Established in 1964, as the first Geography Department in Thailand, the Department of Geography, Chiang Mai University has focusing on producing graduates who specialize in various fields of geography. Over the past 50 years, the Department of Geography has continuously produced graduates, in bachelor’s and master’s degree, to serve the country.
Apart from providing academic program at the undergraduate level that has continued for over 50 years and producing graduates who have worked to serve society in various professional fields until now, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology has raised the level of academic progress on producing graduates in the master's and doctorate degree.
The Department of Social Science and Development offers various courses dealing with social science and development issues and focusing on a wide range of research related to development, with key research topics including environment and natural resource, land using, migration, ethnic society and culture, health and gender with the research area focuses on Southeast Asian region.
As the first Department of Women Studies in the Mekong Sub-Region established in the North of Thailand, the Department of Women's Studies, Chiang Mai University is recognized as an academic center for women studies producing knowledge and research work for equality between women and men as well as human rights of women. The center is not only a source of academic knowledge but also a center for knowledge application and dissemination for the benefit of local, national, regional and international society.
Message from Dean
Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University is one of the first three faculties established in
the year 1964, the year of Chiang Mai University’s founding and aged 56 years in the year 2020. At
present, the organizational structure of the Faculty consists of Office of the Faculty, Department
of Geography, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Department of Social Science and
Development, Department of Women's Studies and the Center of Research and Academic Services.
According to the vision of the Faculty of Social Sciences "For Academic Excellence and Sustainable
Social Development" and its motto of "Social Sciences for Society", Faculty of Social Sciences has
administrated its mission, strategy and action plan in consistent with the said vision and has used
the management principles including transparency, fairness, good governance, decentralization and
teamwork. This is for all personnel in the Faculty of Social Sciences to understand the same
development goals in order to work efficiently and jointly develop the Faculty continuously.
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