University College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities is one of the 11 constituent faculties of University College London. The current Executive Dean is Professor Stella Bruzzi, FBA.

WWW ucl.ac.uk/ah

History

In October 2013 it was announced that the Translation Studies Unit of Imperial College London would move to UCL, becoming part of the UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society.

Departments

The Faculty currently comprises the following departments:

UCL Department of Arts and Sciences
UCL Department of English Language and Literature
UCL Department of European and International Social and Political Sciences
UCL Department of Greek & Latin
UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
UCL Department of Information Studies
UCL Department of Philosophy
School of European Languages, Culture & Society
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
UCL Slade School of Fine Art
Institute of Advanced Studies

SELCS offers the widest range of language-based degrees in the UK, with programmes in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Scandinavian, Iberian and Latin American Studies as well as cutting-edge interdisciplinary programmes in Comparative Literature, Early Modern, European, Film, Health, Gender, Race and Translation Studies.

Research

The impacts of UCL Arts & Humanities research on the wider world have been recognised in the Research Excellence Framework 2021. The Faculty of Arts and Humanities, was ranked 6th in the UK in terms of Research Power in the REF2021.

Rankings

In the 2013 QS World University Rankings, UCL was ranked 8th in the world for Arts and Humanities. In the 2014 QS World University Rankings by Subject, UCL was ranked 15th in the world for English Language and Literature, 8th in the world for Modern Languages and joint 51st-100th in the world for Philosophy. In the 2016/2017 QS World University Rankings, UCL is currently ranked 7th in the world. It also holds its highest historical ranking for Arts and Humanities at 4th in the world, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.