Faculty of Social Sciences in Tel Aviv University

Since its founding in the mid-1960s, the Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel-Aviv University has been an excelling, highly ranked and globally appreciated institution, led by its innovative researchers and teachers. The faculty is composed of five schools: The School of Psychology, The Eitan Berglas School of Economics, The Bob Shapell School of Social Work, The School of Political Sciences, Government and International Affairs, and The School of Social and Policy Studies. The latter includes four departments – Sociology and Anthropology, Labor Studies, Public Policy and Communication, and includes three additional programs – Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Migration Studies, and Developing Countries. The faculty holds an important role and duty of making current, updated, precise and, most importantly, unbiased, knowledge available to its students and researchers around the world. The faculty's students' population is large and diverse, and yet each and every student receives the full attention by the academic and administrative staff to allow him or her to acquire higher education and ultimately, join today's work force. In the School of Political Sciences, Government and International Affairs, students research and learn the fundamentals of democracy, as well as the factors threatening its decision making processes and guiding principles, as well as processes of war and peace, trade and trade wars. In the School of Economics, students research and learn the principles of micro and macro economics, as well as issues of economic growth, inequality, poverty and the increasing gaps between the different socioeconomic groups. In the School of Psychology, students research and study cognition and brain, clinical and social psychology. Courses provide tools and skills that would assist them in becoming independent researchers, and, in advanced studies, train them for their internships in clinical psychology. The School of S