Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University

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Established 1971 (1971) Website Official Website Founded 1971 Type of business Faculty		Affiliation UGC Phone 091256 77303 Chancellor Karan Singh

Vice-Chancellor Girish Chandra Tripathi Dean Prof. Manjeet Chaturvedi Location Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India Address Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh Hours Closed today SundayClosedMonday9AM–6PMTuesday9AM–6PMWednesday9AM–6PMThursday9AM–6PMFriday9AM–6PMSaturday9AM–6PM Parent institution Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University

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.

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

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.

Departments

Economics - HOD- Prof. A.P. Pandey

History - HOD- Prof. Binda Paranjape

Political science - HOD- Prof. K.K. Mishra

Psychology - HOD- Prof. Rakesh Pandey

Sociology - HOD- Prof.S.R. 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. Tej Pratap Singh

Malviya Centre for Peace Research - Headed by Prof. Priyankar Upadhyay

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.

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

7.PG Diploma in Conflict Management and Development .

All courses follow the semester system in which undergraduate courses have six semesters and post graduate courses have four semesters

References

Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University Wikipedia

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