B.A. (Hons.) Social Science & Policy

Semester 1

1. State and Governance
2. Social Structure (Individual, Community, Self, the Other, and Social Ethic)
3. Structure of economy – I: (Land, Labour and Capital; Profit, Interest, Rent; Private Property; Demand, Supply)
4. Modern Political Philosophy (Ideologies, Equality, Liberty, Justice)
5. Political History of India
6. Critical Academic writing
   4*6=24

Semester 2

1. Power, Hegemony, Agency and Resistance
2. Effects of Power (Exploitation, Discrimination, Exclusion Social Conflict and Consensus)
3. Caste and Class
4. Structure of economy – II: (Efficiency, Competition and Cooperation, Uncertainty, Chance, Risk)
5. Game Theory and Strategic Reasoning
6. Making Sense of the Modern World (phenomenology, structuralism, existentialism, poststructuralism, postfoundational)
   4*6=24

(Workshops on Academic Writing)

Semester 3

1. Democracy
2. Rights and Social Justice (Moral worth, Equity, Fairness, Distribution vs Recognition)
3. Gender
4. Money, Finance and Global Markets
5. Economic History of India
6. Qualitative Research Methodology
   4*6=24

 (intensive Policy Analysis Bootcamp)

Semester 4

1. Economics and Law of Regulation
2. Behavioural Science
3. Nature, Community, and Appropriation (Social and Political Ecology/ Environmental History of South Asia)
4. Social Policy
5. Poverty and Inequality
6. Statistics
   4*6=24

(intensive Policy Analysis Bootcamp, writing policy briefs)

Semester 5

1. Ecological Change and Sustainability
2. Development Paradigms and Alternatives
3. Elective
4. Elective
5. Econometrics
6. Dissertation Workshop (3)
   4*3+3*3=21

Semester 6

1. Survey Design and Analysis
2. Data Visualisation
3. Basics of Evaluation
4. Elective
5. Dissertation – equivalent to 2 courses (8)
   4*3+3+8=23

Tentative list of electives: Technology, Economy and Society; Climate Change; Land Acquisition and Displacement; Urban Studies; Education, Knowledge and Skill; Health; Pollution; Employment and Labour Policy.