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Academic Disciplines and Centres

N.B. For academic-related matters, please contact the relevant discipline.

Anthropology Seeks to understand the great diversity of human life and experiences.
Demography & Population Studies Explores the dynamics of human populations.
Development Studies Explores practical ways of achieving an improvement in the human condition
History Founded in 1917, the Division continues to attract top-class academics.
International Relations Studies foreign affairs and global issues that affect states within the international system.
Philosophy Seeks to understand ourselves, our relationships with one another, and our place in the world.
Political Studies Engages with the challenges of society and with the place of South Africa in Africa, the Global South, and the wider world.
Sociology Studies society in all its complexity, from both an empirical and a theoretical perspective.
Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS) The Wits Centre for Diversity Studies is based in the Faculty of Humanities.
African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) As part of Wits University’s School of Social Sciences, the ACMS offers Masters and Doctoral degrees in migration and displacement studies.
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