VELLORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (VIT)

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) was founded in 1984 REGISTRATION FEE

as Vellore Engineering College by the Chancellor Dr. G.
Viswanathan. VIT attracts students from all states of Rs 200 for Academicians/NGO
India and more than 51 different countries because of its person/ Social Activists
academic excellence.
VIT has introduced many innovations in academic Rs 100 for Students and Research
processes which add values to every student. FFCS (Fully Scholars
Flexible Credit System), PBL (Project Based Learning) for
better learning, fully digitized academic portals that assist
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industry experts, making the students contextualize the
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concepts they study in the classroom, are a few of the
innovations that VIT has introduced.
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SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND LANGUAGES
The School of Social Sciences and Languages (SSL) was SOCIETY INTERACTIONS
established for enabling the learning of languages and to
enrich the Commerce programme. The School has four E- Certificates will be issued to the registered
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departments- Commerce, Social Sciences, English and
Languages. The School has 195 committed faculty
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members employed in the University as a whole to make webinar and filling up the feedback form
every student of VIT employable.
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DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (Zoom platform)
Department of Social Sciences was established at VIT in
2009 under School of Social Sciences and Languages
with a vision to mould responsible citizens with
knowledge, skills & attitude that suit the current ORGANISED BY
competitive world . Moreover, it gives the cutting edge
and paves way for career prospects to social sciences.
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The department offers courses on Social Sciences for UG
SOCIAL SCIENCES,
programmes of both engineering and non-engineering
disciplines to enable all learners to avail of opportunities SCHOOL OF SOCIAL
across the globe. The courses are offered on Ethics and
SCIENCES AND
Values, Economics,Psychology,Sociology,Music, and
History. Currently, the department has 14 dedicated LANGUAGES,
faculty members with excellent academic, research and VIT,
corporate background.
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About the Webinar
Resource Person :
Dr.R.Kumaran One Day National Webinar-2021
In the human society the people find difficulty in incuring clarity about
Director In-charge, Centre for Sociology in
Covid-19. The media and the society have different opinions while
talking about fancy and facts. The media have been following every Sociology
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step of this journey – with multiple stories, incessant headlines and Patron
continuous updates. World organisations feel that the media has to The Gandhigram. Tamilnadu
provide accurate and factual information regarding Covid-19 Topic: The Expansion and Intrusion of
Dr. G. Viswanathan
pandemic to the people. Besides, the social landscape in the time of Social Media in Social Landscape Chancellor
pandemic has completely changed the thinking pattern of the people. Time: 10.15am-11.30am
Sweeping changes in the developmental discourses have an impact in Co-Patrons
the social structure including affecting patriarchal system, evolving
psycho-social guards and responses to infodemic etc. keeping all Resource Person : Mr.G.V.Selvam
these in mind, the webinar is focused to pursue and understand the Dr.Archana Patnaik Vice President
new scope and perspectives by the way the media and society Assistant Professor, Department of
interact with each other with a view to end the ruptures and intrusion Dr.Rambabu Kodali
Humanities and Social Sciences,
due to Coivid-19
Indian Institute of Technology, Vice Chancellor
Kharagpur
Topic: Resurrection, Reassertion and Dr. S. Narayanan
All correspondence should be made to Loosening of Patriarchy (Online and
Pro-Vice Chancellor
Organising Secretaries offline) during
Pandemic Times
Dr.A.Kubendran Mobile- 9626076256
Time: 11.45AM-1PM
Dr.N.Savitha-Mobile 9865188912 Convener
Mail: [email protected] Dr. G. Velmurugan,
[email protected] Resource Person : Dean, School of Social Sciences and
Dr.Anubhuti Yadav Languages
Head Department of New Media and
Information Technology, Course
Director, Advertising and Public
Relations, Indian Institute of Mass Co-convenor
Communication, New Delhi Dr.N.Savitha
Topic: Evolving Psycho-Social Guards Head,Department of Social Sciences
and responses to infodemic in Covid-19 School of Social Sciences and Languages
era
Time: 2.15PM-3.30PM
Organising Secretaries
Resource Person : Dr.A.Kubendran
Mr.Annamalai Dr N. Savitha
Former Senior Editor The Hindu, Department of Social Sciences,
Madurai. School of Social Sciences and Languages,
Topic: Media and changing VIT, Vellore-14
developmental discourses during
pandemic: The Scope for New
Perspectives
Time: 3.45PM-5PM