Courses
Skills for Development Practice
Skills to work in organisations and understand how development ideas are put into practice.
Social and Economic Analysis of Development
Learning the skills for carrying out theoretically and methodologically sound analysis of the socioeconomic impact of development interventions.
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Social Interventions
This course enables students to understand deliberated and strategic actions for social change by analysing the subjects, sites and modes/modalities of social action.
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Social Research Methods in Health: Generating Qualitative Evidence in Health
Understand the relevance of qualitative evidence for making informed public health actions.
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Social Sector Organisations: Forms and Actions
The role of social sector organisations in actions ranging from sangharsh to nirmaan and impacts at the grassroots.
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Social Studies Education
See social studies in an integrated and interlocking manner along with their interfaces with the physical sciences.
Social Studies Teaching and Material Development
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.
Sociology of Development
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.
Sociology of Development for Economists
This course introduces students to the sociological concepts, theories and methods in the study of contemporary development issues facing India.
Sociology of Education
How are the issues that surround education and its practices related to social processes?
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Sociology of Food
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.
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Sociology of Modern India
Students learn concepts and analytical tools to develop a sociological lens to approach social change and development.
Soft Matter
This course emphasizes the quantitative approach of physics and mathematics applied to everyday materials.
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Solid State Physics
A solid basis to understand materials.
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South Asian Feminisms in Historical Perspective
Looking at feminisms across South Asia, and the discrete historical experiences of caste patriarchy, religious nationalism, and social reform.
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Spectroscopy and its Application to Nanomaterials
Shedding light on what the eye cannot see.
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Spoken Kannada
This course aims to enable handling of basic conversations in Kannada
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State and Governance in India
Understand the role of the state as a “key actor” in India’s social and economic development.
State and Society in Pre-Colonial India (c.800-1800)
What was pre-colonial India like?
State Transformation and Theories of Governance
A society-centric approach to survey the changes brought about in governance.
State, Democracy and Civil Society in India
Students study the centrality of state, democracy and the active engagement of the civil society in development
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Statistical Methods in Ecology
A course that introduces undergraduate students with an interest in biology and ecology to basics of ecological study design and statistics.
Statistical Methods with R
The course trains the students in statistical methods using the open-source software R.
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Statistics
Do more with data sets!
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Statistics and Society
How do numbers and data represent our world?
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Statistics for Social Science
Engage with ‘data’ and its use in understanding and influencing social phenomena
Strategic Planning and Performance Management for Public and Non-Profit Organisations
Looking at the function of organisations that are public and not-profit and evaluating their performance.
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Structural Change, Growth and Economic Development
Why is India’s economy still predominantly agricultural?
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Structure-Property Relationships in Chemistry
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Structure-Property Relationships in Chemistry
Understanding theoretical frameworks with respect to chemical phenomena.
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