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                 History of the College

Thiruvalluvar Government Arts College, Rasipuram is unique in the sense that it was established decades back during the year 1968 in a rural area, providing quality education with five pre-university courses. Within a short span of one year it was upgraded with degree classes to provide education to the students belonging to the nearby financially backward people. With the financial aid of the local people, the infrastructure of the college was expanded and improved. This resulted in the introduction of many new courses and new buildings were constructed in the year 1971. The college was then affiliated to Madras University, and after the establishment of Periyar University, it is now affiliated to Periyar University, Salem 636 011.

The academic year 1985-86 saw the establishment of B.A. History - Evening College enabling the employed in the vicinity to equip themselves with a degree for their development. As the Department of Computer Science continued to equip itself with upgraded infrastructure, a new building was established. The college further flourished during 2003-2004 with an addition of three main subjects viz B.A. Tamil Literature, B.Com. and M.Sc. Chemistry as self-financing courses. In addition to these courses, M.Sc. Mathematics and M.A. Public Administration courses were started as self-financing wing in 2005-2006. All these courses were upgraded as aided courses in 2006-2007. In the academic year 2011-2012, M.A. Tamil and M.Com. were introduced.

In the Academic year 2012-2013, one UG course - B.Sc. (Nutrition and Dietetics), five PG courses - M.A. English, M.A. History, M.A. Political Science, M.Sc. Physics, M.Sc. Computer Science, five M.Phil. Programmes - M.Phil. Tamil (Part Time/Full Time), M.Phil. Commerce (Part Time/Full Time), M.Phil. Mathematics (Part Time/Full Time), M.Phil. Physics (Part Time/Full Time), M.Phil. Chemistry (Part Time/Full Time) and three research programmes - Ph.D. Tamil (Part Time/Full Time), Ph.D. Mathematics (Part Time/Full Time), Ph.D. Chemistry (Part Time/Full Time) were introduced. During the academic year 2015-2016 one UG course i.e. B.A. Economics and two research courses - M.Phil. English (Part Time/Full Time) and Ph.D. (Part Time/Full Time) English were introduced.

 

Department of Political Science - Profile

The Department of Political Science was started in the year 1981 and so far, Twenty Nine Batches of students had completed their Under Graduate Course in Political Science.   It was upgraded into Post Graduate Department by starting the study of Public Administration in Post-graduate as Self-Finance Course in the year 2005. All the Self- Finance Courses of the Post-graduate were regularized by the Government of Tamil Nadu in the year 2006. Five Batches of Students had completed their Post Graduate Course in Public Administration under the incharge of the Department of Political Science.  Then, the study of Public Administration was bifurcated from the Department of Political Science as a separate department on 01.12.2011. A Post-Graduate course in Political Science was started from the academic year 2012-2013.  M.Phil Political Science Full Time Course Started from the academic year 2013-2014. The department has conducted two National seminars, one state level seminar and two workshops  for rural Women.  A three months certificate course on Human Rights conducted from 2011 to 2016.Ph.D Political Science Part Time/ Full Time introduced from 2018.