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Semester I
POL HC 1016: Understanding Political Theory
Programme Outcome: This course is divided into two sections. Section A introduces the students to the idea of political theory, its history and approaches, and an assessment of its critical and contemporary trends. Section B is designed to reconcile political theory and practice through reflections on the ideas and practices related to democracy.
Course Outcome:
· To Introduce the idea of political theory and various approaches
· To enable the students to assess the contemporary trends of political theory
· To reconcile theory and practice in relation to democracy
POL HC 1026 Constitutional Government and Democracy in India
Programme Outcome: This course acquaints students with the constitutional design of state structures and institutions, and their actual working overtime. The Indian Constitution accommodates conflicting impulses (of liberty and justice, territorial decentralization and a strong union, for instance) within itself. The course traces the embodiment of some of these conflicts in constitutional provisions, and shows how these have played out in political practice.
It further encourages a study of state institutions in their mutual interaction, and in interaction with the larger extra-constitutional environment.
Course Outcome:
· To acquaint students with constitutional design of state structures and institutions
· To understand the conflicts in constitutional provisions
· To make them comprehend the state institutions in relation to extra constitutional environment.
Semester II
POL HC 2016 Political Theory-Concepts and Debates
Programme Outcome: This course is divided into two sections. Section A helps the student familiarize with the basic normative concepts of political theory. Each concept is related to a crucial political issue that requires analysis with the aid of our conceptual understanding. This exercise is designed to encourage critical and reflective analysis and interpretation of social practices through the relevant conceptual toolkit. Section B introduces the students to the important debates in the subject. These debates prompt us to consider that there is no settled way of understanding concepts and that in the light of new insights and challenges, besides newer ways of perceiving and interpreting the world around us, we inaugurate new modes of political debates.
Course outcomes:
After reading the course, the students would
· Understand the various concepts in political theory and appreciate how they can be helpful to analyse crucial political issues
· Understand the significance of debates in political theory in exploring multiple perspective to concepts, ideas and issues.
· Appreciate how these concepts and debates enrich political life and issues surrounding it.
POL HC 2026 Political Process in India
Programme Outcome: Actual politics in India diverges quite significantly from constitutional legal rules. An understanding of the political process thus calls for a different mode of analysis -that offered by political sociology. This course maps the working of ‘modern’ institutions,premised on the existence of an individuated society, in a context marked by communitarian solidarities, and their mutual transformation thereby. It also familiarizes students with the working of the Indian state, paying attention to the contradictory dynamics of modern state power.
Course outcome:
· Understand the working of major political institutions in India
· Understand the major debates in Indian politics along the axes of caste, gender, region and religion
· Understand the changing nature of the Indian state and the contradictory dynamics of modern state power
Semester III
POL HC 3016 Introduction to Comparative Government and Politics
Programme Outcome: This is a foundational course in comparative politics. The purpose is to familiarize students with the basic concepts and approaches to the study of comparative politics. More specifically the course will focus on examining politics in a historical framework while engaging with various themes of comparative analysis in developed and developing countries.
Course Outcome:
· To make students understand the basic concepts in comparative politics,
· To make students classify the different political systems and historical context of modern governments,
· To enable students to have a comparative analysis of countries related to their political institutions and behaviour.
POL HC 3026 PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Programme Outcome The course provides an introduction to the discipline of public administration. This paper encompasses public administration in its historical context with an emphasis on the various classical and contemporary administrative theories. The course also explores some of the recent trends, including feminism and ecological conservation and how the call for greater democratization is restructuring public administration. The course will also attempt to provide the students a comprehensive understanding on contemporary administrative developments.
Course Outcome:
· To enable students to learn the basic concepts related to public administration and its importance,
· To make students learn the major theories of public administration,
· To enable students to have an understanding of public policy and its formulation,
· To familiarize students with the major approaches and recent debates related to field of public administration.
POL HG 3036 UNITED NATIONS AND GLOBAL CONFLICTS
Programme Outcome: This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the most important multilateral political organization in international relations. It provides a detailed account of the organizational structure and the political processes of the UN, and how it has evolved since 1945, especially in terms of dealing with the major global conflicts. The course imparts a critical understanding of the UN’s performance until now and the imperatives as well as processes of reforming the organization in the context of the contemporary global system. Course Outcome: • To make students learn the importance of United Nations as an organization • To enable students to have a basic understanding of the political processes of the United Nations • To make students to learn the relevance of United Nations and its intervention in global conflicts critically.
Semester IV
POL HC 4016 Political Processes and Institutions in Comparative Perspective
Course objective: In this course students will be trained in the application of comparative methods to the study of politics. The course is comparative in both what we study and how we study. In the process the course aims to introduce undergraduate students to some of the range of issues, literature, and methods that cover comparative political.
