Courses
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Programme evaluation for development action
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Programme Planning and Designing for Development Interventions
The course focuses on the programmes and interventions of Social Sector Organisations and locates them in the context of the organisational mission, vision, goal and strategic plans.
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Project Management for Development Interventions
Familiarises with the full life-cycle of projects
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Public Health Care, Rights, and Accountability
The course aims to equip the students with the perspectives of human rights and social accountability, to apply this framework to understand the health rights of communities, and to learn tools and techniques for strengthening the public healthcare system.
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Public Writing on Social Action and Change
Designed to develop the capacity of the students in public writing on social action and change.
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Qualitative Research Inquiry in Development Practice
Training in qualitative research and analysis to enhance skills and confidence to produce and analyse qualitative evidence.
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Reading Nagaland
An introduction to the rich diversity of everyday lives in Nagaland through “non-academic” sources.
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Reading Regional Mahabharatas
An introduction to regional Mahabharatas as autonomous (knowledge) texts that are creative retellings of the Vyasa Mahabharata rather than imperfect, incomplete, or corrupt translations.
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Remote sensing for sustainable development
Explores the concepts and practical applications of satellite remote sensing to map and understand transformations in landscapes, relating these to impacts on development and sustainability.
Skills for Development Practice
Skills to work in organisations and understand how development ideas are put into practice.
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Social Interventions
This course enables students to understand deliberated and strategic actions for social change by analysing the subjects, sites and modes/modalities of social action.
Social Sector Organisations: Forms and Actions
The role of social sector organisations in actions ranging from sangharsh to nirmaan and impacts at the grassroots.
Sociology of Development
A study of ‘development’ requires an understanding of the social and cultural dimensions that shape the institutions that act upon people’s lives and landscapes.
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Sociology of Food
This course reflects on how social practices and traditions around food have critically impacted the availability and accessibility of food for certain groups and profoundly impacted their human development outcomes.
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Sociology of Modern India
Students learn concepts and analytical tools to develop a sociological lens to approach social change and development.
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State and Governance in India
Understand the role of the state as a “key actor” in India’s social and economic development.
State, Democracy and Civil Society in India
Students study the centrality of state, democracy and the active engagement of the civil society in development
Summer Field Apprenticeship in Development
Participate in a development intervention.
Sustainability in Practice
What are the ways in which sustainability can be put to practice through development perspective?
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Sustainable agriculture and development
This course aims to situate agricultural growth in the country within the development and sustainability debate.
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The District As A Development Unit of The State: An Exploration
This course tries to outline the roles and structure of the District to the Village/Ward panchayats, from Municipal Corporations to Nagar Panchayats, and open up the classroom to the reality of how administration, programmes, politics and issues play out with each other, and what are the ways and manner in which groups, and individuals impact, shape and influence lives.
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The Global Context of Development
This course examines the meanings and history of the process known as globalization, locating the present moment in a longer history of capitalism, colonialism and neo-colonial governance.
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The Land Question in India
The course prepares students to employ political-economy– and anthropological perspectives to explain and analyse several topics that they may encounter in their fieldwork such as land acquisition, women’s property rights, Dalit-Adivasi land rights, and the role of middlemen in land deals.
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The State, Democracy and Civil Society in India
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Theories and Histories of Development
Histories and theories of development across contexts, tracing changes in the meaning of the practice of development.
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Understanding Development
Introduction to development through case studies set in the Indian context
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Understanding Development Realities through Data
Understand the strengths and limitations of commonly used datasets that inform development practice.
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 Livelihoods: Perspectives, Concepts and Theories
How do people make a living?
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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.