North Carolina State University. Dept. of Social Studies.

The Dept. of Social Studies did not evolve into the Dept. of History and is not related. The College of Humanities and Social Sciences was formerly known as the School of Liberal Arts and grew out of the School of General Studies and the Basic Division.

The Department of Social Studies was established in 1947 as part of the Basic Division, and offered courses for engineers that emphasized the connections between liberal studies and science and technology. George A. Gullette served as Head of the Department from its founding in 1947 until his death in 1969. In 1970, the Department of Social Studies became the Division of University Studies, with John R. Lambert, Jr. as Acting Head.

The Humanistic-Social Research Project surveyed the role of humanities and social science education in engineering programs in the mid-1950s. Gullette was heavily involved with the project, which was carried out in conjunction with the American Society for Engineering Education and funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation.

The Department of Social Studies is not related to the Department of History. The Basic Division became the School of General Studies in 1952, which became the School of Liberal Studies in 1963, and then the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) in 1977.