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UGC NET 2023 Exam: Dates, Answer key (Released), Question Papers, Result, Cutoff

Updated on 28th Mar, 2023 by Prabakaran K
Exam Date 13 Jun, 2023 - 22 Jun, 2023
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Latest Update for UGC NET

  • 5 days ago:

    UGC NET answer key has been relesed for December 2022 session

  • 09 Mar 2023:

    UGC NET December 2022 scores to be used for POWERGRID’s HR trainees recruitment

  • 29 Dec 2022:

    UGC NET application form 2023 released

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About UGC NET 2023

UGC NET 2023 - The National Testing Agency will soon declare the UGC NET result 2023 for December 2022 session on the official website. Earlier, NTA closed the UGC NET 2023 answer key challenging facility on March 25. The UGC NET answer key 2023 and question paper with recorded response sheet for all the phases of the December 2022 session has been released on March 23 on the official website.
Latest: The University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) December 2022 score will be used for recruitment as HR trainees in POWERGRID. The POWERGRID will activate the registration link for appointing HR trainees through UGC NET soon.

NTA has successfully concluded the UGC NET exam 2023 for December 2022 session on March 15 at various exam centres across the country. NTA conducted the UGC NET exam 2023 from February 21 to March 15.

NTA conducted Phase 4 and 5 of UGC NET exam 2023 from March 11 to 15 at various exam centres across the country. Earlier, NTA issued the UGC NET admit card 2023 for Phase 5 on the official website - ugcnet.nta.nic.in. NTA issued the UGC NET admit card 2023 online for Phase 4 on March 7. NTA activated the UGC NET 2023 city intimation link online for phase 5 on March 7 and for phase 4 on March 6.

NTA successfully conducted Phase 3 of UGC NET exam 2023 between March 3 and 6, 2023 across the country. NTA NTA issued the UGC NET admit card 2023 for Phase 3 on March 1. NTA activated the UGC NET city intimation link 2023 online for phase 3 on February 28.

The Phase II of the UGC NET 2023 exam has been held from February 28 to March 2, 2023. NTA issued the UGC NET admit card 2023 for Phase II on February 24 on the official website at ugcnet.nic.in. NTA has activated the UGC NET 2023 city intimation link for phase 2 on February 21. 

The UGC NET 2023 exam for phase I was held from February 21 to 24, 2023. Earlier, NTA issued the UGC NET admit card 2023 for phase 1 on February 17 on the official website - ugcnet.nta.nic.in.

NTA closed the UGC NET application form 2023 in online for December 2022 session on January 23 (extended date) by 5 PM at ugcnet.nta.nic.in.  NTA will issue the UGC NET 2023 city cenre intimation slip in 1st week of February tentatively on the official website. UGC NET 2022 admit card will be issued online in the 2nd week of February 2023 tentatively.

NTA closed the UGC NET 2023 application form correction facility online on January 20 at ugcnet.nta.nic.in. NTA closed the UGC NET application form 2023 in online mode on January 17. The authorities released the UGC NET notification 2023 for December 2022 session on December 29 on the official website. Candidates who are planning to appear for the UGC NET exam 2023, must fill the application form in online mode and must go through the eligibility criteria.

Those who are applying for UGC NET 2023 needed to pay the application fees. Candidates who belong to the general category, have to pay Rs 1,000 whereas those who belong to the OBC and EWS category need to pay Rs. 500. Applicants from SC/ST category needed to pay Rs. 250 for UGC NET 2023.

First, NTA will release the provisional UGC NET answer key 2023 online after the conclusion of the examination. Candidates will be given the opportunity to raise challenges or objections against the UGC NET 2023 answer key till a certain time period. After considering all the challenges, NTA will release the UGC 2023 final answer key.

The UGC NET 2023 result will declare on online on the official website - ugcnet.nta.nic.in. The UGC NET result 2023 will be checked by the candidates by using valid login credentials including application number and date of birth. The UGC NET 2023 cut off and final answer key will also be released along with the result. 

While preparing for the UGC NET exam 2023, aspirants must go through the UGC NET syllabus and the latest exam pattern. NTA also provides the previous year's question papers and UGC NET mock test which helps in better preparation of UGC NET 2023.

What is UGC NET?

The UGC NET examination is conducted on the national level by the National testing Agency twice a year. The UGC NET exam is conducted to determine the eligibility for the post of Assistant Professors/lecturers and Junior Research Fellowship. Candidates who will get shortlisted in UGC NET 2023 exam can apply in any government colleges or universities for the subject they are qualified for. NTA provides 81 subject options for the applicants. However, candidates can apply for only that subject in which they completed their post-graduation degree. 

There are two papers in the UGC NET 2023 exam. Paper I of UGC NET is designed to test the candidate’s teaching and research ability as well as aptitude sense. The UGC NET syllabus of Paper I includes the comprehension, analysis, evaluation, understanding of the structure of arguments, and deductive and inductive reasoning whereas Paper II is based on the subject chosen by the applicant. 

There is no upper age limit for the candidates who choose Assistant professor/lecturer in UGC NET exam. For the JRF, the upper age limit is 31 years. The UGC NET 2023 paper I consists of 50 questions carrying 100 marks whereas paper II comprises 100 questions carrying 200 marks.

What is the Full Form of UGC NET?

The UGC NET full form is University Grants Commission (UGC)- National Eligibility Test (NET). The UGC NET exam is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA). The main objective of conducting UGC NET 2023 exam is to find out the most eligible candidates who can apply for the post of Assistant Professors/Lecturers and Junior Research Fellowship in different government colleges and universities of India. Along with the full form of UGC NET, it is important for aspirants to know all about the UGC NET 2023 exam.

How to contact the NTA UGC NET?

NTA provides the option to contact the exam authority in case of any confusion. Candidates who applied for UGC NET 2023 can contact through the email address or helpline number provided by NTA for UGC NET 2023.

Address: University Grants Commission (UGC)
Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg,
New Delhi - 110002.

Or,

C-20 1A/8, Sector 62, IITK Outreach Centre, Noida - 201 309.

Contact Number : 011-4075900/011-69227700
Email: ugcnet@nta.ac.in OR ugcnetonline.in6@gmail.com

UGC NET Exam Statistics - Previous  Year's

By analysing the past year's UGC NET examination statistics, candidates will be able to understand the competitive level of the UGC NET exam. The previous year’s exam statistics of UGC NET include the number of students who appeared and qualified in the UGC NET exam. Check the table below for UGC NET previous years’ statistics

Year

Candidates Registered

Candidates Appeared

Candidates qualified for eligibility for Assistant Professor only

Candidates qualified for JRF & eligible for Assistant Professor

December 2020 and June 20211266509671288437309127

June 2020

8,60,976

5,26,707

40,86

6,171

December 2019

10,34,872

7,93,813

60,147

5,092

June 2019

-

6,81,718

55,701

4,756

December 2018

9,56,837

6,81,930

44,001

3,883

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UGC NET 2023 Highlights

Full Exam NameUniversity Grants Commission National Eligibility Test
Short Exam NameUGC NET
Conducting BodyNational Testing Agency
Frequency of Conduct2 times a year
LanguagesArabic, Assamese +19 More
Mode of ApplicationOffline / Online
Application Fee (General)1100 Rs [Online]
Mode of ExamOnline
UGC NET Paper I - Duration1 Hour +1 More
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UGC NET 2023 Important Dates

UGC NET (Session Jun 2023)

Upcoming Dates and Events

13 Jun, 2023 - 22 Jun, 2023

Exam | Mode: Online

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UGC NET 2023 Eligibility Criteria

NTA releases the eligibility criteria of UGC NET 2023  along with the official notification. Candidates who satisfy the eligibility criteria can appear for the UGC NET 2023 exam. The eligibility criteria consist of details like age limit and academic qualifications. Candidates must check eligibility criteria details clearly completing the UGC NET 2023 application procedure.

UGC NET 2023 Educational Qualification

  • 55% marks in Master’s Degree or equivalent examination from institutions/universities recognized by UGC in subjects like Computer Science &Applications Humanities, Social Science, Electronic Science, etc.
  • 50% marks in Master’s Degree or equivalent examination for Scheduled Caste(SC)/Scheduled Tribe(ST)/ persons with disability(PwD) and Other Backward Classes(OBC) belonging to non-creamy layer.
  • Candidates who are Ph.D. degree holders and completed their Master’s level examination and waiting for the declaration of the result are eligible with 5% relaxation in aggregate marks (i.e.  55% to 50%).
  • Candidates with master’s degree or those who are appearing in their final year of master’s exam or those who are waiting for their results can apply for this exam. However, candidates have to pass their master’s degree to be considered eligible for the award of Junior Research Fellowship/Eligibility for Assistant Professor.
  • Candidates who have done post-graduate diploma/ Institute or foreign degree/certificate awarded by the foreign.
  • University/diploma/certificate awarded by Indian University must check their ascertain the equivalence of their diploma/degree certificate with Master’s degree of recognized Indian universities from Association of  Indian Universities (AIU), New Delhi.

UGC NET 2023  Age limit

  • Candidates must be 31 years to be eligible for Junior Research Fellowship.However, this is just applicable for this session only.
  • There is no upper age limit for Assistant Professor.
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UGC NET 2023 Application Process

Mode of Application : Offline and Online

Mode of Payment : Net Banking | Credit Card | Debit Card | Bank Challan

NTA closed the UGC NET 2023 application form in online on January 23 (extended date) by 5 PM at ugcnet.nta.nic.in.  The UGC NET application form 2023 has been released on December 29, 2022. While doing the UGC NET 2023 registration, candidates should keep all necessary documents along with them. 

Documents Needed to fill UGC NET application form 2023:

  • Valid E-mail ID and Mobile Number 
  • Aadhaar Card Number/Voter ID Card/ Other Govt ID
  • Qualifying Degree Certificate or last semester marks sheet
  • Copy of Board/University Certificate
  • Category Certificate, if applicable for Economically Weaker Section (EWS) Certificate, Person with Disability (PwD) Certificate

How to fill UGC NET 2023 Application Form 

1st Stage: UGC NET Registration - 

  • Candidates need to register for the exam by furnishing the details like name, email- id, mobile number, date of birth, gender, address, etc., 
  • After the submission of these details, candidates will have to choose a password of their choice and select a security question with an answer and click on the submit button.
  • UGC NET 2023 application number will be sent to the registered mobile number and email after successful completion of the registration process.

2nd Stage: Filling the UGC NET Application Form - Candidates have to select a subject, exam centre, category, educational details, and other important details without any mistakes.

3rd Stage: Uploading Required Documents - Applicants will be required to upload scanned images of photograph and signature as per the prescribed format.

UGC NET Document Format:

Documents

File size

Dimensions

Photograph

10 kb to 200 kb

3.5 cm X 4.5 cm

Signature

04 kb to 30 kb


3.5 cm X 1.5 cm

4th Stage: UGC NET 2023 Application Fee Payment - Candidates can pay the application fee in online mode through SBI /Syndicate/HDFC /ICICI Payment Gateway (Debit/Credit Card or Net Banking/Paytm).

Application Fees

CategoryQuotaModeGenderAmount
GeneralOnlineMale, Female₹ 1100
EWS, OBCOnlineMale, Female₹ 550
ST, SCPWDOnlineMale, Transgender, Female₹ 275
ST, SCOnlineMale, Female₹ 275
General, ST, SC, OBCOnlineTransgender₹ 275
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UGC NET 2023 Syllabus

UGC NET Paper I Syllabus

General paper on teaching and research aptitude-

General paper on teaching and research aptitude: Unit 01
Teaching aptitude
Teaching: Concept, objectives, levels of teaching (memory, understanding, and reflective), characteristics and basic requirements
Learner’s characteristics: Characteristics of adolescent and adult learners (academic, social, emotional, and cognitive), individual differences
Factors affecting teaching related to: Teacher, learner, support material, instructional facilities, learning environment, and Institution
Methods of teaching in institutions of higher learning: Teacher centred vs. learner centred methods; off-line vs. on-line methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha, MOOCs, etc)
Teaching support system: Traditional, modern, and ICT based
Evaluation systems: Elements and types of evaluation, evaluation in choice based credit system in higher education, computer based testing, innovations in evaluation systems
General paper on teaching and research aptitude: Unit 02
Research aptitude
Research: Meaning, types, and characteristics, positivism, and post-positivistic approach to research
Methods of research: Experimental, descriptive, historical, qualitative, and quantitative methods
Steps of research
Thesis and article writing: format and styles of referencing
Application of ICT in research
Research ethics
General paper on teaching and research aptitude: Unit 03
Comprehension
Passage
General paper on teaching and research aptitude: Unit 04
Communication
Communication: Meaning, types, and characteristics of communication
Effective communication: verbal and non-verbal, inter-cultural and group communications, classroom communication
Barriers to Effective Communication
Mass-media and society
General paper on teaching and research aptitude: Unit 05
Mathematical Reasoning and Aptitude
Types of reasoning
Number series, letter series, codes, and relationships
Mathematical aptitude (fraction, time and distance, ratio, proportion and percentage, profit and loss, interest and discounting, averages, etc)
General paper on teaching and research aptitude: Unit 06
Logical reasoning
Understanding the structure of arguments: argument forms, structure of categorical propositions, mood and figure, formal and informal fallacies, uses of language, connotations and denotations of terms, classical square of opposition
Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning
Analogies
Venn diagram: simple and multiple use for establishing validity of arguments
Indian logic: means of knowledge
Pramanas: Pratyaksha (perception), Anumana (inference), Upamana (comparison), Shabda (verbal testimony), Arthapatti (implication), and Anupalabddhi (non-apprehension)
Structure and kinds of Anumana (inference), Vyapti (invariable relation), Hetvabhasas (fallacies of inference)
General paper on teaching and research aptitude: Unit 07
Data interpretation
Sources, acquisition, and classification of data
Quantitative and qualitative data
Graphical representation (bar-chart, histograms, pie-chart, table-chart, and line-chart) and mapping of data
Data interpretation
Data and governance
General paper on teaching and research aptitude: Unit 08
Information and communication technology (ICT)
ICT: general abbreviations and terminology
Basics of internet, intranet, e-mail, audio, and video-conferencing
Digital initiatives in higher education
ICT and governance
General paper on teaching and research aptitude: Unit 09
People, development, and environment
Development and environment: millennium development and sustainable development goals
Human and environment interaction: anthropogenic activities and their impacts on environment
Environmental issues: Local, regional, and global; air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, noise pollution, waste (solid, liquid, biomedical, hazardous, electronic), climate change and its socioeconomic and political dimensions
Impacts of pollutants on human health
Natural and energy resources: Solar, wind, soil, hydro, geothermal, biomass, nuclear, and forests
Natural hazards and disasters: mitigation strategies
Environmental protection act, (1986), national action plan on climate change, international agreements/ efforts-Montreal protocol, Rio summit, convention on biodiversity, Kyoto protocol, Paris agreement, international solar alliance
General paper on teaching and research aptitude: Unit 10
Higher education system
Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India
Evolution of higher learning and research in post independence India
Oriental, conventional and non-conventional learning programmes in India
Professional, technical, and skill based education
Value education and environmental education
Policies, governance, and administration

UGC NET Paper II Syllabus

Economics+

Economics: Unit 01
Micro economics
Theory of consumer behaviour, theory of production and costs, decision making under uncertainty attitude towards risk, game theory-non cooperative games, market structures, competitive and non-competitive equilibrium, and their efficiency properties
Factor pricing, general equilibrium analysis, efficiency criteria: Pareto-optimality, Kaldor-Hicks, and wealth maximization, welfare economics: Fundamental theorems, social welfare function, asymmetric information: Adverse selection and moral hazard
Economics: Unit 02
Macro economics
National income: Concepts and measurement, determination of output and employment: Classical and Keynesian approach, consumption function, investment function, multiplier and accelerator, demand for money, supply of money, IS-LM model approach
Inflation and Phillips curve analysis, business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy, rational expectation hypothesis and its critique
Economics: Unit 03
Statistics and econometrics
Probability theory: Concepts of probability, distributions, moments, central limit theorem, descriptive statistics-measures of central tendency and dispersions, correlation, index numbers, sampling methods and sampling distribution
Statistical inferences, hypothesis testing, linear regression models and their properties-blue, identification problem, simultaneous equation models-recursive and non-recursive, discrete choice models, time series analysis
Economics: Unit 04
Mathematical Economics
Sets, functions, and continuity, sequence, series, differential calculus and its applications, linear algebra-matrices, vector spaces, static optimization problems, and their applications, input-output model, linear programming
Difference and differential equations with applications
Economics: Unit 05
International economics
International trade: Basic concepts and analytical tools, theories of international trade, international trade under imperfect competition, balance of payments: Composition, equilibrium and disequilibrium, and adjustment mechanisms
Exchange rate: Concepts and theories, foreign exchange market and arbitrage, gains from trade, terms of trade, trade multiplier, tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade; dumping, GATT, WTO, and regional trade blocs; trade policy issues
IMF and world bank
Economics: Unit 06
Public Economics
Market failure and remedial measures: Asymmetric information, public goods, externality, regulation of market-collusion and consumers’ welfare, Public revenue: Tax and non-tax revenue, direct and indirect taxes
Public revenue: Progressive and non-progressive taxation, incidence, and effects of taxation, public expenditure, public debt and its management, public budget and budget multiplier, fiscal policy and its implications
Economics: Unit 07
Money and banking
Components of Money Supply, Central Bank, Commercial Banking, Instruments and Working of Monetary Policy, Non-banking Financial Institutions, Capital Market and its Regulation
Economics: Unit 08
Growth and Development Economics
Economic growth and economic development, theories of economic development: Adam Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Schumpeter, Rostow, balanced and unbalanced growth, big push approach
Models of economic growth: Harrod-Domar, Solow, Robinson, Kaldor, technical progress-disembodied and embodied; endogenous growth, indicators of economic development: PQLI, HDI, SDGS, poverty and inequalities-concepts and measurement
Social sector development: health, education, gender
Economics: Unit 09
Environmental Economics and Demography
Environment as a public good, market failure, Coase theorem, cost-benefit analysis and compensation criteria, valuation of environmental goods, theories of population, concepts and measures: Fertility, morbidity, mortality
Age structure, demographic dividend, life table, migration
Economics: Unit 10
Indian economy
Economic growth in India: Pattern and structure, agriculture: Pattern and structure of growth, major challenges, policy responses, industry: Pattern and structure of growth, major challenges, policy responses
Services: Pattern and structure of growth, major challenges, policy responses, rural development-issues, challenges, and policy responses, urban development-issues, challenges, and policy responses
Foreign trade: Structure and direction, bop, flow of foreign capital, trade policies, infrastructure development: Physical and social; public-private partnerships, reforms in land, labour, and capital markets
Centre-state financial relations and finance commissions of India; FRBM, Poverty, inequality, and unemployment

Political science+

Political science: Unit 01
Political theory
Concepts: Liberty, equality, justice, rights, democracy, power, citizenship, political traditions: Liberalism, conservatism, socialism, Marxism, feminism, ecologism, multiculturalism, postmodernism
Political science: Unit 02
Political thought
Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Gramsci, Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, Mao Zedong, John Rawls
Political science: Unit 03
Indian political thought
Dharamshastra, Kautilya, Agganna Sutta, Barani, Kabir, Pandita Ramabai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, M.K Gandhi, Sri Aurobindo, Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, Muhammad Iqbal, M.N.Roy, V.D. Savarkar, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, J.L. Nehru
Ram Manohar Lohia, Jaya Prakash Narayan, Deendayal Upadhyaya
Political science: Unit 04
Comparative political analysis
Approaches: Institutional, political culture, political economy, and new institutionalism; comparative methods, colonialism, and decolonization: Forms of colonialism, anti-colonial struggles and decolonization, nationalism: European and non-European
State theory: Debate over the nature of state in capitalist and socialist societies; post-colonial state; welfare state; globalization and nations-states
Political regimes: Democratic (electoral, liberal, majoritarian, and participatory) and non-democratic regimes (patrimonialism, bureaucratic authoritarianism, military dictatorship, totalitarianism, and fascist)
Constitutions and Constitutionalism: forms of constitutions, rule of law, judicial independence and liberal constitutionalism; emergency powers and crisis of constitutionalism
Democratization: Democratic transition and consolidation
Development: Underdevelopment, dependency, modernization, world systems theory, development and democracy
Structures of power: Ruling class, power elites, democratic elitism, actor and processes: Electoral systems, political parties and party system, interest groups, social movements, new social movements
Actor and processes: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society campaigns; revolutions
Political science: Unit 05
International relations
Approaches to the study of international relations: idealism, realism, structural Marxism, neoliberalism, neorealism, social constructivism, critical international theory, feminism, postmodernism
Concepts: State, state system, and non-state actors, power, sovereignty, security: Traditional and non- traditional
Conflict and peace: Changing nature of warfare; weapons of mass destruction; deterrence; conflict resolution, conflict transformation
United nations: Aims, objectives, structure, and evaluation of the working of U.N.; peace and development perspectives; humanitarian intervention. International law; international criminal court, political economy of IR; globalization
United nations: Global governance and Bretton Woods system, north-south dialogue, WTO, G-20, BRICS
Regional organizations: European union, African union, Shanghai cooperation organization, ASEAN
Contemporary challenges: International terrorism, climate change, and environmental concerns, human rights, migration, and refugees; poverty and development; role of religion, culture, and identity politics
Political science: Unit 06
India’s foreign policy
Perspectives on India’s Foreign Policy: India’s Identity as postcolonial, development, rising power and as emerging political economy, Continuity and change in India’s Foreign Policy: Principles and determinants
Non-alignment movement: Historical background and relevance of non-aligned movement; India’s nuclear policy, India’s relations with major powers: USA, USSR/ Russia, people’s republic of China
India’s Engagement with multipolar world: India’s relations with European Union, BRICS, ASEAN, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, African Union, Southern African Development Community, Gulf Cooperation Council
India’s relations with neighborhood: SAARC, Gujral doctrine, look east/ act east, look west
India’s negotiation strategies in international regimes: The united nations, world trade organization, international monetary fund, intergovernmental panel on climate change, contemporary challenges: Maritime security, energy security
Contemporary challenges: Environmental security, migrants, and refugees, water resources, international terrorism, cyber security
Political science: Unit 07
Political institutions in India
Making of the Indian constitution: Colonialism heritage and the contribution Indian national movement to the making of the Indian constitution, constituent assembly: Composition, ideological moorings, constitutional debates
Philosophy of the constitution: Preamble, fundamental rights, directive principles, constitutionalism in India: Democracy, social change, national unity, checks and balances, basic structure debate, constitutional amendments
Union executive: President, prime minister, and council of ministers, union parliament: Structure, role and functioning, parliamentary committees, judiciary: Supreme court, high court, judicial review, judicial activism, judicial reform
Executive and legislature in the states: Governor, chief minister, state legislature, federalism in India: Strong centre framework, asymmetrical federal provisions and adaption, role of intergovernmental coordination mechanisms, inter-state council
Federalism in India: Emerging trends
Electoral process and election commission of India: Conduct of elections, rules, electoral reforms
Local government institutions: Functioning and reforms
Constitutional and statutory bodies: Comptroller and auditor general, national commission for scheduled castes, national commission for scheduled tribes, national commission for human rights, national commission for women
Constitutional and statutory bodies: National commission for minorities
Political science: Unit 08
Political processes in India
State, economy, and development: Nature of Indian state, development planning model, new economic policy, growth and human development
Process of globalization: Social and economic implications
Identity politics: religion, tribe, caste, region, language
Social movements: Dalit, tribal, women, farmers, labour, civil society groups: Non-party social formations, non-governmental organizations, social action groups
Regionalization of Indian politics: Reorganization of Indian states, states as political and economic units, sub-state regions, regional disparities, demand for new states, gender and politics in India: Issues of equality and representation
Ideology and social basis of political parties: National parties, state parties
Electoral politics: Participation, contestation, representation, emerging trends
Political science: Unit 09
Public administration
Public administration: Meaning and evolution; public and private administration approaches: System theory, decision making, ecological approach, public administration theories and concepts: Scientific management theory, rational choice theory
Public administration theories and concepts: New public administration, development administration, comparative public administration, new public management, changing nature of public administration in the era of liberalization and globalization
Theories and principles of organization: Scientific management theory, bureaucratic theory, human relations theory, managing the organization: Theories of leadership and motivation
Organizational communication: Theories and principles, Chester Bernard principles of communication, information management in the organization, managing conflict in the organization: Mary Parker Follett, management by objectives-Peter Drucker
Political science: Unit 10
Governance and public policy in India
Governance, good governance and democratic governance, role of state, civil society, and individuals
Accountability and control: Institutional mechanism for checks and balances, legislative control over executive, administrative, and budgetary control, control through parliamentary committees, judicial control over legislature and executive
Accountability and control: Administrative culture, corruption and administrative reforms, institutional mechanisms for good governance: Right to information, consumer protection act, citizen charter; grievance redress system: Ombudsman, Lokpal, Lokayukta
Grassroots governance: Panchayati Raj institutions and their functioning, planning, and development: Decentralized planning, planning for development, sustainable development, participatory development, e-governance; NITI aayog
Public policy as an instrument of socio-economic development: Public policies with special reference to housing, health, drinking water, food security, MNREGA, NHRM, RTE, monitoring and evaluation of public policy
Mechanisms of making governance process accountable: Jansunwai, social audit

Philosophy+

Philosophy: Unit 01
Classical Indian: Epistemology and Metaphysics
Vedic and Upanishadic: Rta-the cosmic order, the divine and the human realms; the centrality of the institution of Yajna (sacrifice), theories of creation Atman-self (and not-self), Jagrat, Svapna, Susupti, and Turiya, Brahman
Carvaka: Pratyaksa as the only Pramana, critique of Anumana and Sabda, consciousness as epiphenomenon
Jainism: Concept of reality-Sat, Dravya, Guṇa, Paryāya, Jiva, Ajiva, Anekāntavāda, Syādvāda and Nayavāda; theory of knowledge
Buddhism: Four noble truths, Astangika Marga, distinction between Brahmanic and Shramanic traditions. Pratityasamutpada, Ksanabhahgavada, Anatmavada. Schools of Buddhism: Vaibhasika, Sautrantika, Yogacara, Madhyamika, and Tibetan Buddhism
Nyaya: Prama and Aprama, theories of Pramana: Pratyaksa, Anumana, Upamana, Sabda. Hetvabhasa. Concept of God. Debate between Buddhism and Nyaya about Pramana-Vyavastha and Pramana Samplava. Anyatha Khyati
Vaiśeṣika: Concept of Padārtha and its kinds, Asatkāryavāda, kinds of Kāraṇa: Samavāyi, Asamavāyi, and Nimitta Kāraṇa, Paramaṇukaraṇavāda
Samkhya: Satkaryavada, Prakrti and its evolutes, arguments for the existence of Prakriti, nature of Purusa, arguments for the existence and plurality of Purusa, relationship between Purusha and Prakriti, atheism
Yoga: Patanjali’s theory of Pramana, concept of Citta and Citta-Vrtti, stages of Citta Bhumi, the role of God in yoga
Purva-Mimamsa: Pramanyavada-Svatah-Pramanyavada and Paratha-Pramanyavada, Sruti and its importance, classification of Sruti-Vakyas, Vidhi, Nisedha and Arthavada, Dharma, Bhavana, Sabda-Nityavada, Jati, Saktivada
Purva-Mimamsa: Kumarila and Prabhakara schools of Mimamsa and their major points of difference, Tirupati-Samvit, Jnatata, Abhava and Anupalabdhi, Anvitadbhidhanavada, Abhihitanvayavada, theories of error: Akhyati, Viparita Khyati, atheism
Vedanta
Advaita: Brahmaṇ, relation between Brahmaṇ and Atman, three grades of Sattā, Adhyāsa, Māya, Jiva, Vivartavāda, Anirvachniya-Khyāti
Viśiṣtādvaita: Saguṇa brahmaṇ, refutation of Māya, Aprthaksiddhi Pariṇāmavāda, Jiva, Bhakti and Prapatti, Brahma-Pariṇāmavāda, Sat-Khyāti
Dvaita: Rejection of Nirguṇa brahmaṇ and Māya, Bheda and Sāksi, Bhakti
Dvaitadvaita: Concept of Jnana Swaroop, kinds of inanimate
Shuddhadvaita: Concept of Avikrta-Parinamavada
Philosophy: Unit 02
Classical western: Ancient, medieval, and modern-epistemology and metaphysics
Pre-Socratic philosophers: Thales, Anaxagoras, Anaximenes, Ionians, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Democritus
The Sophists and Socrates
Plato and Aristotle: Plato-theory of knowledge, knowledge and opinion, theory of ideas, the method of dialectic, soul and God. Aristotle-classification of the sciences, the theoretical, the practical and the productive
Plato and Aristotle: Aristotle-logic as an organon, critique of Plato’s theory of ideas, theory of causation, form and matter, potentiality and actuality, soul and God
Medieval Philosophy: St. Augustine: Problem of evil, St. Anselm: Ontological argument, St. Thomas Aquinas: Faith and reason, essence and existence, the existence of God
Modern western philosophy: Descartes-conception of method, criteria of truth, doubt and methodological scepticism, cogito ergo sum, innate ideas, cartesian dualism: Mind and matter, proofs for the existence of God, interactionism
Modern western philosophy: Spinoza-substance, attribute and mode, the concept of ‘God or nature’, Intellectual love of God, parallelism, pantheism, three orders of knowing. Leibniz-monadology, truths of reason and fact, innateness of ideas
Modern western philosophy: Leibnitz-proofs for the existence of God, principles of non-contradiction, sufficient reason and identity of indiscernibles, the doctrine of pre-established harmony, problem of freedom
Modern western philosophy: Locke-ideas and their classification, refutation of innate ideas, theory of substance, distinction between primary and secondary qualities, theory of knowledge, three grades of knowledge
Modern western philosophy: Berkeley-rejection of the distinction between primary and secondary qualities, immaterialism, critique of abstract ideas, esse est percipi, the problem of solipsism; God and self
Modern western philosophy: Hume-impressions and ideas, knowledge concerning relations of ideas and knowledge concerning matters of fact, induction and causality, the external world and the self, personal identity, rejection of metaphysics, scepticism
Modern western philosophy: Hume-reason and the passions. Kant: The critical philosophy, classification of judgements, possibility of synthetic a priori judgements, the copernican revolution, forms of sensibility, categories of understanding
Modern western philosophy: Kant-the metaphysical and the transcendental deduction of the categories, phenomenon and noumenon, the ideas of reason-soul, God and world as a whole, rejection of speculative metaphysics. Hegel: The conception of Geist (spirit)
Modern western philosophy: Hegel-the dialectical method, concepts of being, non-being and becoming, absolute idealism, freedom
Philosophy: Unit 03
Indian ethics
Concept of Purushartha, Sreyas, and Preyas, Varnashrama, dharma, Sadharana dharma, rna and Yajna, concept of duty, karma-yoga, Sthitaprajna, Svadharma, Lokasamgraha, Apurva and Adrsta, Sadhya-Sadhana, Itikartavyata, law of karma: Ethical implications
Rta and Satya, yogaKsema, Ashtanga yoga, Jainism: Samvara-Nirjara, Tri-Ratna, Panch-Vrata
Buddhism: Upaya-Kaushal, brahma-Vihara-Maitri, Karuna, Mudita, Upeksha, Bodhi-sattva, Carvaka hedonism
Philosophy: Unit 04
Western ethics
Concepts of good, right, justice, duty, obligation, cardinal virtues, eudaemonism, intuition as explained in teleological and deontological theories
Egoism, altruism, universalism, subjectivism, cultural relativism, super-naturalism
Ethical realism and Intuitionism, Kant’s moral theory: Postulates of morality, Good-will, Categorical Imperative, Duty, Mean and ends, Maxims
Utilitarianism: Principle of utility, problem of sanction and justification of morality, kinds of utilitarianism, moral theories of Bentham, J.S. Mill, Sidgwick, theories of punishment
Ethical cognitivism and non-cognitivism: emotivism, prescriptivism, descriptivism
Philosophy: Unit 05
Contemporary Indian Philosophy
Vivekananda: practical Vedanta, universal religion, religious experience, religious rituals
Sri Aurobindo: evolution, mind and supermind, integral yoga
Iqbal: Self, God, man and superman, intellect and intuition
K. C. Bhattacharyya: Swaraj in ideas, concept of philosophy, subject as freedom, the doctrine of Maya
Radhakrishnan: Intellect and intuition, the Idealist view of life, concept of universal religion, Hindu view of life
J. Krishnamurti: conception of thought, freedom from the known, analysis of self, choiceless awareness
Gandhi: truth, non-violence, Satyagraha, Swaraj, critique of modern civilization
Ambedkar: annihilation of caste, philosophy of Hinduism, Neo-Buddhism
D.D. Upadhyaya: Integral Humanism, Advaita Vedanta, Purusartha
Narayana Guru: the spiritual freedom and social equality, one caste, one religion, one God
Tiruvallur: Thirukkural
Jyotiba Phule: Critical understanding of caste-system
M.N.Roy: radical humanism, materialism
Maulana Azad: humanism
Philosophy: Unit 06
Recent Western Philosophy
Analytic and continental philosophy: Frege-sense and reference, logical positivism: verification theory of meaning, elimination of metaphysics, concept of philosophy, Moore: distinction between sense and reference, refutation of idealism
Analytic and continental philosophy: Moore-defense of common sense, proof of an external world. Russell: Logical atomism, definite descriptions, refutation of idealism, Wittgenstein: Language and reality, facts and objects, names and propositions
Analytic and continental philosophy: Wittgenstein-the picture theory, critique of private language, meaning and use, forms of life, notion of philosophy, Wittgensteinian Fideism, on certainty, Gilbert Ryle: Systematically misleading expressions
Analytic and continental philosophy: Gilbert Ryle-category mistake concept of mind, critique of Cartesian dualism, A.J. Ayer: The problem of knowledge, W.V.O. Quine: Two Dogmas of Empiricism, H.P. Grice and P.F. Strawson: In defense of a dogma
Analytic and continental philosophy: Phenomenology and existentialism, Husserl-phenomenological method, philosophy as a rigorous science, intentionality, phenomenological reduction, inter-subjectivity, Heidegger: The concept of Being (Dasein)
Analytic and continental philosophy: Heidegger-man as being in the world, critique of technological civilization, Kierkegaard: Subjectivity as truth, leap of faith, Sartre: Concept of freedom, bad-faith, humanism, Merleau-Ponty: Perception
Analytic and continental philosophy: Merleau-Ponty-embodied consciousness, pragmatism, William James-pragmatic theories of meaning and truth, varieties of religious experience, John Dewey: Concept of truth, common-faith, education, postmodernism
Analytic and continental philosophy: Nietzsche: critique of enlightenment, will to power, genealogy of moral, Richard Rorty: Critique of representationalism, against epistemological method, edifying philosophy
Analytic and continental philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas-ethics as a first philosophy, philosophy of ‘other’
Philosophy: Unit 07
Social and Political Philosophy: Indian
Mahabharata: Danda-niti, foundations, Rajdharma, law and governance, Narada’s questions to king Yudhisthira, Kautilya: Sovereignty, seven pillars of statecraft, state, society, social-life, state administration, state economy, law, and justice
Kautilya: Internal security, welfare and external affairs, Kamandaki: Social order and state elements constitutional morality, secularism and fundamental rights, constitutionalism, total revolution, terrorism, swadeshi, satyagrah, sarvodaya
Kamandaki: Social democracy, state socialism, affirmative action, social justice, social institutions: Family, marriage, property, education and religion colonialism
Philosophy: Unit 08
Social and Political Philosophy: Western
Plato: Ideal state and justice, Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau: Social contract theory, Isaiah Berlin: Conceptions of liberty, Bernard Williams: Idea of equality, Liberalism: Rawls; distributive justice, Nozick; Justice as entitlement, Dworkin
Justice as equality; Amartya Sen: Global justice, freedom and capability
Marxism: dialectical materialism, alienation, critique of capitalism, doctrine of class struggle and classless society
Communitarianism: Communitarian critique of liberal self, universalism vs. particularism, theory of Charles Taylor, MacIntyre, Michael Sandel, Multiculturalism: Charles Taylor; politics of recognition, Will Kymlicka; conception of minority rights
Feminism: Basic concepts-patriarchy, misogyny, gender, theories of feminism; liberal, socialist, radical and eco-feminism
Philosophy: Unit 09
Logic
Truth and Validity, Denotation and Connotation, Nature of Propositions, Categorical Syllogism, Laws of thought, Classification of Propositions, Square of Opposition, Truth-Functions and Propositional Logic, Quantification and Rules of Quantification
Symbolic logic: Use of symbols, decision procedures: Truth table, using truth-tables for testing the validity of arguments, Venn diagram, informal, and formal fallacies, proving validity, argument, and argument-form, axiomatic system, consistency
Completeness, differences between deductive and inductive logic
Philosophy: Unit 10
Applied philosophy
What is applied philosophy?, philosophy of technology; technology, dominance, power, and social inequalities, democratization of technology, public evaluation of science and technology, ethical implication of information technology, biotechnology
Non-technology, environmental ethics: Nature as means or end, Aldo-Leopold; land-ethics, Arne Naess: Deep ecology, Peter Singer; animal rights, medical-ethics: Surrogacy, doctor-patient relationship, abortion, euthanasia, female-infanticide
Professional ethics: Corporate governance and ethical responsibility, media ethics: Ethical issues in privacy, cyber space, pornography, representation and differences-marginalization, legal ethics: Law and morality, legal obligation
Legal ethics: Authority and validity of law, philosophical counseling: Managing everyday problems

Psychology+

Psychology: Unit 01
Emergence of Psychology
Psychological thought in some major eastern systems: Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, Sufism, and integral yoga
Academic psychology in India: Pre-independence era; post-independence era; 1970s: The move to addressing social issues; 1980s: Indigenization; 1990s: Paradigmatic concerns, disciplinary identity crisis; 2000s: Emergence of Indian psychology in academia
Issues: The colonial encounter; post colonialism and psychology; lack of distinct disciplinary identity
Western: Greek heritage, medieval period and modern period
Structuralism, functionalism, psychoanalytical, Gestalt, behaviorism, humanistic existential, transpersonal, cognitive revolution, multiculturalism
Four founding paths of academic psychology-Wundt, Freud, James, Dilthey
Issues: Crisis in psychology due to strict adherence to experimental analytical paradigm (logical empiricism)
Indic influences on modern psychology
Essential aspects of knowledge paradigms: ontology, epistemology, and methodology
Paradigms of western psychology: Positivism, post-positivism, critical perspective, social constructionism, existential phenomenology, and cooperative enquiry
Paradigmatic controversies
Significant Indian paradigms on psychological knowledge: Yoga, Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, Sufism, and Integral Yoga
Science and spirituality (Avidya and Vidya)
The primacy of self-knowledge in Indian psychology
Psychology: Unit 02
Research methodology and statistics
Research: Meaning, purpose, and dimension
Research problems, variables, and operational definitions, hypothesis, sampling
Ethics in conducting and reporting research, paradigms of research: Quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods approach, methods of research: Observation, survey [interview, questionnaires], experimental, quasi-experimental, field studies
Methods of research: cross-cultural studies, phenomenology, grounded theory, focus groups, narratives, case studies, ethnography, statistics in psychology: Measures of central tendency and dispersion. Normal probability curve
Statistics in psychology: Parametric (t-test) and non-parametric tests (sign test, Wilcoxon signed rank test, Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Friedman). Power analysis. Effect size
Correlation analysis: Correlation (product moment, rank order), partial correlation, multiple correlation
Special correlation methods: biserial, point biserial, tetrachoric, phi coefficient
Regression: simple linear regression, multiple regression
Factor analysis: Assumptions, methods, rotation, and interpretation
Experimental designs: ANOVA (one-way, factorial), randomized block designs, repeated measures design, Latin square, cohort studies, time series, MANOVA, ANCOVA. Single-subject designs
Psychology: Unit 03
Psychological testing
Types of tests, test construction: Item writing, item analysis, test standardization: Reliability, validity, and norms, areas of testing: Intelligence, creativity, neuropsychological tests, aptitude, personality assessment, interest inventories
Areas of testing: Attitude scales-semantic differential, staples, Likert scale
Computer-based psychological testing, applications of psychological testing in various settings: Clinical, organizational and business, education, counseling, military. Career guidance
Psychology: Unit 04
Biological basis of behaviour
Sensory systems: General and specific sensations, receptors and processes, neurons: Structure, functions, types, neural impulse, synaptic transmission. Neurotransmitters
The central and peripheral nervous systems: Structure and functions. Neuroplasticity
Methods of physiological psychology: Invasive methods-anatomical methods, degeneration techniques, lesion techniques, chemical methods, microelectrode studies. Non-invasive methods-EEG, scanning methods
Muscular and glandular system: Types and functions, biological basis of motivation: Hunger, thirst, sleep, and sex
Biological basis of emotion: The limbic system, hormonal regulation of behaviour
Genetics and behaviour: Chromosomal anomalies; nature-nurture controversy (twin studies and adoption studies)
Psychology: Unit 05
Attention, perception, learning, memory, and forgetting
Attention: Forms of attention, models of attention, perception: Approaches to the study of perception-Gestalt and physiological approaches, perceptual organization: Gestalt, figure, and ground, law of organization
Perceptual constancy: Size, shape, and color; illusions, perception of form, depth, and movement, role of motivation and learning in perception, signal detection theory: Assumptions and applications, subliminal perception and related factors
Signal detection theory: Information processing approach to perception, culture, and perception, perceptual styles, pattern recognition, ecological perspective on perception
Learning process: Fundamental theories-Thorndike, Guthrie, hull, classical conditioning: Procedure, phenomena, and related issues, instrumental learning: Phenomena, paradigms, and theoretical issues; reinforcement: Basic variables and schedules
Learning process: Reinforcement-behaviour modification and its applications, cognitive approaches in learning: Latent learning, observational learning. Verbal learning and discrimination learning, recent trends in learning: Neurophysiology of learning
Memory and forgetting: Memory processes-encoding, storage, retrieval, stages of memory: Sensory memory, short-term memory (working memory), long-term memory (declarative-episodic and semantic; procedural)
Memory and forgetting: Theories of forgetting-interference, retrieval failure, decay, motivated forgetting
Psychology: Unit 06
Thinking, intelligence, and creativity
Theoretical perspectives on thought processes: Associationism, gestalt, information processing, feature integration model, concept formation: Rules, types, and strategies; role of concepts in thinking, types of reasoning, language and thought
Problem solving: Type, strategies, and obstacles, decision-making: Types and models, metacognition: Metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive regulation, intelligence: Spearman; Thurstone; Jensen; Cattell; Gardner; Stenberg; Goleman; Das, Kar and Parrilla
Creativity: Torrance, Getzels, and Jackson, Guilford, Wallach and Kogan relationship between intelligence and creativity
Psychology: Unit 07
Personality, motivation, emotion, stress, and coping
Determinants of personality: Biological and socio-cultural, approaches to the study of personality: Psychoanalytical, Neo-Freudian, social learning, trait and type, cognitive, humanistic, existential, transpersonal psychology
Other theories: Rotter's locus of control, Seligman's explanatory styles, Kohlberg’s theory of moral development
Basic motivational concepts: instincts, needs, drives, arousal, incentives, motivational cycle
Approaches to the study of motivation: Psychoanalytical, ethological, S-R cognitive, humanistic, exploratory behaviour and curiosity, Zuckerman’s sensation seeking, achievement, affiliation, and power, motivational competence, self-regulation, flow
Emotions: Physiological correlates, theories of emotions: James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, Schachter, and Singer, Lazarus, Lindsley. Emotion regulation
Conflicts: Sources and types, stress, and coping: Concept, models, type A, B, C, D behaviours
Conflicts: Stress management strategies (biofeedback, music therapy, breathing exercises, progressive muscular relaxation, guided imagery, mindfulness meditation, yogasana, stress inoculation training)
Psychology: Unit 08
Social psychology
Nature, scope, and history of social psychology, traditional theoretical perspectives: Field theory, cognitive dissonance, sociobiology, psychodynamic approaches, social cognition
Social perception (communication, attributions); attitude and its change within cultural context; prosocial behaviour, group and social influence (social facilitation; social loafing)
Social influence (conformity, peer pressure, persuasion, compliance, obedience, social power, reactance)
Aggression
Group dynamics, leadership style, and effectiveness
Theories of intergroup relations (minimal group experiment and social identity theory, relative deprivation theory, realistic conflict theory, balance theories, equity theory, social exchange theory)
Applied social psychology: Health, environment, and law; personal space, crowding, and territoriality
Psychology: Unit 09
Human development and interventions
Developmental processes: Nature, principles, factors in development, stages of development. Successful aging
Theories of development: Psychoanalytical, behavioristic, and cognitive, various aspects of development: Sensory-motor, cognitive, language, emotional, social, and moral
Psychopathology: Concept, mental status examination, classification, causes, psychotherapies: Psychoanalysis, person-centered, gestalt, existential, acceptance commitment therapy, behaviour therapy, REBT, CBT, MBCT, play therapy, positive psychotherapy
Psychotherapies: Transactional analysis, dialectical behaviour therapy, art therapy, performing art therapy, family therapy
Applications of theories of motivation and learning in school, factors in educational achievement, teacher effectiveness, guidance in schools: Needs, organizational set up and techniques, counselling: Process, skills, and techniques
Psychology: Unit 10
Emerging areas
Issues of Gender, Poverty, Disability, and Migration: Cultural bias and discrimination. Stigma, Marginalization, and Social Suffering; Child Abuse and Domestic violence
Peace psychology: violence, non-violence, conflict resolution at macro level, role of media in conflict resolution
Wellbeing and self-growth: Types of wellbeing (hedonic and eudaimonic), character strengths, resilience and post-traumatic growth
Health: Health promoting and health compromising behaviours, lifestyle and chronic diseases (diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease), psychoneuroimmunology (cancer, HIV/ AIDS), psychology and technology interface: Digital learning
Psychology and technology interface: Digital etiquette-cyber bullying; cyber pornography: Consumption, implications; parental mediation of digital usage

Sociology+

Sociology: Unit 01
Sociological theory
Classical sociological traditions: Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx
Structural-functionalism and structuralism: Bronisław Malinowski, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, Talcott Parsons, Robert K. Merton, Claude Levi-Strauss
Hermeneutic and interpretive traditions: G.H. Mead, Karl Manheim, Alfred Schutz, Harold Garfinkel, Erving Goffman, Clifford Geertz
Postmodernism, post structuralism, and post colonialism: Edward Said, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Anthony Giddens, Manuel Castells
Indian thinkers: M.K. Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, Radha Kamal Mukherjee, G.S. Ghurye, M.N. Srinivas, Irawati Karve
Sociology: Unit 02
Research methodology and methods
Conceptualizing social reality: Philosophy of science, scientific method and epistemology in social science, hermeneutic traditions, objectivity and reflexivity in social science, ethics and politics
Formulating research design: Reading social science research, data and documents, induction and deduction, fact, concept, and theory, hypotheses, research questions, objectives
Quantitative and qualitative methods: Ethnography, survey method, historical method, comparative method
Techniques: Sampling, questionnaire, and schedule, statistical analysis, observation, interview and case study, interpretation, data analysis and report writing
Sociology: Unit 03
Basic concepts and institutions
Sociological concepts: Social structure, culture, network, status and role, identity, community, diaspora, values, norms and rules, personhood, habitus, and agency, bureaucracy, power, and authority
Social institutions: Marriage, family, and kinship, economy, polity, religion, education, law and customs
Social stratification: Social difference, hierarchy, inequality and marginalization, caste and class, gender, sexuality and disability, race, tribe, and ethnicity
Social change and processes: Evolution and diffusion, modernization and development, social transformations and globalization, social mobility
Sociology: Unit 04
Rural and urban transformations
Rural and peasant society: Caste-tribe settlements, agrarian social structure and emergent class relations, land ownership and agrarian relations, decline of agrarian economy, depeasantization and migration, agrarian unrest and peasant movements
Rural and peasant society: Changing inter-community relations and violence
Urban society: Urbanism, urbanity, and urbanization, towns, cities, and mega-cities, industry, service, and business, neighbourhood, slums and ethnic enclaves, middle class and gated communities, urban movements and violence
Sociology: Unit 05
State, politics, and development
Political processes in India: Tribe, nation state, and border, bureaucracy, governance and development, public policy: Health, education, and livelihoods, political culture, grass-root democracy, law and society, gender and development, corruption
Political processes in India: Role of international development organizations
Social movements and protests: Political factions, pressure groups, movements based on caste, ethnicity, ideology, gender, disability, religion and region, civil society and citizenship, NGOs, activism and leadership, reservations, and politics
Sociology: Unit 06
Economy and society
Exchange, gift, capital, labour, and market, mode of production debates, property and property relations, state and market: Welfarism and neoliberalism, models of economic development, poverty and exclusion, factory and industry systems
Changing nature of labour relations, gender and labour process, business and family, digital economy, e-commerce, global business and corporates, tourism, consumption
Sociology: Unit 07
Environment and society
Social and cultural ecology: Diverse forms, technological change, agriculture, and biodiversity, indigenous knowledge systems and ethno-medicine, gender and environment, forest policies, adivasis, and exclusion, ecological degradation and migration
Development, displacement, and rehabilitation, water and social exclusion, disasters and community responses, environmental pollution, public health, and disability, climate change and international policies, environmental movements
Sociology: Unit 08
Family, marriage, and kinship
Theoretical approaches: Structure-functionalist, alliance, and cultural, gender relations and power dynamics, inheritance, succession, and authority, gender, sexuality, and reproduction, children, youth, and elderly, emotions and family
Emergent forms of family, changing marriage practices, changing care and support systems, family laws, domestic violence and crime against women, honor killing
Sociology: Unit 09
Science, technology, and society
History of Technological Development, Changing notions of Time and Space, Flows and Boundaries, Virtual Community, Media: Print and Electronic, Visual and Social Media, E-Governance and Surveillance Society, Technology and Emerging Political Processes
State policy, digital divide, and inclusion, technology and changing family relations, technology and changing health systems, food and technology, cyber crime
Sociology: Unit 10
Culture and symbolic transformations
Signs and symbols, rituals, beliefs, and practices, changing material culture, moral economy, education: Formal and informal, religious organizations, piety, and spirituality, commodification of rituals, communalism and secularism
Cultural identity and mobilization, culture and politics, gender, body, and culture, art and aesthetics, ethics and morality, sports and culture, pilgrimage and religious tourism, religion and economy, culture and environment, new religious movements

History+

History: Unit 01
Negotiating the sources
Archaeological sources: Exploration, excavation, epigraphy, and numismatics
Dating of archaeological sites
Literary sources: Indigenous literature-primary and secondary, problem of dating religious and secular literature, myths, legends, etc
Foreign accounts: Greek, Chinese, and Arabic
Pastoralism and food production: Neolithic and chalcolithic phase-settlement, distribution, tools, and patterns of exchange
Indus/ Harappa civilization: Origin, extent, major sites, settlement pattern, craft specialization, religion, society and polity, decline of Indus civilization, internal and external trade, first urbanization in India
Vedic and later Vedic periods: Aryan debates, political and social institutions, state structure and theories of state; emergence of varnas and social stratification, religious and philosophical ideas. Introduction of iron technology
Vedic and later Vedic periods: Megaliths of south India
Expansion of state system: Mahajanapadas, monarchical and republican states, economic and social developments and emergence of second urbanization in 6th century BCE; emergence of heterodox sects-Jainism, Buddhism, and Ajivikas
History: Unit 02
From State to Empire
Rise of Magadha, Greek invasion under Alexander and its effects, Mauryan expansion, Mauryan polity, society, economy, Ashoka’s Dhamma and its nature, decline, and disintegration of the Mauryan empire, Mauryan art and architecture
Ashokan edicts: Language and script
Dissolution of empire and emergence of regional powers: Indo-Greeks, Sungas, Satavahanas, Kushans and Saka-Kshatrapas, Sangam literature, polity and society in south India as reflected in Sangam literature
Dissolution of empire and emergence of regional powers: Trade and commerce from 2nd century BCE to 3rd century CE, trade with the roman world, emergence of Mahayana Buddhism, Kharavela, and Jainism, post-Mauryan art and architecture
Dissolution of empire and emergence of regional powers: Gandhara, Mathura, and Amravati schools
Gupta Vakataka age: Polity and Society, Agrarian Economy, Land Grants, Land Revenue and Land Rights, Gupta Coins, Beginning of Temple Architecture, Emergence of Puranic Hinduism, Development of Sanskrit Language and Literature
Gupta Vakataka age: Developments in science technology, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine
Harsha and his times: Administration and religion
Salankayanas and Vishnukundins in Andhra Desa
History: Unit 03
Emergence of Regional Kingdoms
Kingdoms in Deccan: Gangas, Kadambas, western and eastern Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, Kalyani Chalukyas, Kakatiyas, Hoysalas, and Yadavas
Kingdoms in south India: Pallavas, Cheras, Cholas, and Pandyas
Kingdoms in eastern India: Palas and senas of Bengal, Varmans of Kamarupa, Bhaumakaras, and Somavamsis of Odisha
Kingdoms in western India: Maitrakas of Vallabhi and Chalukyas of Gujarat
Kingdoms in North India: Gurjara-Pratiharas, Kalachuri-Chedis, Gahadavalas, and Paramaras
Characteristics of early medieval India: Administration and political structure legitimation of kingship
Agrarian economy; land grants, changing production relations; graded land rights and peasantry, water resources, taxation system, coins, and currency system
Trade and urbanization: Patterns of trade, and urban settlements, ports and trade routes, merchandise and exchange, trade guilds; trade and colonization in southeast Asia
Growth of Brahmanical religions; Vaishnavism and Shaivism; temples; patronage and regional ramification; temple architecture and regional styles. Dana, tirtha and bhakti, Tamil bhakti movement-Shankara, Madhava, and Ramanujacharya
Society: Varna, jati and proliferation of castes, position of women; gender, marriage, and property relations; women in public life. Tribes as peasants and their place in Varna order. Untouchability
Education and educational institutions: Agraharas, Mathas, and Mahaviharas as centers of education. Growth of regional languages
Debates of state formation in early medieval India: Feudal model; segmentary model; integrative model
Arab contracts: Suleiman Ghaznavid conquests. Alberuni’s accounts
History: Unit 04
Source of Medieval Indian History
Archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic sources, material evidences and monuments; chronicles; literary sources-Persian, Sanskrit and regional languages; daftar khannas: Firmans, Bahis/ Pothis/ Akhbarat; foreign travellers’ accounts-Persian and Arabic
Political developments: The Delhi Sultanate-the Ghorids, the Turks, the Khaljis, the Tughlaqs, the Sayyids, and the Lodis. Decline of Delhi sultanate
Foundation of the Mughal empire: Babur, Humayun, and the Suris; expansion and consolidation from Akbar to Aurangzeb. Decline of the Mughal empire
Later mughals and disintegration of the mughal empire
The Vijayanagara and the Bahmanis-Deccan sultanate; Bijapur, Golkonda, Bidar, Berar, and Ahmadnagar-rise, expansion, and disintegration; eastern Gangas and Suryavamsi Gajapatis
Rise of the Marathas and the foundation of Swaraj by Shivaji; its expansion under the Peshwas; Mughal-Maratha relations, Maratha confederacy, causes of decline
History: Unit 05
Administration and economy
Administration under the sultanate, nature of state-theocratic and the centric, central, provincial and local administration, law of succession
Sher Shah’s administrative reforms; Mughal administration-central, provincial, and local: Mansabdari and Jagirdari systems
Administrative system in the Deccan-The Vijayanagara state and polity, Bahamani administrative system; Maratha administration-asta pradhan
Frontier policies under Delhi sultanate and Mughals
Inter-state relations during the sultanate and the Mughals
Agricultural production and irrigation system, village economy, peasantry, grants, and agricultural loans, urbanization, and demographic structure
Industries-Cotton textiles, handicrafts, agro-based industries, organization, factories, and technology
Trade and commerce-state policies, internal and external trade: European trade, trade centers, and ports, transport and communication
Hundi (bills of exchange) and insurance, state income and expenditure, currency, mint system; famines and peasant revolts
History: Unit 06
Society and culture
Social organization and social structure
The Sufis-their orders, beliefs, and practices, the leading Sufi saints, social synchronization
Bhakti movement-Shaivism; Vaishnavism, Shaktism
The saints of the medieval period-north and south-their impact on socio political and religious life-women saints of medieval India
The Sikh movement-Guru Nanak Dev: His teachings and practices, Adi Granth; the Khalsa
Social classification: Ruling class, major religious groups, the ulemas, the mercantile, and professional classes-rajput society
Rural society-Petty chieftains, village officials, cultivators, and non-cultivating classes, artisans
Position of women-Zanana system, Devadasi system
Development of education centers of education and curriculum, Madrasa education
Fine arts-major schools of painting-Mughal, Rajasthani, Pahari, Garhwali; development of music
Art and architecture, Indo-Islamic architecture, Mughal architecture, regional styles
Indo-Arabic architecture, Mughal gardens, Maratha forts, shrines, and temples
History: Unit 07
Sources of Modern Indian History
Archival materials, biographies, and memoirs, newspapers, oral evidence, creative literature, and painting, monuments, coins
Rise of British power: European traders in India in the 16th to 18th centuries-Portuguese, Dutch, French, and the British
Establishment and expansion of British dominion in India
British relations with principal Indian states-Bengal, Oudh, Hyderabad, Mysore, Carnatic, and Punjab
Revolt of 1857, causes, nature, and impact
Administration of the company and the crown; evolution of central and provincial structure under east India company
Paramountcy, civil service, judiciary, police and the army under the company; British policy and paramountcy in the princely states under the crown
Local self-government
Constitutional changes, 1909-1935
History: Unit 08
Colonial economy
Changing composition, volume, and direction of trade
Expansion and commercialization of agriculture, land rights, land settlements, rural indebtedness, landless labour, irrigation, and canal system
Decline of industries-changing socioeconomic conditions of artisans; DE-urbanization; economic drain; world wars and economy
British industrial policy; major modern industries; nature of factory legislation; labour and trade union movements
Monetary policy, banking, currency, and exchange, railways and road transport, communications-post and telegraph
Growth of new urban centers; new features of town planning and architecture, urban society and urban problems
Famines, epidemics, and the government policy
Tribal and peasant movements
Indian society in transition: Contact with Christianity-the missions and missionaries; critique of Indian social and economic practices and religious beliefs; educational and other activities
The new education-government policy; levels and contents; English language; development of science, technology, public health and medicine-towards modernism
Indian renaissance-socio-religious reforms; emergence of middle class; caste associations and caste mobility
Women’s question-nationalist discourse; women’s organizations; British legislation concerning women, gender identity and constitutional position
The printing press-journalistic activity and the public opinion
Modernization of Indian languages and literary forms-reorientation in painting, music and performing arts
History: Unit 09
Rise of Indian Nationalism
Social and economic basis of nationalism
Birth of Indian national congress: Ideologies and programmes of the Indian national congress, 1885-1920: early nationalists, assertive nationalists and revolutionaries
Swadeshi and Swaraj
Gandhian mass movements; Subhas Chandra Bose and INA; role of middle class in national movement; women participation in national movement
Left wing politics
Depressed class movement
Communal politics; muslim league and genesis of Pakistan
Towards independence and partition
India after independence: Challenges of partition; integration of the Indian princely states; Kashmir, Hyderabad, and Junagadh
B.R. Ambedkar-The making of the Indian constitution, its features
The structure of bureaucracy
New education policy
Economic policies and the planning process; development, displacement, and tribal issues
Linguistic reorganization of states; centre-state relations
Foreign policy initiatives-Panchsheel; dynamics of Indian politics-emergency; liberalization, privatization, and globalization of Indian economy
History: Unit 10
Historical method, research, methodology, and historiography
Scope and importance of history, objectivity, and bias in history, heuristics operation, criticism in history, synthesis and presentation, history and its auxiliary sciences, history a science, arts or a social science
Causation and imagination in history, significance of regional history, recent trends of Indian history, research methodology, hypothesis in history, area of proposed research sources-data collection, primary/ secondary, original and transit sources
Trends in historical research, recent Indian historiography, selection of topic in history, notes taking, references, footnotes and bibliography thesis and assignment writing, plagiarism, intellectual dishonesty, and history writing
Beginnings of historical writings-Greek, Roman, and Church historiography, renaissance, and its impact on history writing, negative and positive schools of historical writing, Berlin revolution in history writing-Von Ranke
Marxist philosophy of history-scientific materialism, cyclical theory of history-Oswald Spengler, challenge and response theory-Arnold Joseph Toynbee, postmodernism in history

