College of Humanities, Social Science, Arts Culture

The College has various departments offering education in anthropology, library and information science and linguistics.

Department of Anthropology

The Subject anthropology was communed in 2001 in the Agricultural University and offering M.Sc. degree in Anthropology. The main focus of the masters program is anthropology in development, evolutionary anthropology and medical anthropology. Agricultural anthropology is a very different study on Agricultural development of Tribal and backward farmers and also those farmers who are resourceless and farming iwith very less technological resources. The large no. of Indian farmers fall under this category. For the welfare of the Indian farmers and Policy making strategy with harmonious path for the farmers, students learn and would be able to contribute as an excellent technologically sound expertise in the field of policy making, welfare of the country and States. In the health Issues, natural resource Management etc are in the focus point of the subject.
Physical Anthropology helps the students and researcher to understand the physiology, serology, cytogenetics, population dynamics and disease.
Medical Anthropology trains the students and researchers to advance the boundaries of medical Anthropology by providing knowledge in co-relation of diseases with culture and society, impact of stress and other cultural aspects responsible for Emergence of disease in human being.
The Department of Anthropology is providing an strategy to work for the isolated part of the population by discovering new facts from uneroded rocks and soil.
Field work training makes the students fit and dynamic to work in odd and heterogeneous atmosphere and also learn to approach those people who are very different from us in many ways.
Department has also established Centre for tribal/ Backward research and preservation of cultural heritage.
Postgraduate students also play a leading part in editing our departmental Agricultural Anthropology Journal.
Efforts are made to enable anthropologists to work among agriculturists. Agriculturists in present times are reviving a vast area of Indian Agricultural land. Under such conditions Anthropologists are capable of tackling the situation. Anthropologists are experts at work amongst urban and rural people, because they study man in a holistic way. Since a large part of the population of our country is underdeveloped, anthropology becomes a necessity for the welfare of human beings.

Faculty

Visiting Faculty

Library awareness in the present context is rapidly growing in the country which have increased in establishment and expansion of various libraries, viz. academic, public and special. This has recently increased in demand for qualified personnel trained in various aspects of librarianship. The department has been established for catering to the needs of trained librarians in the region.

Training in Library Science was instuted at the university in 2001. So far over 110 students have completed their training in Library Science from the University.
Most of its alumni have stayed in the profession and many of these are occupying positions of responsibilities in academic and special libraries.

The department of Library and Information Science was established under the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2001. Also in conformity with the national Policy.
Bachelor Degree in Library Science was converted into Bachelor Degree in Library and Information Science in the same year. The department has been conducting the BLISc and MLISc programme since then,
it has been conceived by the department that bachelor programe should not only treat the classification, cataloguing, reference service, documentation and
information technology as essential spills required in the present day librarianship but also emphases “Sociological foundation” and “Cultural Responsibility” of the profession. The department has taken care to introduce and emphasize new concepts with adequate coverage while revising the syllabus. Also as a result of modern technological impact, the department incorporated a paper on “Completion Application in Library and Information Science” at BLISc level in 2001 which was later in 2004 changed as Information Technology Application”.

The master program is designed to widen the student perspective through direct and independent study. It lays stress on proper appreciation of trends rather than technical spills like classification and cataloguing.
The dissertation work gives the student a proper grounding in technical writing. The total course is envisaged to enable him/her to organize library services in furtherance of institutional objectives.
 

The central concern of theoretical linguistics is to characterize the nature of human language ability, or competence to explain what it is that an individual knows when said to know a language and to explain how it is that individuals come to know languages.

All humans achieve competence in whatever language is spoken around them when they are growing up, with apparently little need for conscious instruction. Non-humans do not. Therefore, there is some basic innate property of humans that causes them to be able to use language. There is no discernible genetic process responsible for differences between languages: an individual will acquire whatever languages he is exposed to as a child, regardless of his parentage or ethnic origin.

A substantial part of linguistic investigation concerns the nature of the differences among the languages of the world. The nature of variation is very important to an
understanding of human linguistic ability in general: if human linguistic ability is very narrowly constrained by biological properties of the species, then languages must be very similar. If human linguistic ability is unconstrained, then languages might vary greatly.

As the world has become a 'Global village', our students (would be professionals) may find their luck anywhere in this Universal Sphere. The faculty of the Linguistics Department teach them Professional Communication that is now an indispensable part of their Professional Career. The Department provides written and spoken communication skills to the students of this University. It also helps them to become better technocrats and professionals.

Technical writing like preparing reports, proposals articles, dissertation, thesis, as well as oral communication skills are taught to the students of all streams. Different speeches, accents, stress, intonation and rhythm are the main features that are also being taught to handle effective communication.
This Department also arranges Proficiency Programme in English language, apart from the regular courses offered.