Facts & Figures: Humanities

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The Dipòsit de les Aigües building, designed by architect Josep Fontserè in 1874, hosts the main library on the Ciutadella campus

As a public university, UPF fulfils its commitment to tackling the major challenges of the 21st century by creating, transmitting and transferring new multidisciplinary knowledge to guide the implementation of discerning policies and inspiring leadership.

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The principles of interdisciplinarity, critical thinking and intellectual rigour coupled with a cross-disciplinary perspective on our times and the world to come are defining features of the academic offer of the Faculty of Humanities at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. These same principles also link the Faculty’s overall project to both the longstanding tradition of the humanities and contemporary globalized societies.

The Department of Humanities encompasses 38 areas of knowledge, grouped into four paths: History, Thought, Art and Language and Literature. There is a consistent link between research and teaching, particularly within postgraduate programmes, as witnessed by the topics explored in the Faculty’s master’s theses and PhD dissertations.

TEACHING

Among other programmes, since the 2016-2017 academic year the Faculty has offered the bachelor’s degree in Global Studies. This pioneering three-year programme, taught entirely in English, addresses global challenges based on a cross-disciplinary, plural and integrated approach.

Key figures: — 35% of official master’s students are international (2021-2022) — 46% of doctoral students are international (2021-2022) — 32% of graduates have studied abroad (2020-2021)* — Internship agreements with nearly 60 companies and institutions, such as Tekman Books, Barcelona Activa, CCCB, MACBA and ARTE

RESEARCH

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— Horizon 2020: €6 million / 20 projects — 2 ERC grants — 16 Marie Curie actions — Spanish R&D and Innovation Plan:2 €1 million / 23 projects — International teaching staff:3 29% — ICREA research professors:4 6 — Theses defended in English: 47% (2020-2021)

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Data refer to the 2014-2020 period only.

They include individual and consortia projects.

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Data refer to the 2015-2021 period.

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Data as of January 2022.

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The Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) offers permanent tenured positions at Catalan host institutions to top researchers from

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Lower than usual because of the pandemic.

around the world.

The UPF education model includes active and participative methodologies that place students at the centre of the teaching-learning process

Research centres

Research groups

— CER Jaume Vicens i Vives Institute of History — CER Institute of Culture

— Research Group on Primitive Art and Primitivism — Research Group on the History of Modern Science and Culture — Study Group on Institutions and Political Cultures — Research Group on States, Nations and Sovereignties (GRENS) — Research Group on Culture and Socio-Ecological Dynamics — Research Group on Ethnography, Cultural Contacts and Missions in the Iberian Empires (XVII-XVIII centuries) — Research Group on Empires, Metropolis and non European societies (GRIMSE) — Nexus Research Group Science, Culture, Politics, Religion and Society (NEXES) — Archeology Laboratory — Research Group on Geohumanities

Study centres — Eugenio Trías Centre for Philosophical Studies (CEFET) — Barcelona International Book Studies Centre — UPF Centre for Vattimo’s Philosophy and Archives — UPF Centre for Aesthetics, Religion and Contemporary Culture

— Research Group on Mediterranean Archeology: Connections, Materials and Writing (GRACME) — Research Group on Colonialism, Gender and Materialities (CGyM) — Research Group on Intercultural Spaces, Languages and Identities (GREILI) — Research Group on Comparative Literature — Research Group on the Humanistic Essay and the Prose of Ideas — Research Group of the Bibliotheca Mystica et Philosophica Alois M. Haas — Research Group Seminar of Slavic Studies

The Jaume I building was originally built and used as a military barracks. Its renovation won the 1996 Ciutat de Barcelona prize in the architecture and town planning category

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INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS

GLOBAL RANKINGS AND RESULTS

BY SUBJECT

The Department collaborates and has exchange agreements for pre and postdoctoral researchers with the University of CaliforniaBerkeley, the European Institute of Florence, the Machiavelli Center for Cold War Studies at the University of Florence, Casa Velázquez in Madrid, the Max Planck Institute, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Europaeum, a consortium led by Oxford University.

Global Studies students can thus use this global network of partners to broaden their perspectives on the world and sharpen their intercultural skills during their compulsory period abroad. An International Week is also held each academic year in which visiting professors from partner universities are invited to share their views on current global challenges, thereby further internationalizing the curriculum.

At the undergraduate level, the international dimension is reflected in the high rate of student mobility with various Erasmus+ partners, such as:

This international focus is not only present in the curriculum for the bachelor’s degree in Global Studies, but also at the master’s level, where the Faculty now offers regional studies on Asia Pacific and China, to which end it has reaffirmed its longstanding relationships with some universities in the region even as it forges others. Similarly, the master’s degree in World History has exchange agreements with Bologna, Cologne, Paris I, Freie Berlin and Sheffield universities.

— Sciences Po, Cergy Pontoise and ENS-Lyon (France) — King’s College London, Edinburgh and Warwick universities (United Kingdom) — University College Dublin (Ireland) — Amsterdam, Maastricht and Tilburg universities (the Netherlands) — Aarhus University (Denmark) Bilateral agreements have also been signed with universities in the United States, Korea, Japan, China, Thailand and Australia and, more recently, in Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, and Iran in North Africa and the Middle East.

UPF appears on some of the most influential global rankings: — 1st Spanish university, 156th worldwide and 69th in Europe (Times Higher Education ranking, 2022) — 16th university in the world among universities aged 50 and under (Times Higher Education Young Universities Ranking, 2022) — 1st university in Spain and 4th in Europe (U- Multirank, 2022) The University also ranks very high in the humanities area: — 113th in the world in arts and humanities (U.S. News & World Report, 2022) — Among the top 150 in the world in philosophy (QS ranking, 2022)

As an institution committed to its students, above and beyond academic life, UPF promotes their participation in associations, volunteer programmes and sports and cultural activities

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MAIN ACADEMIC OFFER —B achelor’s degree in Humanities (launched in the 2008-2009 academic year). This interdisciplinary programme combines subjects on various languages and literatures, history, art history, and thought with a clear overarching aim: to produce graduates with knowledge of humans as both individuals and a society.

— Bachelor’s degree in Global Studies (launched in the 2016-2017 academic year).

This programme is intended for students from all over the world interested in understanding the cultural, economic, legal, environmental, political, social, and technological phenomena that affect us all, regardless of our precise geographical location.

—B achelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. This programme approaches social sciences from a variety of angles, giving students the tools they need to analyse today’s increasingly global, complex and connected world. The programme is offered jointly

by UPF (Barcelona), Carlos III University (UC3M) in Madrid, the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and students follow parts of it at all three institutions. Study abroad is also encouraged.

— Simultaneous Studies Programme: Humanities degree/Journalism degree. This is a special degree programme covering two areas of study that allows students to earn two degrees (in Humanities and in Journalism) in a period of five years.

—M aster’s degree in Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought. This programme combines common subjects in comparative literature, art and thought with a wide variety of optional subjects, allowing students to create an interdisciplinary curriculum tailored to their specific interests.

—M aster’s degree in World History. This programme trains students in the history of power within empires, states, and colonies in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Students acquire interdisciplinary skills needed to analyze politics, society, economics, and international relations over the longue durée.

— Master’s degree in AsianPacific Studies in a Global Context. This programme offers comprehensive training on the different areas of the Asia-Pacific region in the fields of economics, culture, international relations, history and language oriented towards both career opportunities and research.

—P hD programmes. The Faculty offers two PhD programmes, the PhD in History and the PhD in Humanities.

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