Affiliated Faculties
The links below lead to the webpages of each unit.
The Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences at Uppsala University covers the three central fields of the social sciences: behavioural science, economic sciences and political science. The faculty views its combination of breadth and depth with regard to subjects and areas of knowledge as its primary strength. The institutions that together form the Faculty are as follows: Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Department of Economic History, Department of Business Studies, Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Department of Informatics and Media, Department of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics, Department of Psychology, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Department of Economics, Department of Sociology, Department of Statistics, and the Department of Government.
At the Faculty of Law research is conducted not only in the traditional realms such as civil law, international private law, criminal law, procedural law, finance law, public law, international law and legal history and jurisprudence but also in specialized fields such as environmental law, banking law, child law, international family law, and medical law. The research is often carried out in international cooperation. Both European issues and the effects of globalization are central to the research conducted within the Faculty of Law.
The Faculty of Arts at Uppsala University contains eleven departments and a centre for research in mainly minority studies and genocide research, the Hugo Valentin Centre. Among the institutions that make the Faculty is the Department of History, the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Art History, and the Department of History of Science and Ideas. Research is also conducted in the fields of archeology and ancient history, cultural anthropology and ethnology, literature, musicology, game design, ALM and gender studies.
The Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University offers Scandinavia's most comprehensive education and research in its field. The activities range from languages spoken in the world today to languages on the verge of extinction. The institutions that together form the Faculty are as follows: the Department of English, the Department of Linguistics and Philology, the Department of Modern Languages, and the Department of Scandinavian Languages.