Courses
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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.
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Adivasis and development in peninsular India
Understanding the contemporary developmental challenges faced by Adivasi community
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?
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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?
Basic Epidemiology
Epidemiological analysis contributes to the understanding of how ‘development’ as a process is closely connected to the building of a ‘healthy’ society.
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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.
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.
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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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Development as Freedom
Build a broad based perspective on poverty, inequality, social policies and constitutional principles using the capabilities approach.
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Development Policy in Practice
Understanding of ‘process’ as a concept for policy, intervention and implementation and will teach process tracing as a method for analysing process.
Ecology and Development in India
The history and socio-economic impact of development interventions on ecological systems.
Economics of Development
Take a look at the economic perspective, with a special synoptic overview of economic development in the Indian experience.
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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’.
Education and Development: Interlinkages
Exploring the two-way relationship between development and education.
Programmes
Energy, Environment and Social Change
How is the physical phenomena of energy related to a sociological process like development?
Environment Governance, Management and Conflict
What are the arrangements involved in natural resource management?
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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.