The department’s academic fields comprise European studies, international relations and globalization studies, culture and communication studies, gender research, history, migration research, tourism studies and development research. SPIRIT is the department’s PhD program.
The overall approach to the department’s academic issues is inter-disciplinary: the department’s disciplines and research fields must to the greatest possible extent supplement and enrich one another. In order to strengthen the mutually rewarding interactions between the social sciences and the humanities, the department’s organization is inter-faculty and refers to the Faculty of Humanities as well as the Faculty of the Social Sciences. The department has approx. 85 employees, comprising academic as well as technical-administrative staff.
The department is responsible for the Board of Studies for International Affairs (European studies and development studies), the Board of Studies for History as well as the Board of Studies for Cross-cultural Studies. Some staff members teach at several of the other study programmes at AAU, e.g. the Master programme in Public Administration (cand.scient.adm.) as well as sociology.
