Programme Objectives of Sociology

Mission and Vision of the Programme

1. To enhance the logical and analytical skill to understand the social issues and problems.
2. To inculcate research culture among the students
3. To contribute subject knowledge to nurture creativity, research and development.
4.  To provide basic and advanced theoretical as well as methodological knowledge of sociology for application.
5. This course has also aim to enhance the skills, capabilities and employment opportunities of the students.

Program Educational Objectives (PEO)

1. The Post Graduate Programme in Sociology is designed to provide advanced sociological knowledge, perspectives and skills to wide cross sections of the learners.
2. This course is designed to provide basic and advanced theoretical as well as methodological knowledge of sociology for application.
3. This course has also aim to enhance the skills, capabilities and employment opportunities of the students in educational, research institutions and NGOs.
4. This course has aim to make student rational, logical and critical and to develop their analytical skill of the social issues and events.
5. To enhance the scientific knowledge and attitude about the society.
6. To develop and in-built the capacity of the students to communicate effectively and use of sociological knowledge for better society.

Program Outcomes (PO)

On successful completion of this program, students would be able to:

1. The sociological knowledge provides students scientific outlooks and attitudes to understand the human behavior, social issues and phenomena.
2. Acquiring sociological knowledge in the forms of theories and methods would make students good social scientists.
3. The sociological knowledge would help to make students, critical and logical.
4. After studying this course, students would be also able to qualify the UPSC, MPSC/ UGCNET/JRF/ and other examination of Social Welfare Departments.
5. Students would be able to get employment opportunities in the Teaching, Research and NGOs and Private sectors.

Course Objectives (CO)

1. The Post Graduate Programme in Sociology is designed to provide advanced sociological knowledge, perspectives and skills to wide cross sections of the learners.
2. The major aim of this pattern is to provide opportunities to the students going beyond the boundaries of their own discipline and think over the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches and students have choice to select different types of electives as per his or her choice.
3. Thus, this course is designed to provide basic and advanced theoretical as well as methodological knowledge of sociology for application.
4. This course has also aim to enhance the skills, capabilities and employment opportunities of the students. This course is designed such way which makes the students able to apply sociological knowledge in the different fields such as; teaching, research, NGOs, Public Policies, social sectors and developmental sectors.
5. Thus, this course has not only to provide employment opportunities to the students but also to make them rational, logical and critical. The aim of this programme is not only theoretically oriented to the students alone, but also make them able to analyze the social reality by using scientific knowledge of sociology to analyze the social issues with different theoretical and methodological perspectives.
6. Thus, this course has aim to make student rational, logical and critical about the social events and contemporary issues and to enhance the skills and capabilities of the students.

Course Outcomes:

1. This course is designed such way that offers multiple opportunities to the learners. After completion of this course, student would get job opportunities in the fields of teachings, research, NGOs, corporate sectors and Governmental sectors.
2. This course also helps students to qualify the NET/JRF/SET and Competitive Exams such as MPSC/UPSC/Social Welfare Departments and others etc.
3. This course has also relevance in the field of production of knowledge about the human behavior, social issues and phenomena.
4. This production of knowledge would be helpful to the policy makers, developmental organizations, researchers, social activist and social scientists.
5. This course makes differentiate between common sense knowledge and sociological knowledge and this course provides scientific vocabulary, terms, concepts, methods and perspectives in accessing the social issues, events and problems.
6. The sociological knowledge would be useful in the social engineering and social reconstruction of the social structure. The sociology not only provides employment opportunities alone, but also makes the students rational, critical and logical.