Syllabus for
Bachelor of Arts (Media Studies, Economics, Political Science)
Academic Year  (2023)

Course Description

The course introduces the fundamental concepts, approaches and classic theories in areas of economics of growth as well as economic development. By exploring the diverse patterns of achieving economic development, the course gives insights on the existence of varied levels of economic progress across the nations. The course focuses on core issues like poverty and inequality by highlighting the discussions on the concept, measurement and extent of these problems.  In addition, the course throws light on the contemporary issues and hindrances in achieving economic development, thereby introducing the various nuances encircling the broader topic of economic development. 

Course Objectives
The course intends to

• Give an understanding of the theoretical perceptions of economic growth and development together. 

• Create awareness of the challenges in the developmental process and thus motivate the students towards the thinking of alternative solutions.

• Analyse the evolving issues and nuances with respect to economic growth and development.

Course Description:

This paper aims to transmit the body of basic mathematics that enables the study of economic theory at the undergraduate level. The course aims at introducing the application of mathematical techniques to economic theory in general.

Course Objectives:

The course aims to help students to:

• understand basic skills in applied mathematics;
• understand the mathematical techniques that are used in Economics

To introduce the basic concepts and theories in environment and resource economics to enable students to better understand environmental problems and policy management. To enhance the analytical skills of the students and help apply economic principles in solving environmental problems. To expose students to the basic environmental valuation practices

• To understand the key concepts and theories of environmental economics.

• To understand environmental problems and policy management.

• To evaluate the skills of the students in the application of the economic principles in solving environmental problems.

• To understand the concepts of environmental valuation, methods and its applications.

The course aims to make the students to understand and get familiarized with the concepts and approaches of human rights. The course facilitates the students to understand the relationship between human rights and media and enables the students to study human rights and legal mechanism of safeguarding the dignity of the individual. and, through the close study of documentary films and other audio - visual material, this course introduces the concept of human rights issues.

Course Objectives:

This course is designed to help students hone their analytical thinking and writing skills. In addition, after having taken this course, students should be able to:

• Understand key concepts on human rights
• Discuss current topics on human rights with greater understanding and skill.
• Students examine how audiovisual material, especially the documentary form, play a global watchdog role and both inform and persuade human rights stakeholders. "Information intervention" thus is seen through the lens of human rights principles.

This subject gives them a precise idea about how to understand the multimedia platform and it introduces them to technologies for multimedia processing. Digital image processing is a core part of the subject.

Course Objectives:

The course aims to help students to:

• Gain knowledge about multimedia.
• Use technological aids for better learning.
• Understanding the multimedia communications systems, application and basic principles and presentation of multimedia communications.

This course examines the structural aspects of the Indian state. The course offers a detailed understanding of important parts of the Indian Constitution. Also, explains the important organs of the state and their structural equations.  Specifically, it provides debates on the principles of separation of powers by equating among legislature, executive and judiciary.

The course aims to help students to:

 ●        understand the contemporary issues and debates of Indian Constitution.

 ●        understand the structural importance of the Indian state.

 ●        understand the nature, structure and working of the Constitution and the functional implications involved in it.

This course examines public policymaking, implementation, and analysis with special reference to India. Moreover, it provides policy actors, structures, institutions and in the policymaking process, Approaches, and models of public policy. Students learn how diverse types of public policies are formulated, implemented, monitored, and evaluated. The course also provides the role of executives and challenges they experience during the policy implementation.

Course Objectives

The course aims to help students to:

• explain basic understanding on public policy related concepts in the context of political science and public and public administration. 
• develop the knowledge on various theoretical approaches to public policy analysis; and the policy-making cycle as a model to analyzing the public policy process.
• orient towards patterns of policy changes over time. Finally, the course aims to develop the students to creatively explore a policy issue of their choice near the end of the term and write a policy on a topic of their choice.

This course has been designed to enable the students to acquire skills that would help them in the process of knowledge acquisition. Through this engagement, it will revisit and question different notions of knowledge and how it is constructed, created, disseminated, and acquired. The course would also enable the students to understand various research practices that are the focal point of the discipline. Also central to the course is an inquiry on the process and role of critical thinking in the discipline and in the larger context of society and nation.

