Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University

Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS),is a faculty in the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India which offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Social science. It was founded in 1971.HistoryFaculty of Social Sciences was a part of the Faculty of Arts from 1916 to 1971. In 1971, the faculty was bifurcated from the Arts Faculty and five departments were created with the aim to create landmark impacts with the help of the rigorous exercises done by the Sociologists, Psychologists, Economists, Political Scientists and Historians.OrganisationFaculty of Social Sciences' administrative head is a dean. The dean is responsible for all aspects of the Faculty's operations, including budgets, administration, planning, support services, faculty appointments, curricula and student affairs. The dean is appointed by and reports to the Vice-Chancellor of the university.There are five different departments in theFaculty of Social Sciences that offer Special courses, Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate (PG) degrees, namely the departments of Economics, History, Political science, Psychology and Sociology.