Anthropology+

Anthropology: Unit 01
History, development, aim, and scope of anthropology
Relationship with other sciences, different branches of anthropology (including linguistic anthropology) and their interrelationship
Research methodology and methods: concepts of epistemology, ontology and theoretical perspectives
Types of research (qualitative and quantitative), research design, hypothesis
Fieldwork and fieldwork tradition; ethnography, observation, interview, case study, life history, focus group, PRA, RRA, genealogical method, schedules and questionnaires, grounded theory, exploration and excavation, GIS
Statistics: concept of variables, sampling, measures of central tendency and dispersion, parametric and nonparametric bivariate and multivariate (linear regression and logistic regression) statistical tests
Techniques of analysis: Content analysis, discourse analysis, and narratives
Anthropology: Unit 02
Lamarckism, Neo-Lamarckism, Darwinism, Neo-Darwinism, synthetic theory, neutral theory of molecular evolution
Concept of cladogenesis and anagenesis, punctuated equilibrium, selection
Trends in primate radiation; primate classification and distribution of extinct and extant species
Characteristics of primates: Morphological (hair), skeletal (cranial, postcranial, dental, brain), physical (opposability of thumb), locomotion (quadrupedalism, brachiation, and bipedalism) and posture, primate social behaviour
Extant primates: Distribution, characteristics and classification. Prosimii (Tarsioidea, Lorisoidea, Lemuroidea), Anthropoidea (Ceboidea, Cercopithecoidea, Hominoidea). Morphological and anatomical characteristics of human, chimpanzee
Extant primates: Morphological and anatomical characteristics of gorilla, orangutan, and gibbon
Fossils of extinct primates: Oligocene-miocene fossils-parapithecus; Gigantopithecus, Aegyptopithecus, Dryopithecus, Ramapithecus, and Sivapithecus
Pre-hominid groups: Sahelanthropus tchadensis (toumai), orrorin tugenensis, ardipithecus ramidus
Early hominids: Australopithecus afarensis, Australopithecus ramidus, Australopithecus africanus, Australopithecus (paranthropus) boisei, Australopithecus (paranthropus) robustus, Australopithecus bahrelghazali
Early transitional human: Homo habilis
Hominid evolution: Characteristics and distribution of Homo erectus in general, special reference to the fossil evidences discovered from Africa (Turkana boy), Asia (Java man and Peking man), Europe (Dmanisi), Homo floresiensis (dwarf variety)
Hominid evolution: Characteristics of Archaic sapiens with special reference to Europe (Homo heidelbergensis), Africa (Rhodesian man), Asia (China, Jinniushan; India, Narmada Man). Neanderthal man: Distribution, salient features, and phylogenetic position
Hominid evolution: Characteristics of anatomically modern Homo sapiens with special reference to Africa (Omo), Europe (Cro-magnon, Chancelade, Grimaldi), Asia (Jinniushan) and Australia (Lake Mungo)
Hominid evolution: Dispersal of modern humans-out of Africa hypothesis, multiregional hypothesis, partial replacement hypothesis
Anthropology: Unit 03
Modern Human Variation
Typological model, populational model and clinal model; overview of classification proposed by Blumenbach, Deniker, Hooton, Coon, Garn and Birdsell
Ethnic classification and distribution of Indian populations: H.H. Risley; B.S. Guha; S.S. Sarkar
Linguistic distribution of ethnic groups
Methods of studying human genetics: Cytogenetics, Mendelian genetics, twin genetics, sib pair methods, population genetics, molecular genetics
Cytogenetics: Cell cycle, standard karyotyping and banding techniques (G, C, and Q), chromosomal abnormalities, fluorescent in-situ hybridization, Lyon's hypothesis, importance of telomere and centromere. Linkage and chromosome mapping, genomic imprinting
Modes of inheritance: Autosomal (dominant, recessive, codominance), sex linked, sex influenced, sex limited, modifying genes, suppressor genes, selfish gene, multiple allelic inheritance, multifactorial inheritance (stature and skin colour)
Modes of inheritance: Polygenic (dermatoglyphics-finger-ball pattern types, Dankmeijer index, Furuhata index and pattern intensity index, total finger ridge count, absolute finger ridge count, palmar formula and mainline index, transversality
Modes of inheritance: Atd angle and flexion creases
Population genetics: Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, definition, and application; mating patterns (random, assortative and consanguineous), inbreeding coefficient, genetic load, genetic isolate, genetic drift, genetic distance)
Population genetics: Genetic polymorphism (balanced and transient)
Molecular genetics: DNA, RNA, genetic code, protein structure and synthesis, concepts of RFLPs, VNTRs, STRs, and SNPs, mitochondrial DNA, genic and genomic mutations
Anthropology: Unit 04
Human growth, development, and maturation
Definition, concepts
Basic principles of growth; phases of growth: Prenatal and postnatal (growth and development of different body parts, subcutaneous tissues and physiological variables)
Growth curves: Velocity, distance, acceleration and Scammon's growth curve. Catch up and catch down growth
Aging and senescence with special reference to somatic, skeletal and dental maturation
Factors affecting growth: Genetic and environmental. Secular trends in growth
Methods of studying human growth: longitudinal, cross-sectional, mixed longitudinal, linked longitudinal
Body composition: bone mass, body mass, percentage of body fat, segmental fat, body age
Human adaptation: Allen's and Bergmann's rule; human adaptability programme; human adaptation to heat, cold, high altitude
Somatotyping: concept, development (Kretschmer, Sheldon, Parnoll, health-carter) and its application
Demography: Multidisciplinary nature of demography and its relation with other disciplines. Relationship between demography and anthropological demography. Fertility (concept and determinants), morbidity and mortality (concept and determinants)
Demography: Migration (concept and determinants), selection intensity
Anthropology: Unit 05
Concept of prehistoric archaeology
Ethno-archaeology, experimental archaeology, environmental archaeology, settlement archaeology, cognitive archaeology, geo-archaeology, action archaeology
Theoretical paradigms-descriptive to scientific period to interpretative period
Dating: Typology, seriation, geo-archaeological, obsidian, hydration, chemical dating of bones, oxygen isotope, fluorine estimation, dendrochronology, radio-carbon, fission track, thermo luminescence, potassium-argon, varve clay, cross dating
Dating: Amino acid racemization, paleomagnetic
Paleoenvironment: Major geological stages (tertiary, quaternary, pleistocene, holocene). Major climatic changes during pleistocene and post pleistocene periods, glacial and interglacial periods, ice age, pluvial and interpluvial climatic phases
Paleoenvironment: Evidences of quaternary climatic changes (moraines, varve, river terraces, loess, sea level changes, beach sequences, sea core, fluviatile deposits, palynology, palaeontology). Site formation
Lithic tool typology and technology: Lower palaeolithic (pebble tools, chopper and chopping tools, bifaces, handaxes, and cleavers)
Lithic tool typology and technology: Middle Palaeolithic (clactonian, levalloisian and mousterian flakes, discoid cores, tortoise core, fluted core, scrapers, point); upper Palaeolithic (blade, knife, blunted back, borer, burin, points)
Lithic tool typology and technology: Mesolithic (microliths); Neolithic (ring stone, grindstone, Celt, adze)
Overview of lithic cultures of Europe: Lower palaeolithic-acheulian culture. Middle palaeolithic: Mousterian culture. Upper palaeolithic: Perigordian, chatelperronian, gravettian, aurignacian, solutrian, magdalenian
Overview of lithic cultures of Europe: Mesolithic-azilian, Tardenoisian, maglemosian, kitchen midden, natufian
Early farming cultures and neolithic of the near east: Sites like Jericho, Jarmo, Çatal Huyuk, Shanidar
Anthropology: Unit 06
Lower Palaeolithic Period in India
Pebble tool culture: Soan, Acheulian culture: Madrasian (Kortalayar valley), Attirampakkam, Didwana, Belan valley, Bhimbetka, Chirki-Nevasa, Hunsgi, Krishna valley. Importance of Hathnora, Narmada valley
Middle paleolithic period in India: Belan valley, Bhimbetka, Nevasa, Narmada valley
Upper paleolithic period in India: Renigunta, Billa Surgam, Patne, Bhimbetka, Son and Belan valleys, Visadi, Pushkar, Gunjan valley
Mesolithic period in India: Mesolithic economy and society. Post pleistocene environmental changes. Development in microlithic technology, composite tools and bows and arrows. Sites include Bagor, Tilwara, Langhnaj, Adamgarh, Bagor, Chopani Mando
Mesolithic period in India: Bhimbetka, Sarai Nahar Rai, Birbhanpur
Neolithic period in India: Economic and social consequences of food production. Settlements, population growth, craft specializations, class formation and political institutions. Sites like Burzahom, Gufkral, Ahar, Gilund, Nagada, Kayatha, Navdatoli
Neolithic period in India: Eran, Nevasa, Chandoli, Daimabad, Inamgaon, Prakash, Maski, Brahmagiri, Sanganakallu, Tekkalakota, Piklihal, Nagarjunakonda, Daojali Hading, Kuchai, Sarutandu
Prehistoric cave art from India: Bhimbetka, Adamgarh
Indus civilization: Expansion of village sites. Development of metal technology, art and writing. Architecture and city planning. Stages and theories of decline. Sites like Amri, Kot Diji, Kalibangan, Mohenjodaro, Harappa, Lothal, Dholavira, Rakhigarhi
Pottery and traditions: Ochre coloured pottery (OCP), black and red ware, painted grey ware (PGW), northern black polished ware (NBP). Distribution of the pottery types and period
Bronze/ copper age: General characteristics, distribution, people
Iron age and urban revolution: General characteristics, distribution, people
Megaliths: Concept and types (menhir, dolmen, topical, cist, cairn circle, sarcophagi)
Anthropology: Unit 07
Conceptual Understanding of Social Anthropology
Culture: Attributes, holism, universals, acculturation, enculturation, transculturation, culture change, culture shock, cultural relativism, civilization, folk-urban continuum, great and little tradition, cultural pluralism, and world-view
Society: Groups, institutions, associations, community, status and role. incest. endogamy and exogamy. Rites of passage
Social institutions: Family-definitions, universality of the family. Typological and processual methods of studying the family. Types of family-conjugal-natal, consanguineal, nuclear, joint, extended. Rules of residence-patrilocal, matrilocal
Social institutions: Family-rules of residence-ambilocal, bilocal, neolocal, avunculocal, virilocal, amitalocal, uxorilocal. Functions of family, trends of change-urbanization, globalization, industrialization, feminist movements
Social institutions: Marriage-definition, universality, types and functions (monogamy, polygamy-polyandry, polygyny, hypogamy, hypergamy, levirate, sororate). Preferential and prescriptive types
Social institutions: Marriage-types and forms of marital transactions, bride price and dowry. Marriage as exchange
Social institutions: Kinship-definition, descent, kinship terminology, matrilineal puzzle. Joking and avoidance. Moiety, phratry, clan and lineage. Types of kinship systems
Social institutions: Economic anthropology-definition and relationship with anthropology and economy. Theories (malinowski, formal, substantivist, marxist). Livelihoods, subsistence, principles of production, distribution, consumption
Social institutions: Economic anthropology-division of labour in hunting-gathering, pastoral, swidden and agricultural communities. Exchange, reciprocity, gifts and barter systems. Kula, potlatch and jajmani-anthropological explanations
Social institutions: Legal anthropology-anthropology of law, social sanctions
Social institutions: Political organization-definitions, political processes in band, tribe, chiefdom and state systems. Conflicts and social control. Nations and nation-state, democracy
Social institutions: Religion and belief systems-definitions, animism, animatism, manaism, bongaism, totemism, taboo. Religious specialists-witch, shaman, priest, medicine-man, sorcerer. Magic-definitions, types, approaches. Rituals
Social institutions: Social change-basic ideas and concepts (assimilation, integration, syncretism, dominance, and subjugation), approaches
Anthropology: Unit 08
Theories in Social Anthropology
Evolutionism-Tylor, Morgan, Fraser, Maine, McLennan
Diffusionism-three schools (Austro-German, British, American)
Historical particularism-Boas
Functionalism-Malinowski
Structural-functionalism-Radcliffe-Brown, Firth, Fortes, Eggan, Parsons
Structuralism-Levi-Strauss
Culture and personality/ psychological anthropology-Mead, Benedict, DuBois, Linton, Kardiner, Whiting, and child
Cultural ecology, environmental anthropology, neo-evolutionism (Leslie White, Julian Steward, Marshall Sahlins)
Cultural materialism-Marvin Harris
Symbolic anthropology-Victor Turner, Raymond Firth, Mary Douglas
Cognitive anthropology-Roy D’Andrade, Stephen Tyler, Ward Goodenough
Deep ethnography, interpretive anthropology-Clifford Geertz
Anthropology and gender-Leela Dube, Renato Rosaldo, Marilyn Strathern, Zora Neale Hutson
Postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism-Foucault, Derrida, Bourdieu
Ethnicity-Barth, Jeffery, Weber
Anthropology: Unit 09
Stages in the development of Indian anthropology
Concepts: Social stratification (example caste), scheduled caste (SC), dalit, OBC, nomadic groups. Revivalist/ nativist movements, peasant movements (Malabar and Telangana movements). Tribe, scheduled tribe (ST), particularly vulnerable groups (PVTGs)
Concepts: Tribal movements (birsa and naga movements), tribal development, distribution. Indian Village and village studies in India (S.C. Dube, McKim Marriott, Weiser, Scarlett Epstein, M.N. Srinivas, F.G. Bailey)
Concepts: Constitutional safeguards for SC and ST, inclusion and exclusion. Panchayati raj institutions and other traditional community political organizations, self-help groups (SHGs)
Theoretical ideas: Sanskritization, westernization, modernization, globalization, sacred complex, nature-man-spirit complex
Early Indian anthropologists and their contributions: G.S. Ghurye, B.S. Guha, S.C. Roy, Iravati Karve, L.P. Vidyarthi, S.C. Dube, M.N. Srinivas, N.K. Bose, Surajit Sinha, D.N. Majumdar, S.R.K. Chopra, Verrier Elwin, S.S. Sarkar, Dharani Sen
Early Indian anthropologists and their contributions: T.C. Das, P.C. Biswas
Anthropology: Unit 10
Concepts and Theories
Applied anthropology, action anthropology, engaged anthropology, experimental anthropology, urban anthropology, public anthropology, public archaeology, anthropology of development, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, genomic studies
Genetic screening and counseling, forensic anthropology, food and nutritional anthropology, ergonomics, kinanthropometry, business anthropology
Community development projects (rural, urban, and tribal); revisits, re-studies, reinterpretations, intervention, research process and social impact assessment (SIA)
Anthropological approaches in community studies: Public health, education, nutrition, land alienation, bonded labour, housing, alternative economy, livelihood, gender issues, relief, rehabilitation and relocation, identity crisis, communication
Anthropological approaches in community studies: Training and management, aging and the aged
Development strategies (plan/ sub plan)
Role of NGOs in development
Anthropology and NGOs
Empowerment of women, LGBT groups

Commerce+

Commerce: Unit 01
Business Environment and International Business
Concepts and elements of business environment: Economic environment-economic systems, economic policies (monetary and fiscal policies); political environment-role of government in business; legal environment-consumer protection act, FEMA
Concepts and elements of business environment: Sociocultural factors and their influence on business; corporate social responsibility (CSR), scope and importance of international business; globalization and its drivers
Modes of entry into international business, theories of international trade; government intervention in international trade; tariff and non-tariff barriers; India’s foreign trade policy
Foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign portfolio investment (FPI); types of FDI, costs and benefits of FDI to home and host countries; trends in FDI; India’s FDI policy, balance of payments (BOP): Importance and components of BOP
Regional economic integration: Levels of regional economic integration; trade creation and diversion effects; regional trade agreements: European union (EU), ASEAN, SAARC, NAFTA, international economic institutions: IMF, world bank, UNCTAD
World trade organization (WTO): Functions and objectives of WTO; agriculture agreement; GATS; TRIPS; TRIMS
Commerce: Unit 02
Accounting and auditing
Basic accounting principles; concepts and postulates, partnership accounts: Admission, retirement, death, dissolution, and insolvency of partnership firms, corporate accounting: Issue, forfeiture, and reissue of shares; liquidation of companies
Corporate accounting: Acquisition, merger, amalgamation, and reconstruction of companies, Holding company accounts, cost and management accounting: Marginal costing and break-even analysis; standard costing; budgetary control; process costing
Cost and management accounting: Activity based costing (ABC); costing for decision-making; life cycle costing, target costing, Kaizen costing and JIT, financial statements analysis: Ratio analysis; funds flow analysis; cash flow analysis
Human resources accounting; inflation accounting; environmental accounting, Indian accounting standards and IFRS, auditing: Independent financial audit; vouching; verification and valuation of assets and liabilities
Auditing: Audit of financial statements and audit report; cost audit, recent trends in auditing: Management audit; energy audit; environment audit; systems audit; safety audit
Commerce: Unit 03
Business economics
Meaning and scope of business economics, objectives of business firms, demand analysis: Law of demand; elasticity of demand and its measurement; relationship between AR and MR, consumer behaviour: Utility analysis; indifference curve analysis
Law of variable proportions: Law of returns to scale, theory of cost: Short-run and long-run cost curves, price determination under different market forms: Perfect competition; monopolistic competition; oligopoly-price leadership model; monopoly
Price determination under different market forms: Price discrimination, pricing strategies: Price skimming; price penetration; peak load pricing
Commerce: Unit 04
Business finance
Scope and sources of finance; lease financing, cost of capital and time value of money, capital structure, capital budgeting decisions: Conventional and scientific techniques of capital budgeting analysis
Working capital management; dividend decision: Theories and policies, risk and return analysis; asset securitization, international monetary system, foreign exchange market; exchange rate risk and hedging techniques
International financial markets and instruments: Euro currency; GDRs; ADRs, International arbitrage; Multinational capital budgeting
Commerce: Unit 05
Business Statistics and Research Methods
Measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, measures of skewness, correlation and regression of two variables, probability: Approaches to probability; Bayes’s theorem, probability distributions: Binomial, Poisson, and normal distributions
Research: Concept and types; research designs, data: Collection and classification of data, sampling and estimation: Concepts; methods of sampling-probability and non-probability methods; sampling distribution; central limit theorem
Sampling and estimation: Standard error; statistical estimation, hypothesis testing: Z-test; t-test; ANOVA; chi-square test; Mann-Whitney test (U-test); Kruskal-Wallis test (H-test); rank correlation test, report writing
Commerce: Unit 06
Business Management and Human Resource Management
Principles and functions of management, organization structure: Formal and informal organizations; span of control, responsibility and authority: Delegation of authority and decentralization, motivation and leadership: Concept and theories
Corporate governance and business ethics, human resource management: Concept, role, and functions of HRM; human resource planning; recruitment and selection; training and development; succession planning, compensation management: Job evaluation
Compensation management: Incentives and fringe benefits, performance appraisal including 360 degree performance appraisal, collective bargaining and workers’ participation in management, personality: Perception; attitudes; emotions; group dynamics
Personality: Power and politics; conflict and negotiation; stress management, organizational culture: Organizational development and organizational change
Commerce: Unit 07
Banking and Financial Institutions
Overview of Indian financial system, types of banks: Commercial banks; regional rural banks (RRBs); foreign banks; cooperative banks, reserve bank of India: Functions; role and monetary policy management, banking sector reforms in India: Basel norms
Banking sector reforms in India: Risk management; NPA management, financial markets: Money market; capital market; government securities market, financial institutions: Development finance institutions (DFIs); non-banking financial companies (NBFCs)
Financial institutions: Mutual funds; pension funds, financial regulators in India, financial sector reforms including financial inclusion, digitization of banking and other financial services: Internet banking; mobile banking; digital payments systems
Insurance: Types of insurance-life and non-life insurance; risk classification and management; factors limiting the insurability of risk; reinsurance; regulatory framework of insurance-IRDA and its role
Commerce: Unit 08
Marketing management
Marketing: Concept and approaches; marketing channels; marketing mix; strategic marketing planning; market segmentation, targeting, and positioning, product decisions: Concept; product line; product mix decisions; product life cycle
Product decisions: New product development, pricing decisions: Factors affecting price determination; pricing policies and strategies, promotion decisions: Role of promotion in marketing; promotion methods-advertising; personal selling; publicity
Promotion decisions: Sales promotion tools and techniques; promotion mix, distribution decisions: Channels of distribution; channel management, consumer behaviour; consumer buying process; factors influencing consumer buying decisions, service marketing
Trends in marketing: Social marketing; online marketing; green marketing; direct marketing; rural marketing; CRM, logistics management
Commerce: Unit 09
Legal Aspects of Business
Indian contract Act, 1872: Elements of a valid contract; capacity of parties; free consent; discharge of a contract; breach of contract and remedies against breach; quasi contracts; special contracts: Contracts of indemnity and guarantee
Special contracts: Contracts of bailment and pledge; contracts of agency, sale of goods act, 1930: Sale and agreement to sell; doctrine of caveat emptor; rights of unpaid seller and rights of buyer
Negotiable instruments act, 1881: Types of negotiable instruments; negotiation and assignment; dishonour and discharge of negotiable instruments, the companies act, 2013: Nature and kinds of companies; company formation; management
The companies act, 2013: Meetings and winding up of a joint stock company, limited liability partnership: Structure and procedure of formation of LLP in India, the competition act, 2002: Objectives and main provisions
The information technology act, 2000: Objectives and main provisions; cyber crimes and penalties, the RTI act, 2005: Objectives and main provisions, intellectual property rights (IPRs): Patents, trademarks, and copyrights
Intellectual property rights (IPRs): Emerging issues in intellectual property, goods and services tax (GST): Objectives and main provisions; benefits of GST; implementation mechanism; working of dual GST
Commerce: Unit 10
Income tax and corporate tax planning
Income tax: Basic concepts; residential status and tax incidence; exempted incomes; agricultural income; computation of taxable income under various heads; deductions from gross total income; assessment of individuals; clubbing of incomes
International taxation: Double taxation and its avoidance mechanism; transfer pricing, corporate tax planning: Concepts and significance of corporate tax planning; tax avoidance versus tax evasion; techniques of corporate tax planning
Corporate tax planning: Tax considerations in specific business situations-make or buy decisions; own or lease an asset; retain, renewal or replacement of asset; shut down or continue operations, deduction and collection of tax at source
Advance payment of tax; e-filing of income-tax returns

Education+

Education: Unit 01
Educational Studies
Contribution of Indian Schools of philosophy (Sankhya Yoga, Vedanta, Buddhism, Jainism) with special reference to Vidya, Dayanand Darshan; and Islamic traditions towards educational aims and methods of acquiring valid knowledge
Contribution of Western schools of thoughts (idealism, realism, naturalism, pragmatism, Marxism, existentialism) and their contribution to education with special reference to information, knowledge, and wisdom
Approaches to sociology of education (symbolic interaction, structural functionalism, and conflict theory)
Concept and types of social Institutions and their functions (family, school, and society), concept of social movements, theories of social movements (relative deprivation, resource mobilization, political process theory, and new social movement theory)
Socialization and education-education and culture; contribution of thinkers (Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Aurobindo, J.Krishnamurti, Paulo Freire, Wollstonecraft Nel Noddings and Savitribai Phule)
To the development of educational thought for social change, national values as enshrined in the Indian constitution-socialism, secularism, justice, liberty, democracy, equality, freedom with special reference to education
Education: Unit 02
History, politics, and economics of education
Committees and commissions contribution to teacher education, Secondary Education Commission (1953), Kothari Education Commission (1964-66), National Policy of Education (1986, 1992), National Commission on Teachers (1999)
National curriculum framework 2005, national knowledge commission (2007), Yashpal committee report (2009), national curriculum framework for teacher education (2009), justice Verma committee report (2012)
Relationship between policies and education, linkage between educational policy and national development, determinants of educational policy and process of policy formulation: Analysis of the existing situation, generation of policy options
Determinants of educational policy and process of policy formulation: Evaluation of policy options, making the policy decision, planning of policy implementation, policy impact assessment and subsequent policy cycles
Concept of economics of education: Cost benefit analysis vs. cost effective analysis in education, economic returns to higher education signaling theory vs. human capital theory, concept of educational finance
Concept of economics of education: Educational finance at micro and macro levels, concept of budgeting
Relationship between politics and education, perspectives of politics of education liberal, conservative and critical, approaches to understanding politics (behaviouralism, theory of systems analysis and theory of rational choice)
Education for Political Development and Political Socialization
Education: Unit 03
Learner and Learning Process
Growth and development: Concept and principles, cognitive processes and stages of cognitive development, personality: Definitions and theories (Freud, Carl Rogers, Gordon Allport, Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka), mental health and mental hygiene
Approaches to intelligence from unitary to multiple: Concepts of social intelligence, multiple intelligence, emotional intelligence theories of intelligence by Sternberg, Gardner, assessment of intelligence
Approaches to intelligence from unitary to multiple: Concepts of problem solving, critical thinking, metacognition and creativity
Principles and theories of learning: behaviouristic, cognitive and social theories of learning, factors affecting social learning, social competence, concept of social cognition, understanding social relationship and socialization goals
Guidance and counselling: Nature, principles, and need, types of guidance (educational, vocational, personal, health, and social and directive, non-directive, and eclectic)
Guidance and counselling: Approaches to counselling-cognitive behavioural (Albert Ellis-REBT) and humanistic, person-centred counselling (Carl Rogers)-theories of counselling (behaviouristic, rational, emotive, and reality)
Education: Unit 04
Teacher education
Meaning, nature, and scope of teacher education; types of teacher education programs, the structure of teacher education curriculum and its vision in curriculum documents of NCERT and NCTE at elementary, secondary and higher secondary levels
Organization of components of pre-service teacher education transactional approaches (for foundation courses) expository, collaborative and experiential learning
Understanding knowledge base of teacher education from the view point of Schulman, Deng and Luke and Habermas, meaning of reflective teaching and strategies for promoting reflective teaching, models of teacher education-behaviouristic
Competency-based and inquiry oriented teacher education models
Concept, need, purpose, and scope of in-service teacher education, organization and modes of in-service teacher education, agencies and institutions of in-service teacher education at district
State and national levels (SSA, RMSA, SCERT, NCERT, NCTE, and UGC), preliminary consideration in planning in-service teacher education programme (purpose, duration, resources, and budget)
Concept of profession and professionalism, teaching as a profession, professional ethics of teachers, personal and contextual factors affecting teacher development, ICT integration, quality enhancement for professionalization of teacher education
Innovation in teacher education
Education: Unit 05
Curriculum Studies
Concept and principles of curriculum, strategies of curriculum development, stages in the process of curriculum development, foundations of curriculum planning-philosophical bases (national, democratic), sociological basis (socio-cultural reconstruction)
Psychological bases (learner’s needs and interests), benchmarking and role of national level statutory bodies-UGC, NCTE and university in curriculum development
Models of curriculum design: Traditional and contemporary models (academic/ discipline based model, competency based model, social functions/ activities model (social reconstruction), individual needs and interests model, outcome based integrative model
Models of curriculum design: Intervention model, CIPP model (context, input, process, product model)
Instructional system, instructional media, instructional techniques and material in enhancing curriculum transaction, approaches to evaluation of curriculum: Approaches to curriculum and instruction (academic and competency based approaches)
Models of curriculum evaluation: Tyler’s Model, Stakes’ Model, Scriven’s Model, Kirkpatrick’s model
Meaning and types of curriculum change, factors affecting curriculum change, approaches to curriculum change, role of students, teachers, and educational administrators in curriculum change and improvement
Scope of curriculum research and types of research in curriculum studies
Education: Unit 06
Research in education
Meaning and scope of educational research, meaning and steps of scientific method, characteristics of scientific method (replicability, precision, falsifiability, and parsimony), types of scientific method (exploratory, explanatory, and descriptive)
Aims of research as a scientific activity: Problem-solving, theory building, and prediction, types of research (fundamental, applied, and action), approaches to educational research (quantitative and qualitative)
Designs in educational research (descriptive, experimental, and historical)
Variables: Meaning of concepts, constructs, and variables, types of variables (independent, dependent, extraneous, intervening, and moderator), hypotheses-concept, sources, types (research, directional, non-directional, null), formulating hypothesis
Characteristics of a good hypothesis, steps of writing a research proposal, concept of universe and sample, characteristics of a good sample, techniques of sampling (probability and non-probability sampling), tools of research-validity
Reliability and standardisation of a tool, types of tools (rating scale, attitude scale, questionnaire, aptitude test, and achievement test, inventory), techniques of research (observation, interview, and projective techniques)
Types of measurement scale (nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio), quantitative data analysis-descriptive data analysis (measures of central tendency, variability, fiduciary limits, and graphical presentation of data)
Testing of hypothesis (type-I and type-II errors), levels of significance, power of a statistical test and effect size, parametric techniques, non-parametric techniques, conditions to be satisfied for using parametric techniques, inferential data analysis
Use and interpretation of statistical techniques: correlation, t-test, z-test, ANOVA, chi-square (equal probability and normal probability hypothesis)
Qualitative data analysis-data reduction and classification, analytical induction and constant comparison, concept of triangulation
Qualitative research designs: Grounded theory designs (types, characteristics, designs, steps in conducting a GT research, strengths, and weakness of GT)-narrative research designs (meaning and key characteristics, steps in conducting NR design)
Qualitative research designs: Case study (meaning, characteristics, components of a CS design, types of CS design, steps of conducting a CS research, strengths and weaknesses)
Qualitative research designs: Ethnography (meaning, characteristics, underlying assumptions, steps of conducting ethnographic research, writing ethnographic account, strengths and weaknesses)
Mixed method designs: Characteristics, types of MM designs (triangulation, explanatory, and exploratory designs), steps in conducting a MM designs, strengths and weakness of MM research
Education: Unit 07
Pedagogy, andragogy, and assessment
Pedagogy, pedagogical analysis-concept and stages, critical pedagogy-meaning, need and its implications in teacher education, organizing teaching: Memory level (Herbartian model), understanding level (Morrison teaching model)
Organizing teaching: Reflective level (Bigge and Hunt teaching model), concept of andragogy in education: Meaning, principles, competencies of self-directed learning, theory of andragogy (Malcolm Knowles), the dynamic model of learner autonomy
Assessment-meaning, nature, perspectives (assessment for learning, assessment of learning and assessment of learning)-types of assessment (placement, formative, diagnostic, summative) relations between objectives and outcomes
Assessment of cognitive (Anderson and Krathwohl), affective (Krathwohl) and psychomotor domains (R.H. Dave) of learning
Assessment in pedagogy of education: Feedback devices-meaning, types, criteria, guidance as a feedback devices-assessment of portfolios, reflective journal, field engagement using rubrics, competency based evaluation
Assessment in pedagogy of education: Assessment of teacher prepared ICT resources
Assessment in andragogy of education-interaction analysis: Flanders’ interaction analysis, Galloway’s system of interaction analysis (recording of classroom events, construction, and interpretation of interaction matrix)
Assessment in andragogy of education-interaction analysis: Criteria for teacher evaluation (product, process, and presage criteria, rubrics for self and peer evaluation (meaning, steps of construction)
Education: Unit 08
Technology in/ for Education
Concept of educational technology (ET) as a discipline: Information technology, communication technology, and information and communication technology (ICT) and instructional technology, applications of educational technology in formal
Concept of educational technology (ET) as a discipline: Non formal (open and distance learning), informal and inclusive education systems, overview of behaviourist
Concept of educational technology (ET) as a discipline: Cognitive and constructivist theories and their implications to instructional design (Skinner, Piaget, Ausubel, Bruner, Vygotsky)
Concept of educational technology (ET) as a discipline: Relationship between learning theories and instructional strategies (for large and small groups, formal and non formal groups)
Systems approach to instructional design, models of development of instructional design (Addie, assure, Dick and Carey model mason’s), Gagne’s nine events of instruction and five E’s of constructivism, nine elements of constructivist instructional design
Application of computers in education: CAI, CAL, CBT, CML, concept, process of preparing ODLM, concept of e learning, approaches to e-learning (offline, online, synchronous, asynchronous, blended learning, mobile learning)
Emerging trends in e-learning: Social learning (concept, use of web 2.0 tools for learning, social networking sites, blogs, chats, video conferencing, discussion forum)
Emerging trends in e-learning: Open education resources (creative common, massive open online courses; concept and application), e-inclusion-concept of e-inclusion, application of assistive technology in e-learning
Emerging trends in e-learning: Quality of e-learning-measuring quality of system: Information, system, service, user satisfaction and net benefits (D and M IS success model, 2003), ethical issues for e-learner and e-teacher teaching, learning and research
Use of ICT in evaluation, administration and research: E-portfolios, ICT for research-online repositories and online libraries, online and offline assessment tools (online survey tools or test generators)-concept and development
Education: Unit 09
Educational management, administration, and leadership
Educational management and administration: Meaning, principles, functions and importance, institutional building, POSDCORB, CPM, PERT, management as a system, SWOT analysis, taylorism, administration as a process, administration as a bureaucracy
Educational management and administration: Human relations approach to administration, organisational compliance, organisational development, organisational climate
Leadership in educational administration: Meaning and nature, approaches to leadership-trait, transformational, transactional, value based, cultural, psychodynamic, and charismatic
Leadership in educational administration: Models of leadership (Blake and Mouton’s managerial grid, Fiedler’s contingency model, tri-dimensional model, Hersey and Blanchard’s model, leader-member exchange theory)
Concept of quality and quality in education: Indian and international perspective, evolution of quality-inspection, quality control, quality assurance, total quality management (TQM), six sigma, quality gurus: Walter Shewhart, Edward Deming, C.K Prahalad
Change management: Meaning, need for planned change, three step-model of change (unfreezing, moving, refreezing), the Japanese models of change: just-in-time, poka yoke, cost of quality: Appraisal costs, failure costs and preventable costs
Change management: Cost of quality-cost benefit analysis, cost effective analysis, Indian and international quality assurance agencies: Objectives, functions, roles and initiatives (national assessment accreditation council (NAAC), performance indicators
Change management: Indian and international quality assurance agencies-quality council of India (QCI), international network for quality assurance agencies in higher education (INQAAHE)
Education: Unit 10
Inclusive education
Inclusive Education: Concept, Principles, Scope and Target Groups (Diverse learners; Including Marginalized group and Learners with Disabilities), Evolution of the Philosophy of Inclusive Education: Special, Integrated, Inclusive Education
Inclusive education: Legal provisions-policies and legislations (national policy of education (1986), programme of action of action (1992), persons with disabilities act (1995), national policy of disabilities (2006), national curriculum framework (2005)
Inclusive education: Legal provisions-concession and facilities to diverse learners (academic and financial), rehabilitation council of India act (1992), inclusive education under sarva shiksha abhiyan (SSA)
Inclusive education: Legal provisions-features of UNCRPD (united nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities) and its implication
Concept of impairment, disability and handicap, classification of disabilities based on ICF model, readiness of school and models of inclusion, prevalence, types, characteristics and educational needs of diverse learners’ intellectual
Physical and multiple disabilities, causes and prevention of disabilities, identification of diverse learners for inclusion, educational evaluation methods, techniques and tools
Planning and management of inclusive classrooms: infrastructure, human resource and instructional practices, curriculum and curricular adaptations for diverse learners
Planning and management of inclusive classrooms: Assistive and adaptive technology for diverse learners-product (aids and appliances) and process (individualized education plan, remedial teaching), parent professional partnership: Role of parents, peers
Planning and management of inclusive classrooms: Parent professional partnership-professionals, teachers, school
Barriers and facilitators in inclusive education: attitude, social and educational, current status and ethical issues of inclusive education in India, research trends of inclusive education in India

Social work+

Social work: Unit 01
Nature and Development of Social Work
Social work: Definition, scope, principles, nature, goals, and process
Historical development: Development of professional social work across the world (UK, USA, and India)
Social reform and professional social work: Contribution of social reformers in 19th and 20th century in the development of professional social work in India
Social work as a profession in India: Values, competencies, and code of ethics for the social work practitioner
Theories: Theories for social work practice
Changing context of social work practice: Emerging perspectives, trends, and challenges of social work for practice
Social work practice in various settings: Family, child, and youth welfare, industry, older persons, persons with disabilities, environment, women and welfare, healthcare, and disaster management
Social work: Unit 02
Society, human behaviour, and communities
Sociological concepts: Social structure, social institutions, and social groups, socialization, social control and social change
Approaches to the study of society: Functionalist, conflict/ dialectical, structuralism, and postmodernism
Social system and stratification: Major social systems (family and religion), social stratification: Marxist, functionalist, and Weberian approach
Human behaviour: Normal and abnormal behaviour determinants and life span perspective of human development, development tasks, and hazards during prenatal period, infancy, babyhood, childhood, puberty, adolescence, and adulthood
Theories of personality: Psychoanalytic theory of personality, behavioral theories and humanistic theories
Social psychology: Social perception, attitude formation, change, and measurement, communication and theories of collective behaviour
Type of communities: Rural, urban, tribal and virtual communities, and various vulnerable groups/ sections viz. Women, child, aged, dalits etc; caste and class-their characteristics
Social work: Unit 03
Social Work with Individuals and Groups
Basic social case work concepts: Social roles, social functioning, need assessment, adaptation, social environment, person-in environment fit, principles, and components
Approaches to social case work practice: Diagnostic and functional approach, problem solving, task centered and radical approach
Process and techniques of social case work: Phases of case work intervention, techniques of case work intervention, principles of interviewing and case work recording
Social group work: Definition, characteristics, functions, and group structure, classification of groups and making of social groups, issues of identity, diversity, and marginalization
Social group work process and group dynamics: Principles, determinants, indicators, and outcomes, decision making and problem solving process, theories of leadership, roles and responsibilities of group leaders
Group development: Stages of group work, techniques, and skills in group work, group climate, communication in groups, use of programme media and group work recording, monitoring, and evaluation
Practice sites of social case work and social group work: Client groups and various settings (children, correctional, health, women, persons with disabilities, older persons, oppressed groups, religious minorities)
Practice sites of social case work and social group work: (Persons who are gay and lesbian and other socially and economically disadvantaged groups)
Social work: Unit 04
Social Work with Communities and Social Action
Community organization: Concept, definition, scope, and historical perspective in India, UK, and USA, the role of community-based organizations, human capital, and social capital
Process of community organization: Steps in community organization, methods, principles, skills, assumptions, record maintenance, involving NGOs in community organization
Approaches in community organization practice-models, strategies, the role of community based organizations, leadership development and leaders, building partnerships and coalitions
Social action and social movements: Concept, history, social action as a method of social work
Models of social action: Conscientisation model of Paulo Freire, role of ideology, Saul Alinsky as a radical community organizer, liberation theology
Social movements: Origin, nature, types of movements, theories of movement and new social movements
Social movements, social action, and social change: Movement analysis-ideology, structure, leadership, process and outcomes, analysis of ideology and approach of (Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Frantz Fanon)
Social work: Unit 05
Research in social work: Quantitative and qualitative approaches
Quantitative research: Basics of social science research-meaning of research, social science and social work research: Meaning, nature, and scope. Steps in social science research: Identifications and formulations of research problem, literature review
Quantitative research: Steps in social science research-objectives and hypothesis formulation, research design, sample design, sources, methods, and tools of data collection
Quantitative research: Steps in social science research-processing and analysis of data and writing research reports including presentations and styles of references, citing, and paraphrasing
Quantitative research: Basic statistical concepts-process of statistical enquiry and dealing with descriptive and inferential statistical methods, parametric, and nonparametric tests
Qualitative research: Qualitative research-meaning, basic tenets of qualitative research, difference between quantitative and qualitative approach to research in social work
Qualitative research: Designing qualitative research-steps, methods of qualitative research (field study, case study, focus group discussions, narratives, observation, and theoretic research)
Qualitative research: Managing qualitative data-procedures and techniques of analyzing qualitative data and report writing
Mixed method research: Components of mixed methods, procedures of combining quantitative and qualitative research
Social work: Unit 06
Administration, welfare, and development services
Social welfare administration: Meaning, history, principles, nature, and type of organizations
Types of administration: Distinction between social welfare administration, public administration, and social security administrations
Registration of welfare agencies: Laws relating to societies, trust and non-profit organizations, challenges
Structure of social welfare administration: Service providers, administrative structures (government and non-government), organization and management of institutional welfare services
Components of administration: Planning, coordination, staff recruitment, training and development, recording and documentation, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, networking and maintaining pubic relations
Strategies and mechanisms of administration: Role of social workers in decision making process, communication, role description and functioning, sustainability of programmes
Fundraising and resource mobilization: Grant-in-aid (principles and procedures), resource mobilization, financial administration and social marketing-process and models
Social work: Unit 07
Social policy, planning, and social development
Social policy: Concept, goals, scope, context and models of social policy and applicability in Indian context
Historical development: Evolution and historical perspective of various policies, implementation of social policies especially for marginalized and vulnerable sections of the society
Process of policy formulation: Determinants and steps, approaches to social policy formulation, impact of changing political scenario in a country
Social planning; Concept, objectives, scope, models, interrelationship between social and economic planning, social planning in India
Five year plans: changes in social planning with five years plans in India, social planning and social change, factors leading to development of planning in India. Roles and functions of NITI Aayog
Social development: Positive and negative dimensions of social development; concept, models and theories, historical and social context of development in India
Sustainable development: Concept, strategies, critical issues, salient features of social development. Approaches to social development; similarities and differences. strategic development goals
Sustainable development: Human development index and indicators for policies and programmes
Social work: Unit 08
Indian Constitution, Social Justice, Human Rights and Social Work Practice
Indian constitution: Characteristics, features, preamble, directive principles of state policy and articles
Social justice: Concept, definition, historical development, dimensions, manifestations and social justice as a core value of social work profession
Social justice and leadership: Community building, personal, and community empowerment, social justice and technology, promoting a plan and vision for change, reflections and connection, social reconstructions, paradigms, policies, privileges
Social justice and leadership: Implications of social justice for policy formulation
Instrument of social justice: Constitutional base and Indian legal system, legal and public advocacy, role of civil society as a pressure group, statutory bodies
History of human rights: Concept and historical context of human rights, human rights declarations, treaties and conventions, human rights and protection systems, human rights in the Indian context
Human rights and social work: Code of ethics of social work and protection of human rights, human rights perspective in social work practice, ethnic sensitive practice, feminist practice, social work with diverse groups
Violation of human rights and social work practice: Social work with the victims of human rights violations and human rights activism. Role of UNHCR, national human rights commission and international human rights agencies
Social work: Unit 09
Areas of social work practice-I
Health care social work practice, social work with older persons and persons with disabilities, gender, labour welfare, industrial relations, personnel management and human resource management
Medical social work and psychiatric social work: Concept, evolution, roles, functions/ responsibilities of medical social workers and psychiatric social workers
Mental health and disease: Normal and abnormal behaviour, epidemiology, etiology, types, clinical manifestation and management of schizophrenia, mood disorders, neurotic disorders, stress related disorders, somatoform disorders
Mental health and disease: Child and adolescent mental health problems, legislations related to mental health
Theories of aging and vulnerability: Psychological and sociological theories of aging, psychological, social, physical needs and problems of older persons. Rights of older persons against neglect, abuse
Theories of aging and vulnerability: Violence and abandonment and social work interventions
Persons with disabilities: Models of disability, disability movement-historical perspective, national and international milestones from welfare to right based approach, legislative measures, and social work interventions
Gender and development: Expressions of gender disparity in education, health, property, employment and livelihood, decision making, feminization of poverty and manifestations of gender based violence
Gender and development: Constitutional and legislative safeguards and social work interventions
Labour welfare and human resource management (HRM): Historical background of industrial development as a sub-system of society, concept of labour welfare, nature, objectives, principles, theories, principles of labour welfare, labour legislations
Labour welfare and human resource management (HRM): Human resource management-concept, scope, evolution, theories, models, sub-systems, human resources development (HRD)-performance management system, types, six sigma, ISO, total quality management
Labour welfare and human resource management (HRM): Corporate social responsibility (CSR)-concept, issues, practices, models, components, approaches, and corporate governance
Personnel management and industrial relations: Concept, definition, objectives, scope., functions, determinants and reflectors of industrial relations, models of industrial relations, globalization and industry
Personnel management and industrial relations: International labour organization (ILO) role, functions; collective bargaining, job analysis, manpower planning, organization behaviour and organization development interventions
Social work: Unit 10
Areas of social work practice-II
Social defence and correctional services, social work with families and children, environment and social work, social work, and disaster management
Social defence: Concept, philosophy, and changing dimensions, children in need of care and protection, juveniles in conflict with law, street and working children and young offenders, probation and parole. Emerging issues in social defence
Legislations and criminal justice system: Juvenile justice (care and protection of children) act, 2000, immoral traffic prevention act, 1986, probation of offenders act, 1958, beggary prevention act, narcotic drugs and psychotropic substance act, 1986
Legislations and criminal justice system: Prison act, and criminal justice system
Social work with families: Functions, developmental stages and family patterns, family dynamics and theoretical models of family functioning (circumflex model, MCmaster model and structural model) and social work interventions
Child development: Concept, philosophy and historical context, state of children in India-demographic profile, education, and protection
Policies and programmes for children: Constitutional provisions, national policy on children, international perspective and un convention on rights of children, programmes and legislative measures related to female feticide, adoption, foster care
Policies and programmes for children: Guardianship and child marriage and social work interventions
Environment and social work: Causes and consequences, differential impact on women, poor, marginalized groups and indigenous populations. Environment in the human rights perspective. Environmental movements and social work interventions in the management
Environment and social work: Protection and promotion of the environment
Social work and disaster management: Disaster related concept and definitions-hazard, risk, vulnerability and disaster, different forms of natural and manmade disasters. Impact of disaster and disaster management initiatives
Social work and disaster management: Pre and post disaster interventions

Defence and strategic studies+

Defence and strategic studies: Unit 01
Theories and concepts
Defence and strategic studies: Assumptions and approaches
The concepts of nation: State and nation-state, theories, and elements of state, national power and its components
Key Concepts of National Security: Defining National Security, National Defence and National Interest, National Character and Evolution-of the National Security concept in the 20th Century and Beyond
National security concerns of major powers, middle powers and small powers
National security structures: Armed forces, intelligence agencies, police forces, decision-making structures, etc
National security environment: Internal and external
Defence, foreign, security and domestic policies; concept formulation, objectives, and linkages
Military alliances and pacts, peace treaties, defence cooperation, strategic partnership and security dialogue
Non-alignment, balance of power, collective security and balance of terror-concept, development and relevance
Deterrence and detente: Concept and contemporary relevance
Defence and strategic studies: Unit 02
Strategic Thought
Contribution of Sun Tzu, Kautilya, Machiavelli, Jomini, Carl Von Clausewitz, general Giulio Douhet, W. Mitchell, J.F.C. Fuller, Capt. B.H. Liddell Hart, Marx, Lenin, Mao Zedong And Che Guevara
Nuclear deterrence: Andre Beaufre, Henry Kissinger and k. Subrahmanyam
Thoughts of Gandhi and Nehru on peace, security and development
Defence and strategic studies: Unit 03
War as an Instrument in International Relations
Theories and causes of war
Principles of war
Contemporary warfare: Conventional warfare in nuclear age, limited war, revolutionary warfare, low intensity operations, guerilla warfare, insurgency and counter-insurgency
Armaments: Arms race, arms aid, arms trade, arms proliferation, proliferation of small arms, military alliances and pacts, peace treaties, defence cooperation, strategic partnership and security dialogue
Terrorism: Concept and kinds (national, international, and cross border)
Conflicting ideologies: Militarism, nationalism, fundamentalism, separatism, irredentism
Concept and elements of deterrence: Nuclear and conventional
Evolution of Global Nuclear Doctrines, Democratic Peace Theory
Defence and strategic studies: Unit 04
WMD, nuclear proliferation, and national security
Basic concepts and theory: (i) Concepts of disarmament and arms control, (ii) objectives and conditions of disarmament, (iii) elements of arms control mechanisms: Agreements, verification, inspection, control
Basic concepts and theory: (iv) Approaches to disarmament and arms control
Historical survey of disarmament efforts: (i) Under the league of nations, (ii) under the united nations, (iii) unilateral, bilateral and multilateral approaches, (iv) role of non-aligned nations in disarmament negotiations
Weapons of mass destruction: Nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
Nuclear arms limitation nuclear arms control treaties
Chemical weapons convention and biological weapons convention, concept of non-proliferation, NPT, CTBT, PTBT MTCR FMCT, and other treaties
Nuclear export control regimes, new challenges and responses-missile defense, cooperative threat reduction and G-7 global partnership, disarmament and arms control and economic development, terrorism and nuclear proliferation
Concept of star wars and NMD
Defence and strategic studies: Unit 05
Global Security Concerns
End of cold war and emergence of new world order
Proliferation of military, nuclear and missile capabilities, environmental issues: Climate change and global warming, desertification, acid rains, industrial pollution, deforestation
Organized crimes: Money laundering, NARCO-trafficking, human trafficking and small arms proliferation
Migrants and refugees: (a) Causes, (b) illegal migration and border management, (c) problem in south Asia, (d) role of international committee of red cross and un high commission for refugees
Global security concerns: Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Arab spring, developments in central Asian republics (CARS), rise of fundamentalism, challenges in Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, and power rivalry in South China Sea
Problem of system of governance and human rights, food security, energy security and water security problems in modern era
Millennium development goals
Defence and strategic studies: Unit 06
India's security concerns and policies in contemporary international scenario
Genesis of Sino-Indian relations, the boundary dispute, Sino- Pakistan nexus, OBOR and CPEC, China and India- military balance, Chinese policy towards south Asia
Rise of India and china: Cooperation and competition, Chinese interests in Indian ocean and South China sea, Strategic dimension of India-Pakistan relations: Genesis of India-Pakistan conflict, Indo-Pak military balance, the Kashmir question
Strategic dimension of India-Pakistan relations: Pakistan sponsored terrorism, Pakistan's nuclear strategy, the powers structure of Pakistan, contentious. Issues: Siachen, sir creek, river waters, etc
India and south Asia: Issues and challenges for regional cooperation
Making of India's defence policy since independence: (a) Threat perception, assessment and preparedness, (b) political and military lessons of 1948, 1962, 1965, 1971, 1999 Wars, (c) future trends
India's look east and act east policies, Indo-Pacific cooperation, strategic partnerships
India's maritime security and strategy in 21st century: (a) Indian ocean, (b) Asia-pacific region, (c) security of sea lanes, India's maritime strategy for the 21st century
India's defence doctrines and strategies including nuclear doctrine, higher defence organization of India
Defence and strategic studies: Unit 07
Issues in conflict resolution
Origin, type, and structure of conflict
Ideologies and international conflicts
Role of United Nations in conflict management and restructuring of UNO, techniques of conflict prevention
Conflict management: Pacific solutions of international disputes, coercive methods
International humanitarian laws and laws of armed conflicts
Confidence building measures: Concept, kinds, and utility
IGOs and NGOs in conflict resolution: Peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding
Gandhian philosophy on peace and non-violence, Nehruvian approach to national security and cooperation
Defence and strategic studies: Unit 08
Disaster Management and National Security
Basic concept and meaning of disaster, introduction to terminologies associated with disaster and national security: Natural and manmade, vulnerability, risk, etc., identifying various types of disasters
Natural disaster and human induced disaster: Floods, cyclone, earthquake, tsunami-WMD disaster, disaster associated with various industries
Study of disaster in India/ around the world: Case studies-Tsunami 2004, Bhopal gas tragedy, Chernobyl, Fukushima, Uttarakhand, etc
Disaster management: Meaning, association and distinction with related concepts like disaster mitigation, response, and recovery, relief, and reconstruction
Institutional Mechanism for Disaster Management in India: Role of Armed Forces, Central and State Governments, NGO, National Disaster Management Authority, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services
Defence and strategic studies: Unit 09
Defense Economics
Economic theories of defence
Sustainable development: Challenges and responses
Basics of defence planning, determinants of defence expenditure
Defence budgeting
Economic causes of war
Economic warfare in modern times
Economic problems of post war reconstruction
National security and international trade regimes (WTO, TRIPS, TRIMS, FTA'S NAFTA, SAPTA, and NSG)
India's role in regional and global economic forums and organizations
Geoeconomics and its implications for global/ regional economic stability
Defence and strategic studies: Unit 10
Science and technology and national security
Broad survey of technological changes from industrial revolution to information revolution
India's civil nuclear and space programs, India's energy scenario
Research and development: (a) Relevance of science and technology in national security. (b) Impact of information technology; revolution in military affairs (RMA). (c) Choice of weapon systems
Impact of economic liberalization and globalization: (a) Defence production in India (role of DPSU’S and ordnance factories). (b) Defence and development and peace and development dichotomies
Issues of mobilization of resources during war and peace
Military industrial complexes
Transfer of technology: Dual use and critical technologies and their impact on national security
Interdependence and Cooperation at Regional and Global levels
Cyber security: Vulnerabilities of information technology and internet, need and importance of cyber security, different kinds of cyber security vulnerabilities, cyber wars including propaganda, measures for cyber security-technology
Cyber security: Measures for cyber security-laws and regulations, global issues in cyber security
Social media and its impact on national security-global reach with rapid speed for propaganda and indoctrinate misinformation and rumour mongering cadre recruitment and use of social networking sites for mobilizing public opinion

Home science+

Home science: Unit 01
Food Science and Food Service Management
Food science and nutrition
Properties of food-physical and chemical properties
Quality evaluation of foods-objectives and subjective
Effects of cooking and processing techniques on nutritional components, and other physical parameters, food preservation and application
Food pigments and additives
Food standards, microbiological safety of food, HACCP, food packaging
Perspectives of food service-menu planning, food cost analysis
New product development-nanotechnology
Food service management of institutional level-hospital, educational institutions, social and special institutions
Research methods-fundamental issues, concept, need relevance, scope, and ethics in research
Home science: Unit 02
Nutrition and dietetics
Food groups-balanced diet, food pyramid, macro and micro nutrition
Nutrients-role of nutrients in the body, nutrient deficiencies and requirements for Indians
Public health nutrition
Nutrition through life span-physiological changes, growth and development from conception to adolescence, nutritional needs and dietary guidelines for adequate nutrition through life cycle, nutrition concerns
Community nutrition, sports nutrition, nutrition in emergencies and disasters
Nutritional assessment-methods and techniques
Nutritional intervention-national nutrition policies and programmes, food and nutrition security
Clinical and therapeutic nutrition
Diet counseling and management
Research methods-research designs, principles, and purpose of research
Home science: Unit 03
Textiles
Textile terminologies-fiber, yarn, weave, fabric, etc, classification of fibers, yarns and weaves, identification of fibers and weaves
Manufacturing process of major natural and manmade fibers, properties, and their end uses
Different methods of fabric construction-woven, knitted and non woven fabrics, their properties, and end uses
Textiles finishes-classification, processing, and purposes of finishes
Dyeing and printing-classification, method of block printing, tie and dye, batik, roller printing, screen printing, discharge, heat transfer printing and digitized printing
Traditional textiles of India-embroidered textiles, printed textiles, woven textiles, dyed textiles of various regions in India
Identification on the basis of fiber content, technique, motif, colour, and designed
Textile testing and quality control-need of testing, sampling method, techniques of testing fibers, yarn, fabrics and garments
Testing of colour-fastness, shrinkage, pilling, and GSM of fabrics
Textile and environment-banned dyes, eco-friendly textiles, contamination and effluent treatment, eco-label and eco marks
Recent developments in textiles and apparels-nano textiles, technical textiles, occupational clothing, zero waste designing, upcycling and recycling
Research methods-types of research, descriptive, survey, historical, qualitative, quantitative, analytical and action research
Home science: Unit 04
Apparel designing
Body measurements-procedure, need, figure types and anthropometry
Equipments and tools used for manufacturing garments-advancements and attachments used for sewing machine
Types of machines used and their parts
Elements and principles of design and its application to apparel
Illustrations and parts of garments
Fashion-terminologies, fashion cycle, fashion theories, fashion adoption, fashion forecasting and factors affecting fashion
Pattern making-drafting, draping and flat pattern making techniques, pattern alteration and dart manipulation techniques
Apparel manufacturing-terminology used, seams, techniques, and machines used, process of fabric to apparel manufacture
Apparel quality testing-quality standards and specification, quality parameters and defects of fabrics, and garments
Care and maintenance of clothing-principles of washing, laundry agents, storage techniques case labels and symbols
Selection of clothing for different age groups
Selection of fabrics for different and uses
Research methods-hypothesis testing, types, and scope
Home science: Unit 05
Resource Management and Consumer Issues
Management-concept, approaches, management of time, energy, money, space, motivating factors, motivation theories, decision making
Functions of management-planning, supervision, controlling, organizing, evaluation, family life cycle-stages, availability and use of resources
Resources-classification, characteristics, factors affecting use, resource conservation, time management, work simplification techniques, classes of change, fatigue and its management
Management of natural resources-land, forest, water, air, water harvesting, municipal solid waste management, concept of sustainable development, SDGs
Money management-family income, types, supplementation, budgeting, household accounts, family savings and investment, tax implications
Human resource management-functions, need, human resource development challenges, functions, manpower planning, training need assessment, training methodologies, training evaluation
Consumer-definition, role, rights and responsibilities, consumer behaviour, consumer problems, education and empowerment
Consumer protection-consumer organization, cooperatives, alternative redressal, standardization, standard marks, quality control, buying aids, consumer legislation
Entrepreneurship-concept, process, barriers, entrepreneurial motivation, challenges, enterprise setting, project planning and appraisal, enterprise management
Research methods-sampling techniques, types of sampling, sampling procedures, probability and non probability sampling
Home science: Unit 06
Housing and Interior Design
Design fundamentals-elements of art, principles of design, principles of composition
Colour-dimensions of colour, psychological effects of colour, colour schemes, factors affecting use of colour
Space planning and design-housing need and important, principles of planning spaces, types of house plans, economy in construction, planning for different income groups
Building regulations-norms and standards, zoning, housing for special groups and areas, housing finance
Housing and environment-building materials-impact on environment, green rating systems, energy efficiency in buildings, energy auditing, indices of indoor comfort
Energy as a resource-conventional and non-conventional sources, renewable/ nonrenewable energy, energy management, national efforts on energy conservation
Product design-design thinking process, diffusion and innovation, design communication, ergonomic considerations
Ergonomics-significance, scope, anthropometry, man, machine, environment relationship, factors affecting physiological cost of work, body mechanics, functional design of workplace, time and motion study, energy studies
Furniture and furnishing-historical perspectives, architectural styles, contemporary tends, wall finishes, window and window treatments
Research methods-selection and preparation of tools for data collection questionnaire, interview, observation, measuring scales, ranking and measurement, reliability and validity of tools
Home science: Unit 07
Child/ human development
Principles of growth and development, care during pregnancy, and pre-natal and neonatal development
Theories of human development and behaviour
Early childhood care and education-activities to promote holistic development
Influence of family, peers, school, community, and culture on personality development
Children and persons with special needs, care and support, special education, prevention of disabilities, rehabilitation
Children at risk-child labour, street children, children of destitute, orphans, child abuse and trafficking
Adolescence and youth: Changes, challenges, and programs to promote optimal development
Adulthood, characteristics, changing roles, and responsibilities in early and middle adulthood
Aging-physical and psychological changes and care needs
Research methods-types of variables and their selection
Home science: Unit 08
Family Studies
Dynamics of marriage and family relationships
Family welfare-approaches, programmes, and challenges, role in national development
Domestic violence, marital disharmony, conflict, resolution of conflict
Parent education, positive parenting, community education
Family disorganization, single parent families
Family studies-family in crisis, family therapy, initiatives for child development
Human rights, rights of children, rights of women, status of women, gender roles
Guidance and counseling-across lifespan and for caregivers
Health and well being across life span development
Research methods-data collection and classification, coding, tabulation, inferential and descriptive statistics
Home science: Unit 09
Communication for Development
Basics of communication-nature, characteristics, functions, process, models, elements, principles, barriers, perception, persuasion and empathy, types of communication, levels (settings) of communication transactions, process of listening
Communication systems and communication theories-human interaction theories, mass communication theories, message design theories, communication systems, culture, and communication
Concept of development-theories, models, measurement, and indicators of development
Concept of development-communication models and approaches, diffusion and innovation, mass media, social marketing
Role of communication in development-need and importance, development journalism, writing for development-print, radio, television, and internet
Concerns of development communication-gender, health, environment, sustainability, human rights, population, literacy, rural and tribal development
Advocacy and behaviour change communication-concept, theories, models, approaches, application and challenges
Traditional, modern and new media for development-folk forms of songs, art, dance, theatre, puppetry, advertisement, cinema, ICTs for development-community radio, participatory video, social media and mobile phones
Organization/ agencies/ institutes working for development communication international/ national/ state and local
Research methods-analysis of data through parametric and non parametric tests
Home science: Unit 10
Extension Management and Community Development
Historical perspectives of extension-genesis of extension education and extension systems in India and other countries, objectives of extension education and extension service, philosophy and principles of extension programme development
Programme management-need assessment, situation analysis, planning, organization, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation
Extension methods and materials-interpersonal, small and large group methods, audio visual aids-need, importance, planning, classification, preparation and field testing, use and evaluation of audio visual materials
Curriculum development and planning for extension education and development activities, Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives and learning
Non-Formal, adult and lifelong education-historical perspectives, concept, theories, approaches, scope, methods and materials used, challenges of implementation and evaluation, issues to be addressed
Training, skill development and capacity building for human resource development methods of training, entrepreneurship development
Community development-perspectives, approaches, community organization, leadership, support structures for community development, Panchayati Raj institutions, NGOs and community based organisations
People’s participation and stakeholders’ perspectives, Participatory Learning and Action-methods and techniques
Development programmes in India for urban, rural, and tribal population groups programmes for nutrition, health, education, wage and self employment, women’s development, skill development, sanitation and infrastructure
Research methods-scientific report writing, presentation of data, interpretation and discussion

