The B.A Honours Programme in Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) can best be described as an immersion in interdisciplinary humanities. It allows students to explore three disciplines/ disciplinary areas of the School in some depth over four years while obtaining the wider benefits of a liberal arts education. Students admitted to Social Sciences and Humanities complete their core course requirement by choosing five core/ elective courses each from any three disciplines. In addition, they can also choose Political Science and Hindi as their disciplines. Apart from the discipline course component, the rest of the graduation rules remain the same as any other Honours programme.
The programme aims at providing disciplinary and interdisciplinary education to students and also focuses on imparting a critical understanding of their own role as local, national and global citizens. The emergence of this understanding is also premised on the way in which the student is envisaged not merely as recipient of knowledge but as an active participant in production of the university itself as a space of emergence of critical understanding.
Through the courses offered under SSH, students will understand the meaning of being a human with the application and analysis of significant literary, philosophical, linguistic, and historical works and concepts. Further, they will investigate various cultural contexts through the foundational, core and elective courses offered in each discipline and will learn vital life skills and develop a stronger sense of who they are, what they stand for and what their opinions are.
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