Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University

Faculty of Social Sciences
Banaras Hindu University main gate
Type	Faculty
Established	1971 (1971)
Parent institution	Faculty of Arts
Affiliation	UGC
Chancellor	Dr. Karan Singh
Vice-Chancellor	Girish Chandra Tripathi
Dean	Prof. R. R. Jha
Location	Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Website	Official Website
Faculty location on Varanasi district map

Faculty of Social Sciences,is a faculty in the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India which offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Social science. It was founded in 1971.^[1]

History

Faculty of Social Sciences was a part of the Faculty of Arts from 1916 to 1971. In 1971, the faculty was bifurcated from the Arts Faculty and five departments were created with the aim to create landmark impacts with the help of the rigorous exercises done by the Sociologists, Psychologists, Economists, Political Scientists and Historians^[1]

Organisation

Faculty of Social Sciences' administrative head is a dean. The dean is responsible for all aspects of the Faculty's operations, including budgets, administration, planning, support services, faculty appointments, curricula and student affairs. The dean is appointed by and reports to the Vice-Chancellor of the university.

There are five different departments in the Faculty of Social Sciences that offer Special courses, Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate (PG) degrees.^[1]^[2]

Departments

Economics - HOD-M.P.Singh
History - HOD-A.S. Singh
Political science - HOD-Prof. K.K. Mishra
Psychology - HOD-Prof. Rakesh Pandey
Sociology - HOD-Prof.Sohan Ram Yadav

Centres

Other then the departments, there are five centres which carries study on various fields.They are:

Centre for the Study of Nepal - Headed by Prof. Bhupendra Vikram Singh
Centre for Women's Study and Development - Headed by Prof. Kiran Barman
Centre for Integrated Rural Development - Headed by Prof. Chandrakala Padia
Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusion Policy- Headed by Prof. Ashok Kumar Kaul
Malviya Centre for Peace Research - Headed by Prof. Priyankar Upadhyay

Babu Jagjivan Ram Chair for Social Research

Faculty of Social Science also hold "Babu Jagjivan Ram Chair for Social Research".

Courses

The faculty offers;

Undergraduate courses in subjects which are Political Science, Economics, History,, Sociology & Psychology .The degree Offered is (B.A(Hons.)).
Post graduate courses in Economics, History, Political science, Sociology & Psychology.^[2]

Special Courses- Faculty of Social also offer some special courses other than its Traditional Course Framework which are :-

1. Master of Personnel Management & Industrial Relations (MPMIR) under Department of Psychology

2. Master of Arts in Public Administration (MPA) under Department of Political Science

3. Master of Arts in Social Work (MSW) under Department of Sociology

4. One Year PG Diploma in Japanese Studies under Centre for the Study of Nepal

5. One Year PG Diploma in Conflict Management & Development (CMD) under Malaviya Centre for Peace Research

6.MA in Conflict Management and Development (New Syllabus)

7.PG Diploma in Conflict Management and Development (New Syllabus).

All the Courses follow Semester System in which Undergraduate Courses have Six Semester and Post Graduate Courses have Four Semester

References

1 2 3 "About Faculty". BHU website. Retrieved Jul 2015.
1 2 "Courses". Official website. Retrieved Jul 2015.

External links

http://www.bhu.ac.in/

Coordinates: 25°16′13″N 82°59′42″E / 25.270402°N 82.994907°E / 25.270402; 82.994907

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