Course Objectives

The course is designed to:

• enhance skills required for knowledge acquisition
• develop a comprehensive knowledge of the variety of research practices in the discipline
• hone and nurture their critical thinking abilities

Course Description:

This course aims at introducing the planning and development trajectory of the Indian economy. It also brings out some of the key issues associated with sectoral growth, occupational structure and productivity. The efforts towards privatisation and its impact are also discussed. The course then extends the discussion to India’s external economy and examines the trends in the balance of payment, trade and the role played by WTO in determining India’s external policy. Further, the course traces the macroeconomic policies adopted in India and their performances. It concludes with a module specific to Karnataka including the growth pattern of the GSDP and the sectoral contribution to the same. The planning process in the state of Karnataka and policies pertaining to education and development are also highlighted. 

 Course Objectives:

The course aims to:

1. provide an overall understanding of the planning process in India, the major challenges faced by the Indian economy and India’s position in the global economy with respect to various parameters.
2. trace the trends in India’s external sector and the role of WTO in formulating India’s external policies.
3. comprehend the Macroeconomic policies adopted in India in recent times and their impact. 
4. introduce key issues related to economic growth and development in the state of Karnataka. 

Course Description:

This course covers the statistical and econometric foundations of data analysis including the statistical and econometric theory and its applications. In particular, statistics modules broadly cover descriptive statistics, theory of probability, standard statistical distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing. Econometric modules cover the basic aspects of econometric methodology, OLS method and assumption violations (Autocorrelation, Multicollinearity and Heteroscedasticity). The specific objective of these modules is to provide an understanding of the basic concepts and methods of Statistics and Econometrics for application in data analysis, to get analytical skills required for the analysis of socio-economic data, to provide hands-on training in data analysis (along with computer applications). The emphasis is on application (including analysis and interpretation) rather than theoretical derivations. The idea is to impart training on how to make an argument based on data.

Course Objectives:

The course aims to help students to:

• understand the concepts and methods of Statistics and Econometrics for application in data analysis.
• acquire skills in data analysis through statistical and econometrics techniques (along with computer applications).

Course Description:

The course introduces a detailed overview of research methodology. First, it introduces the meaning, definition, types and importance of research. Thereafter, methods and approaches of social science research will be discussed. The course then introduces different components of research problems and research design. The last sections of the course elaborate survey designs, methods of data collection, data processing, and hypothesis testing. The final section discusses the ways of report/article/thesis writing.  

Course Objectives:

The course aims to help students to:

1. understand the nature of research and methods adopted in social science;
2. illustrate the importance of research problems and design to conduct research in economics;
3. explain the appropriate sampling design and data collection to conduct research in economics;
4. illustrate the steps involved in developing hypotheses and show appropriate statistical tools to test the same;
5. develop the skills required to write research report.

Introduce the students to research concepts and methods in a bid to approach things in a systematic manner. This subject will provide an understanding of the research methods and concepts.

Course Objectives:

The course aims to help students to:

• To familiarize students with the process of research
• To sharpen their investigative capacities
• To educate them about data collection and how to analyse data.

Knowledge of how Political Science has to be researched and written is as important a component as studying the discipline. Issues that are contested, problems of ideological orientation as well as the structure in writing political phenomenon are areas that are relevant for a better understanding of the Discourse. As an extension this whole process translates well into understanding ‘Writing’ as a creative & intellectual activity that requires a certain extent of academic rigor for greater validation.

 Course Objectives

The course aims to help students to:

• Understand the primacy of research as a vital component of academic activity.
• Explore the various nuances of writing as a thought & as an activity

This course is to provide students with the opportunity to explore a wide range of audio and visual production technologies and techniques. It is a technical course supported by a selection of written and oral presentation activities. Students work individually as well as in small teams as they proceed through production exercises and projects. It combines theory, history and practice with hands-on demonstrations, workshops, screenings, readings, lectures and discussions, thus preparing students to produce documentary videos of various styles Over the course, they will create an assortment of audio and video production projects. The equipment used will include (digital) video cameras; lights; microphones; computers; audio and video digitizers; and a variety of video production support equipment. Software utilized in the course will introduce students to storyboarding; video editing; digital effects; image manipulation and audio production. They will also be introduced to documentary-style filmmaking.

 Course Objectives:

The course aims to help students to:

• Apply the basic steps inherent in the audio and video production processes.
• Demonstrate awareness of Audio and Video production career opportunities.
• Demonstrate basic audio and video production knowledge, and terminology. 
• Demonstrate knowledge of a variety of digital acquisition hardware, digital cameras, CD/DVD recorders/drives, samplers, microphones, etc.
• Demonstrate an understanding of multi-track/MIDI digital audio recording utilizing a computer and audio production software.
• Demonstrate an understanding of basic digital video as it relates to the non-linear and post-production process.
• With the basic capabilities to tell socially engaging stories through documentaries.
• Demonstrate the ability to research, develop and produce a documentary film.

