Courses
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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Understanding the Coastal Zone: Ecology & Livelihoods
Exploring the ecology and livelihoods of the coastal zone which is gradually becoming the most contested ecological interface in the country today.
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Urban India: Trajectories of Development
A course to help students discern sociological, political-economic, and phenomenological tenets on urbanisation and urbanisms in India that aid the students to map and analyse the interconnections, flows and processes of development.
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Water: Resource, history, management and challenges
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Women and Work
This course provides a nuanced understanding of the domain of women’s work, agency and empowerment in the context of India
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Work, Labour and Informality
What is the nature of informality in work in India?