The Faculty of Humanities & Education is the largest faculty at Volda University College with approximately 1000 students and 60 staff members.
The Faculty of Humanities & Education offers programmes qualifying for professional work in pre-schools, primary and junior secondary schools. If you would like to work with children and youths, teacher education could be the professional career for you. Pedagogical work at the various levels of schooling requires teachers with a solid professional competence in a variety of fields.
The Faculty of Humanities & Education offers also study programmes within the disciplines of languages and literature. The main areas of research and education is English Language and Literature; History; and Norwegian/Nordic Studies. It incorporates its long traditions for teacher training with the perspectives of modern interactive teaching methods and ICT-based teaching to provide students the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed in the education system.
The common denominator for the various fields within the faculty are themes such as linguistics, Pedagogics, literature science, regional history, social studies, teaching secondary languages, and the link between language- and literature- history. The academic staff of this faculty also takes part in courses offered through the Faculty of Education (such as English and Norwegian courses for teachers, and pedagogy of subjects within humanities).
In addition to the 4-year General Teacher Education Programme, the Faculty of Education offers a number of subjects and subject areas of 30 and 60 ECTS credits, subjects that the students may choose as in-depth studies.
The Faculty of Humanities & Education has 100 year-old tradition for teacher education. In 1895 the Volda Teacher College was established, a college that later merged with the District College to form the Volda University College. The aesthetically pictoresque main building (the Kaarstad Building) symbolizes the rich traditions the teacher education builds on. This building was constructed at a time when the College was the largest institution for teacher education in the Nordic countries. At present, students spend their time in modern and well-equipped facilities, tailored to the needs of the various subjects taught.
The Faculty of Humanities has close ties to the Ivar Aasen Institute, and collaborates with this institute in offering the interdisciplinary Master's Programme in cultural studies.
Master’s degree programmes (120 ECTS credits)
The Faculty of Humanities include 35 academic and administrative staff. All staff offices for the faculty are located in the Berte Kanutte building. The courses offered through the faculty are organized within four institutes: English Institute, History Insitute, Nordic Insitute, and German Insitute.
For more information contact international coordinator Kjell Holby, kho@hivolda.no phone +47 7007 5307 or the international office +47 7007 5120, mail: cw@hivolda.no
For international students the Faculty of Humanities offers several courses in English. Please click here to take a look at the list of courses offered in English.