Political Thought Department

The branch of political thought was established as a precise specialization in the academic year 1997-1998 at the master’s and doctoral levels, and includes 26 teaching staff, including (1) member at the rank of professor, (9) member at the rank of assistant professor, (15) member at the rank of teacher, and (1) member at the rank of assistant instructor.

It is managed by the head of the branch and the branch council, which includes (7) instructors, and consists of several committees: the Scientific Committee, the Graduate Studies Committee, the Committee for Matching Amendments, the Scientific Safety Committee, and the Scientific Curriculum Committee, in addition to sub-committees such as :the electronic extraction committee, and the paper extraction committees.

Providing students with educational abilities that qualify them with a wide-ranging briefing on the topics of political thought and political theory, and providing them with experience, theoretical capabilities, analytical and methodological skills that enable them to critically understand and understand political events, then identify practical solutions to social problems, and enabling the students to face the labor market within the scope of their specialization.

Preparing scientific staffs to be specialized in the study of political thought, qualified intellectually and scientifically, then to be able in teaching within the scope of competence, and having the ability to conduct scientific research consequently.

Nurturing an academic environment that encourages the scientific research and learning in political thought. Then, realizing the relationship between education and politics and the competence in abilities of research .

It depends on the joint work that carried out by the joint contributions of the branch, which consists of:

1-Branch Council: It consists of all members of the faculty in the branch and is chaired by the chief of branch. It is concerned with discussing and developing matters that related with the branch itself. And contributing in formulating the branch’s public policy which related with scientific affairs and scientific research.

2-Head of the branch: He works to achieve the higher objectives and policies in the university and college, and who exercises his powers and scientific and administrative duties according to the law.

3-Rapporteur of the branch: He acts on behalf of the chief of branch in some of the powers that he delegates to him, or in absence condition of the chief of branch, to be instead of him, and assisting the chief of branch by supervising over regulation of all scientific and administrative affairs of the branch.

4-branch’s secretariat: It follows up the implementation of the instructions of the chief of branch and rapporteur. It receives e- mails and presents them to the chief of branch, and follows up also on incoming and outgoing mail and preparing the branch’s answers to it. Moreover, Informing the faculty members of the mail that related to them, following up on what is required of them, keeping and archiving files on box file and electronically too, then organizing all of them, and carrying out all of that by writing, or printing and copying work. In addition to that, organizing and preparing everything that related with the teaching staff, scientifically and administratively, and postgraduate students, including minutes of discussions, files and orders.