Multidisciplinary Courseunder NEP 2024
Sem III- Environmental Issues and Challenges
(3 credit course)
Course Outcomcs:
On successful completion of this coursc students will be:
1. Ablc to valuc nature and its multiple components, and appreciate nature as a
dynamic
system with interdepcndent componcnts
2. Able to understand thc impacts of ongoing cconomic model, lifesty le and personal
choices on the cnvironment
3. Able to contribute as informed citizens to public discourses on Common
environmental issucs.
Unit I: Introduction to cnvironmental studies
Mcanings of environment, multiple ways of sccing it, multiple ways of diagnosing the
'environmental problem' and hence different solution
Evolution of the concept
Scope of sustainable development and sustainable consumption.
Unit II: Ecosystems
Concept and types of ccosystems, their functions (ccosystem services) and
interdepcndence especially in Indian context.
National and international policics, trcaties and politics of ccosystems management
including Payment for Ecosystem services, Millennium Ecosystem Services,
Conventionof Biological Diversity, CITES, Ramsar Convention ctc.
Social and economic importance of various ecosystems for spccific socio-cconomic
groups; top-down and bottom-up conservation policics; and how these impact on
cquity across class, caste and other social hicrarchics with reference to different
ccosystems like forests, grasslands and wet lands.
Unit III: Biodiversity Conservation
Concept of biodivcrsity, biodiversity resources of India (biodiversity hotspots), and
endangered and endemic specics.
Thrcats to biodivcrsity from habitat loss, poaching, and unsustainable
lifestyle/consumerism.
Human-wildlife conflict, State-led conservation, community driven conscrvation,
restoration ecology, international and national laws, policies and Institutions of
Conservation.
Reading List:
I. Lété, S. (2006, August). Thinking about ecological sustainability. InSEMINAR-NEW
DELIII- (Vol. 564, p. 48). MALYIKA SINGI.
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Multidisciplinary Course under NEP 2024
Sem II- Science, Technology and Society
(3 credit course)
Course Outcome:
1. Enable students to understand scicnce as a socio- cultural product in spccific historical
context:
2. Exposc students to philosophical, historical and sociological perspcctives on sciencc and
technology to look at scicnce as practice deeply cmbcdded in culture and socicty;
3. Emphasise the dynamic nature of the relations between wider cultural practices, on the one
hand, and, scientific practices, on the other in acomparative analytical framework.
Unit I: Science as Culture
Methods of Sciencc: Issucs and Perspectives.
Social Context of Production of Scientific Knowledge.
Demarcation, Autonomy and Cognitive Authority of Scicncc
Profcssionalisation of
Unit II: Organisation of Production of Scientific Knowlcdge and
Science
Science as Social Institution and Ethos of Scicncc.
Incqualitics in Scicnce.
Knowlcdge Production: Social and Cultural Contexts
Unit III: Perspectives on Science - Technology Relationship
Hierarchical, Symbiotic and Coalcscing.
of Science and
Science and Technology, and their Human Roots: Philosophy
Technology.
Technology as Knowledge
Readings:
Sciencc? Milton Keynes: The Open
1. A.F. Chalmers (1976) What is this thing callcd
University Press.
Revolutions. Chicago: Chicago
2. T.S. Kuhn (1970) The Structure of Scicntific
University Press (first published in 1962).
3. D. Oldroyd (1986) The Arch of Knowledge: An Introductory Study of the Philosophy
Methucn.
London:
and Methodology of Scicnce. New York and
University of Chicago
4 D. Bloor (1991) Knowledge and Social Imagery. Chicago: The
Press (first published in 1976). York: Routledge.
5 M. Biagiolicd., (1999) The Science Studies Reader. New
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY COURSE UNDER NEP-2020
Sem I- Public Policy
(3 credit course)
Course outcome
1. To focus on the systcmatic analysis of issues relatcd to public policy and the decision
processcs associated with them.
2. Tounderstand andenables students to address contemporary political, cconomic and
social issucs in a cohcrent and comprchensive manner.
3. To promote familiarity with the substantive character of, and problems in the
implementation of spccific arcas of public policy.
4. The main objective of the programme is to impart the students the important skills
like quantitative and qualitativc analytical skills, rcceive an cxposure to the real world
policy naking proccss, and cnhancc their managerial skills and cnduring commitment
to the public servicc values of serving the public interest with accountability and
transparency.
5. To cncourage studcnts to acquire knowledge, skills and capabilities arising from the
nccd to find solutions to the developmental problems, to defend democratic values,
and to resist authoritarian impulses to 'catch up' with or mimic less democratic
countrics.
6. To cquip the students for sccking suitable cmployment ability
7. To impart knowledge and develop understanding of rescarch methodology and its
application for rescarch rclevant to problems of governancc.
Unit I: Introduction to Public Policy
Mcaning, naturc scopc and significance of Public, Evolution of Public Policy as a
discipline
Administration
Types of Public Policy Relationship bctwecn Public Policy and Public
Conceptual framevwork of Public Policy, Basis of Policy making, Rcasons for the
study of Public Policy
Unit II: Public Policy Process
Social and cultural
The context of Public Policy- Political, Economic, Governing,
contexts
Deveiopment of thc Policy approach
Role of institutions/ official policy makers in policy making- Lcgislature, Exccutive,
Judiciary
Burcaucracy (With reference to Politico-administrative dichotomy),
Unit IIl: Public Policy in lndia
Structural
Public Policy Meaning, Nature, Scope and Significance Public Policy
Framework- Prcamble, l'cderalism and Parliamentary system
Institutions,
Actors in Policy lProcesses- Government & Non- government
International Donor Agencies
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Model Curiculum for Thrce/FourYcar Degree Course
(With Muliple Entry /Exit Option)
Bascd on NEP-2020
Sociology
(For Batch 2024-2027)
Odisha State Higher Education Council, Bhubaneswar
Government of Odisha