Course Outcomes:
· To understand, comprehend and analyse the complex nature and functioning of the political systems, political institutions and corresponding issues to these both in a country specific case of India and cross-country perspectives.
· To demonstrate critical thinking about key issues of political system of different forms, political process and public policy.
· to use the contents and sub-units of the course as yardsticks for comparing these political systems and processes.
POL HC 4026 PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION IN INDIA
Programme Outcome: The paper seeks to provide an introduction to the interface between public policy and administration in India. The essence of public policy lies in its effectiveness in translating the governing philosophy into programs and policies and making it a part of the community living. It deals with issues of decentralization, financial management, citizens and administration and social welfare from a non-western perspective.
Course Outcomes:
· be familiarised with and gain knowledge about the processes of public policy making in India and their significance in administering the state.
· develop the ability to assess the functioning of the government and the administration in ensuring a citizen centric welfare administration in India.
POL HC 4036 Global Politics
Programme Outcome: This course introduces students to the key debates on the meaning and nature of globalization by addressing its political, economic, social, cultural and technological dimensions. In keeping with the most important debates within the globalization discourse, it imparts an understanding of the working of the world economy, its anchors and resistances offered by global social movements while analyzing the changing nature of relationship between the state and trans-national actors and networks. The course also offers insights into key contemporary global issues such as the proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological issues, international terrorism, and human security before concluding with a debate on the phenomenon of global governance.
Course Outcomes:
To enable students to understand how to approach a wide range of important global political and economic policy problems and participate in public policy debates on the crucial issues facing the world today.
·To have knowledge of the essential theoretical assumptions underlying globalisation’s conceptual frameworks and their relationships to policy interventions.
To demonstrate elementary knowledge of major issues and subject-matters surrounding globalisation that decides the international relations- political, economic and security relations- among the nations.
Semester V
POL HC 5016 Classical Political Philosophy
Programme Outcome: This course goes back to Greek antiquity and familiarizes students with the manner in which the political questions were first posed. Machiavelli comes as an interlude inaugurating modern politics followed by Hobbes and Locke. This is a basic foundation course for students.
Course Outcome :
· To interpret ideas underlying traditions in classical political philosophy
· To analyze the debates and arguments of leading political philosophers belonging to different traditions of the period
· To appraise the relevance of classical political philosophy in understanding contemporary politics.
POL HC 5026 Indian Political Thought-I
Programme Outcome: This course introduces the specific elements of Indian Political Thought spanning over two millennia. The basic focus of study is on individual thinkers whose ideas are however framed by specific themes. The course as a whole is meant to provide a sense of the broad streams of Indian thought while encouraging a specific knowledge of individual thinkers and texts. Selected extracts from some original texts are also given to discuss in class. The list of additional readings is meant for teachers as well as the more interested students.
Course Outcome:
· To underline themes and issues in political traditions of pre-colonial India.
· To compare and contrast positions of different political traditions those were present in pre-colonial India.
· To evaluate the relevance of political thought of pre-colonial India for contemporary politics.
Semester VI
POL HC 6016 Modern Political Philosophy
Programme Outcome: Philosophy and politics are closely intertwined. We explore this convergence by identifying four main tendencies here. Students will be exposed to the manner in which the questions of politics have been posed in terms that have implications for larger questions of thought and existence.
Course Outcome :
· To interpret ideas underlying traditions in modern political philosophy
· To analyze the debates and arguments of leading political philosophers of different philosophical traditions
· To appraise the relevance of modern political philosophy in understanding contemporary politics
POL HC 6026 Indian Political Thought-II
Programme Outcome: Based on the study of individual thinkers, the course introduces a wide span of thinkers and themes that defines the modernity of Indian political thought. The objective is to study general themes that have been produced by thinkers from varied social and temporal contexts. Selected extracts from original texts are also given to discuss in the class. The list of additional readings is meant for teachers as well as the more interested students.
Course Outcome:
· To underline themes and issues in political thought of modern India.
· To compare and contrast positions of leading political thinkers in India on issues those are constitutive of modern India.
· To assess the relevance of political thought of modern India in understanding contemporary politics.
ABILITY ENHANCEMENT- (SKILL BASED)
Semester III
POL SE 3014 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES
Programme Outcome: The course attempts to make the students familiar with legislative practices in India with an orientation to equip them with the adequate skills of participation in deliberative processes and democratic decision making. The introductory unit of the course aims to provide basic understanding on the constitutional provisions related to the process of legislations as well as the kinds of bills. The second unit of this course seeks to enhance proper understanding related to the procedures, practices related to the passage of a bill from drafting to that of the passing of the Bill. Third unit is about different Committees in the House, and the Fourth unit is on hours and motions in the House.
