The College offers short-term add-on courses to supplement learning in art, culture, science and awareness building programmes.

India in the Era of Globalization
Coordinator: Dr Deb Kusum Das

In our everyday life while reading the newspaper or while trying to form an opinion, we come across the phenomenon loosely described as globalisation/liberalisation. How does this phenomenon affect our lives? Why did we choose this path of development? What has been the experience of other people in the world whose economies have chosen this path? If it is such a good thing, why are large sections of people across the world so opposed to it (as seen at the various protests at the World Social Forum)?

This short-term course (the first of its kind anywhere in India at the undergraduate level) will try to help us understand the trajectory of development that India has chosen since the 1990s. This course will address broadly the following questions:

• What is globalization and liberalization?
• What was the trajectory of development in India during the
  period 1950-1990?
• What has been the new path of development since 1990?
• What are the opportunities and challenges facing the Indian economy in a globalised world?

The course will assume that the student has no training in Economics but the medium of instruction will be English. Eminent economists from all over India will deliver about half of the lectures.