbosch Drama students will soon be performing a freshly minted production of?The Winter’s?Tale.?A large, diverse, and talented cast will be tackling one of Shakespeare’s...

Celebrate WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY with Journalism Department!

You’re Invited!Join us on?5 May 2025?as we commemorate?#WorldPressFreedomDay?with a powerful and timely conversation centered around?media sustainability and independence. ?? Gain valuable insights from?renowned journalists, media experts, and thought leaders?as they...

Recognize and Celebrate World Intellectual Property (IP) Day through music, creativity and innovation

Saturday, 26 April 2025 In celebration of World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, the Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 Technology Transfer Office has launched an exciting, student-focused competition that explores the intersection of music and science. This two-part competition...

Prof Swarts book (The Lion’s Historian) received an honourable mention-2025 ASSAf book awards.

  The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) recently announced the winners of the?2025 Humanities Book Prize Awards.? These awards recognise and celebrate outstanding scholarly contributions to humanist knowledge and intellectual discourse in South Africa....

“Somebody, Somewhere”, the inaugural PhD colloquium of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences showcased outstanding research projects

Doing a PhD can be a long, lonely journey no matter the field or year of study. ?The “Somebody, Somewhere” PhD colloquium, held on 1 and 2 April for all PhD students across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, under the custodianship of the Graduate School, proved...

SU students: Join the Ubuntu Learning Centre Information session

Students! Do you want to be part of Education for change and Empowerment? Join a unique and special Learning Programme focusing on incarcerated individuals in Brandvlei Correctional Centre? Through this programme Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 students will be learning with...

UNCHARTED CROSSINGS-The New Wits Artist-in Labs Programme in Context!

The Wits Artist-in-Lab programme, launched in 2023, seeks to stimulate new forms of practice and research questions for the arts and sciences through interdisciplinary engagements. In this seminar, Prof. Doherty situates the Wits initiative within similar programmes...

Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) Training in EAST AFRICA

Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) is one of very few relationship therapy models with evidence of effectiveness in diverse cultural contexts. However, most of this research has been conducted in North American and European contexts and more work needs to be...

PHD SKILLS SEMINARS

PhD skills seminar workshop! You are hereby invited to attend first PhD Skills Seminar, details below: https://arts.sun.ac.za/files/2025/02/2025_PHD-SKILLS-SEMINARS_Semester-1-.pdf

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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
E-mail

Student Administration queries: here

Physical address:?
Arts and Social Sciences Building
Room 492
Merriman Avenue and Van Ryneveld Street?

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