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Humanities
The Humanities Faculty incorporates Geography, History and Religious Philosophy. Humanities encourages students to establish links between subjects, cultures and other areas of experience. Humanities subjects provide students with opportunities to develop their abilities in different forms of communication. Students will develop skills in questioning, formulating opinions and arguments, making judgments, applying concepts to a real-world context, and carrying out investigations. The aims of the teaching and study of humanities is to encourage and enable us to develop an inquiring mind, a sense of time and place, a respect and understanding of other peoples’ values and attitudes, and an understanding of the causes and consequences of change through physical and human actions.
Studying humanities gives a broad view of the world in which we live and the skills which we need to be able to communicate and learn from others. The teachers within the Faculty particularly want to encourage independent learning and most of all a questioning mind!
Geography
Geography is relevant to the lives of all students and we help students to identify how they fit into the big geographical picture and promote an awareness of how the world is changing future and what this change means. >>Read more
History
History teaches us to learn not only about the past but valuable lessons for the present too. As the philosopher George Santayana said: “Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it”. >>Read more
Religious Philosophy
In the Religious Philosophy Department we encourage our students to reflect upon their own religious or non-religious beliefs and learn about and from others. We want our students to be inspired and been challenged. >>Read more
