Courses
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A Political Economy Primer for Education
Draws on various theories of political economy.
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Adivasis and development in peninsular India
Understanding the contemporary developmental challenges faced by Adivasi community
Advanced Language and Literature Pedagogy
Coherence between the ideas introduced in the course will be built through the pedagogy, such that the teaching of literature and writing can be meaningfully connected to the critical teaching of languages.
Advanced Macroeconomic Theory
The course surveys macroeconomic theory and its evolution through the use of rigorous mathematical and logical models.
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Advanced Microeconomic Theory
The course will delve into some selected areas of microeconomic theory where there has been active research in recent years and give students the understanding and the tools to engage with these areas.
Advanced Social Research
This course will enable students to engage in the process of research through an exposure to both qualitative and quantitative social research techniques.
Advanced Statistical Theory
Advanced methods in statistics.
Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics
Examining structural change and economic growth in Development Economics.
Advanced Topics in Microeconomics
Building on microeconomic theory for the postgraduate level.
Agrarian Concerns, Food Security and Sustainability in Modern India
What is the nature of the small and marginal farmer and the non-farm informal sector?
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Agricultural Livelihoods in Contemporary India: Critical Perspectives
Who are the people involved in India’s largest occupation and who is a farmer?
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Applied Econometrics with Stata
This course introduces students to Stata, which is another widely used statistical software package that is often a requirement for employment.
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Applied Epidemiology: Generating quantitative evidence in health
Using epidemiological research methods to generate evidence.
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Applied Multivariate Statistics
This course aims to introduce the students to concepts and techniques of summarising, visualising the geometry, and analysing such dependent, multivariate data.
Basic Epidemiology
Epidemiological analysis contributes to the understanding of how ‘development’ as a process is closely connected to the building of a ‘healthy’ society.
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Building Member Based Organisations
Understanding the most-prevalent types of Member Based Organisations (MBOs) that either work for the vulnerable communities or for rights of informal and formal labour.
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Building Social Enterprises
Learning about the key concepts and regulations that shape social enterprises, as well as enable them to systematically plan for the establishment of a social enterprise.
Causal and Inferential Methods
The statistical techniques employed in policy and governance studies.
Child Development and Learning
Understanding developing children in school contexts.
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Children’s Literature in Early Education
Literature can expand the imagination and lifeworld of children, and act as a mirror and window into the world in which children live.
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Civil Society Interventions in Health
Students will study and analyse a range of civil society interventions that have sought to address some of the core public health concerns through direct intervention in healthcare.
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Class, Caste and Gender: Some Processes of Social Stratification
Understand social inequality through sociological concepts of caste, class and gender.
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Climate change: Science, adaptation and mitigation
Introduction to the three critical aspects of the subject- climate science, climate mitigation, and climate adaptation.
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Climate Justice in India
This course develops abilities, character, and a sense of direction towards climate justice.
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Commons and Livelihoods: Understanding and reflecting on interrelation
Understanding the nuances of commons, its governance, and its intricate relationship with the livelihood.
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Communicating Economics
How do you communicate economics in different contexts?
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Community Engagement
A course designed to expose students to a variety of contexts in which economists work within the fields of development, in higher education, in public policy and with government agencies.
Comparative Corporate Governance
This course aims at enabling students to be academically proficient and ethically engaged in matters of public importance.
Comparative History of Education
How have policies and practices of education and reforms within it grown and changed over time in India and internationally?
Comparative Public Law and Systems of Governance
What do public policy and public administration in India consist of? What is the architecture and rationale of public authority and administrative practices? What is the nature and scope of the bureaucracy?