Studying at the Faculty of Humanities
At the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Turku, teaching and research are closely connected. The Faculty covers a wide range of subjects in its teaching and research, and consequently, a humanist education provides a wide range of skills, relevant for teaching, for cultural work, in archives and museums, in administrative and planning capacities, and the communications media. The aim of the Faculty is to enable students to acquire a wide-ranging scholarly and critical understanding of the society.
The Faculty and its subject departments have established agreements promoting academic exchanges and collaboration with many foreign universities, and nowadays there is a lively international exchange of students as well as teaching and research staff.