Social Science

 

Considering the development plan of Afghanistan in all sectors and in line with the strategic plan of the Ministry of Higher Education, Herat University as a dynamic and mobile science center with a proposal to establish a social science faculty in the year 2013, honors the Ministry of Education. This faculty started its work in the year 2014 as an independent faculty with three departments (History, Geography and Sociology) in Herat University. In the same year, the Department of Sociology was separated from the Faculty of Literature and Humanities and with its academic staff joined the faculty. The faculty now has 5 faculty members and more than 772 students who study two times (morning and afternoon).

Strategic Plan

Activites

Departments

Faculty Members:

NO

Name

Surname

F/ Name

Academic Grade

Education Grade

Remarks

1

Ab. Wahab

Owais

Ab. Sattar

Pohanmal

Master

Dean of the Faculty

2

Ali Ahmad

Kawa

Ab. Hamid

Pohanmal

Master

Sociology Department

3

Ab. Wahab

Shams

Ab. Qadoos

Pohanmal

Master

 Sociology Department

4

Ahamd Hamed

Waeedi

Khalilullah

Pohanyar

Master

Sociology Department

5

Aliullah

Azad

Azizullah

Pohyalay

Bachelor

Sociology Department

6

Mortaza

 

Rasooli

Gh. Rasool

Pohyalay

Bachelor

Geography Department

7

Fatemeh

 

Herati

Ab. Karim

Pohyalay

Bachelor

Geography Department

8

Asadullah

 

Asil

Habibullah

Pohyalay

Bachelor

History Department

9

Said Mohammad

 

Faqiri

Ab. Raouf

Pohanyar

Master

History Department

Faculty Library

This faculty has a dedicated library with about 800 books in various fields (history, sociology and geography) prepared by professors and students and are given to students.

The Department of Sociology Since its establishment, with the help of departmental professors and students, it has established a small library in the department's framework, named after the first Islamic cultural sociology, Ibn Khaldon. The Ibn Khaldon Library currently contains about 500 books in Persian and English. All departmental students can use the library's membership card by getting the library membership card, reading the books they need in the library environment, or getting a free library for a week. All members of the library, based on their previous commitment, deliver to the library at least one book in the social sciences or sociology each semester to provide further growth for the library.

Journal of the Society of Artists

The student’ printing section Association has a specialized journal in the field of social issues called the Society of Artists. So far, two issues of this journal have been published. All journal writing is produced by students, and most of the articles and abstracts of student research are published there.

Committees active in social sciences

Scientific Council

Examination Committee

Quality Assurance Committee

Order and Discipline Committee

Student Association

Social Work Committee

Research Committee

Publications Committee

Website Nutrition Committee

Students’ statistics for the year 2019

This year, the social sciences college has 271 male students and 501 female students which 772 students in total.

Contacts

Cell phone number: 0700425454

Telephone number: 0093402258311

Email: socialscience.hu@gmail.com/

Address: Herat University Complex, Law and Political Science Building, Fourth Floor, Social Sciences University.