Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Chiang Mai Rajabhat University

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Chiang Mai Rajabhat University is responsible for teaching in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and education, directly reporting to the Deputy Rector for Academic Affairs. During the period when it was still Chiang Mai Teachers' College, the faculty organized the academic administration into subject divisions, such as the English subject division, the Social Studies subject division, and the Arts subject division. The department heads were administrators and directly reported to the Deputy Director for Academic Affairs. They were responsible for teaching at the Diploma of Education (P.K.S.), Higher Diploma of Education (P.K.S. Higher), and Primary Teacher's Certificate (P.P.) levels since 1955.

In 1975, the Teachers' College Act of 1975 was promulgated, causing the administration of all teacher colleges to be under the Teachers' Training Council.

In 1976, the Teachers' Training Institute's teacher training curriculum was announced. In the same year, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences offered a bachelor's degree program in Thai language, following the promulgation of the Teachers' College Act. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences was established in 1977 by combining the existing departments and named them as departments and programs.

The faculty heads and department heads are administrators. There are 11 departments and 2 programs as follows:

1. Department of Music
2. Department of Dance
3. Department of Librarianship
4. Department of Philosophy and Religion
5. Department of History
6. Department of Thai Language
7. Department of English
8. Department of Geography
9. Department of Political Science
10. Department of Art
11. Department of Sociology
12. Cultural Studies Program*
13. Tourism Industry Program
*Note: Responsible for teaching and learning the major in Cultural Studies and Tourism Industry, which is an interdisciplinary subject, operated by a committee from the relevant departments.

In 1995, the Rajabhat Institute Act was promulgated, resulting in the name being changed from Chiang Mai Teachers College to Chiang Mai Rajabhat Institute, along with changes in the details of the faculty's administration, with the new name being: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has abolished departmental administration and replaced it with program administration, with the dean as the faculty administrator and the program chair as the program administrator. It consists of 16 programs and 4 groups of programs as follows: Community Development Program, Music Program, Performing Arts Program, Library Science and Information Science Program, Chinese Program, Japanese Program, Thai Program, English Program (B.Ed.), English Program (B.A.), Business English Program, Public Administration Program, Cultural Studies Program, Fine Arts Program, Fine Arts Program, Social Studies Program, Tourism Industry Program, French Language Group, Philosophy and Religion Group, History Group, Geography Group. Note: Programs are responsible for teaching major subjects and general foundation subjects, while groups are responsible for teaching general foundation subjects. In 1999, the faculty’s internal administration was adjusted again by reducing and increasing the number of programs to facilitate administration and to be in line with the newly developed curriculum administration.

In 2004, 2 graduate programs were opened: Master of Arts in Thai Language Master of Arts Program in English

In 2006, the program was established within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and was divided into 2 departments as follows:

1. Department of Humanities, 11 programs as follows:

1.1 Thai Language Program
1.2 English Language Program
1.3 French Language Program
1.4 Chinese Language Program
1.5 Japanese Language Program
1.6 Korean Language Program
1.7 Music Program
1.8 Fine Arts Program
1.9 Performing Arts Program
1.10 Information Science Program
1.11 Philosophy and Religion Program

2. Department of Social Science, 6 programs as follows:

2.1 Tourism and Hospitality Program
2.2 Community Development Program
2.3 Law Program
2.4 History and Culture Program
2.5 Geography Program
2.6 Public Administration Program

Later in 2008, 2 more graduate programs were opened: Master of Public Administration Program in Public Policy Program And the Master of Arts Program in Sustainable Tourism Management

In 2009, the university announced the establishment of a program in the department or faculty of Chiang Mai Rajabhat University, causing the faculty to adjust the program within the faculty to comply with the announcement of the determination of programs within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences again and divided into 2 programs as follows:

Department of Humanities

- Thai Language Program
- Oriental Language Program

- Chinese Language Program
- Japanese Language Program
- Korean Language Program

- Western Language Program

- English Language Program
- French Language Program

- Music and Performing Arts Program

- Music Program
- Performing Arts Program

- Fine Arts Program
- Information Science Program

Department of Social Sciences

- Community Development Program
- Geography Program
- Interdisciplinary Social Studies Program

- Tourism and Hotel Management Program
- Public Administration Program
- History and Culture Program

- Law Program