The Department of HSS offers a specialised minor in Science-Society Studies (SSS) in the BS-MS programme. Students need to take any four courses from the following electives:
- HSS304: Visual art: Studio Practice and Theory
- HSS602: Social Theory: Concepts and Debates
- HSS612: The Idea of Evolution: Before and After Darwin
- HSS613: The Social History of Science in Modern India, 1780-1950
- HSS614: Women’s History of Science
- HSS615: Archaeology of the World: A Cultural Quest into Our Global Past
- HSS616: Bones, Stones & Chromosomes: The Story of Our Evolution
- HSS622: Cities: Urban Theory and Laboratory
- HSS625: The Archaeology of Ancient Technologies
- HSS628: Epistemology of Science
- HSS629: Metaphysics of Science
- HSS632: Philosophy of Rationality
- HSS634: Themes in Infrastructure Studies
- HSS636: Climate Change and Sustainable Development
- HSS638: Ethnographic Research and Writing
- HSS642: Science and Society
- HSS646: Principles of Economics
- HSS648: Development Economics: Theory, Policy and Practice
Faculty Coordinator for Minor in Science-Society Studies (SSS)
Dr. V. Rajesh
Associate Professor and Head
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences IISER Mohali
Email: rajeshv@iisermohali.ac.in