Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur

In the era when the Indian Institutes of Technology were founded as centers of excellence, IIT Kanpur took the lead in education in humanities and social sciences both, at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels by integrating these discourses into the engineering curriculum. The study of human sciences plays an important role in the education of scientists and engineering by making their education well rounded, going beyond specialized training in a particular area of technology and enabling them to think critically for themselves. Often, students are genuinely surprised to find that humanities and social sciences provide alternative modes of cognition and that not all problems of society have a technical solution. Technology and deployed in a milieu that has both socio-cultural and economic needs and constraints.

The department has 31 faculty members who teach a range of curses in Economics, English and Linguistics, Fine Arts, Philosophy, Psychology and sociology. In addition to teaching and thesis supervision, faculty members offer short – term courses to students and of other educational institutions through workshops and seminars. Research and consultancy projects are also taken up for government and non – governmental organization. The rich outcome of these research endeavors can be seen in the large number of books and articles published by faculty and students in reputed national and international journals.

With the exception of Fine Arts, Doctoral programmes are available in all other discipline of the department. The successful completion of around 200 doctoral these testifies to the high academic standards that the department has set for itself. Currently, these are over 50 doctoral students registered in the doctoral programmes.

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