Programme objectives:
- To produce professional historians committed to the highest levels of historical scholarship.
- To allow students to develop their historical research skills including archival work and primary source documents.
- To provide the theoretical and interdisciplinary training in context to historical heritage, public museums and the media, archaeology and policy of historical heritage, historical urban studies.
- To emphasize learners for a comparative understanding of historical process
Programme outcomes:
After completing the course:
- Learner will have fair understanding about historical events, processes, and patterns.
- Will be able to provide evidence of sophisticated awareness of the interrelationship of the human experience and historical perspective.
- Will be able to demonstrate the importance of historical topics with reference to broader historical context, historiographic trends, or contemporary relevance of historical studies.
- A learner will have the ability to construct original historical arguments based on primary source material for research.
Duration of the Course – Minimum: 2 years, Maximum: 5 years.
Conduct of Classes: Weekend for 4 hours (preferably on Sundays)
Course Fees: Rs 5000/Year
Eligiblity Criteria: Graduation or +3 Pass in any discipline
Evaluation: Based on Assignments, Term end Examinations
Target Group:
- Learners who are graduate degree holders in the history stream and want to make history knowledge stronger and look forward for a career in it.
- The programme targets the teachers working in Schools, personnel working in various institutions associated with history and culture (Museums, Archives, Archaeological Survey etc.)
- Working people in various organizations and all graduates who are desirous of acquiring a Master’s Degree in History.
Pedagogy: The Course shall be taught through the interactive, Self-guided Learning Materials, OERs as reference materials, Week-end Counseling Classes, Video Lectures, Project Works.
Programme Structure:
| MA History Syllabus First Year |
| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credits |
| SEMESTER 1 |
| MHI 1 |
Ancient and Medieval Societies |
8 |
| MHI 2 |
Modern World |
8 |
| SEMESTER 2 |
| MHI 4 |
Political Structures in India |
8 |
| MHI 5 |
History of Indian Economy |
8 |
| MA History Syllabus -Second Year |
| SEMESTER 3 |
| MHI 3 |
Historiography |
8 |
| MHI 8 |
History of Ecology and Environment : India |
8 |
| SEMESTER 4 (Choose 16 credits only) |
| MPSE 3 |
Western Political Thought |
4 |
| MPSE 4 |
Social and Political Thought in Modern India |
4 |
| MHI 6 |
Evolution of Social Structures in India through the Ages |
8 |
| MHI 9 |
Indian National Movement |
8 |
| MHI 10 |
Urbanization in India |
8 |
| |
Total Credits |
64 |
|
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