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Department Of Social Studies

WELCOME ADDRESS FROM THE HOD
Welcome to the department of Social studies. Social studies departmemt is one of the oldest departments in the College. The department deals with the interaction of the humans with their environments, such as social, physical, economics and political environments. The department also teaches how humans interact wih one another. It is the department that mould the character of human beings and provides job opportunities for the people.
The department of Social studies has qualified lecturers with high intellectual capabilities. The department has graduated many students that are in higher positions in the country.
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SHORT HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT
The departments of History and Geography were the earliest Departments that were established in the whole School of Arts and Social Sciences, Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo before Social Studies Department came on board. Then the College was formally at Ajagba in Oyo ownship.988, Social Studies were later introduced as a core subject. Then, both History and Geography were co-existing before they were eventually phased out in almost all the Federal College of Education with the new Federal Government Policy then, This gave birth to Social Studies as a course here in Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo.
Consequently, the lecturers that were handling History and Geography before were reassigned to teach Social Studies as a new course in the College. Such lecturers were made to undergo fresh courses, induction courses, workshops and seminars to enhance their performances in teaching and learning of Social Studies effectively.
Initially, the Department was short of staff, but it made use of the services of the NYSC members that were posted to the College for their primary assignment. Also, student's enrolment was very low at the commencement of the teaching of Social Studies in the College. To be precise, the first set of students was thirty-six (36) in number. Later their number started to be increasing as students were recruited from all the nooks and crannies of the country, thereby making the College to have national outlook in its admission policy.
However, the department graduated her first set of students in the year 1990. As a response to further reorganization of syllabuses within the Nigerian context, the Social Studies Department has severally refashioned its courses, in line with the National Commission for Colleges of Education. Student's enrolment had considerably increased and adequate staff members had equally been recruited to man the Department.
PHILOSOPHY OF THE DEPARTMENT
umber of both the primary and junior secondary schools in Nigeria coupled with their ever increasing enrolments have necessitated the production of specially trained teachers who are equipped with the knowledge and special skills for implementing the Social Studies programme in these schools. The fundamental concern of Social Studies is with man and his complex relationships with the world around and beyond, it is in this context that the NCE Social Studies curriculum attempts to instill in the students; the basic knowledge, desirable values, and skills for investigating, analyzing and plaining these interrelationships.
The Social Studies programme is therefore designed with the objectives of producing teachers who are both professionally committed and academically competent in its philosophy, content and methodology.
To produce teachers who are both professionally committed and academically competent in the philosophy, content and methodology of Social
Studies.
VISION AND MISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT
 VISION STATEMENT:
Production of specially trained teachers who are equipped with the knowledge and special skills for implementing the Social Studies programme in both the primary and junior secondary school levels.
MISSION STATEMENT:
The NCE Social Studies curriculum will help to instill in the students, the basic knowledge, desirable values, and skills for investigating, analyzing and explaining the interrelationship between man and his environment.The department shall be an epitome of excellence saddled with the responsibility of developing professionals who will be able to teach at the Pre-tertiary levels, impact good human values to the populace and disseminate relevant knowledge and skills which can positively influence the educational policy of the nation.
+ Students would be trained such that they would be useful to themselves and to the society a! large.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE DEPARTMENT
The Social Studies programme is designed to achieve the following objectives:
•    + Produce professionally and academically competence NCE Social Studies teachers for the primary and junior secondary schools.
•    Prepare teachers who will inculcate in their students rational adjustment to their physical and social environment through acquisition of knowledge, attitudes, values, appreciations and skills necessary for developing social and civic responsibilities.
•    Produce students who are capable of benefiting from further education in Social Studies and other related areas.
•    + Training students for good citizenship
•    + To improve the professional, academics and moral competences of students through seminars, symposia and updated lectures.
•    Provide intellectual training which would create critical thinking.
 
ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE

                                                                         HEAD OF DEPARTMENT
                                      

DEPARTMENTAL STAFF SECRETARY                                                                     DEPARTMENTAL RESULT OFFICER



DEPARTMENTAL EXAMINATION OFFICER                                                         STAFF ADVISER


                                                                                                                                        STUDENTS' SOSAN EXECUTIVE MEMBERS

 












PROGRAMME OFFERED
NCE and B.Ed.



ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
1)    General:
a)    A secondary school certificate (SSC) or G.C.E. ‘O’ Level with credit in 5 subjects including English language and mathematics in not more than two sittings.
b)    A Grade II Teacher’s Certificate (TC II) with credit or merit in five subjects, two of which must be relevant to the course the candidate wishes to offer. Credit merit in English language and mathematics are required.
ii) Additional requirements
a)    In addition to the General Admission Requirements for NCE programmes, candidate with SSC wishing to read Social Studies must have a credit in any two of the following subjects:
i)    Social studies
ii)    Civics
iii)    History
iv)    Geography
v)    Economics
vi)    Government
vii)    Islamic Religious Knowledge
viii)    Christian Religious Knowledge
Candidates with TC II must have a merit/credit pass in Social Studies.
ix)    It should be noted that colleges should in addition to the above, administer elimination tests and/or interviews. This is legitimate.


SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT COURSE STRUCTURE
DUAL MODE FOR B.Ed. IN SOCIAL AND CIVIC EDUCATION.
With reference to the Nigeria Certificate in Education, Minimum Standards for Arts and Social Sciences (2012 and 2020) editions and the CCMAS new curriculum by the National Universities Commission (NUC) that expects 60 units of Core courses in the cognate department usually under faculty or School/College of Education as clearly stated in the curriculum. Therefore, the following courses, titles, units and status are hereby reviewed for the dual mode programme for the (NCE and 2 years Direct Degree Programme) for the study of Social and Civic Education.
100 Level
Course Code    Course Title    Unit    Status
Sos    111    Foundations of Social Studies    2    C
Sos    112    Introduction to Civic Education    2    C
Sos    113    Man and His Social Environment    2    C
Sos    114    Man and His Physical Environment    2    C
Sos    121    Introduction to NERDC National Curriculum for Social Studies    2    C
Sos    122    Nigeria as a Nation    2    C
Sos    124    Man and His Economic Activities    2    C
sos      125    Man and his Government    2    C
200 Level
Course Code    Course Title    Unit    Status
sos 211    Nigeria Political Life    2    C
sos 212    Social Studies Research Methods and Statistics    2    C
SOS 213    Field Trip    2    C
SOS 221    Issues and Problems of National Development and Modernisation    2    C
SOS 222    Citizenship Education    2    C
SOS 223    Social Services and Social Change in Nigeria    2    C
SOS 224    Law-related Education    2    C

300 Level
Course Code    Course Title    Unit    Status
sos 321    Population and Family Life Education    2    C
sos 322    Nigeria External Relation    2    C
sos 323    Social Institutions    2    C
sos 324    Globalization    2    C
Course Code    Course Title    Unit    Status
ESS 411    Problems of Ethnics and Value Education    2    C
ESS 412    Social Issues and Problems in Education    2    C
    Security and law related education    2    C
    Social Studies and Theories of Nation Building    2    C
ESS 415    Creating and Managing Resource Room for Civic and Social Studies Education    2    C

400 Level

500 Level
Course Code    Course Title    Unit    Status
ESS 511    International Relations    2    C
ESS 513    Emerging Social Issues as Priorities and
Contents in Civic and Social Studies
Education    2    C
ESS 521    Social Life and Party Politics in Nigeria    2    C
ESS 522    Nigeria in International Organization    2    C
ESS 523    Field Trip and Long Essay    2    C
ESS 524    Global Development Agenda    2    C



DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES
SCHOOL OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
(ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES PROGRAMMES)
FEDERAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (SPECIAL), OYO

SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT GRADING AND ASSESSMENT POLICIES

70 and above          A             DISTINCTION
60 ¬– 69                    B            CREDIT
50 -  59                    C           MERIT
45 ¬¬¬¬-  49                    D           PASS
40 -  44                    E           PASS
 0  -  39                    F           FAILED

