VISION
The Department of History has always been striving to achieve excellence in academic activities. The Department efforts will be in the direction of creating more and more scholars and intellectuals to serve the people and the Nation in various ways and in different spheres. Student’s talents should be properly channelised by shaping them properly to become distinguished men in society and by offering them training in academic exercises and by conducting programmes to enable them to appear for the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) Examinations and to get selected in various Government and Non-Governmental services. The department has endeavoured not only to familiarise itself with the advance made in other disciplines but also to induce students to update their knowledge of such advances. It has felt a constant need to redefine the approaches and methods of studying History.
MISSION
The Department aim was to introduce a rigorous and scientific methodology in Teaching-Learning and Evaluation. The idea was to make the study of history more meaningful keeping in view the changing intellectual and social aspects of India and Andhra Pradesh. Enrich the quality and standard of teaching and learning through modern technology & Science and create good knowledge in the subject as well as research among the students. Research activities in the department would be strengthened.Audio-visual teaching aids and internet would be used limberly for class room instruction.
A more direct need was to create awareness in the student of history of the importance of theory and analytical concepts in reconstructing the past, while at the same time the emphasis was on a thorough understanding of and command over the History subject. The expanding frontiers of history have also made it imperative that the historian’s efforts should be directed towards correlating historical method with those of other disciplines. The department has been giving the assessments and revisions or changes introduced in the various programmes in the light of the experience gained and in response to changing Historiographical trends. Periodical reviews also meant feed-back from the outgoing under-graduate students, apart from continuing discussions among the student’s.
