Officially, the Faculty is quite young as it was created in 2012 when the faculties of Political Science and Sociology joined forces. Nonetheless, it is a project that has very distant origins and was set up when Università Cattolica was founded in 1921, along with the degree programme in Social Sciences, followed then by the School of Political and Social Sciences (1926) from which, at different times, the Faculties of Political Science (1931) and Sociology (2001) took shape.