About the Faculty of Humanities

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oulu is the northernmost of its kind in Finland, providing teaching and research in practically all the academic disciplines concerned with achievements in the humanities: history, language and linguistics, cultural studies and literature. The Faculty offers a wide variety of teaching and possesses a definite character of its own, two subjects having the only professorial chair in Finland, namely the History of Science and Ideas, and Saami (Lappish) Language and Saami Culture.

In addition to these, the main subjects in the Faculty are Cultural Anthropology, English Philology, Finnish Language, Archaeology, German Philology, History, Information Studies, Literature, Logopedics, and Nordic Philology. A choice of almost 30 subsidiary subjects is available, e.g. philosophy, film studies, language technology, art history, Estonian language, French language, phonetics and general linguistics.

The Faculty of Humanities has more than 2.200 students and a teaching, research and auxiliary staff of about 160.

The Faculty of Humanities is responsible for the education of Saami language teachers in Finland. This is organized in the Giellagas Institute.

The Faculty of Humanities has pioneered new teaching methods and examination procedures and encourages students to make an active contribution to its ongoing research programmes. In addition, 'tutor groups', in which students can discuss their studies with teachers and other students, bring students and staff closer together and enable students to have direct influence upon the courses they attend.

The Faculty awards the following academic degrees:

• Bachelor of Arts
• Master of Arts
• Licentiate of Philosophy
• Doctor of Philosophy