BA (Hons.) Specialization: Economics

This specialization introduces the students to theoretical, analytical, and policy foundations of the economy. It will further aid them in developing a critical approach to understand relationships between theory and policy through analytical frameworks and analyzing empirical evidence.

Program Highlights

• International Exchange and Progressive Study Opportunities with the world’s leading institutions and universities
• Contemporary curriculum and innovative pedagogical and scenario-based teaching / learning processes
• Enriching industry engagement avenues like conclaves, guest Lecturers, curriculum advisors, design project sponsors and mentors.
• Accomplished practitioners and industry experts as faculty and mentors
• Experiential and applied learning methodology for real-world application of theory and high-impact learning

Program Curriculum

Semester 1
Courses

• Communicative English
• The Freedom Movement of India
• Urban Lab: Research Project
• Principles of economics
• Indian economy and Planning
• Introduction to Political Science
• Public Administration
• OE 1 (Business Organization/Office Organization and Management/Castes, Tribes, and Cultures in India/ History of Science and Technology and Medicine )

Semester 2
Courses

• Analytical Appreciation of Language
• The Art of Self Reflection
• Historical Tourism: Theory and Practice
• Microeconomics -1
• Mathematics for economics
• Indian Political System
• Indian Constitution
• OE 2 (People Management/Retail Management/Work, Technology and Society/Digital History and Public History)

Semester 3
Courses

• Professional Communication
• Environmental Studies
• Epidemiology and Public Health
• Macroeconomics-1
• Statistics for economics
• Public Policy Making
• International Relations
• OE 3 (Social Media Marketing /Digital Fluency/Religion and Politics in the modern world/History of Gender and Sexuality)

Semester 4
Courses

• Language and Society
• Digital Humanities and AI Cybercultures
• Microeconomics-2
• International economics  
• Environment and Biodiversity Conservation
• Indian Foreign Policy 21st Century
• OE 4 (Business Leadership Skills/Financial Education & Investment Awareness/Economic Sociology/Global Environmental History )
• Summer Internship

Semester 5
Courses

• Macroeconomics -2
• Industrial economics
• The United Nations and Global Conflicts
• OE 5 (Business communication /Borders, Migrations and Diaspora/History and Historiography )
• Vocational Internship

Semester 6
Courses

• Monetary Economics   
• Introduction to econometrics
• Identity Politics in India
• OE 6 (Operations Research and Quantitative Techniques/Political Sociology/History of Subaltern Studies )
• Summer Internship

Semester 7
Courses

• Behaviour economics
• Time series Econometrics
• Factor pricing and Welfare Economics
• OE 7 (Business Correspondence/Social Movements and Uprisings in India/Maritime History )
• Research Project

Semester 8
Courses

• Labour economics 
• Industrial economics
• Economics of Information
• OE 8 (Tourism Management/Sociology of Digital Platforms/Diaspora, and Migration  and Globalization History )
• Dissertation