Department of History

Emblem

The founding faculties of our department designed an emblem The emblem consists of a round shield and crossed swords .A capital letter ‘H’ embedded over it.This emblem indicates that History begins with weapons

A Brief history of the Department :

The Department of History was started functioning in 1970 with U.G Course in History. The present faculty strength of the department is four, of whom two are pursuing research for Ph.D. The present student strength of the department is 110.About 50% of the students opted for higher studies. Majority of the students have well placed and they served as Bank Officers, Professors, Teachers, Lawyers, Management Professionals, Priest ,Politicians etc .In the academic year 2012 the department as part of the extension programme organized a village adoption programme named as Gramangalileku. As part of this,the Department has adopted a Village (VI ward)of the Valakam Grama Panchayath. Department also arranged a cancer awareness class to the Villagers at the college Seminar Hall on 7th September 2012. An Eye Testing Camp was arranged at Govt. L.P School Kadathi on 8th October 2012. For both these programmes the participation and response from the public was highly inspiring