Course outcome:
· To help students in understanding the practical approaches to legislatives practices and procedures,
· To make students understand the procedures and processes related to drafting a Bill and the passage of the Bill,
· To enable students to have an understanding of the importance of Parliamentary Committees,
· To make students learn about the basic functioning of Parliament.
Semester IV
POL SE 4014: Panchayati Raj in Practice
Programme Outcome: This course acquaints students with the Panchayati Raj Institutions and their actual working. It further encourages a study of PRIs in their mutual interaction and their interaction with the people.
Course outcomes:
· This paper will help students understand the importance of grassroot political institutions in empowering people.
· This paper will highlight the complex challenges faced by PRIs in India and mechanisms involved to make it more participatory and inclusive in nature.
DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE
Semester V
POL HE 5016 HUMAN RIGHTS
Course Outcome :
· To interpret ideas underlying traditions in classical political philosophy
· To analyze the debates and arguments of leading political philosophers belonging to different traditions of the period
· To appraise the relevance of classical political philosophy in understanding contemporary politics
POL HE 5046 Select Constitutions
Programme Outcome: The course introduces the constitutional and political systems of four (4) countries.Students will have a stronger and more informed perspective on approaches to studying the constitutional and political systems of these countries in a comparative manner.
Course outcomes:
· Students will be able to understand the importance of constitutions;
· This paper is an integral part of public services examinations.
· Students will be introduced to the various types of constitutions and the forms of governments from different parts of the world.
Semester VI
POL HE 6016 India’s Foreign Policy in a globalizing world
Programme Outcome: This course’s objective is to teach students the domestic sources and the structural constraints on the genesis, evolution and practice of India’s foreign policy. The endeavour is to highlight integral linkages between the ‘domestic’ and the ‘international’ aspects of India’s foreign policy by stressing on the shifts in its domestic identity and the corresponding changes at the international level. Students will be instructed on India’s shifting identity as a postcolonial state to the contemporary dynamics of India attempting to carve its identity as an ‘aspiring power’. India’s evolving relations with the superpowers during the Cold War and after, bargaining strategy and positioning in international climate change negotiations, international economic governance, international terrorism and the United Nations facilitate an understanding of the changing positions and development of
India’s role as a global player since independence.
Course Outcome:
· To underline the issues in India’s foreign policy
· To evaluate the impact of global development on India’s foreign policy
· To demonstrate the change and continuity that marks India’s foreign policy.
POL HE 6046 Social Movements in North-east India
Course Outcome:
· To introduce the students with the social movements of the North-East India and nature of these.
· To engage them with historical development of such social movements
· To understand the new social movements of the region.
Generic Elective
Semester I
POL HG 1016 Introduction to Political Theory
Programme Outcome: This course aims to introduce certain key aspects of conceptual analysis in political theory and the skills required to engage in debates surrounding the application of the concepts.
Course Outcome:
· To introduce the key concepts in political theory
· To make students understand the aspects of conceptual analysis
To engage the students in application of concepts and their limitations
Semester II
POL HG 2016 Indian Government and Politics
Programme Outcome:
The course would introduce the students to the major approaches to the study of Indian Politics. The course details the functioning of the major institutions of government while also highlighting the politics of caste, class and patriarchy prevalent in India. The thrust of this course is not to study the national constituents separately but to look at the institutions, processes, problems, and solutions that pertain to the country as a whole.
Course outcomes:
· Appreciate the approaches to the study of Indian politics and the changing nature of the state
· Understand the basic features of the Indian constitution and its institutional functioning
· examine the changing role of caste, class and patriarchy and their impact on politics
· understand the dynamics of social movements in India.
Semester III
POL HG 3016 Comparative Government and Politics
Course Outcome:
· To make students have a basic understanding of comparative political analysis,
· To make students learn the classification of political systems from a comparative politics framework.
· To make students learn the classification of governments and the political behavior of institutions and the changes in the nature of the nation-state.
Semester IV
POL HG 4016 Introduction to International Relations
Course Objective: This Course is designed to give students a sense of some important theoretical approaches to understand international relations; a history from 1945 onwards to the present; and an outline of the evolution of Indian foreign policy since independence and its possible future trajectory.
Course Outcomes:
· To demonstrate basic understanding of scientific methods of inquiry in international relations.
· To understand how international relations influence societies.
· To demonstrate a basic understanding of the foundational theories and concepts in international relations.
· To analyse the current world events and their implications on the Indian Foreign policy decision making process by applying prominent theories of international relations and generate substantial research question on the topics.