School of Arts & Social Sciences

The School of Arts and Social sciences is a cluster of five departments, namely; The Department of Development Studies, the Department of Governance, Peace and International Studies, the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies, The Department of Languages and the department for Ethics and Interdisciplinary.

The departments have a conglomeration of disciplines that give insights into a humanity journey and quest for development, concern themselves with power and authority, avail experiences of cross-cultural analysis helping us to understand societies, departments that examine production, distribution and consumption of goods in national development, and that gives a systematic perspective on humanities relationship to the physical environment, among others. All these disciplines offered in the school have academic identities and a powerful thrust that provokes students to take full Participation in academia and practice in their appropriate specializations. 

The School of Arts and Social Sciences at Uganda Martyrs University is available across multiple campuses, including Lubaga, Masaka, Mbale, and Nkozi.