Public administration+

Public administration: Unit 01
Introduction to public administration
Public administration-meaning, nature, scope, and significance; evolution and present status of the discipline; politics administration dichotomy; globalization and public administration; paradigm shift from government to governance
Principles of organization: Division of work; hierarchy; coordination; unity of command; span of control; authority, power and responsibility; delegation, centralization and decentralization; line, staff and auxiliary agencies; leadership and supervision
Principles of organization: Decision-making and communication
Meaning, nature, and scope of personnel administration: Classification, recruitment, training, promotion, compensation and service conditions, discipline, civil service neutrality, anonymity and commitment, professional associations, and unionism
Public administration: Unit 02
Administrative thought
Approaches to the study of public administration: Oriental-Kautilya; classical-F.W. Taylor, Henri Fayol, Max Weber, Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick; human relations-Elton Mayo, Mary Parker Follett; behaviouralism-Chester Barnard, Herbert Simon
Motivation-Abraham Maslow, Frederick Herzberg, Douglas McGregor; organizational humanism-Chris Argyris, Rensis Likert; writers on administration: Dwight Waldo, Ferrel Heady, Robert Golembiewski and Peter Drucker; Minnowbrook perspective
Writers on administration: New public service and postmodernism
Public administration: Unit 03
Indian administration
Evolution-ancient, Mughal and British periods; constitutional framework: Parliamentary and federal features
Union government: President; prime minister and council of ministers; cabinet committees; central secretariat; cabinet secretariat; and prime minister office
Election commission and electoral reforms, Union State Relations
Accountability: Legislative; Executive; and Judicial
Citizen grievance redressal mechanism: Lokpal; Lokayukta; Central Vigilance Commission, and regulatory authorities
Issue areas: Politician and civil Servant relations, generalists and specialists debate and combating corruption
Civil Services: Classification-all India services, central services, and state services; recruitment agencies-union public service commission
Civil Services: State public service commissions and other commissions and boards: capacity building of civil servants and civil service reforms
Planning: Planning commission, national development council, NITI aayog, state planning commissions/ boards and planning departments
Judiciary: Indian constitution and independence of judiciary-supreme court; high courts; judicial review and public interest litigation and judicial reforms. Police administration and reforms. E-Governance initiatives in Indian administration
Public administration: Unit 04
State and local administration
Constitutional framework of state administration-state legislature; governor-role and functions; chief minister-powers and functions; council of ministers; role and functions of chief secretary; state secretariat; directorates and commissionerate
District administration-concept and evolution, district collector-power, functions and changing role; autonomous district councils-structure, powers and functions, district rural development agency; evolution of local governance in India
Local governance: 73rd and 74th constitutional amendment acts-state election commission; state finance commission; district planning committee; rural governance-gram sabha, gram panchayats, panchayat samitis and Zila parishads, finance in PRIs
Local governance: Personnel administration at local level; policies and programmes of rural development-MGNREGA
Growth of urbanization, urban governance-structure, composition, functions of municipal corporations, municipal councils, nagar panchayats and metropolitan governance-sources of finance; personnel administration
Reforms in urban governance-solid waste management, smart and AMRUT cities
Public administration: Unit 05
Comparative and development administration
Comparative public administration: Concept, nature, scope, and significance of comparative public administration; public administration and its environment
Approaches and methods to the study of comparative administration: Institutional, behavioural, structural-functional, ecological, and systems approaches
Fred Riggs’s typology of societies and features; problems of comparative research; comparative studies-influence of globalization; salient features of the administrative systems of UK, USA, France, and Japan
Development administration: Development and its dimensions. Development and modernization; approaches to development-sustainable development and anti-development; sustainable development goals (SDGs)
Development administration: Concept, nature, scope, objectives, features and significance; ecology of development administration, contribution of Fred Riggs, Dwight Waldo and Edward Widener; role of bureaucracy in development
Development administration: Globalization and development administration; emergence of non-state actors in development administration; public-private partnerships; corporate social responsibility, human development indicators, and social audit
Public administration: Unit 06
Economic and financial administration
Economic policies-mixed economy to liberalization, privatization, and globalization (LPG); new economic policy (NEP); industrial policy since independence; government in business-public enterprises concept, growth and forms of public enterprises
Management, problem of accountability, and autonomy; disinvestment policies
Financial administration: Public finance-revenue and expenditure: Nature, scope, and significance of financial administration; budget-meaning, purpose, and significance; budgetary process-preparation, enactment and execution
Financial administration: Types of budget-PPBS, performance budget, zero-based budget, and gender budget; fiscal responsibility and budget management act (FRBMA) and sunset legislation
Fiscal federalism-union-state financial relations, finance commission
Financial control-legislature and executive; parliamentary committees and comptroller and auditor general of India
Taxation policies-principles of taxation-progressive and proportional taxation-reforms in taxation policies
Public administration: Unit 07
Social welfare administration
Concept of social welfare, social justice and social change; concept of equity and inclusiveness in social justice; concept of affirmative action-reservations; institutional arrangement for social welfare and social justice administration
NGOs, civil societies and voluntary agencies; policies, programmes and institutional framework for the protection and welfare of SCs/ STs/ OBCs/ women/ children, aged, differently-abled (divyang) and minorities commissions-women, SC/ ST
Minority-role and functions
Disaster management-nature and types of disaster; institutional arrangements for disaster management; role of state and non-state actors
Public administration: Unit 08
Public policy
Nature, scope, and Importance of public policy; evolution of public policy and policy sciences; public policy and public administration
Approaches to public policy-process approach, logical positivism, phenomenological approach, participatory, and normative approaches
Theories and models of policy making-Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Yehezkel Dror
Institutions of policy making-legislature, executive, and judiciary
Types of policy analysis-empirical, normative, retrospective and prospective, prescriptive and descriptive
Policy implementation, outcomes, and evaluation
Constraints on public policy-socioeconomic, political, institutional, and cultural
Role of media, public opinion, civil society, and pressure groups on policy making
Public administration: Unit 09
Governance and good governance
Ancient discourse-Kautilya, Plato, and Aristotle on good governance; elements and forms of good governance; theories and concepts of governance-world bank and UNDP; state, market and civil society, public choice theory, new public management
Public value theory, governance as theory, governance, and public governance
Networking and collaborative governance, business process re-engineering, ICT and governance, e-government and e-governance, e-readiness and digital divide
Accountability, openness, and transparency; gender and governance
Citizen and governance: Civil society-role and limitations, citizen participation, right to information-RTI act and administrative reforms, national information commission, citizen charter-concept, objectives, and significance
Ethics and public accountability in governance: rule of law and administrative law, delegated legislation and administrative adjudication
Ethical foundations of governance: Constitutional values, family, society, and education
Public administration: Unit 10
Research methodology
Social science research-meaning and significance; distinction between methodology and method; facts and values in research; role of research in theory-building; scientific method; objectivity in social research; types of research
Identification of research problem; hypotheses and null hypotheses; validation of hypothesis; research design; methods of data collection-primary and secondary sources-(observation; questionnaire and interview, use of library, and internet)
Sampling and sampling techniques; scales of measurement; analysis of data and use of computers in social science research-SPSS; citation patterns and ethics of research; bibliography; report writing

Population studies+

Population studies: Unit 01
Introduction and sources of population data
History, definition, nature and scope of population studies, relationship of other social sciences with population studies, social structure, social and racial groups, society and culture and its role in population studies
Social institutions (family, marriage, kinship, and religion) and their role in influencing population studies, social change in India, tribes in India and their culture
Social-psychological concepts and its relevance to population studies, communication concepts, processes and its relevance in context of population studies
Population trends, global variation in population size and growth, history of population in India, current population scenario and demographic profile of India and states
Basic demographic concepts, components of population change
Sources of population data: Population census-history of population; definition and scope Indian census: Historical background, coverage, features and uses
Strengths and weaknesses of various data sources in India, vital statistics: Historical background, civil registration system in India-history, coverage, problems of civil registration, Sample Registration System (SRS), advantages and limitations
Population surveys: Meaning, scope, uses, limitations; major surveys: National Sample Surveys (NSS), World Fertility Survey (WFS), Demographic Health Surveys (DHS), Reproductive and Child Health Survey (RCHS)
National Family Health Surveys (NFHS), Comprehensive Nutrition Survey; Aging Survey
Data appraisal (evaluation and adjustment of data): Types and sources of errors in population data, adjustment in age data-whipple’s index, myer’s index, United Nations, age sex accuracy index-assumptions, applications and limitations
Data appraisal (evaluation and adjustment of data): Completeness of vital registration data, Chandrasekharan-deming formula
Smoothing of age data
Population studies: Unit 02
Methods of demographic/ population analysis
Rates, ratio, proportion, percentages, density, incidence and prevalence, person-years, rate of population growth: Arithmetic, geometric and exponential growth rates, decadal growth rate doubling time
Concept of population stabilization and net reproduction rate unity crude and standardized methods for fertility and mortality estimates
Location of event in time and the lexis diagram
Method of population projection: Mathematical methods of population projection (linera, exponential, polynomial, Gompertz and logistic growth curves for population projection); component method of population projection; sub-national population projection
Method of population projection: Projection methods of labour force, school enrolment, workforce and households, etc
Population projections by United Nations, World Bank and expert committee of government of India, population estimates: Intercensal/ postcensal estimates of population, population pyramid
Population and sample parameters, sampling distribution of mean and standard error
Statistical methods: Frequency distribution, descriptive and inductive statistics, measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode); measures of dispersion (range, variance and standard deviation); correlation and linear regression
Statistical methods: Introduction to testing of statistical hypothesis and test of significance, interpolation and extrapolation
Population studies: Unit 03
Population composition and change
Spatial and temporal changes in the size and distribution of population-global perspective with focus on India age and sex structure of population in developed and developing countries
Composition of India’s population: Demographic, social, economic and cultural factors affecting age-sex structure of population and its relevance in population dynamics: Global and India perspectives
Spatial distribution of population: Measures of concentration of population: Density, distribution-dissimilarity index, tempo of urbanization, rank-size rule, Gini concentration ratio, Lorenz curve, etc
Factors affecting spatial distribution, density and concentration of population-global, national, regional patterns
Population ageing: Concepts and measures of population ageing, components of population ageing. Trends and pattern of ageing in India and states
Demographic dividend, sex-ratio, sex-ratio at birth, child-women ratio, median age, agesex pyramid, dependency ratio (child dependency ratio, old dependence ratio, total dependency ratio)
Social, economic and health aspects of ageings; living arrangements, family support, dependency; emerging issues related to elderly
Population studies: Unit 04
Nuptiality and fertility
Nuptiality: Concepts and sources of data; measures-crude marriage rate, age specific marriage rates, order specific marriage rates, singulate mean age at marriage (SMAM)
Nuptiality: a. Singulate mean age at marriage (SMAM)-synthetic cohort and decadal synthetic cohort method. b. Indices of nuptiality (coale’s indices)
Nuptiality: Marriage patterns in India-levels, trends and differentials in age at marriage, divorce, widowhood, widow remarriage, levels and trends in widowhood in India and states, impact of changes in widowhood/ divorce on fertility
Nuptiality: Mean age of widowhood/ divorce from census data
Fertility: Basic concepts and terms used in study of fertility. Fertility indicators: Sources of data and their computation, cross-sectional or period indicators: Crude birth rate (CBR), general fertility rate (GFR), age specific fertility rate (ASFR)
Fertility: Cross-sectional or period indicators-age specific marital fertility rate (ASMFR), total marital fertility rate (TMFR), total fertility rate (TFR), gross reproduction rate (GRR), net reproduction rate (NRR), replacement level fertility
Fertility: Cross-sectional or period indicators-birth order statistics, child women ratio, order specific fertility measures
Fertility: Cohort indicators-children ever born, completed family size. Age standardization or adjustment, direct and indirect standardized birth rates, sex-age adjusted birth rate
Fertility: Levels, trends and differentials of fertility in India, determinants of fertility-postpartum amenorrhoea (PPA), breast feeding, sterility, fecundity and other factors
Fertility: Framework of fertility analysis-davis and blake intermediate variable framework, bongaarts proximate determinants, lee and bulatoo framework of fertility
Fertility: Indirect methods of estimation of fertility-Coale-Trussell model for age pattern of fertility, reverse survival technique of fertility estimation, rele technique, P/F ratio technique, brass P1/ F1 ratio technique
Fertility: Fertility transition in developed and developing countries with special reference to India, implications of below replacement level of fertility
Population studies: Unit 05
Mortality, morbidity, and health
Mortality: Basic concept, definitions and measures of pregnancy wastage (miscarriage, abortion, fetal death, still birth), live birth; early, late and post neonatal deaths; infant and child death
Mortality: Mortality indicators-crude death rate (CDR), age specific death rate (ASDR), infant mortality rate (IMR), under-five mortality rate, neonatal mortality rate, post-natal mortality rate; maternal mortality rate (MMR)
Mortality: Infant mortality-levels and determinants of infant and child mortality in India, causes of infant mortality (endogenous and exogenous). Mosley and chen framework for child survival
Mortality: Sources of mortality data and its quality-measures of mortality, need and importance of the study of mortality for policy and public interventions; relative merits and demerits of mortality measures
Mortality: Levels and trends in mortality by developed and developing regions with special reference to india, age and sex specific mortality, differentials in mortality by place of residence and socio-economic characteristics
Mortality: Factors responsible for high mortality in the past and reasons for mortality decline in developing countries. Indirect method of estimation of infant and child mortality rates, direct and indirect standardization of mortality rates
Mortality: Life table-basic concepts, types and forms of life tables and model life table, need of model life table (MLT), un model life table, computation of life table, construction of life table based on age-specific deaths rates (ASDR)
Mortality: Life table-underlying assumptions of life table construction using ASDRS of community during specified period, use of life table application of life table in demographic analysis
Morbidity: Concepts and definitions of health and morbidity; sources of data and measures of morbidity
Morbidity: Morbidity indicators-incidence, prevalence and case-fatality ratio. Overview of epidemiological transition in developed and developing countries with special reference to India
Health: Reproductive health-definition, rationale, approach, evolution of ideas about reproductive health; maternal morbidity, emergency obstetric care, adolescent reproductive morbidity, strategies to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality in India
Health: Reproductive health-abortion related issues
Health: Reproductive tract infection (RTI)/ sexually transmitted infection (STI), HIV/ AIDS and their implications. Reproductive rights and ethical issues
Health: Causes of deaths statistics-definition and sources of causes of death statistics, introduction to international classification of diseases (ICD-X (1990), global leading causes of death with special reference to Asia and India
Health: Causes of deaths statistics-distribution of deaths by main causes and by age, life expectancy
Health: Burden of disease estimates-need for the study of burden of disease; basic concepts; measures of burden of disease; and current scenario of burden of disease in India by states/ UTs
Health: Ageing and burden of diseases, life expectancy and disability free life expectancy
Population studies: Unit 06
Urbanization and migration
Urbanization: Concept and definition of ‘urban’ in India and other countries. Process of urbanization, measures and sources of data. Inter-relationship between urbanization and migration in developed and developing countries
Urbanization: Trends, patterns, characteristics and differentials of urbanization in India. Classification of settlements, characteristic, evolution and growth, morphology, land use patterns and functions, spatial organisations
Urbanization: Principles of centrality and hierarchy, methods of measuring centrality, central place region, contribution of Christaller and Losch. Urbanisation and urban change-changing distribution of world’s urban population
Urbanization: Urbanisation and urban change-principles and causes of urban growth, urban hierarchy (rank size rule), characteristics of primate city, cycle of urbanization, economic and social theories of formation of urban centres
Urbanization: Urbanisation and urban change-stages of urban development models, demographic and social change in post World War-II urban system in developed and developing countries
Urbanization: Socioeconomic and environmental consequences of urbanization and urban growth in developed and developing countries-employment, urban informal sector, basic amenities, housing, health, education, elderly population, environment
Urbanization: Socioeconomic and environmental consequences of urbanization and urban growth in developed and developing countries-sustainability, smart cities, and urban future
Urbanization: World cities-hierarchy of world cities, growth and activities of the institutions of global capital
Migration: Basic concepts and definitions-circulation, mobility, commutation and migration. Sources of data-nature, coverage and limitations of the available data. Types of migration: Internal and international trends
Migration: Types of migration-Patterns and differentials of internal and international migration. Determinants and consequences of internal and international migrations. Refugees-issues and implications
Migration: Direct and indirect measures of migration-estimation of lifetime and inter, censal migration rates from census data, indirect measures of net internal migration using vital statistics method, national growth rate method
Migration: Direct and indirect measures of migration-census and life table survival ratio methods, methods of estimating international migration
Migration: Theories of internal and international migration-Ravenstein, Everett lee, Lewis-fei-ranis model, Todaro, Stouffer, Zelinsky, neoclassical economic theory, new household economic theory, dual labour market theory, world system theory
Migration: Theories of internal and international migration-social network theory, cumulative causation theory
Population studies: Unit 07
Population, development, and environment
Environment in the context of development, interrelationship between population growth, environment and development, concepts of development and its measures: Limitations of per capita income as an indicator of development
Concepts of development and its measures: Human centered development-welfare approach, investment in human capital approach, human development index (HDI), physical quality of life index (PQLI), concepts of social development
Concepts of development and its measures: Social capital and social change; social development index (SDI), gender development index (GDI), millennium development goals (MDG), concept of sustainable development, sustainable development goals (SDG)
Concepts of development and its measures: Concepts and measures of poverty, human poverty index (HPI)
Effect of development on population dynamics, age structure transition, demographic transition, demographic dividends, and population ageing
Views regarding the relationship between population and development: (i) Views of different religions on pro-natalist and prosperity argument: Greek philosophers’ views, Chinese philosopher Confucius writings on optimum population
Views regarding the relationship between population and development: (i) Views of different religions on pro-natalist and prosperity argument: Classical mercantilist and physiocrats views, socialist and Marxist views, etc
Views regarding the relationship between population and development: (ii) Pessimistic perspective-population growth viewed as an obstacle to development, Malthus theory, Coale and Hoover study, tragedy of commons
Views regarding the relationship between population and development: (ii) Pessimistic perspective-limits to growth study and Enke's investment model, etc. (iii) Optimistic perspective: Population growth is conducive to development-mercantilist views
Views regarding the relationship between population and development: (iii) Optimistic perspective-Colin and Condorcet views, views of Colin Clark, Ester Boserup and Julian Simon, etc
Views regarding the relationship between population and development: (iv) Neutralist/ revisionist perspective-need to study linkages between population change and development-views of Simon Kuznets, Allan Kelly and Robert Schmidt
Views regarding the relationship between population and development: (iv) Neutralist/ revisionist perspective-need to study linkages between population change and development-views of Bloom and Williamson
Population and resources: Natural resources-types of natural resources, renewable and non-renewable resources, resources scarcity and resource depletion. Capital resources: effect of demographic factors on savings and investments
Population and resources: Capital resources-technology and development; importance of technology to improve the productivity of physical assets. Human resources: quantitative aspects: Concepts of labour force, economically active population, unemployment
Population and resources: Human resources-quantitative aspects, types of unemployment; disguised, seasonal, frictional and chronic. Factors affecting demand and supply of labour, effect of population growth and development on structure of employment
Population and resources: Implications of population growth-on food supply, water, sanitation, housing, employment, health, education, energy, etc; environmental degradation-air pollution, greenhouse effect-global warming, climate change
Population and resources: Pressure of population growth on land use-soil erosion, desertification, deforestation, and soil salinity, etc
Population and resources: Human ecosystems-ecological imbalance caused by natural and human factors and their impacts on human ecological systems, human perception and adjustment to imbalance, sustainable human ecosystems
Population and resources: Guidelines for environmental protection, international protocols developmental plans, policies and strategies in India in the context of population and environment
Population studies: Unit 08
Population issues: Gender and special groups
Gender: Concept and meaning of gender; evolution of gender in historical perspective, gender and its relationship with components of population: Age-sex structure, fertility, mortality, migration
Major morbidity and mortality burden in the developing world with major focus on India, sex ratio at births, major health problems experienced by women and men, reproductive health of women and men in developing world
Differentials in use of male and female methods of contraception, health and nutrition issues of adolescent boys and girls, abuse and maltreatment, puberty, sexual debut, adolescent pregnancy, abortion, women and family planning programs
Contraceptive technology, major risk factors of men’s health: masculinity, alcoholism, tobacco and drug consumption, accident, etc
Gender dimension of economic development: Women’s access to economic resources, entitlements, land ownership, inheritance laws, access to credit, measurements of women’s work, profiling women’s work, informal sector involvement, working condition
Gender dimension of economic development: Maternity benefits, wage differentials, gender and poverty, globalization: Changing pattern of economic activity, issues of marginalization and vulnerability along with agency, negotiation and spaces of power
Globalization: Gender divisions in urban labor markets, gender and migration, housing, household environment and its differential impact on men and women’s life, environmental degradation: Changes in climate
Environmental degradation: Water table and land use and their differential impact on men and women, the Concept of gender mainstreaming: Gender mainstreaming in various health and development sectors-example agriculture, health, education
The Concept of gender mainstreaming: Gender in workplace (public and private), etc
Gender inequality and status of women: Social, economic, cultural, health and domestic violence, women autonomy and empowerment and its demographic implications, gender empowerment measure (GEM)
Scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST): Size, growth, composition and distribution in India, development plans and programmes for SC and ST and their impact on population
Disabled/ physically challenged population: Size, growth and distribution in India, classification of physically challenged population
Development plans and programmes for physically challenged population in India
Population studies: Unit 09
Population and health policies and programmes
National policies: Evolution and development of population, health and related policies viz., National Population Policy 1977, National Health Policy 1983, National Population Policy 2000, National Health Policy 2002, National Health Policy 2017
National policies: National Nutrition Policy, National Policy on Older Persons, social security for elderly, legislations to protect elderly in India, Protect National Youth Policy-its purpose, goals and objectives, thematic areas and strategies
National policies: National Policy on HIV/AIDS, National Environment Policy, etc-its purpose, goals and objectives, thematic areas and strategies
National policies: Population and policies on special groups, ageing and disabilities, ageing and quality of life, ageing and mental health problems, social gradients of health for ageing population, healthy ageing, who framework for healthy ageing
National policies: Geriatric care in India. Role of NITI Ayog in health and population related policies and programme, population, health and related policies and programme at state levels. Evolution of family welfare programme in India since 1952
National policies: Population control strategies under different five year plans till current period. Recommendations of various experts committee viz., Bhore committee, Mudaliar committee, Chadha committee, Mukherjee committee, Jungalwalla committee
National policies: Recommendations of various experts committee viz., Kartar Singh committee, Shrivastav committee, Bajaj committee, etc
National health mission (NHM): History and evolution, various schemes under NHM: Reproductive, maternal, newborn, child health and adolescent (RMNCHA) programme, etc. Policies, programmes, and legislations in India: Related to age at marriage
National health mission (NHM): Policies, programmes, and legislations in India-medical termination of pregnancy, sex selective abortion (PCPNDT act), COTPA act-2003 (tobacco control act), policies and programme related to reproductive and child health
National health mission (NHM): Policies, programmes, and legislations in India-adolescent health, child health, antenatal, natal and postnatal care, immunization, vitamin deficiency, diarrhoea and acute respiratory infection, family planning, RTIs/ STDs
National health mission (NHM): Policies, programmes, and legislations in India-HIV/ AIDS, public health nutrition; causes of infertility and its treatment in government programme, social and psychological consequences of infertility
National health mission (NHM): Policies, programmes, and legislations in India-socio-psychological and health problems of menopausal women. Family planning methods-traditional vs modern methods, advantages/ disadvantages, effectiveness of various methods
National health mission (NHM): Achievements of various components of RMNCH+A programme, national programme for health care of elderly, communicable and noncommunicable diseases, programme
National health mission (NHM): Methods and approaches of impact assessment of different policies and programme on population and health of people
Health infrastructure and delivery system in India: Health system functioning in India, organizational structure-sub health center, primary health center, community health center, health system of district, state and center levels
Health infrastructure and delivery system in India: Role and responsibilities of various categories of health personnel in family welfare programme, concept and implementation of universal health care in India. Decentralization strategies in health
Health infrastructure and delivery system in India: Role of Panchayati Raj institutions (PRIs) in health, health systems reforms in India, public-private partnership in health and family welfare services
Health infrastructure and delivery system in India: Role of ICDS in reducing malnutrition and coordination with health sectors, intersectoral coordination for improving hygiene, water and sanitation etc
Basic concepts in public financing in health: Equity, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care delivery, basic concept of investment in health, public goods and private goods, externalities, public sector spending on health
Basic concepts in public financing in health: Basic concepts in national health accounting, need and concepts in social health insurance, schemes in social health schemes, principles and methods of economic evaluation of population and health programmes
Global issues and challenges in population and health: Concept of global health, global demographic, health and epidemiological transition, role of united nations and other international agencies like UNFPA, population council
Global issues and challenges in population and health: WHO etc in health and population; UN world population conferences: Bucharest (1974), Mexico (1984), Cairo (1994) conferences, Alma Ata declaration (1978)-health for all by 2000
Global issues and challenges in population and health: UN world population conferences-components of primary health care, millennium development goals (2000), sustainable development goals (2016)
Global issues and challenges in population and health: Health policies and health system in developed and developing countries
Population studies: Unit 10
Research methodology and programme evaluation
Principle and methods of social science research, scientific research-conceptual, empirical, and analytical framework of research, types of research: action research, operations research, formative research, programme evaluation research
Research design: Observational study (descriptive and exploratory study) and experimental studies (quasi experimental and true experimental study, longitudinal and panel study design, issues relates to reliability and validity in research design
Method of data collection and analysis: Quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection, quality of data in evaluation research. Concept and application of odds ratio and relative risks
Method of data collection and analysis: Concept and application of probability in analysis of population data, laws of probability and concept of Bayes theorem, concept and application of Binomial
Method of data collection and analysis: Concept and application of exponential and normal distributions in population data analysis. Concept of statistical hypothesis, concept and application of correlation, association and regression
Method of data collection and analysis: Concept of p value (level of significance), concept of confidence interval, concept and application of logistics regression analysis
Sampling: Sampling concept, concept of sampling unit, sampling frame and sampling design, sampling and non-sampling errors, standard error, sample size determination
Sampling methods and techniques: Simple random sampling, stratified random sampling, systematic random sampling, cluster sampling, purposive sampling, multi-stage sampling, design effect in sampling
Research problem and formulation of research hypotheses: Defining the research problem; components of the research problem; formulating the research hypothesis
Research report writing and ethics in research: Types of research reports-brief reports and detailed reports; report writing: Structure of the research report, interpretations of results and suggested recommendations; ethics in research
Report writing: Client’s ethical code; researcher’s ethical code; ethical codes related to respondents; monitoring and evaluation of programme: Basic concept of monitoring and evaluation, difference between monitoring and evaluation
Monitoring and evaluation of programme: Monitoring of health programme-data requirements and Indicators, health management information system (HMIS) as tool of programme monitoring, Indicators based on service statistics based on: Input, process, output
Monitoring and evaluation of programme: Indicators based on service statistics based on-acceptance/ utilization rate of various services, strength and limitations of HMIS data, evaluation of accessibility, availability, equity
Monitoring and evaluation of programme: Quality and gender perspectives in RMNCH+A services
Types of evaluation-formative and summative evaluation, concurrent evaluation, framework for the evaluation of the programme, types and levels of indicators in programme evaluation-(input process, output, outcome, and impact indicators)
Types of evaluation-role of service statistics and surveys in programme evaluation
Concepts and applications of GIS in population studies: Spatial concepts-spatial parameters-site and location, scale, plane and spherical coordinate; map projections, types of maps, digital representations of spatial and non spatial data
Concepts and applications of GIS in population studies: Introduction to GIS-types of data, discrete and continuous data, raster and vector data, georeferencing/ geocoding and basics of digitization, layouts preparation
Concepts and applications of GIS in population studies: Spatial data representations and analysis-bar and line diagram, frequency polygon, frequency curve; spatial uni-variate and multivariate statistics: Spatial correlation and regression, matrix algebra
Concepts and applications of GIS in population studies: Spatial univariate and multivariate statistics-autocorrelation; spatial interpolations, Kriging, Moran’s I index

Music-Hindustani (vocal, instrumental, and musicology)+

Music-Hindustani (vocal, instrumental, and musicology): Unit 01
Technical terms
Sangeet, Nada: Ahata and Anahata, Shruti and its five Jaties, seven Vedic Swaras, seven Swaras used in Gandharva, Suddha and Vikrit Swara, Vadi-Samvadi, Anuvadi-Vivadi, Saptak, Aroha, Avaroha, Pakad/ Vishesa Sanchara, Purvanga, Uttaranga, Audava, Shadava
Sampoorna, Varna, Alankara, Alapa, Tana, Gamaka, Alpatva-Bahutva, Graha, Ansha, Nyasa, Apanyas, Avirbhav, Tirobhava, Geeta; Gandharva, Gana, Marga sangeeta, Desi sangeeta, Kutapa, Vrinda, Vaggeyakara mela, Thata, Raga, Upanga, Bhashanga, Meend, Khatka
Murki, Soot, Gat, Jod, Jhala, Ghaseet, Baj, harmony and melody, Tala, laya and different layakari, common talas in Hindustani music, Sapta talas and 35 talas, Tala Dasa pranas, Yati, Theka, Matra, Vibhag, Tali, Khali, Quida, Peshkar, Uthaan, Gat, Paran
Rela, Tihai, Chakradar, Laggi, Ladi, Marga-Deshi tala, Avartana, Sama, Vishama, Atita, Anagata, Dasavidha Gamakas, Panchadasa Gamakas, Katapayadi scheme, names of 12 Chakras, twelve Swarasthanas, Niraval, Sangati, Mudra, Shadangas, Alapana, Tanam, Kaku
Akarmatrik notations
Music-Hindustani (vocal, instrumental, and musicology): Unit 02
Folk music
Origin, evolution, and classification of Indian folk song/ music
Characteristics of folk music
Detailed study of folk music, folk instruments, and performers of various regions in India
Ragas and talas used in folk music
Folk fairs and festivals in India
Music-Hindustani (vocal, instrumental, and musicology): Unit 03
Rasa and Aesthetics
Rasa, principles of rasa according to Bharata and others
Rasa Nishpatti and its application to Indian classical music
Bhava and rasa
Rasa in relation to Swara, Laya, Tala, Chhanda, and lyrics
Aesthetics according to Indian and western philosophers
General knowledge of 64 Kalas according to Vatsyayan
General history of Raga-Ragini paintings and Raga Dhyana
Interrelation of fine arts
Music-Hindustani (vocal, instrumental, and musicology): Unit 04
Research methodology and pedagogy, avenues, interdisciplinary aspects, and modern technology
Research pedagogy: Research areas, review of literature, selection of suitable research topics and research problems, methodology of music research, preparing synopsis, data collection and its sources, analysis of data collection, writing project report
Research pedagogy: Research project indexing, references and bibliography, etc
Research avenues and its interdisciplinary aspects: Music and literature, music therapy, philosophy, psychology, physics, mathematics, economics, social sciences, religion, and culture
Modern technology: Electronic equipments, computer, internet, etc
New trends in Indian music in post-independence era
Music-Hindustani (vocal, instrumental, and musicology): Unit 05
Applied theory
Detail study of sangeet Utpatti; musical scales (Indian and Western); detail study of Gram, Murchchhana and Chatussarna; Jaati Lakshana, Jati Bhed, concept of Raag, Raag-Lakshan
Classification of raag: (i) Gram raag and Desi raag classification, (ii) male raag classification, (iii) thaat raag classification, (iv) Shuddha, Chhayalag, and Sankeerna raag classification, (v) Raag-Ragini classification, (vi) Raagang classification
Classification of raag: (vi) Time theory of ragas; placement of Shuddha and Vikrit swaras on shruties in ancient, medieval and modern period; description of popular ragas and talas; notation systems of Hindustani, Karnataka, and western music
Classification of raag: (vi) Merits and demerits of a vocalist (gayak); remix, fusion, orchestra, coir and acoustic; comparative studies of Hindustani and Karnatak swaras and taalas; Karnatak names of popular Hindustani ragas
Classification of raag: (vi) Knowledge of different layakaaries such as Dugun, Tiguan, Chaugun, Aad, Kuad and Viaad
Music-Hindustani (vocal, instrumental, and musicology): Unit 06
History of Indian music, contribution of musicologists, and their textual tradition
Study of the historical development of Hindustani music from Vedic to modern period; ancient medieval and modern musicologist and scholars: Bharat, Naarad, Matang, Someshwar Dev, Jagdekmall, Nanya Dev, Sharangdev, Parshwadev, Sudhakalash
Ancient medieval and modern musicologist and scholars: Maharana Kumbha, Ramamatya, Damodar Pandit, Pt. Ahobal, Shriniwas, Hridya Narayana, Venkatamakhi, Pt. Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, Pt. Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Pt. Vinayak Rao Patwardhan
Ancient medieval and modern musicologist and scholars: Pt. Omkarnath Thakur, Acharya Brihaspati, Thakur Jaidev Singh, Sharachchandra Shridhar Paranjape, Bhagwat Sharan Sharma, Dr. Prem Lata Sharma, Dr. Subhadra Choudhary, Prof. R.C. Mehta
Ancient medieval and modern musicologist and scholars: Prof. Pradeep Kumar Dixit
Study of ancient, medieval and modern treatises in Indian music like Natya Shastra, Naradiya Shiksha, Sangeet Makarand, Brihaddeshi, Manasollasa, Sangeet Chudamani, Bharat Bhashya, Sangeet Ratnakar, Sangeet Samaysar, Sangeet opanishatsaaroddhar
Sangeet raj, Swaramela Kalanidhi, sangeet darpan, sangeet parijat, raga tatvavibodh, Hridaya Kautuk, Hridaya Prakash, Chaturdandi Prakashika, sangeet Chintamani, Pranav Bharti, etc
Contribution of western scholars to Indian music: Capt. N.A. Willard William Jones, Capt. C.R. Day, E. Clements, Fox Strangwayes, H.A. Popley and Alain Danielou
Music-Hindustani (vocal, instrumental, and musicology): Unit 07
Compositional forms and their evolution
Prabandh, Dhrupad, Dhamaar, Saadra, Khayaal, Tarana, Trivat, Chaturang, Sargam Geet, Lakshan Geet, Raagmala, etc
Thumri, Dadra, Tappa, Hori, Kajri, and Chaiti, etc
Light music: Geet, gazal, and bhajan, etc
Feroz Khan gat, Masitkhani gat, Razakhani gat and Jafarkhani gat and its kind
Jaati, Javali, Kriti, Tillana, Raagam, Taanam, Pallavi
Origin, development and presentation of above said vocal and instrumental compositions
Popular artists in the field of above said forms
Music-Hindustani (vocal, instrumental, and musicology): Unit 08
Musical instruments and its classification
Classification of Indian musical instruments in ancient, medieval, and modern period, different types of veenas in ancient period, tat-sitar, sarod, violin, dilruba, israj, santoor, tanpura, surbahar, guitar
Ghan-Jaltarang, Ghatam, Morsing, Chipali, Manjeera, Jhanjh, Kartal Sushir-flute and its varieties, Shehnai, Nagaswaram, harmonium
Avanaddha-Pakhawaj, tabla, Mridangam, Kanjira, Khol, Chang, Nakkara, Duff, Hudaka, dholak
Origin, evolution, playing techniques and famous artist of these instruments
Music-Hindustani (vocal, instrumental, and musicology): Unit 09
Contribution of composers/ performers to Indian music
Tansen, Haridas, Gopal Nayak, Sadarang, Pandit Balkrishna Bua Ichalkaranjikar, Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar, Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Ustad Faiyaz Khan, Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan, Pandit Omkar Nath Thakur
Pandit Vinayak Rao Patwardhan, Pandit Narayan Rao Vyas, Pandit C.R. Vyas, Pandit Krishna Rao Shankar Pandit, Pandit Mallikarjun Mansur, Smt Gangubai Hangal, Kesar Bai Kerkar, Abdul Kareem Khan, Hirabai Barodekar, Suhasini Koratkar, Bade Ramdas
Siddheswari Devi, Begum Akhtar, Shobha Gurtu, Girija Devi, Savita Devi, Mogubai Kurdikar, Kishori Amonkar, Pandit Kumar Gandharva, Pandit Jasraj, Pandit Balwant Rai Bhatt. Pt. Ramashreya Jha
Asad Ali Khan, Pt. Lal Mani Mishra, Abdul Halim Zafar Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Sharan Rani, Amjad Ali Khan, Anath Lal, Panna Lal Ghosh, Vijay Raghav Rao, Raghunath Seth, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Ahmad Jaan Thirakwa, Pt. Samta Prasad, Kishan Maharaj
Kudau Singh, Paagal Das, Brij Bhushan Kabra, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Shiv Kumar Sharma, Bhajan Sopori, M.S. Gopal Krishnan, V.G. Jog, N. Rajam, Appa Jalgaonkar, Mehmood Dholpuri
Recipient of Bharat Ratna: M.S. Subbulakshmi, Pt. Ravi Shankar, Ustad Bismillah Khan, Lata Mangeshkar and Pt. Bhimsen Joshi. Purandar Das, Shyam Shastri, Muthuswami Dixitar, Tyagaraja, Swathi Thirunal Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Yehudi Menuhin
Music-Hindustani (vocal, instrumental, and musicology): Unit 10
Gharna and institutional system and conferences of Hindustani music
General study of origin and development of Gharana
Institutionalised system and their contribution to Hindustani music
Four baanies of Dhrupad and its importance to Hindustani music
General study of various Gharanas of Dhrupad Kheyal and instrumental music
Special features of Gharanas in vocal and instrumental music and its famous artists
Purab and Punjab Angas of Tumari
Important music conferences in India
National and international awards in the field of music
Contribution of music educational institutes Akademies, Prasar Bharati, song and drama division and film in Indian music

Music-Karnataka music+

Music-Karnataka music: Unit 01
Technical terms
Sangeet, Nada: Ahata and Anahata, Shruti and its five Jaties, seven Vedic Swaras, seven Swaras used in Gandharva, Suddha and Vikrit Swara, Vadi-Samvadi, Anuvadi-Vivadi, Saptak, Aroha, Avaroha, Pakad/ Vishesa Sanchara, Purvanga, Uttaranga, Audava, Shadava
Sampoorna, Varna, Alankara, Alapa, Tana, Gamaka, Alpatva-Bahutva, Graha, Ansha, Nyasa, Apanyas, Avirbhav, Tirobhava, Geeta; Gandharva, Gana, Marga sangeeta, Desi sangeeta, Kutapa, Vrinda, Vaggeyakara mela, Thata, Raga, Upanga, Bhashanga, Meend, Khatka
Murki, Soot, Gat, Jod, Jhala, Ghaseet, Baj, harmony and melody, Tala, laya and different layakari, common talas in Hindustani music, Sapta talas and 35 talas, Tala Dasa pranas, Yati, Theka, Matra, Vibhag, Tali, Khali, Quida, Peshkar, Uthaan, Gat, Paran
Rela, Tihai, Chakradar, Laggi, Ladi, Marga-Deshi tala, Avartana, Sama, Vishama, Atita, Anagata, Dasavidha Gamakas, Panchadasa Gamakas, Katapayadi scheme, names of 12 Chakras, twelve Swarasthanas, Niraval, Sangati, Mudra, Shadangas, Alapana, Tanam, Kaku
Akarmatrik notations
Music-Karnataka music: Unit 02
Folk music
Origin, evolution and classification of Indian folk song/ music
Characteristics of folk music
Detailed study of folk music, folk instruments, and performers of various regions in India
Ragas and talas used in folk music
Folk fairs and festivals in India
Music-Karnataka music: Unit 03
Rasa and Aesthetics
Rasa, principles of rasa according to Bharata and others
Rasa Nishpatti and its application to Indian classical music
Bhava and rasa
Rasa in relation to Swara, Laya, Tala, Chhanda, and lyrics
Aesthetics according to Indian and western philosophers
General knowledge of 64 Kalas according to Vatsyayan
General history of Raga-Ragini paintings and Raga Dhyana
Interrelation of fine arts
Music-Karnataka music: Unit 04
Research methodology and pedagogy, avenues, interdisciplinary aspects, and modern technology
Research pedagogy: Research areas, review of literature, selection of suitable research topics and research problems, methodology of music research, preparing synopsis, data collection and its sources, analysis of data collection, writing project report
Research pedagogy: Research project indexing, references and bibliography, etc
Research avenues and its interdisciplinary aspects: Music and literature, music therapy, philosophy, psychology, physics, mathematics, economics, social sciences, religion, and culture
Modern technology: Electronic equipments, computer, internet, etc
New trends in Indian music in post-independence era
Music-Karnataka music: Unit 05
Applied theory
Musical scales (Indian and western), Suddha and Vikrita Svaras, Shruti in ancient, medieval, and modern period, detailed study of Grama, Murchana-Jaati, Jaati Lakshana in ancient period, concept of raga
Classification of raga from ancient to modern period, Raga Lakshana-s of popular ragas, Mela-Janya system, Katapayadi and Bhuta Sankhya, Janya-raga classification, ancient-Palai-Pan system, 22 Srutis and their distribution among Swaras and Ragas
Suladi sapta tala-s, scheme of 35 talas, tala dasa pranas, Marga and Desi talas, talas of Thiruppugazh, Shadangas and Shodasangas, important ragas and talas of Hindustani music
Notation systems in Hindustani, Karnatak, and western music (staff notation)
Voice culture, orchestration, and acoustics
Music-Karnataka music: Unit 06
Historical perspective of music-contributions of scholars, musicologists, musical concepts in treatises
Narada-Naradiya Shiksha, Sangita Makaranda; Bharata-Natya Shastra; Dattila-Dattilam, Matanga-Brihaddeshi; Someshwara-Manasollasa; Parsva Deva-Sangita Samayasara; Sarangadeva-Sangita Ratnakara, Simhabhupala; Nanyadeva-Bharata Bhashyam
Lochana Kavi-raga Tarangini; Jagadekamalla-Sangita Chudamani; Vidyaranya-Sangita Sara, Ramamatya-Swaramela Kalanidhi; Rana Kumbha-Sangita Raja; Somnath-Raga Vibodha, Ahobala-Sangeeta Parijat
Govinda Dikshita-Sangita Sudha; Venkatamakhi-Chaturdandi Prakasika; Tulaja-Sangita Saramrita; Govinda Acharya-Sangraha Chudamani; Subbarama Dikshitar-Sangita Sampradaya Pradarsini; Abraham Pandithar-Karnamrita Sagaram
Nadamuni Panditar-Swara Prastara Sagaram; Attoor Krishna Pisharoti-Sangeetha Chandrika
References to musical concepts in Silappadikaram, sangam texts, Pancha Marabu, Tala Samudram, Mahabharata Chudamani, Yazh Nool and other important texts in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam
Musicologists: V.N. Bhatkhande, V.D. Paluskar, Swami Prajnanananda, B.C. Deva, P. Sambamurthy, S.Seetha, V.Raghavan, Premlata Sharma, R.Satyanarayana, T.S. Parthasarathy, N. Ramanathan, S.A.K. Durga, Balantrapu Rajanikanta Rao, R.C Mehta and their works
Contribution of western scholars to Indian music; Curt Sachs, N.A.Willard, William Jones, C.R. Day, E. Clements, Fox Strangways, H.A. Popley and Alain Danielou
Music-Karnataka music: Unit 07
Compositional forms and their evolution
Origin and development of Prabandha, Gitam, Swarajati, Jatiswaram, Tana Varnam, Pada Varnam, Kirtana, Kriti, Padam, Javali, Tillana, Ragam-Tanam-Pallavi, Niraval, Kalpana Svara, Tevaram, Divyaprabandham, Thiruppugazh, Thaya, Ragamalika, Viruttam, Dandakam
Churnika, Sloka, Daru, Ashtapadi, Tarangam, Thiruvaimozhi, Thiruppavai, Chindu, Thiruvasagam, group Kritis
Geya Nataka-a, Nritya Nataka-s Hindustani musical forms Dhrupad, Dhamar, Khayal, Thumri, Tappa, Tarana, Trivat, Chaturang, Vrindavan
Music-Karnataka music: Unit 08
Music instruments of India
Indian concept of classification of music instruments
Origin, evolution, structure and playing technique of veena, tambura, violin, chitra vina, viola, mandolin, flute, nadaswaram, panchamukha vadyam, mridangam, tavil, kanjira, dappu, chenda, maddalam, timila, jaltarang, ghatam, morsing, chipla, jalra
Kartala and other tala instruments
Outline knowledge of-sitar, sarangi, sarod, shehnai, tabla, pakhawaj, piano, guitar, clarionet
Music-Karnataka music: Unit 09
Contribution of composers/ performers to music (Indian and western)
Tevaram, Alvars, Jayadeva, Dasa Kuta, Purandara Dasa, Annamacharya, Tallapaka composers, Bhadrachala Ramadasu, Arunagirinathar, Muthuthandavar, Marimuthu Pillai, Arunachala Kavirayar, Sangeetha Mummoorthy viz., Shamasastry, Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar
Swati Tirunal, Gopalakrishna Bharati, Tanjore Quartette, Patnam Subramanya Iyer and other prominent post trinity composers
Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar, Musiri Subrahmanya Iyer, G.N Balasubramaniam, Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer, Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar, K.V Narayana Swamy, M.D Ramanathan, R.K Srikanthan, M. Balamurali Krishna
M.S. Subbalakshmi, D.K. Pattammal, M.L.Vasanthakumari, Brinda, Mukta and other prominent vocalists
Karaikudi Sambasiva Iyer, Veena Dhanammal, S. Balachander, Mysore Doraiswamy Iyengar, S. Balachander, ChittiBabu, Mysore Chowdiah, Lalgudi Jayaraman, Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu, T.N. Krishnan, M.S. Gopalakrishnan, Sarabha Sastri, T.R. Mahalingam
N. Ramani, Sheikh Chinna Moulana, Ambalapuzha Brothers, Namagiripettai Krishnan, Palghat Mani Iyer, Palani Subramaniam, Vikku Vinayakram, Harishankar and other prominent musicians of Veena, Violin, Flute, Nadaswaram, Mridangam, Ghatam and Kanjira
Music-Karnataka music: Unit 10
Prominent banis, music training, education, and propagation
Merits and limitations of Gurukula Sampradayam, institutional training and academic teaching system in universities
Nadaswaram Bani-Tanjavur style, Mridanga Bani-Thanjavur, Pudukkottai and Palakkad styles, Banis of Dhanammal school, Ariyakudi, musiri, GNB, Maharajapuram, Chembai and Semmangudi
Styles of music trinity and analysis of their ragas, compositions with various musical versions
Music propagation through music academies, Prasar Bharati, song and drama division, films,music festivals like Tiruvaiyaru, Chembai, Melattur, etc
Influence of other music systems on Karnatak music-Hindustani and Western
National and international awards in music

Music-Percussion+

Music-Percussion: Unit 01
Technical terms
Sangeet, Nada: Ahata and Anahata, Shruti and its five Jaties, seven Vedic Swaras, seven Swaras used in Gandharva, Suddha and Vikrit Swara, Vadi-Samvadi, Anuvadi-Vivadi, Saptak, Aroha, Avaroha, Pakad/ Vishesa Sanchara, Purvanga, Uttaranga, Audava, Shadava
Sampoorna, Varna, Alankara, Alapa, Tana, Gamaka, Alpatva-Bahutva, Graha, Ansha, Nyasa, Apanyas, Avirbhav, Tirobhava, Geeta; Gandharva, Gana, Marga sangeeta, Desi sangeeta, Kutapa, Vrinda, Vaggeyakara mela, Thata, Raga, Upanga, Bhashanga, Meend, Khatka
Murki, Soot, Gat, Jod, Jhala, Ghaseet, Baj, harmony and melody, Tala, laya and different layakari, common talas in Hindustani music, Sapta talas and 35 talas, Tala Dasa pranas, Yati, Theka, Matra, Vibhag, Tali, Khali, Quida, Peshkar, Uthaan, Gat, Paran
Rela, Tihai, Chakradar, Laggi, Ladi, Marga-Deshi tala, Avartana, Sama, Vishama, Atita, Anagata, Dasavidha Gamakas, Panchadasa Gamakas, Katapayadi scheme, names of 12 Chakras, twelve Swarasthanas, Niraval, Sangati, Mudra, Shadangas, Alapana, Tanam, Kaku
Akarmatrik notations
Music-Percussion: Unit 02
Folk music
Origin, evolution, and classification of Indian folk song/ music
Characteristics of folk music
Detailed study of folk music, folk instruments, and performers of various regions in India
Ragas and talas used in folk music
Folk fairs and festivals in India
Music-Percussion: Unit 03
Rasa and Aesthetics
Rasa, principles of rasa according to Bharata and others
Rasa Nishpatti and its application to Indian classical music
Bhava and rasa
Rasa in relation to Swara, Laya, Tala, Chhanda, and lyrics
Aesthetics according to Indian and western philosophers
General knowledge of 64 Kalas according to Vatsyayan
General history of Raga-Ragini paintings and Raga Dhyana
Interrelation of fine arts
Music-Percussion: Unit 04
Research methodology and pedagogy, avenues, interdisciplinary aspects, and modern technology
Research pedagogy: Research areas, review of literature, selection of suitable research topics and research problems, methodology of music research, preparing synopsis, data collection and its sources, analysis of data collection, writing project report
Research pedagogy: Research project indexing, references and bibliography, etc
Research avenues and its interdisciplinary aspects: Music and literature, music therapy, philosophy, psychology, physics, mathematics, economics, social sciences, religion, and culture
Modern technology: Electronic equipments, computer, internet, etc
New trends in Indian music in post-independence era
Music-Percussion: Unit 05
Applied theory-Taal and Avanadhavadhya
Description and playing techniques of varna’s and their combinations in tabla and pakhawaj instruments
Ten pranas of taal (detailed study)
Detailed study of Margi and Desi taal system (Paddhati), knowledge of Karnataka taal system: Detailed knowledge of Uttar Bhartiya taal paddhati and taalas used in Uttar Bhartiya sangeet
A brief knowledge of taalas used with Rabindra sangeet
Laya and layakari
Detailed knowledge of Hindustani and Karnatak taal notation system
Brief knowledge of staff notation system
Tabla accompaniment with vocal, (classical, semi-classical music) instrumental music and kathak dance
Relationship between taal and Chhand, knowledge of composing Tihaies of different Matras
Detailed knowledge of Tihai-Damdar, Bedam, Nauhakka, and Chakradhar Tihaies
Mathematical calculation of Chakradhar-(Sadharan, Firmaishi, and Kamali Chakradhar)
Difference between Chakradhar Gat, Chakradhar Tukda, and Chakardar Paran
The chakra of thirty two Tihaies describe by Acharya Brihaspati
Music-Percussion: Unit 06
History of music, treies, and contribution of musicologist
Bharat, Sharangdev, Matang, Parashwadev Nanya Dev, Ramamatya, Somnath, Damodar Pandit, Ahobal, Venkatamakhi, V.N. Bhatkhande, V.D. Paluskar, Pundarik Vitthal, Dr. Subhadra Chaudhary, Nikhil Ghosh, Madhukar Ganesh Godbole, Swami Pagal Das
Purushottam Das Pakhawaj, Girish Chandra Shrivastava, Bhagwat Sharan Sharma, Prof. Sudhir Kumar Saxena, Dr. Aban Mistry, Dr. Yogmaya Shukla, Arvind Mulgaonkar, Sudhir Mainkar, Dr. Arun Kumar Sen, Chhote Lal Mishra
Detailed study of the following texts: Natya Shastra, sangeet ratnakar, Brihaddeshi, Sangeet Samyasar Sangeet Raj, Ashtottar Shat taal, Lakshanam, Bhartiya Sangeet Vadya, Table ka Udgam Vikas Avam Vadan Shailiyan, Bhartiya Talon ka Shastriya Vivechan
Detailed study of the following texts: Pakhawaj avam table ke Gharane avam, Parmparayen, taal Kosh, tabla vadan kala avam Shastra, tabla, Bhartiya taal men anekta mein ekta, aesthetics of tabla, tabla puran, taal vadya parichaya, tabla granth manjusha
Detailed study of the following texts: Laya taal vichar manthan, tabla vadan mein Nihit Saundarya, solo tabla drumming of north India, tabla of Lucknow, taal Vadya Shastra, Bhartiya sangeet men taal, Chand avam Roop Vidhan
Music-Percussion: Unit 07
Detailed study compositional forms of avanaddha vadya
Definition of Bandish-expendable and nonexpendable compositions
The aesthetics of bandishen
Importance of presentation of bandishein
Detailed study of Theka, Peshkar, Qaeda and its Prastar (Paltas), Bant, Rela, Rau, Tukda, Mukhada, Gat and its various kinds, Rang-Rela, Fird, Paran, Tihaies of various kinds
Gats and quaidas of different Gharanas, LaggiLadi
Study of different compositions popular in classical vocal, semi-classical and instrumental music: Khayal, Masitkhani gat, Razakhani gat, Thumri, Dadra, Tappa, Kajari, Chaiti, Dhrupad, Dhamar, Sadra, Jhoola, Bhajan, Gazal, Geet
General knowledge of compositions used in Kathak dance: Aamad, Paran, Tatkar, Toda, Stuti Paran
Music-Percussion: Unit 08
Classification of musical instruments, descriptions of musical instruments from ancient to present period in India
Classification of Indian musical instruments as per described by Bharat, Sharangdev and Dr. Lalmani Mishra
Detailed study of origin, evolution, structure and playing technique of the following instruments: (a) Tat vadya: Veena, vichitra veena, naradiya veena, saraswati veena, rudra veena, sitar, sarod, sarangi, violin, dilruba, israj, santoor, surbahar
Detailed study of origin, evolution, structure and playing technique of the following instruments: (a) Tat Vadya: Tanpura, Guitar, ektara, dotara, (b) Sushir Vadya: Flute, shehnai, Nagasvaram, Claronate, Algoza, Sundari, Maguti
Detailed study of origin, evolution, structure and playing technique of the following instruments: (c) Avanaddha vadya: Panav, Patah, Mirdang, Pakhawaj, tabla, mridangam, tavil, khanjira, khol, chenda, chang, upang, duff, nakkara, dhol, dholak, sambal
Detailed study of origin, evolution, structure and playing technique of the following instruments: (c) Avanaddha vadya: Dholaki, Naal, Huddaka, pung, (d) Ghana vadya: Jal-tarang, nal-tarang, ghatam, morsing, chipli, jalra, kartaal, jhanjh, manjira
Popular percussion instruments used in western music: Kittle drum, Snare drum, Bass drum, Tenor drum and other important percussions
Music-Percussion: Unit 09
Performer and composers
Tabla: Nathu Khan, Modu Khan, Bakshu Khan, Abid Hussain Khan, Haji Vilayat Ali, Salari Khan, Chudiya Imam Baksh, Ram Sahay, Munir Khan, Habibuddin Khan, Ahmedjan Thirukuwa, Amir Hussain, Jahangir Khan, Sheikh Daud, Bade Munne Khan, Karamatullah Khan
Tabla: Allarakha Khan, Gyan Prakash Ghosh, Nikhil Ghosh, Gama Maharaj, Kishan Maharaj, Kanthe Maharaj, Samta Prasad (Gudai Maharaj), Anokhelal Mishra, Bhai Gaitonde, Pandharinath Nageshkar, Suresh Talwalkar, Hashmat Ali Khan
Tabla: Zakir Hussain and contemporary tabla and pakhawaj vizards and scholars
Pakhawaj: Kudau Singh Jodh Singh, Nana Panse, Ayodhya Prasad, Pagal Das, Chatrapati Singh, Arjun Sejwal, Madhav Rao Alkutkar, Sakhara Ram
Nakkara Vadak: Dilawar Khan, Aggan Khan
Dholak Vadak: Bafati Khan, Gulam Jaffer, Dholki: Vijay Chauhan
Karnataka music: Vocalists and instrumentalists-Bharat Ratan Subbalakshmi, S. Balachandar, Bal Muralikrishnan, Lalgudi Jayaraman, T.N. Krishnan, Palghat Raghu, Palghat Mani Iyer, Umayalpuram Sivaraman, U. Srinivas, Vikku Vinayakram, Hari Shankar
North Indian vocalist and instrumentalist: Allauddin Khan, Vilayat Khan, Ravishankar, Abdul Halim Jaffer, Balaram Pathak, Nikhil Banerjee, Hafeez Ali Khan, Ali Akbar Khan, Amjad Ali Khan, V.G. Jog, D.K. Datar, N Rajam, Hariprasad Chaurasia
North Indian vocalist and instrumentalist: Pannalal Ghosh, Bismillah Khan, Ali Hussain, Siddharam Jadhav, Krishna Rao, Shankar Pandit, Mogubai Kurdikar, Kesar Bai Kerkar, Mallikarjun Mansoor, Abdul Karim Khan, Faiyaz Khan, Bhimsen Joshi
North Indian vocalist and instrumentalist: Gangubai Hangal Malini Rajurkar, Kishori Amonkar, Jas Raj, Kumar Gandharva and Aamir Khan
Dancers: Acchan Maharaj, Lacchu Maharaj, Sitara Devi, Gopi Krishna, Birju Maharaj, Durga Lal, Yamini Krishnamurthy Samyukta Panigrahi and Kalyani Kutti Amma
All national and international awardees in the field of music, dance, folk music, and folk dances with special reference to percussion instrumentalists
Music-Percussion: Unit 10
Detailed study of gharanas and institutional system in music
Definition of baaj and gharanas
Historical evaluation and developments of gharanas of tabla and pakhawaj, Delhi gharana, Ajrada gharana, Farukhabad gharana, Lucknow gharana, Benaras gharana, Punjab gharana, Nana Panase gharana, Kudau Singh gharana
Varna Nikas (playing technique) in different gharanas
Main characteristics of Peshkar, Quida, rela, gat, tukada, paran, tihai, chakradhar and laggi ladi on the basis of gharanas
Importance and utility of tabla and pakhawaj in classical music, semi classical, sugam and film music
Universities, academies and other institutions, renowned professors, gurus, academicians, administrators who are propagating music

