HISTORY:

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), NIT Raipur was established in the year 1958 (formerly, the Department of English under the Government College of Engineering and Technology). The Department at present is one of the emerging departments, with a plethora of research and teaching endeavors in the subject areas (Core and Allied) of English literature, Linguistics, Sociology, Management and Consumer Psychology, Yoga and Health, Value Education for Consciousness Development.

The department largely helps to:

• Develop Verbal and non-verbal communication skills and conceptualize the neuro-cognitive aspects of language.

• Assimilate and Practice Higher Order Managerial Decision Making Skills.

• Learn and practice Yoga for healthy and sound living.

• To develop the ability to understand "coexistence-based living" through Value Education

VISION:

To render world class professionals efficient in communicative, managerial and entrepreneurial skills. Aimed at enhancing placement prospects of Engineers and Technocrats in leading multinational companies, public sector undertakings and other entrepreneurial ventures.

MISSION:

To develop an immersive learning and innovative environment, state-of-art interdisciplinary research and creativity in the domain of Humanities and Social Sciences. To inculcate higher order decision making skills through a broad spectrum of learning content in the areas of Professional Communication, Sociology, Management, Entrepreneurship, Life Sciences through Yoga and Value Education for Consciousness Development. To generate path-breaking ideas on the Societal Triad of Ethos, Pathos and Logos through graduate and post-graduate teaching and research programmes.

DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARY

The department boasts of procuring and maintaining approximately 100 reading resources such as books, thesis, and magazines for ready reference to the readers. The resources include famous writers such as Pierre Bouridea, Shakespeare, Amitabh Ghosh, Giorgio Agamben, V S Naipaul, William James, T. S Eliott for English; Schiffman, P. Kotler, G. Dessler, Zeithmal, John J Shaw, S.P Robbins, H Koontz for Management and OB; Michel Foucault, Auguste Comte, Emile Durkheim; Jurgen Habermas, MN Srinivas, Meera Kosambi for Sociology , Swami Swatmaram, Dr. Pitamber Jha, Swami Sivananda Saraswati, B.K.S. Iyengar, Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati for Yoga and Health ; A. Nagraj, R.R. Gaur, R. Sangal, G.P. Bagaria in Value Education for Consciousness Development to name a few.