The Faculty of Arts is central to the University's role of providing a broad, liberal education to the community, an integral element of the role of universities today. The Faculty is committed to excellence in teaching, research, research training and scholarship, service provision and community linkages.
The Faculty comprises four Schools, in what could be considered the core humanities disciplines. These are the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, the School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, and the School of Music.
The Faculty supports a number of Research Centres, namely the Centre for the History of European Discourses; Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies and Centre for the Government of Queensland. The Centres serve to concentrate research endeavours and promote national, and international linkages in specialised fields.
The Faculty incorporates the Institute of Modern Languages, which offers language classes to the community, and the Confucius Institute which provides a gateway to collaboration between Australia and China in language and culture and in science, engineering and technology.
