Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences news
From the Dean
Welcome to our 2025 academic year and I trust that you enjoyed the summer.
We kick off this year with news that our new degrees are tracking well and proving to be extremely popular with domestic students. The standouts are the Bachelor of Media and Communications (currently with 114 domestic enrolments) and the Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics (currently with 137 domestic enrolments). Along with the Bachelor of International Studies and the Bachelor of Languages, we can be extremely proud of these new degrees. So many of you have been involved in their design and promotion (including at high school events), and I’d like to acknowledge the enormous effort that has gone into ensuring we have been able to successfully launch all four degrees in 2025. Read more.
FASS named #1 in Australia for Arts and Humanities in the 2025 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings by subject!
An achievement that celebrates the passion and excellence of our amazing community.
Announcements and notices
FASS News - Issue 237 - 29 August 2024
Latest news from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
2024 FASS Newsletter submission and publishing deadlines
Open Day 2024 t-shirts for FASS staff
The Faculty has engaged a local Indigenous artist Jessie Waratah to design t-shirts for all professional and academic staff to wear on Open Day. Learn more about this meaningful artwork and find out where you can collect your t-shirt for Open Day. Read more
Content requests and updates
Who to contact for website and intranet sites maintenance requests and AEM access.
This is a list of University site administrators/webmasters and the websites they administer.
New Partnership Hub
The Central External Engagement Portfolio has recently launched a new Partnership Hub to help university staff access support for promoting themselves and the University as a partner of choice.
News and events
Building wellbeing in 2024
Explore the What’s on Wellbeing 2024 calendar and discover a wealth of events and learning and development opportunities for you to participate in across the year.
Popular FASS Systems
- Arts Explorer (needs VPN off campus)
- Sydney Curriculum
- FASS Postgraduate Curriculum Project
- How to guides for Sydney Curriculum Outlines
- Search for previous FASS outlines (2016-2019) - (log in required)
- Results Processing System (needs VPN off campus) (RPS)
- SharePoint 365
- Swift Digital
- WordPress
- FASS Exam QA
Events
Yura Network Artwork Unveiling Morning Tea Event
Come to the Yura Network's first gathering of the year to celebrate and learn more about the artwork From Yarn to Art – Weaving Words Through Brushstrokes, created by members of the Network, and enjoy a light morning tea and refreshments.
What is work design and how to design your best day
SMART Work Design can help us create meaningful and motivating work. In this session staff will learn about the principles of good work design to prevent and manage stress and burnout, but also to learn to design your best day at work.
Freedom Ride 60th Anniversary
Join us for an engaging panel discussion on the significance and legacy of the Freedom Ride.
Updates and services
Education Education Focused Academics’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (EF SoTL) Grants applications close soon
The first round of applications are due by 5 pm Monday 24th February 2025.
Get free access to the Sydney Morning Herald with Campus Access
Find out what is included and how to access the free subscription offer.
We're getting ready to welcome new and returning students between Wednesday 19 and Friday 21 February
Look out for all the buzz and excitement coming to Camperdown campus with details of road closures and parking availability on the Campus updates page.
System logins
- Academic Planning & Development (AP&D)
- Automation & Innovation Hub
- CMS - AEM
- Campus Assist Online
- Canvas
- Citrix
- Concur
- Copilot
- Disability Academic Plan Portal
- Dimensions
- Docusign
- Email Office 365
- EmmaHQ
- eNotebooks
- Event calendar
- Exams portal
- External Engagement CRM
- File Sender (large file transfer)
- Finance EPM
- Finance Salary Planning EPM
- IRMA
- Lecture recording
- LinkedIn Learning
- Marq (formerly Lucidpress)
- Macquarie Dictionary
- myHRonline
- MyLab
- My Library account
- myResearch Ethics
- Office 365 Portal
- Online Teaching Allocations (OTA)
- Password management (Okta)
- Payments to the University
- PeopleSoft financials
- Policy Register
- Power BI
- Publish Partner
- Qualtrics
- Records Online
- REDCap
- Research Data Management Planning
- Research Education Candidature System (RECS)
- Research Professional
- Research Profiles Management (RPM)
- Research Supervisor Connect
- Riskware
- Room bookings (resource booker)
- SEAMS
- SensusAccess document conversion
- Service Portal
- ServiceNow Client
- SPIRE
- Special consideration and arrangements
- Student Survey System
- Sydney Curriculum
- Sydney Insights (formerly Insights Hub)
- Sydney Student
- Timesheets
- Timetabling
- UniBuy
- Viva Engage (Yammer)
- Workday
- Workday Learning (formerly CareerPath)
- Workday learning (formerly CareerPath) for academic affiliates
- Zoom
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