BSc (Honors) Social Development & Policy

Students who graduate with a BSc Honors degree in Social Development and Policy will be able to:

• Formulate appropriate research methods to pursue and produce meaningful social research.
• Clearly and appropriately communicate disciplinary content across multiple media and to multiple audiences.
• Synthesize multiple ways of knowing the lived environment and the experiences of the people who inhabit them
• Critically assess and/or design development, policy and other social interventions.
• Recognize and appraise the formal and informal structures that organize and regulate societies.
• Justify development practice and theory using a social justice perspective.
• Reflect upon and critically assess one’s own practice and the practices, theories and methods in a chosen field.

All students majoring in Social Development and Policy (BSc Honors subjects) are required to complete a total of 37 courses (130 credit hours). Students must maintain a minimum grade of C+ (2.33 GPA) in SDP major credit requirements in order to graduate with this degree.

¹The course is double-counted towards the Quantitative Reasoning requirement of the Habib Liberal Core.

The students of SDP Major are required to complete a minimum of 37 courses and 130 credit hours over their 4-year journey (8 semesters). A set of recommended courses (semester-wise) fall under the following course categories:

Category 1 – Habib Liberal Core (HLC), also known as the University Core, is a common curriculum designed for all Habib University students as a mandatory requirement. A total of 10 courses are included in the HLC/University Core.

Category 2 – SDP Program Core entails a set of mandatory courses for the SDP Majors. A total of 9 courses are included in the SDP Program Core.

Category 3 – SDP Electives. Each student has to complete a total of 06 SDP elective courses comprising of 04 lower-level and 02 upper-level SDP electives.

Category 4 – Research Seminar Elective. Each student has to complete 01 Research Seminar Elective (4 credit-hour course), usually taken in their 7th semester. This elective also includes a 1 credit-hour final year project report or thesis proposal component.

Category 5 – Field Practicum (4 credit-hours) usually taken during summer of either 2nd year or 3rd year.

Category 6 – Language Elective. Each student has to complete a 3-course sequence (4 credit-hours each) in a regional language.

Category 7 – Free Electives. Each student has to complete at least 05 Free Elective courses (with a minimum of 15 credit-hours). Students may take 1 Cr and 2 Cr courses to fulfill but must a take a minimum of 15 Cr in Free Elective Category.

Category 8 – AHSS Electives. Each student has to complete at least 02 AHSS Elective courses (from CND and CH programs). Students may take 1 Cr and 2 Cr courses to fulfill but must a take a minimum of 6 Cr in AHSS electives category.

Note:
* Students may take 1 Cr and 2 Cr courses to fulfill but must a take a minimum of 15 Cr in Free Elective and 6 Cr in AHSS electives through any combination of 1Cr, 2Cr, 3Cr, or 4Cr courses.
** Students may take 1 Cr and 2 Cr courses to fulfill the Creative Practice FoT but must a take a minimum of 3 Cr.
*** Summer Tehqiq Research project can be counted towards meeting the Summer Practicum requirement.

Click to view Semester-wise Sample Student Journey for a SDP Major

SDP graduates have found employment in:

• Banks
• Education Sector
• Financial institutions
• IT companies
• Media companies
• Multi-national corporations
• NGOs
• Publishing houses
• Research organizations
• Software houses
• Think tanks

A number of our students have gone on to pursue graduate studies at prestigious universities either in Pakistan or abroad, while others have launched their own start-ups and businesses. Recently, a number of SDP graduates have also been able to win the prestigious Fulbright scholarship.