Welcome To Our Department

I heartily welcome you to the Department of History domiciled in the Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University. The Department is one of the oldest academic units in the University, being one of the Departments established at the inception of the University in 1962. The Department offers three and four-year programmes leading to the award of Bachelor of Arts Honours degree (Single Honours). It also runs a number of combined honours programmes in collaboration with selected Departments in the Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Administration.

These combined honours programmes are B.A. History and Economics; B.A. History and English; B.A. History and International Relations; B.A. History and Philosophy; B.A. History and Political Science; B.A History and Religious Studies, and B.A. History and Sociology. In addition, the Department collaborates with the Faculty of Education to run B.A. (Education/History) combined honours programme.

The philosophy underpinning our programmes draws from the understanding that studying the past deepens our awareness of the present and equips us with the capacity to make proper judgments. These courses are designed to imbue in students the appreciation of human values, and the skills that will enable them to make critical, objective, perceptive, relevant and applicable analysis of social reality.