The mission of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences is to complement the different university programs by providing humanistic education for an all round education of the students.
OUR VISION
The Vision of the School of Humanities is to enhance the general vision of the university through the teaching of the humanities.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
The philosophy of the humanities programme is excellence in wisdom and professionalism through humanistic education as envisioned in the Vision and Mission of Strathmore University.
“It is not enough to teach a man a specialty. Through it he may become a kind of useful machine, but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that the student acquire an understanding of and a lively feeling for values. He must acquire a vivid sense of the beautiful and of the morally good…..He must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions and their sufferings, in order to acquire a proper relationship to individual fellow men and to the community. These precious things are conveyed to the younger generation through personal contact with those who teach, not–or at least not in the main–through text books. It is this that primarily constitutes and preserves culture. This is what I have in mind when I recommend the “humanities” as important, not just dry specialized knowledge in the fields of history and philosophy. Over emphasis on the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.”
-Albert Einstein
“Humanities are very important as they help us understand the world through the languages, histories and cultures.They also encourage us to think creatively. They teach us to reason about being human and to ask questions about our world.
POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES
Below is a list of Master’s programmes offered at SHSS;
Master of Applied Philosophy and Ethics (MAPE)
Master of Science in Education Management (MSc.EM)
