Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (formerly known as Faculty of Social Sciences) is one of the pioneering faculties of UNIMAS. Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities was one of the first two faculties to offer undergraduate academic programs when UNIMAS started operation during the academic session of 1993/1994. We offer six programs that anchor on social sciences disciplines or their applications. The programs are International Relation, Industrial and Labour Relations, Social Work, Communication Studies, Development Planning and Management, and Politics and Government.
This framework characterizes our postgraduate programs. The postgraduate (by research) program spans across eight major fields of study: (1) anthropology; (2) sociology; (3) political studies: (4) development studies; (5) industrial and employment relations; (6) social work; (7) international relations and (8) geographical information systems (GIS). The areas of specialization according to the different fields of studies are as follows:
Political Studies: Electoral Studies | Public Administration | Political Economy | Policy Studies
International Relations: Strategic and Security Studies | Foreign Policy Studies
Anthropology: Borneo Ethnography | Anthropology of Development | Medical Anthropology |Media Anthropology | Indigenous Communities |Cultural Studies
Social Work: Disability Studies | Criminology | Social Policy | Youth Studies
Sociology: Community Development | Sociology of Development | Gender Studies
Development Studies: Development and Poverty Studies | Human Geography and Demographic Studies | Urbanisation and Community Development | Planning and Management
Industrial and Employment Relations: Industrial Sociology | Labour Studies | Labour Economics | Labour Law
Geography Information System and Remote Sensing: Spatial Social Science | Spatial Modeling
The SLUSE program is an interdisciplinary program that collaborates with another sister program at the Faculty of Resource Science and Technology. Here, SLUSE students learn how natural sciences and social sciences could go hand in hand.