Courses
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 Earth System Science
Learn about the interactions of the various biogeochemical cycles that influence environmental change over temporal and spatial scales.
Understanding Health Systems and Policy
Where health policy meets real-world action
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Campus BhopalSubject
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 India's Development Realities through Data
Work with real datasets to interpret development trends
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Understanding Livelihoods: Perspectives, Concepts and Theories
How do people make a living?
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Understanding Plants
Do plants see, hear, feel and smell?
Understanding Pre-Service Teacher Education
Pre-service teacher education (PSTE) is critical for continuous teacher professional development.
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Understanding Reality
Analyse some of our most fundamental assumptions about the nature of the world.
Offered At
Campus BengaluruSubject
Understanding Rhythms
Using everyday objects and instruments, manipulate and create rhythms.
Offered At
Campus BengaluruSubject
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 State Institutions and Governance
Manage organisations to align with public policy goals, strengthen collaboration with state institutions and contribute effectively to development
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 Ecosystems and Sustainability: A Social-Ecological Perspective
More than fifty percent of India will live in cities by 2050.
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.
Offered At
Campus BengaluruValues and Ethics in Public Affairs
Connect public policy advocacy with fundamental ethical and moral ideas.
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Water: Resource, history, management and challenges
Wave Phenomena
The basis for understanding electromagnetic waves that constitute light, matter waves in quantum physics, and gravitational waves in cosmology.
Welfare Rights in India
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Welfare Rights in India – A Research driven analysis
This is a course that seeks to provide students with an overview of welfare rights in India, while simultaneously requiring them to conduct in-depth research on aspects of a specific welfare rights programme.
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What is Biology?
Uses case studies from the Indian context, and provides a glimpse of the vast scope and interdisciplinary nature of modern biology.
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What is India?
Has India always been ‘India’? What has shaped it and who are its people?
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What is Public Health? Perspectives, Ethics, and Values
This course aims at introducing students to understanding and examining public health by interrogating what is ‘public’ and ‘health’.
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Winter Field Project in Development
The third component of the field practice occurs over eight weeks following the 3rd semester.
Winter Field Project in Law and Public Policy
An eight-week internship between Semester 03 and 04.
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Women and Work
This course provides a nuanced understanding of the domain of women’s work, agency and empowerment in the context of India
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Woodworking: Thinking Hands
Crafting simple wood objects and developing precision through hands-on experience.
Offered At
Campus Bengaluru
