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Welcome to School of Arts, Kathmandu University, Hattiban, Lalitpur

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Dr. Uddhab Pyakurel Dean

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Call for Enumerators: Data Collection Opportunity for "A Survey of the Nepali People 2025"

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Admission Open - MA in Histroy and Philosophy

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Admissions Open for Bachelor and Master Programs in Music

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Notice of the 2025 Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) IBT Administration

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Student Highlights

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Exam Form Notice BCD/ BMS and BECON (February-June 2025 session)

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Exam Schedule for Exam Schedule for BCD/ BMS and BECON (February-June 2025 session)

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Exam Schedule for Bachelor in Media Studies III Year II Semester (February-June 2025 session)

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Result Notice of Masters in Development Studies , BMusic ,PHD in Development studies

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SOA Signs MoU with UGC-Nepal for Major Research and Development Projects

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Welcomed the newly appointed Vice Chancellor and Registrar at the Hattiban Complex

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International Seminar on Two Decades of the Sadharanikaran Model of Communication

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Call for Registration: National Conference on Filmmaking in Nepal 2024

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Release of A Survey of Nepali People (SNP) 2022 Report

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Welcomed the newly appointed Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Bhola Thapa

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Extension counter of NIBL at KU, Hattiban

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Faculties and Postgrad students from Peking University discuss areas of cooperation

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Ms. Hritika Rana defended PhD Thesis

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MoU Between School of Arts and World Vision International Nepal

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Workshop on New Development Frontiers

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SNP 2018 – PUBLIC LAUNCH EVENT

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Internship Opportunity in Department of Art and Design 2025 Jan
Selection Notice for Lecturer Position in Media Studies 2024
Interview Notice for Lecturer Position in Media Studies 2024
Vacancy Announcement for Teaching Assistant (TA) in DoLMC 2024
Vacancy Announcement for Lecturer Position in Master in Urban Studies Program 2024
Vacancy Announcement for Lecturer Position in Media Studies 2024: Extended

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Call for Academic Writing and Scholarly Publication Workshop

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Call for Papers: A Conference on the Legacies of Nepal’s Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) 2025

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Call for Research Articles to Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal

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Children's Perspectives on Valued Well-Being Capabilities.

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Call for Papers: National Conference on Filmmaking in Nepal

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Call for Abstracts and Registration for Participation in “ Indo Nepal Affinities, The Retrospect and The Prospects”

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In August 1996, Kathmandu University (K.U.) opened a Department of Music in Bhaktapur, where ethnomusicology (B.A. and M.A.) and practical music (North Indian classical and Nepalese local traditions) are taught to Nepalese and foreign students. The then German President, Dr. Roman Herzog, inaugurated the department during his state visit to Nepal on 29th November 1996. The academic courses are conducted by an experienced ethnomusicologist from Germany and lecturers from the U.S. and Nepal. Teaching staff for performance training includes local musicians and dancers.

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Center for Art and Design (KU Art+Design) - with a very short yet impressive history is committed towards establishing a benchmark in fine art education in Nepal. Realizing this need for qualitative fine art education in Nepal, Kathmandu University established Art and Design program in 2003 under School of Arts. With the initiation of key person Mr. Aidan Warlow, Director, M.A, Oxford, along with two other faculty members Mr. Rabindra Puri, M.A. Bremen and Mr. Sujan Chitrakar, M.F.A. New Delhi, and an assistant administrative staff Mr. Gopal Magar, a one-year Diploma course in Fine Arts was launched. Set up on the top floor that was rented off of a public school in a historic vicinity of Durbar Square, Bhaktapur, the first batch comprised of only six students.

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Bachelor in Media Studies (BMS) is an intensive four-year program offered under the Department of Languages and Mass Communication. It consists of all-encompassing courses with scope for concentration in a specialized field such as journalism, radio production, television production and film production, marketing communications, new media, media research, and so on.

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The graduate program in Human and Natural Resources Studies (HNRS) at Kathmandu University (KU) currently offers Master’s and PhD degrees. These are research-oriented professional degrees that seek to impart research and analytical abilities necessary to understand the structure and functioning of rural society and their natural resource base.

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