• ● Understand the world, country, society and have awareness of ethical problems, social rights, values and responsibility to the self and to others.
• ● Understand and follow changes in patterns of political behaviour, ideas and structures. Develop the ability to make logical inferences about social and political issues on the basis of comparative and historical knowledge.
• ● Students will acquire a working knowledge of the Indian political system
• ● Take individual and team responsibility, function effectively and respectively as an individual and a member or a leader of a team; and have the skills to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams
• ● Know how to access and evaluate data from various sources of information.

Political Theory : Ideas and Concepts

Course Outcome

•     ● The paper is designed to acquaint the students with the basic normative concepts and ideas of Political Theory.
•     ● To understand the various political phenomena, its cause, impact on the lives of people and the role of governmental institutions.

Indian Political Thinkers

Course Outcome

•     ● The paper highlights the main sources of the political tradition ancient India and its development in modern times. It critically assesses the contribution of key ancient and modern Indian political thinkers and explains their relevance to contemporary times.
•     ● It helps the students assess the contribution and understand the impact of the Indian political thinkers on various issues specifically based on the Indian society, culture and politics. Its impact on the contemporary times and on the Indian government and politics, especially on the Constitution of India.

Political Theory : Ideas and Concepts (B)

Course Outcome

•     ● The course is intended at acquainting the students with the contemporary concepts of Political Theory.
•     ● To understand the traditional and modern theories of Political Science.

Western Political Thought

Course Outcome

•     ● The objective of the paper is to provide the students with a comprehensive view about the various western political philosophies of ancient, medieval, and modern thinkers.
•     ● Examining the features of western political thought and the various theories

Indian Government and Politics (A)

Course Outcome

•     ● The objective of this paper is to familiarize the students with the legal and philosophical framework of the political system in India.
•     ● To simultaneously study in detail the political structure both Constitutional and Administrative.
•     ● It also intends to strengthen the understanding and appreciation of the rights and privileges granted by the Indian Constitution.
•     ● The paper also focuses on the political processes and the actual functioning of the political system.

Western Political Thought

Course Outcome

•     ● This course has its central objective to provide a comprehensive introduction to the most important multilateral political organization in international relations.
•     ● It also deals with the major global issues and challenges.
•     ● It also acquaints the students with the growing significance of regional organisations.
•     ● To familiarize the changing nature of power relations.

Indian Government and Politics – (B)

Course Outcome

•     ● The objective of the paper is to acquaint the students with the processes and the functioning of Indian political system.
•     ● It focuses on the Centre-State relations within the Indian federal system.
•     ● It also emphasizes on issues such as caste, communalism and regionalism and critically assesses its impact on the political processes

International Politics

Course Outcome

•     ● This paper deals with concepts and dimensions of International Politics.
•     ● To make an analysis of different theories highlighting the major debates and differences within the different theoretical paradigms.

Indian Government and Politics – (B)

Course Outcome

•     ● Through this paper, focus is given on the evolution and approaches to the study of Comparative Politics. It studies the major political systems of the World by adopting a comparative approach to enable the students to understand the differences and similarities between the various constitutional arrangements. It also analyses in a comparative way the political systems in the third world countries.

Local Self Government In India

Course Outcome

•     ● This paper, offers a brief survey of the contemporary issues existing in the international sphere in the context of the changing global political environment.

International Politics

Course Outcome

•     ● The course deals with the grassroots level democratic units and their significance to our democracy and governance, consisting of the composition, powers and relevance of decentralization in contemporary set up.

Public Administration)

Course Outcome

•     ● The paper provides an introduction to the study of public administration. It is intended to cater to the needs of students in understanding the basic elements of administration and it also covers Public Administration in its historical context. It embodies a detailed discussion on Organization and Personnel Administration containing the importance of administrative, legislative, executive and judicial control over administration is also highlighted

Indian Administration

Course Outcome

•     ● The main purpose of this course is to acquaint the students with the various dynamics of Indian Administration. The course is intended to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Union State administrative structures. Public Service Commission and the contemporary issues and challenges before Indian administrative.

Conflict and Peace Studies

Course Outcome

•     ● This course seeks to introduce the students to the meaning and contending approaches in the discipline of Peace and conflict resolution from an academic perspective. It is also brings into boarder context the different strategies and techniques of non-violent conflict resolution.

•     ● This course acquaints students with the constitutional design of state structures and institutions and their actual working over time.
•     ● The Indian Constitution accommodates conflicting impulses (of liberty and justice, territorial decentralization and a strong union, for instance) within itself. The course traces the embodiment of some of these conflicts in constitutional provisions, and shows how these have played out in political practice.
•     ● It further encourages a study of state institutions in their mutual interaction, and in interaction with the larger extra-constitutional environment

•     ● This course introduces the students to the idea of political theory, its history and approaches, and an assessment of its critical and contemporary trends.
•     ● It is designed to reconcile political theory and practice through reflections on the ideas and practices related to democracy.

