School of Arts
School of Arts (SOA) of Kathmandu University was established in 1996. It is one of the six Schools at the University established to impart education in liberal arts, music, media and social sciences with the aim of producing able professionals that can contribute to the development of the nation.
Vision
Education for promoting ideals of social and economic justice and well being for all persons and their environments.
Mission
Promote professional knowledge, understanding and skills in the development of arts, culture, and other social and economic potentials of human resources through
- scholarly activities, critical thinking, analysis and communications
- practical interventions, assessments and evaluations
- integration of social, economic, political, cultural and environmental components of development
SOA faculties and staffs
Collaborations
- Country
- University/Institutions
- Switzerland
- University of Zurich
University of Bern
Swiss Peace Foundation (SPF) - Denmark
- Aarhus University
University of Copenhagen - India
- North – Eastern Hill University
- Nepal
- Consortium for Land Research and Policy Dialogue (COLARP)
Community Self- Reliance Centre(CSRC)
Nepal Tourism Board (NTB)
Nepal Institute of Development Studies (NIDS)
Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR North-South)
South Asia Coordination Office
Departments and Programs
- Departments
- Department of Development Studies
- Projects - Disability Research Center
- Department of Languages and Mass Communication
- Department of Music
- Centre
- Center for Buddhist Studies
- Center for Arts and Design
- Confucius Institute at KU
- Program
- Bachelor in Community Development
- Bachelor in Economics
- Landscape Management and Heritage Studies
- Affiliated Colleges
- National College Center for Development Studies
- Bachelor in Arts - Social Work (BSW) at St. Xavier's College
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- Master in Development Studies
- Master in Human and Natural Resources Studies
- Phd Programs
