COURSE OUTCOME: POLITICAL SCIENCE HONOURS

Course I: Understanding Political Science

After completion of the Course, students would be able to

• Analyse what is Politics and explain the approaches to the Study of Political Science – Normative, Behavioural, Post Behavioural. Relationship between Political Science with other disciplines. Relationship between political theory and political philosophy,
• Assess the theories of State (Origin, Nature, Functions): Contract, Idealist, Liberal, Neo-Liberal and Anarchist Theories. 
• Explain the Concept of State Sovereignty: Monistic and Pluralistic Theories. Analyse the changing concept of Sovereignty in the context of Globalisation. 
• Understand basic concepts of Liberty, Equality, Rights, Law and Justice. 

Course 102: Perspectives on Public Administration

After completion of the Course, students will be able to

• Explain the nature, scope and evolution of Public Administration; Private and Public Administration.
• Discuss making of Public Policy Making and methods of Implementation .
• Analyse the major Concepts in Public Administration.
• Discuss the Classical, neo classical and contemporary approaches to Public Administration. Discuss Weberian and Marxian theories of bureaucracy.
• Analyse the Administrative Processes: decision making; communication and control; leadership; co-ordination.
• Trace the Challenges in the discipline of Public Administration like New Public Administration (NPA); Comparative Public Administration (CPA) and Development Administration, good governances and feminist perspectives.

Course 103: INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

After completion of the Course, students will be able to

• Introduce the Indian Constitution with a focus on the role of the Constituent Assembly and examine the essence of the Preamble.
• Examine the Fundamental Rights and Duties of Indian citizens with a study of the significance and status of Directive Principles.
• Assess the nature of Indian Federalism with focus on Union-State Relations. Critically analyse the important institutions of the Indian Union: the Executive: President; Prime Minister, Council of Ministers; Governor, Chief Minister and Council of Ministers; The legislature: Rajya Sabha, Lok Sabha, Speaker, Committee System, State Legislature, The Judiciary: Supreme Court and the High Courts: composition and functions- Judicial Activism.
• Critically evaluate the Indian Party system – its development and looking at the ideology of dominant national parties. Evaluate the Electoral Process in India with focus on the Election Commission: Composition, Functions and Role Evaluating the role of various forces on Indian politics: religion; language; caste; tribe; regionalism; business; working class and peasants.

Course 204: WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT

After completion of the Course, students will be able to

• Provide an insight into the dominant features of Ancient Western Political Thought: Ancient Greek political thought with focus on Aristotle and Plato.
• Examine features of Medieval Political Thought. Evaluate Renaissance; political thought of Reformation; and Machiavelli.
• Critically examine Bodin’s contributions to the theory of Sovereignty; Hobbes as the founder of the science of materialist politics; Locke as the founder of Liberalism with focus on his views on natural rights, property and consent; and Rousseau’s views on Freedom and Democracy; Bentham’s Utilitarianism; and John Stuart Mill’s views on liberty and representative government.
• Describe Marxist Approach to politics. Explain Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism with special reference to relationship between base and superstructure. Discuss Marx’s Theory of State with special reference to Relative Autonomy of the State and Surplus Value theory. Explain Marxian theory of Revolution. Analyse the theory of class, class struggle and classless society.

Course 305: COMPARATIVE POLITICS

After completion of the Course, students will be able to

• Trace the evolution of Comparative Politics as a discipline, investigate the nature and scope of Comparative Politics.
• Analyse the approaches and models of comparison: institutional and neo institutional, systems analysis; structural functionalism; and Marxist approach.
• Critically analyse the features of a liberal democratic and socialist political system with focus on UK, USA and the People’s Republic of China and Switzerland.
• Discuss the features of a federal system with special reference to USA and Russia. Conduct an intensive comparative study of the Executive (UK, USA, France and Russia); Legislature (UK, USA and the PRC); the Judiciary (UK, USA and PRC).

