Why Study here?

Our core values and aims

Teaching and Research: these activities are valued above all else within the School of Humanities and we continue to foster excellence in teaching and learning in each of our disciplines and to encourage the inter-section of teaching with research and scholarly activity. The academic staff will engage with you throughout your University career and will learn as much from your views and opinions as you will from theirs.

Inter-disciplinarity: the School of Humanities houses a fellowship of disciplines in which you may read for a single subject degree or a degree which combines disciplines in different ways. Studying modules from outside your primary discipline does not in any way weaken your specialism, indeed the contrary is the case and studying across disciplines will certainly indicate to an employer a broader more adventurous frame of mind. Whatever your degree or degree combination, you can expect to take full advantage of the vast range of expertise within the School.

Staff: our staff regularly participate in national and international conferences in their research areas and this allows them to incorporate key areas of current debate into curriculum content and design. In addition, students are encouraged to attend visiting speaker seminars across the disciplines as well as conferences and workshops hosted by the School. This extends knowledge and understanding as well as increasing familiarity with scholarly debate and what it means to be part of an academic community.

Employability: we aim to produce confident and articulate graduates who are able to contribute to the communities of which they are a part. Such contributions may take many forms, involving active participation in social, political and cultural life and work in the voluntary sector as well as conventional employment. A significant number of our students will go on to postgraduate study and some will become educators themselves. To support students in attaining these goals, we foster not only specific transferable skills but a self-reflective, critical and creative approach that we hope will inform our graduates' future projects and enhance their capacity for lifelong learning. Specific transferable skills are embedded in teaching across all modules and levels. This reflects the School's awareness of the complexity of society's needs in the 21st Century.

The Location

Breathtaking scenery surrounds you in Dundee. To the north and west, the Scottish mountains and lochs, a beautiful coastline of sandy beaches to the south and east, and some 1,300 acres of parkland in the immediate vicinity.

Dundee's setting is probably more extraordinary than any other city in Scotland or Britain...it is about as ideal, ludicrously ideal, as any city setting could be. Stephen Fry, former Rector of the University

The city has excellent communications links by road, rail and air to major centres in Scotland and the UK ...in fact, 90% of Scotland's population live within 90 minutes drive of Dundee, not that you'd know it from all the open space around here.

With a population of around 150,000 Dundee supports all of the activities expected of a major city but is small enough not to be overwhelming or impersonal.

Be In-shape

We have some of the most modern and extensive indoor sports facilities of all Scottish universities through the Institute of Sports and Exercise (ise). 

The ISE's facilities include two large sports halls for all court games; a Physical Conditioning Room; Performance Assessment Unit; 3 squash courts; and a 25 metre, four-lane, swimming pool (including sauna and sunbed facility).

Outdoor facilities include 4 newly resurfaced floodlit tennis courts and a 33-acre sports ground with changing rooms and a pavilion for social use, together with a floodlit training area