Courses
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Agricultural Livelihoods in Contemporary India: Critical Perspectives
Who are the people involved in India’s largest occupation and who is a farmer?
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Building Member Based Organisations
Understanding the most-prevalent types of Member Based Organisations (MBOs) that either work for the vulnerable communities or for rights of informal and formal labour.
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Building Social Enterprises
Learning about the key concepts and regulations that shape social enterprises, as well as enable them to systematically plan for the establishment of a social enterprise.
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Climate change: Science, adaptation and mitigation
Introduction to the three critical aspects of the subject- climate science, climate mitigation, and climate adaptation.
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Commons and Livelihoods: Understanding and reflecting on interrelation
Understanding the nuances of commons, its governance, and its intricate relationship with the livelihood.
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Competencies for Designing Livelihood Interventions
This course will help students with relevant knowledge and skills to conceptualise appropriate livelihood interventions incorporating people’s capacities and aspiration on the one hand while addressing the questions of sustainability, inclusion, dignity, and equity on the other.
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Critical Perspectives on Financial Inclusion
What is the institutional architecture of financial institutions in India?
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Critical Perspectives on Mental Health
Explore the notions of mental health and well-being.
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Dalits: State and Development
Engages critically with the ‘Dalit Development Question’-i.e, how have Dalit communities engaged with the Indian State, and in turn, how has the State responded to that question both in colonial and post- colonial India.
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Economics of Sustainability: Exploring Perspectives and Possibilities
What are the economics of creating a sustainable world?
Economy and Development: The Indian Experience
A historically informed account of India’s economic development.
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Education and Development: Inter-linkages
This course tries to answer interesting questions related to the domain of ‘education for development’.
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Environmental health: Approaches to action
The course will cover a range of topics that are relevant to environmental health in India.
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Environmental Justice in India
What is environmental justice and how is it made real in India?
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Environmental Perspectives for Development
The history and socio-economic impact of development interventions on ecological systems.
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Evidence and Ethics for Development Action
Understanding frames and paradigms of knowledge.
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Exploring Interrelationships: Environment and health
Do gains in human health status come at the cost of future generations?
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Field Immersion in Development
A two week exploration of the life experiences of different communities
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Forests, Governance and Livelihoods
Understanding the major historical and contemporary policies/laws that have shaped forest-based livelihoods.
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Gender and Development
What is it about being a woman or a man that particularly heightens our risks of being affected by certain issues/problems?
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Gender, health and rights
Drawn on the experiences of community level experiments, national and global level advocacy allowing students to be part of the journey of several efforts in gender-based interventions.
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GIS for Sustainability
The course extends student capacity to analyse and understand the spatial dimension of these issues.
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Health Education and Communication
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Introduction to Epidemiology
The course covering the basics of epidemiology, tools used in epidemiology and application of the tools for better decision making.
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Kautilya and his Arthasastra
An introduction to the rich diversity of the ancient Indian discussions on statecraft, economy, and law and the problems arising out of anachronistic interpretations of the past to address contemporary political exigencies.
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Local democracy and development action in India
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Media, Development, and Communication
This course will explore the role of media and communication in the field of development.
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Methods for Social Research and Action
Deepens understanding of the various methods for social research.
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Migration in contemporary India
A course designed for future development practitioners, action-researchers, and social activists to understand the challenges faced by migrant workers.
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Perspectives on Political Economy of Labour
This course is geared towards giving students an overview of concerns and questions that make up the landscape of labour in India.