Course 306: PUBLIC POLICY

After completion of the Course, students will be able to

• Discuss Public Policy Making and methods of Implementation.
• Analyse the Administrative Processes: decision making; communication and control; leadership; co-ordination.
• Study the Organisation of Union Government and State Government. Examine the Institutions of Local Self Government in India.
• Assess the relationship between the Citizen and Administration: RTI, Lokpal and Lokayukt, E-governance. Social welfare administration and policies- Right to education, national health mission, right to food security, MNREGA.

Course 307: NATIONALISM IN INDIA

After completion of the Course, students will be able to

• Trace the evolution of Indian Nationalism from ancient India to modern India and its various approaches: Nationalist, Imperialist, Marxist and Subaltern.
• Analyse nationalist thought of Raja Rammohun Roy. Assess nationalist thought of Bankimchandra, Tilak and Rabindranath.
• Discuss the nationalism of Gandhi. Analyse the Gandhian Movements such as the Khilafat, Non Cooperation, Civil Disobedience, Quit India movements. Assess the alternatives to the Indian National Congress- the Forward Bloc, Congress Socialist Party, Communist Party of India.
• Describe the movements against caste and untouchability, Ambedkar’s views on Social Justice and the depressed classes. Analyse the Working Class and Peasant movements under colonial rule. Discuss the roots of communalism- Savarkar and Hindu Nationalism and Jinnah and the Two Nation theory.

Course 408: INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

After completion of the Course, students will be able to

• Explain scope and subject matter of International Relations as an autonomous academic discipline.?
• Understand approaches and concepts of National Power, National Interest, Balance of Power, Bipolarity, Unipolarity and Multipolarity, Neo-Colonialism and major theories of IR.
• Study the role of Diplomacy, Propaganda and Military capabilities in the making of foreign policy.
• Describe the Cold War phases and understand the post Cold War era. Explain certain basic concepts like Globalisation, Environment, Terrorism in contemporary world order.

Course 409: POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

After completion of the Course, students will be able to

• Study the concepts of Power, Authority and Legitimacy in the context of society. Examine social stratification through the index of class, caste and elite.
• Discuss the approaches to the study of Political Culture. Evaluate the different agents of Political Socialization and their interrelationships.?
• Evaluate the concept and types of Political Participation, Assess the approaches to Political Communication; Electoral Behaviour.
• Evaluate the concept of Political Development and Social Change – Role of Tradition and Modernity.

Course 410: POLITICAL THEORY

After completion of the Course, students will be able to

• Understand basic concepts of Liberty, Equality, Rights, and Justice.
• Understand concepts of Liberty, Equality, Rights and Justice and its different forms.
• Access the concepts of Liberty, Equality, Rights, and Justice and their relationship.

Course 511: UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL POLITICS

Analyse the concept of Global Politics, Evolution of State system emphasising the role of sovereignty.

• Understand the concept of Global Economy, tracing its importance from Bretton Woods Conference, genesis of World Bank, GATT and WTO.
• Explain the concepts of Globalisation, Terrorism, Identity and Culture,
• Understand the concept of Global Civil Society, Global Environment

Course 512: INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT?

After completion of the Course, students will be able to

• Trace the evolution of Indian political thought from ancient India to modern India.
• Analyse the ancient political thought with the contributions of Kautilya, features of medieval political thought and India’s awakening and birth of modernity with thoughts of Raja Rammohun Roy and Syed Ahmed Khan.
• Assess the nationalist thought of Bankimchandra, Tilak and Rabindranath.?
• Discuss the nationalism of Gandhi, M. N. Roy, Narendra Deva and describe the movements against caste and untouchability referring to Ambedkar’s views on Social Justice and the depressed classes.

Course 613: INDIA’S FOREIGN POLICY IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD

After completion of the Course, students will be able to

• Understand Indian Foreign Policy: Basic Principles, Determinants and its Evolution .
• Examine India’s Bilateral relations with USSR, USA, and CHINA.
• Analyse the relationship between India and its Neighbours concentrating on South Asian regional politics.
• Understand India’s strategies in the contemporary Multipolar World.

Course DSC 614: POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES

After completion of the Course, students will be able to

• Evaluate the theories of Liberalism and Neo-liberalism.
• Classify Democratic Theories.
• Analyse the Marxist Approach to politics and its various theories.
• Understand theories on non – Marxist Socialism and Fascism.