Department of Political Science

Programme: B.A (Hons.)

Courses offered by Department of Political Science under B. A(Hons)

Category:Core

After completing the course student should be able to

• Understand the various traditions and approaches of political theory and appreciate how they get reflected in organizing social living
• Understand multiple frames by which the idea of political community is debated
• Understand the significance of theorizing and of applying theory into practice.

Category:Core

After completing the course student should be able to

• Be familiarized with the debates around the origin, and evolution of the Indian constitution.
• become aware of the manner in which government functions through its various organs.
• understand the division of power between various organs of the government at different levels.

Category: Core

After completing the course student should be able to

• Gain insights into the interconnections between social and economic relations and the political process in India.
• Understand the challenges arising due to caste, class, gender and religious diversities and also analyze the changing nature of the Indian state in the light of these diversities.
• Make sense of the specificities of the political processes in India in the light of changes of the state practices, electoral system, representational forms and electoral behavior.

Category: Core

After completing the course student should be able to

• Understand the dimensions of shared living (sociare) through these political values and concepts.
• Appreciate how these values and concepts enrich the discourses of political life, sharpening their analytical skills in the process.

Category:Core

After completing the course student should be able to

• This paper would enable student to understand the legacy of the discipline.
• Studying different political systems from different continents across the world will introduce students to a range of political regimes, culture and their political economy.
• Students will learn to delineate ways to understand how state relates to the economy and how culture shapes the political discourse in a particular context
• It would enhance the ability of students to use analytical frame of gender, race, ethnicity and their intersectionality in comparative perspective.
• Students will develop reflective thinking and ability to ask relevant questions pertinent to the discipline and will also develop aptitude for research.

Category: Core

After completing the course student should be able to

• Understand an overview of the discipline and how it is different from private administration.
• Introduced to the evolution of the discipline, its changing contours through a study of the different theories, ranging from the classical, neoclassical and contemporary theories.
• Analyze processes of leadership and conflict management that have become increasingly significant in contemporary administration.
• Learns about major contemporary approaches in public administration.
• To specially made sensitive to the feminist perspective in Public administration

Category: Core

After completing the course student should be able to

• The paper will equip students with an in-depth understanding of different political systems and regime types. Students would be able to contrast unitary and federal, democratic and authoritarian systems.
• It will help students to develop analytical skills to reflect institutional structures and their functioning such as party systems, electoral systems
• It will provide insight into the process of evolution of nation state in the context of West and post-colonial societies.
• Students will develop insights into the process of democratization in post-colonial, post authoritarian and post-communist societies.

Category: Core

After completing the course student should be able to

• Introduced to theoretical perspectives on public policy, a major sub discipline of public administration.
• Familiar with details of public policy adopted in India.
• Recognize the significance of local governance – both rural and urban.
• Become familiar with a range of budgetary procedures and practices, as part of the budget cycle in India.

Category: Core

After completing the course student should be able to

• Demonstrate knowledge and understand basic concepts of ancient and medieval Indian political thought that are prevalent traditions of thought in India and develop a comparative understanding of Indian and western political thought.
• Identify and describe the key characteristics of Indian political thought and develop a strong understanding of selected historic graphical debates.

Category: Core

After completing the course student should be able to

• Understand how to read and decode the classics and use them to solve contemporary socio-political problems
• Connect with historically written texts and can interpret it in familiar way (the way Philosophers think).
• Clearly present their own arguments and thoughts about contemporary issues and develop ideas to solve them through logical validation.

Category:Core

After completing the course student should be able to

• The students will have conceptual clarity on meaning, nature and significance of globalization.
• The students will learn about the contemporary debates on the discourse of globalization.
• The students will also learn about the rise of financial networks and major actors of global economy and their impact on state and sovereignty.
• The paper will enhance students’ understanding of contemporary global issues like proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecology, international terrorism and human security
• The paper will develop analytical skills of the students to reflect on the phenomenon of global governance.

Category: Core

After completing the course student should be able to

• Equip students with critical understanding about modern Indian thought.
• The thematic exploration of ideas is meant to locate the topical debates on important subjects ona historical trajectory and reflect over the diverse possibilities exhibited in the writings of there sportive thinkers
• It is expected that at the end of the course the students will be able to think about issues and debates in contemporary India from multiple vantage points including its historical significance in the Indian tradition.
• It would also help them develop toleration and respect for diverse opinion and at the same time, to admire and appreciate the plurality within the modern Indian intellectual tradition.

