Indian Institutes of Technology - IIT Kanpur

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences is one of the academic departments of IIT Kanpur. It is multi-disciplinary, and consists of six disciplines: Economics, English Literature and Linguistics, Fine Arts, Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology.

The Department offers undergraduate courses to engineering and science students. These were first introduced in the curriculum in July 1963.

A 5 Year Integrated Programme in Economics has been introduced by the department recently.

Between 1964 and 1974 the Department instituted its PhD programme in its various disciplines. Since then, nearly 170 PhD degrees have been awarded. There are currently 41 students in the programme.

Source: IIT Kanpur official website.