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Department of History

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“The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future”- Theodore Roosevelt

The Department of History launched its journey in the year 1994 at the time of inception of the college itself. Since its in caption Department has made significant progress as a centre of excellence in teaching and learning. The overall mission of the department is to educate students, to provide them an environment conducive to the achievement of the standards of academic excellence, transforming them socially aware and responsible citizen and made them capable to function effectively in the competitive global environment. Above all the faculty is always ready to render all possible assistance and guidance to the students as and when required. Consequently students get through the final examination with flying colours and go for further higher studies.

Besides Teaching the department provides opportunities to its students to learn more practically by organizing Historical tours and visits. It also organizing classwise seminars, debate, quiz completion and group discussions so that they can keep pace with the time.

  1. Name of the department: History
  2. Year of Establishment: 1994
  3. Names of Programmes / Courses offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters; Integrated Ph.D., etc.): UG
  4. Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/units involved: History of Himachal Pradesh (Compulsory)
  5. Annual/ semester/choice based credit system (programme wise): Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) Annual.
  6. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments: History of Himachal Pradesh (Compulsory) for B.Com. and B.Sc.
Strengths:

  • The staff is well qualified and Supportive and has a good rapport with the students and teacher-student’s relationship is very cordial and student can unhesitatingly express their difficulties to the teacher.
  • Many students go for PG studies every year.
  • Many of our students are teaching in degree colleges, Senior Secondary Schools and serving in various other departments.
  • The library has enough reference books & resource centre.
  • Many students opt Hindi medium, so the understanding of the subject become easy.
  • Since college is located at a place famous for the Gurudwara where 10th Guru Gobind Singh Ji stayed, so the students have a natural knowledge & bent of mind for historical events.

Weaknesses:

The college being lone general college in the entire Sub-Division, we are to accommodate students beyond our capacity. Therefore, we have some limitation too. For eg.

  • Our teacher student’s ratio in not satisfactory for healthy class performance.
  • There is no separate department or Departmental library.
  • Due to the over Burdon of teaching very few time is left for visiting nearby places of historical importance.
  • History is not taken up as subject of higher studies.

Opportunities:

  • In spite of having its limitations the department is trying to render quality education.
  • There is many places of historical importance like “Kalsi (Uttarakhand)”, Gurudwara Shri Bhagani Sahib, Lytton Memorial “NAHAN” which are the vicinity of college can be visited.
  • The history of remote areas surrounding the college can be studied as project work by the students.
  • G. Classes & some research work can be started.

Challenges:

  • It’s difficult to deal with students from different background by single faculty member.
  • The students with history as subject at UG level not prefer to higher education & research in this field is decreasing.

Future Planes:

  • Since the college is surrounded with the places of historical impotence the department is planning to initiate educational tours to places of historical impotence to create historical interest among the students.
  • Keeping in view the increasing demand on Regional History a separate collection of books on The History of Himachal Pradesh shall be arranged to inculcate research interest among the students on regional history.