Bulletin of Information 2012-13 Masters in » Economics » English » History » Sociology Table of Contents The University AUD Campuses ...........................................................................................................................................................................5 Hostel Facility ..............................................................................................................................................................................5 Research @ AUD ........................................................................................................................................................................5 Centres @ AUD ..........................................................................................................................................................................6 Extra-Curricular Activities (ECA) ..........................................................................................................................................6 The School of Liberal Studies Programmes ..................................................................................................................................................................................7 Programme Descriptions MA Economics .....................................................................................................................................................................8 MA English .........................................................................................................................................................................11 MA History.........................................................................................................................................................................18 MA Sociology .....................................................................................................................................................................25 Assessment and Evaluation ....................................................................................................................................................31\ General Rules and Procedures Eligibility .....................................................................................................................................................................................32 Medium of Instruction .............................................................................................................................................................32 Application Procedure ..............................................................................................................................................................32 Selection Procedure MA Economics ...................................................................................................................................................................33 MA English .........................................................................................................................................................................33 MA History.........................................................................................................................................................................33 MA Sociology .....................................................................................................................................................................33 Seats ..............................................................................................................................................................................................33 Reservation of Seats ...................................................................................................................................................................34 Fees ................................................................................................................................................................................................35 Fee Waivers and Scholarships ..................................................................................................................................................35 Cancellation of Admission ......................................................................................................................................................35 University Policy on Refund of Fees ......................................................................................................................................35 Admission to Foreign Students ...............................................................................................................................................35 Anti-Ragging Regulations .............................................................................................................................................................36 Creating Gender-Sensitive Campus Spaces .............................................................................................................................37 Application Procedure ...................................................................................................................................................................38 Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes ......................................................................................................................39 Faculty List .........................................................................................................................................................................................41 | 3 | The University The Bharat Ratna Dr B.R. Ambedkar University, Delhi or AUD was established by the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi through an Act of Legislature in 2007 and was notified in July 2008. Mandated to focus on research and teaching in the social sciences and humanities and guided by Dr Ambedkar’s vision of bridging equality and social justice with excellence, AUD considers it to be its mission to create sustainable and effective linkages between access to and success in higher education. AUD is committed to creating an institutional culture characterised by humanism, non-hierarchical and collegial functioning, teamwork and