Department of History

Introduction

The Year of Establishment: 1998

Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.): UG (B.A. and B.Com.)

Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise): 6 Semesters

Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: The students and faculties participate in the various activities conducted by other department

Vision

Mission

Future plans

  • To impart new and innovative methods of teaching.
  • Career counseling
  • Organization of Workshops/Seminars for the students.

Awards / Recognitions

Publications

Publication per faculty

Number of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national international) by faculty and students : 06

Number of publications listed in International Database (For Eg: Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International Complete, Dare Database – International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.) :

  • Monographs :
  • Chapter in Books :
  • Books Edited :
  • Books with ISBN/ISSN numbers with details of publishers: Nil
  • Citation Index :
  • SNIP :
  • SJR:
  • Impact factor:
  • h-index:

Percentage of students who have done in-house projects including inter departmental/programme : 20%
Percentage of students placed for projects in organizations outside the institution i.e.in Research laboratories/Industry/ other agencies : Nil

Seminars/Conferences/Workshops

  • National
  • International

Teaching Methods

Teaching methods adopted to improve student learning: Class room teaching, E. Learning means. Library etc.

Scientists / Visitors

Sr. No. Name Designation Programme
01 Dr. Anagha Kamble Assistant Professor, Dept . of History University of Mumbai History Subject For Competitive Exams

SWOC

Strengths

  • The College has full-fledge computer laboratory which can provide hands-on-training of accounting software to the students of the College.
  • The College has considerable number of reference books, textbooks, journals in the library along with internet facility for the students and teachers.
  • The students of the department actively participate in social and cultural activity of the College.
  • Academic and career counseling to the students.

Weakness

  • Students being employed find it difficult to devote sufficient time.
  • Most of the students are first generation learners.
  • Paucity of time due to Choice based credit system introduced by the UOM

Opportunities

  • A degree in History provides a set of transferable skills that are applicable to a wide range of careers such as law, publishing, journalism and the media, museums, librarianship and archive work, teaching, advertising, work in the development sector, global charity work etc.

Challenges

  • Adverse student-teacher ratio.
  • Insufficient employment opportunities.
  • Course contents not according to industry requirements.

Faculty

Dr. Vijay Gaibi More

M.A. Ph.D.

Specialization: History Of  Dalit Movement, History Of Maratha, History Of Defence, Modern India

Date of Joining: 01/12/2006

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