Music-Rabindra sangeet+

Music-Rabindra sangeet: Unit 01
Technical terms
Sangeet, Nada: Ahata and Anahata, Shruti and its five Jaties, seven Vedic Swaras, seven Swaras used in Gandharva, Suddha and Vikrit Swara, Vadi-Samvadi, Anuvadi-Vivadi, Saptak, Aroha, Avaroha, Pakad/ Vishesa Sanchara, Purvanga, Uttaranga, Audava, Shadava
Sampoorna, Varna, Alankara, Alapa, Tana, Gamaka, Alpatva-Bahutva, Graha, Ansha, Nyasa, Apanyas, Avirbhav, Tirobhava, Geeta; Gandharva, Gana, Marga sangeeta, Desi sangeeta, Kutapa, Vrinda, Vaggeyakara mela, Thata, Raga, Upanga, Bhashanga, Meend, Khatka
Murki, Soot, Gat, Jod, Jhala, Ghaseet, Baj, harmony and melody, Tala, laya and different layakari, common talas in Hindustani music, Sapta talas and 35 talas, Tala Dasa pranas, Yati, Theka, Matra, Vibhag, Tali, Khali, Quida, Peshkar, Uthaan, Gat, Paran
Rela, Tihai, Chakradar, Laggi, Ladi, Marga-Deshi tala, Avartana, Sama, Vishama, Atita, Anagata, Dasavidha Gamakas, Panchadasa Gamakas, Katapayadi scheme, names of 12 Chakras, twelve Swarasthanas, Niraval, Sangati, Mudra, Shadangas, Alapana, Tanam, Kaku
Akarmatrik notations
Music-Rabindra sangeet: Unit 02
Folk music
Origin, evolution, and classification of Indian folk song/ music
Characteristics of folk music
Detailed study of folk music, folk instruments, and performers of various regions in India
Ragas and talas used in folk music
Folk fairs and festivals in India
Music-Rabindra sangeet: Unit 03
Rasa and Aesthetics
Rasa, principles of rasa according to Bharata and others
Rasa Nishpatti and its application to Indian classical music
Bhava and rasa
Rasa in relation to Swara, Laya, Tala, Chhanda, and lyrics
Aesthetics according to Indian and western philosophers
General knowledge of 64 Kalas according to Vatsyayan
General history of Raga-Ragini paintings and Raga Dhyana
Interrelation of fine arts
Music-Rabindra sangeet: Unit 04
Research methodology and pedagogy, avenues, interdisciplinary aspects, and modern technology
Research pedagogy: Research areas, review of literature, selection of suitable research topics and research problems, methodology of music research, preparing synopsis, data collection and its sources, analysis of data collection, writing project report
Research pedagogy: Research project indexing, references and bibliography, etc
Research avenues and its interdisciplinary aspects: Music and literature, music therapy, philosophy, psychology, physics, mathematics, economics, social sciences, religion, and culture
Modern technology: Electronic equipments, computer, internet, etc
New trends in Indian music in post-independence era
Music-Rabindra sangeet: Unit 05
Applied theory
The knowledge of round the clock ragas and raginis, the knowledge of talas, the knowledge of kirtana, baul and other folk songs of bengal, the knowledge of monsoon and vernal ragas and raginis, selected provincial songs
Selected verses from the Vedas and Upanishads frequently chanted by Tagore
Rabindranath tagore specially created talas that is, Jhampak (5 matra), Sasthi (6 matra), Rupakra (8 matra), Nabatal (9 matra), Ekadasi (11 matra), Nabapanchatal (18 matra)
Mulgan and bhanga gan
Brahma sangeet by Tagore’s
Tagore’s poetic songs, (Kabya Geeti), Vedic hymns (tuned by Tagore)
Patriotic songs
Akarmatrik notation system
Music-Rabindra sangeet: Unit 06
Historical perspective of music
Conversation between Tagore and eminent personalities of India and abroad
Western scholars on Tagore music
‘Sangeet Chinta’ full study of Tagore book
Influence of European music as a whole on Tagore
Influence of European Music and provincial tune
Tagore’s creative journey in song writing and musical compositions
History of anthology of Tagore songs
Basic knowledge in Indian classical music with special emphasis in Dhrupad, Khayal, Tappa, Thumri
Knowledge of notation and tal (Indian and Western)
Music-Rabindra sangeet: Unit 07
Composition forms and their evolution
Main forms for Rabindra sangeet
Geetanjali and song offerings-a textual study
Biography of Tagore: The music composer upto Geetanjali era throughout Tagore’s life
The music composer (second part) after Geetanjali to 1941
Barsamangal, Sarodutsav, etc
Aesthetic approach of Rabindranath Tagore through Rabindra sangeet
Tagore’s philosophy of music, sahityer pathe, sahitya, sahityer swarup
Tagore’s vision of music in his early days
Concept of Tagore’s musical philosophy as expressed in essays, poems, novels etc
Knowledge of raga
Bengali songs: Pre contemporary and post Rabindranath era
Brahma Sangeet and patriotic songs of different author other than Rabindranath
Brahma Sangeet: Different author other than Tagore family
Bedgan, maghotsav, upasana song, songs of Tagore house, hansirgan
Music-Rabindra sangeet: Unit 08
Music instrument of India
Popular instruments used in Rabindra sangeet, that is, esraj, guitar, key board, sitar, tanpura, harmonium, sarod, violin, mandira, organ-piano, flute and its varieties, pakhawaj, tabla, sri khol, dhol, mridangam, jaltarang etc
Rabindra sangeet: Experiments in rhythms and talas
Application of various talas and rhythms
Surantar and Chhandantar
Music-Rabindra sangeet: Unit 09
Contribution of scholars/ performer and their textual traditions
Tagore’s Geeti Natya and Nritya Natya example-Balmiki Prativa, Kalmrigaya, Mayar Khela, Chitrangada, Chandalika, Shyama, Taser Des, Shap Mochan, etc, and other dramas full of various songs, that is, like Prayaschitta, Visarjan, Muktadhara, Achalayatan
Other dramas full of various songs, that is, like Raja, Raktakarabi, Phalguni, Basant, Sishu Tirtha, Rin Shodh, Raja o Rani, Prakritir Pratisodh, Tapati, etc
All dramatic works and example Tagore's musical creativity in Gitabitan-a textual study (part I, II, III) and Swarabitan (notation books) 1-66 and others
Bhanusingher Padabali, Ritunatya
History of anthology of Tagore’s songs
Contribution of scholar/ performer/ musicians: Pratibha Devi, Subinoy Roy, Nilima Sen, Indira Devi Chowdhurani, Maya Sen, Suchitra Mitra, Kanika Bandyopadhyay, Santidev Ghosh, Jyotirindranath Tagore, Debendranath Tagore, Sailaja Ranjan Majumdar
Contribution of scholar/ performer/ musicians: Anadi Dastidar, Kangalicharan Sen, Amiya Thakur, Bhimrao Sastri, Ases Bandyopadhyay, Girija Shankar Chakraborty, Ramesh Chandra Bandyopadhyay, Rajeswari Dutta, Sankha Ghosh, Sudhir Chakraborty etc
Music-Rabindra sangeet: Unit 10
Gharana and institutionalised system of music
An overall survey of Tagore’s musical creativity, tonal and rhythmic varieties of Tagore’s musical compositions including his own experimental variations
Periods and phases of Tagore’s musical compositions
Periods and phases of Tagore’s musical compositions (chronological order may be maintained)
Influence of Hindustani, Karnatak, and Western music on Rabindra sangeet, compositions who influenced Rabindra Sangeet
Tagore Song used in films
Tagore songs: Tunes adapted from Tappa, Thumri, Tarana, and Bhajan with original songs
The cultural atmosphere of Tagore’s family (Pathuriaghata, and Jorasanko, Kolkata)
Thematic variations of Tagore’s music: (Puja, Prem, Swadesh, Prakriti, Vichitra, Anusthanik) festival songs of Rabindra Sangeet
Knowledge of Hindustani songs and Tagore’s opinion on these songs
National anthem of India and Bangladesh
Rabindra sangeet based on classical tune

Management+

Management: Unit 01
Management
Concept, process, theories and approaches, management roles and skills, functions-planning, organizing, staffing, coordinating and controlling, communication-types, process and barriers
Decision making-concept, process, techniques and tools, organisation structure and design-types, authority, responsibility, centralisation, decentralisation and span of control, managerial economics-concept and importance
Demand analysis-utility analysis, indifference curve, elasticity and forecasting, market structures-market classification and price determination, national income-concept, types and measurement, inflation-concept, types and measurement
Business ethics and CSR, ethical issues and dilemma, corporate governance, value based organisation
Management: Unit 02
Organisational Behaviour
Significance and theories, individual behaviour-personality, perception, values, attitude, learning and motivation, group behaviour-team building, leadership, group dynamics, interpersonal behaviour and transactional analysis
Organizational culture and climate, workforce diversity and cross culture, organisational behaviour, emotions and stress management, organisational justice and whistle blowing, human resource management-concept, perspectives, influences and recent trends
Human resource planning, recruitment and selection, induction, training and development, job analysis, job evaluation and compensation management
Management: Unit 03
Strategic Role of Human Resource Management
Competency mapping and balanced scorecard, career planning and development, performance management and appraisal, organization development, change and OD interventions, talent management and skill development, employee engagement and work life balance
Industrial relations: Disputes and grievance management, labour welfare and social security, trade union and collective bargaining, international human resource management–HR challenge of international, business green HRM
Management: Unit 04
Accounting Principles and Standards
Preparation of financial statements, financial statement analysis-ratio analysis, funds flow and cash flow analysis, DuPont analysis, preparation of cost sheet, marginal costing, cost volume, profit analysis, standard costing and variance analysis
Financial management, concept, and functions, capital structure-theories, cost of capital, sources and finance, budgeting and budgetary control, types, and process, zero base budgeting, leverages-operating, financial and combined leverages
EBIT-EPS analysis, financial breakeven point and indifference level
Management: Unit 05
Value and returns
Time preference for money, valuation of bonds and shares, risk and returns; capital budgeting-nature of investment, evaluation, comparison of methods; risk and uncertainty analysis, dividend-theories and determination
Mergers and acquisition-corporate restructuring, value creation, merger negotiations, leveraged buyouts, take over portfolio management-CAPM, APT, derivatives-options, option payoffs, option pricing, forward contracts and future contracts
Working capital management-determinants, cash, inventory, receivables and payables management, factoring, international financial management, foreign exchange market
Management: Unit 06
Strategic management
Concept, process, decision and types, strategic analysis-external analysis, PEST, Porter’s approach to industry analysis, internal analysis-resource based approach, value chain analysis, strategy formulation-SWOT analysis
Strategy formulation-corporate strategy-growth, stability, retrenchment, integration and diversification, business portfolio analysis-BCG, GE business model, Ansoff’s product market growth matrix, strategy implementation-challenges of change
Strategy implementation-developing programs Mckinsey 7s framework, marketing-concept, orientation, trends and tasks, customer value and satisfaction, market segmentation, positioning and targeting
Product and pricing decision-product mix, product life cycle, new product development, pricing-types and strategies, place and promotion decision-marketing channels and value networks, VMS, IMC, advertising and sales promotion
Management: Unit 07
Consumer and Industrial Buying Behaviour
Theories and models of consumer behaviour, brand management-role of brands, brand equity, equity models, developing a branding strategy; brand name decisions, brand extensions and loyalty, logistics and supply chain management, drivers, value creation
Supply chain design, designing and managing sales force, personal selling, service marketing-managing service quality and brands, marketing strategies of service firms, customer relationship marketing-relationship building, strategies, values and process
Retail marketing-recent trends in India, types of retail outlets
Emerging trends in marketing-concept of e-marketing, direct marketing, digital marketing and green marketing international marketing-entry mode decisions, planning marketing mix for international markets
Management: Unit 08
Statistics for Management
Concept, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability distribution-binomial, Poison, normal and exponential data collection and questionnaire design, sampling-concept, process, and techniques, hypothesis testing-procedure
T, Z, F, chi-square tests, correlation and regression analysis, operations management-role and scope, facility location and layout-site selection and analysis, layout-design and process
Enterprise resource planning-ERP modules, ERP implementation, scheduling; loading, sequencing and monitoring, quality management and statistical quality control, quality circles, total quality management-KAIZEN, benchmarking, six sigma
Total quality management-ISO 9000 series standards, operation research-transportation, queuing, decision theory, PERT/ CPM
Management: Unit 09
International business
Managing business in globalization era; theories of international trade; balance of payment, foreign direct investment-benefits and costs, multilateral regulation of trade and investment under WTO, international trade procedures and documentation
EXIM policies, role of international financial institutions-IMF and world bank, information technology-use of computers in management applications; MIS, DSS, artificial intelligence and big data, data warehousing
Data mining and knowledge, management-concepts, managing technological change
Management: Unit 10
Entrepreneurship development
Concept, types, theories and process, developing entrepreneurial competencies, intrapreneurship-concept and process, women entrepreneurship and rural entrepreneurship, innovations in business-types of innovations, creating and identifying opportunities
Innovations in business-screening of business ideas, business plan and feasibility analysis-concept and process of technical, market and financial analysis, micro and small scale industries in India; role of government in promoting SSI
Sickness in small industries-reasons and rehabilitation, institutional finance to small industries-financial institutions, commercial banks, cooperative banks, micro finance

Maithili

Bengali

Hindi

Kannada

Malayalam

Oriya

Punjabi

Tamil

Telugu

Urdu

Sindhi

Dogri

Nepali

Manipuri

Assamese

Gujarati

Marathi

Persian

Rajasthani

German

Kashmiri

Konkani

Bodo

Traditional Sanskrit

Santali+

Santali: Unit 01
Ethnology
Santali: Unit 02
Linguistic and grammar
Santali: Unit 03
Indian literature
Santali: Unit 04
Theory of literature
Santali: Unit 05
Santali poetry literature
Santali: Unit 06
Santali prose literature
Santali: Unit 07
Santali magazine
Santali: Unit 08
Period greats and literatures
Santali: Unit 09
History of the santal

Prakrit+

Prakrit: Unit 01
History of the Prakrit language: Origin and development
Elements of the Prakrit language in Vedic literature, earliest source of Prakrit, development of the Prakrit language: (a) Primary Prakrit-(i) inscriptional Prakrit, niya Prakrit, Prakrit dhammapada
Development of the Prakrit language: (a) Primary Prakrit-(ii) general introduction to the language of the anga canonical texts, (iii) general introduction to the language of the texts-Kasayapahuda, Satkhandagama and the texts of Kundakunda
Development of the Prakrit language: (b) Secondary Prakrit-(i) language of the Upanga canonical texts and Mulasutras: Opapatika, Raja Pransiya, Dasavaikalika, Uttaradhyayana, (ii) general introduction to the language of the Mulacara
Development of the Prakrit language: (b) Secondary Prakrit-(ii) general introduction to the language of the Bhagwati aradhana and Tiloyapannatti, (iii) general introduction to the language of Gathasaptasati, Paumacariyaṃ and Vasudeva Hindi
Development of the Prakrit language: (c) Tertiary Prakrit-(i) commentary literature of the canons: General introduction to the language of the Dhavala and Jayadhavala, Sukh Bodha, commentary of Sri lanka on Sutrakritanga
Development of the Prakrit language: (c) Tertiary Prakrit-(ii) general introduction to the Setubandha, Gaudavaho, Lilavaikaha, and Prakrit texts of Haribhadra Suri, Kuvalayamalakaha, (iii) origin of the Apabhraṃsa language: Study of the works of Joindu
Development of the Prakrit language: (c) Tertiary Prakrit-(iii) origin of the Apabhraṃsa language: Study of the works of Svayambhu and Puspadanta and the Apabhraṃsa verses cited by Hemacandra in his Prakrit grammar
Development of the Prakrit language: (c) Tertiary Prakrit-(iv) contribution of Prakrit to the development of modern Indian languages: Hindi and other regional languages
Prakrit: Unit 02
Origin and characteristic features of different Prakrits
Maharashtra, Sauraseni, Ardhamagadhi, Magadhi, Paisaci, Apabhraṃsa
Prakrit: Unit 03
Prakrit canons and commentary literature
History of Ardhamagadhi and Sauraseni canonical literature, history of commentary literature of the Prakrit canons, general introduction to the Samanasuttaṃ
Prakrit: Unit 04
History of Prakrit Kavya literature
Mahakavya, Khandakavya, Carita Kavya, Kathakavya, Champu Kavya, Muktak Kavya
Prakrit: Unit 05
Prakrit in the ancient dramatic literature and Sattaka literature
Prakrits in the dramas of Asvaghosa and Bhasa, Prakrits in the Mrcchakatika, Mudrarakshasa and in the dramas of Kalidasa, characteristic features of the Sattaka literature
Prakrit: Unit 06
Prakrit Inscriptional literature
Study of the 14 rock-edicts of the Girnar version of emperor Asoka, study of the Hathigumpha inscription of emperor Kharavela, study of the Ghantiyala inscription of Kakkuka
Prakrit: Unit 07
Prakrit scientific literature
Rhetorics, Kosa, some important Prakrit texts on astrology and mathematics, Prakrit grammarians and grammatical treatises, metrics, features with examples of some of the metres in Prakrit and Apabhraṃsa: (i) Prakrit metres-Gaha, Pattha, Viula, Uggaha
Features with examples of some of the metres in Prakrit and Apabhraṃsa: (i) Prakrit metres-Gahu, Siṃhini, Gahini, Khaṃdhaa, (ii) Apabhraṃsa metres-Duvai, Kadava, Ghatta, Pajjhadia, Hela, Chaupaiyan
Prakrit: Unit 08
Prakrit grammar and Prakrit philology
Prakrit grammar-general rules of the noun, adjective, pronoun, verb, indeclinables, case, case-endings, Sandhi and Samasa, Prakrit philology: Phonetic changes, vowels and consonants, yashruti, Anusvara, Anunasika, Visarga; phonetic behaviors-assimilation
Prakrit philology: Phonetic behaviors-dissimilation, anaptyxis, metathesis, elision, agama, etc
Prakrit: Unit 09
Study of the original Prakrit texts
Acaranga (first Srutaskandha: Chapter I-Satthaparinna; chapter II-Logavijaya), Uttaradhyayana (chapter I-Vinayasuyaṃ, chapter IX-Namipavajja), Dasavaikalika (chapters-I, II, III and IV), Pravacanasara of Kundakunda (chapter I-Janadhikar)
Sammaisuttaṃ of Siddha Sena (full text), Dravyasaṃgraha of Nemichandra (full text), Bhagwati Aradhana of Sivarya (verses 1-72), Vasunandi-Sravaka Cara (verses 1-50 and the verses based on seven types of addictions 60-87 and 101-111)
Prakrit: Unit 10
Study of the original Prakrit kavya literature
Mrcchakatika of Sudraka-only Prakrit portions (chapters 1, 2, and 6), Setubandha of Pravarasena-chapter I, Vajjalaggaṃ of Jaya Vallabha-first eight Vajjas: Soyara, Gaha, Kavva, Sajjana, Dujjana, Mitta, Neha, Niivajja
Gaha Sattasai of Hala-first sataka: Verses 1-50, Samurai Cakaha-chapter I, Kuvalayamala Kaha Uddyotansuri-paragraphs 1-12, Karpuramanjari of Rajasekhara (Full), Paumacariu of Svayambhu-chapters 21 and 22, Nayakumaracariu of Puspadanta- chapter I
General introduction to the modern Prakrit literature: (i) Rayanavalakaha, (ii) Bhavanasaro, (iii) Viragasetu, (iv) Titthayara-bhavana

Pali (language and literature)+

Pali (language and literature): Unit 01
Biography of the Buddha based on Pali sources
Ariyapariyesana Sutta/ Pasarasi Sutta (Majjhima Nikaya), Mahaparinibbana Sutta (Digha Nikaya), Jataka Nidanakatha and Jicarita
Introduction to first, second, and third Buddhist councils: Based on Cullavagga (Pancasatika-Khandhaka, Satta Matka-Khandhaka), Samantapasadika (Bahirakasha) and Mahavamsa
Pali (language and literature): Unit 02
Tradition and characteristics of Pali grammar
Derivation of the word ‘Pali’ and homeland of Pali language
Pali Alphabets, Sandhi, Karaka, Samasa, Taddhita, akhyata and Krdanta (based on the Balavatara)
Pali (language and literature): Unit 03
Mahavagga
Mahakhandhaka
Cullavagga: Kammakhandhaka
Patimokkha: General introduction to Vinaya Pitaka
Pali (language and literature): Unit 04
Digha Nikaya
Brahmajala Sutta and Kutadanta Sutta
Majjhima Nikaya: Satipatthana Sutta
Samyutta Nikaya: Buddha Vagga of Nidanavagga’s Nidana Samyutta
Anguttara Nikaya: Nivaranappahanavagga and Akammaniyavagga of Ekaka Nipata
General introduction to Sutta Pitaka
Pali (language and literature): Unit 05
Dhammapada
Yamaka Vagga, Appamada Vagga, and Citta Vagga
Sutta Nipata: Kasi Bharadvaja Sutta, Vasettha Sutta
Therigatha: Mahapajapati-gotami theri and Ambapali Theri
Jataka: Vanarindajataka, Sasajataka and Javasakunajataka
General Introduction to Khuddaka Nikaya
Pali (language and literature): Unit 06
Dhammasangani
Dukama Tika and Tikamatika
Abhidhammattha Sangaha: Citta, Cetasika, Rupa, and Nibbana
Introduction to Abhidhamma literature
Pali (language and literature): Unit 07
Milindapanha
Bahirakatha, Lakkhana Panha
General introduction to Milindapanha
Pali (language and literature): Unit 08
Visuddhimagga
Silaniddesa
General introduction to Visuddhimagga
General introduction to Atthakatha literature and contribution of Buddhadatta, Buddhaghosa, and Dhammapala
Pali (language and literature): Unit 09
General introduction to Vamsa literature
General Introduction to Pali Kavya literature
Pali (language and literature): Unit 10
Buddhist philosophical concepts
Arahata, Bodhisatta, Paccekabuddha, Sammasambuddha, Sila, Samadhi, Panna, Brahmavihara, Ariya Sacca, Ariya Atthangika-magga, Tilakkhana, Paticcasamuppada, Kammavada, Bodhipakkhiya Dhamma, Nibbana, Nivarana, Samyojana, Hetu and asava

Sanskrit+

Sanskrit: Unit 01
Vedic-literature
General introduction of Vedic literature: Main theories regarding the Vedas-Max Muller; A. Weber; Jacobi; Bal Gangadhar Tilak; M. Winternitz; Indian traditional views. Samhita literature, dialogue hymns: Pururava-Urvasi; Yama-Yami; Sarama-Pani
General introduction of Vedic literature: Vishwamitra-Nadi, Brahmana-literature, Aranyaka literature, Vedangas: Siksa; Kalpa; Vyakarana; Nirukta; Chandas; Jyotisa
Sanskrit: Unit 02
Specific study of Vedic literature
Study of the following hymns: (a) Ŗgveda-Agni (1.1); Varuṇa (1.25); Sūrya (1.125); Indra (2.12); Uṣas (3.61); Parjanya (5.83); Kitava (10.34); Jñāna (10.71); Puruṣa (10.90); Hiraṇyagarbha (10.121); Vāk (10.125); Nāsadīya (10.129)
Study of the following hymns: (b) Shukla Yajurveda-Shiva Sankalpa, chapter-34 (1-6), (c) Prajapati-chapter-23 (1-5), (d) Atharvaveda: Rastrabhi Vardhanam (1.29); Kala (10.53); Prithvi (12.1)
Brahmana literature: Subject-matter; Vidhi and its types; Agnihotra; Agnistoma; Darsapurnamasa; Yajna; Pancha Maha Yagna; Akhyana (Sunahsepa, Vanmanas)
Upanishad literature: (a) Subject-matter and main concepts with special reference to the following Upanishads; (b) Isa; Katha; Kena; Brihadaranyaka; Taittiriya; Svetasvatara
Vedic grammar; Nirukta and Vedic interpretation
rik pratisakhya: Definitions of Samanaksara; Sandhyaksara; Aghosa; Sosman; Svarabhakti; Yama; Rakta; Samyoga; Pragya; Riphita, Nirukta (chapters-I and 2), four-fold division of padas-concept of Nama; concept of Akhyata; meaning of Upasargas
Categories of Nipatas, purposes of the study of Nirukta, principles of etymology, etymology of the following words: acharya; Vira; Hrada; Go; Samudra; Vrtra; Aditya; Usas; Megha; Vak; Udak; Nadi; Asva; Agni; Jatavedase; Vaisvanara; Nighantu
Etymology of the following words: Nirukta; (chapter-7; Daivatakanda), Vedic accent-Udatta, Anudatta, and Svarita
Sanskrit: Unit 03
Darsana
General introduction of major schools of Darsana with special reference to the following: Pramana Mimamsa; Tattva Mimamsa; Acara Mimansa (Carvaka, Jaina, Bauddha) Nyaya, Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Mimansa
Sanskrit: Unit 04
Darśana Literature: Special Study
isvara krsna: Samkhyakarika-Satkaryavada, Purusha Svarupa, Prakriti Swarupa, Srishti Krama, Pratyay Sarga, Kaivalya
Sadananda: Vedantasara-Anubandha-Catustaya, Ajnana, Adhyaropa-Apavada, Lingasarirotpatti, Panchikarana, Vivarta, Jivanmukti, Annambhatta, Tarkasamgraha/ Kesava Misra; Tarkabhasa: Padartha; Karana; Pramana; (Pratyaksa; Anumana; Upamana; Sabda)
Annambhatta, Tarkasamgraha/ Kesava Misra; Tarkabhasa: Pramanyavada, Prameya
Laugaksi Bhaskara; Arthasamgraha
Patanjali; Yogasutra-(Vyasa Bhashya): Citta Bhumi, Citta Vrtti S; concept of Isvara; Yogangas; Samadhi; Kaivalya, Badarayana; Brahmasutra 1.1 (Sankara Bhasya), Visvanatha Pancanana; Nyaya Siddhanta Muktavali (Anumana Khanda)
Sarva Darsana-Samgraha; Jainism; Buddhism
Sanskrit: Unit 05
Grammar and linguistics
General introduction of the following grammarians: Panini, Katyayana, Patanjali, Bhartrhari, Vamana Jayaditya, Bhattoji Dikshita, Nagesabhatta, Kaiyyata, Jainendra, Sakatayana, Hemachandra Suri, Sarasvata Vyakarana Kara
Paniniya Shiksha
General introduction of the following grammarians: Linguistics-definition of language, genealogical and morphological classification of languages, speech mechanism and classification of sounds: Stops, fricatives
General introduction of the following grammarians: (c) Linguistics-speech mechanism and classification of sounds: Semi-vowels and vowels (with special reference to Sanskrit sounds). (d) Phonetic laws (Grimm, Grassman, Verner)
General introduction of the following grammarians: (e) Directions of semantic change and reasons of change. (f) Definition of Vakya and its types, (g) general introduction of Indo-European family of languages
General introduction of the following grammarians: (h) Difference between Vedic Sanskrit and classical Sanskrit, (i) difference between Bhasha and Vak, (j) difference between language and dialect
Sanskrit: Unit 06
Specific study of grammar
Definition: Samhita, Samyoga Guna, Vrddhi, Pratipadika, Nadi, Ghi, Upadha, Parkta, Gati, Pada, Vibhasa, Savarna, Ti, Pragya, Sarvanam Asthana, Bha, Sarvanama, Nistha
Sandhi: AC Sandhi, Hal Sandhi, Visarga Sandhi (according to Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi), Subanta-Ajanta-Rama, Sarva (in all genders), Visva Pa, Hari, Tri (in all genders), Sakhi, Sudhi, Guru, Pitr, Gau, Rama, Mati, Nadi, Dhenu, Matr, Jnana, Vari, Madhu
Halanta: Lih, Visvavah, Catur (in all genders), Idam, Kim, Tad (in all genders), Rajan, Maghavan, Pathin, Vidvas, Asmad, Yushmad
Samasa: Avyayibhava, Tatpurusha, Bahuvrihi, Dvandva (according to Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi), Taddhita-Apatyarthaka and Matvarthiya (according to Siddhanta Kaumudi), Tinanta-Bhu, Edh, Ad, Us, Hu, Div, Sun, Tud, Tan, Kr, Rudh, Krin, Cur
Prayayanta: Nijant, Sannanta, Yananta, Yanluganta, Nam Dhatu
Krdanta: Tavya/ Tavyat , Aniyar, Yat, Nyat, Lyap, Satr, Sanac, Ktva, Kta, Kravatu, Tumun, Namul
Stri Pratyaya: According to Laghu Siddhanta Kaumudi
Karaka Prakarana: According to Siddhanta Kaumudi
Parasmaipada and Atmanepada Vidhana: According to Siddhanta Kaumudi
Mahābhāșya (Paspaśāhnika): Definition of Sabda, relation between Sabda and Artha, purposes of the study of grammar, definition of Vyākaraṇa, result of the proper use of word, method of grammar
Vakyapadiya (Brahmananda): Nature of Sphota, nature of Sabda-Brahma, powers of Sabda-Brahma, relation between Sphota and Dhvani, relation between Sabda and Artha, types of Dhvani, levels of language
Sanskrit: Unit 07
Sanskrit literature, poetics, and prosody
General introduction of following: (a) Bhasa, Asvaghosa, Kalidasa, Sudraka, Visakhadatta, Bharavi, Magha, Harsa, Banabhatta, Dandin, Bhavabhuti, Bhatta Narayana, Bilhana, Shriharsha, Ambika Dutt Vyas, Pandita Ksamarao, V. Raghavan
General introduction of following: (a) Shridhar Bhaskar Varnekar, (b) schools of Sanskrit poetics-Rasa, Alankara, Riti, Dhwani, Vakrokti, Aucitya, (c) western poetics-Aristotle, Longinus, Croche
Sanskrit: Unit 08
Specific study of the following
Poetry: Buddhacarita (First Canto), Raghuvamsam (First Canto), Kiratarjuniya (First Canto), sisupalavadha (First Canto), Naisadhiyacaritam (First Canto)
Drama: Svapnavasavadattam, Abhijnanasakuntalam, Mricchakatikam, Uttara Ramacharitam, Mudrarakshasa, Uttara Ramacharitam, Ratnavali
Prose: Dasakumaracarita (viii Ucchvasa), Harsacaritam (V Ucchvasa), Kadambari (Sukanasopadesa)
Champu Kavya-Nala Champu (I Ucchvasa)
Sahitya Darpana H: Definition of Kavya, refutation of other definitions of Kavya, Sabda Sakti-Sankata Graha; Abhidha; Laksana; Vyanjana, Kavya Bheda (chapter fourth), Shravya Kavya (prose poetry and mix
Kavyaprakasa-Kavya Lakshana, Kavya Prayojana, Kavya Hetu, Kavya Bheda, Sabda Sakti, Abhihitanvayavada, Anvitabhidhanvayavada, concept of Rasa, discussion of Rasasutra, Rasadosa, Karyaguna, Vyanjan Avriti (fifth chapter)
Alamkaras-Vakrokti; Anuprasa, Yamaka, Slesa, Upama, Rupaka, Utpreksha, Samasokti, Apahnuti, Nidarshana, Arthantaranyasa, Dristanta, Vibhavana, Visesokti, Svabhavokti, Virodhabhas, Sankara,
Dhvanyaloka (I Udyota), Vakrokti Jivita (IN mesa), Bharata-natya shastra (first and sixth chapter), Dasarupakam (first and third Prakasa)
Chanda-Arya, Anustup, Indravajra, Upendra Vajra, Vasanta Tilaka, Upajati, Vamsastha, Drutavilambita, Salini, Malini, Sikarni, Mandakranta, Harini, Shardulvikridit, Sragdhara
Kautilya Arthasastra (first-Vinayadikarika), Manusmriti (I, II and VII Adhyayas), Yajnavalkya Smriti (Vyavahar Adhyaya only), Paleography and inscriptions: Brahmi script of Mauryan and Gupta periods
Paleography and inscriptions: Inscription of Ashoka-major rock edicts, major pillar edicts, (c) post-Mauryan inscriptions-Sarnath Buddhist image inscription of Kanishka regal-year, 3
Paleography and inscriptions: (c) post-Mauryan inscriptions-Girnār rock inscription of Rudradāman, Hāthīgumphā inscription of Khāravela, (d) Gupta and post-Gupta inscriptions-Allahabad pillar inscriptions of Samudragupta
Paleography and inscriptions: (d) Gupta and post-Gupta inscriptions-Mandsaur pillar inscription of Yasodharman, Banskhera copper plate inscription of Harsha, paleography and inscriptions-Aihole stone inscription of Pulakesin II
Sanskrit: Unit 09
Purāṇetihāsa, Dharmaśāstra, and epigraphy
General introduction of the followings: Rāmāyaṇa-subject matter, age, society in the Rāmāyaṇa, Rāmāyaṇa as a source of later sanskrit works and literal value of the Rāmāyaṇa, legends in the Rāmāyaṇa
General introduction of the followings: Mahābhārata-subject matter, age, society in the Mahābhārata, Mahābhārata as a source of later sanskrit works and literal value of the Mahābhārata, legends in the Mahābhārata
General introduction of the followings: Purāṇa-definition of Purāṇa, Maha Purāṇa and Upa Purāṇas, Purāṇic Cosmology and Purāṇic legends, general introduction of main Smṛitis
General introduction Kautilya Arthasastra
Paleography-history of the decipherment of Brahmi script, theories of the origin of Brahmi script, inscriptions-general introduction

Arabic+

Arabic: Unit 01
Arabic poetry up to Abbasid period
Arabic: Unit 02
Arabic prose up to Abbasid period
Arabic: Unit 03
Migrant and Andalusian literature
Arabic: Unit 04
Literary criticism and prominent critics
Arabic: Unit 05
Rhetoric and prosody
Arabic: Unit 06
Important Arabic sources and references
Arabic: Unit 07
Modern Arabic literature
Arabic: Unit 08
Literary trends, movements, and schools
Arabic: Unit 09
Indo-Arabic literature
Arabic: Unit 10
Arabic-English-Arabic translation, language applications and general knowledge

English+

English: Unit 01
Drama
English: Unit 02
Poetry
English: Unit 03
Fiction, short story
English: Unit 04
Non-fictional prose
English: Unit 05
Language
Basic concepts, theories, and pedagogy
English in use
English: Unit 06
English in India
History, evolution, and futures
English: Unit 07
Cultural Studies
English: Unit 08
Literary criticism
English: Unit 09
Literary theory post World War-II
English: Unit 10
Research methods and materials in English

Linguistics+

Linguistics: Unit 01
Language and linguistics
Nature of language: Language in spoken and written modes, language as written text-philological and literary notions that is, norm, purity, and their preservation
Nature of language: Language as a cultural heritage-codification and transmission of cultural knowledge and behavior; language as a marker of social identity; language as an object that is, notion of autonomy, structure and its units and components
Nature of language: Design features of language; writing system-units of writing-sound (alphabetic), or syllable (syllabic) and morpheme/ word (logographic), sign language; existence of language faculty; linguistic competence, ideal speaker-hearer
Approaches to the study of language: Ancient approaches to the study of language-Indian and Greco-Roman, semiotic approach-interpretation of sign; language as a system of social behaviour-use of language in family, community and country
Approaches to the study of language: Language as a system of communication-communicative functions-emotive, conative, referential, poetic, metalinguistic and phatic; language as a cognitive system
Approaches to the study of language: Relation with culture and thought (linguistic relativity); Saussurean dichotomies: signifier and signified, langue and parole, synchronic and diachronic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic
Language analysis: Levels and their hierarchy-phonetic/ phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic/ pragmatic; their interrelations; linguistic units and their distribution at different levels; notions of contrast and complementation
Language analysis: Emic and etic categorisation; notion of rule at different levels; description vs. explanation of grammatical facts
Linguistics and other frields: Relevance of linguistics to other fields of enquiry-philosophy, anthropology, sociology, neurology, speech sciences, geography, psychology, education, computer science, and literature
Linguistics: Unit 02
Phonetics and phonology
Phonetics: Phonetics as a study of speech sounds-articulatory, auditory, and acoustic phonetics
Phonetics: Articulatory phonetics-processes of speech production: Airstream process, oro-nasal process, phonation process, and articulatory process; classification of speech sounds: Vowels and consonants, cardinal vowels (primary and secondary)
Phonetics: Articulatory phonetics-complex articulation: Secondary articulation, coarticulation; syllable; suprasegmentals-length, stress, tone, intonation, and juncture; phonetic transcription: International phonetic alphabet (IPA)
Phonetics: Acoustic phonetics-sound waves-simple and complex, periodic and aperiodic; harmonics; frequency and fundamental frequency, amplitude, duration; resonance, filters, spectrum, spectrogram; formants, transition, burst; voice onset time; aspiration
Phonetics: Acoustic phonetics-noise spectra; cues for speech sounds: Vowel (monophthong and diphthong), semivowel, stop, fricative, nasal, lateral, glide, places of articulation of consonants
Phonology: Descriptive phonology-phonetics vs. phonology; concept of phoneme, phone and allophone; principles of phonemic analysis-phonetic similarity, contrastive distribution, complementary distribution, free variation, pattern congruity
Phonology: Descriptive phonology-notions of biuniqueness, neutralization and archiphoneme
Phonology: Generative phonology-linear and non-linear approaches: levels of phonological representation; phonological rules; distinctive features (major class, manner, place, etc.); abstractness controversy
Phonology: Generative phonology-rule ordering and types of rule ordering, markedness; principles of lexical phonology; principles of optimality theory
Linguistics: Unit 03
Morphology
Basic concepts: Scope and nature of morphology; concepts of morpheme, morph, allomorph, zero allomorph, conditions on allomorphs; lexeme and word; types of morphemes free and bound; root, stem, base, suffix, infix, prefix, portmanteau morpheme, suppletive
Basic concepts: Replacive; affixes vs. clitics; grammatical categories-tense, aspect, mood, person, gender, number, case; case markers and case relations; pre-and post-positions; models of morphological description: item and arrangement, item and process
Basic concepts: Word and paradigm
Morphological analysis: Identification of morphemes; morphological alternation; morphophonemic processes; internal and external sandhi; inflection vs. derivation; conjugation and declension
Word-formation processes: Derivation (primary vs. secondary derivation, nominalization, verbalization, etc), compounding (types of compounds: Endocentric, exocentric, etc), reduplication, back-formation, conversion, clipping, blending, acronyms
Word-formation processes: Folk etymology, creativity and productivity, blocking, bracketing paradoxes, constraints on affix ordering
Morpho-syntax: Nominalization and lexicalist hypothesis; grammatical function changing rules: Causatives, passives
Linguistics: Unit 04
Syntax
Traditional and structural syntax: Parts of speech-Indian classification (Naama, Aakhyaata, Upasarga, Nipaata); basic syntactic units and their types: word, phrase, clause, sentence, Karaka relations; grammatical relations and case relations
Traditional and structural syntax: Construction types (exocentric, endocentric, etc), immediate constituent analysis
Generative syntax: Parameters and universal grammar, null subject parameter, innateness hypothesis, meaning of the term 'generative', transformational generative grammar, structure and structure dependence, diagnostics for structure
Generative syntax: Complements and adjuncts, principles and parameters theory, X-bar theory, theta theory, binding theory; pro-drop, NP-movement, wh-movement, head movement, adjunction and substitution, constraints on movement, subjacency
Generative syntax: Government and proper government, small clauses, topicalization; unergatives and unaccusatives, VP-internal subject hypothesis; split VP and VP-shell hypothesis, crossover phenomena; checking theory of case
Generative syntax: Copy theory of movement, inclusiveness principle
Some key concepts in the minimalist programme: Spell-out, greed, procrastination, last resort, AGR-based case theory, multiple-spec hypothesis, strong and weak features; interpretable and uninterpretable features
Transformational components: The copy theory of movement, its properties, checking devices and features of convergence
Linguistics: Unit 05
Semantics and pragmatics
Semantics: Types of meaning; descriptive, emotive and phatic; sense and reference, connotation and denotation, sense relations (homonymy, hyponymy, antonymy, synonymy, etc); types of opposition (taxonomic, polar, etc); ambiguity
Semantics: Sentence meaning and truth conditions, contradictions, entailment; ‘Abhidha’, ‘Laksana’, ‘Vyanjana’; notions of membership, union, intersection, cardinality; mapping and functions; propositions, truth values, sentential connectives; arguments
Semantics: Predicates, quantifiers, variables; componential analysis; definiteness, mood and modality, specific vs. generic; definite and indefinite; compositionality and its limitations
Pragmatics: Language use in context; communication-message model and inferential model of communication, sentence meaning and utterance meaning; speech acts; deixis; presupposition and implicature: Gricean maxims; information structure; indexicals
Pragmatics: Politeness, power, and solidarity, discourse analysis
Linguistics: Unit 06
Historical linguistics
Sound change: Neogrammarian laws of phonetic change-Grimm’s, Verner’s, Grassmann’s Laws; genesis and spread of sound change; split and merger; conditioned vs. unconditioned change; types of changes-phonetic vs. Phonemic changes
Sound change: Assimilation and dissimilation, coalescence, metathesis, deletion, epenthesis; lexical diffusion of sound change; analogy and its relationship to sound change; reconstructing the proto-stages of languages; tree and wave models
Sound change: Relative chronology of different changes. Sociolinguistic approach to language change: Social motivation of language change; study of sound change in progress
Morphosyntactic and semantic change: Phonological change leading to changes in morphology and syntax; syncretism, grammaticalization and lexicalisation; principles of recovering grammatical categories and contrasts
Morphosyntactic and semantic change: Semantic change and processes of semantic change-extension, narrowing, figurative speech
Linguistic reconstruction: External vs. internal reconstruction-comparative method, collection of cognates, establishing phonological correspondences; reconstruction of the phonemes of the proto-language based on contrast and complementation
Linguistic reconstruction: Morphophonemic alternations as the source for reconstruction; recovering historical contrasts by comparing, alternating and non-alternating paradigms; accounting for exceptions to sound change-analogy, borrowing, onomatopoeia
Linguistic reconstruction: The interplay of analogy and sound change; lexicostatistics
Language contact and dialect geography: Linguistic borrowing, lexical and structural; motivations, loan translation, loan blend, calque, assimilated and unassimilated loans: Tadbhava and Tatsama; different types of borrowing-cultural, intimate and dialect
Language contact and dialect geography: Classification of loanwords; impact of borrowing on language; pidgins and creoles; bilingualism as the source for borrowing; dialect geography: Dialect atlas; isogloss; focal area, transition area and relic area
Linguistics: Unit 07
Sociolinguistics
Basic concepts: Sociolinguistics and sociology of language; micro-and macro approaches to language in society; linguistic repertoire: Language, dialect, sociolect, idiolect; diglossia, taboo, slang; elaborated and restricted codes; speech community
Basic concepts: Communicative competence, ethnography of speaking; language of wider communication; lingua franca; language and social inequality; language in diaspora; new linguistic world orders
Linguistic variability: Patterns in linguistic variation, linguistic variables and their co-variation with linguistic dimensions, social class/ social network/ age/ gender/ ethnicity; language loyalty, social identity and social attitudes, stereotypes
Language contact: Bilingualism, multilingualism; code-mixing and code switching; outcomes of language contact: Language maintenance, borrowing, convergence, substratum effect, pidginization and creolization; language loss
Language development: Language planning, corpus and status planning, standardisation and modernisation; language movements-state and societal interventions; script development and modifications; linguistic minorities and their problems
Language ecology and endangerment: Superdiversity; linguistic landscaping, linguistic vitality, language endangerment, parameters of endangerment, documentation of endangered languages, revitalisation
Sociolinguistic methodology: Sampling and tools; identification of sociolinguistic variables and their variants; data processing and interpretation; quantitative analysis of data; variable rules; ethnomethodology; participant observation
Linguistics: Unit 08
Areal typology and South Asian language families
Language typology, universals, and linguistic relatedness: Language typology and language universals; morphological types of languages-agglutinative, analytical (isolating), synthetic fusional (inflecting)
Language typology, universals, and linguistic relatedness: Infixing and polysynthetic (incorporating) languages. formal and substantive universals, absolute and statistical universals; implicational and non-implicational universals
Language typology, universals, and linguistic relatedness: Linguistic relatedness-genetic, typological and areal classification of languages
Approaches for study: Inductive vs. deductive approaches; universals of language and parametric variation; word order typology
Approaches for study: Greenberg's characteristics for verb final and verb medial languages and related features in the context of south asian languages
Salient features of south Asian languages: Phonetic, phonological, morphological, and syntactic features of Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austro Asiatic, and Tibeto-Burman language families of South Asia; linguistic survey of India as a source of information
Salient features of south asian languages: Contact induced typological change; convergence and syntactic change
India as a linguistic area: The notion of linguistic area; language contact and convergence with special reference to the concept of 'India as a linguistic area'; features of retroflexion, vowel harmony, aspiration, reduplication, echo formation
India as a linguistic area: Onomatopoeia, explicator compound verbs, anaphora; India as a sociolinguistic area, India as a semantic area; notion of microlinguistic area
Linguistics: Unit 09
Interdisciplinary and applied linguistics-I (psycholinguistics, language learning, and language teaching)
Psycholinguistics: Basic concepts-basic issues in psycholinguistics, brain language relationship, the different theoretical orientations: Empiricist-behaviourist, biological nativist, and cognitive-interactionist, biological foundations of language
Psycholinguistics: Basic concepts-language acquisition and stages; critical period hypothesis
Psycholinguistics: Language processing-the processes of perception, comprehension and production; evidence of language production; steps in comprehension; mental representation of language and lexicon; relationship between comprehension and production
Psycholinguistics: Clinical psycholinguistics-normal and pathological language; aphasia; dyslexia; stuttering; language in the hearing-impaired; language in mental retardation
Language learning and language teaching: Language teaching and language learning-first and second language learning; behaviouristic and cognitive theories of language learning; social and psychological aspects of second language acquisition
Language learning and language teaching: Methods of language teaching; materials and teaching-aids in language teaching; computer assisted language teaching (CALT); language testing: types of tests; validity, reliability and standardization of tests
Language learning and language teaching: Inter-language
Language learning and language teaching: Language teaching analysis-goals of language teaching; factors in the preparation of a language teaching syllabus: Linguistic theory, social and psychological factors, needs analysis, classroom presentation
Language learning and language teaching: Language teaching analysis-text-book evaluation; types of syllabus: Structural, communicative, notional; the role of the teacher and teacher training; role of self-access packages
Language learning and language teaching: Language teaching analysis-socio-linguistic and psychological aspects of language teaching and learning
Language learning and language teaching: Contrastive analysis-error analysis and interlanguage; basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS) and cognitive advanced language proficiency (CALP)
Linguistics: Unit 10
Interdisciplinary and applied Linguistics-II (translation, lexicography, computational linguistics, stylistics, language, and media)
Translation: Paraphrase, translation and transcreation; translation of literary text and technical text; use of linguistics in translation; linguistic affinity and translatability; untranslatability; units of translation; equivalence of meaning and style
Translation: Translation loss and gain; problems of cultural terms; scientific terms; idioms, metaphors and proverbs; false friends and translation shifts; evaluation of translation; fidelity and readability
Translation: Types of translation-simultaneous interpretation, machine aided translation, media translation (dubbing, copyediting, advertisement, slogans, jingles, etc)
Lexicography: Making of a dictionary-linguistics and lexicography, dictionary entries-arrangement of information; meaning descriptions-synonymy, polysemy, homonymy, antonymy and hyponymy; treatment of technical terms vs. general words
Lexicography: Types of dictionaries-literary, scientific and technical; comprehensive and concise, monolingual and bilingual; general and learner's. Historical and etymological, dictionary of idioms and phrases, encyclopaedic dictionary
Lexicography: Electronic dictionary, reverse dictionary, thesaurus and other distinguishing purposes and features of various types; computational lexicography
Computational linguistics: Artificial intelligence and language; natural language processing (NLP); computational linguistics and its relation to allied disciplines; machine language; parsing and generation; parsers
Computational linguistics: Compilers; interpreters-information processing, structuring and manipulating data; corpus building; attempts of NLP and corpus work in India: Anusāraka parsing: morphological recognizers
Computational linguistics: Analyzers and generators for Indian languages; designing code, building of machine translation systems (MTS); hyper grammars, building of word nets, the Kolhapur corpus of Indian english, the TDIL corpus project
Stylistics: Style-individual style, period style; style as choice, style as deviation, style as ‘Rīti’, style as ‘Alankāra’; style as ‘Vyanjanā’ (‘Vakrokti’); foregrounding; parallelism; text as grammar: Structure and texture, cohesion and coherence
Stylistics: Semiotic aspects of a literary text; stylistics of discourse; levels of stylistic analysis-phonological, lexical, syntactic and semantic; stylistic devices in literary texts
Language and media: Mass media-print and electronic, types of language used in mass media: News, editorials, advertising, writing and editing for print and electronic media, impact of mass media on language

Chinese+

Chinese: Unit 01
Language and script
Characteristics of Chinese language/ dialects/ phonetic transcriptions/ evolution and development/ classifications/ reforms of chinese script, etc
Chinese: Unit 02
Modern Chinese grammar
Parts of speech/ syntax/ types of sentence/ semantics/ figure of speech/ idioms and phrases, etc
Chinese: Unit 03
Chinese literature: Pre Qin period to 1919
Process and course of literary development/ different literary genres/ literary figures and their representative works
Chinese: Unit 04
Chinese literature: 1919 to 1949
Process and course of literary development/ new literature movement/ literary trends and debate/ literary societies and schools/ different literary genres/ literary figures and their representative works
Chinese: Unit 05
Chinese literature: 1949 to present day
Process and course of literary development in the new period/ different literary trends/ literary theories, techniques and debate/ literary figures and their representative works
Chinese: Unit 06
Culture and tradition
Land and people/ festivals/ customs and practices/ art and crafts/ popular culture/ folk culture, etc
Chinese: Unit 07
Civilization, history, and philosophical thoughts
Prehistory/ events and figures from ancient, modern and contemporary history/ different schools of thought
Chinese: Unit 08
India-China relations
Civilizational dialogue/ socio-economic-political and cultural interaction in the modern period
Chinese: Unit 09
Socio-economic-political development in the people's republic of China
Political movements/ social transformation/ economic policies and change/ prominent personalities/ theoretical concepts and ideas, etc
Chinese: Unit 10
International relations and current affairs
Milestones in international relations/ participation in regional and international organizations/ leadership and policy changes/ recent ideas and innovations/ achievement in various fields (such as culture, sports, science, and technology, etc)

French+

French: Unit 01
Medieval to 18th century French literature
Major literary movements: Medieval literature, renaissance, classicism, baroque, enlightenment
French: Unit 02
19th to 20th century French literature
Major literary movements: Realism, romanticism, symbolism, surrealism, new wave novel, new wave theatre, existentialism, postmodernism, women’s writing, migrant literature
French: Unit 03
Francophone postcolonial literature
Major literary trends in francophone literatures from the beginning to the present day-literatures from French-speaking Canada especially prominent works of Gabrielle Roy, Hubert Aquin, Michel Tremblay, Anne Hebert, Antonine Maillet, Monique Proulx
Major literary trends in francophone literatures from the beginning to the present day-literatures from French-Kim Thuy, literatures from the Asia-Pacific region especially prominent works of Phan Van Ky, Lokenath Bhattacharya, Linda Lê, Thich Nhat Hanh
Major literary trends in francophone literatures from the beginning to the present day-literatures from the Asia-Shumona Sinha, Vijay Singh, literatures from the Maghreb especially prominent works of Kateb Yacine, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Rachid Boudjedra
Major literary trends in francophone literatures from the beginning to the present day-literatures from the Maghreb especially prominent works of Assia Djebar, Leila Sebbar
Major literary trends in francophone literatures from the beginning to the present day- literatures from the Indian Ocean region especially prominent works of Ananda Devi, Nathacha Appanah, Michèle Rokotosom, Jean-Luc Raharimanana, Alex Gauvin
Major literary trends in francophone literatures from the beginning to the present day-literatures from the Caribbean especially prominent works of Aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Conde, Dany Laferriere
Major literary trends in francophone literatures from the beginning to the present day-literatures from Francophone Africa especially prominent works of Leopold Sedar Senghor, Mongo Beti, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ahmadou Kourouma, Alain Mabanckou
French: Unit 04
Translation studies
The study of translation as an interdisciplinary field interfacing with other disciplines from Linguistics to cultural studies
Definitions of translation: Interlingual, intralingual and intersemiotic translation, translation/ interpretation, linguistic approaches to translation, interpretive theory of translation, concepts in translation such as adaptation, coherence, cohesion
Concepts in translation such as context, emprunt, equivalence, faux ami, fidelity, procedes de traduction, processus de la traduction, sur traduction, sous traduction, sourcier, pragmatic text, unites de traduction, etc
Pedagogical translation versus professional translation, study of terminology in various fields of science and technology, teaching of translation, translation and ideology/ politics of translation
French: Unit 05
Translation in practice
To be able to solve multiple difficulties while translating a text from French to English and vice versa
The difficulties can be due to: (a) Different world view, (b) cultural differences, (c) lexical lacunae, (d) different structures of languages, to be able to recognize and use different 'procedes de traduction' such as emprunt, calque, adaptation
To be able to recognize and use different 'procedes de traduction' such as equivalence, modulation, etc
French: Unit 06
History, geography, social, and political life of France
A broad outline of the history, the geography, the social and the political life in France
French: Unit 07
Arts and culture in France
General understanding of visual arts, music, fashion, cinema, sports, press, and gastronomy
French: Unit 08
Linguistics
To be able to understand the basic linguistic concepts such as langue and parole, code and message, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relation, linguistic competence and performance specific characteristics of human language
To be able to describe language through synchronic and/ or diachronic perspective, nature of the linguistic sign, difference between phonetics and phonology, classification of speech sounds into consonants, vowels, and semi-vowels
Syllable and Rhyme groups, morphology and syntax in French language, language varieties and registers, immediate constituent analysis, theories on enunciation, identification of different functions of language (Jakobson)
Pragmatics: Speech acts, performative verbs, discourse analysis, coherence, and cohesion
French: Unit 09
Written comprehension and language use
To be able to comprehend written texts through typographic, contextual and thematic clues, exercises on idiomatic expressions, registers of language, punctuation, anaphora and cataphora, logical and rhetorical articulators
To be able to identify different types of texts: Descriptive, argumentative, epistolary etc
French: Unit 10
Didactics of languages and cultures
Historical evolution of methodology in FLT (with special reference to French) as a result of research in linguistic sciences, psychology, sociology, culture studies, technology etc
Definitions of “methode” “ methodologie”,” manuel” “didactique”, communicative approach/ actional or task based approach, use of authentic documents in language teaching, problems and perspectives in teaching/ learning of French in the Indian context
Principles of material production, interculture in language teaching/ learning, types of evaluation (formative, summative etc), CECR (Cadre Européen Commun de Référence pour les Langues); Niveaux communs de reference, French for specific purposes (FOS)
Technologies de l'information et de la communication pour l'enseignement (TICE), critical appraisal of different textbooks: Dondo, Cours de langue et civilisation française, (Mauger Bleu) Mauger Rouge, De vive Voix, Cartes sur Table
Critical appraisal of different textbooks: Nouveau Sans Frontieres, Archipel, Connexions, Alter Ego, Echo , Version Originale, etc

Spanish+

Spanish: Unit 01
Grammatical aspects, linguistics, methodology, and translation
Modes, tenses, use of the past, prepositions and other grammatical categories, language as a system of systems, methods of teaching Spanish as a foreign language, problems of translation in practice
Spanish: Unit 02
Advanced use of Spanish language
Use of proverbs and refrains, modismos and idiomatic expressions, synonyms/ antonyms, metaphors and similes, text analysis
Spanish: Unit 03
Spain: Pre-history and medieval literature and culture
Making of Iberia, Greek and Roman colonizations and their contributions, Visigoths and the advent of Christianity, political and cultural mosaic of al andalus, the reconquista and the cultural efflorescence of Christian kingdoms
The formation of Spanish language and early literary manifestations (epic, lyric, popular, religious verse)
Spanish: Unit 04
Early modern Spain
Catholic kings and the Spanish empire, the Habsburgs and the Bourbons, inquisition, expulsion of Jews and Moriscos and the making of a homogenous Spain, honour code, art, literature and culture during the transition to the renaissance
Renaissance and baroque in art, literature and culture, golden age literature
Spanish: Unit 05
18th and 19th century Spain: Between modernity and tradition
Enlightenment: El despotismo ilustrado and 18th century cultural manifestations, historic panorama of 19th century: Spanish War of independence, constitution of Cadiz, Carlist Wars, restoration, 19th century art and culture
Romanticism, realism and naturalism, generation of 1898 and modernism
Spanish: Unit 06
20th and 21st century: Contemporary Spain
The second republic, the popular front and the Spanish Civil War: Fascism, Anarchism and Socialism, Vanguard movements and the generation of 1927, post-war and contemporary Spanish literature, art and culture
Transition to democracy, constitution of 1978, Spain and the European Union, Spanish economic miracle and crisis, cinema, performing arts and sports
Spanish: Unit 07
Latin America: From pre-hispanic to colonial period
Aztecs, Mayas, Incas and others: Religion, cults, monuments, knowledge systems of indigenous civilizations, beginnings of European invasions and conquest, colonization of America and mestizaje, viceroyalties and economic structure of empire
Literary and artistic expressions (Codices, Cronicas, Cartas, and Diarios, epic and baroque in the Americas)
Spanish: Unit 08
Independence, formation of nation states, caudillos and caciques
Liberators and 19th century statesmen of Latin America, romanticism and the novel of the nation, the Mexican revolution and foreign interventions in Latin America (19th and 20th century)
Modernism, Latin American identity construction through essays, regionalist, indigenous and Gaucho literature
Spanish: Unit 09
20th century Latin America
Revolutions, dictatorships and the return to democracy, the new Latin American novel, the boom and after, women’s writing, testimonio, la Nueva cancion and subaltern voices, artistic and literary vanguards and Latin American poetic movements
Cinema, performing arts, and sports
Spanish: Unit 10
Contemporary Latin America
Internationalisation, regional integration, indigenous assertion and new social movements, de-colonial thought, de-anchoring of Latin American writing, border and exile literatures
Experimental texts (the merger of performance, cinema and literature)m nonfiction writing, the Nueva cronica, the detective novel and the new historical novel, cinema, performing arts and sports

