On successful completion of this course, a student should be able to appreciate various research methods employed in cognitive science. The course will introduce the key concepts and techniques in qualitative, experimental and computational paradigms.
In the qualitative approach, focus... Read more
On the successful completion of this course, a student will be able to understand varied experimental paradigms spanning Cognitive, Social, and Personality Psychology, Behavioral Decision making, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, etc.
The course aims to equip graduate students with necessary skills needed for research writing. At the end of the course a student should be able to independently write a coherent text (abstract, research paper, etc).
This course will familiarize students with the emerging discipline of STS (Science and Technology Studies) and introduce them to the sociology and social theories of Science & Technology.
The course will begin with social theories on the production of technology and scientific knowledge systems, stratification within the community of technologists and scientists, discrimination (race, class, gender, caste) and the role of power in shaping the production of technology and... Read more
Students would under take a supervised research project.
This course will provide a historical and sociological perspective to how law, nationalism, the state and community produce the citizen as an intimate being as much as a public figure. Debates over marriage, family, sexuality and migration enable us to understand the longue duree of sexual... Read more
This course will introduce theory and research on emotions, with a focus on the social and cultural underpinnings of mental processes that guide emotion appraisal, regulation and expression. We will draw on research in social, and cognitive psychology, as well as social and affective... Read more
Distinction between 'growth‘ and 'development‘; historical genesis and evolution of the concept of development; theories of development and underdevelopment; the political nature of the development process. Role of state, market, culture and civil society in development. Gendered nature of... Read more
This course will introduce students to the intellectual and epistemological aspects of methods in the humanities and social sciences. Through this course, students will learn to critically examine the relationship between researcher, researched, and the knowledge produced across varied methods... Read more