This course examines the procedural aspects of the governments in India both at central as well as state level. The course offers an analysis with special reference to Constitutional bodies like Union Public Service Commission, Comptroller and Auditor General, Finance Commission, NITI Aayog and National Human Rights Commission.  Specifically, it provides knowledge relating to Local Self-Governments at various levels.

Course Objectives

The course aims to help students to:

• understand the relationship between political equations and government System.
• explore contemporary issues in procedural aspects of legislative, administrative, and financial relations between Union and state governments.
• analyse the working equations of Constitutional and statutory bodies in India.

Policy analysis provides a basic level analysis orientation towards public policy. This course is designed to prepare students to write and analyze a policy and offer an alternative public policy, which is a public policy analysis exercise. Topics include conceptual understanding of policy analysis, process of policy analysis, Identifying and structuring public policy problem, models, and tools of policy analysis.   

Course Objectives

The course aims to help students to:

• understand the conceptual foundation for and the process of doing policy analysis. 
• orient models, and tools used in the analysis of public policy.
• explore the research techniques and methods, sources of data collection models and tools that will be used to analyze policy formulation and execution.

This course has been designed to promote professional skills in the students. The theme identified for the third and fourth semesters is Critical thinking and professional Development. The topics identified under the theme will enable the students to understand the challenges faced during their career and allow them to face them with necessary skills. 

The course aims to: 

• develop discipline specific skills for professional and personal growth.
• provide a platform to nurture and hone skills necessary for professional development. 

The paper deals with the nature of government intervention and its implications for allocation, distribution and stabilization. This study involves a formal analysis of government taxation and expenditures. This paper combines a thorough understanding of financial institutions with a careful analysis of the issues which underline budgetary policies in general and the Indian experience in particular.

Course Objectives

• To give the students an in-depth understanding of public debt, government taxation and expenditures.
• To provide students with a thorough understanding of the theories governing public finance.

Course Description:

The course aims at providing the students with the basic understanding of the microeconomic aspect of labour theories and labour market. The students have to understand the labour market structure, wage determination, unemployment, the growth pattern and the changes that have taken place in labour regulations of the country. The course also aims to introduce the various data available in the field of labour and employment such as NSS data on employment and unemployment that will enable the students to associate real situations with theories.

Course Objectives:

The course aims to help students to:

1. demonstrate the microeconomic aspect to understand the functioning of different labour markets.
2. examine the evolving wage payment mechanism and discrimination in the labour market.
3. understand the various determinants of employment, unemployment and the mobility of labour.
4. evaluate the labour regulation and labour market policies in India

One of the requirements of B.A. (Economics, Media Studies, Political Science) students at CHRIST (Deemed to be University) is the ability to apply theoretical knowledge acquired in their course to practical applications.  Hence, the students are expected to complete a short internship during the summer break after the fourth semester as part of the course curriculum.   Having undergone extensive understanding/training in Economics/Political Science/Media studies theories, Statistics & Econometrics, and Research Methodology, this course enables students to demonstrate an understanding of how to apply theoretical knowledge to practice in different organizations/institutions of their choice. The minimum duration of the internship is stipulated as four weeks. It is evaluated based on set criteria out of 50 marks and has a maximum of two (2) credits.

Course Objectives: 

The course aims to help students to:

• apply theoretical knowledge to practical, real-life problems.
• analyse data/information through a scientific method.
• relate the acquired skills in practical application(s) and gain industry experience.

This course will explore culture, society and the representation of gender through media and the ways in which media content enables, facilitates and challenges these social constructions in society. Students will focus on the gendered aspects of society and culture.

Course Objectives

The course aims to help students to:

• Gain insight into the ways in which gender and its intersections with race, ethnicity and class is enacted and represented
• Explore the socio-cultural mechanisms that shape our individual and collective notions of identity 
• Make sense of what it means to be male, female or the third gender

Course Description 

This course provides students with the knowledge of theoretical and structural models of marketing communication and aims to equip students with the tools necessary to create promotional campaigns. Students will be actively involved in designing and implementing various communication strategies in marketing.

course objectives

The course aims to help students to:

• Understand the concept, theories and communication strategies.
• Understand consumer’s psychology and behaviour. 
• Equip students with the latest concepts and techniques of marketing communication to meet customer demand on social media platforms.

Course Description:

This course is a comprehensive study of International Relations. It provides a foundational understanding of the theories and concepts of International relations. It will aid the students to analyse the major themes in international affairs and world politics.

