Faculty of Humanities

Departments

Research centres

Centre for Medieval Studies

Centre for Women’s and Gender Research

Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities

The Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre (GAMUT)

Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic studies

Welcome to the Faculty of Humanities!

The Faculty of Humanities is a multidisciplinary faculty that currently teaches more than 3700 students and offers a substantial number of programmes leading to a wide range of academic and professional qualifications. These cover a variety of disciplines within the areas of philosophy, language studies, history and cultural studies, aesthetic and literary studies, and music and artistic research.

LINGUISTICS

The Russian language enters a new world

The political turmoil in Russia in the nineties was followed by a digital and linguistic revolution. Now President Putin wants to reclaim the language as a tool of power.
ARCHAEOLOGY

Symbols in a cave

Archaeological finds in South Africa shed new light on early human's abilities to adapt to climate change.
AESTHETICS

New art on campus

– A surrealistic and figurative approach, says art historian Siri Meyer about the new mural created by the Argentine street artist Jaz on the UiB campus.
INTERNATIONALISATION

Meeting foreign cultures

To fully participate in the business world of tomorrow, knowledge of language and culture needs to move beyond English.
DIGITAL SUDAN

Preserving Sudan’s television archive

The University of Bergen (UiB) is set to lead a project to scan, digitise and preserve the audio-visual archives of the Sudan Radio and Television Corporation.