Welcome : Department of Audiology
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT’S WELCOME ADDRESS
On behalf of staff and students, I heartily welcome you to the Department of Audiology,Federal University of Health Sciences,Ila-Orangun. it is the first of its kind in Osun State and one of the first in the South West. The Department of Audilogy was established in 2021 within the Faculty of Allied and Health Sciences. . The Department’s Teaching Laboratory was started off with materials recovered from these expeditions. In 2021 members of the Audiology Research Unit of the Institute of African Studies started giving lectures in Nigeria Pre-History to students of the History Department in the Faculty of Arts. The Department moved in April 1987 to a wing of its permanent building on Appleton Road (near the Mathematics/Statistics Complex). As at today the Department has fully occupied its permanent buildings. Although the Department was established in 1970, the undergraduate Archaeology programme was not begun until 1971.
The Department started off by offering combined honours degree option with some related subjects in both the Faculties of Science and Arts. At the end of the 1976/77 session the first set of students to take the single honours degree in Archaeology graduated. Since then Archaeology has been offered as both single and combined honours subject in the Faculties of Science and Arts. Combinations are available with Botany, Geography, Geology and Zoology in the Faculty of Science and with Classics, History, Islamic Studies and Religious Studies in the Faculty of Arts. The Department at present has a total of about 300 undergraduate and 13 postgraduate students.
From the 1982/83 session, the Department has been offering an Anthropology option and the Department formally became the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology as from the 1983/84 session. Students can graduate with either a B.A. or B.Sc. in Anthropology.
The Department operates a display museum and a Departmental Library stocked with most recent publications in archaeology and anthropology.
There is also a teaching collection of artifacts and other archaeological materials from African and Overseas sources. The Department has a photographic darkroom, drawing office, archaeology workrooms and laboratories (including palynology, geoarchaeological and forensic archaeology laboratories). There are over 3,000 35 mm transparencies on various aspects of Archaeology while there are over 3000 microscope slides of the pollen grains and spores of Nigerian plants. From time to time the Department organizes Public Lectures and Seminars on archaeology and Anthropology. A new Anthropology Museum is underway.
The department is located in a serene and welcoming environment for research and learning. I am therefore, seizing this opportunity to welcome you all to the first and best department of archaeology in Nigeria.
Professor Atahiru