Bulletin of Information - Ambedkar University, Delhi

48 Pages·2012·4.47 MB·English

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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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