About Us

The Faculty of Social Sciences (FASS) at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas - Angelicum, provides an integral formation in the major social sciences, building ethics and insights from the wisdom traditions, Christianity in particular, into its approach and which aims to contribute to peaceful, innovative societies based on social justice.

The Faculty cultivates the study of social reality, in which the human person realizes his or her potential in justice and peace and in view of the integral sustainable development of society as a whole and of its members. In the FASS we analyze and describe the interactions and interconnections among the various human groups and organizations that build up the social order. These social groups determine the cultural, ethical, political and economic life of peoples and communities which then give rise to institutions that are capable of achieving a genuine common good.

In particular, the FASS provides an advanced level of formation in the various statistical, methodological, sociological, psychological, historical, juridical, economic and political disciplines in dialogue with Christian social thought. In its multidisciplinary approach, the Faculty aims to provide students with the theoretical and methodological instruments to analyze, compare and interpret complex social global realities and problems, ranging, for instance, from the world of work, through pastoral care, to the great questions of justice and peace, climate change and migration, and emerging issues such as artificial intelligence, all in relation to Catholic social teaching and social thought.