An introduction to the academic and curricular debates in the subjects that will also give them opportunities to translate their learnings into school contexts through curricular materials.

A study of ​‘development’ requires an understanding of the social and cultural dimensions that shape the institutions that act upon people’s lives and landscapes.

This course introduces students to the sociological concepts, theories and methods in the study of contemporary development issues facing India.

Understand how education interacts with society, inequality, and social change.

This course reflects on how social practices and traditions around food have critically impacted the availability and accessibility of food for certain groups and profoundly impacted their human development outcomes.

Learn how social structures and institutions shape development

Engage with and manage relationships with stakeholders to achieve organisational goals

Analyse the role of the state in shaping development policy

A society-centric approach to survey the changes brought about in governance.

Students study the centrality of state, democracy and the active engagement of the civil society in development

The course trains the students in statistical methods using the open-source software R.

Create a persuasive story using data to inform organisational decisions

Looking at the function of organisations that are public and not-profit and evaluating their performance.

Participate in a development intervention.

A six-week internship between Semester 02 and 03. 

Build impactful communication and advocacy skills to drive sustainability action across media, policy, and public engagement platforms.

What are the ways in which sustainability can be put to practice through development perspective?

Master the art of ESG storytelling through impactful and inclusive sustainability reporting.

This course aims to situate agricultural growth in the country within the development and sustainability debate.

Learn to develop sustainable solid waste management solutions through policy, technology, and real-world project experience in the Indian context.

Learn to design and implement sustainable water management solutions through policy, technology, and community-based approaches in a changing climate.

Apply systems thinking to unravel complex climate and sustainability challenges through interdisciplinary analysis and problem-solving.

“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.

Examine the evolving role of teachers and teaching across contexts.

Bringing professionalism to teaching by understanding the nature of a teacher’s work.

There is a need to problematise the relationship between English and local languages and create a neutral view of English as another second language.

Learn how to teach Hindi in a classroom given its broader and political context in India. 

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.