Political Science
The Political Science department is among one of the oldest Social Science departments of M.E.S. Vasant College of Arts and Commerce. It was established in the year 1973 under Mr E. Braganza. From the year 1975 Dr. Maria Rodrigues served in the department as a faculty member and retired as the principal of the college in the year 2014.
Mr. Dattaprasad Shirgurkar is an Assistant Professor in the department of Political science since 2014 till date. The department offers various papers at undergraduate level for the students opting for B.A. program. The papers include Major and Minor courses including Introduction to Political Theory and Basic concepts in Political Science for FYBA. The department has been offering papers like Introduction to political reporting as well as Community and Political Participation for SYBA. The courses offered at TYBA level are Western Political Thinkers, International Relations, India’s foreign policy, Public Administration and Indian Administration.
The students actively participate in the curricular, co-curricular and extra-curricular activities conducted by the college and university time to time. This not only inculcates civic sense among them but also make them politically, socially and environmentally conscious.
The department doesn’t only believe in imparting core skills of the subject but also strives to socialise students. The department attempts to make students to realise their rights, duties and responsibilities as a member of civilised society, thereby creating a tolerant society based on democratic values like liberty, equality, justice and harmony.
The department strives at imparting quality education and socializing students so that they serve the society as bureaucrats, civil servants, military officers, journalists, lawyers, politicians, social activists, and diplomats and become the agents of socio-economic change.
To improve the learning experience the department takes students for field trips, study tours and experiential learning programs. It makes student to interact with people in society so as to understand the issues, concerns and challenges of the society they live in. Learning activities beyond the classroom adds to the knowledge, wisdom and skills of the student.
The student’s progression of the department has been satisfying as many students passing out from the department are either in the government service on reputed positions, faculty members in various educational institutions including schools, higher secondary, college and university, journalists, lawyers, Social activists, psephologists and active citizens.