Programme Curriculum: B.A. (Hons.) Liberal Arts and Humanities

Digital Humanities is a new field that brings together the arts, humanities and technology. This major will extend to the study of digital and computational technologies as applied to the field of arts and humanities. Technologies such as digital mapping, quantitative textual analysis, spatial story-telling and social media analysis will equip students to understand and study the arts as well as humanities disciplines through digital tools. Through this course you will learn how to identify and use digital humanities research and scholarship. This course will help you use digital tools and realize the many possibilities made possible through application of technology.

Careers: Art and Cultural Heritage and appreciation; Museums; Media; Education; Marketing, Non-profit organisations, all forms of research.

This major will combine a training in business strategies and the arts and culture field. Creative industries are one of the fastest growing sectors in contemporary times. In this course you will learn how to assess trends in art and cultural production and appreciation. Marketing for arts and cultures involves an awareness of the global as well as local domain of art. This course will teach you new techniques (such as content creating and digital marketing). It will also allow you to explore less obvious areas such as  international  regulation for cultural protection, national and international programs that support promotion, protection and dissemination of artistic production and material culture.  This major will include courses in arts and cultural industries; social innovation; guidelines for national and international protection of the arts, applied technologies and design thinking; as well as arts and humanities courses in visual art, performance art and history/heritage studies.

Careers: Artistic product promotion and marketing, museum organization, curation , developing private and public investment in the arts, content creation and product  innovation.

The Comparative Religion introduces students to the academic study of religion, through a study of literary canons; primary texts; historical traditions of specific religions; and ethics. The questions that are addressed in this major invite the student to look examine the most important questions related to the existence of the individual in society, life in community and promotion and limitations placed on belief systems from within  as well as outside the body of co-adherents. The major will train students to think critically about shared values and cultures, and how this understanding can be implemented politically. Students  begin to understand the complicated role religion plays in history, the imagination, development of  individual, national and international memory.

Careers: Comparative religion is a pathway to all advanced studies in the liberal arts and humanities. It is adapted to  further study in law, public policy and government service. The field opens the way to a career in social service, teaching, community development, museum or archival work, public relations, foreign service and counselling.

The major in expressive arts is an interdisciplinary programme which integrates hands-on training with the study of the theory, history and sociology of the arts. While exposing the liberal arts students to contemporary art practices, this unique major, offered among the liberal arts subjects, will emphasise the social location of artworks and will encourage them to explore their social, cultural and political surrounding.

Sociology and anthropology are theoretical as well as empirical humanities disciplines. They provide us with knowledge of the many social patterns and alternatives that exist in the world, and a variety of theoretical lenses which can be used to study how people actually live in different social and cultural settings. Students of the B.A. Hons. Liberal Arts programme in this major study various social patterns that exist in this world and understand how the parts of society fit together and change with time, using concepts such as time, space, structure, agency, representation.

Philosophy is the study of fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Liberal arts students majoring in Philosophy would read about ethics; philosophy of religion; existentialism; philosophical roots of anthropology, sociology, psychology and history; and political philosophy from Indian and western perspectives. This major will improve the mental agility of the students by giving them the ideological/philosophical provenance to many of the issues that today’s world faces to help them situate themselves better vis-à-vis the rest of the world.

Psychology’s core focus is the human mind and behaviour, and the various internal and external factors that control and regulate both. This is an integral perspective to all liberal arts courses and beyond. The students who will major in Psychology will learn how people relate one to another; how they learn, remember and see the world; what prompts them to act or choose not to act; how they grow into their identities and process of aging.