{"id":108,"date":"2018-04-01T17:52:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T17:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psu.edu.so\/psu\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2018-04-01T17:52:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T17:52:41","slug":"faculty-of-social-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/psu.edu.so\/psu\/index.php\/academics\/faculty-of-social-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty of Social Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>Brief Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The faculty of Social Sciences, herein abbreviated as FOSS, is a merger faculty combining three departments namely; the Department of Public Administration which its establishment backs in 2006, Department of Development Studies which opens its doors in 2010 and Department of Political Science and International Relations which is established on 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The faculty of Social sciences will have a clear focus on social sciences disciplines. 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