nurturance of creativity. The University is broadly structured into Schools and Centres, most of which are now functional. It focuses on areas of knowledge and professional specialisations which are relevant to our context yet are not being given enough emphasis by other universities in this part of the country. AUD functions through its various Schools and Centres and has so far set up the School of Development Studies, the School of Human Ecology, the School of Human Studies, the School of Law, Governance and Citizenship, the School of Business, Public Policy and Social Entrepreneurship, the School of Educational Studies, the School of Liberal Studies, the School of Culture and Creative Expressions and the School of Design. These Schools will offer doctoral and masters programmes. The School of Undergraduate Studies is responsible for the undergraduate programmes in the social sciences, humanities, mathematical sciences and liberal studies. | 4 | AUD Campuses AUD functions from two campuses. One campus is located at Dwarka and the other at Kashmere Gate. The Dwarka Campus is located in the Integrated Institute of Technology, Sector 9, Dwarka, New Delhi. The Kashmere Gate Campus is located at Lothian Road, Delhi. Both campuses are within a 10-minute walk from the metro stations nearest to them. The Schools of Undergraduate Studies; Liberal Studies; Human Studies; Development Studies; Human Ecology; Culture and Creative Expressions; and Design are located at the Kashmere Gate Campus. The Dwarka Campus houses the Schools of Educational Studies; Business, Public Policy and Social Entrepreneurship; and Law, Governance and Citizenship. AUD hopes to move into its permanent campus at Dheerpur in the next three to four years. Hostel Facility AUD has hostel facilities for men and women at its Dwarka Campus. There may also be hostel facilities available for women at the Kashmere Gate Campus. Students can apply for hostel accommodation once they have secured admission. The application form and brochure for hostel accommodation will be available at the University Offices and on the AUD website at the time of admission. Research @ AUD At AUD, MPhil and PhD degrees are granted at all the schools of the University, other than the School of Undergraduate Studies. Admissions to the MPhil programmes occur once a year in July-August. Admissions to the PhD programmes generally happen twice a year, in July-August and January-February. The number of seats available in each school for research may vary year to year. Cutting-edge, unconventional and interdisciplinary research in new and established fields is welcome and encouraged at AUD. | 5 | Centres @ AUD The University is in the process of setting up a number of Centres to facilitate research and dissemination of knowledge in lesser known or neglected areas. As of now, the Centre for Early Childhood Education and Development (for professional and multi-disciplinary academic support in this area), the Centre for Community Knowledge (to document, study and disseminate the praxis of community knowledge) and the Centre for Social Science Research Methods (to design and offer innovative programmes in social science research methods for students and faculty) are functional. There are plans to set up a Centre for Leadership and Change, a Centre for Equality and Social Justice, a Centre for Engaged Spiritualities and Peace Building, a Centre for the Social Applications of Mathematics and a Centre for Publishing. A North-East Forum has also been established which is successfully working towards collecting and digitally archiving material and doing research on the Northeastern region of India. Extra-Curricular Activities (ECA) AUD has also established a series of cultural societies to galvanise the intellectual and extracurricular life of students in the campus. There is a thriving Theatre Society, Eco-club, Sports Committee, Debating Society and Literary Society. The Economics Society and the Society for Visual Culture have also been activated. There are regular talks, lectures, screenings and performances in the campus and students are encouraged to participate in and organise events around them. | 6 | School of Liberal Studies The School of Liberal Studies in the academic session 2012-2013, is offering MA Programmes in History, Economics, English and Sociology. The existing and the planned activities of the School of Liberal Studies are geared towards the long-term objectives of preparing a new generation of young social scientists, who will be both cognitively and methodologically trained and socially sensitive. India since the last two or three decades has been going through an unprecedented social transformation. This Indian experience is in great need of being codified and its intricacies have to be unraveled. We need a large number of trained social scientists to make sense of this transformation and make it intelligible. The School represents an interdisciplinary vision that would nonetheless be rooted in specific disciplines. The School envisions the practice of social sciences in a manner in which specific disciplines constitute pillars that support the edifice of interdisciplinarity. The School plans to train researchers who would be interdisciplinary in their orientation but otherwise rooted and trained in specific disciplines. The School of Liberal Studies hopes to take social sciences out of the intellectual ivory towers of excellence and make it socially relevant and accountable. Social Scientists have to be oriented towards the larger social world within which they operate and to carry together both the major values of intellectual freedom and social accountability. The University has a mandate for maintaining an interface with civil society, and the School of Liberal Studies views itself as an active and major partner in this endeavour. Programmes The School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi announces admissions for 2012-13 to the following MA Programmes: Programmes Duration Credits Seats MA Economics 2 Years 64 42 MA English 2 Years 64 42 MA History 2 Years 64 42 MA Sociology 2 Years 64 42 | 7 | Programme Descriptions MA Economics Duration: 2 Years (4 Semesters) Total Credits: 64 Medium of Instruction: English Number of Seats: 42 Eligibility: Bachelor’s degree with 45% marks (or an equivalent grade) from a recognised