Wecome to the Faculty of Humanities

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand is one of the leading centres of undergraduate and postgraduate studies and research in South Africa and Africa. The Faculty seeks to creatively and critically engage with its location in Johannesburg, arguably South Africa’s most globally networked city, which has dynamic political, social, economic and cultural links to Africa and the world. Academics in the Faculty have a wide range of links, which include collaborative research with other leading scholars in universities in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East. The Faculty offers a wide range of programmes, some of which are vocationally oriented and lead to careers in specific professions, while others are theory and research oriented and impart critical analytical skills that open up to a range of careers in academia and research institutes, the public and private sectors and non-governmental organisations alike. Most of our programmes seek to be at the cutting edge of postgraduate studies by taking innovative multi-disciplinary, cross-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches, linking the arts, social sciences, natural science, law and management. Our students go through rigorous theoretical and methodological training which imparts strong research and analytical skills and enables them to adapt to the constantly changing world of work in the 21st Century. Increasingly, the Faculty attracts postgraduate students from within the South and increasingly from different parts of Africa and therefore comprises a diverse community that contributes to providing a very stimulating environment in which to study. Postgraduate students in the Faculty are taught and supervised by leading academics, who enjoy an international reputation as some of the world’s foremost research active and productive scholars. As Dean, my vision is to ensure that the Faculty of Humanities at Wits is distinguished by critical analytic approaches to knowledge production that advance democratic life and that it remains one of the most highly recognized in the country, Africa and the world. Professor Tawana Kupe Dean: Faculty of Humanities

Mandela Rhodes Scholars 2009 The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship, which includes full tuition fees and living expenses for postgraduate study, is awarded to students who excel academically and show leadership skills.  All three Wits graduates nominated for the Mandela Rhodes Scholarship last year won the award to continue their studies. Read more. RESEARCH INSTITUTES AND UNITS The Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Education Policy Programme The History Workshop The Sociology of Work Project (SWOP) The Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research (WISER)