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- Excellence – High standards in research, teaching and service necessary for the 21st century.<\/li>\n
- Collaboration – Practicing collaborative exchange and interdisciplinary scholarship.<\/li>\n
- Diversity – Promoting cultural sensitivity, inclusion, equity within the academic community<\/li>\n
- Resilience – Strengthening the coping skills\/competencies of staff and students<\/li>\n
- Service – Providing relevant, exceptional skill sets and services for our staff, students and society.<\/li>\n
- Integrity – maintaining and upholding university policies, regulations and ordinances while delivering on our commitments with attention to transparency.<\/li>\n
- Social justice – Addressing the multiple injustices and forms of discriminations that exist within our communities, while empowering persons to become more resilient.<\/li>\n
- Student responsiveness – Ensuring student development that is grounded in problem-based solutions or initiatives that address the problems that we face in our Caribbean context.<\/li>\n
- Professionalism – In our interactions with colleagues, staff, students and stakeholders, while being collegial.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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The Department\u2019s\u00a0Vision<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\u201cTo be a pre-eminent department that deepens engaged scholarship, student centeredness, collaborative exchange, and critical praxes that foster positive social change and justice in the Caribbean and beyond.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
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The Department\u2019s\u00a0Mission<\/strong><\/h2>\n
“To advance the ideals of social change and justice; through conscientization, inter-disciplinary praxis, cutting edge teaching and life-long learning, innovative research, knowledge creation and collaboration, for the betterment of all people and societies in the region and beyond.”<\/em><\/p>\n
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Core Values Excellence – High standards in research, teaching and service necessary for the 21st century. Collaboration – Practicing collaborative exchange and interdisciplinary scholarship. Diversity – Promoting cultural sensitivity, inclusion, equity within the academic community Resilience – Strengthening the coping skills\/competencies of staff and students Service – Providing relevant, exceptional skill sets and services for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
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<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\nMESSAGE FROM THE HEAD<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n
Welcome to the Department of Behavioural Sciences (DBS).\u00a0 Some of our key strengths include the multidisciplinary nature of our programmes, partnership with external stakeholders, high quality of theoretical and applied research, service learning, and community engagement.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
We are one of four departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS), the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. Our department offers a range of undergraduate and\/or graduate programmes across five core disciplines, namely: Sociology, Criminology, Psychology, Social Work and Mediation.\u00a0 We also provide access for students within and beyond our department to pursue minors in social development policy and planning, anthropology, social policy, psychology, criminology & criminal justice.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
While this department continues to evolve and adapt to changing educational landscapes, we remain ready and willing to engage you our students, and, our wider community on the critical forms of knowledge, conscientization<\/em>, and praxes that position us as change agents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n
We would like to take this opportunity therefore to warmly welcome you to the DBS family. We look forward to working with you as you traverse your personal, academic, and professional journeys.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Talia Esnard, PhD. <\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n
HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"difl_page_category":[],"class_list":["post-120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\r\n
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