GITAM School of Humanities & Social Sciences (GSHSS)

GITAM School of Humanities & Social Sciences (GSHSS) was founded with the aim of becoming a global leader in liberal arts education, and to offer students a grounded, value-based education. It strives to inculcate respect for interdisciplinarity and to inculcate respect for interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in education and in the wider spheres of life among students. It hopes to nurture ideas of equity, equality and democracy and train students to think globally and act locally. GITAM will be an exceptional knowledge-driven institution advancing on a culture of honesty and compassion to make a difference to the world. To impart education with socio-cultural values To nurture the ideas of equity, equality and democracy To inculcate the notions of human and economic development with a focus on sustainability and health To develop the concepts of peaceful co-existence among diverse peoples and species To inculcate respect for interdisciplinarity and trans-disciplinarity in education and at work To develop the ethic of thinking globally and acting locally The school offers Undergraduate Programs, Post Graduate Programs and Doctoral Programs in a variety of disciplines. The rigorous entrance examinations to each of these programs ensure that the crème de la crème of aspiring social scientists form a part of GSHSS. The school boasts of introducing a time-flexible and tiered Undergraduate Program in Liberal Education, which has been designed in accordance with the precepts of the New Education Policy, 2020. It includes a 1-Year Diploma Course, a 2-Year Certificate Course, a 3-year Degree Course, a 4-year Honors Course and a 4-year Research Honors Course. It also offers 11 Minor Courses alongside the aforementioned 6 Majors. The incoming students pursue university and institute-core courses in their first semester, and select major and minor courses from a plethora of offerings from the School of Business Studies, the School of Science, and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. As the minor courses are pursued throughout their stay in GITAM, our students revel in the unique opportunity of a truly interdisciplinary programme of study. Built on a lasting foundation of Gandhian values and principles, GSHSS inculcates in its students a deep appreciation of humanism alongside a rigorous training in the humanities. On-campus fests and festivities run parallel with programmes to raise awareness about the legal, social, psychological and medical challenges of the contemporary world. Our students are encouraged to participate in local and national social interventions on behalf of the underprivileged, and in civic campaigns to combat apathy. They offer their services to teaching programmes, to afforestation drives, beach cleanups and animal rescues.