Arts

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Nasarawa State University, Keffi, was established in October, 2001 when the University took off. In 2002, the Faculty was split into two of which Faculty of Arts emerged from the exercise as an autonomous Faculty with the following Departments: English, History and Languages and Linguistics. The Department of Religious Studies was later added to the Faculty programmes.

The addition to the Faculty then was the introduction of Mass Communication which was semi-autonomous section within the Department of English.

The Faculty since its inception, has continued to contribute to the growth and development of the University by serving other Faculties especially the General Studies Unit and the Faculty of Education. The Faculty is geared towards promoting scholarship, research and evaluation as it has now become the heartbeat of scholarship in the University.

The Faculty today has grown to the extent that it houses nine (9) Departments. The Faculty has sizeable population spread in the nine Departments. All the nine programmes in the Faculty currently were fully accredited by the National University Commission (NUC).

The Faculty and many Departments in the Faculty has been organizing series of academic events and activities, ranging from conferences, seminars, workshops, lecture series etc. In addition, the Faculty and all the Department have been producing editions of academic books, journals, proceedings, book of readings etc. Furthermore, staff members of the Faculty have been attending many conferences both nationally and internationally.

Academic staff members of the Faculty have been known to be interacting well with the students, through teaching, guidance, mentoring, directing, supervising and assisting them in all their academic activities. The students of the Faculty were known to be hardworking, enthusiastic and morally good.

The Faculty of Education was established primarily with the objective to train well-grounded professional graduate teachers for post primary institutions in Nasarawa state in particular and Nigeria in general. Below are the specific objectives of the Faculty of Education:

1. To impart in the students, the dignity of the teaching profession among an array of professions in the state and Nigeria in general
2. To enhance quality teacher education and produce adequate manpower of the schools in the state and Nigeria at large.
3. To provide educational courses and instruction facilities for pursuit of learning in all its branches and to make the facilities available to Nasarawa state indigenes and other interested Nigerians admitted to faculty programmes
4. To encourage and conduct education research in all fields of teaching and learning particularly in science education and educational foundations.
5. To undertake any other activity appropriate for faculty of education in a university of the highest standard.
6. To produce high level manpower for tertiary institutions through graduate degrees in education.

“To be a world class centre of excellence for the development of the individual and society”

“To provide and promote qualitative, innovative and stimulating teaching, learning and research environment to enable individuals develop their full potentials for efficient, effective, dedicated and selfless service to the State, the nation and Humanity”.