ABDULRAHMAN AL-SUMAIT UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

FACULTY INTRODUCTION

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is one of the SUMAIT University faculties since its inauguration in 2014 after the approval of the Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU). This faculty is composed of five Departments namely: Department of Linguistics; Department of Counselling Psychology; Department of Social Studies; Department of Education and Department of Arabic.  Our vision is to be an internationally renowned Institution of Higher Learning Research, Innovation and Public.

 

FACULTY DEAN PROFILE 




Role:                       Dean, Faculty of Arts 

Title:                        Associate Professor

Name:                     Bunyamin Adewale Bello

Office  Email:          deanfass@sumait.ac.tz

                          

 

Biography

Bunyamin Adewale Bello: 1995. Bachelor Degree in Shariah. Islamic University Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2008. Masters in Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh. International Islamic University, Malaysia. 2014. Ph.D. in Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh. International Islamic University, Malaysia. Prior to his current role, he served as a senior lecturer in the Department of Finance within the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences at Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, Malaysia, where he instructed various courses in Islamic Finance at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, 2015-2018. During his tenure as a part-time lecturer (Graduate Assistant) in various Departments: Economics, Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh and Institute of Education at the International Islamic University Malaysia, where he taught Fiqh for Economists, Introduction to Fiqh, Introduction to Usul al-Fiqh and Islamic Criminal Law. 2009-2014. He has supervised numerous Ph.D. and Masters theses and dissertations.

 

There are Four  Departments under the faculty

 

DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS

Head of Department : Dr. Nawaje Ali Mganga

The Department offers Swahili and English courses which are all based in combinations as follows, the first three are under this department while the other five courses are joint courses with other departments:

1.    English and Kiswahili

2.    Arabic and Kiswahili

3.    English and Arabic

4.    Counselling and English

5.    English and Geography

6.    Geography and Kiswahili

7.    History and English

8.    History and Kiswahili

 

DEPARTMENT OF COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY

Head of Department: Dr. El Taher Ali

The Department offers Four courses:

1.    Degree in Counselling Psychology

2.    Degree in Counselling Englsih

3.Degree in Counselling Kiswahili

4.    Diploma (NTA4 & NTA5) in Counseling Psychology. 

 

 

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL STUDIES

Head of Department; Dr. Nassor Hamad

The Department offers six courses which are all based on combinations as follows: 

1.    Geography English

2.    Geography Kiswahili

3.    Biology Geography

4.    History Geography

5.    History English

6.    History Kiswahili

 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Head of Department: Dr. Sharifa Mbagga

The Department is responsible to teach the educational core courses and to coordinate almost all SUMAIT courses except IT and BA Counselling Psychology.

 


LIST OF ACADEMIC STAFF UNDER EACH DEPARTMENT

 

DEPARTMENT

STAFF NAME

Linguistics

  1. Dr. Nawaje Ali Mganga
  2. Dr. Omar Salim Shamte
  3. Mr. Shehe Suleiman Nassor
  4. Mrs. Mwanajuma Ahmada Ali
  5. Mr. Abdalla Habib Ali
  6. Mr. Suleiman Hemed Said
  7. Mr. Ali Juma Ali
  8. Mrs. Ibtisam Moh'd Omar

 

Counselling Psychology

  1. Assoc. Prof. Hibatallah Mohamed
  2. Dr.Eltaher Ali
  3. Mr. Khamis Juma Khalfan
  4. Ms. Janeth Ayugi
  5. Mr. Ramadhan Nassor

 

Social Studies

  1. Mr. Mohamed Khalfan
  2. Ms. Jema Khalfan
  3. Mr. Bagonza Ilaba
  4. Mr. Seif Mzee Mrisho
  5. Dr. Nassor Hamad Bakar

 

Education

  1. Dr. Sharifa Mbagga
  2. Mr. Jabir Mtulia
  3. Ms. Abla Mrisho