Course Groups
Heritage Studies
This Occupational Track (Minor) prepares students to engage with heritage as a dynamic field of study and practice. Moving beyond monuments and museums, the programme recognises heritage as something continuously created, interpreted, documented, and sustained through communities, institutions, and public engagement.Students explore diverse forms of heritage in India and beyond, including cultural traditions, neighbourhood histories, archives, scientific collections, technological knowledge, landscapes, and digital records. The track combines perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences to help students understand how heritage is shaped by history, ethics, policy, and everyday practice.Through a strongly applied learning model, students develop practical skills in…Independent Study
Students also have the possibility of taking an independent study under the guidance of an economics faculty member on a specialized topic of interest for additional credits. This will include intensive self-study, or a extended essay and research report. The option of an independent study must be exercised in consultation with the concerned faculty member and will be evaluated and approved by the economics faculty on a case by case basis.Intellectual and Cultural Histories
This is a set of courses that look at the meta questions of history and the everyday and material aspects of social life across different time periods. These courses explore intellectual and conceptual history, the history of ideas, the philosophy of history and historiography. These courses are concerned with theoretical movements in the humanities and social sciences, especially anthropology which looks at culture.Interdisciplinary Studies
You can choose one interdisciplinary area of study of four courses and a field practice of two weeks. These courses are about current Indian and global scenarios, whether social, political, cultural or ecological conditions.Internship
The Masters Internship is one of two optional tracks available to all students. It has two components, namely a Master’s Internship and Community Engagement. The Master’s Internship entails an eight-week engagement, typically with a civil society organisation or government official to gain insight into economic work in the development sector. In Community Engagement, students spend two-weeks with local communities to bring about an improvement in some social or environmental outcomes. With an internship, you will be able to put your knowledge into practice in a context and do real economic analysis in the world.Language education
Develop pedagogic approaches for language learning in multilingual Indian classrooms.
Literary Studies
A focused foray into literary studies and periods of study, aesthetic and intellectual movements.Mathematics
Courses in Mathematics, Computer Programming, and Physics.Mathematics Education
Understand mathematical knowledge, curriculum, and pedagogy for elementary education.
Mathematics Major
These courses focus on mathematical language and thinking and explore a range of topics. They set the tone for higher mathematics and help you with logical and analytical thinking, proof techniques and the communication of arguments.
Media and Democracy
Over the course of time, human communication has been mediated by market-driven technology and gadgets. In turn, these forms of communications shape the public sphere in which ideas of what we are circulate. Modernity has had a close relationship with communication technologies. This is a set of courses to help you understand what role media and technologies play in shaping democracy, democratic policies and publics in India. We live in a world of unprecedented access to information. Media and communication have the capacity to deepen democracy but also the ability to foster anti-democratic politics.Media and Journalism
These courses will introduce you to the critical and conceptual tools involved in media texts. This course is based on research and practice, and you will study how media texts are created and their social, historical and political contexts. This course is for students who wish to prepare for careers in journalism, communications, and social work.Music Education
The undergraduate Occupational Track programme in Music Education is designed in collaboration with SaPa, the Subramaniam Academy of Performing Arts. SaPa is on a mission to make quality music education accessible to all. A large part of this involves creating enough music teachers to build the ecosystem for music education, and creating certifications and knowledge sets to make music teachers employable, both in schools and at music institutions.The Music Education OT aligns with this objective and aims to offer students an understanding of music itself, and how music may be taught in different environments. This will help students be employable,…Physics
Courses in Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry.Physics Major
We offer broad introductory courses for you to have a good foundation and clear understanding of mechanics, electricity, heat, light and wave phenomena. These courses have an integrated tutorial and laboratory component.
Public Health
This Occupational Track (Minor) combines critical perspectives on health with practical skills that prepare students to contribute meaningfully to public health in diverse work settings. Rooted in the liberal arts tradition, the programme helps students understand health not only as a biological condition, but as a social phenomenon shaped by economic, political, environmental, and cultural factors.Students explore key public health challenges in India and globally, while examining how governments, communities, and non-state actors respond to them. The track introduces foundational analytical skills in epidemiology to understand disease burden, patterns of illness, and population health outcomes. It also develops the ability…Public Histories
In these courses, you will explore the interface between disciplinary aspects of history and the popular dissemination through media. You will also explore contemporary practices of historical preservation, from documents to monuments. We hope these courses will help you communicate history for popular audiences. You will explore a wide range of practices in history, from ‘guide’ narratives, folklore and oral history to institutional practices.Science Education
Explore how scientific knowledge is taught and learned, and design meaningful science learning experiences.
Skill Based Electives
The MA in Development programme also offers a range of options in Skill-based electives. These are offered in three-week workshop using hands-on pedagogies for enabling evidence-based and nuanced development interventions. It will be mandatory for all students to enrol in one Skill-based elective in Semester 3. The range of electives offered in this category aim to strengthen application of perspectives and competencies for development action.Social Studies Education
Integrate history, geography, political science, and economics through curriculum and pedagogy.
Sports and Fitness
We believe that a regimen of physical activity can have a powerful effect on an individual’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Sport can be used as an effective tool to help an individual learn crucial life skills and also to build an empathetic, equitable community. In these set of courses, we want you to have a powerful experience of sport not just as a physical activity but as a way to build yourself and your social surroundings. We also want to teach you ways in which you can create these transformational experiences for others.Supporting Courses for Mathematics
Our core courses sometimes require an understanding of other scientific disciplines, and to ensure that you are able to study with ease, we offer you supportive courses in methods, chemistry, Physics and biology. You have to study programming, a laboratory based course, and one course in economics or philosophy.
