The Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics comprises of the following Schools which are based at the Canterbury campus: Anthropology and Conservation, Economics, Business, Law, Politics and International Relations, Psychology, and Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. In addition, two Centres are based at the Medway campus: Journalism, and Professional Practice. The Brussels School of International Studies also belongs to the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The vision for the AEU is to be a leading academic centre of excellence in Africa and the world. In line with this vision, the Department of Economics will be a centre of excellence in the advancement of Economics teaching, research and consultancy in the continent and the world.
The Department’s mission is to advance intellectual and human resource capacity of the nation and international community by providing high standard of Economics knowledge, undertaking research and consultancy and providing advisory services to Botswana and to the international community. This, again, is in line with the University of Botswana’s mission.
As its contribution to the Faculty of Social Sciences and indeed to the University as a whole, the Department of Economics has set out a series of goals in the areas of teaching, research and community services. These are detailed in the following paragraphs.
To encourage the production of textbooks for use in courses taught in the Department and elsewhere and to encourage innovation and technical progress in teaching methods.