Category: Core

After completing the course student should be able to

• Understand the idea of modernity and establish a connection between societal changes
• posed through modernity and its prescribed political suggestions
• Identify various tendencies in political philosophical discourse and manage to answer
• various fundamental questions through problem-solving aptitude.

Category: SEC

After completing the course student should be able to

• Demonstrate an understanding of law as a source of right.
• Develop an understanding of democratic values such as equality, justice etc. and learn about different laws enacted to uphold these value.
• Demonstrate an awareness of democratic rights guaranteed to Indian citizens and persons
• Develop skills related to using ordinary legal procedures to safeguard the right guaranteed to citizens and persons
• Show basic awareness of ordinary procedures such as obtaining different kinds of identity documents
• Show understanding of the structure and principles of the Indian legal system.

Category: SEC

After completing the course student should be able to

• The paper will equip students with an in-depth understanding of theoretical and actual observations on both domestic and international sources of conflict and war, conflict resolution and conflict transformation.
• The students will enhance their analytical ability by learning about different models employed in conflict resolution.
• The course will develop analytical outlook in conflict resolution on equitable, cooperative and non-violent techniques of conflict resolution and transformation.
• Further deliberations on peace movements across the world and especially in war torn regions will help students develop independent perspective on conflict resolution.
• The study of issues like migration, information flow and normative concepts will augment students, understanding and knowledge.

EMPORARY INDIA (232503)

Category: DSE

After completing the course student should be able to

• Show knowledge of development policies and planning in India since independence.
• Understand the development strategies and their impact on industrial and agricultural sphere
• Understand the emergence of social movements in response to the development policies adopted by successive governments
• Demonstrate awareness of the different trajectories of specific social movements in India, their demands and successes.

Category: SEC

After completing the course student should be able to

• Introduced to the range of ideologies that influence the policy-making process.
• Learn how to relate public policies to politics.
• Learns how to relate public policies to the political economy.
• have a grasp of the role of social movements and interest groups in the making of public policy.

Category: DSE

After completing the course student should be able to

• Develop a broad historical, normative and empirical understanding of the idea of citizenship.
• Understand different trajectories of the development/evolution of the concept of citizenship.
• Understand/assess some of the major ethical challenges that citizenship faces in the wake of globalization and the rapidly proliferating idea about the need of accommodating diversity in multicultural political settings.

Category: GE

After completing the course student should be able to

• Gain an understanding of the different theoretical perspectives on the emergence and development of nationalism in India
• Demonstrate knowledge of the historical trajectory of the development of the nationalist movement in India, with specific focus on its different phases
• Understand the contribution of various social movements in the anticolonial struggle
• Demonstrate awareness of the history of partition and the moment of independence that followed.

Category: GE

After completing the course student should be able to

• Understand the concept of patriarchy, feminism, family, community and state
• Understand the history of women’s movement and why these movements emerged, and hence would be able to connect theory and practice.

Category: GE

After completing the course student should be able to

• Understand Gandhian philosophy in a critical and analytical manner.
• It will also help in describing the impact of Gandhian thought on Indian and global politics. It will help in identifying and explaining selected approaches and methods that historians have used to study the history of anti-colonial Indian politics

Category: GE

After completing the course student should be able to

• original writings and ideas of Ambedkar on diverse issues beyond caste and equip them to critically engage with the ideas, interpretations.
• to provide students the original writings and ideas of Ambedkar on diverse issues beyond caste and equip them to critically engage with the ideas, interpretations
• By engaging with the original sources as well as secondary cover, caste, class, gender, religion, state, democracy and constitution the students will be able to understand a thinker in the context and contemporaneity.
• At the end of the course, students shall be equipped with the method of understanding the ideas, philosophy and relevance of a particular thinker. Students shall also be able to reflect on the method of the thinker’s engagement with the then context, issues and concepts.
• Finally the students shall be equipped in understanding the conceptual and philosophical diversity, situatedness and significance of Ambedkar beyond hiscontribution in the sphere of social justice and drafting the Indian constitution. The course thus provides an opportunity to the students to understand Ambedkar for his several important contributions in the field of religion, state, democracy, gender, economy and history.

Category: DSE

After completing the course student should be able to

• Understand and engage with the different ways in which colonialism and nationalism have been understood
• Understand of the nature of colonial rule and the way in which it consolidated itself in India
• Demonstrate awareness of the impact of colonialism on Indian economy and society Show knowledge of the gradual emergence of anti-colonial nationalist movement in India.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the distinct periods of the nationalist movement and the nature of resistance politics adopted in different phases
• Show awareness of the various social movements, the kind of questions they raised and their contributions to the nationalist movement.