Syllabus for

Academic Year  (2022)

The program will follow a continuous assesment method for evealuating the students.

The Department of Political Science and History at the BGR Campus began its academic journey at this campus in August 2020. With a vast variety of academic courses that have been tailor-made to provide a comprehensive and wholesome learning experience, the department aims to constantly engage and analyze issues of power, authority, governance and philosophical consciousness. The Department of Political Science and History intends on strengthening the critical acumen of students through an understanding of the Philosophy of Social Sciences in general. The focus lies in structuring a liberal environment with a firm foundation in academic inquiry. The Department stresses on the importance of research not only as a part of the syllabus and teaching-learning pedagogies but also encourages the same in all of its initiatives. The objective is to make the students responsible, accountable and active citizens, with a high level of academic integrity and sensitivity towards social justice and ecological sustainability.

Department Vision:

“Excellence in Teaching and Research in Political Science and History, and Service to the Society”

Department Mission:

"To offer training of the highest quality in critical thinking, creative skills, analytical skills, research competency and policy analysis along with industrial exposure, through a contemporarily evolving dynamic curriculum."

 The significance of Political Science as a discipline in contemporary times is due to the crisis of consensus in our society as the result of differences in values. In the world we live no one value can pretend to organize life anymore, with the only commonality being that all values are challenged. Absolute values have paved the way for a relativized system of values in which every value speaks and emanates from their peculiar cultural context. Relativization of Values has led to a situation wherein the possibility of drawing a consensus is never a “Given”, but it always has to be created. In this world where conflict is always a possibility, the discipline of political science creates the space for drawing consensus. Political Science has the necessary tools to envision transient but effective modes of consensus, as the discipline of Political Science teaches the diversity of values need not bemoaned, rather they underscore a need for institutional arrangement in which the concerned diversity can be institutionally articulated which will also dilute the particular intensities of values and would pave the ground for a shared commonality. The discipline of Political Science can liberate society from the morass where it finds itself and addresses the political crises and social unrest through political actions by converting into policies and addressed though political and administrative institutions.