HSS Courses in BS-MS Programme

The following is the list of HSS courses in the BS-MS programme. A few elective courses in the list are exclusively designed for PhD research scholars in the HSS department.

Core Courses

  • HSS101A Language Skills A
  • HSS101B Language Skills B
  • HSS102 History of Science
  • HSS202 Philosophy of Science

Open Electives

  • HSS301 Construction of Identity and Knowledge
  • HSS302 Concepts of Space and Time in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • HSS304 Visual Art: Studio Practice and Theory
  • HSS402 Introduction to Linguistics
  • HSS601 Identity, Power and Place
  • HSS602 Social Theory: Concepts and Debates
  • HSS603 Advanced Qualitative Research Design and Methods
  • HSS611 Literary Appreciation
  • 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 and Chromosomes: The Story of our Evolution
  • HSS617 From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India
  • HSS618 India From Prehistory to Early History
  • HSS619 Ancient Greek Theatre: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
  • HSS620 Imagining India: An Intellectual History of Orientalism
  • HSS621 Intellectual and Cultures Sources of Modernity
  • HSS622 Cities: Urban Theory and Laboratory
  • HSS623 Bodily Encounters: Mobility, Migrancy and Movement
  • HSS624 Understanding Cultures: Past and Present Using Fieldwork, Laboratory and Archives
  • HSS625 The Archaeology of Ancient Technologies
  • HSS626 Economic History of Modern India
  • HSS627 Idea of India: Intellectual Imaginary of Nation
  • HSS628 Epistemology of Science
  • HSS629 Metaphysics of Science
  • HSS630 Social Theory and Religion
  • HSS631 Epistemology and Logic
  • HSS632 Philosophy of Rationality
  • HSS633 Ethics
  • HSS634 Themes in Infrastructure Studies
  • HSS635 Political Philosophy
  • HSS636 Climate Change and Sustainable Development
  • HSS637 Reading Records
  • HSS638 Ethnographic Research and Writing
  • HSS639 Advanced Theory and Method in Paleoanthropology
  • HSS640 Charlie Chaplin’s Aesthetic Universe
  • HSS641 Research Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
  • HSS642 Science and Society
  • HSS643 Field Course in Paleoanthropology and Allied Disciplines
  • HSS644 Philosophy in Public Affairs
  • HSS645 World Cinema
  • HSS646 Principles of Economics
  • HSS647 Geographies of Gender and Sexuality
  • HSS648 Development Economics: Theory, Policy and Practice
  • HSS649 Themes in Environmental Histories of India
  • HSS650 Public Policy