•     ● This course maps the working of ‘modern’ institutions, premised on the existence of an individuated society, in a context marked by communitarian solidarities, and their mutual transformation thereby.
•     ● It also familiarizes students with the working of the Indian state, paying attention to the contradictory dynamics of modern state power.

•     ● This course is divided into two sections. Section A helps the student familiarize with the basic normative concepts of political theory. Each concept is related to a crucial political issue that requires analysis with the aid of our conceptual understanding. This exercise is designed to encourage critical and reflective analysis and interpretation of social practices through the relevant conceptual toolkit.
•     ● Section B introduces the students to the important debates in the subject. These debates prompt us to consider that there is no settled way of understanding concepts and that in the light of new insights and challenges, besides newer ways of perceiving and interpreting the world around us, we inaugurate new modes of political debates.

•     ● The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the basic concepts and approaches to the study of comparative politics. More specifically the course will focus on examining politics in a historical framework while engaging with various themes of comparative analysis in developed and developing countries.

•     ● This course goes back to Greek antiquity and familiarizes students with the manner in which the political questions were first posed. Machiavelli comes as an interlude inaugurating modern politics followed by Hobbes and Locke. This is a basic foundation course for students..

•     ● It introduces students to some of the most important theoretical approaches for studying international relations. The course begins by historically contextualizing the evolution of the international state system before discussing the agency structure problem through the levels-of-analysis approach. After having set the parameters of the debate, students are introduced to different theories in International Relations.
•     ● It provides a fairly comprehensive overview of the major political developments and events starting from the twentieth century.
•     ● Students are expected to learn about the key milestones in world history and equip them with the tools to understand and analyze the same from different perspectives.
•     ● A key objective of the course is to make students aware of the implicit Euro - centricism of International Relations by highlighting certan specific perspectives from the Global South.

•     ● Philosophy and politics are closely intertwined. We explore this convergence by identifying four main tendencies here. Students will be exposed to the manner in which the questions of politics have been posed in terms that have implications for larger questions of thought and existence.

•     ● The course provides an introduction to the discipline of public administration.
•     ● This paper encompasses public administration in its historical context with an emphasis on the various classical and contemporary administrative theories.
•     ● The course also explores some of the recent trends, including feminism and ecological conservation and how the call for greater democratization is restructuring public administration.
•     ● The course will also attempt to provide the students a comprehensive understanding on contemporary administrative developments.

•     ● This course introduces the specific elements of Indian Political Thought
•     ● The basic focus of study is on individual thinkers whose ideas are however framed by specific themes.
•     ● The course as a whole is meant to provide a sense of the broad streams of Indian thought while encouraging a specific knowledge of individual thinkers and texts.
•     ● Selected extracts from some original texts are also given to discuss in class.

•     ● This course introduces students to the key debates on the meaning and nature of globalization by addressing its political, economic, social, cultural and technological dimensions.
•     ● In keeping with the most important debates within the globalization discourse, it imparts an understanding of the working of the world economy, its anchors and resistances offered by global social movements while analyzing the changing nature of relationship between the state and trans-national actors and networks
•     ● The course also offers insights into key contemporary global issues such as the proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological issues, international terrorism, and human security before concluding with a debate on the phenomenon of global governance.

•     ● This course attempts to build an understanding of human rights among students through a study of specific issues in a comparative perspective.
•     ● It is important for students to see how debates on human rights have taken distinct forms historically and in the contemporary world
•     ● The course seeks to anchor all issues in the Indian context, and pulls out another country to form a broader comparative frame.
•     ● TStudents will be expected to use a range of resources, including films, biographies, and official documents to study each theme.
•     ● Thematic discussion of sub-topics in the second and third sections should include state response to issues and structural violence questions.

•     ● Based on the study of individual thinkers, the course introduces a wide span of thinkers and themes that defines the modernity of Indian political thought.
•     ● The objective is to study general themes that have been produced by thinkers from varied social and temporal contexts

•     ● In this course students will be trained in the application of comparative methods to the study of politics.
•     ● The course is comparative in both what we study and how we study. In the process the course aims to introduce undergraduate students to some of the range of issues, literature, and methods that cover comparative political.

•     ● The paper seeks to provide an introduction to the interface between public policy and administration in India.
•     ● The essence of public policy lies in its effectiveness in translating the governing philosophy into programs and policies and making it a part of the community living.
•     ● It deals with issues of decentralization, financial management, citizens and administration and social welfare from a non-western perspective.