Russian+

Russian: Unit 01
Practical Russian
Grammar nouns, adjectives and pronouns. Gender, number, declensions, ordinal and cardinal numerals, verb: Aspect, reflexive verbs, verbs of motion with and without prefixes, verbal prefixes, verbal adverbs, participles
Comprehension of texts
Russian: Unit 02
Phonetics and phonology. Lexicology and phraseology
Phonetics and phonology: Phonetics. Aspects of phonetics, classification of Russian sounds: Vowels and consonants, changes of sound in speech act, phonological study of sounds, intonation: Types and usage
Lexicology and phraseology: Lexicology, Polysemy, different types of meaning and its stylistic usage, metaphors, metonymy, synecdoche. Lexical and grammatical meanings of word, homonyms, synonyms, antonyms, paronyms. Stylistic usage of synonyms
Lexicology and phraseology: Antonyms, paronyms, borrowings, calques, archaisms, neologisms, phraseology. Phraseological expressions in different styles
Russian: Unit 03
Morphology and word formation
Nouns and their usage, adjectives and their usage, numerals and their usage, pronouns and their usage, adverbs, verbs and their usage, prepositions, conjunctions, particles, interjections, word formation
Stylistic usage of word formations
Russian: Unit 04
Syntax
Phrases, sentences. Parts of sentences, simple sentence and its classification, complex sentence and its classification, stylistic usage of different types of simple sentences, stylistic usage of different types of complex sentences
Stylistic functions of conjunctions
Russian: Unit 05
Translation
Translation: Theory and practice-theories of translation, methods of translation, types of translation, units of translation: Phoneme, morpheme, word, word combination, sentence, and text, transformation: Lexical
Translation: Theory and practice-transformation: Grammatical and stylistic transformations and their subtypes, translation process: Equivalence, adequacy, interference, context and situation in translation
Translation: Theory and practice-translation process: Concretization and generalization in translation process, modern translation tools
Methodology of teaching Russian as a foreign language: Principles of didactics, methods of teaching, means and tools of teaching, techniques of evaluation
Russian: Unit 06
Culture and civilization
Russia: Land and people early inhabitants. Eastern slavs. Religion and culture of ancient Rus. Decline of Kievan Rus and emergence of Moscow. Mongol and Tatar invasion. Reign of Ivan the terrible. Peter the great. Romanov dynasty. October Revolution
Russia: Birth of the USSR. Stalin period. Period of thaw and stagnation. Collapse of the USSR. Birth of the Russian federation. The modern period
Russian customs and festivals
Major figures and their contribution in the field of art: Paintings and handicrafts, music and ballet, theatre, cinema, sculpture and architecture; science and technology
Russian: Unit 07
Major literary trends, methods and themes of 19th century, 20th century and of the modern period
Classicism, sentimentalism, romanticism, realism, the natural school in Russian literature, critical realism, modernism: Symbolism, acmeism, futurism, imagism, the literary groups of the 20's and 30's, the formalist school, socialist realism
Writings ‘for the drawer’, the war prose and verses, village prose, urban prose, Gulag prose, women’s writings, poets of the sixties, author’s song, the literature of the emigre writers, postmodernism, post-realism/ neorealism
Russian: Unit 08
Distinctive features of main literary genres
Elements of the literary works
Biographical details and major works of the following authors: A. Griboyedov, A. Pushkin, M. Lermontov, N. Gogol, I. Turgenev, F. Dostoevsky, L. Tolstoy, A. Chekhov, A. Ostrovsky, I. Bunin, M. Gorky,V. Mayakovsky, A. Blok, S. Esenin, A. Rybakov
Biographical details and major works of the following authors: A. Akhmatova, O. Mandelshtam, M. Tsvetaeva, A. Kuprin, M. Zoshchenko, M. Bulgakov, E. Zamyatin,M. Sholokhov, B. Pasternak, V. Shukshin, V. Astafiev, Ch. Aitmatov, E. Evtushenko
Biographical details and major works of the following authors: A. Solzhenitsyn, V. Rasputin, V. Makanin
Russian: Unit 09
Russian folklore
Features and classification
Close reading of the following literary works (up to the end of the 19th century), literary works-slovo o polku Igoreve, A. Pushkin-Evgeny Onegin, K Chaadaev, Ya pomnyu chudnoe mgnovenie, Stantsionii smotritel
Literary works: M. Lermontov-Smert’ poeta, Parus, Geroi nashego vremeni, N. Gogol-Shinel, Revizor, I. Turgenev-Rudin, Ottsy i Deti, A. Ostrovsky-Groza, F. Dostoevsky-Prestuplenie i nakazanie, L. Tolstoy-Anna Karenina, Smert’ Ivana Ilicha
Russian: Unit 10
Analysis of the following literary works (20th century onwards)
Literary works: M.Gorki-Staruha Izergil, Mat’, Na dne, A. Blok-Dvenadtsat’, V. Mayakovsky-Oblako v shtanah, Klop, S. Esenin-Anna Snegina, Rus ukhodyashaya, A. Akhmatova-Requiem, M. Zoshchenko-Priklyucheniya obezyani, M. Sholokhov-Sudba cheloveka
Literary works: B. Pasternak-Doktor Zhivago, A. Solzhenitsyn-Odin den’ v zhizni IvanaIlycha, Matryomin Dvor, V. Shukshin-Srezal, Mikroskop, Ch. Aitmatov-Belly Parokod, V. Rasputin-Zhivi i pomni, E. Evtushenko-Bratskaya GES, M.Bulgakov-Master i Margarita
Literary works: I. Bunin-Antonovskiye yabloki, A. Platonov-Kotlovan, A. Vampilov-Utinaya okhota, V. Makanin-The captive of Caucasus, L. Ulitskaya-Medea and her children, S. Shargunov-Hurray
Literary critics: V. Shklovsky, M. Bakhtin, Yu.Lotman, V. Nabokov

Japanese+

Japanese: Unit 01
Language (grammatical aspects)
Particles and their usage, adjectives and their inflection, adverbs and their various categories, verbs and their conjugation, various intermediate and advanced level language patterns
Japanese: Unit 02
Reading comprehension and kanji recognition
Understanding the context and contents of a given passage, reading of Kanji in a given context, recognising the appropriate Kanji in a given context
Japanese: Unit 03
Applied language
Idioms and proverbs, onomatopoeic expressions, compound words in Kanji, synonyms and antonyms
Japanese: Unit 04
Japanese linguistics
Characteristics of Japanese language, phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, parts of speech, interpersonal expressions, Japanese language teaching methods
Japanese: Unit 05
Japanese literature: Novels
Famous literary works and their contents, famous authors and their lives, characters in famous literary works
Japanese: Unit 06
Japanese literature: History and literary trends
History of Japanese literature (ancient to contemporary), various genres of Japanese literature, major trends in Japanese literature, foreign influence on Japanese literature
Japanese: Unit 07
Culture and folk-tradition
Festivals and annual events, traditional arts, aesthetic values of the Japanese, folk and cultural practices, popular culture, rituals, beliefs, and practices in Japan
Japanese: Unit 08
Society and religion
Characteristics of Japanese society, Japanese work culture, education in Japan, women in Japan, social problems in present day Japan, major religions and new religions in Japan
Japanese: Unit 09
Japanese civilization, history and intellectual trends
Mythological origin of Japan, historical periods in Japan, historical landmarks and major treaties signed, socio-political changes in Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan, rise of nationalism in Japan, Pacific War and occupation period, post-war economic development
Constitution of Japan (Meiji and Showa), philosophical thought in Japan (Tokugawa to Meiji)
Japanese: Unit 10
Current affairs and general awareness about Japan
Major political and other events, current India-Japan relations, achievements and recognition of Japan in various fields such as science, literature sports etc, topography of Japan, administrative divisions of Japan

Folk literature+

Folk literature: Unit 01
Folklore: Definition, concept, and classification
Who are the folk?, concepts of folklife and folkloristics, ethnicity, family types, natal, conjugal, nuclear, extended (generational and polyandrous), types of relationships in family-direct, shared, sexual, and descent, functions of family,
Kinship terminology: Types of kinship, role of kinship-social categories and social organization in the creation, transmission, and sustenance of folklore/ folklife
Conceptual shift from ‘popular antiquities’ to ‘folklore’-genres and functions of folklore: Ethnic genres and analytical categories, classification of folklore: Verbal, nonverbal, and intermediary genres
Genre theory: Alan Dundes, Richard Dorson, Ben Amos, Richard Bauman, Roger Abrahams, functions of folklore: William Bascom, Lauri Honko-characteristics of folklore
Folk literature: Unit 02
Historiography of folkloristics
Folk, from ‘savage’ to ‘imagined group’-folklore as data and folklore as study, oracy vs. literacy, classical vs. folk, emergence of folklore as an academic discipline, folklore studies in abroad, folklore studies in India, subaltern studies
Tribal studies, diaspora studies, green studies
Folk literature: Unit 03
Folk literature
Definition and epistemology of folk literature-fields of folk literature: Myths, epics, legends, folk tales, folk songs, proverbs, riddles, tongue twisters
Fields of folk literature: Speech acts-verbal art in performances (theatre, dance drama, medicinal chants, verbose in play genres, etc), literary devices, ethnic slurs, rumor, personal narratives-oral history
Folk literature: Unit 04
Theories of folklore-I: Diachronic approaches
Evolutionary theories-concept of evolution, unilinear and multilinear approaches, E.B. Tylor, George Mudrock, Lewis Morgan, James Frazer-Myth Ritual theory, solar mythology or comparative philology
Devolutionary theories-concept of devolution-types of devolutionary theories-Marxists and Elitists
Diffusion theories (monogenesis)-concept of diffusion, Indianist theory or Benfy’s migration theory, Egyptians school and Finnish school or historical geographic method
Diffusion theories (polygenesis)-psychic unity, convergence vs. parallelism theories, Romantic nationalism and its manifestations
Folk literature: Unit 05
Theories of folklore-II: Synchronic approaches
Structural approaches: Basic concepts, syntagmatic structuralism, concepts of Ferdinand de Saussure and theory of Vladimir Propp, application of Proppian model to folklore, paradigmatic structuralism
Structural approaches: Concepts of Roman Jakobson and theory of Claude Levi-Strauss, application of straussian model to folklore
Functional approaches: Basic concepts, social functionalists: Bronisław Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Emile Durkheim, symbolic functionalists: Clifford Geertz, Victor Turner
Psychological approaches: Psychoanalysis, basic concepts, Sigmund Freud-Freud’s theoretical applications to Folklore, analytical psychology, basic concepts, Carl J. Jung-Jung’s theoretical applications to Folklore-Jacques Lacan’s theory
Contextual approaches: Basic concepts, verbal art as performance, linguistic and communicative models of Roman Jakobson, oral formulaic theory or Parry Lord theory, Lauri Honko’s concept of ‘multiforms’
Poststructural and postmodern approaches: Meaning and tenets of poststructuralism, new hermeneutics, text, textuality, textual analysis-Paul Ricoeur and theories of interpretation, historical milieu of the theories, concept and theory of deconstruction
Poststructural and postmodern approaches: Derrida, Lacan, Foucault-gender theories and approaches, gender and genre, feminism and gender perspectives-Queer theory
Semiotic approaches: Semiotic approach to folk culture studies, Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles S. Peirce on sign system and culture, perspectives on discourse analysis
Folk literature: Unit 06
Folklife and cultural performances
Culture as performance-Erving Goffman, Clifford Geertz, Milton singer, Rites of passage and territorial rites, Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner-performance centered approach-Roger D. Abrahams, Richard Bauman
Richard Schechner-Dell Hymes’s ethnography of speaking approach, analysis of folk narratives
Folk literature: Unit 07
Public folklore and mass media
Basic concepts-folklore, folklorism, folklorismus, folklorization, applied folklore, public folklore and second life of folklore-folklore in public sphere, folklore and communication-folklore and new media
Folk literature: Unit 08
Folklore and globalisation
Theories of global culture-discourse on modernity, post-modernity and globalisation, ideologues of globalisation, emergence of populism
Influence of globalisation in socio-cultural life-issues and concepts of identity-glocal vs. global, homogeneity vs. heterogeneity and hybridization, changing dimensions and domains of folklore genres and folk performances, cultural tourism
Neo-folk formations and protest movements, challenges to native cultures, bio-politics
Folk literature: Unit 09
Indian folk cultural practices
Genres of folk theatre-narrative enactments, puppet theatre, dance dramas, musical traditions and lifestyle patterns, naming system and onomastics, occupational folklore, family folklore, folk religious practices, pilgrimage and ritual practices
Fairs and festivals, folk medicinal practices, folk art and craft, folk architecture, folk foodways and culinary practices, folk games, dress and clothing, manners and customs, customary law and jurisprudence, worldview, regional variations and versions
Folk literature: Unit 10
Fieldwork, documentation, and archival practices
Categorization of fieldwork operations: Pre-fieldwork, fieldwork and post fieldwork-notions of ‘field’ and ‘data', thick and thin data, methods and techniques, survey method, observation method-ethnographic method, postmodern ethnographic method
Categorization of fieldwork operations: Dialogical and discourse methods-focus group method, documentation and archival practices, preservation and conservation of tangible and intangible cultures-fieldwork ethics and copyright issues, patent rights

Comparative literature+

Comparative literature: Unit 01
Conceptual framework of comparative literature
The emergence of comparative literature, difference/ alterity and the ethics of plurality, limitations of the idea of national literature, theories of interpretation
Comparative literature: Unit 02
Literary historiography
Sources of literary history: Oral, manuscript, scriptal and virtual, approaches to literary history: Integrationist and other models, problems of periodization
Comparative literature: Unit 03
History of comparative literature
History of comparative literature: French, German, Russian, and Tel Aviv schools, comparative literature in India: From Tagore to the present, world literature: from Goethe to the present, “the state of the discipline” reports
Comparative literature: Unit 04
Translation in comparative context
History and politics of translation, translation as reception, problems and promises of translation in multilingual situations, untranslatability and silence
Comparative literature: Unit 05
Poetics and literary theory
Indian poetics: Sanskrit and Tamil, Perso-Arabic traditions, western classical literary theory
Comparative literature: Unit 06
Indian literature-I
Classical-Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali, and other literary traditions, medieval-formations of language-literature (bhasha) traditions in India; bhakti, Santand Sufi literature, contact with West Asian, South-east Asian, and South Asian literary traditions
Comparative literature: Unit 07
Indian literature-II
Modernity as a concept, colonial modernity: Transactions with Western forms and literary traditions, modernity as discourse: Multiple modernisms in the context of various language-literatures, discontents of modernity: Literatures of women, adivasis
Discontents of modernity: Dalits, minorities, and others
Comparative literature: Unit 08
Literary modes, genres, and themes
The “literary” as a convention, mode and performativity: Tragedy, epic, and novel, genres: Theories; taxonomy: Generic markers and transformations, themes: Motifs, myth, archetypes
Comparative literature: Unit 09
Interdisciplinarity and intermediality
Literature and other arts: Texts across mediums, literary studies and other disciplines
Comparative literature: Unit 10
Literary dialogues
Intertextuality, parody, and pastiche, re-writing in diachronic and synchronic frames, adaptation, appropriation, and assimilation

Tribal and regional language/ literature+

Tribal and regional language/ literature: Unit 01
General ethnology
Definition of ethnology and its structure, scope of study, main branches, utility field of study, relation with other subjects, modern attitudes, concept of culture and change social system, economy, religious system
Effects of industrialization, and urbanization on tribal development
Theory of ethnology: Ethnological study of tribal and Sadan of Jharkhand and neighbour state
Tribal and regional language/ literature: Unit 02
General linguistics
Definition of linguistics, field of linguistics, and kind of linguistics
Branches of the study of linguistics, theory of origin of language, nature of language and its characteristics, utility of language, development of language, change and its reasons, different form of language, classification of languages
Familiar and structural classification, phonetics, morphology, semantics, syntax, scripts, lexicography
Theory of linguistics, linguistic study of tribal and regional languages of Jharkhand and its neighbour state, present problems and directions of solution, tradition of study, co-relations of tribal and regional languages and study of effects
Tribal and regional language/ literature: Unit 03
Indian literature
General introduction of ancient Indian literature-Vedas, Puraan, Upanishads, epics, Jain literature, Buddhist literature, Odia literature and Bengali literature and other literature
Ancient and medieval Indian literature-Siddha and Nath literature
Introduction of medieval Indian literature, Bhakti movement (Alwar Saint, Sagun Bhakti, Nirgun Bhakti, Ram Margi, Krishna Margi, Sufi Saint) main poets and study of Ritikal poets and their poetry
Modern Indian literature-introduction of Rahasyavad, Chhayavad, Pragativad, And Prayogvad
Pre independence and post independence prose and poetry, main poets, authors and their works and contribution
Tribal and regional language/ literature: Unit 04
Theory of literature
Definition of literature, and characteristics, elements of literature, subject matter, feelings, bases of poetic forms, different-poetic forms-Geet, Kavya, Kavita, Khand Kavya, drama, novel, story, essay, short play, One Act Play, Jivni, Reportaz
Samichha, Aalochana, Sabda Chitra, Samalochana Ke Swaroop and study of structural forms
Indian Kavya Shastra-Shabd shakti, Rasa Nirupan, Sadharanikaran, Kavya Guna, Kavya Dosh, Alankar-Anupras, Yamak, Shlesh, Vakroyukti, Upma, Rupak, Bharantiman, Sandesh, Uttprechha, Atishayokti, Virodhabhas, etc, Chhand-Doha, Chaupai, Malini
Indian Kavya Shastra-Mandakranta
Tribal and regional language/ literature: Unit 05
Folk literature of tribal and regional languages
Concept of folk literature, characteristics, different forms of folk literature-folk song, folk tale, Lok Gatha, myth, legend, folk drama, folk dance, Prakirn Sahitya-Idioms and phrases, Lokokti (proverb)
Paheli mantras and its characteristics difference between folk literature and written literature, importance of folk literature and folk culture
Tribal and regional language/ literature: Unit 06
Culture of tribal and regional languages area and their different aspects
Definitions of culture, importance, characteristics, festivals, yatras, mela, food, living style, social structure, economical structure, cultural structure, religious structure, behavior, customs etc
Tribal and regional language/ literature: Unit 07
Arts of tribal and regional languages
Traditional music of tribal and regional language areas, Raag-Raagini, style of dance (different forms of dance) musical instruments and performing arts in AIR and Doordarshan
Theory and role of performance and broadcasting
Chitra kala (Bhiti Chitra, Kohbar Kala, Sohrai Painting) murti kala, clay art
Bamboo art
Wood craft, stone art, metal art, silk art, Architect, PaakKala, and other arts
Tribal and regional language/ literature: Unit 08
Poetry of tribal and regional languages
Study of structure and form of writing of song, poetry, Khand Kavya and epic, muktak kavya, etc, study of ancient, medieval, and modern poets, development and introduction of their authors
Introduction of song and singers
Tribal and regional language/ literature: Unit 09
Prose literature of tribal and regional languages
Development of prose literature, story, drama, novel, essay, Yatra Vritant, Sansmaran, Rekha Chitra, Alochana, Samalochana, Samichha, Jivni, Reportaz etc, and study of their structure and form of writing
Tribal and regional language/ literature: Unit 10
The heroes of tribal and regional languages areas
Birsa Munda, Bir Budhu Bhagat, Tilka Manjhi, Sido Kanhu, Chand Bhairav, Sheikh Bhikhari, Nilamber-Pitamber, Telangana kharia, NE Horo, poto sardar, Binod Bihari Mahto, Lado Jonko, Kartik Oraon and their life story, kritiyan and contribution
Jaipal Singh Munda, Pandit Raghunath Murmu, Lako Bodra, Dr. Ramdayal Munda, Paramveer Albert Ekka, Ramdas Tudu, Sadhu Ramchand Murmu, etc and their life story, kritiyan and contribution

Adult and continuing education and extension+

Adult and continuing education and extension: Unit 01
Adult, continuing education and extension: Indian and global contexts
Adult, continuing education: Pre and post independent India, adult education perspectives: Asian, Latin American, European, and American, extension education and services in India: Phases and movements, extension as “third dimension” of higher education
New approaches in extension education and services in India, national open school, field organisation practices, need, concept, types and characteristics of lifelong learning programmes in India, opportunities for lifelong learning and extension
Agencies in lifelong learning in and outside India, comparative studies in adult education: Parameters, trends and analysis
Adult and continuing education and extension: Unit 02
Theoretical and functional base of adult education
Liberal, behaviouristic, progressive, humanistic, radical and analytical approaches of adult education, social and educational perspectives of Tagore, Gandhi, Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, Ambedkar and other Indian thinkers, andragogy and pedagogy
Attributes and distinctive features of adult learning and development, motivational aspects of adult learning, values in adult education, and challenges of contemporary society, individual vs. group learning approaches in adult education
Experiences and learning from agriculture, home science, community health and technology, learning needs of diverse group of adult learners, theories of adult learning, professionalization of adult education, prior learning: Concept, issues and challenges
Prior learning: Equivalence and academic credit for continuing education courses
Adult and continuing education and extension: Unit 03
Alternate learning systems
Education: Status, challenges, and alternatives, guidance and counselling: Individual and group counselling, emergence of distance learning, autonomous learning and online learning, transformational learning: Use of different media in education, ICT
Transformational learning: World wide web, mobile technologies, multimedia packages, computer aided learning (CAL), audio-visual aids, digital India, Swayam, MOOC courses, UDAAN, e-library, virtual learners and virtual learning centers
ICT in handling information: Storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information, online teaching, challenges and benefits of online learning, differentiated instructions in an online environment
Adult and continuing education and extension: Unit 04
Curriculum planning and teaching-learning materials
Meaning, definition of curriculum: Need for curriculum, curriculum theory, and practice, identification of needs and interests of lifelong learners, objectives of curriculum development, principles of curriculum development and its approaches
Curriculum planning: Need and implementation, evaluation: Process-product-feedback mechanism, curriculum development-supporting systems, teaching methods, teaching and learning materials and aids for lifelong learning
Preparation of books and audio visual material for neo-literates: Processes, contents, and field testing of materials, agencies engaged in preparation of materials, type of teaching-learning materials: Print, online and offline
Adult and continuing education and extension: Unit 05
Human resource management in lifelong learning and extension
Concept, principles, and functions of management, programme planning, organisation, and control, job specifications of personnel engaged in university-community engagement, skill development, continuing education and other extension programmes
Training and development: Family-based, off the job and on the job, training of functionaries in adult, continuing education, lifelong education through participatory approach, skill development initiatives: State-promoted
Skill development initiatives: NGO-promoted and public private partnerships (PPP), field skills, teaching methods of adults, training methods for training for functionaries, management of a training programme, evaluation of social development programmes
Adult and continuing education and extension: Unit 06
Communication for social development
Concept, methods, and practices of communication, models: Agriculture, community health, educational and social marketing, modes of communication; conventional and ICT-driven, people’s participation in development
People’s organisation (community based organisation, state promoted organisation), programmes: Individual centric and group centric, development communication planning and operationalization, emerging technologies in communication for social development
Communication in extension: Government, semi-government, nongovernment, corporate agencies etc
Adult and continuing education and extension: Unit 07
Social and developmental concerns
Development and its indicators, millennium development goals (MDGs), sustainable development goals (SDGs), population education: Concept and paradigm shifts, social and distributive justice, issues of marginalization and pedagogy: Women, tribals
Issues of marginalization and pedagogy: Minorities, transgender, aged and persons with disability, value based education, inequality in social system and social mobility, interventions in specific concern areas of children, bonded labour and gender
Interventions in general areas of concern: Water, health, energy, disaster, and environment, social and professional ethics
Adult and continuing education and extension: Unit 08
Vocational education and skill development
Concept, scope, policy and programmes of vocational education and skill development, market requirements and skilling status, operationalization of the concept of vocational education in adult
Continuing education and lifelong Learning through state supported structures like Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) and non state supported structures of industrial and business houses
Emergence of micro-enterprises like self help groups and mega-enterprises like SEWA, skilling India: Skill sectors, national skill development policy, programme, and implementation mechanism
Structure of skilling programmes, certification, and equivalence, Make-In India, start-up, stand up, Mudra banks, entrepreneurship, analysis of such efforts at micro and mega level
Adult and continuing education and extension: Unit 09
Research and research methods
Philosophical roots, history, elements and significance of social science research, qualitative and quantitative action research, research design: Meaning and types; descriptive, analytical, exploratary, basic, applied, action
Research design: Survey and case study research, sources of data: Primary and secondary, collection of secondary data: Historical documents, archival material, published sources, journals, internet sources, census, NSS and statistical reports
Population and sampling, data collection and its tools, organisation of research, analysis, generalization and report writing, documentation and dissemination of the research work, content analysis, survey and case studies
Currents trends of research in adult and continuing education (national and international), emerging areas of research in adult and continuing education and extension, ethical concerns in social science research
Adult and continuing education and extension: Unit 10
Lifelong learning: The futuristic vision
Beyond literacy and numeracy, resolving the dilemmas of institutional and non-institutional learning, localising the learning and cultural context of a learner, harmonizing the skill of individual with the potential employers
Personalised and customised educational opportunities of adult learner, network based learning, open option based learning, building learning communities, search for an ever-evolving educational policy, towards a learning society

Physical education+

Physical education: Unit 01
Physical education and adapted physical education, their objectives
Philosophies of education as applied to physical education, development of physical education in Greece, Rome, Sweden, Russia, England, Denmark, Germany, USA, Australia, and China
Growth and development of physical education in India: (a) Recreation-its principles, characteristics, and importance. Modern trends in recreation. Indoor and outdoor recreational programmes. Recreational programmes for various categories of people
Growth and development of physical education in India: (b) Wellness-its importance, benefits, and challenges. Development and maintenance of wellness. (c) Teaching aptitude: Nature, objectives, characteristics of teaching
Growth and development of physical education in India: (c) Teaching aptitude-learner characteristics and teaching methods. (d) Social aspects of sports: Sports as a socializing agency, social values, sports leadership
Growth and development of physical education in India: (d) Social aspects of sports-sports as cultural heritage and social aspects of competition. (e) Ancient and modern Olympics games, Asian, and Commonwealth games
Growth and development of physical education in India: (f) Structure and functions of international and national bodies controlling various games and sports. Prominent honours and awards in games, and sports
Physical education: Unit 02
Exercise physiology-its scope and importance in the field of physical education and sports
Cardiorespiratory adaptations to long and short term physical activities
Muscle: Its types, characteristics, and functions. Microscopic structure of muscle fiber. Sliding filament theory of muscular contraction. Types of muscle fibers and sports performance. Muscular adaptations to exercise
Muscle: Neuromuscular junction and transmission of nerve impulse, kinesthetic sense organs, and neural control of motor skills
Biochemical aspects of exercise: Metabolism of food products. Aerobic and anaerobic systems during rest and exercise. Direct and indirect methods of measuring energy cost of exercise
Recovery process: Physiological aspects of fatigue. Restoration of energy stores. Recovery oxygen. Nutritional aspects of performance
Environmental influence on human physiology under exercise
Women in sports: Trainability. Physiological gender differences and special problems of women athletes
Aging: Physiological consequences, lifestyle management, and healthful aging
Physiological responses of various therapeutic modalities and rehabilitation
Physiological aspects of various Ergogenic aids
Massage manipulations and their physiological responses
Physical education: Unit 03
Kinesiology and biomechanics
Modern trends in biomechanics
Planes and axes of human body
Joints and their movements
Muscle attachments-origin, insertion, action, and leverage of the principal muscles used in sports
Motion-its laws and their application in sports
Projectile and principles of projections
Linear and angular kinematics, and kinetics
Friction, spin, impact, and elasticity
Air and water dynamics
Mechanical advantage and applications of Levers in sports
Posture and its deformities with their corrective exercises
Kinesiological, muscular, and mechanical analyses of fundamental movements: Mechanical analyses of major sports skills
Physical education: Unit 04
Sports psychology-its importance in the field of physical education and sports
Motivation in sports-types, theories, and dynamics
Psychological factors affecting sports performance-emotions, anxiety aggression, stress ,self confidence, concentration, mental practice, and goal setting
Personality-theories of personality, measurement of personality
Group dynamics, group cohesion, and leadership in sports
Cognitive process-memory and thinking
Principles of motor skill learning
Transfer of training and its types with its implication in sports
Long and short term psychological preparation for performance/ competition
Psychological skill training for activation and relaxation
Spectators and sports performance
Physical education: Unit 05
Development of teacher education for physical education in India
Comparative study of professional preparation in physical education of India with those of USA, Russia, Germany, Australia, and UK
Professional and other courses of physical education in India
Role of Government agencies monitoring professional courses in physical education
Qualities, qualifications, and responsibilities of physical education personnel at primary, secondary, and higher education levels
Scope of physical education personnel in the promotion of health, fitness, and wellness
Recent Government policies for promoting physical education and sports in India
Hierarchy of organizational set-up in physical education at schools, colleges, and university level
Role of public and private sectors in the promotion of physical education and sports in the country
Curriculum development: Concepts and principles of curriculum planning. Subject matter for different levels of education-primary, secondary, and higher education
Curriculum design and content: Importance, selection, and classification of subject matter with reference to age, sex and differently abled pupils. Integrated programme for boys and girls
Teaching aids: Time-table, concepts, credit system for various subject courses theory and practical, impact of technology in physical education and sports
Curriculum evaluation: Concepts and purpose; procedure and appraisal
Physical education: Unit 06
Health-its objectives and spectrum
Health education, its importance, and principles
Role of genetics and environment in achieving health
Health-related physical fitness
Community health programme: Health appraisal and health instructions. International and national health promoting government and private agencies
School health programme and personal hygiene
Communicable diseases: causes, symptoms, prevention through other means and immunization
Psychosomatic disorders/ sedentary lifestyle diseases: Causes, symptoms, and prevention
Obesity related health problems
Body weight control and its significance on health
Role of exercise, dieting, and combination of exercise and dieting on weight control
First-aid: Objectives and principles. First-aid for shock, poisoning, burns, drowning, bleeding, electric shock and common sports injuries
Pollution: Air, water, sound, and radiation. Effects of pollution on health, preventive and safety measures from pollution
Nutrition: Balanced diet and its components. Nutritional deficiencies. Understanding of malnutrition and nutritional supplements
Effects of smoking, alcohol, and drugs on health; prevention and rehabilitation
Physical education: Unit 07
Sports training-its characteristics and principles
Training load, its features, principles, and adaptation process
Means and methods of executing training load
Overload, its causes, symptoms, and remedial measures
Strength: Its characteristics, types of strength, factors determining strength, and strength development
Endurance: Its characteristics, types of endurance, factors determining endurance, and endurance development
Speed: Its characteristics, types of speed, factors determining speed and speed development
Flexibility: Its characteristics, types of flexibility, factors determining flexibility and flexibility development
Coordinative abilities: Its characteristics, types of coordinative abilities, factors determining coordinative abilities and development of coordinative abilities
Technique and skill: Its characteristics and importance. Different stages of technique development and technique training. Tactics and strategy
Planning: Its importance and principles. Types of planning
Periodization: Its importance, objectives, and types of periodization. Concept of different periods-preparatory, competition, and transitional
Types of competition: Talent identification-process and procedure
Physical education: Unit 08
Research in physical education-its importance and classification
Ethical issues in research
Methods of research: Descriptive, historical, and experimental. Experimental research designs
Identification and formulation of research problem
Types of research hypotheses and their formulation
Hypotheses testing
Tools of research: Questionnaires, opinionnaires, interviews, and observation
Sources and steps of literature search: Library, research databases, internet-search engines, online journals. Note taking and critical reading
Sampling techniques: Probability and non probability
Data, its types, and collecting measures
Normal probability curve and grading scales
Statistical processes, their importance, and uses in research
Application of parametric and non parametric statistical techniques in research
Computer applications: Statistical packages for data analysis-SPSS, e-mail, search engines and Microsoft office
Preparation of research proposal, report, abstract, paper for publication and paper for presentation
Physical education: Unit 09
Test, measurement, and evaluation-their types and importance in physical education and sports
Principles and processes of evaluation in physical education
Criteria of selecting an appropriate test and administration of testing programme
Types of tests and construction of standard knowledge and skill tests
Tests for fitness: Physical fitness, motor fitness, motor ability, and motor educability. Health related fitness tests
Test for fitness components: Strength, endurance, speed, flexibility, and coordinative abilities
Sports skill tests: Badminton, basketball, football, hockey, tennis, and volleyball
Anthropometric measurements: Land marks and measurement of various body segments, height, sitting-height, weight, diameters, circumferences, skin folds, body mass index, ponderal index
Somatotype and Posture evaluating techniques
Testing of physiological phenomenons: Blood pressure, breathing frequency vital capacity, heart rate, pulse rate, body temperature and body composition
Tests for psychological variables: Anxiety, aggression, team cohesion, achievement motivation, mental-toughness, and self-efficacy
Physical education: Unit 10
Management-its principles and theories
Scope of management in physical education and sports
Guiding principles for organizing physical education and sports programmes in institutions
Personnel management: Objectives and principles. Self-appraisal, communication skills and time management. Essential skills of administration
Financial management: Objectives, purposes, principles, and scope. Planning and preparation of budget. Mechanics of purchase and auditing
Supervision: Objectives, principles, and importance of supervision. Techniques of supervision. Duties and responsibilities of a supervisor
Facility management: Planning, procuring, and maintenance of facilities-indoor and outdoor facilities. Planning and management of sports infrastructure. Management of records
Role of sports manager: Interpersonal, informational, and decision making. Managerial skills-technical, human, and conceptual. Qualities and qualification of sports manager
Event management: Its principles, planning, check list, rehearsal, itinerary, execution, reporting and follow-up procedures of an event
Public relation: Principles of public relations in physical education and sports
Mass media: Communication and publicity, qualifications of public relation officer

Arab culture and Islamic studies+

Arab culture and Islamic studies: Unit 01
Emergence of Islam and Khilafat-e-Rashida
Socio-religious conditions of pre-Islamic Arabia, political and economic condition, Prophet’s life at Makkah and Madina, migration: Importance and implications, formation of Islamic state and society at Madina
The Prophet (PBUH) as a law giver, statesman and mercy to mankind, institution of Khilafat: Importance and relevance, consolidation of Arabia under Caliph Abu Bakr, expansion and administration of Islamic state under Caliph Umar
Expansion and political developments under Caliph Uthman and Caliph Ali, achievements of Khilafat-e-Rashida
Arab culture and Islamic studies: Unit 02
The Umayyads
The establishment of Umayyad dynasty, prominent rulers, prominent Sahaba and Tabaie scholars, Arabisation of the state, social and economic conditions, administration, education, development of Arabic language and literature, art and architecture
Causes of decline
Arab culture and Islamic studies: Unit 03
The Abbasids
The establishment of the Abbasid rule, prominent rulers, prominent scholars, administration, socio cultural developments, development of religious sciences, education and educational institutions, development of Arabic language and literature
Art and architecture, trade and commerce, relations with neighbouring states, causes of decline
Arab culture and Islamic studies: Unit 04
The Arabs in Spain and Sicily
The establishment of Umayyad rule in Spain, the conquest of Sicily, prominent rulers, prominent scholars and their impact on the west, socio cultural developments, contribution to science and literature
Development of libraries and educational institutions, agriculture, trade, and commerce, art and architecture, disintegration of the empire: Emergence of small city-state, Muwahhidin and Murabitin: Emergence and decline
Fall of Granada and Spanish inquisition
Arab culture and Islamic studies: Unit 05
Dynasties of east and west
Ghaznavids, Seljuks, Samanids, Fatimids, Khwarizm Shah, Mamluks, Aghlabids, Hamdanids, Idrisids, Tulunids, Ikhshidid, Ayyubids, Qachars
Arab culture and Islamic studies: Unit 06
The Ottoman and Safavid empire
Origin and development of Ottoman empire, prominent Ottoman rulers, the Ottoman administration and army, socio religious and educational conditions, the Ottoman society, the Ottomans and the west, art and architecture
The Ottoman decline: Causes, origin and development of Safavid empire, Shah Ismail and the promotion of Shi´ism, Shah-Abbas and the administrative reforms, art and architecture, trade and commerce
Arab culture and Islamic studies: Unit 07
Islam in India
Advent of Islam in India (Kerala), Islam in Sindh: Muhammad bin Qasim’s administration and religious policy, establishment of Delhi sultanate, administration during the sultanate period, socio religious and educational conditions
Madaris and their syllabus, contribution to Fiqh and Hadith literature, the Mughal rule and administration, socio religious and educational scenario during the Mughal rule
Contribution to Fiqh and Hadith literature (Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi, Shah Waliullah, Sheikh Abdul Haq Muhaddith Dehlvi and others), Mughal art and architecture, industry, trade, and commerce, 1757: British colonialism and its expansion
1857: First war of independence and its consequences, role of Muslims in the freedom struggle: Khilafat and non-cooperation movements
Arab culture and Islamic studies: Unit 08
Islamic sciences-Tafsir, Hadith, and Fiqh
Collection and compilation of Quran, ethical, social, political and economic teachings of the Quran, origin and development of Tafsir literature, classical Tafsir: Al-Tabari, Al-Razi and Zamakhshari, Tafsir in the modern age: Tafsir al-Manar
Tafsir in the modern age: Fi-zilal al-Quran, Bayan al-Quran, Tarjuman al-Quran, Tafhim al-Quran, Tadabbur al-Quran and Tafsir al-Quran, origin and development of Hadith literature, compilation of Hadith literature, Riwayah and Dirayah, Muwatta, Musnad
Sihah E-Sitta and their compilers (authors), origin and development of Fiqh literature, sources of Islamic Fiqh
Arab culture and Islamic studies: Unit 09
Muslim philosophy, Sufism, and Muslim contribution to knowledge
Origin and development of Muslim philosophy, classical Muslim philosophers: Al-Kindi, Farabi, Ibn-Sina, Al-Ghazzali, Ibne Rushd, Qadariyya, Murji'ah, Khawarij, Mutazilites, and Asharites, origin and development of Sufism
Arab culture and Islamic studies: Unit 10
Muslim philosophy, Sufism and Muslim contribution to knowledge
Prominent Sufis: Hasan al-Basri, Junaid Baghdadi, Ibn-Arabi and Sheikh Ali Hujwiri, Major Sufi orders: Chishtiyya, Suhrawardiyya, Qadiriyya, Naqshbandiyya, Muslim contribution to natural and social sciences: Medicine, mathematics, astronomy
Muslim contribution to natural and social sciences: Historiography, geography, chemistry, and botany, prominent classical thinkers and scientists Al-Mawardi, Al-Biruni, Ibn-Taymiyya, Ibn-Khaldun, Ibn al-Baytar, Ibn al-Haytham etc
Arab culture and Islamic studies: Unit 11
Modern trends, movements in Islam
Advent of Western modernity and technology in Egypt and India, Muhammad Ali Pasha and his reforms, Tanzimat, sir Syed and his educational movement, modern religious movements: The Wahhabiyya, the Sokoto and Faraizi movement
Shah Waliullah and his movement, Syed Ahmad Shaheed and his movement, Ikhwan al-Muslimun and Jamaat E-Islami, Young Turk Movement, Nursi movement, Arab nationalism: Abdul Rahman al-Kawakibi
Western modernity in Turkey and Iran: Mustafa Kemal and Reza Shah, muslim modernist thinkers: Ali-Abdul Raziq, Qasim Amin, Fazlur Rahman, contemporary Muslim organisations and schools of thought: Deoband, Nadwa, the Salafis, and Barelvis
Modern Islamic thinkers: Jamaluddin-Afghani, Muhammad Abduh, Rashid Rida, Hasan al- Banna, Syed Qutb, Shibli Nomani, Allama Iqbal, Abul-A´la Maududi, Ayatullah Khomeini, Ali Shariati and Ahmad Kasravi Tabrizi
The Iranian revolution, the Palestine problem-liberation organisation: PLO, Hamas, and Hezbollah, the Arab spring, Egypt: Democracy on trial, conflicts in West Asia: Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yeman, Indo-Arab relations

Indian culture+

Indian culture: Unit 01
Meaning and concepts of culture
Traditional and modern concepts of culture-notions of culture in textual tradition, anthropological, archaeological and sociological understanding of the term culture
Elements of culture, concept of Indianness and value system
Relation between culture and civilization
Historiography and approaches to the study of Indian culture–stereotypes, objectivity and bias, imperialist, nationalist, Marxist and subaltern
Heritage of India and world’s debt to Indian culture
Indian culture: Unit 02
Sources of the study of Indian culture
Archaeological: Cultural remains, monuments, numismatics, epigraphy; literary sources and oral traditions; foreign accounts; archival sources
Indian culture: Unit 03
Prehistoric and protohistoric cultures
Stone Age cultures-Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic; protohistoric cultures-chalcolithic horizon, Harappan culture-current debates on nomenclature and scripts, town planning and architecture, art, social, religious and economic life
Evolution of India’s main language families
Indian culture: Unit 04
Vedic and post-vedic period
Early vedic and later Vedic ideas and institutions: social, religious, economic, political, and scientific
Post Vedic-religious movements and emergence of states, Shramana traditions-Buddhism, Jainism, Ajivikas and other sects
Education system and centres-Taxila and Kashi
Indian culture: Unit 05
Mauryan and post-Mauryan period
Ideas and institutions: Social, religious, economic, and political
Ashoka’s dhamma
Scripts-Brahmi and Kharosthi
Impact of foreign invasions
Art and architecture
Literature-Arthashastra, Manusmriti, Natyashastra, Panchatantra, Buddhacarita, and Saundarananda
Scientific achievements-Nagarjuna, Sushruta, and Charaka
Education system and centres
Sangam age-society and culture
Contacts with outside world
Indian culture: Unit 06
Gupta and post-Gupta period
Ideas and institutions: Social, religious, philosophical, economic, and political
Scientific achievements-mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy
Art and architecture-evolution of temples, paintings of Ajanta, and Bagh
Literature-Kalidasa, Banabhatta, Bharavi, Magha, Bhavabhuti, Dandi
Canonical texts-Vishnu Dharmottara Purana
Education system and centres-Nalanda, Valabhi
Contacts with outside world
Indian culture: Unit 07
Early medieval period
Legacies of classical ideas and emergence of new trends: Society-proliferation of castes, outcastes, vishti, slavery
Position of women
Polity-feudalism
Economy-de-urbanization and agrarian system
Religion: Vedic-Puranic, Shramana tradition, Tantra, Bhakti movements
Philosophical thoughts-Shad Darshana
Philosophers-Shankara, Ramanuja
Pilgrimage tradition
Art and architecture-Nagara, Dravida, Bhumija, Vesara
Education system and centres-Vikramashila, Nalanda, etc
Scientific achievements-mathematics, astronomy
Literature-Kalhana’s Rajatarangini and Al-biruni's’ kitab-ul hind
Contacts with Islam
Canonical texts-Samarangana-Sutradhara, Manasara, Bhuvana Pradeepa, Sadhanamala
Indian culture: Unit 08
Sultanate period
Delhi sultanate-ideas and institutions: Political-Iqta; impact of the new ruling class on society
Economic-market reforms, growth of new urban centres, percolation of Islam in rural areas, resistance and acceptance
Extent of slavery
Religion-Acharya traditions, Bhakti tradition, Kabir and Ravidas, emergence of sufism-Chishti and Suhrawardi
Art and architecture-emergence of sultanate school of architecture and paintings, regional styles
Religious and secular structures
Literature-Sanskrit, Persian, regional languages and emergence of Hindawi
Amir Khusrau, Chand Bardai
Education system
Vijayanagar empire: Ideas and institutions-political, Nayankara
Art and architecture, literature
Educational institutions
Indian culture: Unit 09
Mughal period
Ideas and institutions: Polity-Mansab and Jagir, Watan Jagir, economy-Zamindari, and Zabt
Society-aristocracy, emergence of middle classes, labourers, slaves
Position of women
Religion and philosophy-growth of Vaishnava Bhakti, Pantheism, and Sufi traditions
Sulh-i Kul, Naqshbandis
Guru Nanak, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Meerabai, Narayanabhatta, Raghunandana
Literature development in Sanskrit, Persian and vernacular languages-Tulasi Dasa, Suradasa, Abdul Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, Abul Fazl, Faizi, Badauni, Banarasidas (Ardhakathanaka)
Translation of religious texts by Akbar and Dara-Shikoh
Art and architecture-emergence of Mughal schools; temples of Vrindavan-Gobinda Deva and Keshava Das temple; four quarter gardens
Introduction of new education curriculum from Akbar’s period onwards Dars-i Nizami
Religious syncretism in coinage, miniatures, and structures
Science and technology
Introduction of mechanical devices, Panderm gearing and astrolabe; Sawai Jai Singh observatories
Arrival of Europeans and their impact-Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English, French
Indian culture: Unit 10
Modern period
Emergence of successor states and cultural developments: Awadh, Hyderabad, Mysore, Marathas, and Rajputana
Impact of western ideas and Indian responses: European studies of India; William Jones and Asiatic Society; fort William college; influence of Christian missionaries
Emergence and development of new education system
Indian cultural renaissance
Socio-religious reform movements: Reformists-Brahmo Samaj, Aligarh movement, Ramakrishna mission and theosophical society; revivalist-Wahabi and Arya Samaj movement
Dalit movements; Sikh reform movements
Administrative measures: Legislation on women, education, and social evils
Literature: Emergence of Shahr Ashob; Urdu-Mirza Ghalib, Allama Iqbal; Hindi-Bhartendu Harishchandra, Prem Chand; Bengali-Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam
Science and technology: Emergence of modern science and technology

Labour welfare/ personnel management/ industrial relations/ labour and social welfare/ human resource management+

Labour welfare/ personnel management/ industrial relations/ labour and social welfare/ human resource management: Unit 01
Principles and practices of management
Development of management thought, contributions of Taylor, Fayol, Mayo, Mary Parker Follett and C.I. Barnard
Behavioural approach, systems approach, quantitative approach, and contingency approach
Function of management: Planning and decision making, organising, staffing, directing, controlling, coordinating
Labour welfare/ personnel management/ industrial relations/ labour and social welfare/ human resource management: Unit 02
Human resource management
Conceptual framework, human resource planning, job analysis, recruitment, selection, placement, induction, training and development, performance management, job evaluation, compensation management, employee benefits and incentives, managing career
New trends in HRM: Changing environment of HRM and contemporary challenges, emerging HRM concepts
Labour welfare/ personnel management/ industrial relations/ labour and social welfare/ human resource management: Unit 03
Human resource development (HRD)
Concepts, assumptions, values, HRD mechanisms, action-research model, HRD culture and climate, HRD interventions, HR accounting and audit, consultant-client relationship, knowledge management, human resource information system
International human resource management (IHRM): Organisational context of IHRM, IHRM and sustainable business, functions of IHRM, cross-cultural studies, cultural diversity, transnational organisations, IHRM models
Labour welfare/ personnel management/ industrial relations/ labour and social welfare/ human resource management: Unit 04
Organisational Behaviour
Concept, scope, nature of human behavior, personality, perception, learning, attitude, motivation, interpersonal behaviour, group dynamics, leadership, communication, power and authority, stress, organisational change and development
Labour welfare/ personnel management/ industrial relations/ labour and social welfare/ human resource management: Unit 05
Industrial relations
Concept, scope, evolution, approaches, actors and models, conflict and cooperation, Bi-partitism, Tri-partitism, collective bargaining, workers’ participation in management, grievance handling and disciplinary action, code of conduct
Industrial relations in changing scenario, employers’ organisations
Trade unions: Concepts, evolution, Problems of trade unions in India, recognition, the trade unions act, 1926. Emerging role of trade unions in India
Labour welfare/ personnel management/ industrial relations/ labour and social welfare/ human resource management: Unit 06
Industrial disputes
Factors, forms, trends, prevention, and settlement, role of state and central labour administration, strikes and lockouts
The industrial employment (standing orders) act, 1946
The industrial disputes act, 1947
Labour welfare/ personnel management/ industrial relations/ labour and social welfare/ human resource management: Unit 07
Labour legislation
Objectives, principles, classification, and evolution
International labour organisation, social justice and labour legislation, Indian constitution and labour laws
The factories act, 1948
The mines act, 1952
The inter-state migrant workmen (regulation of employment and conditions of service) act, 1979
The contract labour (regulation and abolition) act, 1970
The building and other construction workers (regulation of employment and conditions of service) act, 1996
The child labour (prohibition and regulation) act, 1986
Labour welfare/ personnel management/ industrial relations/ labour and social welfare/ human resource management: Unit 08
Wages
Concept, types, factors influencing wages, wage theories and wage differentials
The minimum wages act, 1948
The payment of wages act, 1936
The payment of bonus act, 1965
The equal remuneration act, 1976
The payment of gratuity act, 1972
The employees’ provident fund and miscellaneous provisions act, 1952
Labour welfare/ personnel management/ industrial relations/ labour and social welfare/ human resource management: Unit 09
Labour welfare
Concept, scope, types, theories and principles, industrial health and hygiene, industrial accidents and safety, occupational diseases
Social security: Concept and scope, social assistance and social assurance
Labour welfare/ personnel management/ industrial relations/ labour and social welfare/ human resource management: Unit 10
Labour market
Features, demand and supply of labour, nature and composition of Indian labour force, unemployment and underemployment, types of labour market, characteristics of Indian labour market, new dynamics of labour market in India
Economic systems and labor market, problems of labour in India

Law+

Law: Unit 01
Jurisprudence
Nature and sources of law, schools of jurisprudence, law and morality, concept of rights and duties, legal personality, concepts of property, ownership, and possession, concept of liability, law, poverty, and development, global justice
Modernism and postmodernism
Law: Unit 02
Constitutional and administrative law
Preamble, fundamental rights and duties, directive principles of state policy
Union and state executive, and their interrelationship, union and state legislature and distribution of legislative powers, judiciary, emergency provisions, temporary, transitional, and special provisions in respect of certain states
Election commission of India, nature, scope, and importance of administrative law, principle of natural justice, judicial review of administrative actions-grounds
Law: Unit 03
Public International Law and IHL
International law-definition, nature, and basis, sources of international law, recognition of states and governments, nationality, immigrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons (IDPs), extradition and asylum, united nations and its organs
Settlement of international disputes, world trade organization (WTO), international humanitarian law (IHL)-conventions and protocols, implementation of IHL-challenges
Law: Unit 04
Law of crimes
General principles of criminal liability-actus reus and mens rea, individual and group liability and constructive liability, stages of crime and inchoate crimes-abetment, criminal conspiracy, and attempt, general exceptions, offences against human body
Offences against state and terrorism, offences against property, offences against women and children, drug trafficking and counterfeiting, offences against public tranquility
Theories and kinds of punishments, compensation to the victims of crime
Law: Unit 05
Law of Torts and Consumer Protection
Nature and definition of tort, general principles of tortious liability, general defenses, specific torts-negligence, nuisance, trespass, and defamation, remoteness of damages, strict and absolute liability, tortious liability of the state
The consumer protection act 1986-definitions, consumer rights, and redressal mechanism, the motor vehicles act, 1988-no fault liability, third party insurance, and claims tribunal
The competition act, 2002-prohibition of certain agreements, abuse of dominant position and regulation of combinations
Law: Unit 06
Commercial law
Essential elements of contract and e-contract, breach of contract, frustration of contract, void and voidable agreements, standard form of contract and quasi-contract, specific contracts-bailment, pledge, indemnity, guarantee, and agency
Sale of goods act, 1930, partnership and limited liability partnership, negotiable instruments act, 1881, company law-incorporation of a company, prospectus, shares, and debentures, company law-directors and meetings, corporate social responsibility
Law: Unit 07
Family law
Sources and schools, marriage and dissolution of marriage, matrimonial remedies-divorce and theories of divorce, changing dimensions of institution of marriage-live-in relationship
Recognition of foreign decrees in India on marriage and divorce, maintenance, dower, and stridhan, adoption, guardianship, and acknowledgement, succession and inheritance, Will, gift, and Wakf, uniform civil code
Law: Unit 08
Environment and Human Rights Law
Meaning and concept of ‘environment’ and ‘environmental pollution’, International environmental law and UN Conferences, Constitutional and legal framework for protection of environment in India
Environmental Impact Assessment and control of hazardous waste in India, National Green Tribunal, Concept and development of human rights, Universalism and cultural relativism, International Bill of Rights
Group rights-women, children, persons with disabilities, elderly persons, minorities and weaker sections
Protection and enforcement of human rights in India-national human rights commission, national commission for minorities, national commission for women, national commission for scheduled castes
National commission for scheduled tribes and national commission for backward classes
Law: Unit 09
Intellectual Property Rights and Information Technology Law
Concept and meaning of intellectual property, theories of intellectual property, international conventions pertaining to intellectual properties, copyright and neighboring rights-subject matters, limitations, and exceptions, infringement and remedies
Law of patent-patentability, procedure for grant of patent, limitations, and exceptions, infringement and remedies, law of trademark-registration of trademarks, kinds of trademarks, infringement and passing off, remedies
Protection of geographical indications, biodiversity and traditional knowledge, information technology law-digital signature and electronic signature, electronic governance, electronic records and duties of subscribers
Cyber crimes, penalties, and adjudication
Law: Unit 10
Comparative Public Law and Systems of Governance
Comparative law-relevance, methodology, problems, and concerns in comparison, forms of governments-presidential and parliamentary, unitary and federal, models of federalism-USA, Canada and India, rule of Law-‘Formal’ and ‘substantive’ versions
Separation of powers-India, UK, USA, and France, independence of judiciary, judicial activism, and accountability-India, UK and USA, systems of constitutional review-India, USA, Switzerland, and France
Amendment of the constitution-India, USA, and South Africa, ombudsman-Sweden, UK, and India, open government and right to information-USA, UK, and India

Library and information science+

Library and information science: Unit 01
Data, information, knowledge, and wisdom
Information life cycle-generation, collection, storage, and dissemination
Role of information in planning, management, socioeconomic, cultural, educational, and technological development
Information science-relationship with other subjects, information society, and knowledge society
Communication-concept, types, theories, models, channels, and barriers; trends in scholarly communication
Information industry-generators, providers, and intermediaries
IPR and legal issues-categories, conventions, treaties, laws
Plagiarism-concept and types
Right to information act (RTI); information technology act
National knowledge commission; national mission on libraries
Library and information science: Unit 02
Historical Development of Libraries in India
Committees and Commissions on Libraries in India
Types of libraries-academic, public, special, and national
Library legislation and library acts in Indian states; the press and registration of books act; the delivery of books and newspapers (public libraries) act
Laws of library science
Library and information science profession-librarianship as a profession, professional skills, and competences; professional ethics
Professional associations-national-ILA, IASLIC, IATLIS; international-IFLA, ALA, CILIP, ASLIB, SLA; ROLE of UGC, RRRLF and UNESCO in promotion and development of libraries
Library and information science education in india
Library public relations and extension activities
Type of users-user studies, user education
Information literacy-areas, standards, types, and models; trends in information literacy
Library and information science: Unit 03
Information sources-nature, characteristics, types, and formats
Sources of information-primary, secondary and tertiary; documentary and non-documentary
Primary information sources (print and electronic)-journals, conference proceedings, patents, standards, theses and dissertations, trade literature
Secondary information sources (print and electronic)-dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies, indexing and abstracting, statistical sources, handbooks and manuals
Tertiary information sources (print and electronic)-directories, yearbooks, almanacs
Reference sources-bibliographical, biographical, educational, language and geographical
Electronic information resources-subject gateways, web portals, bulletin boards, discussion forums/ groups
Databases: Bibliographic, numeric, full text, multimedia; open access databases
Institutional and human resources
Evaluation of reference sources and web resources
Library and information science: Unit 04
Community Information Services
Reference service-concept and types; referral services
Alerting services-CAS, SDI, inter library loan and document delivery
Mobile based library services and tools-mobile OPAC, mobile databases, mobile library website, library apps, mobile library instructions, augmented reality, SMS alerts, geolocation, reference enquiry
Web 2.0 and 3.0-library 2.0-concept, characteristics, components; instant messaging, RSS feeds, podcasts, vodcasts, ask a librarian
Collaborative services-social networks, academics social networks, social tagging, social bookmarking
Web-scale discovery services
National information systems and networks: NISCAIR, DESIDOC, SENDOC, ENVIS, INFLIBNET, DELNET, NICNET, ERNET, national knowledge network (NKN), biotechnology information system network
International information systems and networks: INIS, AGRIS, INSPEC, MEDLARS, BIOSIS, ERIC, patent information system (PIS), biotechnology information system (BIS)
Library resource sharing and library consortia-national and international
Library and information science: Unit 05
Universe of knowledge-nature and attributes
Modes of formation of subjects
Knowledge organization-classification, theories, Cannons, and principles; simple knowledge organization system (SKOS), taxonomies, folksonomy, trends in classification
Mapping of subjects in library classification schemes-DDC, UDC, and CC
Knowledge organization: Cataloguing-canons and principles; centralized and cooperative catalogue; library cataloguing codes: CCC and AACR-II
Standards of bibliographic record formats and description-ISBD, MARC 21, CCF, RDA, FRBR, BIBFRAME
Standards for bibliographic information interchange and communication-ISO 2709, Z39.50, Z39.71
Metadata standards: Dublin Core; MARC21, METS, MODES, EAD
Indexing systems and techniques: Assigned-pre-coordinate; post-coordinate; derived- title-based; vocabulary control
Abstracting-types and guidelines
Information retrieval system-features, components, models, and evaluation
Library and information science: Unit 06
Management-principles, functions, and schools of thought
Library and information centers management-book selection tools and principles; library acquisition, technical processing, circulation, serial control, maintenance and stock verification; preservation and conservation
Hazards and control measures of library materials
Human resource management-planning, job analysis, job description, job evaluation, selection, recruitment, motivation, training and development, performance appraisal; staff manual
Financial management in libraries-sources of finance, resource mobilization, budgeting methods; cost effective and cost benefit analysis, annual reports and statistics; library authority and committee
Project management-SWOT, PEST, PERT/ CPM
Total quality management (TQM)-concepts, principles and techniques, six sigma; evaluation of services of libraries and information centers
Library building, furniture, and equipments; green library building; information commons; makerspace; security and safety
Management Information System (MIS), MBO, Change Management, Disaster Management, Crisis Management
Knowledge management-principles, tools, components, and architecture
Marketing of library products and services-plan, research, strategies, mix, segmentation, pricing and advertising; management consultancy
Library and information science: Unit 07
Computer Technology
Character representation (ASCII, ISCII, UNICODE); computer hardware, software; storage devices; input and output devices
Types of software-system software, application software
Programming languages-object oriented, procedural, high level, scripting; web languages
Telecommunication-transmission channels, mode, and media, ISDN, PSDN, multiplexing, modulation, standards and protocols
Wireless communication-media, Wi-Fi, Li-Fi, satellite communication, mobile communication
Computer networks-topologies, types of networks-LAN, MAN, WAN
Internet-Web browsers, www, e-mail; search engines, meta and entity search engines
Internet protocols and standards-HTTP, SHTTP, FTP, SMTP, TCP/IP, URI, URL
Hypertext, hypermedia, multimedia, video conferencing, virtual reality, augmented technologies
Data security, network security, firewalls, cryptographic techniques, anti-virus software, anti-spyware, intrusion detection system
Library and information science: Unit 08
Library automation
Areas, planning, selection of hardware and software, implementation and evaluation; standards for library automation
Barcode, RFID, QR Code, biometric, smartcard: features and applications
Digitization-planning, selection of materials, hardware, software, process, issues
Digital library: Genesis, characteristics, types, architecture; standards, formats, and protocols, DOI
Digital preservation-need, purpose, standards, methods, techniques, projects (national and international)
Digital library initiatives-national and international
Institutional repositories-need, purpose, types and tools; institutional repositories in India; ROAR, DOAR, SHARPA-ROMEO
Content management systems-architecture, data integration, CMS software-selection, implementation, and evaluation
Application of artificial intelligence, expert systems, and robotics in libraries; social mobile analytics cloud (SMAC); cloud computing
Ontology-tools (RDF, RDFS, POTEGE); semantic web, linked data, big data, data mining, data harvesting
Library and information science: Unit 09
Research-concept, purpose, functions, scope and ethics
Types of research-basic and applied, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary
Research methods: Historical, descriptive, experimental, and delphi
Research design-selection of research problem, review of literature; formulation of research problem; hypothesis-formulation, types and testing; sampling techniques
Methods of data collection: Questionnaire, interview, observation, library records, scales and checklist
Data analysis and interpretation-presentation of data; statistical methods/ techniques
Statistical packages-spreadsheet, SPSS, Bibexcel, ‘r’ statistics
Research report writing and citation tools-structure, style, contents, guidelines; style manuals; online citation tools; reference style management tools; anti plagiarism tools; evaluation of research report
Metric studies in LIS-bibliometrics, scientometric, webometrics, altmetrics
Impact factors-journal, institutional and authors; h-index, g-index, i10 index
Trends in library and information science research
Library and information science: Unit 10
Academic Library and Information System
Public library and information system
Special library and information system
Health science library and information system
Corporate library and information system
Agricultural library and information system
Engineering and technological library and information system
Archive, museums, and oriental libraries
Community information system
Information services and system for persons with disability, children, and women

Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian, and peace studies+

Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian, and peace studies: Unit 01
Life of Gautama the Buddha and the origin of Buddhism (from the birth to Mahaparinirvana and the events happened thereafter)
Buddhist councils (from first to fourth) and the contribution of great emperor Ashoka and Kanishka to the spread of Buddhism in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, China, and Tibet
Schools of Buddhism: Theravada and four philosophical schools (Vaibhasika, Sautrantika, Vijnanavada and Madhyamika), Pali and Sanskrit canonical Buddhist literature (Pali Tipitaka and Sanskrit Vaipulya Sutras), life and works of Buddhaghosa, Nagarjuna
Life and works of Vasubandhu, and Dharmakirti
Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian, and peace studies: Unit 02
Three modes of teachings of the Buddha
Sila, samadhi and prajna, philosophical concepts: Tri Laksana-Artinya, Duhkha and Anatma, noble truths, Pratitya-Samutpada, Citta-Santati and Alaya-Vijnana, Sunyata and Nirvana, Buddhist meditation: Samatha and Vipassana
Six heretical thinkers, contemporary to the Buddha and their philosophy
Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian, and peace studies: Unit 03
Ancient Buddhist educational institutions (Mahaviharas)
Nalanda, Valabhi, Vikramasila, Odantapuri, Somapuri, and Jagaddala
Buddhist sculpture and architecture: Nalanda, Bodh Gaya temple, Ajanta Caves, Sanchi Stupa, Saranatha, places of Buddhist pilgrimage: Lumbini, Bodh Gaya, Saranatha, and Kusinara, revival of Buddhism and contribution of Anagarika dharmapala
Mahathera, Krpasarana, Candramani Mahathera, and Bhikshu Jagadisa Kasyapa
Impact of Buddhism on social and economic life
Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian, and peace studies: Unit 04
History of Jainism
Kalacakra (cycle of time) and the tradition of Tirthankaras-life-sketch of Lord rishabhadeva, Parsvanatha and Mahavira, Jain sects and their sub-division: Digambara and Svetambara and their sub sects
Namokar Maha Mantra, five preceptor (Panca Paramesthi), prayer, Bhakti, Upasana; three jewels: Samyak Darshan-Jnana-Charitra
Prakrit canonical (Agama) literature and their VaCANaS (councils)
Prominent acaryas of Jainism: Life and works of Acharya Kundakunda, Acharya Umasvati(ti), Acarya Siddhasena, Acarya Akalanka svami, Acharya Haribhadra Suri, Acharya Virasena Swami, Acharya Jinasena, Acharya Hemachandra Suri and Acharya Yashovijay
Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian, and peace studies: Unit 05
Vows
Vows of householders-Anuvratas, Gunavratas and siksavratas; great vows (Mahavratas) of Monks-Ahiṃsa (non-violence), Satya (truth), Asteya (non-stealing), Brahmacharya (celibacy) and Aparigraha (non-possessiveness)
Seven elements and six substance; theory of karma and its classification, Purusartha
The concept of knowledge and its classification
Anekantavada and Syadvada; Jain yoga and Dhyana
The concept of liberation in Jainism
Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian, and peace studies: Unit 06
Jain art (silpa) and architecture
Jain caves and temples of Southern India, Jain Temples of Khajuraho, Devagarha, Palitana and Mount-abu
Jain sculptures, paintings and Jain iconography: Important Jain sculptures available in India, idols received from Shravanabelagola and Mathura
Impact of Jain religion on society: Vegetarianism (Sakahara) and charity (Dana); status of women in Jain religion
Environmental and ecological thoughts in Jainism; Jainism and science
Main centres of Jaina Learning: Shravanabelagola, Jesalamera, Ahmedabad, Varanasi, Vaishali, Koba, Ladnun, Jaipur, Delhi; Jainism in abroad
Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian, and peace studies: Unit 07
Mahatma Gandhi
Family background, early life and education in India and England, impact of various religions and their scriptures
Gandhi in South Africa: (i) The origin of Satyagraha, (ii) struggle against racial discrimination, injustice, and exploitation, (iii) impact of Leo Tolstoy, John Ruskin, Henry David Thoreau, Raichandra bhai, etc
Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian, and peace studies: Unit 08
Foundations of Gandhi’s social, political, economic and religious thought
Views on social justice, social inequalities, caste system, and untouchability
Women’s problems and empowerment, Gandhi’s views on truth, non-violence, Satyagraha and the theory of ends and means
State and democracy: (i) Panchayat Raj, (ii) parliamentary democracy, sovereignty, freedom, spiritualization of politics, (iii) human rights and duties
Fundamentals of Gandhian economics: (i) Critique of modern western civilization, labour-capital relations, (ii) small-scale cottage industries, (iii) constructive programme and sustainable development
Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian, and peace studies: Unit 09
Gandhi’s role in freedom movement
Champaran, non-cooperation, Ahmedabad mill strike, Dandi march, Bardoli and Kheda satyagraha, his role in Vaikom Satyagraha and Quit India Movement
Gandhi and partition of India
Buddhist, Jaina, Gandhian, and peace studies: Unit 10
Peace studies
Understanding peace-coercive and non-coercive approaches, culture of peace
The problem of war: Causes, types, attributes and theories of war
Major peace movements: (i) Pacifism, Civil Rights Movement in USA campaign for nuclear disarmament by various agencies. (ii) Green peace movement. (iii) The contemporary global issues regarding World War and quest for peace
Major peace movements: (iv) Legacy of peace builders: Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King (Jr.), Daisaku Ikeda and Nelson Mandela
Conflicts: (i) Concept, nature and causes, methods of conflict resolution. (ii) Agencies of conflict resolution, UN peacekeeping, peace building, peace education, adjudication, role of Shanti Sena, track-II diplomacy, etc
Human security and terrorism: (i) The problem of terrorism, (ii) structural and state violence

Comparative study of religions+

Comparative study of religions: Unit 01
Study of religion
Religion: Meaning, definition, nature, and scope, theories: Origin of religion, study of religion: Aims and objectives, dimensions of religion: Doctrinal, social, moral code of conduct, devotional praxis
Religion’s relationship with other disciplines: Theology, ethics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, culture, and arts
Comparative study of religions: Unit 02
Prehistorical religious forms
Early forms of religious expression: Mana, magic, fetishes, shamans, totem, taboo, ancestor worship, nature of holy: animism, naturism, theism, polytheism, henotheism, deism, monotheism, pantheism, and panentheism
Task and objectives: myths, rituals, rites of passage, sacraments, prayers, festivals, sacrifices, religion of the major civilizations: Indus valley, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Chinese
Meaning and nature: Syncretism, mysticism, schism, sect, etc
Zoroastrianism: Beliefs and practices
Comparative study of religions: Unit 03
Modern trends in the study of religion
Approaches to the study of religion: Anthropological, sociological, phenomenological, psychological, historical, and experiential
Challenges to religion: Atheism, agnosticism, existentialism, humanism, Marxism, rationalism, materialism, secularism, relativism, globalization, clash civilizations
Modern trends in the study of religion: Holistic or all inclusive approach, interfaith understanding and dialogue, co-existence, human rights, empowerment of the subaltern or social justice, gender equality, ecology and environment
Modern trends in the study of religion: World peace and harmony
Religious authority: Tradition, magician, diviner, scripture, seer, saint, reformer, founder, prophet
Comparative study of religions: Unit 04
Hinduism
Nature of Vedic religion and culture, Vedic literature-Samhita-s, Aranyak-s, Upanishads, Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism, Tantraism, etc. Six systems of Hindu philosophy-Sankhya, yoga, Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Mimamsa, and Vedanta
Epics (Ramayana, Mahabharata) and Purana-s, bhakti and reform movements of the medieval period
Modern reform movements (Brahmo Samaj, Arya Samaj, Ramakrishna mission, etc)
Comparative study of religions: Unit 05
Jainism
Sramana culture and Tirthankara tradition (Rishabhadeva to Mahavira), main sects of Jainism-Digambara and Svetambara, Prakrit Agama literature and prominent Acaryas, basic doctrines, principles and philosophy, contribution to arts and architecture
Social aspects of Jainism, contemporary developments of Jainism, Jain pilgrimage, and Jain festivals
Comparative study of religions: Unit 06
Buddhism
Background, life and teaching of Gautama Buddha, Pali Tipitaka literature and Mahayana sutra-s, main sects-Hinayana, Mahayana, etc. Basic doctrines, principles and philosophy, contribution to arts and architecture, expansion of Buddhism outside India
Social aspects, and revival of Buddhism
Comparative study of religions: Unit 07
Judaism
Origin and development: Creation, the call of Abraham, the call of Moses, the exodus, the covenant on mount Sinai, Hebrew scripture: Pentateuch (Torah), Prophets (Niobium), writings (Ketubium)
Jewish beliefs: Ten commandments, Talmud, Midrash, Passover, Messiah, etc. Jewish celebration: Sabbath, Synagogue assembly, Passover, feast of weeks, feast of tabernacles, Jewish ethics: Covenant consciousness, Mosaic laws, jubilee stipulations
Jewish ethics: Marriage and family, importance of Jerusalem, major denomination of Judaism
Comparative study of religions: Unit 08
Christianity
The life and message of Jesus Christ, the beginning of Christianity and the sermon on the mount, Old Testament and New Testament scriptures, main Christian churches (Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant), important beliefs and teachings of Christianity
Christian life: Worship, rituals, and mysticism, history of Christianity in India, contemporary trends in Christian theology
Comparative study of religions: Unit 09
Islam
The social, religious condition of Arabia before the advent of Islam, life of the prophet Muhammad and the basic teachings of the Quran, the establishment of the Islamic community and the Madina state
Introduction of Hadith and Fiqh and some important Muhaddith (Imam Bukhari, Imam Muslim) and Faqi (Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Shafi, Imam Malik Imam Hanbal), some important Muslim thinkers: Ali Ibn E Hazam, Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
Some important Muslim thinkers: Ibn-Taymiyyah and Shah Waliullah, development of Sufism, some important Sufi order (Chishtiya, Qadriyyah, Suhrawardiyah, Naqsabandiyah, and their impact on society
Challenges of modernity and the reform movements among Muslim in India, origin and development of sects: Ithna Ashari, Mu'tazilites And Asharites, the contribution of medieval Islam to rational sciences, philosophy and fine arts
Comparative study of religions: Unit 10
Sikhism
Socio-religious milieu and life and mission of Guru Nanak, development of the Sikh Panth (1539-1708), the Sikh scripture (Sri Guru Granth Sahib) and the Sikh literature, the Sikh beliefs and the code of conduct, the Sikh institutions
Ceremonies and festivals, the Sikh sects and modern socio-religious movements, the Sikh Diaspora and modern issues

Mass communication and journalism+

Mass communication and journalism: Unit 01
Introduction to journalism and mass communication
Concept of journalism and mass communication, mass communication in India
History, growth, and development of print and electronic media
Major landmarks in print and electronic media in Indian languages
Media’s role in formulation of states of India
Media criticism and media literacy, press council and press commissions of India, status of journalism and media education in India
Media policies of the government of India since independence
Models and theories of mass communication, normative theories, administrative, and critical traditions in communication, media and journalism studies, communication and theories of socio-cultural, educational, and agricultural change
Technological determinism, critique of Marshall McLuhan’s views on media and communication and Marxist approaches
Information and knowledge societies
Indian traditions and approaches to communication from the Vedic era to the 21st century
Western and eastern philosophical, ethical and aesthetic perceptions of communication-Aristotle and Plato, Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic traditions
Media and culture-framework for understanding culture in a globalised world
Globalisation with respect to politico economic and socio cultural developments in India
Mass communication and journalism: Unit 02
Communication for development and social change
Concept and definition of development communication, role of media and journalism in society, characteristics of Indian society-demographic and sociological impact of communication, media, and journalism
Media and specific audiences
Development and social change
Issues and post-colonial conceptions
Deconstruction of dominant paradigm of communication and development
Responses and critique of dominant models
Corporatisation of development-corporate social responsibility, non-state actors in development, mass campaigns by NGOs, government of India, international agencies and corporates
Paradigms and discourse of development communication
Emergence of global civil societies, public sphere, global communication system-nation state-universal, national communication policies
Leading influencers of social reform in India: Raja Rammohan Roy, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, Mahatma Gandhi, Acharya Vinoba Bhave, Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Deendayal Upadhyay, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, etc
Mass communication and journalism: Unit 03
Reporting and editing
News-concepts, determinants (values), structure, and perspectives
Reporting for print, radio, television, and digital media
Types of reporting
National and international news agencies and feature syndicates, functions, and role
Writing for print, electronic, and digital news media
Translation and transcreation
Editing and presentation techniques for print, television, and digital media
Journalism as profession, reportage of contemporary issues, ethics of reporting
Critique of western news values, effect of new technology on global communication flows
Niche reporting
Mass communication and journalism: Unit 04
Advertising and Marketing Communication
Definition, concept, functions, types, evolution of advertising, standards, and ethics in advertising
Theories and models of communication in advertising
Brand management
Advertising management-agency-role, structure and function, client-agency relationship, media planning, and budgeting
Advertising and creativity, language, and translation
Advertising campaign and marketing
Advertising and marketing research
Mass communication and journalism: Unit 05
Public Relations and Corporate Communication
Public relations and corporate communication-definition, concept, and scope
Structure of PR in state, public, private, and non-government sectors
Tools and techniques of pr and corporate communication
Crisis communication and crisis communication management
Ethics of public relations
International public relations, communication audit
Mass communication and journalism: Unit 06
Media laws and ethics
Concept of law and ethics in India and rest of the world
The constitution of India, historical evolution, relevance
Concept of freedom of speech and expression in Indian Constitution
Defamation, libel, slander-IPC 499-502, sedition IPC 124(A), contempt of courts act, 1971, official secrets act, 1923, press and registration of books act, 1867
Working journalists and other newspaper employees (conditions of service) and miscellaneous provisions act 1955, wage boards, law of obscenity (section 292-294 of IPC); the Miller test, the Hicklin test
Indecent representation of women (prohibition) act, 1986, scheduled castes and tribes (prevention of atrocities) act, 1989, parliamentary privileges
Famous cases involving journalists and news media organisations
Right to information act, 2005, copyright act, 1957, intellectual property rights, cable television network (regulation) act, 1995, information technology act (relevant), 2000, and cyber laws, cinematograph act, 1952, film censorship
Press council act as amended from time to time, IPR, ASCI, drugs, and magic remedies (objectionable advertisements) act, 1954, various regulatory bodies for print, TV, advertising, PR, and internet
Rules, regulations and guidelines for the media as recommended by press council of India, information and broadcasting ministry and other professional organisations, adversarial role of the media, human rights, and media
Mass communication and journalism: Unit 07
Media management and production
Definition, concept of media management
Grammar of electronic media
Communication design theories and practice
Media production techniques-print and electronic
Digital media production techniques
Economics and commerce of mass media in India
Principles and management in media industry post liberalisation
Mass communication and journalism: Unit 08
ICT and Media
ICT and media-definition, characteristics, and role
Effect of computer mediated communication
Impact of ICT on mass media
Digitisation
Social networking
Economics and commerce of web enabled media
Mobile adoption and new generation telephony by media, ethics, and new media
ICT in education and development in India, online media, and e-governance
Animation-concepts and techniques
Mass communication and journalism: Unit 09
Film and visual communication
Film and television theory
Film and identity in Indian film studies, leading film directors of India before and after independence
Indian cinema in the 21st century
Approaches to analysis of Indian television
Visual communication
Visual analysis
Basics of film language and aesthetics, the dominant film paradigm, evolution of Indian cinema-commercial and ‘non-commercial’ genres, the hindi film song, Indian aesthetics, and poetics (the theory of Rasa and Dhvani)
National cinema movements: Soviet Montage cinema, German expressionist cinema, Italian Neorealist cinema, French new wave cinema, British new wave cinema, Indian new wave cinema, period cinema
Cinema in the new millennium
Mass communication and journalism: Unit 10
Communication Research
Definition, concept, constructs, and approaches to communication research process
Research designs-types, structure, components, classical, experimental and quasi experimental, variables and hypotheses; types and methods of research; basic, applied, descriptive, analytical, historical, case study, longitudinal studies
Research in journalism, public relations, advertising, cinema, animation and graphics, television, internet, social media practices, magazines, children’s media
Communication, journalism, and media research in India
Levels of measurement: Sampling-probability and non-probability, tests of validity and reliability, scaling techniques. Methods and tools of data collection-interviews, surveys, case studies, obtrusive and unobtrusive techniques, schedule, questionnaire
Levels of measurement: Methods and tools of data collection-dairy, and internet based tools, media specific methods such as exit polls, opinion polls, telephone, SMS surveys and voting with regard to GEC (general entertainment content)
Data analysis, testing, interpretation, application of statistical tests-parametric and nonparametric, tests of variance-univariate, bivariate and multivariate, tests of significance, computer mediated research
Ethical considerations in communication, media and journalism research, writing research reports, plagiarism

Performing arts (dance)+

Performing arts (dance): Unit 01
Cultural history of India
Cultures of India from prehistoric to CE 1200, evolution of art in prehistoric and historic periods, as evidence in Cava paintings, sculptures and other visual representations
Evolution of dance and drama (Natya): (a) The divine origin theory according to Natya Shastra, and, (b) art as a product of society, its rituals, and belief systems
The Vedas, major epics and Puranas (Ramayana, Mahabharata, Silappadikaram, and Bhagavata Purana) in terms of their content, character and relevance to dance and theatre
Bhakti and various religious movements and their influence on different representative aspects of culture with focus on dance and theatre
Performing arts (dance): Unit 02
Folk traditional theatre forms of India
Understanding and defining the terms tribal, folk, traditional, and classical in the context of Indian dance and drama and their interrelation
Introduction to the different tribal, folk, and traditional dance and theatre forms spread over various regions of India
Introduction to regional theatrical practices of Koodiyattam, Yakshagana, Bhagavata Mela, Tamasha, Ramalila, Rasalila, Bhavai, Nautanki, Jatra, Chhau, Laiharaoba, Therukoothu, Theyyam, Ankia-nat, Pandvani, Chindu Bhagavatam, Bhand Jashan, and others
Awareness of various musical instruments, costumes and make-up used in these forms
Performing arts (dance): Unit 03
The Natyasastra
Knowledge of Natyasastra and the concept of Natya and Nritta, study of chapters relating to the eleven aspects (Ekadash Sangraha) such as, Abhinayas, Dharmis, Vrittis, Pravrittis, and Today's
Samanya and Chitrabhinayas and their classification, Dasarupaka, Natyagruha (playhouse) and Ranga-construction, types and different elements, Poorvarangavidhi and stage conventions viz. Kakshya Vibhag, etc
Performing arts (dance): Unit 04
Art and aesthetics
Rasa Sutra of Bharata, elaboration of the theory of Rasa by commentators like Bhatta Lollata, Sri Sankaku, Bhatta Nayaka Nad Abhinavagupta
Rasa and its constituent elements, viz, Sthayi, Sanchari and Sattvika Bhavas and their corresponding Vibhavas and Anubhavam, definition, purpose, and elements of art
A brief introduction to performance studies and significant western theories on art: ‘art as imitation/ catharsis’, ‘as imagination’, ‘as beauty’, ‘as communication’ and ‘as utility’ put forth by various philosophers
Performing arts (dance): Unit 05
Dance and theatre forms of east and south Asian countries
An overview of dance and theatre forms of east Asian (China, Japan, and Korea), south Asian (Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and south-east Asian (Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines, and Laos) countries
History and presentation techniques of various popular theatre and dance forms of the above countries
Performing arts (dance): Unit 06
Dance in Sanskrit literature and treatises
A brief study of references to dance in the works of Kalidasa, Bhasa, Sudraka, and others, general understanding of the concepts relating to dance from texts of ancient and medieval period-Natyasastra, Abhinaya Darpana, Sangeeta Ratnakara
General understanding of the concepts relating to dance from texts of ancient and medieval period-Nritta Ratnavali and Nartana Nirnaya
Concepts include Natya, Nritta, Nritya, Lasya, Tandava, Marga, Desi, Baddha, Anibaddha, Nartaki Lakshana, Sabha Lakshana and the like
Also specific study of the Padas, Hastas, Caris, Mandalas and Karanas, and Anga, Upanga and Pratyanga movements
Detailed study of Abhinaya Darpana along with introduction to other region/ form specific texts like Hasta Lakshana Deepika, Balarama Bharatham, Abhinaya Chandrika, Srihaasta Muktavali, and others
The various categories and typologies of Nayakas and Nayikas and their avasthas according to Bharata’s Natyasastra, Sarada Tanya’s Bhavaprakasha, Bhanudatta Rasamanjari and Akbar Shah Sringara Manjari
Performing arts (dance): Unit 07
India classical dance
Origin and history of Indian classical dance, evolution, technique, costumes, music, gurus and pioneers of Bharatanatyam, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi, Manipuri, Mohiniattam, Odissi, and Sattriya
General understanding of major Talas of Hindustani and Carnatic music traditions, a brief study of composers/ Vaggeyakaras and their works including Jayadeva, Narayana Teertha, Surdas, Meera Bai, Tulsidas, Vanamali Das, Kshetrayya, Srimanta Shankardeva
A brief study of composers/ Vaggeyakaras and their works including Govindadas, Vidyapati, and others
Study of the role Rabindranath Tagore, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Vallathol Narayana Menon, Madame Menaka and others in the revival and reconstruction of classical dance
Performing arts (dance): Unit 08
Indian classical dance in independence India
An overview of major Gurus, performers, their works and important institutions in Independence India, institutionalization of dance and its effect on form, pedagogy, repertoire, etc
The new wave in Indian dance-its development through the works of Uday Shanker and Ram Gopal and the later major contemporary artists and their works (example Shanti Bardhan, Narendra Sharma, Sachin Shanker, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Maya Rao, Kumudini Lakhia)
The new wave in Indian dance-its development through the works of Uday Shanker and Ram Gopal and the later major contemporary artists and their works (example Manjusri Chaki Sarkar, Chandralekha, Astad Deboo and others)
Indian classical dances in diaspora, patronage to dance-the role of government and private bodies, awareness of important dance festivals, awardees, and current happenings in dance
Performing arts (dance): Unit 09
Dance education, pedagogy, and research
Dance as part of curriculum in school education and universities, movement analysis based on kinesthetics and Laban system, eminent scholars and their works, who contributed significantly to the knowledge of Indian dance
Key inroads in dance training and research in India from the 1930’ to the present like applied area of dance, therapy, cross-cultural training, etc
Performing arts (dance): Unit 10
International dance and interactions
Study of the history and development of classical ballet in Europe, Russia, and America, emergence of modern dance in the west and major personalities involved, influence of the west on Indian dance in terms of production design

Performing arts (drama and theatre)+

Performing arts (drama and theatre): Unit 01
Cultural history of India
Cultures of India from prehistoric to CE 1200, evolution of art in prehistoric and historic periods, as evidence in Cava paintings, sculptures and other visual representations
Evolution of dance and drama (natya): (a) The divine origin theory according to Natya Shastra, and, (b) art as a product of society, its ritual and belief systems
The Vedas, major epics and Puranas (Ramayana, Mahabharata, Silappadikaram, and Bhagavata Purana) in terms of their content, character and relevance to dance and theatre
Bhakti and various religious movements and their influence on different representative aspects of culture with focus on dance and theatre
Performing arts (drama and theatre): Unit 02
Folk traditional theatre forms of India
Understanding and defining the terms tribal, folk, traditional, and classical in the context of Indian dance and drama and their interrelation
Introduction to the different tribal, folk, and traditional dance and theatre forms spread over various regions of India
Introduction to regional theatrical practices of Koodiyattam, Yakshagana, Bhagavata Mela, Tamasha, Ramalila, Rasalila, Bhavai, Nautanki, Jatra, Chhau, Laiharaoba, Therukoothu, Theyyam, Ankia-nat, Pandvani, Chindu Bhagavatam, Bhand Jashan, and others
Awareness of various musical instruments, costumes and make-up used in these forms
Performing arts (drama and theatre): Unit 03
The Natyasastra
Knowledge of Natyasastra and the concept of Natya and Nritta, study of chapters relating to the eleven aspects (Ekadash Sangraha) such as, Abhinayas, Dharmis, Vrittis, Pravrittis, and Aatodyas
Samanya and Chitrabhinayas and their classification, Dasarupaka, Natyagruha (playhouse) and Ranga-construction, types and different elements, Poorvarangavidhi and stage conventions viz. Kakshya Vibhag, etc
Performing arts (drama and theatre): Unit 04
Art and aesthetics
Rasa Sutra of Bharata, elaboration of the theory of Rasa by commentators like Bhatta Lollata, Sri Sankaku, Bhatta Nayaka Nad Abhinavagupta
Rasa and its constituent elements, viz, Sthayi, Sanchari and Sattvika Bhavas and their corresponding Vibhavas and Anubhavam, definition, purpose, and elements of art
A brief introduction to performance studies and significant western theories on art: ‘art as imitation/ catharsis’, ‘as imagination’, ‘as beauty’, ‘as communication’ and ‘as utility’ put forth by various philosophers
Performing arts (drama and theatre): Unit 05
Dance and theatre forms of east and south Asian countries
An overview of dance and theatre forms of east Asian (China, Japan, and Korea), south Asian (Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and south-east Asian (Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Philippines, and Laos) countries
History and presentation techniques of various popular theatre and dance forms of the above countries
Performing arts (drama and theatre): Unit 06
Drama and its theories: Indian and western
Concept of drama-Indian and western, elements and structure of drama according to Indian and western dramaturgy, a brief study of different classifications of western dramas-tragedy, comedy, tragic comedy, melodrama, and farce
A brief introduction to various ‘Isms’ in relation to drama including realism, naturalism, symbolism, expressionism, absurd and epic, Playwrights and their contribution: Sanskrit-Kalidasa, Bhasa, Sudraka, Bhavabhuti, Visakhadatta, Bhatta Narayana
Playwrights and their contribution: Ancient Greek and roman-Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Seneca western-Shakespeare, Moliere, Ibsen, Brecht, Pirandello, Miller, Chekov, Beckett, Ionesco
Performing arts (drama and theatre): Unit 07
Modern Indian theatre
Origin and development of modern Indian theatre with reference to region, state and personalities, a brief study of new trends in theatre since independence movement both at national and regional level, such as, IPTA movement, Navanatya movement
Root Theatre Movement, third theatre, alternate theatre, street theatre, theatre of the oppressed, applied theatre, forum theatre, site specific theatre, an overview of major playwrights, directors and other contributing personalities of various regions
Whose plays are widely performed at the national level
Popular playhouse, theatre companies, institutions and groups In India and their contribution
Performing arts (drama and theatre): Unit 08
Acting and direction
Different schools of acting-western and eastern: (i) Early period-Greek, Roman, Elizabethan, Commedia Dell'arte, (ii) modern period-representational, Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Brecht, Grotowski, (iii) eastern-Sanskrit, Peking Opera, Noh, Kabuki
Role of mime, voice, speech, improvisation and physical theatre in actor’s training
Different directorial innovations and methods, role of director in theatre, fundamentals of play direction: Balance, emphasis, composition, picturisation, movement, tempo, and rhythm, process of production: Script to performance
Ideas on production: (i) Realistic: Duke Of Saxe Meiningen, Stanislavsky, Elia Kazan, Antione, (ii) non-realistic: Brecht, Meyerhold, Peter Brook, Augusto Boal, impact of above ideas on post independent Indian theatre movements
Performing arts (drama and theatre): Unit 09
Theatre design and techniques
Theatre architecture: Greek, Roman, Elizabethan, thrust stage, proscenium, arena, open stage
Sanskrit: Vikrishta-Madhyam Natyagruha, Chinese, Japanese play houses of classical era
Stagecraft: Fundamentals and functions of sets, lights, costumes, make-up, sound, props, other arts and theatre music in terms of various kinds of play production
Aharya and Nepathya vidhi in classical Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian traditional theatre
Theatre management organization
Children’s theatre, applied theatre, community theatre, theatre in education, theatre of oppressed and feminist theatre
Performing arts (drama and theatre): Unit 10
Theatre education, pedagogy, and research
Theatre as part of curriculum from primary education and in university system, relevance of traditional theatre training, movement analysis based on kinesthetics, yoga, theatre game, martial arts, folk, puppetry and other forms
Eminent scholars and their works who contributed to the knowledge of Indian theatre, trends In Indian theatre research and scholarship in India, patronization to theatre-major institutions, organizations, government, corporate
Patronization to theatre-private bodies and personalities after independence, awareness of important theatre festivals, awardees and current affairs in theatre

Museology and conservation+

Museology and conservation: Unit 01
Introduction to museum and museology
Definitions and concepts of museum, ecomuseum, community museum, virtual museum, neighborhood museum, etc
Definitions and concept of museology, new museology, meta museology, museography, etc
Early collections, ancient and medieval prototypes of museums
History, growth and development of museums in Indian and global context
Classification and types of museums
Functions and role of museums
Role of national and international professional organizations-Museums Association (UK), Museums Association of India, UNESCO, ICOM, ICCROM, Commonwealth Association of Museums, American Alliance of Museums
IASC, IIC, IUCN, UNESCO-ICOM museum information center, etc
ICOM code of ethics
Museology and conservation: Unit 02
Collection management
Purposes of collecting
Scope of collections-tangible and intangible
Ethics of collecting
Collection management policy including acquisitions, disposal, loaning, insurance, etc
Methods of collecting tangible and intangible heritage
Methods of authenticating museum objects
Collection holding areas for tangible and intangible collections-accessibility, retrieval, storage systems and preventive conservation measures
Collection security
Guidelines for handling, packing, and transporting collections
Museology and conservation: Unit 03
Documentation and research of tangible and intangible collections
Purposes of documenting museum collections, ethics of documentation
Documentation policy and procedures
Types of documents: Entry, accession, classified, and movement registers; index and catalogue cards. Digital documentation
Numbering the objects: Numbering systems, procedure of applying numbers on objects. Barcoding
Documentation standards: Format of various types of documents. Use of standard terminology. Concept of object ID
Objectives and scope of collection research
Models of collection research
Museology and conservation: Unit 04
Museum exhibitions
Museum exhibition as a communication system
Models of communication in the context of exhibitions
Exhibition policy
Ethics of exhibitions
Types of exhibitions on the basis of duration, location, arrangement of objects/ specimen and purpose
Components of exhibitions: Objects/ specimen, communication media, text, exhibition furniture and accessories. Spatial and other relationships between exhibit components
Exhibition text: Types of labels, assessing reading and comprehensibility of text, typography, designing, and preparation of labels
Exhibition lighting: Basic considerations while using light, types of light sources, different types of lamps, recent trends: Fibre optics, track lighting, computer controlled lighting
Planning and designing exhibitions: Stages of planning; exhibition brief; using principles of design, ergonomics, colour, texture and light in exhibitions. Orientation. Circulation of visitors. Signage. Use of multimedia
Designing exhibition furniture, dioramas, and historical settings
Evaluation: Front-end analysis, formative and summative evaluation
Museology and conservation: Unit 05
Museum education, interpretation, and publications
Role and potential of museums in informal, non-formal and formal education/ learning
Museums and lifelong learning
Barriers to learning in museums
Education versus interpretation
Ethics of museum education
Museum education policy
Theories of learning
Characteristics of learning in museums
Various learning activities such as guides tours, lectures, talks, storytelling, workbooks, workshops, demonstrations, drama, role play, live interpretation, digital methods, etc. for different target groups
Making learning opportunities accessible to persons with disabilities
Museum extension services: Travelling and mobile exhibitions, school loan kits, community programmes, excursions, field trips, heritage walks, etc. Extension through digital media
Museum publication: Purpose and types
Feedback: Purposes and methods
Museology and conservation: Unit 06
Conservation of collections-part I
Definitions of conservation: Preventive, remedial, and restoration. Terminology used in conservation
Nature and properties of material of collections: Organic, inorganic, and composite. Susceptibility of materials to different agents of decay
Ethics of conservation
Conservation policy
Conservation audit
Causes and types of deterioration-environmental: Effects of light, humidity, temperature and pollution; biological: Fungi, insects, rodents and birds; human-carelessness, mishandling and wrong treatment; disasters: Fire, flood, earthquake, arson, etc
Preventive conservation: Significance and effectiveness, and implementation in storage, exhibitions and transit through
Environmental control: Monitoring of light and UV radiations, RH, Temperature and pollutants and application of control measures. Tools and equipments used in monitoring and control
Integrated pest management: Identification, control and termination of pests. Various fungicides, insecticides, and Rodenticides used in IPM
Good practices of housekeeping and rules of handling museum objects
Tools, materials and equipments used in housekeeping and handling
Museology and conservation: Unit 07
Conservation of collections-part II
Methodology of remedial conservation-techniques of examination, diagnosis of type and extent of decay, documentation and testing of probable treatments, treatment of objects using suitable materials and method
Recommendations for preventive care
Materials, equipment, tools and techniques used in remedial conservation of following materials: (i) Paper and archival materials, (ii) paintings on different substrate such as wall, canvas, paper, wood, textiles, palm leaf, etc
Materials, equipment, tools and techniques used in remedial conservation of following materials: (iii) Textiles and costumes, (iv) wood, skin material, bone, horn and ivory, (v) metallic objects made of iron, copper, bronze and silver, (vi) stone objects
Materials, equipment, tools and techniques used in remedial conservation of following materials: (vii) Ceramic and glass, (viii) biological specimens
Health and safety issues
Museology and conservation: Unit 08
Museum management
Concept of management: Foundations and evolution
Essential components of management: Decision making and leadership
Functions of management: (a) Planning-types of plans, vision and mission statements, objectives, policies, procedures, rules, strategies, action plans, and contingency plans. Planning process, MBO, strategic planning
Functions of management: (a) Planning-use of critical path method and simple bar method in planning. (b) Organization design-staff structures, job descriptions, authority and responsibilities. (c) Staffing-framing recruitment rules, methods of recruitment
Functions of management: (c) Staffing-training and development of human resource. Performance appraisal. (d) Controlling-process and methods of control. (e) Financing-sources of fund generation, budget and budgeting
Project management
Prevention of harassment in workplace
Museum security: Risk assessment and management. Manual, physical, and electronic security. Security procedures. Fire safety
Disaster management: Preparation, prevention, response, and recovery
Museology and conservation: Unit 09
Museum marketing and public relations
Meaning and purpose of marketing and its role in museums
Marketing terminology
Concept and types of products
Product life cycle and marketing strategies at different stages
Museum as a multiproduct organization and a service
Segmentation and target marketing-significance, bases and approaches
Marketing mix-product, price, promotion, and place: Significance, tools and strategies
Marketing research-purpose, types and methods
Marketing versus public relations
Definitions and significance of public relations
Foundational principles of public relations
Tools, tactics, and strategies of public relations
Media relations
Public relations campaigns
Museology and conservation: Unit 10
Legislation and conventions related to museums and heritage
The Indian Treasure Trove act, 1878, The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites, and Remains act, 1958, The Antiquities and Art Treasures act, 1972, The Wild life Protection act, 1972
Persons with Disabilities (equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation) act, 1995, Right to Information act, 2005, UNESCO World Heritage Convention, 1972
Convention on international trade in endangered species of wild flora and fauna (cites), 1973, The Venice Charter, 1964, The UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage, 2003

Archaeology+

Archaeology: Unit 01
Introduction to archaeology
Definition; aims, scope and ethics of archaeology; history and growth of archaeology
History of indian archaeology
Relationship of archaeology with social natural sciences
Type and nature of archaeological data
Retrieval of archaeological data: Methods of explorations and excavations (random and systematic prospections; subsurface investigations using modern techniques such as remote sensing, resistivity surveys). Recording and documentation
Methods of artifact analysis: categorization, classification, and characterization
Methods of interpretation and related issues: Application of sociological and anthropological models: Ethnography and experimental replication studies; traditional, processual, and post-processual approaches
Preparation of archaeological reports
Conservation and preservation of archaeological remains/ sites: Aims and methods; antiquarian laws
Chronology and dating methods: Relative dating-cultural stratigraphy, biostratigraphy, typology, fluorine, nitrogen, and phosphate analysis; soil analysis, chronometric methods: Radiocarbon (C14), potassium/ argon, fission track
Chronology and dating methods: Chronometric methods-luminescence dating (TL and OSL), dendrochronology, paleomagnetic dating varve analysis, ESR dating, obsidian hydration, cosmogenic nuclides method of dating
Archaeology: Unit 02
Introduction to prehistory
Prehistoric beginning: Geological, biological, and cultural dimensions of humans
Human origin and geological time scale: Late tertiary (miocene and pliocene) and quaternary periods; plio pleistocene boundary, paleomagnetic records, pleistocene and holocene epochs. Major environment and climatic changes of pleistocene
Human origin and geological time scale: Pleistocene and marine isotopic stages (MIS)
Biostratigraphy of the pleistocene: Pleistocene flora and fauna
Main stages of human evolution and important fossil records: Hominin ancestors of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and the Pleistocene: Pre-Australopiths, Australopiths, and homo; hypotheses on modern human dispersal
Cultural backdrop: Evolution of stone implements and development of lithic technologies: The Oldowan, Acheulian and the flake and blade based industries of the stone age
Palaeolithic cultural development in the world context: Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia and China. Early stone age, middle stone age and late stone age of Africa; lower Palaeolithic, middle Palaeolithic, an upper Palaeolithic of Europe and west Asia
Palaeolithic cultural development in the world context: Palaeolithic cultural developments in China and southeast Asia
Prehistoric art: Antiquity, significance, distribution
Archaeology: Unit 03
Palaeolithic cultural developments in the Indian subcontinent
Geochronology and stone age cultures of India: The Sohan valley and the Potwar plateau sites in the Shivalik hills, the Belan and Son valleys, Didwana dune 16R in Rajasthan, Kortlayar valley/ Attirampakkam in Tamilnadu and Jwalapuram in Andhra Pradesh
Lower Palaeolithic culture: Tool types and lithic technology; the Sohan industry and its antiquity; the Acheulian industry and its spread into major river valleys: Sites in the Narmada and the Sabarmati valleys, the Belan and the Son valley sites
Lower Palaeolithic culture: The Acheulian industry and its spread into major river valleys-sites in the Hunsgi and Baichabal valleys, sites in the Krishna and the Godavari valleys, sties in the Kortlayar valley
Lower Palaeolithic culture: The Acheulian industry and its spread into major river valleys-sites associates with the Playas if Rajasthan
Middle palaeolithic culture and geographical spread; tool types and lithic technology of the middle palaeolithic: The prepared core techniques/ Levallois technique
The upper Palaeolithic culture: Tool types and lithic technologies of the upper Palaeolithic: Blade and bone implements; geographic distribution and major sites
Prehistoric art in the Indian context: Antiquity, significance, and distribution
Archaeology: Unit 04
Mesolithic and neolithic cultures
Mesolithic in Europe; Epi-Palaeolithic developments in West Asia, Neolithic and food production: Neolithic stage in West Asia and China
Mesolithic culture of the Indian subcontinent: Characteristics features; tools types and microblade technology; regional variations in tool assemblages; evidence of incipient stages of food production
Mesolithic culture of the Indian subcontinent: Patterns of ecological adaptation and distribution: Sites in the alluvial plains, horseshoe lakes, coastal sites, sand-dune sites, sites in the plateaus and rock-shelter sites
Neolithic cultures of the Indian subcontinent: Early farming communities of Balochistan: Mehrgarh and Kili-Gul-Muhammad. Neolithic culture in Kashmir
Neolithic culture in the central Ganga and Vindhyan region: Koldihwa, Mahagara, Lahuradewa, etc, Eastern Neolithic sites: Chirand, Chechar Sunuwar, Kuchai, and Baidyapur and the Neolithic culture of the north-eastern region: Sarutaru, Selbalgiri
Neolithic culture in the central Ganga and Vindhyan region: The neolithic culture of the north-eastern region-Daojali Hading, Marandola
Neolithic cultural development in the southern peninsular India: Sanganakallu, Piklihal, Uttanur, Kodekal, Tekkalakota, Hallur, Nagarjunakonda and Ash-mound sites
Archaeology: Unit 05
Proto-history
Courses towards urbanization: The Harappa culture
Formative stage of the Harappan culture: Emergence of village farming/ chalcolithic settlements and beginning of regional culture in the north and north-western Indian and Pakistan
Formative stage of the Harappan culture: Contemporary developments in the Ghaggar Saraswati system and in Gujarat (pre-urban/ pre and early Harappan cultural development)
Early Harappan and the emergence of the urban Harappan cultural ethos
Urban Harappan and geographical spread; settlement features; town planning and architecture; economic production: The urban-rural dichotomy, agriculture and craft production
Trade and subsistence; standardization of craft and the Harappan script, evidence of overseas contracts
Socio-political organization; art and evidence of religious beliefs; authors?, important excavated sites: Mohenjo Daro, Harappa, Kalibangan, Lothal, Dholavira, Surkotada, Banawali, Rakhigarhi, Bagasra, Rojdi, Rangpur
Regional variations within the material culture: The concept of Sorath and Sindhi/ classical Harappan in Gujarat
Post-urban Harappan: Decline of the urban Harappan-causes of decline and different theories on decline. Post-urban phase: Evidence from the Indus valley
Post-urban Harappan: Post-urban phase-Ghaggar-Saraswati system and from Gujarat (post-urban or late Harappan cultures of Sindh, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, and western Uttar pradesh)
Other chalcolithic culture of India: The copper hoard and ochre coloured pottery; chalcolithic cultural remains in the Ganga plain. The Banas/ Ahar cultural developments in southern Rajasthan and its antiquity and distribution
Other chalcolithic culture of India: The Kayatha assemblage of Madhya Pradesh. The Malwa culture of the Narmada valley and its geographic distribution. Chalcolithic cultures of the Deccan region (Savalda, Malwa, Jorwe cultures)
Archaeology: Unit 06
The Iron age and growth of new urban centers
Antiquity of Iron in India: Early stages of Iron age, new evidence from Malhar, Dadupur, Raja Nal-ka-tila, Hallur, Komaranahalli, and Kodumanal
Painted grey ware culture: Extent, and chronology, and characteristic traits
Northern black polished ware culture: Extent, chronology, and characteristic traits
Iron age in peninsular India: The Megalithic culture in peninsular India and beyond-geographical spread, typology, chronological contexts, cultural artefacts and authors of Megalithic tradition
The beginning of early Historic period and the emergence of urban centres in the Ganga Valley and Peninsular India
Multiple modes of economic production, expansion of trade and development of trade routes, maritime trade; emergence of new urban centers
Emergence of urban centers: Important city sites-Rajghat, Ujjain, Vaishali, Taxila, Mathura, Sravasti, Kausambi, Sisupalgarh, etc
Important sites of historical period: Sringaverapura, Ahichatra, Atranjikhera, Hastinapur, Khairadih, Chandraketugarh, Nasik, Adam, Satanikota, Nagarjunakonda, Arikamedu, Kodumanal, Pattanam
Archaeology: Unit 07
Architecture: A significant source of Indian history
The Stupa architecture: Structural stupas-origin and development-North and South Indian stupas
Development of rock-cut architecture: Origin and development-Buddhist Brahmanical and Jain
Temple architecture: Origin and development of temples, main features of the temple architecture, features and development of distinct architectural styles of Nagara, Vesara, Dravida, and Bhumija temples. Gupta, Chalukyan, Pallava, and Rashtrakuta temples
Regional styles: Khajuraho temples, temples of Odisha, and Chola temples
Art and iconography: Sculptural art-stone and bronze: Antiquity and development-the Mauryan pillar capitals, early Yaksha-Yakshi images, Shunga, Western Kshatrapa, Satavahana sculptures; the Kushana sculptures: Mathura and Gandhara schools
Art and iconography: The Kushana sculptures-Gupta sculptures; Saranath school; Chalukya, Pallava; Pala, Chandela, Chola, and Hoysala sculptures
Art and iconography: Iconography Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Kartikeya, Ganesha, Surya, Shakti, Tirthankara (Rishabhdev, Parshvanath and Mahavira), Buddha, Bodhisattva and Tara
Art and iconography: Terracotta art-Mauryan to the Gupta period, paintings: Rock-cut cave paintings: Ajanta, Bagh, and Sittannavasal
Archaeology: Unit 08
Palaeography and epigraphy
Epigraphy a source of Indian history: Origin and antiquity of writing in India; origin and development of Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts: Various theories
Study of selected inscriptions: Ashokan edicts-rock Edicts II, X, XII, XIII; lumbini inscription of Asoka; minor rock edict of Bairat; Besnagar Garuda pillar inscription; Hathigumpha inscription of Kharavela, Ushavadata inscription in Nasik cave 10
Study of selected inscriptions: Junagadh inscription of Rudradaman, Nasik cave III inscription of Vasishta Putra Pulumavi Year 19; Swat relic casket inscription; Saranath Buddha image inscription
Study of selected inscriptions: Lucknow museum Jain image inscription of the time of Huvishka, Allahabad pillar inscription of Samudragupta; Bhitri inscription of Skandagupta, Aihole pillar inscription of Pulakesin II; Gwalior inscription of Mihira Bhoja
Study of selected inscriptions: Khalimpur copper plate of Dharmapala, Sanjan copper plate of Amoghavarsha, Mandasor inscription of Yeshovaran; Thiruvalangadu copper plates of Rajendra Chola year 6 and Sangli copper plate of govinda IV
Study of selected inscriptions: Tharisapalli copper plates
Archaeology: Unit 09
Numismatics
Coins as an important source of history, origin and antiquity of coinage in ancient India
Techniques/ methods of manufacturing coins: Silver, copper, gold, and alloys
Main type of coins: Punch marked coins, inscribed and un-inscribed cast coins
Janapada and tribal coins, Indo-Greek coins
Saka-Kshatrapas, Kushana and Satavahana coinage; coins of the Gupta dynasty; Roman coins
Brief account of early medieval Indian coinage
Archaeology: Unit 10
Methodology of archaeological research
Role and characteristics of research, research ethics, methods of research; case studies and field investigations; hypothesis formulation and research design; data collection and processing: Primary and secondary sources
Data collection and processing:Use of Information and communication technologies (ICT) in archaeological research; methods of systematic referencing; systematic presentation of data and results

Criminology+

Criminology: Unit 01
Crime as a legal, social, and psychological construct
Deviance and crime; traditional crimes: Crimes against property and person (children, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ), marginalized, men)
Victimless crimes: Alcoholism, drug addiction, beggary, commercial sex, suicide; family centred crimes: Dowry, domestic violence, child abuse; community problems: Inter-religion and inter caste tensions and conflicts
Modern crimes: Organized crimes, economic crimes, corruption, corporate crimes, development induced crime, environmental crimes, hate crimes, cyber crimes and cyber assisted crimes. Terrorism and insurgency; crime and politics
Modern crimes: Media, technology and crime. Transnational crimes
Criminology: Unit 02
Criminology
Definition and scope; criminology and other social sciences; criminology vs. criminal justice
Structure of criminal justice system in India; role of legislature and law making; coordination among criminal justice system
Participation of victims and witnesses in the criminal justice process
Crime prevention: Neighbourhood involvement, situational crime prevention, crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), electronic monitoring
Criminology: Unit 03
Schools of criminology
Demonology, classical, neo-classical schools, positivist/ positive school, cartographic school, biological and constitutional school-body types, hereditary traits, endocrine glands; economic theories of crime; multiple factors
Psychoanalytic theories and psychopathic personality
Social strain theories: Anomie theory, culture conflict and subculture theory
Social ecology theories: Concentric zone theory, environmental criminology, social disorganization theory, lower class culture theory
Social learning theories: Theory of imitation, differential association theory, differential identification theory, and differential opportunity theory
Criminology: Unit 04
Social control theories
Drift and neutralization theory, containment theory, social bond theory
Social conflict theories: Labelling theory, radical criminology, conflict criminology, critical criminology, realist criminology
Modern theories: Routine activities theory, rational choice theory, shaming theory, broken windows theory, feminist criminology, masculinity theory, life course theory, integrated theories, space transition theory
Contemporary perspectives: Cultural criminology, newsmaking criminology, peacemaking criminology, green criminology, visual criminology, cyber criminology, positive criminology, translational criminology
Criminology: Unit 05
Legal approaches
Accusatorial and inquisitorial; substantive and procedural laws criminal liability, strict liability; Indian penal code-general exceptions, offences against property; criminal procedure code; cognizable and non-cognizable offences
Bailable and non-bailable, compoundable and non-compoundable offences; investigation of crimes; complaint, FIR arrest, search, seizure, police custody, judicial remand and bail; types of evidence, admissibility of confession, dying declaration
Human rights: Fundamental rights, rights of accused and victims, rights of persons in custody, rights of prisoners. Supreme Court landmark judgments on criminal justice reforms, the protection of human rights act
Human rights: Protection of children from sexual offences act (POCSO) act-salient features
Criminology: Unit 06
Criminological research
Importance and types-descriptive, analytical, experimental, exploratory, and doctrinal
Quantitative vs. qualitative research
Mixed methods
Main steps in criminological research
Ethics and confidentiality in criminal justice research
Researcher fraud and plagiarism
Crime and criminal justice data
Statistical applications in criminological research
Criminology: Unit 07
Penology-definition, nature, and scope
Punishment-in ancient, medieval and modern times
Punishment: Significance, concept, aims, and types
Theories of punishment
Sentencing-principles, policies, and procedures
Capital punishment
Recent approaches to punishment-restorative justice, restitution and victim-offender mediation
History and evolution of prison legislations-prison manuals and rules
Various prison reforms committees and commissions
Standard minimum rules for non-custodial measures (Tokyo rules) and Nelson Mandela rules for the treatment of prisoners
Criminology: Unit 08
Development of various prison systems
Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, Auburn system
Evolution and development of prison system in India
Institutional treatment: Meaning and purpose
Prison types and classification of prisoners
Adult institutions: Central, district and sub jails
Women institutions: Vigilance home, protective home
Open prisons
Accommodation, food, and medical care in prisons
Correctional programmes-educational, work, and prison panchayats
Community based corrections: Probation and admonition-concept and scope, historical development of probation. Probation in India-probation of offenders act
Parole: Meaning and scope
After care services in India
Current problems and challenges in correctional administration
Criminology: Unit 09
Juvenile and youth justice
Definition and concept
Delinquency
Children in conflict with law; children and vulnerability
Truancy and vagrancy
Youth crimes
Main features of latest juvenile justice act; institutions: Juvenile justice board, child welfare committee, observation homes, juvenile homes, special homes, and ‘fit’ institutions; juvenile aftercare services
Juvenile police unit
UN documents: United Nations standard minimum rules for juvenile justice (Beijing rules) and UN Riyadh guidelines
Prevention of delinquency
Criminology: Unit 10
Historical development of victimology
Basic concepts of victimology
UN declaration of basic principles of justice for victims of crime and abuse of power, 1985
Victim-offender relationship
Impact of victimization-physical, financial, and psychological (including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), (acute stress disorder (ASD), resilience, posttraumatic growth, anger and the way victims are viewed) impact
Primary, secondary, and tertiary victimization
Role of NGOs in victim assistance
Criminological perspectives: Repeat victimization, routine activities, lifestyle exposure, fear of crime, punitivity and victimization surveys including cost of crime
Effects of crime on victims
Legal perspectives: Rights of the crime victims as per criminal procedure code (CRPC) and other laws-victim compensation schemes
Contemporary developments in victimology: Mass victims and mass victimisation, clinical victimology, therapeutic jurisprudence, cyber victimology, positive victimology

Women studies+

Women studies: Unit 01
Introduction to women’s studies
Key concepts in gender studies
Need, scope, and challenges of women’s studies-women’s studies as an academic discipline, women’s studies to gender studies, need for gender sensitization
Women’s movements-global and local: Pre-independence, post-independence, and contemporary debates
National committee and commissions for women
Women studies: Unit 02
Feminist thinkers and theories
Liberal feminism, Marxist feminism, radical feminism, socialist feminism, Indian feminism, black feminism, eco feminism
New feminist debates-post colonial/ post modern, LGBT, masculinity studies
Contemporary contestations-intersex and transgender movements
Feminist thinkers in 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st century
Women studies: Unit 03
Gender and education
Women’s education-gender diversities and disparities in enrolment, curriculum content, dropouts, profession, and gender
Gendered education-family, culture, gender roles, gender identities
Education for the marginalized women
Recent trends in women’s education-committees and commissions on education
Vocational education and skill development for women
Women studies: Unit 04
Women, work, and employment
Theoretical perspective: Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Sandra Whitworth, Ester Boserup
Concept of work-productive and non-productive work, use value and market value
Gender division of labour-mode of production, women in organized and unorganized sector
New economic policy and its impact on women’s employment-globalization, structural adjustment programs
Women studies: Unit 05
Gender and entrepreneurship
Concept and meaning, importance of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial traits, factors contributing to entrepreneurship, enabling environment, small enterprises, women in agribusiness
Gender and emerging technology-impact
Self-help groups and micro credit
Gender mainstreaming, gender budgeting, planning, and analysis
Women studies: Unit 06
Women and health
Life cycle approach to women’s health-health status of women in India, factors influencing health and nutritional status
Material and child health (MCH) to reproductive and child health approaches
Issues of declining child sex ratio, widowhood and old age
Occupational and mental health
Health, hygiene, and sanitation
National health and population policies and programmes
Women studies: Unit 07
Women empowerment and development
Theories of development, alternative approaches-women in development (WID), women and development (WAD) and gender and development (GAD)
Empowerment-concept and indices: Gender Development Index (GDI), Gender Inequality Index (GII), Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI)
Women development approaches in Indian five-year plans
Women and leadership-Panchayati Raj and role of NGOs and women development
Sustainable development goals, policies, and programmes
Women studies: Unit 08
Women laws and governance
Rights: Gender equality, gender discrimination, women’s rights as human rights
Constitutional provisions for women in India
Personal laws, labour laws, family courts, enforcement machinery-police and judiciary
Crime against women and child: Child abuse, violence, human trafficking, sexual harassment at workplace act, 2013-legal protection
International conventions and legislations related to women’s rights
Women studies: Unit 09
Gender and media
Discourse on women and media studies-mainstream media, feminist media
Coverage of women’s issues and issues of women in mass media and media organizations (audio-visual and print media)
Digital media and legal protection
Alternative media-folk art, street play, and theatre
Indecent representation of women (prohibition) act, 1986, impact of media on women
Women studies: Unit 10
Feminist research methodology
Understanding feminist research-concepts, debates, and limitations
Feminist epistemology, feminist standpoint, sexist and non-sexist research methodology, ethnography, queer theories
Research design and methods-survey, exploratory, diagnostic, experimental, action research and case studies
Qualitative versus quantitative research

Visual art+

Visual art: Unit 01
Fundamentals of visual art
Line, shape, form, space, colour, texture, tonal values, perspective, design, etc
Understanding visual principles of composition (proportion, unity, harmony, rhythm, contrast, balance, foreshortening and emphasis, etc)
Representation through two and three dimensions in visual art
Environmental, conceptual and perceptual aspects of art
Visual art: Unit 02
Various forms of visual arts and their inter-relationship with other modes of creative expression
Performing art, cinema, and literature, etc
Visual art: Unit 03
Knowledge of traditional medium, materials and techniques, and their application in all disciplines of visual expression
Carving and casting processes; handling of colour/ pigment (impasto, glazing, etc); intaglio/ relief print; fresco; preparation of ground for murals, preparation of wasli for miniatures, etc
Visual art: Unit 04
Developments in modern techniques
Processes and procedures and their application in contemporary visual practices (installation; multi-colour print; computer-aided design-vector and rector; multimedia and digital technologies in art; trompe l'oeil illusory hyperrealism, etc)
Visual art: Unit 05
The study of Indian and western aesthetics and art appreciation
Visual art: Unit 06
Study of chronological periods
From prehistory to postmodernism art and artists of the west, with a focus on the various movements that transformed its history
Visual art: Unit 07
Study of chronological periods and developments in Indian art from prehistory to the 19th century
Visual art: Unit 08
Contemporary practices in Indian art during the 20th and 21st centuries with reference to art movements and major exponents
Modern concept of advertising, designing and visual communication; experimental modes in contemporary visual expression; development of art education in India from colonial (British) art schools till the present
Visual art: Unit 09
The study of art in the far east, south east and central asia and the ancient near-east
Visual art: Unit 10
Understanding visual practices of traditional communities and their contemporary transformations
The ‘folk’, ‘tribal’ and craft practices in India

