humanities

The Faculty of Humanities

The humanities are many things, including language, pedagogy, culture, history, design, and information and communication – in short, it is the study of the world created by humans. Your world.

Welcome to the Faculty of Humanities

Here we educate more than 1,500 students a year and offer 46 higher education programmes in languages, education, culture, history, design, information and communication and much more.

As a faculty, we are committed to conducting both applied and basic research, as well as collaborating with and contributing to the world around us – locally, nationally and globally.

Education

The Faculty of Humanities offers a variety of education programmas. See them all here.

Research

Here you will find the faculty's many research centers, programmes and projects.

Cooperation

Here you will find many of SDU's and the faculty's cooperation offers.

Humanities.. do you know what it is?

Latest news

06.05.2025

New project explores how the Crimean War shaped Scandinavia

Professor Rasmus Glenthøj from the Department of Culture and Language receives just over DKK 6 million from Independent Research Fund Denmark for the project "The Crimean War and Scandinavia (CRIMESCAN)", which examines the influence of the Crimean War (1853-1856) on nationalism, politics and war in Scandinavia in the 1850s.

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06.05.2025

New grant for research into the moral dilemmas of extreme wealth

Associate Professor Lasse Nielsen from the Department of Design, Media and Educational Science receives more than DKK 6 million from Independent Research Fund Denmark to the research project "The Morality of Extreme Wealth", which examines the moral aspects of extreme moral challenges that arise in a society with extreme wealth.

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Research talents

23.04.2025

International research talents on their way to SDU

Nine young researchers are advancing research ideas and enhancing their careers at the University of Southern Denmark. They have been awarded postdoctoral fellowships in the EU programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

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Meet an alumni

17.01.2025

Meet alumni Louise Fenger Kornum

"I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my degree, but my excellent lecturers opened my eyes to working with international market relations"

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GRANT

21.12.2024

When Design was made in Denmark

Professor Anders V. Much, Department of Design, Media and Educational Science, has received more than DKK 3 million from the Augustinus Foundation for a project examining how knowledge about Denmark's design and production history, cultural heritage and sustainable education can be improved.

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GRANT

16.12.2024

5 grants from the Carlsberg Foundation to the Faculty of Humanities

Five researchers at the Faculty of Humanities have received a total of DKK 14.5 million from the Carlsberg Foundation. The projects cover a wide range of research topics: from sleep technology to the small word 'with', from prime ministerial speeches to complex relationships between cancer, gender and culture.

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GRANT

26.11.2024

The success of the Roman Empire is also climate history

Professor Jesper Majbom Madsen from the Department of Culture and Language has received over DKK 3 million from Independent Research Fund Denmark for an interdisciplinary project on the impact of climate change on the political development of the Roman Empire. The project is carried out in close collaboration with Professor Sebastian Mernild, head of the SDU Climate Cluster.

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Researcher & Entrepreneur

08.11.2024

Researcher investigates the business potential of fictional worlds

Can devising scripts become a business? Postdoc Nathali Herold Solon Pilegaard will find out. She has researched how script developers create the worlds viewers encounter in the Danish TV series Valdes jul and Efterforskningen. Now she is embarking on a new project.

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GRANT

05.11.2024

Grant opens the door to major new detective work into medieval culture in the Nordic countries

Professor Lars Boje Mortensen, Department of Culture and Language, and three Nordic partners receive an ERC Synergy Grant of DKK 97 million to investigate over 50,000 fragments of books from the Middle Ages.

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Ask the Expert

29.10.2024

Award-winning Atwood demonstrates the ethical and political potential of literature

Author Margaret Atwood receives the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award for her narratively superior and socially critical writing. We asked Associate Professor of Literature Emily Hogg why Atwood is such a recognised voice in literature.

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