This website provides information about the postgraduate programs offered by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. The research programs are Master of Social Sciences and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). The content and implementation of the research programs reflect UNIMAS vision and mission.
UNIMAS Vision: A leading global university for a sustainable future.
UNIMAS Mission: To enhance the social and economic impacts on the global community through the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research and strategic engagement.
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.
What kind of research do our postgraduate students undertake?
Social sciences research often require the researchers to go to the ground to talk to their research participants. This picture shows a Master student interviewing a woman in Belaga about her livelihood strategies. As you can see, selling durian when it is in season is one of it.
This is a student interviewing a tourist guide for her research about tourism sustainability of a national park in Sarawak.
Some research requires visitations to more remote areas. It really depends on the topic and where your research participants are located.