Course Objectives:

The course aims to help students to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of different schools of thought in International Relations.
• Develop an ability to integrate the theories and contextualize contemporary global events.
• Outline the behaviour of nation-states in the international arena.

It would be a severe underestimation to consider Western Political Thought as just another discipline, as Western Political Thought is a testament of political creation. Western political Thought narrates the story of how to constitute an ideal body-politic, but the ideal has never been exhausted, which has inspired thinkers from Plato to Marx to articulate their own version of ideal body-politic. The course is designed to introduce students to main thinkers of Western Political Thought, to give them an idea as how Western Political Thought has developed. The course would attempt to give students a rigorous overview of Western Political thought by evoking the original text of thinkers concerned. The course would engage with texts like Plato’s Republic, Aristotle’s Politics and Machiavelli’s The Prince. The course would also attempt to develop a culture of doing a rigorous, hermeneutic way of reading a text which will also take into consideration the context into which thinkers ‘performed’ their philosophy.

Course Objectives:

The course aims to help students to:

●        The nature, emergence and trajectory of Western Political Thought

●        The major ideas, thinkers and debates emerging from Western Political Thought

This course offers selected classical and modern concepts and theories of Public Administration. It introduces the evolution of public administration as a discipline and the significance of dichotomy between political science and public administration. Specifically, it provides basic concepts and principles like organisation, hierarchy, unity of command, span of control, authority, and responsibility etc. Besides, students learn core theories of public administration and new frontiers in the field of public administration.

Course Objectives:

The course aims to help students to:

• understand the nature and importance of public administration and its evolution as a discipline. 
• critically reflect on theories in public administration and their general applicability in governmental context.
• analyse new frontiers in the field of administrative science in general and administrative behaviour in particular.

The primary objective of this course is to familiarize the database management and various discipline specific software packages to the students and help them to analyse the basic statistical methods for data analysis. The theme identified for the fifth and sixth semester is Data management and Technical Knowledge.

The course aims to:

• develop discipline specific skills for professional and personal growth.
• provide a platform to nurture and hone skills necessary for professional development. 

Course Description

The course provides a basic foundation in the theories of international economics.  It also enables the understanding of the trade policies and practices adopted in various countries as well as the impact of the same. The motives and effects of labour and capital mobility are brought out to facilitate the understanding of factor movement. The course exposes the students to the forms of economic integration in theory and practice.  The module on the structure of the balance of payments and foreign exchange markets gives an in-depth view of the same and the issues therein. The course concludes with a discussion on the financial liberalisation and economic crises in recent times.

Course Objectives:

The course aims to:

1. introduce the different theories pertaining to international trade.

2. enhance the understanding of trade policies and practices adopted globally.

3. bring out the motives and effects of global labour and capital movement.

4. provide a theoretical and practical understanding of the forms and effects of economic integration. 

5. comprehend the interlinkages between the balance of payment, foreign exchange markets, financial liberalisation and economic crises. 

Course Description:

The course introduces students to the conceptual and practical operations of the financial markets, institutions and instruments network in Indian context.  The course gives a brief understanding of the topics of financial regulations, equity market, stock evaluation, stock returns and derivative market including hedging and arbitrage.

Course Objectives:

To train students to:

1. perceive the significance of finance by understanding the operational issues of capital and money markets.
2. analyse the economic conditions of India, before and after liberalization policies were introduced and how it contributed to several financial sector reforms. 
3. comprehend the role of capital markets, their operations, stock valuations and stock risk-return analysis.  

Course Description

One of the requirements of BA EMP students at CHRIST is to acquire the ability to conduct academic research under the guidance of a Research Supervisor. Students are free to choose research topics in either Economics, Media Studies, or Political Science or to take up multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary research work. Having undergone extensive training in research methodology, this course enables students to demonstrate an understanding of how to apply theoretical knowledge to practice by investigating and carefully evaluating real-life problems. The dissertation should be a minimum of 10,000 words in length (or approximately 35 pages to 50 pages) formatted following the APA 7th Edition guidelines. The word count includes the title, table of content, text, tables, citations, quotations, and footnotes. The certificate pages, acknowledgment page, the abstract (150 - 250 words, with 5 Keywords), the reference list, and the appendices are excluded from the word count.

Course Objectives

The course aims to:

• inculcate in students the rigour of research work.
• imbibe in students the spirit of inquiry.
• train students to read academic research journal articles
• train the students in the application of different research tools in social science/arts.
• train the students in various research methods in economics, media studies, and political science.
• orient students to new fields of research in economics, media studies, or political science.

