Explore the role of microbial communities in shaping ecological habitats and learn how to isolate environmental microbes from samples in the lab.

Understand how ecological systems and development intersect

Understand the current discourse on pressing environmental philosophical questions.

Understand how institutions, politics, and governance shape environmental futures

An overview and analysis of the conceptual approaches to the environment.

Conceptual and hands-on lab experience for monitoring and regulating various types of environmental contamination.

Analyse effects of environmental pollution on human health and ecosystem in a variety of settings — in the class, field, laboratory, and through models of the environment.

Looking at the major environmental concerns of our times. 

Learn to measure disease burden and interpret health data

How do we understand the rights and wrongs of what humans do?

Challenge your own views and broaden your perspective by critically examining your ethical stances on diverse issues.

How do we decide the best course of action? What do we think of as a good life? Are value judgements that we make universal or subjective?

How does the State work on the ground?

Study how values and evidence inform responsible action

What constitutes evidence in public health? Why and how does evidence matter for public health action?

Examines patterns and processes by which evolution occurs and shapes life forms.

Appreciate and learn the physical principles, techniques, and creativity that go in conducting experiments in physics.

Aims to make students aware of what goes on ​“behind the scene” when they use digital
technology.

Do gains in human health status come at the cost of future generations?

This course examines the relationship between feminism, politics and the law.

How do gender differences determine social outcomes?

Apply financial skills in a social sector placement

A two week exploration of educational settings in DIETS and Field Institutes of the Azim Premji Foundation. 

A two week exploration of the life experiences of different communities

Reflect on development contexts (in terms of lived realities of communities and local institutions) where social sector organisations operate

Implement an end-to-end project within a specific management function in a social sector organisation

A six week field study to work on a specific educational problem.

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.