Courses
Sustainability in Practice
What are the ways in which sustainability can be put to practice through development perspective?
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Sustainable agriculture and development
This course aims to situate agricultural growth in the country within the development and sustainability debate.
Teacher and Curriculum
“Any experience that the teacher regards as necessary for the child’s development is curricular, irrespective of how or where it is organised,” says the National Curriculum Framework of 2005.
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Teacher Professional Development
A look at the profession of teaching and the role of the teacher across contexts and time.
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Teachers and Teaching
Bringing professionalism to teaching by understanding the nature of a teacher’s work.
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Teaching English Language in India
There is a need to problematise the relationship between English and local languages and create a neutral view of English as another second language.
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Teaching Hindi Language and Literature in Schools
Learn how to teach Hindi in a classroom given its broader and political context in India.
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Technology and Human Rights: Law, Governance and Policy
The course contributes to the debates on ethical questions in the wake of contemporary science and technology developments, and the consequent challenges to the public policy and governance/regulation issues in our times.
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The District As A Development Unit of The State: An Exploration
This course tries to outline the roles and structure of the District to the Village/Ward panchayats, from Municipal Corporations to Nagar Panchayats, and open up the classroom to the reality of how administration, programmes, politics and issues play out with each other, and what are the ways and manner in which groups, and individuals impact, shape and influence lives.
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The Global Context of Development
This course examines the meanings and history of the process known as globalization, locating the present moment in a longer history of capitalism, colonialism and neo-colonial governance.
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The Land Question in India
The course prepares students to employ political-economy– and anthropological perspectives to explain and analyse several topics that they may encounter in their fieldwork such as land acquisition, women’s property rights, Dalit-Adivasi land rights, and the role of middlemen in land deals.
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The Legal Life of Partition
This course centers the Partition as an entry point into questions of legal, political and social belonging and exclusion in South Asia.
The State and Governance in India
How does the state exercise its legitimacy across different societal interests?
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The State, Democracy and Civil Society in India
The State, Market and Economy
This course introduces you to the lexicon, concepts, and arguments around economic ideas, covering microeconomics, macroeconomics, development economics and public economics.
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Theories and Histories of Development
Histories and theories of development across contexts, tracing changes in the meaning of the practice of development.
Transformations in Citizenship in India: 2000-2020
Engages with the question of Citizenship as an issue of increasing importance in India.
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Transitional Justice
The course examines a set of extraordinary state responses that aim to restore rule of law in societies emerging from violent, usually undemocratic pasts.
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Understanding Development Realities through Data
Understand the strengths and limitations of commonly used datasets that inform development practice.
Understanding Development: Philosophical and Theoretical Explorations
How do theories of development (such as modernisation, dependency and national development) imagine our futures?
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Understanding Health Systems and Policy
This course examines the health policy landscape and applies health systems frameworks to understand real-world public health concerns.
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Understanding Livelihoods: Perspectives, Concepts and Theories
How do people make a living?
Understanding Pre-Service Teacher Education
Pre-service teacher education (PSTE) is critical for continuous teacher professional development.
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Understanding social sector organisations
The course will help students to gain familiarity with various forms of organisations and critically assess the need for different forms.
Understanding the Coastal Zone
Appreciating and interrogating the human-nature interactions in a contested land-sea ecological interface.
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Understanding the Coastal Zone: Ecology & Livelihoods
Exploring the ecology and livelihoods of the coastal zone which is gradually becoming the most contested ecological interface in the country today.
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Urban Development: Law & Policy
This course seeks to examine and explain how laws and policies structure, regulate, and
affect urban development in India.Urban Governance in India
The study of cities for public policy and governance.
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Urban India: Trajectories of Development
A course to help students discern sociological, political-economic, and phenomenological tenets on urbanisation and urbanisms in India that aid the students to map and analyse the interconnections, flows and processes of development.
Values and Ethics in Public Affairs
Connect public policy advocacy with fundamental ethical and moral ideas.