BA Honours in Sociology

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Seats 56 (Including Supernumerary Seats)

Duration 3 + 1 Years

Eligibility

Candidates must appear in [CUET(UG)]
Applicants need to have passed class XII Examination with at least 50 % marks from CBSE/DBSE or any recognised board (Relaxation of 5 % marks for SC/ST/PwBD/Delhi OBC(NCL)/Defence/Kashmiri Migrant).

The B.A Honours Programme in Sociology is designed to build students’ critical awareness of the relationship between self and society and to question common sense assumptions about their everyday world. The programme aims to cultivate reflexive orientation through a combination of innovative courses that are theoretical, methodological and topical.

The programme engages students with the history of sociology in India, while imparting a comprehensive understanding of the sociology of Indian society. At the same time, the programme introduces students to concepts and topics that are crucial to the comprehension and analysis of societies and cultures beyond India. Taking change rather than continuity as their fundamental pivot-point, several courses trace questions of identity and selfhood through various social formations such as neighbourhood, community, village, city, nation and diaspora. The core and elective courses discuss social relations from a variety of perspectives, including for instance, marriage, kinship and family forms; rural and urban social relations; politics, law and society; gender and society; economy and society; food and society; the sociology of work and classical and contemporary theories in sociology. In addition to these substantive gains, students will also develop practical skills in assessing competing sociological explanations, challenging stereotypical thinking, designing research projects and suggesting possible pathways for change in the real world. Students are further provided academic writing training through the compulsory coursework for enhancing their writing skills.

The course is designed such that it provides students core disciplinary expertise in sociological theory, methods and topics and enables critical thinking and analyses. Courses emphasize research and writing skills as part of the skills for employability in academics, policy, research and other sectors. Students are trained in diverse topics and issues of sociological relevance and research methods and data analyses that enable them to engage with classical and contemporary debates in sociology and examine the relationship between self and society through reflexivity.

Faculty involved in teaching the programme.

The Programme outcomes of the undergraduate Sociology programme at the University are:

to enable students to read diverse texts in sociology,
to enable students to think critically and creatively,
to develop the tools of analysing and reasoning social conditions and realities,
to communicate effectively about social processes and social transformations,
to draw evidence-based narratives on social crisis and social change and achieve a balance between the range and depth of the subjects studied

What is the minimum eligibility requirement for this programme?

Candidates are admitted through merit from CUET examination.

What is the duration of the programme?

This is a four-year programme with the option of multiple exits after one year( Certificate), two years ( Diploma), three years (UG Degree), and four years ( UG Degree with Honours/Research, subject to fulfilling the eligibility criteria for Research Degree).

How is it positioned in relation to other similar programmes in the field?

In keeping with the university’s overall mission and focus on social justice, the programme aims to critically engage students with hierarchies in our everyday social institutions. Through its courses the programme is geared to produce an awareness of how the self is part of caste, class, gender, sexuality, ethnic and other inequalities that have been produced historically and are being re/produced contemporaneously. The objective is that through this critical analysis, students will develop an ethically nuanced relation between the self and the other.

What are the program-specific graduate attributes?

Disciplinary knowledge – core disciplinary expertise in theory, methods and topics
Communication Skills – present ideas effectively through course assessments
Critical thinking – analyze social phenomena through multiple perspectives and reflexivity
Research-related skills – research methods for data collection and analysis
Reflective thinking – appreciation of diversity and one’s positionality, with self-awareness and reflexivity of both self and society
Information/digital literacy – comprehend possibilities and limitations of ICT and information sources in research and analysis
Self-directed learning – independent thinking, meeting timelines, effective decision-making
Multicultural competence – Exposure to different cultures and multicultural spaces through latest research and through self-reflexive discussion in classrooms
Moral and ethical awareness/reasoning – Inculcating ethical learning practices and promoting academic integrity, developing an ethically nuanced relation between the self and the other.

What are the professional trajectories that the graduates of the programme may pursue?

Academics, Research, Policy, Social Sector, Media

Course Code	Course Name	Credit
SUS1FC035	Indian Society Continuities, Contradictions and Paradoxes	4
SC801	Introduction to Sociology	4
SUS1SC845	Sociology of Work	4
SUS1SC845	Sociology of Work	4
SUS1SC805	Conceptualising Rural and Urban Societies	4
SC817	Sociological Theory	4
SC04	Marriage, Kinship and Family norms	4