Welcome to the Faculty of Humanities
Here we educate more than 1,500 students a year and offer 46 higher education programmes in languages, education, culture, history, design, information and communication and much more.
As a faculty, we are committed to conducting both applied and basic research, as well as collaborating with and contributing to the world around us – locally, nationally and globally.
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Ask the Expert
29.10.2024
Award-winning Atwood demonstrates the ethical and political potential of literature
Author Margaret Atwood receives the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award for her narratively superior and socially critical writing. We asked Associate Professor of Literature Emily Hogg why Atwood is such a recognised voice in literature.
NEW JOB
21.06.2024
New Head of Department
The new Head of the Department of Design, Media and Educational Science will be Alexandra Holsting.
NEW JOB
21.06.2024
New Head of Department
The new Head of the Department of Design, Media and Educational Science will be Alexandra Holsting.
GRANT
08.05.2024
Germany’s and Italy’s Colonial Past: A New Voice in Collective Memory
Associate Professor Jessica Ortner has received more than DKK 6 million from Independent Research Fund Denmark for a project on German and Italian postcolonial literature.
GRANT
08.05.2024
Is writing something for me?
Many students fail in becoming good scribes in Danish compulsory school. A new research project focuses on the development of students' writing skills.
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08.05.2024
Quality of Life in the Virtual World
Professor of philosophy Søren Harnow Klausen has received almost DKK 6 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to study people's quality of life when they are immersed in a partly virtual world.
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19.01.2024
New design research project at SDU will enable sustainable transitions
CoDesign4Transitions – A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks programme
GRANT
19.01.2024
New design research project at SDU will enable sustainable transitions
CoDesign4Transitions – A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks programme
GRANT
30.11.2023
How to take care of God’s green earth?
Religious environmental movements are established worldwide, also within Islam. The Independent Research Fund Denmark has granted more than DKK 6 million to a project investigating the connection between Islam, nature, and the environment.
GRANT
23.11.2023
More than 22 million DKK granted to a European project that enhances children's cultural understanding
With the grant from Horizon Europe, the first of its kind to the Faculty of Humanities, the project EXPloring and Educating Cultural literacy Through Art (EXPECT_Art) will contribute to social change for marginalized groups in Europe by exploring new methods of developing art and cultural understanding among school children.
GRANT
14.11.2023
What about the students' well-being?
DKK 3 million from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a project that puts students' voices at the center, so that they are the ones to define how they thrive and what well-being means to them.
GRANT
14.11.2023
Dialogical Teaching to strengthen unity and learning in the classroom
Independent Research Fund Denmark grants DKK 3 million for a project to teach future schoolteachers how to use inclusive dialogues as one of the ways to a safer school culture and more learning.
GRANT
03.11.2023
Let's play future
3 million DKK granted from the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a project applying role-playing games on climate issues for children and young people.
GRANT
03.11.2023
Independent Research Fund Denmark grants DKK 3 million for a project that will strengthen high school students' engagement with climate issues
The latest reports on climate change from the UN's IPCC panel have shown that when young people are active and engaged in climate issues, it influences politicians who are more supportive of actions that fight climate change.
GRANT
29.09.2023
More than 3 million Danish kroner granted by the Independent Research Fund Denmark for a project to help grieving children
Every year, 2,000 children under the age of 18 lose a parent. Young children usually find it difficult to put the grief they are going through into words, so the project is based on the idea that creative and nonverbal means of expression can help the children process the grief.
GRANT
28.06.2023
6.7 million Danish kroner granted from the VELUX FOUNDATION to a project on The Aesthetics of Bio-Machines and the Question of Life
What constitutes life? Today we are surrounded by life-like digital technologies such as virtual assistants, generative computer systems, and adaptive robots. These new digital technologies represent a form of life and coexist closely with us. They raise the question whether we can consider them "alive" and how we, as humans, coexist with these life-forms.
GRANT
28.06.2023
The Velux Foundation grants nearly 5 million kroner to a project on improving communication to enhance sexual health and equality
"Let's talk about sex, baby" Salt-N-Peppa once sang, but doing so might not be as easy as we think. In Denmark, we pride ourselves on living in a society characterised by sexual equality, open-mindedness and access to knowledge. However, recent research raises doubts about sexual health in Denmark. Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours related to sexuality are reflected in and shaped by communication. The project addresses ignorance and inequality regarding sexual health in Denmark from a communicative perspective.
language
20.04.2023
Starting early with foreign languages does not necessarily enhance learning
Younger does not necessarily mean better when it comes to learning English. This is according to the findings of an interdisciplinary research project that has followed two groups of children over a number of years.
After COVID 19
15.11.2022
INSPECT Societal Security after COVID 19
The restrictions and insecurities following from COVID 19 have negatively affected many students' learning and well-being. The INSPECT project (INSPECT Societal Security after COVID 19 - Inquiring Nordic Strategies, Practices, Educational Consequences and Trajectories ) offers solid knowledge about the long-term consequences of COVID 19 that can help the Nordic schools to maintain their strong traditions.
After COVID 19
15.11.2022
INSPECT Societal Security after COVID 19
The restrictions and insecurities following from COVID 19 have negatively affected many students' learning and well-being. The INSPECT project (INSPECT Societal Security after COVID 19 - Inquiring Nordic Strategies, Practices, Educational Consequences and Trajectories ) offers solid knowledge about the long-term consequences of COVID 19 that can help the Nordic schools to maintain their strong traditions.
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Donation
01.09.2022
New Nordic humanist centre to create new understandings of the world’s societal challenges
Thanks to a donation from The A.P. Moller Relief Foundation, the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark will establish a new research centre: the Nordic Humanities Centre for Challenge-Based Inquiry. Based on humanistic disciplines, the Centre will contribute nuances, perspectives, new understandings and opportunities for action in relation to the major societal challenges such as the climate crisis and pandemics.
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11.08.2022
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11.08.2022
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Back to Antiquity
11.08.2022
New technology brings researchers close to the people of ancient times
Digitisation and new technology now allow researchers to access the hidden layers in ancient texts so that it is actually possible to sense the emotions of the authors and what they were thinking.
Ranking
21.04.2021
SDU is among the leading sustainable universities
The internationally recognised magazine Times Higher Education ranks SDU 23rd among 1,115 universities from around the world. The ranking is based on the universities’ sustainability activities and efforts.
Climate literature
15.03.2021
Cli-fi teaches us about the future
Climate literature is becoming one of the most prominent genres of the time. It is highlighted for its contributions to the climate debate, because it makes a future with climate change tangible for us. Students at SDU now have the chance to try out the effects of climate fiction in the competition Write the Future.
Women in research
11.03.2021
Women in research: Aglae Pizzone
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day on 8 March, please meet some of our women researchers from SDU and learn their perspectives on being a woman in research.
Women in research
10.03.2021
Women in research: Louise Nyholm Kallestrup
On the occasion of the International Women’s Day on 8 March, please meet some of our women researchers from SDU and learn their perspectives on being a woman in research.
Everyday dilemmas
22.06.2020
Can theatre help climate change?
Students have been involved in improvised theatre to become aware of how to live more sustainably. Behind the project are researchers from SDU and they are impressed with the young people's dedication.
plagiarism
21.06.2019
3 things you should know about SDUs plagiarism checker
The exam period is under way, and this means that you should be aware of plagiarism amongst your students.
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