Visual arts elective-I (art history)+

Visual arts elective-I (art history): Unit 01
Principles of Art Historical methodology
Formalism; iconology; semiotic analysis; psychoanalytic method in art history; gestalt theory of visual perception; impact of theories in class and gender on the discipline; deconstruction and its transformative role for art history
Contemporary shifts towards a “new” art history; art history as an evolving discipline in India from colonial period to post-independent era; introduction of curatorial practices-confluence of museum, gallery and art history
Aesthetic theories and their relevance to art historical/ critical analysis of the visual object
Visual arts elective-I (art history): Unit 02
Indian iconography
Antiquity of image worship in India and principles of iconometry; iconography and its development through Vedic to Brahmanical images: Indra, Surya, Agni, Varuna, Kubera, Yama, Ashta-Dikpalas, Vishnu, Shiva, Shakti, the Saptamatrikas, Kartikeya
Vedic to Brahmanical images: Ganesha, and river goddesses (Ganga and Yamuna), etc
Buddhist iconography: The evolution of the Buddha image (including Dhyani Buddhas, Manushi Buddhas, etc), Bodhisattva (Avalokiteshvara, Manjushri, Maitreya etc.), Tara, Kubera, etc
Jain iconography: Tirthankara (Adinath, Parshvanath, Neminath, Mahavira), Bahubali; Ambika, Saraswati, Yaksha and Yakshi (in the Jain context), etc
Visual arts elective-I (art history): Unit 03
Indian Sculpture (pre-modern developments)
A comprehensive study of early Indian sculpture from Indus valley civilization to the post-Gupta period-dynasties like Maurya, Sunga, Satavahana, Kushana, Gupta, Pala-Sena, Chandela, Solanki, Parmar, Chalukya, Pallava, Rashtrakuta, Ganga, Chola
A comprehensive study of early Indian sculpture from Indus valley civilization to the post-Gupta period-dynasties like Hoysala, etc
Visual arts elective-I (art history): Unit 04
Indian architecture
Early Indian architecture (with reference to ancient literature and shilpa texts): Indus valley; Maurya
Origin and development of the stupa: Bharhut, Sanchi, Sarnath and Amaravati, evolution of rock-cut caves (Lomas-rishi, Khandagiri, Udayagiri, Bhaja, Karle, Kanheri, Ajanta, Elephanta, Ellora and Mamallapuram)
Evolution of temple architecture and their classification into Nagara, Dravida and Vesara categories: Gupta temples; Orissan developments (Parashurameshvara, Mukteshvara, Lingaraj and Konark); Chandella, Pratihar, Parmara and Solanki temple styles
Evolution of temple architecture and their classification into Nagara, Dravida and Vesara categories: Chalukyan, Rashtrakuta and Hoysala temple architecture (including Virupaksha, Kailashnath in Ellora, Hoysaleswara
Evolution of temple architecture and their classification into Nagara, Dravida and Vesara categories: Pallava monolithic and structural temples; Chola temples; Martand sun temple in Kashmir
Imperial architecture during Sultanate and Mughal rule: Features of provincial Indo-Islamic architecture; Mughal architecture (Humayun’s tomb, Fatehpur Sikri and Sikandra, Taj Mahal, Red Fort, and Jama Masjid)
Colonial and modern architecture: Le Corbusier, Charles Correa, B.V. Doshi and others
Visual arts elective-I (art history): Unit 05
Indian painting (pre-modern developments)
A comprehensive study of prehistoric painting, wall paintings at Ajanta and later mural tradition (Bagh, Badami, Ellora, Sittanavasal, Lepakshi, Kerala murals such as Mattancherry palace etc)
Manuscript painting and the miniature traditions: Eastern and Western Indian manuscripts; Sultanate painting (the Chaurapanchasika and pre-Mughal schools), Mughal miniature painting from Akbar to Shah Jahan; Rajasthani miniature painting
Pahari miniature painting; Deccani painting (Ahmednagar, Bijapur, and Golconda)
Visual arts elective-I (art history): Unit 06
Modern Indian art
Modernity in Indian art; Ravi Varma; E.B. Havell, A.K. Coomaraswamy, Stella Kramrisch, Abanindranath Tagore and the “Bengal School”; Nandalal Bose, Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinkar Baij; Amrita Sher-Gil; Jamini Roy
The 1940s artists’ collectives: Calcutta group (Kolkata), progressive artists group (Mumbai), Delhi Shilpi Chakra (Delhi), Cholamandal artists’ Village (Chennai); Indigenism and the trends in 1950s and 1960s; trends in abstraction since the 1970s
The 20th and 21st century contemporary trends towards globalization (including the introduction of installation, performance, digital/ video etc) with a study of select individual artists
Visual arts elective-I (art history): Unit 07
Western art
Overview of Western art from prehistory to the present: Prehistoric art, art in ancient Egypt, Aegean art, Greece and Rome; early-Christian and Byzantine art; Romanesque and Gothic art; renaissance painting and sculpture
Mannerism and baroque painting and sculpture; Rococo, neoclassicism and Romanticism; modern movements including realism, impressionism, post Impression, fauvism, expressionism, cubism, constructivism, futurism, dada and surrealism
Abstract expressionism, op art, pop art; post-modern developments including, minimal and conceptual art, fluxus movement, arte povera, body art, land and environment art, Graffiti, process art, performance art, installation, neo-figuration, happening
Feminist and gay art
Visual arts elective-I (art history): Unit 08
Art of Ancient Near-East
Visual expression from ancient Mesopotamia (Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria); art in Achaemenid and Sasanian Persia
Visual arts elective-I (art history): Unit 09
Art of far east, central and south-east Asia
Introduction to cultural exchange between India and these ancient cultures and the emergence of distinctive visual expressions: Ancient China (Shang, Zhou, and Han dynasties); Buddhist sculpture from upto tang dynasty; six dynasties and tang painting
Chinese landscape tradition from song to Qing; Japan (Haniwa pottery figures; Buddhist sculptures from Nara to Kamakura periods); late Heian and Kamakura painting including the tale of Genji and the Heiji Monogatari Emaki scrolls
Japanese scroll painting in the Momoyama and Edo periods; ukiyo-e woodblock prints from the Edo period); Tibet (Buddhist icons and the Thangka painting tradition); Nepal (Buddhist and Brahmanical sculptures and painting)
Sri Lanka (sculpture and painting-including Sigiriya murals); Cambodia (sculpture and architecture, especially Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom); Java (sculpture and architecture, including the Dieng plateau candi-s, the Borobudur stupa, and Prambanan complex)
Buddhist art in Myanmar/ Burma and Siam/ Thailand, etc
Visual arts elective-I (art history): Unit 10
Indian Folk and Tribal Art
Phad, Pichhwai, and Kavad painting (Rajasthan); Pata painting in Bengal and Orissa; Madhubani/ Mithila painting (Bihar), Warli painting (Maharashtra), Pithora painting (Gujarat); Dhokra bronze casting
Votive terracotta objects (including Votive horses offered across various states in India); wood carving and wooden dolls (Kondapalli, Karnataka, Bengal, Madhya Pradesh); leather puppets (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka)
Traditional and modern textiles and functional objects (textiles of Banaras, Kanchipuram, Gujrat, Orissa, and the north-eastern states; tie-and-dye fabrics; embroidery; kantha, Phulkari, Chamba rumal
Metal-ware including Bidri, repousse, enamelling, jewellery including jade, beads, etc

Visual arts elective-II (drawing and painting)+

Visual arts elective-II (drawing and painting): Unit 01
Aesthetics
Fundamental elements of drawing and painting
Imagery in visual arts
Origin and development of art (visual)
Classification of arts
Conceptual and visual reality
Relevance of study of aesthetics in painting: the early philosophical thoughts in Indian culture
Nature and function of art in the society
Indian aesthetics: Concept of Ras-sutra and its commentaries-the theory of Rasa, Sadharanikaran, Dhvani, Alankara, Auchitya, etc; Shilpa texts like the Chitrasutra of the Vishnudharmottara Purana
Indian aesthetics: Shadanga from Yashodhara commentary on the Kamasutra, etc.; A.K. Coomaraswamy and Rabindranath Tagore’s contributions towards Indian aesthetics
Western aesthetics: Theory of imitation and representation, Catharsis (Plato and Aristotle). Aesthetical views of Kant, Hegel, Croce, Tolstoy, Baumgarten, Schopenhauer, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, I. A. Richards, Susanne Langer
Western aesthetics: Sigmund Freud and George Santayana
Visual arts elective-II (drawing and painting): Unit 02
History of Drawing and Painting
Indian painting: Prehistoric paintings in India, wall paintings of Ajanta, Bagh, Badami and Sittanavasal. Manuscript painting tradition Pala and Western Indian. Tradition of Miniature paintings: Pre-Mughal, Mughal, Rajasthani
Indian painting: Tradition of Miniature paintings-Pahari (Basohli, Guler-Kangra and Garhwal) and Deccani painting (Ahmednagar, Bijapur and Golconda). Company school of painting. Advent of Modernism with Raja Ravi Varma
Indian painting: Bengal school-Abanindranath Tagore and his disciples, Nandalal Bose and his disciples. Breakthrough in Indian painting: Contribution of Amrita Sher-Gil. Progressive artist group: Bombay, Calcutta Group-Calcutta, Shilpi Chakra-Delhi
Indian painting: Breakthrough in Indian painting-progressive artist group: Chola mandala-Madras and Baroda school-Baroda
Indian painting: In Indian art the major trends of indigenous since 1970, contemporary painting and eminent artists: Impressionistic, expressionistic, abstraction, decoration, neo-tantric, figurative and non-figurative, surrealistic
Indian painting: Representational and non-representational painting
Western painting: Prehistoric paintings of France and Spain. Egyptian, Aegean Art, Greece and Roman painting. Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Rococo, neoclassicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism, post impressionism
Western painting: Fauvism and symbolism, cubism, futurism, dada and surrealism expressionism, abstract expressionism, op and pop art, minimal art and postmodern trends, new media, installation and illusory hyper realism, etc
Visual arts elective-II (drawing and painting): Unit 03
Material and Method
Application of materials, support in painting (canvas, paper, wall surface, panels), mix media
Oil painting and its technique-traditional and non-traditional
Techniques of wall paintings-traditional (fresco, secco, and buono) and modern
Watercolor painting, wash technique, pastel and crayon, acrylic color, color preparation and technical aspect of pigments
Color theory and color harmony
Visual arts elective-II (drawing and painting): Unit 04
Art Schools and Art Education
The introduction of formal training in art through colonial art schools, and the transition from colonial understanding to post-independent art education in the art schools at Chennai, Kolkata, Lahore, Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow, Jaipur
Art promotion and education through art academies; rethinking institutional art education at Santiniketan and Baroda; role of art galleries and museums in art education; increase in curatorial venture as a collaboration between the museum
Galleries and practicing artists and historians; role of art journals and magazines in the dialogue between viewing public and the artist

Visual arts elective-III (applied art)+

Visual arts elective-III (applied art): Unit 01
Elements and principles of design
The term ‘graphic design’ and William Addison Diggings; basics of graphic design/ applied art: Image and text; developing message to promote product
Terms and terminologies relevant to advertising industry: Understanding of the ‘Portmanteau’ terms such as, advertorials, infographics, infomercials, edutainment, etc
Visual arts elective-III (applied art): Unit 02
Innovations and Movements
History of advertising in India and rest of the world; calligraphy, advent of moveable types, typefaces, fronts and families; architecture and anatomy of letters; classifications of types and size
Early typographers and study of traditional handwriting and script like Indian manuscripts, Persian, Chinese, Japanese, and Roman, etc
Development of printing processes in India and rest of the world: Letterpress, Gravure, silkscreen, and offset, etc
Movements that influenced graphic design: Art Nouveau, (the art of war), the ISMs of art: Futurism, Aada, De Stijl, and constructivism, art and craft movement, Bauhaus movement and new typography
Movements that influenced graphic design: History of graphic design and the nature of advertising history, illustrated modernism and psychedelia, new wave and postmodernism, digital expressionism and postscript, the digital future
Visual arts elective-III (applied art): Unit 03
Advertising forms and media
Print, outdoor, electronic and new media advertising; media options: Newspapers and magazines, radio, TV and cinema, posters, direct mail, ambient and guerrilla advertising, digital and online advertising
Viral advertising
Boom in outdoor advertising: Billboards and transits, innovative materials, and advantages
Emergence of poster as a ‘new genre of art’: Study of posters with reference to Poland, Japan, UK, and America and Bolshevik Russia. Placards and propagandas, protest and wartime posters, subway culture
Cultural frames of advertising phases: Idolatry, iconology, narcissism, and transition from ‘Totemism’ (the fourth cultural frame) to ‘Mise-en-Scene’ (fifth frame)
Cultural frames of advertising phases: Evolution from traditional to industrial to consumer society and development of communications media. Future of advertising and advertising agencies. Blurring the lines between advertising and entertainment
The impact of graphic design with advance technology; re-defining “graphic design”; attributes needed by the modern designers
Visual arts elective-III (applied art): Unit 04
Design, campaign, and packaging
Designing of logo, rebus, symbol, mark, and corporate identity; stories behind the development of most well-known symbols/ identities the world; brands, rebranding, and brand positioning; precursors and prophets of advertising theories and principles
Designing events-event mascots and other global entertainments, films, and festivals
Campaign planning and strategy: the client, market research, account planning, creative brief
Developing visuals and messages for print-ads (newspaper and magazines), direct mail, posters, outdoor advertising (billboards and transits), merchandising
Show-windows and supermarket items (point of sales/ point of purchase items, dispensers, stands, stalls, etc)
Media selection, approaches and the target audience
Innovations in media
New technologies, TV graphics, multimedia presentation, web-page designing and understanding of rector and vector software; internet-its use in advertising products and services, net marketing
Prepress, printing presses, and post-press: Manipulations of pixels and resolutions, colour corrections, knowledge of computer-to-plate graphic reproductions, offset printing, finishing, and Converting
Prepress, printing presses, and post-press: Additive and subtractive colours, four colour printing mechanics, spot colours, and lainations, Uvs, etc
Design of packaging, merchandising, and novelties
Visual arts elective-III (applied art): Unit 05
Advertising corporate and new trends
Origin and growth of advertising agencies: role and responsibilities of a graphic designer
Creative core: Creative/ art director, visualizer, and copywriter, interaction in developing concepts
World’s leading advertising corporates, multinationals and indian scenario: Indian advertising agencies with all India branches. Ad-gurus or remarkable ad-men and epoch making advertising campaigns by them
World’s leading advertising corporates, multinationals and indian scenario: Highest honours, awards in the advertising creativity and extraordinary contribution
Famous designers of the world on branding and corporate identity design, film titles
Interdisciplinary participation approach with disciplines of art, collaboration and internship with industries and corporates
Computers and its role in creating new visual effects (photography, digital graphics, film titles, multimedia presentations, image editing, web graphics and types of online advertising, web page designing); importance of market research in advertising
Print media vs. Electronic media

Visual arts elective-IV printmaking (graphic art)+

Visual arts elective-IV printmaking (graphic art): Unit 01
Aesthetics and history
Understanding of fundamentals of visual art (space, form, size, shape, line, colour, texture, tonal values, perspective, design and aesthetic) in relation to printmaking
Understanding visual principles of composition (proportion, unity, harmony, rhythm, contrast, balance and emphasis)
Reproduction of two dimensional identical prints
Knowledge of history, invention, development and definition of printmaking (graphic art) process, techniques and materials in Asia and Europe
Japanese woodcuts and important masters of Ukiyo-e school and works of masters such as Hokusai, Hiroshige, Utamaro, etc
Printmaking as a mode of creative expression during 19th-20th century from book production to establishing of atelier/ workshops, groups, experiments and influences on advertising
Visual arts elective-IV printmaking (graphic art): Unit 02
Mode, medium, and process
Knowledge of types of printmaking techniques: (i) Woodcut and linocut, (ii) intaglio-wood and metal, (iii) etching-line, aquatint, soft ground, etc, (iv) surface printing (planography, offset, oleograph, etc), (v) stencil and serigraph
Knowledge of types of printmaking techniques: (vi) Other techniques-colography, chine-colle, monoprint, unique print, dry-point, engraving, mezzotint, viscosity, digital imaging, mix medium, etc
Knowledge on use of different kinds of mediums, materials and printing process used in printmaking (wood, lino, copper, zinc, plywood, stone, acrylic, paper, cardboard, gum, acids, chemicals, ink, resin, software, tools, machine, equipment, etc)
Preparation of different types of surface from identification of material to designing till printing
Visual arts elective-IV printmaking (graphic art): Unit 03
Work of art
Knowledge of works of master printmakers and their contribution in development of printmaking from historic to modern like Durer, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Goya, Gauguin, Degas, Lautrec, Daumier
German expressionists (Kathe Kollwitz, Nolde, Heckel, Grosz, Munch, etc), Picasso, Pop and figurative artists (Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Jim Dine), David Hockney, Krishna Reddy, Peter Daglish, Stanley Jones, Paul Lingren, Carol Summers, etc
Development of printmaking in India, contribution and influence of British during colonial period, establishment of press and schools, popular printmaking in mid-19th century till pre independence
Printmaking trends in India post independence
Contribution of Indian printmakers: Raja Ravi Varma, member of Vichitra club, Mukul Dey, Gaganendranath Tagore etc. Shantiniketan School, Nandalal Bose, Binode Behari Mukherjee, Ramkinkar, Biswarup Bose, Ramen Chakraborty, Haren Das, Somnath Hore
Contribution of Indian printmakers: Chittaprasad, Jyoti Bhatt, Kanwal Krishna, Devyani Krishna, Y.K. Shukla, Vasant Parab, Jagmohan Chopra, Paramjeet Singh, Lalita Lajmi, Naina Dalal, Laxma Goud, R.B. Bhaskaran, R.M. Palaniappan, Sanat Kar
Contribution of Indian printmakers: Lalu Prasad Shaw, Amitabh Banerjee, Devraj Dakoji, Bhupen Khakhar, Waman Chincholkar, Paul Koli, Deepak Banerjee, Jai Zharotia, Prayag Jha, Rini Dhumal, Anupam Sud, Jayant Parikh, Kanchan Chander, etc
Visual arts elective-IV printmaking (graphic art): Unit 04
Print and issues
Good quality prints-criteria (technically and aesthetically), conventions to identify the authenticity of prints-signature, editions, artists proof, etc
Display-mounting and preservation of prints
Various issues related to the contemporary printmaking (mechanical production, computer graphics, influences of advertising, atelier, workshops and groups, etc)

Visual arts elective-V (sculpture)+

Visual arts elective-V (sculpture): Unit 01
Elements and principles of sculpture
Fundamentals and elements of sculpture; origin and development of imagery in sculpture; classification of sculpture; sculptural form vis-a-vis conceptual reality
Relevance of the study of aesthetics for sculptural practice: The early philosophical ideas in India and the West; the role and function of sculpture in the society
History of sculpture in western and oriental traditions; traditional sculptural program as integral part of architectural structures such as churches, temples and secular buildings study of form, material
Methods, and techniques relevant to sculptural practice; clarity of understanding of terminologies related to the art of sculpture
Visual arts elective-V (sculpture): Unit 02
Study of varied media in sculptural practice
Clay and wax: Preparation of natural clay for sculpture; modelling and casting with clay; terracotta and firing of clay; types of kilns; possibilities in the range of colours and pigments in ceramic works
Clay and wax: Two-dimensional and three-dimensional modes in clay sculptures; modelling and carving in wax
Plaster of Paris (POP): History, chemical composition and physical nature of POP; advantages and disadvantages of working with POP; accelerating and retarding agents; surface treatment of POP; casting and carving in POP
Wood: Nature and varieties of wood; carving tools and methods of carving for sculpting in wood; seasoning and preservation of wood; finishing and staining of wood
Stone: Origin of sculpting in stone; tools and equipment, methods and approach relevant to stone carving; treatment and preservation of stone against weathering
Metal: History of metal sculptures; processes involved in the use of metal as medium for sculpture; physical properties and classification of metals as ferrous and non-ferrous, alloy, etc; bronze as the primary sculptural metal
Metal: The Lost-wax method (cire-perdue); indigenous methods including “gravity casting”, “sand casting”, etc; melting points of metals; surface treatment viz anodising, oxidation and patination; welding and forging processes for working with metals
Metal: Preservation of metal sculptures
Visual arts elective-V (sculpture): Unit 03
Assemblage and Installation
History and background of mix-media; new hybrid forms of 1960’s and more recent developments; public sculptures; environmental art
Visual arts elective-V (sculpture): Unit 04
Monumental sculpture
Scope, problems, limitations, concept and development; eminent exponents such as D.P. Roychowdhary, Ramkinkar Baij, Prodosh Dasgupta, Sankho Chaudhuri, Piloo Pochkhanawala, Chintamoni Kar, Sarbari Roy Chowdhury, Amarnath Sehgal, Dhanraj Bhagat
Kanayi Kunhiraman, M. Dharmani, Nagji Patel, Balbir Singh Katt
Visual arts elective-V (sculpture): Unit 05
Contemporary Indian Sculptors
Combine indigenous knowledge with new materials and techniques; select individuals-B.C Sanyal, Somnath Hore, K.G. Subramanyan, Biman B. Das, Meera Mukherjee, Raghav Kaneria, Himmat Shah, Latika Katt, Jeram Patel, Ajit Chakraborty, Sushen Ghose
Satish Gujral, Ved Nayar, P.V Janakiram, Shiv Singh, Balan Nambiar, S. Nandgopal, Mahendra Pandya, Rajnikant Panchal, Mrinalini Mukherjee, K.S. Radhakrishnan, S. Nandgopal, Dhruva Mistry, Pritpal Singh Laddi, Anita Dube, Ravindra Reddy, N.N. Rimzon
Pushpamala N., Sudarshan Shetty, Subodh Gupta , Anish Kapoor, etc
Visual arts elective-V (sculpture): Unit 06
Contribution of select modern and contemporary sculptors from the west
Honore Daumier, Auguste Rodin, Camille Claudel, Paul Gauguin, Aristide Maillol, Antoine Bourdelle, Henri Matisse, Ernst Barlach, Constantin Brancusi, Pablo Picasso, Aleksandr Archipenko, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Jacques Lipchitz, Henri Laurens
Umberto Boccioni, Vladimir Tatlin, Naum Gabo, Sophie Tauber, Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Antoine Pevsner, Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, David Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Isamu Noguchi, Alberto Giacometti, Cesar, Marino Marini, Lucio Fontana
George Segal, Claes Oldenburg, Anthony Caro, Tony Smith, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Eva Hesse, Duane Hanson, Judy Chicago, Joel Schapiro, Barry Flanagan, Georg Baselitz, Jimmie Durham, Jeff Koons, Kiki Smith

Geography+

Geography: Unit 01
Geomorphology
Continental drift, plate tectonics, endogenetic, and exogenetic forces
Denudation and weathering, geomorphic cycle (Davis and Penck), theories and process of slope development, earth movements (seismicity, folding, faulting, and vulcanicity)
Landform occurrence and causes of geomorphic hazards (earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and avalanches)
Geography: Unit 02
Climatology
Composition and structure of atmosphere; insolation, heat budget of earth, temperature, pressure, and winds, atmospheric circulation (air-masses, fronts and upper air circulation, cyclones, and anticyclones (tropical and temperate)
Climatic classification of Koppen and Thornthwaite, ENSO events (El Nino, La Nina, and southern oscillations), meteorological hazards and disasters (cyclones, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hailstorms, heat, and cold waves drought and cloudburst
Glacial Lake Outburst (GLOF), Climate Change: Evidences and Causes of Climatic Change in the past, Human impact on Global Climate
Geography: Unit 03
Oceanography
Relief of oceans, composition: Temperature, density, and salinity, circulation: Warm and cold currents, waves, tides, sea level changes, hazards: Tsunami and cyclone
Geography: Unit 04
Geography of Environment
Components: Ecosystem (geographic classification) and human ecology, functions: Trophic levels, energy flows, cycles (geochemical, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen), food chain, food web, and ecological pyramid, human interaction, and impacts
Functions: Environmental ethics and deep ecology, environmental hazards and disasters (global warming, urban heat island, atmospheric pollution, water pollution, land degradation), national programmes and policies: Legal framework, environmental policy
National programmes and policies: International treaties, international programmes, and polices (Brundtland Commission, Kyoto protocol, agenda 21, sustainable development goals, Paris agreement)
Geography: Unit 05
Population and Settlement Geography
Population geography: Sources of population data (census, sample surveys, and vital statistics, data reliability, and errors). World population distribution (measures, patterns, and determinants), world population growth (prehistoric to modern period)
Population geography: Demographic transition, theories of population growth (Malthus, Sadler, and Ricardo). Fertility and mortality analysis (indices, determinants, and world patterns). Migration (types, causes, and consequences and models)
Population geography: Population composition and characteristics (age, sex, rural-urban, occupational structure, and educational levels), population policies in developed and developing countries
Settlement geography: Rural settlements (types, patterns, and distribution), contemporary problems of rural settlements (rural-urban migration; land use changes; land acquisition and transactions)
Settlement geography: Theories of origin of towns (Gordon Childe, Henri Pirenne, Lewis Mumford)
Settlement geography: Characteristics and processes of urbanization in developed and developing countries (factors of urban growth, trends of urbanization, size, structure, and functions of urban areas)
Settlement geography: Urban systems (the law of the primate city and rank size rule) central place theories (Christaller and Losch), internal structure of the city, models of urban land use (Burgess, Harris, and Ullman, and Hoyt), concepts of megacities
Settlement geography: Global cities and edge cities, changing urban forms (peri-urban areas, rural-urban fringe, suburban, ring, and satellite towns), social segregation in the city, urban social area analysis
Settlement geography: Manifestation of poverty in the city (slums, informal sector growth, crime, and social exclusion)
Geography: Unit 06
Geography of Economic Activities and Regional Development
Economic geography: Factors affecting spatial organization of economic activities (primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary), natural resources (classification, distribution, and associated problems), natural resources management
Economic geography: World energy crises in developed and developing countries
Agricultural geography: Land capability classification and land use planning, cropping pattern-methods of delineating crop combination regions (Weaver, Doi, and Rafiullah), crop diversification, Von Thunen’s model of land use planning
Agricultural geography: Measurement and determinants of agricultural productivity, regional variations in agricultural productivity, agricultural systems of the world
Industrial geography: Classification of industries, factors of industrial location; theories of industrial location (A. Weber, E.M. Hoover, August Losch, A. Pred, and D.M. Smith). World industrial regions
Industrial geography: Impact of globalization on manufacturing sector in less developed countries, tourism industry
Industrial geography: World distribution, and growth of Information and communication technology (ICT) and knowledge production (education and R and D) industries
Geography of transport and trade: Theories and models of spatial interaction (Edward Ullman and M.E. Hurst) measures and indices of connectivity and accessibility; spatial flow models: Gravity model and its variants, world trade organization
Geography of transport and trade: Globalization and liberalization, and world trade patterns. Problems and prospects of Inter and Intra regional cooperation and trade
Regional development: Typology of regions, formal, and fictional regions, world regional disparities, theories of regional development (Albert O. Hirschman, Gunnar Myrdal, John Friedman), dependency theory of under development, global economic blocks
Regional development: Regional development, and social movements in India
Geography: Unit 07
Cultural, social, and political geography
Cultural and social geography: Concept of culture, cultural complexes, areas, and region, cultural heritage, cultural ecology, cultural convergence, social structure and processes, social well-being and quality of life, social exclusion
Cultural and social geography: Spatial distribution of social groups in India (tribe, caste, religion, and language), environment and human health, diseases ecology
Cultural and social geography: Nutritional status (etiological conditions, classification and spatial, and seasonal distributional patterns with special reference to India), health care planning and policies in India, medical tourism in India
Political geography: Boundaries and frontiers (with special reference to India), Heartland and Rimland theories. Trends and developments in political geography, geography of federalism, electoral reforms in India, determinants of electoral behaviour
Political geography: Geopolitics of climate change, geopolitics of world resources, geopolitics of India ocean, regional organizations of cooperation (SAARC, ASEAN, OPEC, EU). Geopolitics of world natural resources
Geography: Unit 08
Geographic thought
Contributions of Greek, Roman, Arab, Chinese, and Indian scholars, contributions of geographers (Bernhardus Varenius, Immanuel Kant, Alexander Von Humboldt, Carl Ritter, Schaefer, and Hartshorne), impact of Darwinian theory on geographical thought
Contemporary trends in Indian geography: cartography, thematic and methodological contributions
Major geographic traditions (earth science, man environment relationship, area studies, and spatial analysis), dualisms in geographic studies (physical vs. nomothetic), paradigm shift
Perspectives in geography (positivism, behaviouralism, humanism, structuralism, feminism, and postmodernism)
Geography: Unit 09
Geographical Techniques
Sources of geographic information and data (spatial and non-spatial), types of maps, techniques of map making (choropleth, isarithmic, dasymetric, chorochromatic, flow maps), data representation on maps pie diagrams, bar diagrams, and line graph
GIS database (raster and vector data formats and attribute data formats)
Functions of GIS (conversion, editing, and analysis), digital elevation model (DEM), georeferencing (coordinate system and map projections and datum), GIS applications (thematic cartography, spatial decision support system)
Basics of remote sensing (electromagnetic spectrum, sensors, and platforms, resolution, and types, elements of air photo and satellite image interpretation and photogrammetry), types of aerial photographs
Digital image processing: Developments in remote sensing technology and big data sharing and its applications in natural resources management in India, GPS components (space, ground control, and receiver segments) and applications
Applications of measures of central tendency, dispersion and inequalities, sampling, sampling procedure, and hypothesis testing (chi square test, t-test, ANOVA), time series analysis, correlation, and regression analysis, measurement of indices
Making indicators scale free, computation of composite index, principal component analysis, and cluster analysis, morphometric analysis: Ordering of streams, bifurcation ratio, drainage density, and drainage frequency
Morphometric analysis: Basin circularity ratio and form factor, profiles, slope analysis, clinographic curve, hypsographic curve, and altimetric frequency graph
Geography: Unit 10
Geography of India
Major physiographic regions and their characteristics; drainage system (himalayan and peninsular), climate: Seasonal weather characteristics, climatic divisions, Indian monsoon (mechanism and characteristics), jet streams, and himalayan cryosphere
Types and distribution of natural resources: Soil, vegetation, water, mineral, and marine resources
Population characteristics (spatial patterns of distribution), growth and composition (rural-urban, age, sex, occupational, educational, ethnic, and religious), determinants of population, population policies in India
Agriculture (production, productivity and yield of major food crops), major crop regions, regional variations in agricultural development, environmental, technological, and institutional factors affecting Indian agriculture; agro-climatic zones
Green revolution, food security, and right to food
Industrial development since independence, industrial regions, and their characteristics, industrial policies in India
Development and patterns of transport networks (railways, roadways, waterways, airways, and pipelines), internal and external trade (trend, composition, and directions), regional development planning in India
Globalization and its impact on Indian economy, natural disasters in India (earthquake, drought, flood, cyclone, tsunami, Himalayan highland hazards, and disasters)

Social medicine and community health+

Social medicine and community health: Unit 01
Evolution and basic concepts of public health/ social medicine and community health
History of social medicine and community health, history of public health and its milestones, comprehensive health care, social development and health, dimensions and determinants of health, concepts and indicators of health and wellbeing
Natural history of disease, levels of prevention, globalisation and its impact on health, roles and responsibility of state, community and private sector in health
Social medicine and community health: Unit 02
Evolution of health policies and health services in India
Health committees and development of health services in independent India, constitutional provisions, federal structure, and social security, national health policies (1983, 2002, 2017), population policy, nutrition policy
Policy on Indian systems of medicine and homeopathy 2002, important health legislations in India, health infrastructure in India: Public, private, and charitable, public private partnership (ppp), health financing and health insurance
Out of pocket expenditure, civil society and social movements in health
Social medicine and community health: Unit 03
General epidemiology and biostatistics
Basic concepts and definitions in epidemiology, types of epidemiology, uses of epidemiology, measurements in epidemiology, epidemiological study designs, screening and surveillance, validity of screening and diagnostic tests
Causation, association, and biases, investigation of an epidemic, basic concepts in biostatistics, types of data and data sources for public health, sampling techniques and sample size estimation, probability and tests of significance
Data analysis, presentation, and interpretation
Social medicine and community health: Unit 04
Social sciences and health
Definition, scope, concepts and significance of social, economic, cultural and behavioral factors on health and disease, social theories of causation of disease, implications of social structure and socio-economic status for health
Political and economic aspects of health, health perceptions and behavior, health economics, qualitative research methodology, social work approach in health care
Social medicine and community health: Unit 05
Epidemiology of common health problems in India and national health programmes
Communicable diseases-common, emerging, and re-emerging diseases, hospital acquired infections, antimicrobial resistance, non-communicable diseases-cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers, rheumatic heart disease, blindness, mental health
Non-communicable diseases-occupational diseases, genetic diseases, accidents, injuries, and disasters, all national health programs and data sources
Social medicine and community health: Unit 06
Basic determinants of health
Environment and health: Water and sanitation, environmental pollution and health impacts, built environment and housing, climate change and impact on health, waste management, hospital waste management
Nutrition: Ecology of malnutrition, assessment of nutritional status, nutritional diseases and their management, food and nutrition security and related legislations, national nutrition programs, socio cultural aspects of nutrition, food safety
Nutrition: Food standards and related legislations
Social determinants of health
Social medicine and community health: Unit 07
Demography, family welfare, and RCH
Demography and family planning: Definition, concepts and indicators related to demography and family planning, demographic cycle, size, composition, and distribution of India’s population, approaches and methods of contraception
Demography and family planning: Evolution of national family welfare program, social issues related to family planning, felt need and unmet need in family planning, social marketing in family planning, counseling in family planning, PC and PNDT act-1994
Demography and family planning: MTP act 1971
Reproductive and child health: Evolution of maternal/ reproductive and child health programs, safe motherhood and essential newborn care with related schemes and programs, gender issues in women’s health
Reproductive and child health: Major health problems of children in India and related national health programs, adolescent health and related schemes and programs, rights of child and related schemes and programs, school health programme
Social medicine and community health: Unit 08
Health education/ IEC/ BCC and information technology in health
Concepts, objectives, and approaches of health education, methods, modes and barriers of communication, planning, management and organization of health education programs, e-medicine, distance education and associated legal issues
Role of media in health education, e-health and m health
Social medicine and community health: Unit 09
Health systems research, planning and management and recent advances in public health
Health planning and management, health systems research-operations research, system analysis, health technology assessment, monitoring, and evaluation, health management information system, medical and social audits, health teams and their management
Human resources in health, role of ayush in local health traditions, health policy studies, quality assessment of health services-parameters and standards, ethics in health care, national institutes of public health research and training
Social medicine and community health: Unit 10
International health
Health problems of developed and developing countries, health problems of south east Asia region, international agencies in health, emporiatrics, health for all approaches-primary health care (1978) to universal health coverage
Millennium development goals (MDG) and sustainable development goals (SDG)

Forensic science+

Forensic science: Unit 01
Forensic science
Definition, history, and development, scope, ethics in forensic science
Physical evidence: Nature, types, search methods, collection, preservation, packing and forwarding of physical and trace evidence for forensic analyses, chain of custody
Crime scene: Nature, types, preservation of scene of crime
Criminal investigations: Unnatural deaths, criminal assaults, sexual offences, poisoning, vehicular accidents
Courts: Types, powers, and jurisdiction, admissibility of evidence in courts, definition of experts, provisions in CR PC,1973 and Indian evidence act relating to experts and their reports; court procedures pertaining to expert testimony and witness
Organization of forensic science laboratories of centre and state, NCRB and NICFS
Fundamental Rights: Right of Equality (Articles 14 to 18) and Right of Freedom (Articles 19 to 22) as per Constitution of India
Criminal profiling: Profile of victim and culprit, its role in crime investigation, lie detection (polygraphy), NARCO analysis, brain mapping, scope and limitations
Concept of quality control management in forensic institutions
Forensic science: Unit 02
Microscopy
Polarizing, comparison, stereoscopic, fluorescent and electron microscopes
Spectrophotometry: UV, visible, IR, Raman, atomic absorption, emission
Neutron activation analysis
X-rays and X-ray based techniques such as XRD, XRF
Mass spectroscopy
Chromatographic techniques: TLC, GLC, HPLC, HPTLC
Hyphenated techniques: GC-MS, LC-MS, IR-MS, and ICP-MS
Electrophoresis: High and low voltage electrophoresis, immunoelectrophoresis
Immunoassays: Principle, types , techniques and applications
Forensic science: Unit 03
Detection and identification of blood stains
Determination of species of origin
Blood group systems
Techniques of determination of blood groups of blood stains
Detection of seminal and other body fluids and their blood grouping, red cells enzymes, serum proteins of forensic significance
Disputed paternity and maternity
DNA: Structure, DNA as genetic marker, DNA extraction and profiling techniques
DNA phenotyping and RNA profiling and their applications
Wildlife forensics: Wild life (protection) act-1972, scope, evidences and identification
Forensic science: Unit 04
Analysis of ethyl alcohol
Analysis of ethyl alcohol in beverages, liquors, biological fluids and breath
Analysis of methanol and denaturants
Illicit liquors
Analysis of chemicals in trap cases
Metabolism and chemical examination of: Insecticides and pesticides, tranquilizer and sedatives, hypnotics stimulants, narcotics, opiates, drugs of abuse; analyses of above and their toxicity
Plant poisons
Metallic poisons
Extraction, isolation and clean-up procedures, identification of common poisons from viscera, tissues and body fluids
Forensic science: Unit 05
Fire arms
Types, classification, ammunition and their compositions
Forensic examination of firearms, ammunition, firearms’ projectiles (bullets, shots, slug etc), shell case
Gunshot residues analysis
Concept of velocity, penetration, dispersion, ricochet, accidental discharge, determination of range in firearm cases
Examination of country made firearms
Basics of internal, external, and terminal ballistics
Tool marks: Meaning, types, and examination
Restoration of erased markings on metal surfaces
Forensic science: Unit 06
Fire and arson
Analyses of petroleum products and other incendiary materials
Explosives: Definition, types, and analyses
Bombs: Country made bombs, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and their examination
Investigation in explosion and arson related cases
Photography: Types, application in criminal investigation and forensic evidence examination
Forensic science: Unit 07
Hair and fibers
Nature, types, structure, and examination
Pollens and diatoms: Their application in forensic investigation
Dust and soil: Nature, types, forensic examination
Paint, lacquer, and varnishes: Nature, composition and forensic examination
Glass: Composition, types, fractures, examination
Cement, mortar, and concrete: General composition, forensic analysis
Computer forensics: Introduction, types of computer crimes, digital evidence-seizure, acquisition and forensic examination
Mobile phone forensics
Forensic science: Unit 08
Fingerprints
History, characteristics, types, classification, preservation, development, lifting and comparison, examination of chance prints, computerization of fingerprints, AFIS
Track marks: Foot prints, shoe prints, tire marks, their preservation and casting, comparison, skid marks. Gait pattern
Biometric systems of identification and its relevance
Voice Analysis: Introduction, Significance, Structure of Human Voice apparatus, Voice spectrography, Voice analysis, Legal aspects and limitations
Forensic science: Unit 09
Documents
Definition, types, preliminary examination of documents
Reproduction of documents through photographic and mechanical means and their examination
Examination of alterations such as erasures, obliterations and additions
Indentations, secret writings and charred documents
Inks, papers, and their scientific examinations with modern methods
Age of documents
Examination of typescripts, printed matter including currency notes and lottery tickets. Mechanical impressions
Hand writings: Class and individual characteristics of handwritings, factors affecting handwritings, standard samples for comparison, comparison of hand-written texts
Anonymous and disguised writings
Identification of hand writings, signatures, detection of forged signature and forgeries
Examination of credit cards and similar materials
Forensic science: Unit 10
Modes and manner of deaths
Sexual offences and its medicolegal importance, amendments in law related to sexual offences
Post-mortem examination and post-mortem changes, estimation of time since death
Injuries and wounds: Types, medicolegal importance, gunshot wounds
Determination of species of origin, sex, age, stature, and individual identification through skeletal remains
Identification through skull superimposition and facial reconstruction
Human dentition, type of teeth, determination of age, bite marks
Forensic entomology: Introduction, insects of forensic importance, insects on carrion, forensic applications

Computer science and applications+

Computer science and applications: Unit 01
Discrete Structures and Optimization
Mathematical logic: Propositional and predicate logic, propositional equivalences, normal forms, predicates and quantifiers, nested quantifiers, rules of inference
Sets and relations: Set operations, representation and properties of relations, equivalence relations, partially ordering
Counting, mathematical induction and discrete probability: Basics of counting, pigeonhole principle, permutations and combinations, inclusion-exclusion principle, mathematical induction, probability, Bayes’ theorem
Group theory: Groups, subgroups, semi groups, product and quotients of algebraic structures, isomorphism, homomorphism, automorphism, rings, integral domains, fields, applications of group theory
Graph theory: Simple graph, multigraph, weighted graph, paths and circuits, shortest Paths in weighted graphs, Eulerian paths and circuits, Hamiltonian paths and circuits, planner graph, graph coloring, bipartite graphs, trees, and rooted trees
Graph theory: Prefix codes, tree traversals, spanning trees, and cut-sets
Boolean algebra: Boolean functions and its representation, simplifications of Boolean functions
Optimization: Linear programming-mathematical model, graphical solution, simplex and dual simplex method, sensitive analysis; integer programming, transportation and assignment models, PERT-CPM: diagram representation, critical path calculations
Optimization: Resource levelling, cost consideration in project scheduling
Computer science and applications: Unit 02
Computer System Architecture
Digital logic circuits and components: Digital computers, logic gates, Boolean algebra, map simplifications, combinational circuits, flip-flops, sequential circuits, integrated circuits, decoders, multiplexers, registers, and counters, memory unit
Data representation: Data types, number systems and conversion, complements, fixed point representation, floating point representation, error detection codes, computer arithmetic-addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division algorithms
Register transfer and microoperations: Register transfer language, bus and memory transfers, arithmetic, logic, and shift micro-operations
Basic computer organization and design: Stored program organization and instruction codes, computer registers, computer instructions, timing and control, instruction cycle, memory-reference instructions, input-output, interrupt
Programming the basic computer: Machine language, assembly language, assembler, program loops, subroutines, input-output programming
Microprogrammed control: Control memory, address sequencing, design of control unit
Central processing unit: General register organization, stack organization, instruction formats, addressing modes, RISC computer, CISC computer
Pipeline and vector processing: Parallel processing, pipelining, arithmetic pipeline, instruction pipeline, vector processing array processors
Input-output organization: Peripheral devices, input-output interface, asynchronous data transfer, modes of transfer, priority interrupt, DMA, serial communication
Memory hierarchy: Main memory, auxiliary memory, associative memory, cache memory, virtual memory, memory management hardware
Multiprocessors: Characteristics of multiprocessors, interconnection structures, interprocessor arbitration, interprocessor communication and synchronization, cache coherence, multicore processors
Computer science and applications: Unit 03
Programming Languages and Computer Graphics
Language design and translation issues: Programming language concepts, paradigms and models, programming environments, virtual computers and binding times, programming language syntax, stages in translation, formal transition models
Elementary data types: Properties of types and objects; scalar and composite data types
Programming in C: Tokens, identifiers, data types, sequence control, subprogram control, arrays, structures, union, string, pointers, functions, file handling, command line arguments, preprocessors
Object oriented programming: Class, object, instantiation, inheritance, encapsulation, abstract class, polymorphism
Programming in C++: Tokens, identifiers, variables and constants; data types, operators, control statements, functions parameter passing, virtual functions, class and objects; constructors and destructors
Programming in C++: Overloading,inheritance, templates, exception and event handling; streams and files; multi file programs
Web programming: HTML, DHTML, XML, scripting, java, servlets, applets
Computer graphics: Video-display devices, raster-scan and random-scan systems; graphics monitors, input devices, points and lines; line drawing algorithms, mid-point circle and ellipse algorithms
Computer graphics: Scan line polygon fill algorithm, boundary-fill and flood fill
2-D geometrical transforms and viewing: Translation, scaling, rotation, reflection and shear transformations; matrix representations and homogeneous coordinates; composite transforms, transformations between coordinate systems, viewing pipeline
2-D geometrical transforms and viewing: Viewing coordinate reference frame, window to viewport coordinate transformation, viewing functions, line, and polygon clipping algorithms
3D object representation, geometric transformations and viewing: Polygon surfaces, quadric surfaces, spline representation, Bezier and B-spline curves; Bézier and B-spline surfaces; illumination models, polygon rendering methods
3D object representation, geometric transformations and viewing: Viewing pipeline and coordinates; general projection transforms and chipping
Computer science and applications: Unit 04
Database management systems
Database system concepts and architecture: Data models, schemas, and instances; three-schema architecture and data independence; database languages and interfaces; centralized and client / server architectures for DBMS
Data modeling: Entity-relationship diagram, relational model-constraints, languages, design, and programming, relational database schemas, update operations and dealing with constraint violations; relational algebra and relational calculus; Codd rules
SQL: Data definition and data types; constraints, queries, insert, delete, and update statements; views, stored procedures and functions; database triggers, SQL injection
Normalization for relational databases: Functional dependencies and normalization; algorithms for query processing and optimization; transaction processing, concurrency control techniques, database recovery techniques
Normalization for relational databases: Object and object-relational databases; database security and authorization
Enhanced data models: Temporal database concepts, multimedia databases, deductive databases, XML and internet databases; mobile databases, geographic information systems, genome data management, distributed databases, and client-server architectures
Data warehousing and data mining: Data modeling for data warehouses, concept hierarchy, OLAP and OLTP; association rules, classification, clustering, regression, support vector machine, K-nearest neighbour, hidden Markov Model, summarization
Data warehousing and data mining: Dependency modeling, link analysis, sequencing analysis, social network analysis
Big data systems: Big data characteristics, types of big data, big data architecture, introduction to mapreduce and hadoop; distributed file system, HDFS
NOSQL: NOSQL and query optimization; different NOSQL products, querying and managing NOSQL; indexing and ordering data sets; NOSQL in cloud
Computer science and applications: Unit 05
System Software and Operating System
System software: Machine, assembly and high-level languages; compilers and interpreters; loading, linking and relocation; macros, debuggers
Basics of operating systems: Operating system structure, operations and services; system calls, operating-system design and implementation; system boot
Process management: Process scheduling and operations; interprocess communication, communication in client–server systems, process synchronization, critical-section problem, peterson’s solution, semaphores, synchronization
Threads: Multicore programming, multithreading models, thread libraries, implicit threading, threading issues
CPU scheduling: Scheduling criteria and algorithms; thread scheduling, multiple processor scheduling, real-time CPU scheduling
Deadlocks: Deadlock characterization, methods for handling deadlocks, deadlock prevention, avoidance and detection; recovery from deadlock
Memory management: Contiguous memory allocation, swapping, paging, segmentation, demand paging, page replacement, allocation of frames, thrashing, memory-mapped files
Storage management: Mass-storage structure, disk structure, scheduling and management, RAID structure
File and input/ output systems: Access methods, directory and disk structure; file system mounting, file sharing, file-system structure and implementation; directory implementation, allocation methods, free-space management, efficiency and performance
File and input/ output systems: Recovery, I/O hardware, application I/O interface, kernel I/O subsystem, transforming I/O requests to hardware operations
Security: Protection, access matrix, access control, revocation of access rights, program threats, system and network threats; cryptography as a security tool, user authentication, implementing security defenses
Virtual machines: Types of virtual machines and implementations; virtualization
Linux operating systems: Design principles, kernel modules, process management, scheduling, memory management, file systems, input and output; interprocess communication, network structure
Windows operating systems: Design principles, system components, terminal services and fast user switching; file system, networking
Distributed systems: Types of network based operating systems, network structure, communication structure and protocols; robustness, design issues, distributed file systems
Computer science and applications: Unit 06
Software engineering
Software process models: Software process, generic process model-framework activity, task set and process patterns; process life cycle, prescriptive process models, project management, component based development, aspect-oriented software development
Software process models: Formal methods, agile process models-extreme programming (XP), adaptive software development, scrum, dynamic system development model, feature driven development, crystal, web engineering
Software requirements: Functional and non-functional requirements; eliciting requirements, developing use cases, requirement analysis and modelling; requirements review, software requirement and specification (SRS) document
Software design: Abstraction, architecture, patterns, separation of concerns, modularity, information hiding, functional independence, cohesion and coupling; object-oriented design, data design
Software design: Architectural design, user interface design, component level design
Software quality: McCall’s quality factors, ISO 9126 quality factors, quality control, quality assurance, risk management, risk mitigation, monitoring and management (RMMM); software reliability
Estimation and scheduling of software projects: Software sizing, LOC and FP based estimations; estimating cost and effort; estimation models, constructive cost model (COCOMO), project scheduling and staffing; timeline charts
Software testing: Verification and validation; error, fault, bug and failure; unit and integration testing; white-box and black-box testing; basis path testing, control structure testing, deriving test cases, alpha and beta testing
Software testing: Regression testing, performance testing, stress testing
Software configuration management: Change control and version control; software reuse, software re-engineering, reverse engineering
Computer science and applications: Unit 07
Data structures and algorithms
Data structures: Arrays and their applications; Sparse matrix, stacks, queues, priority queues, linked lists, trees, forest, binary tree, threaded binary tree, binary search tree, AVL tree, B tree, B+ tree, B* tree
Data structures: Data structure for sets, graphs, sorting, and searching algorithms; hashing
Performance analysis of algorithms and recurrences: Time and space complexities; asymptotic notation, recurrence relations
Design techniques: Divide and conquer; dynamic programming, greedy algorithms, backtracking, branch, and bound
Lower bound theory: Comparison trees, lower bounds through reductions
Graph algorithms: Breadth-first search, depth-first search, shortest paths, maximum flow, minimum spanning trees
Complexity theory: P and NP class problems; NP-completeness and reducibility
Selected topics: Number theoretic algorithms, polynomial arithmetic, fast Fourier transform, string matching algorithms
Advanced algorithms: Parallel algorithms for sorting, searching and merging, approximation algorithms, randomized algorithms
Computer science and applications: Unit 08
Theory of Computation and Compilers
Theory of computation: Formal language, non-computational problems, diagonal argument, Russell's paradox
Regular language models: Deterministic finite automaton (DFA), non-deterministic finite automaton (NDFA), equivalence of DFA and NDFA, regular languages, regular grammars, regular expressions, properties of regular language, pumping lemma
Regular language models: Nonregular languages, lexical analysis
Context free language: Pushdown automaton (PDA), non-deterministic pushdown automaton (NPDA), context free grammar, Chomsky normal form, Greibach normal form, ambiguity, parse tree representation of derivation trees
Context free language: Equivalence of PDA and context free grammars; properties of context free language
Turing machines (TM): Standard turing machine and its variations; universal turing machines, models of computation and church-turing thesis; recursive and recursively enumerable languages; context-sensitive languages, unrestricted grammars
Turing machines (TM): Chomsky hierarchy of languages, construction of TM for simple problems
Unsolvable problems and computational complexity: Unsolvable problem, halting problem, post correspondence problem, unsolvable problems for context-free languages, measuring and classifying complexity, tractable and intractable problems
Syntax analysis: Associativity, precedence, grammar transformations, top down parsing, recursive descent predictive parsing, LL(1) parsing, bottom up parsing, LR parser, LALR(1) parser
Semantic analysis: Attribute grammar, syntax directed definitions, inherited and synthesized attributes; dependency graph, evaluation order, S-attributed and L-attributed definitions; type-checking
Run time system: Storage organization, activation tree, activation record, stack allocation of activation records, parameter passing mechanisms, symbol table
Intermediate code generation: Intermediate representations, translation of declarations, assignments, control flow, Boolean expressions, and procedure calls
Code generation and code optimization: Control-flow, data-flow analysis, local optimization, global optimization, loop optimization, peephole optimization, instruction scheduling
Computer science and applications: Unit 09
Data communication and computer networks
Data communication: Components of a data communication system, simplex, half duplex and duplex modes of communication; analog and digital signals; noiseless and noisy channels; bandwidth, throughput and latency; digital and analog transmission
Data communication: Data encoding and modulation techniques; broadband and baseband transmission; multiplexing, transmission media, transmission errors, error handling mechanisms
Computer networks: Network topologies, local area networks, metropolitan area networks, wide area network, wireless networks, internet
Network models: Layered architecture, OSI reference model and its protocols; TCP/IP protocol suite, physical, logical, port and specific addresses; switching techniques
Functions of OSI and TCP/ IP layers: Framing, error detection and correction; flow and error control; sliding window protocol, HDLC, multiple access-CSMA/CD, CSMA/CA, reservation, polling, token passing, FDMA, CDMA, TDMA, network devices
Functions of OSI and TCP/ IP layers: Backbone networks, virtual lans. IPv4 structure and address space; classful and classless addressing; datagram, fragmentation and checksum; IPv6 packet format, mapping logical to physical address (ARP)
Functions of OSI and TCP/ IP layers: Direct and indirect network layer delivery; routing algorithms, TCP, UDP and SCTP protocols; flow control, error control and congestion control in TCP and SCTP
World wide web (www): Uniform resource locator (URL), domain name service (DNS), resolution-mapping names to addresses and addresses to names; electronic mail architecture, SMTP, POP and IMAP; TELNET and FTP
Network security: Malwares, cryptography and steganography; secret-key algorithms, public-key algorithms, digital signature, virtual private networks, firewalls
Mobile technology: GSM and CDMA; services and architecture of GSM and mobile computing; middleware and gateway for mobile computing; mobile IP and mobile communication protocol; communication satellites, wireless networks, and topologies
Mobile technology: Cellular topology, mobile adhoc networks, wireless transmission and wireless LANs; wireless geolocation systems, GPRS, and SMS
Cloud computing and IOT: SAAS, PAAS, IAAS, public and private cloud; virtualization, virtual server, cloud storage, database storage, resource management, service level agreement, basics of IOT
Computer science and applications: Unit 10
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Approaches to AI: Turing test and rational agent approaches; state space representation of problems, heuristic search techniques, game playing, min-max search, alpha beta cutoff procedures
Knowledge representation: Logic, semantic networks, frames, rules, scripts, conceptual dependency and ontologies; expert systems, handling uncertainty in knowledge
Planning: Components of a planning system, linear and non linear planning; goal stack planning, hierarchical planning, strips, partial order planning
Natural language processing: Grammar and language; parsing techniques, semantic analysis, and pragmatics
Multi agent systems: Agents and objects; agents and expert systems; generic structure of multiagent system, semantic web, agent communication, knowledge sharing using ontologies, agent development tools
Fuzzy sets: Notion of fuzziness, membership functions, fuzzification and defuzzification; operations on fuzzy sets, fuzzy functions and linguistic variables; fuzzy relations, fuzzy rules, and fuzzy inference
Fuzzy sets: Fuzzy control system and fuzzy rule based systems
Genetic algorithms (GA): Encoding strategies, genetic operators, fitness functions and GA cycle; problem solving using GA
Artificial neural networks (ANN): Supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning; single perceptron, multi layer perceptron, self organizing maps, Hopfield network

Electronic science+

Electronic science: Unit 01
Introduction to semiconductor
Energy bands in solids, concept of effective mass, density of states, Fermi levels
PN junction, diode equation and diode equivalent circuit, breakdown in diodes, Zener diode, tunnel diode, metal semiconductor junction-Ohmic and Schottky contacts, characteristics and equivalent circuits of JFET, MOSFET
Low dimensional semiconductor devices-quantum wells, quantum wires, quantum dots
High electron mobility transistor (HEMT), solar cells-I-V characteristics, fill factor and efficiency, LED, LCD and flexible display devices
Emerging materials for future devices: Graphene, carbon nanotubes (CNT), ZnO, SiC, etc
Electronic science: Unit 02
IC fabrication
Crystal growth, epitaxy, oxidation, lithography, doping, etching, isolation methods, metallization, bonding, thin film deposition and characterization techniques: XRD, TEM, SEM, EDX, thin film active and passive devices, MOS technology and VLSI
Scaling of MOS devices, NMOS and CMOS structures and fabrication, characteristics of MOS transistors and threshold voltage, NMOS and CMOS inverters, charge-coupled device (CCD)-structure, charge storage and transfer, basics of VLSI design, stick diagrams
Charge-coupled device (CCD)-layout design rules
Electronic science: Unit 03
Superposition, Thevenin, Norton, and maximum power transfer theorems
Network elements, network graphs, nodal and mesh analysis
Laplace transform, Fourier transform and z-transform
Time and frequency domain response, passive filters, two-port network parameters: Z, Y, ABCD, and H parameters, transfer functions, signal representation, state variable method of circuit analysis, ac circuit analysis, transient analysis, zero and poles
Two-port network parameters: Bode plots
Continuous time signals, Fourier series and Fourier transform representations, sampling theorem and applications, discrete time signal, discrete Fourier transform (DFT), fast Fourier transform (FFT), basic concepts of digital signal processing
Digital filters-IIR, FIR
Electronic science: Unit 04
Rectifiers, voltage regulator IC’s, and regulated power supply
Biasing of bipolar junction transistors and FETs, operating point and stability, amplifiers, classification of amplifiers, concept of feedback, Hartley, Colpitts and phase shift oscillators, operational amplifiers (OPAMP)-characteristics
Electronic science: Unit 05
Rectifiers, voltage regulated IC’s, and regulated power supply
Operational amplifiers (OPAMP)-computational applications, comparators, Schmitt trigger, instrumentation amplifiers, wave shaping circuits, phase locked loops, active filters, multivibrators, voltage to frequency convertors (V/F)
Operational amplifiers (OPAMP)-frequency to voltage convertors (F/V)
Electronic science: Unit 06
Logic families, logic gates, Boolean algebra, and minimization techniques
Combinational circuits, programmable logic devices (PLD), CPLD, flip-flops, memories, sequential circuits: Counters-ring, ripple, synchronous, asynchronous, shift registers, multiplexers and demultiplexers, A/D and D/A converters
Analysis and design of fundamental mode state machines: State variables, state table, and state diagram
Sequential PLD, FPGA, analysis and design of digital circuits using HDL
Electronic science: Unit 07
Introduction of microprocessor 8086
Architecture, addressing modes, instruction set, interrupts, programming, memory and I/O interfacing
Electronic science: Unit 08
Introduction of microprocessor 8087
Introduction of microcontrollers-8051 for embedded systems, architecture and register set of microcontroller 8051, addressing modes, instruction set of 8051-data transfer instructions, arithmetic instructions, logic instructions
Electronic science: Unit 09
Introduction of microprocessor 8088
Instruction set of 8051-bit level and byte level control transfer instructions, 8051 assembly programming-stack operations, subroutines, interrupts, 8051 programming as timer/ counter, 8051 serial communication, 8051 interfacing RS232
Electronic science: Unit 10
Introduction of microprocessor 8089
8051 assembly programming-LED/ LCD display, keyboard, stepper motor
Electronic science: Unit 11
Electrostatics
Vector calculus, Gauss's law, Laplace, and Poisson's equations, magnetostatics-Biot Savart's law, Ampere's law and electromagnetic induction, Maxwell's equations and wave equations, plane wave propagation in free space, dielectrics and conductors
Magnetostatics-Poynting theorem, reflection and refraction, polarization, interference, coherence and diffraction, transmission lines and waveguides-line equations, impedance, reflections and voltage standing wave ratio, rectangular waveguides
Antennas-retarded potential and Hertzian dipole, half wave antenna, antenna patterns, radiation intensity, gain, effective area and Friis free space receiver power equation
Microwave sources and devices-reflex klystron, magnetron, TWT, GUNN diode, IMPATT diode, crystal detector and pin diode
Radar-block diagram of radar, frequencies and power used, radar range equation
Electronic science: Unit 12
Analog modulation and demodulation
AM, FM, and PM, principle of superheterodyne receiver, random signals, noise, noise temperature and noise figure, basic concepts of information theory, error detection and correction
Digital modulation and demodulation-PCM, ASK, FSK, PSK, BPSK, QPSK AND QAM, time and frequency-division multiplexing, multiple access techniques, data communications-modems, codes, principles of mobile and satellite communication
Optical communication, optical sources-LED, spontaneous and stimulated emission, semiconductor lasers, detectors-pin photodiodes, avalanche photodiodes (APD), optical fibers-attenuation and dispersion characteristics, bandwidth
Wavelength division multiplexing
Fundamentals of internet of things (IOT) for communication
Electronic science: Unit 13
Power devices
Characteristics of SCR, DIAC, TRIAC, power transistors, protection of thyristors against over voltage and over current
SCR triggering-DV/DT AND DI/DT, triggering with single pulse and train of pulses, AC and DC motors-construction and speed control
Switched mode power supply (SMPS)
Uninterrupted power supply (UPS)
Open loop and closed loop control system, block diagram reduction techniques, transfer function and signal flow diagram, stability criterion: Routh-Hurwitz and Nyquist plot, on-off controller, proportional (P), proportional-integral (PI)
Proportional-derivative (PD), PID controllers
Electronic science: Unit 14
Transducers
Resistance, inductance, capacitance, piezoelectric, thermoelectric, Hall effect, photoelectric, measurement of displacement, velocity, acceleration, force, torque, strain, temperature, pressure, flow, humidity, thickness, pH
Measuring equipment-measurement of R, L, and C, bridge and potentiometers, voltage, current, power, energy, frequency/ time, phase, digital multimeters, CRO, digital storage oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer
Biomedical instruments-ECG, EEG, blood pressure measurements, MEMS and its applications sensors for IoT applications

