The M.Phil. programme of one year duration consists of two parts of six months each. Part I comprises course work where students have to complete one compulsory research methods course, and any two of the optional courses offered in the year of their admission. A selection of the optional courses listed below will be offered each year depending on research interests and availability of admitted students and faculty. The specific topics and readings that will be covered each year in any paper will be finalized based on student and faculty interests and requirements at the beginning of the academic session. Students are expected to select two courses from the basket of courses offered after attending an introductory class offered for each course during the first week of classes.

COURSE OUTLINE

Compulsory Course

1. Research Methods

Optional Courses

1. Reflections on Ethnography
2. Contemporary Class Analysis
3. Philosophical Anthropology
4. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
5. Theorising Democracy, Equality and Social Justice
6. Archaeology of Caste
7. Crisis – Event
8. Everyday Life and its Horizons
9. Sociology of Health and Illness
10. Theorising Masculinities
11. Rethinking the Family in Contemporary Society
12. Nature, Society, Environment
13. Sociology of Civil War
14. Studying the State
15. Agrarian Structure
16. Transnational Migration, Gender and Identities
17. Social Discrimination and Subalterneity: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
18. Gender and Population: Perspectives on Reproduction, Sexuality, and Power
19. Women in Indian Society
20. Art, Modernism, and the Public
21. Ethnographies of Violence: Perspectives from Europe and Asia
22. Gender in Contemporary India
23. Sociology of Punjab
24. Sociology of Schooling: Perspectives and Practice
25. Climate Change and Society
26. Culture, Reproduction and Technology
27. Sociology of Law
28. Texts of our Times
29. Biopolitics and Social Life
30. Texts in Modern Indian Social Thought

M.Phil. Syllabus

Part I: Course Work

The evaluation of the performance of candidates in each paper will be based on the assignments and written tests conducted by the teacher/teachers concerned.

In order to pass in Part I, a candidate must secure at least 50% in each paper. A candidate who fails to secure an aggregate of 50% in Part-I, but has completed all other requirements, may be permitted to move to Part-II of the M.Phil. programme (Dissertation). This is subject to securing at least 50% in each of two papers out of the three papers comprising the Part-I programme. However, such a candidate will not be eligible to submit his/her dissertation unless the minimum requirements for passing Part-I have been fulfilled by improving his/her performance in the paper in which he/ she has secured less than 50% marks.

A candidate who has secured more than 60% marks in Part-I of the M.Phil. programme has the option to seek direct admission to the Ph.D. Course for which the candidate would be required to submit a research abstract.

Part II: Dissertation

After passing the Part-I examination a student shall be required to write a dissertation. The topic and the nature of the dissertation of each candidate will be determined by an Advisory Committee consisting of two members including the supervisor. Candidates will be required to submit four typed copies of the dissertation and a soft copy on CD along with an abstract of not more than 500 words. Two copies of the dissertation should be printed on both sides of the paper and a third copy should be hard bound. The length of the M. Phil. dissertation shall ordinarily be between 10,000 to 15,000 words.

The dissertation will be submitted only when the supervisor is satisfied that it is worthy of consideration in partial fulfillment of the M.Phil. degree.

The dissertation may include results of original research, a fresh interpretation of existing facts and data, a critical review, or it may take any other form as determined by the Advisory Committee.

Note: The evaluation of candidates in Part I and II of the M. Phil. Programme will conform to the following scheme:

Pass: At least 50% marks in each of the written papers (Part I) and 50% marks in the dissertation (Part II).

First division: 60% marks in the aggregate of Part I and II.

First Division with distinction: 75% marks in the aggregate of Part I and II.

The minimum attendance requirements will be 2/3rds of the total number of lectures, seminars, and discussions held in each course.

Attendance at research seminars conducted by the Research Colloquium is compulsory for M.Phil. students.

Please refer to the following documents for University Guidelines
(From Registration to Award of Degree)

Guidelines for Research Scholars Registered between July 11, 2009 and July 04, 2016

Guidelines for Research Scholars Registered on or after July 05, 2016