Welcome to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Underpinning all our courses are certain basic principles which are important in all our activities:

A commitment to quality
An active learning environment
Choice
An up-to-date education
Equal opportunites
Broad access to students from diverse backgrounds
Personal care and attention
Staff-student relations
Facts and figures
The Faculty is home to over 84 full-time and 503 part-time postgraduates following taught degrees (MA and MSc) and 16 full-time and 85 part-time research students reading for MPhil or PhD degrees. All our students are based on the University's Guildhall campus in the centre of Portsmouth close to the University library.

The Faculty includes the following departments and schools:

School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies
School of Languages and Area Studies
School of Education and Continuing Studies
Institute for Criminal Justice Studies
Postgraduate Research work within the Faculty is organised by the cross-Faculty Centre of Postgraduate Studies.