Even though the Department of Sociology was not formed, when Vidyanagar College
was established in 1963 keeping in mind the need the local students, a separate
department was introduced to teach Sociology as a subject in the year 2011. At the
very beginning, under the able guidance of Professor Soumen Das, the college
started teaching Sociology in the General Course.
Currently the college does not teach Sociology under the Honours Course but
there are plans of the college authority to start that in the near future. When the
department started in 2011, there was a sanction to acommodate only 65 seats.
However, this number has grown substatially over the years and today the college is
authorised to enhance the enrolment capacities seats under the General Course.
Other activities organised by the department include add-on programme based on
life-skill such as, “The Sociological Imagination to Everyday life; Reading text and
Watching films” and also individual project works, for which certificates are issued
for each and every student