This course is designed to enable students to understand marketing today. Marketing has truly become a battleground. Integrated marketing communication is the strategic weapon that fights competition and yields a ‘top-of-the-mind-recall’ to the brand. On one hand, consumers are becoming more and more demanding with lots of brands to choose from. On the other, their attention spans have significantly reduced due to clutter, chaos and time poverty. In a scenario like this, advertising and public relations are strategic tools that if used smartly can earn mind space. With the advent of digital space and information access to the consumer, these weapons can backfire if not used properly. Therefore, an organization aims to strategically using these weapons in order to generate returns on marketing investment

Objectives:

The course aims to help students to:

• Equip students with the latest concepts and techniques of advertising
• Understand market insights into strategies that attract eyeballs
• Capture the consumer’s mind
• Equip students with the recent concepts and practices in public relations
• Understand the relevance of public relations  

Course Description: 

Film Studies is the study of the production, aesthetics and history of the 20th century’s most important visual medium-the cinema. As a storytelling device, as a historical document, as an expression of imagination, as an artistic object, it is unmatched as a form that is capable of capturing our interest and provoking the senses. The cinema can create worlds of magic, and fantasy just as easily as it can expose the dim reality of actually lived life. Our primary interest will be in reading, in this case, reading the language of cinema, in order to improve our critical understanding of the way texts create meaning.

Course Objectives:

The course aims to help students to:

• explore the major aesthetic trends in the history of cinema.
• understand the nature and process of film production.
• learn how to read and analyze film as you would a novel, a poem or a short story

familiarize with certain theoretical ideas presented by major film theorists.

Course Description

The course explores issues important to world politics. It specifically intends to introduce students to international law, international organizations, regionalism, international economic order, and India’s foreign policy with major powers. 

Course Objectives

The course aims to help students to:

•  illustrate factual and historical aspects of international issues.
•  apply theories of international law, international organizations and regionalism to contemporary world events.
• orient students to approaches of globalization in the changing world order
• outline the evolution and changing dynamics of India’s foreign policy.

The study of constitutions for studying various societies and their politics is not new as it started centuries back with Aristotle’s systematic classification of constitutions. However, over time Comparative Politics attempted to make it more advanced and less value biased by studying political systems and not constitutions. Though there are many classifications based upon which we can arrive at various ‘types’ of political systems, the parliamentary and presidential political systems have inspired many countries. Since UK and USA are considered the main inspirations behind these two types of political systems, it becomes extremely necessary to study them for developing a truly comparative perspective. This course will try to understand their institutions, conventions, practices, party systems and pressures-challenges before them to get a fuller understanding of their day to day working. Besides, ideals and tools of direct democracy are always the source of improvisation for modern democratic states and the political systems that is closest to them is that of Switzerland. This necessitates the study of the Swiss political system and its unique institutions like Landsgemeinde, Popular Initiative, Mandatory and Optional Referendums, Double Majority etc. Finally, all of the above mentioned political systems are multi-party, liberal democracies and to get a better understanding of political systems in a comparative perspective, this course offers the study of People’s Republic of China which is a communist, one party dominated state. 

Course Objectives

The course aims to help students to: 

• Illustrate the comparitive political systems and constitutions.
• Outline the structural dynamics of political systems of UK, USA,Switzerland and China.
• Analyse the contemporary issues and debates-challenges around functional aspects of governance in the selected countries with a comparative perspective.
• Examine the principles and historical roots that shaped the nature and behaviour of the select states.
• compare and contrast different political systems, and thereby gain the skills to do comparative studies around the strengths, weaknesses and potential of any political system.

This course offers selected classical and modern concepts and theories of Public Administration. It introduces the evolution of public administration as a discipline and the significance of dichotomy between political science and public administration. Specifically, it provides basic concepts and principles like organisation, hierarchy, unity of command, span of control, authority, and responsibility etc. Besides, students learn core theories of public administration and new frontiers in the field of public administration.

Course Objectives:

The course aims to help students to:

• understand the nature and importance of public administration and its evolution as a discipline. 
• critically reflect on theories in public administration and their general applicability in governmental context.
• analyse new frontiers in the field of administrative science in general and administrative behaviour in particular.

The primary objective of this course is to familiarize the database management and various discipline specific software packages to the students and help them to analyse the basic statistical methods for data analysis. The theme identified for the fifth and sixth semester is Data management and Technical Knowledge.

The course aims to:

• Develop discipline specific skills for professional and personal growth.
• Provide a platform to nurture and hone skills necessary for professional development.