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| Type | Public |
|---|---|
| Active | 1964–2019 |
| Location | , , Australia |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | Macquarie University |
The Faculty of Human Sciences was a constituent body of Macquarie University. The Faculty offered undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs. It was home to a number of internationally recognised research centres conducting ground-breaking research across disciplines in areas like cognitive science and early childhood education. The Faculty was particularly renowned for its post-graduate programs in special education.[1] The Faculty encompassed four departments and several research centres. The Faculty was disestablished in 2019.
Faculty departments and centres
The Faculty of Human Sciences comprised four departments and several centres:
- Departments formerly in the faculty
- Department of Cognitive Science
- Department of Educational Studies
- Department of Linguistics
- Department of Psychology
- Centres previously hosted by the faculty
- Adult Migrant English Program Research Centre
- Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
- Macquarie E-Learning Centre of Excellence
- Macquarie University Special Education Centre
- Macquarie Centre for Reading
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Cognition and its Disorders
The Faculty of Human Sciences was disestablished in 2019. The Department of Educational Studies was moved to the Faculty of Arts, while the remaining three Departments (Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Psychology) were moved to the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences which was renamed the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences.