Environmental sciences+

Environmental sciences: Unit 01
Fundamentals of Environmental Sciences
Definition, principles, and scope of environmental science
Structure and composition of atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere
Laws of thermodynamics, heat transfer processes, mass and energy transfer across various interfaces, material balance
Meteorological parameters: Pressure, temperature, precipitation, humidity, mixing ratio, saturation mixing ratio, radiation and wind velocity, adiabatic lapse rate, environmental lapse rate. Wind roses
Interaction between earth, man, and environment
Biogeographic provinces of the world and agro-climatic zones of India
Concept of sustainable development
Natural resources and their assessment
Remote sensing and gis: principles of remote sensing and gis
Digital image processing and ground truthing
Application of remote sensing and gis in land cover/ land use planning and management (urban sprawling, vegetation study, forestry, natural resource), waste management, and climate change
Environmental education and awareness
Environmental ethics
Environmental sciences: Unit 02
Environmental chemistry
Fundamentals of environmental chemistry: Classification of elements, stoichiometry, Gibbs’ energy, chemical potential, chemical kinetics, chemical equilibria, solubility of gases in water, the carbonate system, unsaturated and saturated hydrocarbons
Fundamentals of environmental chemistry: Radioisotopes
Composition of air
Particles, ions, and radicals in the atmosphere
Chemical speciation
Chemical processes in the formation of inorganic and organic particulate matters, thermochemical and photochemical reactions in the atmosphere, oxygen, and ozone chemistry
Photochemical smog
Hydrological cycle
Water as a universal solvent
Concept of DO, BOD, and COD
Sedimentation, coagulation, flocculation, filtration, pH and redox potential (eH)
Inorganic and organic components of soils
Biogeochemical cycles-nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, and sulphur
Toxic chemicals: Pesticides and their classification and effects. Biochemical aspects of heavy metals (Hg, Cd, Pb, Cr) and metalloids (As, Se). CO, O₃, PAN, VOC and POP. Carcinogens in the air
Principles of analytical methods: Titrimetry, gravimetry, bomb calorimetry, chromatography (paper chromatography, TLC, GC, and HPLC), flame photometry, spectrophotometry (UV-vis, AAS, ICP-AES, ICP-MS), electrophoresis, XRF, XRD, NMR, FTIR, GC-MS, SEM, TEM
Environmental sciences: Unit 03
Environmental biology
Ecology as an interdisciplinary science
Origin of life and speciation
Human ecology and settlement
Ecosystem structure and functions: Structures-biotic and abiotic components. Functions-energy flow in ecosystems, energy flow models, food chains, and food webs. Biogeochemical cycles, ecological succession
Ecosystem structure and functions: Species diversity, concept of ecotone, edge effects, ecological habitats and niche. Ecosystem stability and factors affecting stability. Ecosystem services
Basis of ecosystem classification
Types of ecosystem: desert (hot and cold), forest, rangeland, wetlands, lotic, lentic, estuarine (mangrove), oceanic
Biomes: Concept, classification and distribution. Characteristics of different biomes: Tundra, taiga, grassland, deciduous forest biome, highland icy Alpine biome, Chaparral, Savanna, tropical rainforest
Population ecology: Characteristics of population, concept of carrying capacity, population growth and regulations. Population fluctuations, dispersion, and metapopulation. Concept of ‘r’ and ‘k’ species. Keystone species
Community ecology: Definition, community concept, types, and interaction-predation, herbivory, parasitism, and allelopathy. Biological invasions
Biodiversity and its conservation: Definition, types, importance of biodiversity and threats to biodiversity. Concept and basis of identification of ‘hotspots’; hotspots in India. Measures of biodiversity
Biodiversity and its conservation: Strategies for biodiversity conservation-in-situ, ex-situ and in-vitro conservation. National parks, sanctuaries, protected areas and sacred groves in India. Concepts of gene pool, biopiracy and bioprospecting
Biodiversity and its conservation: Strategies for biodiversity conservation-concept of restoration ecology, extinct, rare, endangered and threatened flora and fauna of India. Concept of industrial ecology
Toxicology and microbiology: Absorption, distribution and excretion of toxic agents, acute, and chronic toxicity, concept of bioassay, threshold limit value, margin of safety, therapeutic index, biotransformation
Toxicology and microbiology: Major water borne diseases and air borne microbes
Environmental biotechnology: Bioremediation-definition, types and role of plants and microbes for in-situ and ex-situ remediation. Bioindicators, biofertilizers, biofuels, and biosensors
Environmental sciences: Unit 04
Environmental geosciences
Origin of earth
Primary geochemical differentiation and formation of core, mantle, crust, atmosphere, and hydrosphere
Concept of minerals and rocks
Formation of igneous and metamorphic rocks
Controls on formation of landforms-tectonic including plate tectonic and climatic
Concept of steady state and equilibrium, energy budget of the earth
Earth’s thermal environment and seasons
Coriolis force, pressure gradient force, frictional force, geostrophic wind field, gradient wind
Climates of India, western disturbances, Indian monsoon, droughts, El Nino, La Nina
Concept of residence time and rates of natural cycles
Geophysical fields
Weathering including weathering reactions, erosion, transportation and deposition of sediments
Soil forming minerals and process of soil formation, Identification and characterization of clay minerals, Soil physical and chemical properties, soil types and climate control on soil formation, Cation exchange capacity and mineralogical controls
Geochemical classification of elements, abundance of elements in bulk earth, crust, hydrosphere and biosphere
Partitioning of elements during surficial geologic processes, geochemical recycling of elements
Paleoclimate
Distribution of water in earth, hydrology and hydrogeology, major basins and groundwater provinces of india, darcy’s law and its validity, groundwater fluctuations, hydraulic conductivity, groundwater tracers, land subsidence
Effects of excessive use of groundwater, groundwater quality
Pollution of groundwater resources, Ghyben-Herzberg relation between fresh-saline water
Natural resource exploration and exploitation and related environmental concerns
Historical perspective and conservation of non-renewable resources
Natural hazards: Catastrophic geological hazards-floods, landslides, earthquakes, volcanism, avalanche, tsunami and cloud bursts. Prediction of hazards and mitigation of their impacts
Environmental sciences: Unit 05
Energy and environment
Sun as source of energy; solar radiation and its spectral characteristics
Fossil fuels: classification, composition, physico-chemical characteristics and energy content of coal, petroleum and natural gas. Shale oil, coal bed methane, gas hydrates. Gross-calorific value and net-calorific value
Principles of generation of hydro-power, tidal energy, ocean thermal energy conversion, wind power, geothermal energy, solar energy (solar collectors, photovoltaic modules, solar ponds)
Nuclear energy-fission and fusion, nuclear fuels, nuclear reactor-principles, and types
Bioenergy: methods to produce energy from biomass
Environmental implications of energy use; energy use pattern in India and the world, emissions of CO2 in developed and developing countries including India, radiative forcing and global warming
Impacts of large scale exploitation of solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear energy sources
Environmental sciences: Unit 06
Environmental Pollution and Control
Air pollution: Sources and types of pollutants-natural and anthropogenic sources, primary and secondary pollutants. Criteria air pollutants. Sampling and monitoring of air pollutants (gaseous and particulates); period, frequency and duration of sampling
Air pollution: Principles and instruments for measurements of-(i) ambient air pollutants concentration and, (ii) stack emissions. Indian national ambient air quality standards. Impact of air pollutants on human health, plants and materials. Acid rain
Air pollution: Dispersion of air pollutants. Mixing height/ depth, lapse rates, Gaussian plume model, line source model and area source model. Control devices for particulate matter: Principle and working of- settling chamber, centrifugal collectors
Air pollution: Control devices for particulate matter-wet collectors, fabric filters, and electrostatic precipitator. Control of gaseous pollutants through adsorption, absorption, condensation and combustion including catalytic combustion
Air pollution: Indoor air pollution, vehicular emissions and urban air quality
Noise pollution: Sources, weighting networks, measurement of noise indices (Leq, L₁₀, L₉₀, L₅₀, LDN, TNI). noise dose and noise pollution standards. Noise control and abatement measures: Active and passive methods. Vibrations and their measurements
Noise pollution: Impact of noise and vibrations on human health
Water pollution: Types and sources of water pollution. Impact on humans, plants and animals. Measurement of water quality parameters: sampling and analysis for pH, EC, turbidity, TDS, hardness, chlorides, salinity, DO, BOD, COD, nitrates, phosphates
Water pollution: Measurement of water quality parameters-sulphates, heavy metals and organic contaminants. Microbiological analysis-MPN. Indian standards for drinking water (IS:10500, 2012). Drinking water treatment: Coagulation and flocculation
Water pollution: Drinking water treatment-sedimentation, and filtration, disinfection and softening. Wastewater treatment: Primary, secondary, and advanced treatment methods. Common effluent treatment plant
Soil pollution: Physico-chemical and biological properties of soil (texture, structure, inorganic, and organic components). Analysis of soil quality. Soil pollution control. Industrial effluents and their interactions with soil components
Soil pollution: Soil microorganisms and their functions-degradation of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers
Thermal, marine pollution, and radioactive: Sources of thermal pollution, heat islands, causes and consequences. Sources and impact of marine pollution. Methods of abatement of marine pollution. Coastal management. Radioactive pollution-sources
Thermal, marine pollution and radioactive: Radioactive pollution-biological effects of ionizing radiations, radiation exposure and radiation standards, radiation protection
Environmental sciences: Unit 07
Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
Solid waste: Types and sources. Solid waste characteristics, generation rates, solid waste components, proximate and ultimate analyses of solid wastes
Solid waste collection and transportation: Container systems-hauled and stationary, layout of collection routes, transfer stations, and transportation
Solid waste processing and recovery: Recycling, recovery of materials for recycling and direct manufacture of solid waste products. Electrical energy generation from solid waste (fuel pellets, refuse derived fuels), composting and vermicomposting
Solid waste processing and recovery: Biomethanation of solid waste. Disposal of solid wastes-sanitary land filling and its management, incineration of solid waste
Hazardous waste: Types, characteristics, and health impacts. Hazardous waste management: Treatment methods-neutralization, oxidation reduction, precipitation, solidification, stabilization, incineration, and final disposal
E-waste: classification, methods of handling and disposal
Fly ash: Sources, composition, and utilisation
Plastic waste: Sources, consequences, and management
Environmental sciences: Unit 08
Environmental assessment, management, and legislation
Aims and objectives of environmental impact assessment (EIA)
Environmental impact statement (EIS) and environmental management plan (EMP)
EIA guidelines
Impact assessment methodologies
Procedure for reviewing EIA of developmental projects
Life-cycle analysis, cost benefit analysis
Guidelines for environmental audit
Environmental planning as a part of EIA and environmental audit
Environmental management system standards (ISO 14000 series)
EIA notification, 2006 and amendments from time to time
Eco-labeling schemes
Risk assessment-hazard identification, hazard accounting, scenarios of exposure, risk characterization and risk management
Overview of environmental laws in India: Constitutional provisions in India (article 48A and 51A), wildlife protection act, 1972 amendments 1991, forest conservation act, 1980, Indian forest act, revised 1982, biological diversity act, 2002
Overview of environmental laws in India: Water (prevention and control of pollution) act, 1974 amended 1988 and rules 1975, air (prevention and control of pollution) act, 1981 amended 1987 and rules 1982
Overview of environmental laws in India: Environmental (protection) act, 1986 and rules 1986, motor vehicle act, 1988, the hazardous and other waste (management and transboundary movement) rules, 2016, the plastic waste management rules, 2016
Overview of environmental laws in India: The bio-medical waste management rules, 2016, the solid waste management rules, 2016, the e-waste (management) rules 2016, the construction and demolition waste management rules, 2016
Overview of environmental laws in India: The manufacture, storage and import of hazardous chemical (amendment) rules, 2000, the batteries (management and handling) rules, 2010 with amendments, the public liability insurance act, 1991 and rules 1991
Overview of environmental laws in India: Noise pollution (regulation and control) rules, 2000, coastal regulation zones (CRZ) 1991 amended from time to time. National forest policy, 1988, national water policy, 2002, national environmental policy, 2006
Environmental conventions and agreements: Stockholm conference on human environment 1972, montreal protocol, 1987, conference of parties (COPs), Basel Convention (1989, 1992), Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (1971), earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro, 1992
Environmental conventions and agreements: Agenda-21, global environmental facility (GEF), convention on biodiversity (1992), UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, 1997, clean development mechanism (CDM), earth summit at Johannesburg, 2002, RIO+20
Environmental conventions and agreements: UN Summit on millennium development goals, 2000, Copenhagen Summit, 2009. IPCC, UNEP, IGBP
Environmental sciences: Unit 09
Statistical Approaches and Modelling in Environmental Sciences
Attributes and variables: Types of variables, scales of measurement, measurement of central tendency and dispersion, standard error, moments-measure of Skewness and Kurtosis, basic concept of probability theory, sampling theory
Attributes and variables: Distributions-normal, log-normal, binomial, Poisson, t, X² and F-distribution. Correlation, regression, tests of hypothesis (t-test, X²-test ANOVA: one-way and two-way); significance and confidence limits
Approaches to development of environmental models; linear, simple and multiple regression models, validation and forecasting
Models of population growth and interactions: Lotka-Volterra model, Leslie’s matrix model
Environmental sciences: Unit 10
Contemporary Environmental Issues
Global environmental issues: Biodiversity loss, climate change, ozone layer depletion. Sea level rise. International efforts for environmental protection
National action plan on climate change (eight national missions: National Solar Mission, National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency, National Mission on Sustainable Habitat, National Water Mission
National action plan on climate change (eight national missions: National Mission for Sustaining the Himalayan Ecosystem, National Mission for a ‘Green India’, National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture)
National action plan on climate change (eight national missions: National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change)
Current environmental issues in India: Environmental issues related to water resource projects-Narmada dam, Tehri dam, Almatti dam, Kaveri and Mahanadi, hydro-power projects in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal and north-eastern states
Water conservation: Development of watersheds, rain water harvesting and ground water recharge
National river conservation plan: Namami Gange and Yamuna action plan
Eutrophication and restoration of lakes
Conservation of wetlands, Ramsar sites in India
Soil erosion, reclamation of degraded land, desertification and its control
Climate change: Adaptability, energy security, food security, and sustainability
Forest conservation: Chipko movement, Appiko movement, Silent Valley movement and Gandhamardan movement. People biodiversity register
Wildlife conservation projects: Project tiger, project elephant, crocodile conservation, GOI-UNDP sea turtle project, Indo-rhino vision
Carbon sequestration and carbon credits
Waste management: Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
Sustainable habitat: Green building, GRIHA rating norms
Vehicular emission norms in India
Epidemiological issues: Fluorosis, arsenicosis, goitre, dengue
Environmental disasters: Minamata disaster, Love Canal disaster, Bhopal gas disaster, 1984, Chernobyl disaster, 1986, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, 2011

International and area studies+

International and area studies: Unit 01
International and area studies: Concepts, theories, and approaches
Major concepts, scope and nature of international relations and area studies, theories: Realist, liberal, Marxist, and critical theories of IR and area studies, approaches: Western and non-Western, power politics: Balance of power, geopolitics, bipolarity
Power politics: Unipolarity, multipolarity, and polycentrism, state and non-state actors in IR and area studies
International and area studies: Unit 02
Evolution of international relations and area studies
Emergence of nation states and nationalism, pre-World War-I international system, inter war period, post-World War-II period (Cold War), decolonisation, global south, and international politics, post-Cold War international relations
Impact of globalisation
International and area studies: Unit 03
Contemporary world order
Changing patterns of world order: Unipolarity, bipolarity, multipolarity, and polycentrism, role of major powers: US, Russia, China, Japan, India, and EU, globality, globalism, and globalisation, democratisation and the world order
Science, technology, and global order
International and area studies: Unit 04
Conflict, security, and peace: National and international
Concepts, components, and models of national and international security, evolution of strategic thoughts: Kautilya, Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Antonio Jomini, Carl von Clausewitz, H. Mackinder, A.T. Mahan, G. Douhet, William Mitchell, Alexander de Seversky
Evolution of strategic thoughts: H. Kissinger, evolution of strategic doctrines: Massive retaliation, deterrence, flexible response, mutually assured destruction (MAD), strategic defence initiative (SDI), NMD
Evolution of India’s security policies and nuclear and maritime doctrines, new modes of warfare: Conventional, low intensity conflicts, information and communication warfare, nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, revolution in military affairs
Non-traditional security threats: Food and health security, energy security, environmental security, gender security, human security, cyber security and terrorism, conflict resolution and peace, arms control, and disarmament
International and area studies: Unit 05
International organisations and global governance
Role of international organisations in international peace and security, development cooperation, and democratisation, United Nations: Role, relevance, and reforms, global governance: Issues and challenges of global commons
Regional and sub-regional organisations, impact of globalisation
International law as an instrument of global governance
International and area studies: Unit 06
India’s foreign policy
Evolution of objectives and principles of India’s foreign policy, India’s relations with neighbourhood and extended neighbourhood, India and major powers: US, Russia, China, Japan, and EU, India’s Look East and Act East Policy
India’s engagement with international and regional organisations, role of India’s soft power in its foreign policy
International and area studies: Unit 07
South Asia and Indo-Pacific region
Geopolitical and geostrategic setting, colonialism, nationalism, and independence movements, nation building, state building, and challenges to democratization, post-independence developments: Political regimes
Internal and external threats to state security and human security, regional territorial and maritime issues, role of extra-regional powers
Regional trade, development cooperation and strategic partnership: IORA, SAARC, ASEAN, ARF, APEC, BIMSTEC, Mekong-Ganga cooperation etc, impact of liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation (LPG)
International and area studies: Unit 08
Central Asia, West Asia and Africa
Geopolitical and geostrategic setting, colonialism, nationalism and independence movements, nation building, state building and challenges to democratization, post-independence developments: Political regimes
Internal and external threats to state security and human security, regional conflicts and issues and role of extra-regional powers, regional trade, development cooperation and strategic partnership, impact of globalisation
International and area studies: Unit 09
Europe and Erstwhile Soviet Union/ Russia
Geopolitical and geostrategic setting, nationalism, industrial revolution and state building, europe between two World Wars, alliances and accords in Europe: NATO, WARSAW Pact, Helsinki Accord, EU, etc
Internal and external threats to state security and human security, migration refugees and ethnic problems, trade, development cooperation and strategic partnerships, role of US in Europe, impact of globalisation
International and area studies: Unit 10
The Americas
Geopolitical and geostrategic setting
Colonialism, nationalism, and independence movements
Nation building, state building, and challenges to democratization
Internal and external threats to state security and human security
Regional conflicts and issues: Role of US and extra-regional powers
Regional trade, development cooperation, and strategic partnership
Globalisation and its impact

Human rights and duties+

Human rights and duties: Unit 01
Human rights and duties: Concept and nature
The basic concepts: Individual, group, state, non-state actors, civil society, liberty, freedom, equality, rights, justice; human values: Humanity, compassion, virtues, human dignity, and human duties, human rights as universal, inherent
Human rights as inalienable rights and moral rights; universal human rights vs. cultural relativism, naturalist-positivists debate, Indian concepts: Raj Neeti, LokNiti, Danda Neethi, Nyaya, Dharma, different generations of human rights
Liberal perspective: Locke, Rousseau, Thomas Paine, J.S. Mill, classical liberalism, neoliberalism, Marxian perspective: Marx, Gramsci, Rosa Luxemburg, Gandhian perspective (Ruskin, Thoreau, Tolstoy): State, power, Swaraj, rights, and duties
Dalit perspective: Phule, Narayana Guru, Ambedkar, religious perspectives, feminist perspective
Human rights and duties: Unit 02
Origin and evolution of human rights and international standards
Human rights in ancient thoughts, human rights in middle ages, magna carta, modern movement of human rights, Lockean philosophy: Theory of natural rights, American declaration of independence, American bill of rights
Lockean philosophy: The French Revolution and its goals of liberty, equality, and fraternity, Marxist revolutions, anti-colonial movements, freedom movement in India, international standard setting-Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
Impact of the UDHR on the constitutions of the 'New' states, international standards: UN sponsored or 'Core' International Conventions on Human Rights: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Convention against Torture, Rights of Child Convention
Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers, Convention against Racial Discrimination (CRD), Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), State Responsibility for Protection of Human Rights: The concept of the “responsibility to protect”
Vienna Declaration on Human Rights 1993, Helsinki Declaration, ASEAN Declaration
Human rights and duties: Unit 03
Society, economy, polity, religion and culture-their inter relationship
Impact of social structure on human behaviour; role of socializations in human values, human rights and duties, science and technology, modernization, globalization, and dehumanization, social stratification: Racial and caste prejudice and discrimination
Social stratification: Human rights issues of weaker sections and ethnic minorities, women: Gender discrimination, domestic violence and offences against women; gender sensitive laws, children: Child abuse, child labour, street children
Social structure and social problems: Social and communal conflicts and social harmony, rural poverty, unemployment, bonded labour, modern forms of slavery, urban poverty, slums, lack of basic civil amenities, sex workers, rights of refugees
Rights of indigenous people, aged persons, migrant workers and human rights violations, Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities (PWDS) under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities act, 2016 rights of displaced persons
Challenges in human rights: Religious fundamentalism, terrorism, underdevelopment, human trafficking international crimes
Human rights and duties: Unit 04
State and individual liberty
The changing nature of state with special reference to the developing countries, soft state, interventionist state, welfare state, repressive state, political regimes and human rights, impact of science and technology on human rights and duties
Human rights and international politics: Emergence of a new global order-Tehran Conference (1968), Vienna conference (1993), International Humanitarian Law: 1949 Geneva Conventions and additional protocols of 1977, International Red Cross Society
International criminal tribunals (Rwanda and former Yugoslavia) and the International Criminal Court (ICC), international intervention: The question of nation-state, citizenship and sovereignty, right of self-determination: Autonomous movements
Right of self-determination: Secessionist movements, Grassroots movements and human rights
Human rights and duties: Unit 05
UN and various agencies, intergovernmental (IGOs) and non-governmental organizations (INGOs)
UN: Establishment, objectives, and the Charter provisions, UN principal organs: General assembly, economic and social council, security council, subsidiary organ: Human rights council, the human rights council advisory committee
Specialized agencies: UNICEF, UNESCO, ILO, WHO, INGOs such as the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Amnesty International (AI), Human Rights Watch, Greenpeace, People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)
People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) and other Civil and Democratic Rights Organizations in India
UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), UN Commission on the status of Women, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Human rights and duties: Unit 06
Growth models and human rights
Models of development: Growth approach, basic needs approach, sustainable human development, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1992, Rio +20, Conservation of Natural Resources, Agenda 21, Biodiversity Convention 1992
Globalization and human rights: Dynamics of globalization, emergence of market forces, assertion of civil society, retreat of state, privatization, liberalization, emergence of information age
Economic growth strategies (developing countries): Implications for poverty eradication, employment issues, planned development and social inequality, World Trade Organization: Implication for human rights
World Trade Organization: Impact on developing countries with special reference to India, intellectual property rights: Patents law, Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), Trade Related Investment Measures (TRIMS)
Intellectual property rights: General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS), Agreement on Agriculture (AOA), Transnational Corporations (TNCs) and human rights situation in developing countries, right to development: The third world concerns
Right to development: Working group recommendations, UNDP-initiatives, UN declaration on the right to development, state and development of the marginalized/ disadvantaged groups in India: The poor, the unemployed and the socially dislocated people
Workers' rights, minimum wages act-problems of implementation, right to security of food, health, education
Human rights and duties: Unit 07
Development, underdevelopment, and social action
Need for collective action in developing societies and methods of social action, land, water, and forest issues with special reference to India, social movements: Political, social, and religious reform, national commission for women, children, minorities
National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, backward class, dalit, and women movements, agrarian and peasant movements, right to a healthy environment, principle of sustainable development, ecological and environment movements
Civil societies and NGOs, NGOs of India
Human rights and duties: Unit 08
Human rights and Indian constitution
Indian civilization: Change and continuity
Indian constitution: Freedom movement, Indian constitution: Sociological foundation, constitutional vision of role of the state, constitutional vision of freedom: Fundamental rights and the international standards
Constitutional vision of justice: Directive principles of state policy and international standards, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Indian judiciary and human rights, judicial interpretations: Landmark judgments fundamental duties
Constitutional amendments, fundamental duties
Human rights and duties: Unit 09
Constitutional governance
Rule of law, good governance, constitutional organs: Inter-and intra-relationships/ conflict and cooperation
Fundamental rights and repressive laws: Preventive detention and anti-terrorist legislations, armed forces special power act, imposition of national emergency: The societal experience
The criminal justice system: Crime, punishment and human rights with special reference to IPC and Cr. PC and Indian evidence act
Economic, social, and cultural rights: The directive principles of state policy-the question of effectiveness and enforcement, their relationship with fundamental rights, legislation for the weaker sections: the questions of enforcement
Law enforcing agencies: Policy, military and para-military forces-emerging experience, human rights enforcement: The Protection of Human Rights act, 1993, NHRC, State Human Rights Commissions, Human Rights Courts
Human rights education: Problems and prospects
Human rights and duties: Unit 10
International enforcement of human rights
Treaty bodies under the 'Core' human rights conventions: General overview, “Universal periodic review” and “special procedures”, Human Rights Committee (HRC), Committee on Economic and Social Rights (CESCR)
Committee on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
African Court of Justice and Human Rights 2008

Tourism administration and management

Yoga+

Yoga: Unit 01
Fundamentals of yoga: History and various schools of yoga
History and development of yoga; meaning and definitions, misconceptions, aim, and objectives of yoga
Introduction to Vedas, Upanishads, and Prasthantrayi; concept of Purushartha Chatushtaya, basic concepts of Shad-Darshanas-epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and liberation with special emphasis to Samkhya, yoga and Vedanta Darshana
Introduction to epics and Smriti-yoga in Ramayana (Aranya Kand), Mahabharata (Shanti Parva) and Yajnavalkya Smriti, brief introduction and yogic contribution of Maharshi Patanjali and Guru Gorakhnath traditions
Yoga in Narada Bhakti Sutra and yoga in the literature of Saints-Kabir Das, Tulsidas, and Surdas
Yoga in modern times: Yogic traditions of Swami Vivekananda, Shri Aurobindo; Maharshi Ramana and Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati, yoga in contemporary times: Brief introduction of Sri Shyama Charan Lahiri ,Sri T. Krishnamacharya
Yoga in contemporary times: Swami Sivananda Saraswati, Swami Rama of Himalayas, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Pt. Sri Ram Sharma Acharya and their contribution for the development and promotion of Yoga
Introduction to Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, Rajayoga, Hatha Yoga, and Mantra Yoga, elements of yoga in Jainism and Buddhism
Yoga: Unit 02
Yogic texts-I: Principal Upanishads, BhagavadGita, Yoga Vasishtha
Principal Upanishads: Brief introduction of ten principal Upanishads
Ishavasya Upanishad: Concept of Karmanishta; concept of Vidya and Avidya; knowledge of Brahman; Atma Bhava
Kena Upanishad: Self and the mind; intuitive realization of the truth; moral of Yaksha Upakhyana
Katha Upanishad: Definition of yoga; nature of soul; importance of self realization
Prashna Upanishad: Concept of Prana and Rayi (creation); Pancha Pranas; the six main questions
Mundaka Upanishad: Two approaches to Brahma-Vidya-Para and Apara; the greatness of Brahmavidya; worthlessness of selfish-karma; Tapas and Guru Bhakti; the origin of creation, the ultimate aim of meditation-Brahma Anubhuti
Mandukya Upanishad: Four states of consciousness and their relation to syllables in Omkara
Aitareya Upanishad: Concept of Atma, universe and Brahman
Taittiriya Upanishad: Concept of Pancha Kosha; summary of Shiksha Valli, AnandaValli, Bhrigu Valli
Chandogya Upanishad: Om (Udgitha) meditation; Sandilya Vidya
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: Concept of atman and Jnana Yoga; union of atman and Paramatman
Bhagavad Gita: General introduction to Bhagavad Gita, definitions of yoga, their relevance and scope; essentials of Bhagavad Gita-meanings of the terms Atma Swarupa, Sthitaprajna, Sankhya Yoga (chapter-II), Karma Yoga (chapter-III )
Bhagavad Gita: Samnyasa yoga and Karma Swarupa (Sakama and Nishkama) Samnyasa, Dhyana yogas (chapter-VI); types of Bhakta (chapter-VII) Nature of Bhakti (chapter-XII), means and end of Bhakti-yoga; the Trigunas and nature of Prakriti
Bhagavad Gita: Three kinds of faith. Food for yoga-Sadhaka, classification of food (chapter-XIV and XVII) Daivasura-Sampad-Vibhaga yoga (chapter-XVI); Moksha-Sanyasa yoga (chapter-XVIII)
Yoga Vasishtha: Salient features of yoga Vashishtha, concept of Adhis and Vyadhis; psychosomatic ailments; the four Dwarpalo to freedom; how Sukha is attained in the highest state of bliss; practices to overcome the impediments of yoga
Yoga Vasishtha: Development of Sattva Guna; eight limbs of meditation; Jnana Sapta Bhumika
Yoga: Unit 03
Yogic texts-II: Yoga Upanishads
Shweta Swatara Upanishad: (Chapter-II) Techniques and importance of Dhyanyoga, suitable place for Dhyana, sequence of Pranayama and its importance, prior symptoms of Yoga Siddhis, importance of Yoga Siddhis, Tattvajna, (Chapter-VI) nature of God
Shweta Swatara Upanishad: Techniques for realization, attainment of liberation
Yoga Kundalini Upanishad: Methods of Pranayama Siddhi, types of Pranayama, means of self-realization
Yogachudamadi Upanishad: The description of the six limbs of yoga, their results and sequence
Trishikha Brahmanopanishad: Description of Ashtanga Yoga, Karma Yoga and Jnana Yoga
Yogatattva Upanishad: Mantra Yoga, Layayoga, Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga and their stages, diet and Dincharya, primary symptoms of yoga Siddhis and precautions
Dhyanbindo Upanishad: Importance of Dhyana Yoga, nature of Pranav, techniques of Pranav meditation, Shadangyoga, Atmadarshan through Nadanusandhan
Nadabindo Upanishad: Hansavidya-description of various limbs of Omkar, 12 Matras of Omkar and its results of their application with Pranas, types of Nadas, nature of Nadanusandhan Sadhana, state of Manolaya
Yogaraj Upanishad: Mantra Yoga, Layayoga, Hatha Yoga, Rajayoga, nine chakras, procedures of Dhyana and its results
Yoga: Unit 04
Patanjala yoga sutra
Samadhi pada: Yoga, meaning and nature of yoga; concept of Chitta, Chitta-Bhumis, Chitta-Vrittis, Chitta-Vritti Nirodha Upaya, Abhyasa and Vairagya as the tools, concept of Bhava Pratyaya and Upay Pratyaya, Sadhan Panchak, Chitta-Vikshepas (Antaraya)
Samadhi pada: Ektattva Abhyasa,Chitta-prasadanam. Types and nature of Samadhi: Adhyatma Prasada and Ritambhara Prajna; Samprajnata, Asamprajnata, Sabeeka and Nirbija Samadhi, difference between Samapattis and Samadhi
Samadhi pada: Concept of Ishwara and attributes of Ishwara, process of Ishvarapranidhana
Sadhana pada: Concept of Kriya yoga, theory of Kleshas; concept of Karmashaya and Karmvipaka, nature of Dukha, concept of Chatur Vyuha Vada, Drishya Nirupanam, Drastha Nirupanam, Prakriti-Purusha Samyoga; brief introduction to Ashtanga yoga
Sadhana pada: Yama Niyama; concept of Vitarka and Mahavrata; Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, and their Siddhis
Vibhuti pada: Introduction of Dharana, Dhyana, and Samadhi, nature of Sanyama; concept of Chitta samskara, Parinamatraya and Vibhutis
Kaivalya pada: Five means of Siddhis, concept of Nirman Chitta, importance of siddhis achieved through Samadhi, four types of Karmas; concept of Vasana; Dharma Megha Samadhi and its result, Viveka Khyati Nirupanam, Kaivalya Nirvachana
Yoga: Unit 05
Hatha yoga texts
Introduction to Hatha yoga and Hatha yoga texts: Yoga Beeja, Goraksha Samhita, Vasistha Samhita, Shiva Samhita, Siddha Siddhanta Paddhati, Hatha Pradipika, Gheranda Samhita and Hatha Ratnavali. Aim and objectives, misconceptions about Hatha Yoga
Introduction to Hatha yoga and Hatha yoga texts: Prerequisites of Hatha Yoga (dasha yama and dasha niyama), Sadhaka and Badhaka tattvas in Hatha Yoga; concept of Ghata, Ghata Shuddhi, concept and importance of Shodhana kriyas in Hatha Yoga
Introduction to Hatha yoga and Hatha yoga texts: Importance of Shodhana kriyas in health and disease; concept of Matha, Mitahara, rules and regulations to be followed by Hatha Yoga Sadhakas
Asanas in Hatha texts: Definition, pre requisites and special features of yoga-Asana; Asanas in Hatha Pradipika, Hatharatnavali, Shiv Samhita, Vasistha Samhita, Gheranda Samhita Benefits, precautions and contraindications of different Asanas
Pranayama in Hatha texts: Concept of Prana and Pranayama; Pranayama-its phases and stages; prerequisites of Pranayama in Hatha Yoga Sadhana; Pranayama in Hatha Pradipika, Gheranda Samhita; Shiv Samhita, Vasistha Samhita-benefits
Pranayama in Hatha texts: Vasistha Samhita-precautions and contraindications of different Pranayama
Bandha, Mudra and other practices: Concept and definition of Bandha and Mudras in Hatha Pradipika, Hatharatnavali and Gheranda Samhita; Shiv Samhita, Vasistha Samhita Benefits, precautions and contraindications
Bandha, Mudra and other practices: Concept, definition, benefits, and techniques of Pratyahara, Dhyana in Gheranda Samhita; Concept and benefits of Nada and Nadanusandhana in Hatha Pradipika, four (stages) Avasthas of Nadanusandhana
Bandha, Mudra and other practices: Relationship between Hatha yoga and raja yoga; goal of Hatha yoga. Relevance of Hatha Yoga in contemporary times
Yoga: Unit 06
General psychology
Introduction to altered states of consciousness sleep: Stages of sleep, sleep disorders
Behavioural psychology: Psychology as a science of behaviour; psychological basis of behaviour
Personality: Nature and types of personality; determinants of personality: Heredity and environment; facets and stages of personality development
Cognitive psychology: Sensation, perception, attention, memory, learning: Their definitions and types
Mental health: Causes and consequences of mental conflicts and frustrations; introduction to common mental disorders: insomnia, depression, stress, anxiety disorders
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (a) Introduction to cell, tissue, organs and systems; basic cell physiology-cell introduction, cell organelles, cell membrane, movement of the substances and water through the cell membrane
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (a) Bioelectric potentials, (b) Musculoskeletal systems-(i) skeleton: Names of all bones, joints and muscles, cartilage, tendon and ligaments, types of bone, joints and their functions
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (b) Musculoskeletal systems-(i) skeleton: Spine, muscles and their functions, (ii) skeletal muscles: Properties of skeletal muscles, muscular contraction and relaxation, neuromuscular junction
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (b) Musculoskeletal systems-(ii) skeletal muscles: Sarcotubular system, smooth muscle-mechanism of contraction (c) Digestive and excretory system-anatomy of digestive system
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (d) Digestive and excretory system-excretory system (component organs) and their functions; gastrointestinal system-general structure of alimentary canal, gastric secretion, pancreatic secretion
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (d) Digestive and excretory system-gastric motility-digestive peristalsis gastrointestinal hormones. (e) Renal physiology: Structure of kidney, nephrons, Juxta glomerular filtrate, reabsorption
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (e) Renal physiology-secretion-mechanism of secretion, concentrating and diluting mechanism of urine, dialysis. (f) Nervous system and glands-structure and properties of neurons
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (f) Nervous system and glands-subdivisions of nervous system and their functions, types of glands (endocrine and exocrine glands), important endocrine and exocrine glands and types of hormones their functions
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (g) Sensory nervous system, motor nervous system, higher functions of the nervous system, synapse, reflexes cerebrospinal fluid, blood brain and blood CSF barrier
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (h) Cardiovascular and respiratory system-(i) components of cardiovascular and respiratory system; functions of cardiovascular and respiratory system; (ii) circulatory system: Functional anatomy of the heart
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (h) Cardiovascular and respiratory system-(ii) circulatory system: Properties of cardiac muscles, conducting system of the heart, pressure changes during cardiac cycles, capillary circulation
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (h) Cardiovascular and respiratory system-(ii) circulatory system: Arterial and venous blood pressure, (iii) respiratory system: Mechanism of breathing, ventilation, regulation of respiration
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (h) Cardiovascular and respiratory system-(iii) respiratory system: Transport of gases, hypoxia, artificial ventilation, non respiratory functions of the lungs
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (i) Immune system-component organs of immune system, functions of immune system; endocrinology-endocrine glands, hormones, their functions
Introduction to human anatomy and physiology: (j) Reproductive system: Anatomy of male and female reproductive systems
Diet and nutrition: (a) Basic concepts and components of food and nutrition understanding nutrition, basic terminology in relation to nutrition requirement, human nutritional requirements; concept of food, acceptance of food, functions of food
Diet and nutrition: (a) Components of food and their classification; macronutrients-sources, functions and effects on the body; micro nutrients-sources, functions and effects on the body; fat soluble nutrients-sources, functions and effects on the body
Diet and nutrition: (a) Water soluble nutrients-sources, functions and effects on the body; significance of carbohydrate, proteins, lipids, vitamins, minerals and water, excessive and deficiency diseases of nutrients in the body
Diet and nutrition: (a) Antioxidants and their role, (b) yogic concept of diet and its relevance in the management of lifestyle, (c) nutrients, proximate principles of diet, balanced diet concept; carbohydrates, proteins
Diet and nutrition: (c) Fats-sources, nutritive values, importance; minerals: Calcium, iron, phosphorus, vitamins-sources, roles, requirements, (d) food groups: Cereals and millets-selection, preparation and nutritive value; pulses
Diet and nutrition: (d) Food groups-nuts and oil seeds-selection, preparation and nutritive value; milk and milk products-selection, preparation and nutritive value; vegetables and fruits-selection, preparation and nutritive value
Diet and nutrition: (d) Food groups-fats, oils and sugar, jaggery, honey, sprouts-selection, preparation and nutritive value, (e) food and metabolism. Energy-basic concepts, definition and components of energy requirement
Diet and nutrition: (e) Energy imbalance concept of metabolism, anabolism, catabolism, calorie requirement-BMR, SDA, physical activity; metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and protein; factors affecting energy; requirement and expenditure
Diet and nutrition: (e) Factors affecting BMR
Yoga: Unit 07
Yoga and health
Definition and importance of health according to WHO; dimensions of health: Physical, mental, social and spiritual
Concepts of Trigunas, Pancha-Mahabhutas, Pancha-Prana and their role in health and healing, concept of Pancha-Koshas and Shat-Chakra and their role in health and healing
Role of yoga in preventive health care: Yoga as a way of life, Heyam Dukham Anagatam; potential causes of ill-health: Tapatrayas and Kleshas, physical and physiological manifestation of disease: Vyadhi, Alasya, Angamejayatva and Ssvasa-prashvasa
Mental and emotional ill health: Styana, Samshaya, Pramada, Avirati, Bhranti-darshana, Alabda-bhumika tva, Anavasthitatva, Duhkha, and Dharmasya
Yogic diet: General introduction of Ahara; concept of Mitahara; classification in yogic diet according to traditional yoga texts; diet according to the body constitution (Prakriti)-Vata, Pitta, and Kapha as also Gunas
Concepts of diet: Pathya and Apathya according to Gheranda Samhita, Hathapradipika And Bhagavad Gita; importance of yogic diet in yog sadhana and its role in healthy living
Concepts of diet: Diet according to the body constitution (Prakriti)-Vata, Pitta, and Kapha as also gunas
Yogic principles of healthy living: Ahara, Vihara, Achara and Vichara; role of yogic positive attitudes (Maitri, Karuna, Mudita, and Upeksha) for healthy living, concept of bhavas and bhavanas with its relevance in health and well-being
Yoga: Unit 08
Therapeutic yoga
Yogic practice: Management of the diseases through suitable yogic practices-yogic diet, Yama and Niyama, Shatkarma, Asanas, Pranayama; meditation; changes in lifestyle according to yogic scriptures
Integrated approach of yoga therapy for the following common ailments: (a) Respiratory disorders-allergic rhinitis and sinusitis: Chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, (b) cardiovascular disorders: Hypertension, angina pectoris, cardiac asthma
Integrated approach of yoga therapy for the following common ailments: (c) Endocrine and metabolic disorder-diabetes mellitus, hypo and hyperthyroidism; obesity: Metabolic syndrome
Integrated approach of yoga therapy for the following common ailments: (d) Obstetrics and gynecological disorders, menstrual disorders: Dysmenorrhea, menopause and peri-menopausal syndrome: Yoga for pregnancy and childbirth, antenatal care
Integrated approach of yoga therapy for the following common ailments: (d) Obstetrics and gynecological disorders, menstrual disorders: Postnatal care (e) Gastrointestinal disorders: Gastritis, indigestion, peptic ulcers, constipation, diarrhoea
Integrated approach of yoga therapy for the following common ailments: (e) Gastrointestinal disorders-irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, piles, (f) musculoskeletal disorders: Back pain, intervertebral disc prolapse (IVDP) lumbar spondylosis
Integrated approach of yoga therapy for the following common ailments: (f) Musculoskeletal disorders-cervical spondylosis, arthritis, (g) neurological disorders: Migraine, tension-headache, epilepsy, (h) psychiatric disorders: Neurosis
Integrated approach of yoga therapy for the following common ailments: (h) Psychiatric disorders- anxiety disorders, phobias, depression
Yoga: Unit 09
Applications of yoga
Applied philosophy: Yoga as applied philosophy; meaning, definition and nature of consciousness as described in Vedas,, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, yoga sutra and yoga vashishtha; spiritual and scientific approach to human consciousness
Applied philosophy: Yogic method of elevation of human consciousness: Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Karma Yoga, Mantra Yoga, Ashtanga Yoga, Hatha Yoga
Yoga in education: Salient features of yoga education, factors of yoga education; teacher, student and teaching, value based education-meaning and definition, types of values
Teaching methodology in yoga: (a) Teaching and learning-concepts and relationship between the two; principles of teaching: Meaning and scope of teaching methods and factors influencing them; teaching techniques-individual, group and mass
Teaching methodology in yoga: (b) Essentials of good lesson plan-concepts, needs, planning of teaching yoga (Shodhana Kriya, Asana, Mudra, Pranayama, and meditation), (c) models of lesson plan; need for a lesson plan and content plan
Teaching methodology in yoga: (c) Eight step method of introduction as developed in Kaivalyadhama. (d) Evaluation methods of an ideal yoga class; methods of customizing yoga class to meet individual needs
Teaching methodology in yoga: (d) The student will have demonstrations and training in the above mentioned aspects of teaching methods. (e) Yoga classroom: Essential features, area, sitting arrangement in yoga class
Teaching methodology in yoga: (e) Student’s approach to the teacher-Pranipatena; Pari Prashna; Seva; (BG 4.34)
Yoga: Unit 10
Practical yoga
Yogic practices-Shatkarma, Asana, Pranayama, Mudra, Bandha, Dhyana, Surya Namaskara (techniques, salient features, benefits)
Shatkarmas: Vaman Dhauti, Vastra Dhauti, Danda Dhauti, Laghoo and Poorna Shankhaprakshalana, Neti (Sutra and Jala), Kapalbhati (Vyutkrama, Vyutkrama Sheet Karma), Agnisara, Nauli, Tratak, Suryanamaskar: Suryanamaskar must be practiced traditionally
Asanas (yogic postures): (a) Standing postures-Ardhakatichakrasana, Padahastasana, Ardha Chakrasana, Trikonasana, Parivrtta Trikonasana, Parsvakonasana, Veerasana, (b) sitting postures-Paschimottanasana, Supta Vajrasana, Ardha Matsyendrasana, Vakrasana
Asanas (yogic postures): (b) Sitting postures-Baddha Konasana, Merudandasana, Akarna Dhanurasana, Gomukhasana, (c) prone postures-Bhujangasana, Shalabhasana, Dhanurasana, Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, Makarasana, (d) supine postures-Halasana, Chakrasana
Asanas (yogic postures): (d) Supine postures-Sarvangasana, Matsyasana, Shavasana, Setubandhasana, (e) balancing postures-Vrikshasana, Garudasana, Namaskarasana, Tittibhasana, Natarajasana
Pranayama: Breath awareness, sectional breathing, Nadi Shuddhi, Surya Bhedan, Ujjai, Sitali, Sitkari, Bhastrika, Bhramari, Bahyavritti, Abhyantar Vritti, Stambha Vritti Pranayama
Practices leading to meditation: Pranav and Soham Japa, yoga Nidra, Antarvasna, Ajapa Japa, practices leading to Breath meditation, practices leading to Om meditation, practices leading to Vipassana meditation, practices leading to Preksha meditation
Bandhas and mudras: Mula bandha, Jalandhara bandha, Uddiyana bandha, Maha bandha, Yoga mudra, Maha mudra, Shanmukhi mudra, Tadagi mudra, Vipareeta Karani mudra
Contemporary yogic practices: Yogic Sukshma Vyayama (Swami Dhirendra Brahmachari), cyclic meditation (S-VYSA), mind sound resonance technique (Svyasa); transcendental meditation (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi); Yoga Nidra (BSY); Savita ki Dhyan Dharana (DSV)

Hindu studies+

Hindu studies: Unit 01
Tattva Vimarsa
Understanding the term "Hindu" (its historicity, and its geographic and its geographic and Jivana-Drishti aspects)
Enumeration of Astadasa Vidyas and Upangas with their respective acaryas
Padartha/ Tattva/ Atma across traditions and underlying unifying themes
Position of feminine in Bharata: Parallel sovereignty principles-(a) self-definitions: Vak-Sukta, Devya-Atharva-Sirsa Sukta and Bhagavad Gita (10.20-40), (b) Ardhanariswara concept, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1.4.3)
Shakti and Prakriti principles
Position of feminine in Jaina-Darsana, Bauddha-Darsana, and Sri Guru Granth Sahibji
The principle of oneness in vedanta and interconnectedness in Jaina, Bauddha, Nyaya and Vaisesika Darsana, and Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji, and the consequential idea of aIl-inclusiveness
Understanding distinctions between varna, jati, and caste (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1.4.10-15)
Bhagavad Gita (18.41-45)
Enumeration of Rsis and Saints from different social backgrounds
Hindu studies: Unit 02
Dharma and Karma Vimarsa
Dharma: Definitions and meanings (Mahabharata, Manusmriti, Vaisesika Sutra, Bhagavad Gita-Sankara Bhasya-Upodghata, definitions in Sramana traditions)
Distinctions between dharma and religion (Pantha, Mazahab)
Types of dharmas: Pravrttimulaka, and Nivrttimulaka
Dharma as the organizing principle for Vaidika and Sramana traditions and in Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji
Varnasrama dharma and choice
Raja-dharma, Apad Dharma, Samaja-dharma, and Swadharma
Karma, Vikarma, and Akarma (Bhagavad Gita 4.16, and corresponding Sankara Bhasya)
Six karmas: Kamyo, Nitya, Nishiddha, Naimittika, Prayaschitta, and Upasana
Niskama (Brahma/ Sarvam as the real doer) and Sakama Karma
Karma-Phalo, Prarabdha, and Sanskara
Hindu studies: Unit 03
Punarjanma-Bandhan-Moksa Vimarsa
Concept of Jiva
Definitions of Bandhana (Praktika, Virtika, Daksanika from Samkhya Karika 44 with Samkhya-Tattva-Kaumudi)
The root-cause and process of Bandhana: Bhagavad Gita 3.37-3.41, Bhagavad Gita 2.62-66, Pratityasamutpada Siddhanta
The principle of Punarjanma: An enabler of dharma
Conceptions of Moksha and Nirvana
Multiple pathways for moksa (yoga): Abhyasa, Karma, Bhakti, Jnana
Hindu studies: Unit 04
Pramana Siddhanta
Definition of pramana
Indian model of analysis of text: Pramata, Pramana, Prameya, and Prama
Nature, definition, method, and limits of different types of Pramanas: Pratyaksa, Anumana, Upamana, Sabda, Anupalabdhi, Arthapatti
Sabda-Sakti: Abhidha, Laksana, Vyanjana, and Tatparya
Svatah-Pramanya, and Paratah-Pramanya
Applications of Pramana in contemporary texts
Hindu studies: Unit 05
Vada Parampara
Vada-Parampara: The method of Shastrarth and the concept of Adhikarana
From doubt to determination: Sansaya to Nirnaya
Katha nature and types of Katha: Vada, Jalpa, Vitanda
Embarking on knowledge discovery: Anubandha-Chatushtaya (Adhikari, Visaya, Sambandha, Prayojana)
Organization of knowledge: Sutra, Bhasya, Vartika, Vrtti, Tika, Tippani, and Sangraha
Analysing "Tatparya" of knowledge through Sravana Vidhi: Upakrama, Upasamhara, Abhyasa, Apurvata, Phala, Arthawada, Upapatti
Analysing "Tatparya" of knowledge through six-fold process (Sadvidha Tatparya Nirnayaka Linga) Sruti, Linga, Vakya, Prakarana, Sthana, Samakhya
Tantrayukti: "Research methodology'' in context of natural sciences
Hindu studies: Unit 06
Applicability of western methods for understanding Indian texts
Western restrictions on free inquiry
Western descriptions of Bharat and traditional literary theories
Hindus and Bharat as understood through the Marxist perspective, and the critical theory: (a) intention of author versus that of the reader, (b) history, purpose of the critical theory, and stereotyping of images and conceptions
Hegemony (Gramsci)
Structuralism and portrayal of Bharat
Orientalism-theorizing Bharat in the western experience
Use of psycho-analytical approaches in Bharatiya context
Descriptions of Bharat through lenses of postmodernism and deconstruction
Neutral inquiry and new-historicism and portrayal of Bharat
Hindu studies: Unit 07
Ramayana
Types of Ramayana-traditional texts with divine origins/ (Valmiki Ramayana) reverential texts, texts deviating from the core story
The popularity and relevance of traditional Ramayana
Ramayana as one of the two source-books (Upajivya) for much of lndian literature, and arts (folk, classical, and contemporary arts)
Maryada Purushottam Rama
Relationships between humans, and social-reconstruction (example Nisadarja, Jatayu, etc), and between human and nature
Stri-Vimaria: Anasuya, Ahilya, Kaikeyi, Kausalya, Mandodari, siti, Swayamprabha, Tara, Trijata, Urmila, Sabari
Rama-Rajya
The role of Rishi in a society
Data on geography, flora, and fauna in lndia
Hindu studies: Unit 08
Mahabharata
The period of Mahabharata: Textual and traditional sources, as well as modern data: (a) Calendars (Samvat) of Yudhishthira (Yugabda), Krsna, and Vikrama
The core story of Mahabharata

UGC NET 2023 Preparation Tips

To start the preparation of UGC NET, candidates must be aware of the exam pattern and syllabus of UGC NET. This makes the task of preparation easy for the candidates. It is always advised to the appearing candidates that they must start the preparation of the UGC NET exam keeping in mind the time left for the exam. 

Proper planning, solving previous years’ question papers, making short notes, covering syllabus topic-wise, etc. make preparation strategy easy. To score well candidates must follow their preparation strategy, solve last year's question papers, read newspapers for daily updates, and enhance their general awareness.

NTA UGC NET 2023 Best Books for Preparation:

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UGC NET/JRF – General Paper – I Teaching and Research Aptitude

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UGC NET/SET(JRF) – 14 years’ solved papers Teaching and Aptitude paper - I

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UGC NET Question Papers

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UGC NET E-books and Sample Papers

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UGC NET 2023 Exam Pattern

UGC NET Paper I Exam Pattern

According to the exam pattern of UGC NET, there are two papers that will be conducted in computer-based mode. Paper-1 will constitute 50 objective type questions carrying 2 marks each. The questions in this section will be asked from reasoning, comprehension, general awareness, divergent thinking to assess the candidates’ research/ teaching aptitude. Paper 2 will consist of 100 objective type questions carrying 2 marks each based on the subject selected by the candidate. There is no provision of negative marking in this paper.

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UGC NET 2023 Mock Test

National Testing Agency (NTA) will provide the UGC NET mock tests 2023 on its official website - nta.ac.in. To take the NTA UGC NET mock test, candidates don't have to log in and can directly select the required paper and proceed to take to mock test of the UGC NET exam. Candidates who are appearing for the UGC NET exam must take the mock test compulsorily.

By taking the mock test regularly to know the question trend and accordingly compose their strategy to qualify for the exam. Also, practice solving question papers gives candidates speed and accuracy. Candidates can evaluate their NTA UGC NET exam preparations by analysing how well they are performing before the actual exam.

How to take the UGC NET Mock test:

Candidates can follow the steps below to attempt the mock test of the UGC NET exam,

  • Open the NTA official website - nta.ac.in
  • Click on the "Mock Test" button on the page
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  • To start the mock test, click on the "Login" button
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UGC NET 2023 Admit Card

NTA issued UGC NET 2022 admit card online for Phase V on March 9 and Phase IV on March 7 and Phase III on March 1 and for Phase II on February 24 and for Phase I on February 17 at ugcnet.nta.nic.in. NTA activated the UGC NET city intimation slip on the official website. Candidates can download the UGC NET 2023 admit card by entering their application number and password or by using the application number and date of birth. Candidates can check the details specified in the admit card like venue, time, date, shift of exam and UGC NET exam day guidelines.

They must carry a photo identity card along with UGC NET admit card 2023 on the exam day. After downloading the admit card candidates must check that all the details mentioned on the UGC 2023 admit card are correct, in case of any discrepancy aspirants should immediately contact the exam authorities to make needful changes.

How to download NTA UGC NET 2023 Admit Card:

Candidates can follow the steps below to download the admit card of UGC NET 2023,

  • Go to the official website of NTA UGC NET-  ugcnet.nta.nic.in.
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The following are the details mentioned on the admit card of UGC NET exam 2023,

  • Candidate's name
  • Roll number
  • Category
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  • Gender
  • Application number
  • Exam centre venue and number
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  • Date & time of exam
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UGC NET 2023 Exam Centers

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  • PAN card
  • Aadhaar card
  • Voter ID
  • Ration card
  • Passport

UGC NET 2023 Answer Key

NTA released the UGC NET answer key 2023 and question pager with recorded response sheet online on March 23 on the official website. To download the UGC NET answer key 2023, candidates have to click on the pdf links on the home page of the official website. Candidates can check the number of correct and incorrect answers in the UGC NET 2023 answer key.

Candidates have to pay a requisite fee of Rs. 200 per question and provide documents supporting their challenge to raise objections against the UGC NET answer key 2023 till March 25. Candidates can calculate their possible scores after checking the official UGC NET 2023 answer key and accordingly know the chances of qualifying for the exam. A final answer key will be released after all the objections made by the candidates have been taken into consideration.

Steps to download UGC NET 2023 Answer Key:

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  • Open the official website of NTA UGC NET.
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UGC NET 2023 Result

NTA will announce the result of the UGC NET 2023 in online mode. To check UGC NET 2023 results, candidates have to use their application number and date of birth/password. The UGC NET 2023 result contains the details of the candidate, marks secured by them, and their qualifying status. To know how to download UGC NET result 2023, go through the points mentioned below:

1st Step: Visit the official website - ugcnet.nta.nic.in

2nd Step: Click on UGC NET 2023 result link.

3rd Step: Enter the UGC NET application number and password/date of birth in the login window that appears.

4th Step: The screen will then display the UGC NET result 2023.

5th Step: Download the result and save it for future references.

Details specified on the UGC NET 2023 result:

Candidates can find the below-given details in the result of NTA UGC NET 2023,

  • Candidate’s Name
  • Roll Number
  • Application Number
  • Father’s name
  • Date
  • Category
  • Mother’s name
  • Maximum marks
  • Paper
  • Marks and Percentile obtained in each paper
  • Percentage of marks secured.
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UGC NET 2023 Cutoff

UGC NET cutoff is of two types - subject-wise cut-off marks and qualifying marks are mentioned by NTA in the notification. General category candidates have to score at least 40% marks while reserved category candidates (OBC-NCL, SC, ST, PWD, and transgenders) have to score a minimum of 35% marks in both papers. These minimum qualifying marks are applicable to candidates appearing for eligibility of Assistant Professors as well as JRF. 

The cut-off of UGC NET is released by NTA separately for candidates who qualify for Lectureship and JRF. The UGC NET 2023 cut-off shows the category-wise and subject-wise cut off marks along with the total number of qualified candidates who have appeared for each subject in all categories.

UGC NET cutoff 2023

Subject/Category wise cutoff percentile

Subject/Category wise cutoff marks

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General Information

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Question:What are the login credentials required to check UGC NET result 2023?

Answer:

Candidates must enter their application number and password/date of birth as the login credentials to check their UGC NET 2023 result.

Question:How NTA will release the UGC NET 2023 result?

Answer:

NTA will announce the result of UGC NET exam in online mode on the official website.

Question:What is UGC NET 2023 cut off marks?

Answer:

The cut off of the UGC NET exam is the minimum qualifying marks that the candidates need to secure to qualify in both papers (I & II.) The UGC NET cut off for General category candidates is 40% while it is 35% for reserved categories.

Question:Can a candidate change UGC NET 2023 exam centre?

Answer:

Candidate cannot change their allocated exam centre after the submission of the UGC NET application form 2023.

Question:When will NTA release the UGC NET 2023 application form?

Answer:

NTA released the application form of UGC NET 2023 for December 2022 session on December 29, 2022 on the official website.

Question:What is the negative marking for incorrect answers?

Answer:

No, there is no negative marking for both paper-1 and paper-2.

Question:Is there any time is given between UGC NET 2023 paper 1 and paper 2?

Answer:

There is no time between Paper-I & Paper-II.

Question:What is the purpose of conducting UGC NET 2023?

Answer:

Candidates who crack UGC NET 2023 exam will be eligible to apply as an Assistant professor in a government or private college.

Question:Is there any age relaxation for reserved category candidates?

Answer:

As per the NTA UGC NET 2023 eligibility criteria, reserved category candidates will get age relaxation.

Question:What is the age limit for the UGC NET 2023 exam?

Answer:

The maximum age limit for JRF is 30 years and there is no age limit for the post of assistant professor.