LIST OF STAFF IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES
FOR YEAR 2024/2025 ACADEMIC SESSION
S/N    Names    Status    Qualification
1.    Dr. E.O.
Gbadebo    Chief Lecturer    B.A. 1996, PGDE 1999, M.Ed. 2007, Ph.D. 2024
2.    Dr. (Mrs) O.A.
Adegbite    Chief Lecturer    NCE 1992, B.A. Ed. 1995, M. Ed. 2005, Ph.D. 2016.
3.    Mr. 1, Wahab    Chief Lecturer    B.Sc. 1995, PGDE 2005, M. Ed. 2010
4.    Dr.     M.     A.
Oyekanmi    Chief Lecturer    NCE 1985, B.A. Ed. 1998, M. Ed. 2005, Ph. D. 2021
5.    Dr. I. Adebusuyi
    Principal
Lecturer    NCE 1998, B.Sc. Ed. 2006, M. Ed. 2012, Ph.D. 2024
6.    Mrs. T. R.
Adeyemo    Senior
Lecturer    NCE 1989, B.A. Ed. 2000, M. Ed. 2012.
7.    Dr. A. A. Afolabi    Senior
Lecturer    NCE 1995, B.A. Ed. 2006, M. Ed. 2010, Ph. D. 2021
8.    Mr. W. A.
Adeleke    Lecturer 1    NCE 2008, B.Sc. Ed. 2012, M. Ed.2015.
9.    Mr. Y.O. Egbinola    Lecturer 1    NCE 1997, B.(Ed) 2004, M.Sc. 2008, M.Sc.(Ed) 2024
10.    Mr. O.P. Ogunmola    Lecturer 11    B.Sc. 2009, PGDE 2014
1 1.    Mr. S. A
Ibraheem    Lecturer 111    NCE 2010, B.Sc.Ed 2017, M.Sc. Ed. 2021
12,    Mrs. R. M.
Akande    Lecturer 111    NCE 2001, B.Ed. 2013
13.    Mrs. T. A. S.
Ibrahim    Ass. Lecturer.    B.Sc. 2010, PDE 2019
14. .    Mr. O.M. Denen    Ass. Lecturer.    B. sc. 2014

15.    Mrs. C.A. Ufford    Lecturer 111    NCE 1998, B.Sc.Ed 2004, M.Ed 2013
16.    Mr. W.K. Ismail    Ass. Lecturer    NCE 2006, B.Ed. 2014
17.    Mr. W. Kolawole    Ass. Lecturer    B.A.Ed. 2017
18.    Mr. D.A. Odeh    Ass. Lecturer    NCE 2006, B.Sc.Ed. 2012

Male lecturers = Twelve (12)
Female lecturers = Six (6)
TOTAL NUMBER OF ACADEMIC STAFF: Eighteen (18)
Non-Academic Staff :   NIL
Total No of Staff in Social Studies Dept. EIGHTEEN (18)


SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT, ITEMS/FACILITIES IN THE RESOURCE ROOM
(1)    Set of chairs (students) .8
(2)    (2) Set of tables (students) -1,8
(3)    Staff table 1
(4)    Staff chair 1 (not in good condition)
(5)    Plastic table 2
(6)    Stool 1
(7)    Ceiling fan 6
(8)    Florescent (fight) 6
(9)    Florescent light bulbs 3
(10)    Plastic chairs 3 (not in good condition)
(11)    Standing fan 1
(12)    Printer machine 1
(13)    Stabilizer 1
(14)    Radio player 1
(15)    C.P,U 1
(16)    Television 2
(17)    HP desktop with two keyboard
(18)    Laptop speakers 2
(19)    Video CD player 1
(20)    Refrigerator 1                
(21)    Two power supply for desktop    
(22)    UPS  2
(23)    3 pots
(24)    Dustbin basket but not in good condition
(25)    Irukere
(26)    Olo atal
(27)    Sekere 1
(28)    Basket
(29)    Ayo oloopon
(30)    Talking drum   
(31)    One gofa    

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES
SCHOOL OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
(ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES PROGRAMMES)
FEDERAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (SPECIAL), OYO
CLASSROOM AND FURNISHING
SIN    LECTURE HALLS    DESKS    TABLES
1    LECTURE HALL 1    96    96
2    LECTURE HALL 2    75    75
3    LECTURE HALL 3    20    20


SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
The department has organisd a talent show programme in which students were able to demonstrate inbuilt talents such as singing, poetry, dancing, playlet, etc.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The department intends to organize a field trip to National Museum at Alesinloye area in Ibadan. In order to expose the students to our cherished cultural heritage, so as to foster unity among various ethnic groups in Nigeria.


CONTACT INFORMATION
The  department can be contacted through the head of the department on 08037781037, at Office Number 1, HOD Building Complex.