Head - Department of Sociology and Political Science
Prof. Bandana Gaur
Professor
Educational Qualification - M.A., Ph. D (Sociology)
CONTACT
Department of Sociology & political Science
Faculty of Social Sciences
Dayalbagh Educational Institute, (Deemed to be University)
Faculty of Social Sciences
Dayalbagh Educational Institute, (Deemed to be University)
Dayalbagh, Agra 282 005, (UP) India
Tel.: (0562) 280 1545
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Dr. Bandana Gaur is M.A. in Sociology and also holds a Ph.D. degree. She has 14 years of Professional Experience. Her teaching interests are Gender & Society, and her research interests are Women's Studies. She has 17 publications to her credit.
About The Department:
- The department of Sociology and Political Science have been in existence as independent unit since the inception of Women's Training College in 1947.
- These were part of the erstwhile Faculty of Arts up till May1994.
- In July 1994, when the Faculty of Social Sciences assumed its independent status, the two departments were merged to form a new Department of Sociology and Political Science to make it organizationally more viable.
- Since 1994 the department has been running under the auspices of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
- Since 1995-96 Honours courses were introduced in both the disciplines. There has been a phenomenal growth in the number of students in both the disciplines.
- The other significant developments has been the extension of Work Experience Course titled, "Construction and Administration of Research Tools" up to VI semester .
- The above course is open to both the disciplines.
- Since 2009-10 Post Graduation in Sociology & Political Science have been started.
- Research has been initiated in the department.
- 45 scholars have been registered since 2009-2010 and 13 awarded Ph.D and 3 submitted their thesis.
- Out of these 13 are UGC Net qualified.