University. There will be a relaxation of 5% for candidates belonging to SC, ST and PD categories. Reservation of seats: In accordance with the Government of NCT of Delhi rules. The Masters Programme in Economics will attempt to provide students with a rigorous and in-depth advanced training in economic analysis, with a particular emphasis on equipping them with the ability to comprehend and think about contemporary economic issues including the challenges confronting developing countries like India. It will equip students for careers in government agencies, the corporate and financial sectors, development organisations, the media, and also in academia (including further studies). The programme will draw on different theoretical perspectives and traditions within the discipline, bring in perspectives from outside the discipline on contemporary social phenomenon, and use creative pedagogical approaches to offer a well-rounded training that would enable students to achieve a variety of objectives simultaneously: in keeping with the University’s vision, develop a socio-political and historical perspective on the economy and the discipline which analyses it; master the quantitative techniques which are used extensively in economic analysis; understand and learn to analyse contemporary economic issues at the global and national levels; and acquire skills for absorbing and communicating economic ideas on the ‘social’. The first two semesters will focus on the core courses - which provide a mix of economic theory, quantitative techniques, economic history, and analysis of concrete development problems with a component focused specifically on India. To lay the disciplinary foundation of the MA, core discipline based courses in the first semester will be followed in the second semester by a broadening towards a mix of disciplinary grounding and interdisciplinary components of economics. In the third and the fourth semesters, the mix of core and elective courses will build on these foundations to complement interdisciplinary perspectives and enable students to develop an element of specialisation in their preferred areas. | 8 | Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 3 Semester 4 Core 1. Microeconomics I (4) 5. Microeconomics II 9. Development 13. Indian (4) Economics (4) Economy (4) 2. Macroeconomics I (4) 6. Macroeconomics 3. Introduction to II (4) Research Methods and Econometrics (4) 7. Capitalism, Colonialism and 4. International Trade Development (4) and Capital Flows (4) 8. Theories of Value and Distribution (4) Elective 10. Elective 1 (4) 14. Electiv e 4 (4) 11. Elective 2 (4) 15. Elective 5 (4) 12. Elective 3 (4) 16. Elective 6 (4) Support Quantitative Techniques and Academic Skills Workshop Overview • Macroeconomics I and II will cover the evolution of the main body of macroeconomic theories both with reference to the setting towards which they are oriented - of a developed capitalist economy - and its changing context with a focus on macroeconomics of developing countries like India along with and in conjunction with the macroeconomics of the global economy. • Microeconomics I and II would cover theories of utility, production and cost, and strategies of firms under perfect and imperfect competition along with general equilibrium models and social welfare. • Introduction to Research Methods and Econometrics aims to train students in application of statistical methods for data analysis. It will focus on empirical investigation of relationships drawing on different frameworks and methods. The course will equip students with quantitative skills for analysis of both primary and secondary data with an understanding of the concepts and principles underlying the methods, and how to apply them to real world data. The course will also equip students with necessary computer skills. • International Trade and Capital Flows aims to examine the significant contemporary features of international economic relations placed within a broader historical and theoretical context by focussing on two pillars of international economic relations – trade and finance. It shall cover different theories | 9 | of international trade, balance of payments and capital flows, and the political economy of external sector policies. It will discuss different historical perspectives and economic theories on trade, finance and economic development that have shaped opinion, policy and outcomes in the contemporary world. • Theories of Value and Distribution shall look at the divide between Classical and Neoclassical theories of value and distribution. These schools and the theories that make them up will be discussed with reference to the contexts in which they emerged and developed, the differences in their premises and the fundamental questions they are designed to answer, and the critiques advanced of them. • Development Economics shall discuss the contemporary challenges facing developing countries in the age of globalisation through a comprehensive discussion of the thinking on and experience of Third World development since the mid-twentieth century, and the continuities and changes in their situations. • Capitalism, Colonialism and Development is a core economic history component of the programme and shall explore the political economy of development and underdevelopment in relation to the role of colonialism in the history of capitalism. A part of the course will be devoted to the study of British and Indian economic histories during the period of colonialism in a unified framework. • Indian Economy shall discuss the historical evolution and contemporary situation of a variety of issues arising in the process of the attempted transformation of India’s low-income agriculture-dominated economy after independence. Problems of industrial development and the role of services, the agrarian situation, employment, poverty and inequality, etc. shall be discussed with reference to the changing economic policy context. • Elective courses: These would be offered from amongst a large set of possible courses which can be broadly classified into three groups: 1. Specialisation within the discipline of Economics 2. Specialisation across more than one discipline 3. Courses which would be intersecting the boundaries of 1 and 2. Many of these courses would be of interest and accessible to students in other MA programmes at | 10 |