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College of Arts & Social Sciences

Our College brings together seven Schools offering a diverse range of educational and research programmes delivered by a high profile and professional academic team. Find out more about our aims and goals.

  • School of Business

    The School of Business offers a broad portfolio of courses in Business, Accountancy, Finance and Economics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

    Our courses include professionally accredited accounting and finance degrees (ACCA, CIMA, AIA, ICAI, ICAS) taught by qualified accountants, as well as leading edge courses taught by eminent academics that engage students in the latest thinking on a wide range of topics in business and economics.

  • Continuing Education

    Continuing Education is an important aspect of what we do at the University of Dundee and we are committed to providing opportunities for new learning within the local community.

     
  • School of the Environment

    At the School of the Environment, we offer a distinctive set of degree programmes, taught by research-leading staff committed to exellence and innovation in all our teaching activities.

       
  • Education, Social Work and Community Education

    Nurturing a vibrant, dynamic, international and inter-disciplinary community is at the heart of what we do in promoting excellence in the professions of teaching, social work and community education. Find out more on ESWCE website.

     
  • Graduate School of Natural Resources Law, Policy and Management

    The Graduate School’s mission is: to promote excellence in postgraduate research,teaching and management training in the field of natural resources law,policy and management and to enhance the learner’s experience by creating the best environment for academic and professional development.

     
  • School of Humanities

    The School of Humanities offers a range of degree programmes designed to provide maximum flexibility in module and programme choices for both the generalist and the specialist. The School was restructured in 2006 and is comprised of American Studies, Communication and Language Studies, English, European Studies, History, Philosophy, and Politics.

       
  • School of Psychology

    Psychology is a vibrant and expanding School in which teaching and research are carried out to a very high standard. The School of Psychology is housed in the Scrymgeour Building, an attractive traditional sandstone structure that has recently been extended by the construction of a purpose-built four-storey annexe. The annexe contains a substantial teaching laboratory as well as dedicated research laboratories and postgraduate accommodation.

     
  • School of Law

    Dynamic and outward looking, Dundee Law School seeks to achieve excellence in teaching, research and professional development.
    The Law School is the only British law school to offer qualifying degrees in Scots and English law and one of only two Law Schools in the UK to have 100% of its research rated as being of international standard in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.

College News

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Welcome to Dean of Humanities
Professor David Finkelstein will join the University in February 2012 as the new Dean of Humanities...

 

Kirsteen Shields
Young Thinker Award
Kirsteen Shields, a lecturer in the School of Law, has been named Scotland and Northern Ireland Young Thinker of the Year 2011...

 

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Launch of MLitt Theatre Studies
Our new MLitt in Theatre Studies is an innovative and engaging postgraduate degree programme....

 

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RSE young Academy
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) recently announced that it had appointed the first members of the new ‘RSE Young Academy of Scotland’....

 

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Events

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AHRI Lecture Series

The Arts and Humanities Research Institute (AHRI) lecture series takes place 9 November 2011 - 16 May 2012 with a variety of topics from the current British economic crisis to the public value of the Humanities.

 

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Spotlight

Message from VP

Another year unfolds and with it comes much promise for the University of Dundee's College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) and our seven constituent Schools. People are what make universities the places they are. When high calibre staff leave us it's always a matter of regret, although when they've gone to even more prestigious institutions elsewhere we can take some pride in the fact we appointed them in the first place and have subsequently nurtured their development........

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