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Dr. Peter Nyansera Otieno

Dr. Peter Nyansera Otieno

Dean, School of Arts and Social Sciences

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Message from the Dean, School of Arts and Social Sciences

Societies need graduates who can interpret people, institutions, cultures, histories, conflicts, and ideas with care. Our school gives students space to ask difficult questions, strengthen communication, understand human behaviour, and apply social knowledge to peace, governance, development, heritage, and community life.

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About the school

School covering humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary social inquiry, with certificate, diploma, bachelors, masters, and doctoral training. Trains and graduates competent students in certificate, diploma, bachelors, masters, and doctoral courses.

Mission

To create market and need driven courses that prepare the learner holistically: intellectually, morally and religiously to undertake various responsibilities in the society and in the global world.

Vision

To become a dynamic and a vibrant School of Arts and Social Sciences that is driven by the desire for knowledge through research, innovation by attentive experience, intelligent understanding and reasonable judgments of the societal reality.

Mandate

To offer demand-driven arts and social science programmes that prepare graduates for scholarship, citizenship, leadership, and service in society.