IIT Hyderabad Introduces Master's in Development Studies
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad has launched a new master's programme in developmental studies. IITH will be accepting the application for admission into the programme from 4th May 2019 and the interested candidates will have to submit the completed form by June 4th 2019.
A new postgraduate programme in Development Studies has been launched at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH). IITH’s liberal arts department will be providing the course at the Institute. The Indian Institute of Technology will be accepting the applications for the programme from 4th May 2019. The interested candidates will be required to fill and submit the form by the 4th of June 2019.
The head of the Liberal Arts Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Dr Haripriya Narasimhan has stated the importance of the course. He states that the developmental studies programme has been designed in such a way that they are able to produce professionals as well as roles that can help determine how the different aspects of life such as psychological, physical, political, cultural, ecological as well as economical, affect each other in the day to day routine of the world. The programme will train the candidates to become those professionals and fill up those roles that require such expertise.
Dr Haripriya also added that since the Master’s Programme in Development Studies is interdisciplinary in nature, which will directly help in understanding development in the various facets of life.
The courses will be taught by various faculty members from the different disciplines in the liberal arts department. The different disciplines that are involved in the programme are from developmental studies, anthropology, humanities, psychology and economics as well. The candidates will be offered courses in the different fields of the disciplines mentioned above such as health, technology studies, gender, urban settlements, disease management as well as economics will be offered to the students. The programme also has a dedicated element of an internship. The programme will be a platform for the students to connect with people and institutions or organisations in India and also internationally.
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The course has been divided into three semesters with 16 courses. Each of the courses that will be taught to the candidate has been allotted three credits each, which comes to a total of 48 credits at the end of a semester. There will be 12 credits that have been allotted to a dissertation which the students will have to focus on heavily in their concluding semester. The candidates will also have to complete an internship during summer after a year of the course work has been completed.
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The Department of liberal arts is one it’s kind and also the first in India. It focuses on working vigorously on research as well as teaching in almost all the fields of study in Social Sciences and Humanities.