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Founded in 1981, the Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology (CDSA) is one of the largest teaching departments at Tribhuvan University in terms of both student enrollments and faculty. Each academic year, more than 500 students enroll themselves for Master’s Degree Program in sociology and anthropology. Although sociology and anthropology at Masters' Level are taught in 33 campuses and colleges (18 constituent campuses and 15 affiliated colleges) of Tribhuvan University, CDSA is the first choice of aspiring students pursuing their Master’s Degree owing to its well managed faculty and suitable academic environment. The department’s courses in sociology and anthropology for Master’s level students consist of five common courses focusing on concepts, theories and methods for the first year. In the second year, the department offers one common course for both sociology and anthropology groups and three ....
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Research Project
Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology has received a research grant of 60million rupees to undertake a Social Inclusion Atlas (SIA) Ethnographic Profile research project. This is a commissioned research funded by Social Inclusion Research Fund (SIRF) and managed by SNV/Nepal. The main objective of this research project is to prepare social inclusion atlas of 100+ groups and ethnographic profiles of 42 highly marginalized communities of Nepal. The duration of the research project is 16 month beginning in November 1, 2011.
In order to manage the research project efficiently and accomplish it successfully, a management committee has been formed with 5 core research team members under the leadership of Prof. Om Gurung, project coordinator. Other members will be research directors, two thematic team leaders and a SIA-EP Co-Director. The research project involves 29 researchers from multidisciplinary research backgrounds; anthropology, sociology, geography, economics, linguistic, statistics, demography, socio-economic, political science, gender studies, education, and GIS (For details see the project Proposal)