Department of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Nairobi. The Department, which began as the Department of Sociology, was established in the 1968/69 academic year and is one of the oldest and largest departments in the Faculty of Arts. In 1976 the social work program was added into the Department culminating in the current Department of Sociology and Social Work.

The main of the Department is located on the fourth floor in room GW 408A in the Gandhi Wing Building at the Main Campus of the University of Nairobi. The Department has 28 fulltime members of the academic staff and 4 administrative and technical staff. Department facilities include faculty offices, classrooms and a computer lab. The department hosts two major undergraduate programs namely: Sociology and Social Work.

Both programs offer students an array of timely, topical and innovative courses taught by faculty members who are caring, committed to students and to student learning and actively engaged in research in their disciplines.

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