Department of Sociology and Anthropology Brief History

The Department took off with two academic staff; one lecturer II on contract and one assistant lecturer on regular employment. The startup students of the department were six in number. From then, all hands were on deck to steer the department towards the vision of the founding fathers of the University: Education for the Total Man. Our undergraduate curricular are firmly anchored on the principle of providing the fundamental knowledge needed to produce critical and competitive sociologists. Daunting challenges associated with new institutions like Evangel University notwithstanding, the Department has been able to have a conducive office accommodation and also able to send staff for seminars, courtesy of management.
The students are happy and most of them are showing signs of positive academic and good character improvement. We insist on praxis (learning by doing). Therefore, we make it a matter of departmental policy for our students to strive to apply what they learn to test and understand their immediate environment and beyond.  Our core areas include Developmental Sociology, Industrial Sociology and Human Resource Development. The product of the Department can then be self-reliant, entrepreneurs, and employers of labour. 
Vision
The Sociology and Anthropology Department seeks to provide broad and socially-based educational opportunities through collaboration, flexible delivery modes, in an environment where high standard, truth, respect and the high dignity of the person are embraced. Sociology and Anthropology Department seeks to operate ethically to tackle global challenges with confidence and high standards of efficiency and investing sufficiently today to sustain the vision for future generations.

Philosophy
The Philosophy underlying the BSc. Sociology and Anthropology programme is to produce a crop of graduates equipped with appropriate knowledge to make their contributions to the development of Nigeria, Africa and the global community, having been exposed to a broad foundation of knowledge in the field of Social Sciences in general and in the various sub-field of Sociology and Anthropology in particular.
Finally, to build in the students the value of social order, national development and citizen consciousness through Social Action Systems.
Objectives

• To instill in Sociology students a sense of enthusiasm for and identity with the discipline of Sociology as a profession; an appreciation of its application in different contexts and environments, and to involve students in an intellectual stimulating and satisfying experience of learning and studying.
• To provide students with a broad and balanced foundation of Sociological and Anthropological knowledge, equipped with relevant theories, methods and practical skills to enable them be gainfully employed in vast range of human endeavours, such as, the industry, public service, the private sector, research institutes, administrators, lecturers and even as self-employed entrepreneurs.
• To develop in students of Sociology and Anthropology the ability to apply their sociological and anthropological knowledge and skills (both theoretically and research) in proffering solutions to theoretical and practical problems of human beings, in groups and interpersonal relationships, organizational behaviours, environmental issues etc. in the society.
• To develop in the students, through an education in Sociology and Anthropology, a range of transferable skills of value in Sociology and Anthropology such as social, organizational, industrial, educational, health and cultural employment environments, by the use of generative and creative methods of social engineering.
• To provide the students with a knowledge and skill base from which they can proceed for further studies in specialized areas of Sociology and Anthropology, such as, Industrial Sociology and Anthropology, Population and Demographic Studies, Sociology and Anthropology of Development, Gender Studies, Human and Personal Resource Management, among others.
• To generate in students an appreciation of the importance of Sociology and Anthropology in a developing society like Nigeria in relation to industrial, economic, environmental and socio-cultural issues, as well as problems and policies especially as they relate to issues of social cohesion and sustainability in the development of Nigeria.