Sociology and Psychology

Our Mission and Vision

The Department of Sociology and psychology at Paul University offers a unique programme for students in the Department for the award of a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) in Sociology and Psychology.

Student in the Department engage in common intellectual task and aim to produce graduates, well grounded in the understanding of the order, meaning and coherence of life human societies and cultures.

As well as the pressures and contradictions that produce patterns of conflict and change.

  • Emphasize the comparative study of society and cultures.
  • Conditions of social organisation as well as disorganisation.
  • Evolution and the bases of human adaptation.
  • Change, as well as continuity
  • Gender and culture
  • The human life courses
  • The symbolic aspects of human social life

Graduates of Sociology and Psychology sound knowledge of human behaviour, motivation and experiences would impact positively in the development of our social structures and services.

Graduates would fit into different areas of employment, for example, social workers, helping professions or even banking.

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Professor Helen O. Nwagwu
BA (Hons) Psychology, Ph.D (IB)
Head of Department