Brief Profile

The Department of Political Science was established as an independent Department in 2015. Earlier, the Department was jointly working with the Department of Public Administration. The Department started with M.A. in Political Science in 2012 and started offering courses for B.A. Program from 2014. The Department gradually progressed and started its Ph.D. Program from 2017-18 academic session with the object to nurture quality research by establishing conditions most appropriate for incubating scholarly activity.

Today, it is one of the largest departments in terms of students and courses in the School of Social Sciences with students from more than 7 states and from different social backgrounds. With a mix of young and experienced pool of faculty, the Department is committed to provide high quality learning experience to its students and researchers. As a promising department, it aims to emerge a learning centre of excellence and distinguished scholarship. It also strives to provide multidimensional learning experiences which integrate rigorous academic, applied, practical and cross-disciplinary perspectives to ensure a deep understanding of Political Science in all its contexts.

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The Department of Public Administration was established in 2006 and it offers courses for Bridge Course; UG programs; M.A. in Public Administration. The department also offers Ph.D. in Public Administration. The Department strives to provide in-depth knowledge in the field of Public Administration with an objective to create Political and Administrative thinkers & practitioners, academics, and civil services & corporate sector aspirants. The research thrust areas includes Public Policy, Local Government, E-governance, women’s rights, child rights, minority rights and human rights.

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The Department of Economics at Maulana Azad National Urdu University is one of the youngest department of the university, which established in 2014. The department intends to make a qualitative contribution to teaching to the students through Urdu medium so as to promote ‘inclusiveness’ in higher education-a pre-requisite to ‘inclusive growth’. Since its inception the department with strength of four faculty members offers courses for graduate and post graduate programs in Economics. The faculty members at the Department are from the diverse fields’ e.g. International Trade, International Finance, Applied Econometrics, Quantitative Economics, Monetary Economics, Islamic Banking and Development Economics. The diversity of specializations of the faculty members promotes multifaceted research at the department as well as contributes to provide a certain depth to its post graduate program in Economics.

The department also recognizes the growing demand for trained manpower in applied economic research for Agriculture, Industry, Government, IT sector, Banking and Finance sector, NGOs and other socioeconomically relevant fields. To cater to the growing demand for the trained economists for the industry and the academia, the department started Ph.D. program in Economics from the academic year 2017-18.

The thrust areas of the department are development of marginalised and minority communities’ in India in general and Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in particular. The course structure of the department’s post graduate program and the research being undertaken at the department have been thus designed to focus on these thrust areas identified by the department. With a judicious mix of theoretical and quantitative approach, the department since the day of its inception has geared itself to emerge as a strong teaching, learning and research department of the university. 

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The Department of Sociology was established in the year 2014. The Department offers Bridge Course for Madarsa students; courses for UG programs; and M.A. in Sociology and Ph.D. program. The Department of Sociology aims at generating a class of sociologists - through teaching, training, research and other extension activities - equipped with core competencies, social sensitivities and a broad social understanding required to gauge the complexities in the social systems.

Curriculum offered in the Department focuses on the issues of general sociological concern with a special focus on issues pertinent to the sociology of Islam and Muslim communities. The students are encouraged to take up field studies which will equip them with empirical realities along with theoretical knowledge.

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The Department of Islamic Studies was established in 2012. The department offers M.A, Ph. D and Diploma in Islamic Studies programs. The department also offers Islamic Studies as core and generic elective/Discipline Specific Elective for Post-Graduate and undergraduate programs of other department students. The main objective of the department is to impart teaching and conduct research in Islamic Studies in a modern perspective. These days Islam has taken a central stage in public discussions and debates relating particularly to its political ideas and social approaches.

Apart from this,Islam has a vast history of its rich civilization and culture pertaining to India and the world as a whole.Its achievements have been very unique in various fields of human life. It has played a remarkable role in the progress and prosperity of humanity. These aspects are subjects of the studies and research in today’s academic world. The department studies the vast areas of Islamic sciences, law, culture, civilization, mysticism and though with the aim to train scholars in the subject of Islamic Studies.

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The Department of Women Education was established in 2004. The Department offers Post Graduate, and Ph.D. programs in Women’s Studies since its inception. A multi-pronged approach is called for at all levels in developing, strengthening, harnessing the female resource of the country. Despite being the most unconventional and a new entrant into academic, Women’s Studies is simultaneously a discourse, a methodology and an agenda for action.

The subject matter of this course is “Women” and hence it transcends boundaries of disciplines and eventually assumes inter-disciplinary nature. The syllabus for the course is designed with an aim to empower students with adequate knowledge of their rights and privileges and it trains them to emerge as successful change-agents in the desired direction of social transformation. Recently, Women’s Studies is included as an approved subject of study for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) with stipend by the University Grants Commission to qualify for Lectureship in Colleges/ Universities.

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The department of social work aims to develop social work professionals with an inclination and orientation to work with deprived sections of the society in the unreached pockets of the country.

The department offers Post Graduate program Master of Social Work (MSW) and a research program  Ph.D. in Social Work. With the first batch of MSW starting in 2009, the department has evolved to develop a large network with the NGOs and government agencies in and outside Hyderabad to provide effective and rigorous field work training. The regular weekly individual conferences, field work seminars and skill labs have added to the creativity and commitment of the department to enhance and enrich the skills of the students and promote progressive values among them. The department started Ph.D. program in the year 2014. The research program of the department focuses on minorities with special reference to gender issues with emphasis on practice based/intervention research.

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The Department of History was established in 2014. The Department offers Bridge Course for Madarsa students; courses for UG programs; and M.A. in History and Ph.D. program. The Department has experienced teachers drawn from various reputed universities. The syllabi has been framed keeping in view the national interests, country’s ethos, employability of students and objective of the University to promote women’s development and other sections of the marginalized communities. Its aim, in particular, is to nurture the spirit of national integration and multiculturalism within the globally-set standards of quality teaching and research. The Department has plans to start to research programs and diploma programs in Tourism Management, Museology, Archival Management and courses allied to the industrial development, cultural diplomacy and policy planning of the Government of India.