Studies

The Faculty of Humanities offers over 40 subjects, of which 13 lead to graduation in the field.
The students are selected either to degree programmes

• Information studies
• Logopedics

or major subjects

• Archaeology
• Cultural anthropology
• English philology
• Finnish language
• German philology
• History
• History of Science and Ideas
• Literature
• Nordic philology
• Saami culture
• Saami language

Furthermore, there is a Master’s Degree Programmes in the faculty: Master's Degree Programme in Science Communication.

Studying in the Faculty of Humanities is relatively free. In many fields of study the students can build up their degree depending on where their interests lay. This means that they can also choose minor subjects freely from the Faculty of  Humanities, from other faculties at the University of Oulu, or from other universities in Finland or abroad.

All students graduating from the Faculty receive automatically and free of charge the Diploma Supplement (DS). DS is a document attached to a higher education diploma. It is designed to provide a description of the nature, level, context, content and status of the studies that were successfully completed by the individual named on the original qualification to which this supplement is appended.