The course introduces students to research methods in social sciences. It will provide the students with elementary knowledge of the components of research methods such as framing research design, techniques of data collection, and data analysis. The students will be introduced to methods of... Read more
On successful completion of this course, a student should be able to demonstrate the major ideas about individual human judgments and decision-making, with emphasis on the cognitive mechanisms, with an orientation towards behavioral economics.
The course introduces students to some fundamental concepts in the architecture of human/natural language, and the insights, thereof, for the architecture of the mind. It uncovers the core internal computations of the language module, while drawing comparisons with the communicative systems... Read more
The course will provide an introduction to basic mathematical concepts. The aim will be to prepare students to be able to think formally and quantitatively about how to model cognitive phenomena. An attempt will be made to contextualize the topics within the domain of cognitive science.
This is the external project to be carried out by MSc students in the form of an internship
To introduce students to the fundamentals as well as state-of-the-art research in Narratology. The course will treat of narrative as both artifact and a fundamental way of making sense. It will acquaint students with the concepts and methods of narrative analysis in literature as well as other... Read more
The course intends to introduce numbers as a cognitive entity and not as an abstract symbol as in mathematics. It will discuss how our minds process different representations of numbers and how numerical processing takes place in our brains.
A critical examination of the the planning and development processes in India from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
This course discusses foundational debates and issues in cognitive science. It addresses core issues that relate to consciousness, knowledge, representation, perception and action that explicates the positions of key thinkers in the field, mainly from a theoretical and philosophical angle.
To analyse how power works in relation to categories and norms about gender, sex, and sexuality and to familiarize students on critical perspectives on the gender binary
To understand and analyse the historical and contemporary debates on LGBT+ issues, struggles and their representations... Read more