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Humanities and Liberal Arts

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The Department of Humanities & Liberal Arts plays the distinctive role in integrating human attributes and values with holistic science and technology education.

It helps to make India’s bright young minds critical thinkers and ensures all round holistic development of students through teaching of a variety of subjects, innovative curricula, and participation in co-curricular activities. The department offers varied subjects like Professional Communication, Engineering Economics, Principles of Management, Industrial Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Human Values and Ethics being few of them.

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The department, in addition to supporting the breadth teaching in other schools across the university, also offers B.A (Hons.) Economics, B.A. (Hons.) English, B.A. (Hons.) Psychology, program at UG level, M.A. Clinical Psychology at PG level, and offers Ph.D. programs in English, Psychology and Economics. Further, to make the students industry ready, the department also offers various courses aligned towards corporate communication, technical writing skills developed with an emphasis on critical thinking, rhetorical analysis, effective writing, and effective document design. Nationally renowned trainers impart training in aspects like Soft Skills Development, Aptitude Building and Personality Development to enable students to present themselves effectively and handle professional situations.

The department boasts of well-qualified faculty trained in humanistic skills, having doctorate degrees from renowned institutes of the country and from abroad. In addition to teaching students in the classroom setting the faculty of the department is also engaged in high-end research and community projects with focus on imparting wholesome education to all its students.

Shriya Goyal

Dr. Shriya Goyal

Associate Professor,
Department of Humanities and Liberal Arts, DIT University

HOD's Message

As Head of the Department of Humanities and Liberal Arts at DIT University, I am proud to share our commitment to academic excellence, interdisciplinary learning, and research-driven education. The Department offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programmes in Psychology, English, and Economics, designed to equip students with strong theoretical foundations, analytical skills, and a deep understanding of human, cultural, and socio-economic dynamics. Our Psychology programmes emphasise scientific inquiry, mental health awareness, and applied psychological practices. The English programmes foster critical engagement with literature, language, and cultural studies, strengthening communication skills and interpretative abilities. The Economics programmes focus on economic theory, quantitative analysis, and policy perspectives, enabling students to examine contemporary economic issues at national and global levels critically.

The Department adopts a learner-centric and research-oriented pedagogy, integrating classroom instruction with experiential learning, research projects, seminars, and academic collaborations. Guided by a dedicated and experienced faculty, we strive to cultivate intellectual curiosity, ethical responsibility, and professional competence among our students. Through a supportive and inclusive academic environment, the Department of Humanities and Liberal Arts aims to prepare graduates and researchers who can contribute meaningfully to academia, industry, policy-making, and society at large.

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Mission

  • To make the students understand the role of interpersonal relationships and individual differences in modifying work environment.
  • To develop skills to manage business organizations in a dynamic global environment.
  • To help them to recognize the role of individual values as well as various other values in making society better.
  • To create a teaching-learning environment in which the student inculcates greater human values.
  • To nurture the intellectual orientation of the students by providing them the conducive research environment

Vision

  • To excel in teaching and research while keeping pace with the global education.
  • To integrate social and human values with a holistic education.
  • To nurture the talent and promote intellectual growth of students.
  • To create well-developed and multi-skilled global work-force.

Facilities

  • Multimedia Language Lab
  • Psychology Lab
  • Econometric Software Lab
  • MoU with French Embassy to teach French Language
  • MoU with HIL to teach German and Spanish Language
  • Departmental Clubs

The Department of Humanities & Liberal Arts plays the distinctive role of integrating human attributes and values with a holistic science and technology education. It helps to make India’s bright young minds critical thinkers and ensures all round holistic development of students through teaching a variety of subjects, innovative curricula, and participation in co-curricular activities. The department offers subjects like Professional Communication, Engineering Economics, Principles of Management, Industrial Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Human Values and Ethics.

The department is introducing BA Economics (Honors) from the session 2017-18. Further, in order to make the students campus ready, they are exposed to corporate communication and their technical writing skills developed with an emphasis on critical thinking, rhetorical analysis, effective writing and effective document design. Nationally renowned trainers impart training in subjects like Soft Skills Development, Aptitude Building and Personality Development to enable them to present themselves effectively and handle professional situations.

Objective of the Department

  • To provide adequate exposure in English language in order to build a strong foundation for the students.
  • To provide guiding principles and tools for the development of students into a Professional.
  • To make the students understand the role of interpersonal relationships and individual differences in modifying work environment.
  • To develop skills to manage business organizations in a dynamic global environment.
  • To help them to recognize the role of individual values as well as various other values in making society better.

Highlights Of The Department

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Foreign Languages

The Foreign Languages Program is designed to provide students with a professional edge in today’s competitive environment. DITU has entered an MoU with external agencies for imparting Language Certification Course in French, German & Spanish.

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Ph.D.

The department offers Ph.D. programme in English, Economics and Psychology.

Economics Area

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Teaching Economics students the basics of data handling and data analyzing using statistical software

Various Clubs

  • ‘Clikrrati Literati’, the literary club nurtures the talents of students in literary fields. (Literary events, Poetry) It celebrates major events and occasions by organizing competitions that help students to explore, understand and realize their true selves. Major events are Rajbhasa Mahotsava and Desh Prem Mahotsava.
  • The Red Ribbon club is formed by DIT, Dehradun in association with Uttarakhand State AIDS Control Society (USACS) under the NSS. The club aims at spreading awareness about AIDS and its prevention through various competitions like Slogan Writing, Painting, Quiz , Essay Competition etc.
  • Spic Macay DIT University chapter of was inaugurated in April 2012. The club promotes Indian culture among youth through classical music and dance events.
  • The Editorial Board is the ideal platform to exhibit and hone the immense talent of budding professionals. It consists of teams for creative writing, editing and designing of University publications.
  • Mesmoronica The Music & Dance Club aims at exploring hidden musical talents in students in different genres i.e., instrumental, Indian classical and folk music.
  • Personality Development Club (PDC) aims at the overall grooming of the personality of students by assessing their areas of weakness and working on them to bring about a positive transformation.
  • Research Club The Research Club was founded on 9th April 2016.This club aims at nurturing the potential of young researchers. In the University a large number of young technocrats with a lot of intellectual abilities are seen. They are creative, thoughtful and energetic. This club organizes two events in every session, The Paper Presentation Competition in the Odd semester and Quiz Competition in Even semester.

Laboratories

Software And Learning Resources

The Digital Interactive Lab (one teacher +20 students) is installed in the central system through which all the systems are networked. iTell-Oréll Digital Language Lab Standard Edition S2

Economics Software Lab

The Econometrics Lab is designed for students to use data from International and National Institutions like the World Bank, IMF, WTO, RBI, NITI Aayog and NSSO. Emphasis is laid to develop the quantitative and analytical skills of the students by exposing them to state-of-the-art statistical software like MS Excel, EViews, SPSS, R-studio and Python. Students also have access to various databases and other computer software in the lab.

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