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Actions for Social Change
Understand the different forms, scales, approaches and strategies for development interventions.
Actions for Social Change
Understand the different forms, scales, approaches and strategies for development interventions.
Agrarian Concerns, Food Security and Sustainability in Modern India
What is the nature of the small and marginal farmer and the non-farm informal sector?
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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Basic Epidemiology
Epidemiological analysis contributes to the understanding of how ‘development’ as a process is closely connected to the building of a ‘healthy’ society.
Competencies for Livelihood Intervention
Creating workable livelihood interventions with greater understanding and competencies.
Contemporary Social Movements
Understanding the politics of collective mobilisation and mass public action in Indian political culture.
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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Development as Freedom
Build a broad based perspective on poverty, inequality, social policies and constitutional principles using the capabilities approach.
Ecology and Development in India
The history and socio-economic impact of development interventions on ecological systems.
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Economics of Development
Take a look at the economic perspective, with a special synoptic overview of economic development in the Indian experience.
Economics of Sustainability
What are the economics of creating a sustainable world?
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Education and Development: Interlinkages
Exploring the two-way relationship between development and education.
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Energy, Environment and Social Change
How is the physical phenomena of energy related to a sociological process like development?
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Environment Governance, Management and Conflict
What are the arrangements involved in natural resource management?
Environmental Justice in India
What is environmental justice and how is it made real in India?
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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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Foundations of Social Research and Reasoning
Foundational aspects of research by using examples from developmental research and debates in India.
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Health, Medicine and Society
A multidisciplinary understanding of public health through multiple perspectives on health, disease and medicine.
Indian Economy and Development
The Indian economic development story through a historically informed understanding.
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Introduction to Programming and Basic Data Analysis
This course is designed to equip students to build important skills and create a culture of evidence-based investigation.
Introduction to Research
Is infant mortality a health or education related problem?
Law and Governance
What are institutions? What is their role? How do they work? How do they shape political and administrative actions?
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Living Utopias
Explore utopian ideas for a vision of a sustainable future.
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Methods for Social Research and Action
Learn how to define a problem, design research, collect data and present findings.
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Perspectives on Technological Change and Development
Exploring the role of technology and technological change in innovation in development.
Planning, Implementing and Monitoring Development Actions for Gender Equity
Apply key frameworks of gender equality for development action and policy interventions.
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Political Economy, Development and Governance
How does political power determine the economic gains of different social groups?