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Seminar (Public Health)

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Course Type Course Code No. Of Credits
Discipline Elective SPG3EL603 4

Semester and Year Offered: 2ndSemester, 1st Year

Course Coordinator and Team:Samik Chowdhury and N. Nakkeeran

Email of course coordinator:samik@aud.ac.in

Pre-requisites: None

Aim:  In this semester long course research scholars will do extensive reading, presentation and discussion of the existing body of work in their area of interest. The course is aimed at facilitating the research proposal/synopsis of the scholar. Readings could be in the nature of a book, book chapter, journal article, policy document, report, methodological note, scheme document etc. – any authentic and quality material that the scholar feels could be relevant to her work. Scholars will be required to periodically present their work followed by open discussion.

Course Outcomes:

  • Ability to identify relevant and good quality literature in the area of interest.
  • Ability to deconstruct, evaluate and identify potential uses of information in the readings
  • Ability to make short academic presentations to communicate the crux of a reading or a set of readings with the audience
  • Ability to critically evaluate and discuss other students’ presentations

Brief description of modules/ Main modules:

This course is not module based. The topics for the seminar would be based on the research interests of the scholars.

Assessment Details with weights:

  • A research scholar is expected to make a reasonable number of seminar presentations in the semester. The seminar presentations will be graded on quality and perceived worth of the readings, organization of the presentation, knowledge of the topic, level of critical engagement with the material and response to comments (40%).
  • Annotated bibliography ideally leading to the literature review in the research proposal (25%)
  • A synthesis paper (35%)

Selected Readings:

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