Welcome to the School of History and Philosophy

Our school is one of Australia's leading humanities schools and is also one of five research and teaching schools in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University of New South Wales. We are located in the Library Lawn precinct of UNSW’s vibrant Kensington campus, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. (Campus map)

Our teaching programs and courses anchor the UNSW Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree, and we coordinate several of the ‘majors’ within the BA. The School hosts three key disciplines:

• History
• Philosophy
• History and Philosophy of Science (HPS)

We also contribute to streams of teaching and research in:

• Americas Studies
• Archaeology and Pre Modern Studies
• Asian Studies
• Australian Studies
• Environmental Policy and Management (Environmental Studies)
• European Studies
• Jewish Studies
• Women's and Gender Studies

In our teaching and research activities, we use the methodologies of history and philosophy to explore:

• Historical, cultural and political contexts for today’s pressing social issues.
• The moral and ethical basis for human choice and decision-making.
• How and why social change occurs.
• Human responsibility for social systems, places and environments.
• Links between human values and knowledge production.
• The social context of science and technology.

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