UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

MASTER OF ARTS
(GEOGRAPHY)
(Effective from Academic Year 2019-20)

PROGRAMME BROCHURE

XXXXX Revised Syllabus as approved by Academic Council on XXXX, 2019

and Executive Council on YYYY, 2019
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CONTENTS

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I. ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT 3-4

Historical Background of the Department 3
Department Highlights in terms of its ranking 3
The Programme 3
Post Graduate Attributes of the Programme 3
Process of Course Development (involving various stakeholders at
different stages) 4

II. INTRODUCTION TO CBCS 5

Scope 5
Definitions 5

III. MASTER’S PROGRAMME DETAILS 6 - 14

Programme Objectives (POs) 6
Programme Specific Outcomes (PSOs) 6
Programme Structure 6
Eligibility for Admission 12
Assessment of Students’ Performance and Scheme of Examination 12
Pass Percentage and Promotion Criteria 12
Part I to Part II Progression 13
Conversion of Marks into Grades 13
Grade Points 13
SGPA / CGPA / FGPA Calculation 13
Division of Degree into Classes 13
Attendance Requirement 13
Span Period 13
Guidelines for the Award of Internal Assessment Marks 14

IV. COURSE WISE CONTENT DETAILS FOR MASTER’S

PROGRAMME 15 – 184
Semester I 16
Semester II 51
Semester III 89
Semester IV 139

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I. ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

Historical Background of the Department

The Department was established in October 1959 as the “Department of Human Geography” with
three young faculty members – Dr. S.S. Bhatia, Dr. S.G. Burman, and Mrs. Rukmani Srinivas. The
Department took off under the leadership of Prof. George Kurian (1959-62), followed by Prof. V. L. S.
Prakasa Rao (1965-73). Under their dynamic leadership, the department earned academic fame and
a distinct identity in India, and among the International community. The Department gradually grew
after 1973, under the able guidance of Prof. R. Ramachandran; and with widening scope of teaching
and research, it was renamed as “Department of Geography” in 1976.

Department Highlights in terms of its ranking

As per QS World University Rankings, the Department of Geography, University of Delhi is placed in
the ranking group 151-200 in 2019. The department was ranked 2nd in India in 2019.
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The Programme

The department’s master’s programme – “Master of Arts in Geography”, is a two-year program,

spread over four semesters, and comprising 18 courses of 90 credits (5 credits per course).

The 18 courses are grouped into two categories – Core (10 courses of 50 credits, all of which are
compulsory), and Elective (8 courses of 40 credits, to be selected out of 50 courses1). In-lieu of up to
two elective courses offered by the department, Open Elective courses, equivalent to a maximum of
10 credits, may be selected from elective courses offered by other departments.

Within the two-year period, a student has to complete 20 credits each in semesters 1 and 2, which is
equivalent to four courses per semester (three core and one elective courses); and 25 credits each in
semesters 3 and 4, which is equivalent to five courses per semester (two core and three elective
courses).

Post Graduate Attributes of the Programme

The ten core courses cover central and vital areas of geography, about which all students should
have knowledge. These ten courses are classifiable as follows, as per the traditional classification of
knowledge:

A. Theoretical Base – Two courses on Modern Geographical Thought, and Environment and
Ecology, builds up the theoretical and ideological foundations of geography.

B. Methodological Base – Three courses on Statistical Techniques in Spatial Analysis; Remote

Sensing and Geographical Information System; and Research Methods and Techniques in
Geography strengthens the methodological and practical fundamentals of geography.

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The Departmental Council will announce the actual number of elective courses to be offered, at the
beginning of each semester.

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C. Systematic Approach – Three courses on Geomorphological Analysis, Contemporary Human

Geography, and New Economic Geography address the contemporary issues in geography,
both physical and human.

D. Regional Approach – Geography of India

E. Applications – Vulnerability and Disaster

The elective courses cover contemporary, specialized and super-specialized areas of physical and
human geography. The elective courses, marked by an asterisk (*) are open elective courses, which
are also offered to post-graduate students of other departments, subject to fulfilling eligibility
conditions mentioned subsequently. In-lieu of up to two elective courses offered by the department,
students may select open elective courses, equivalent to a maximum of 10 credits, from elective
courses offered by other departments.

All the post-graduate courses are at advanced level, and have been constructed as continuity over
the under-graduate courses, which are seen as basic, and are taught at foundation level. The present
structure thus covers the foundational aspects of the discipline, and also builds towards
specialization.

Process of Course Development (involving various stakeholders at different stages)

In the initial phase, the department commenced the process of updating its Master’s curriculum that
was decided in the meeting of the Departmental Council held on 19th May 2016.

Following the instruction of the university to revise the post-graduate courses on CBCS pattern, an
intensive and rigorous process was started in the subsequent phase, whose milestone stages are
mentioned below:

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6

Approval of Approval of Approval of Stakeholder Experts’ Approval by
Credit Semester wise Course inputs Review; and Committee of
Structure Course Titles Details Feedback Courses
from
Students’ and
Alumni
Approved in Approved in Approved in Submitted to Approved in Approved in
Departmental Departmental Departmental the University Departmental Committee of
Council Council Council on Council Courses (Post-
Meeting held Meeting held Meeting held 15th May 2018 Meeting held Graduate and
on on on and on Honours)
25th April 03rd May 2018 18th May 2018 22nd May 31st May 2018 Meeting held
2018 2018 on 14th June
2018

Stage 7: Approval by Faculty of Social Sciences in its meeting held on 10th July 2018.

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II. INTRODUCTION TO CBCS (CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM)

Scope

The CBCS provides an opportunity for the students to choose courses from the prescribed courses
comprising core and elective courses. The courses are evaluated following the grading system, which
provides uniformity in the evaluation and computation of the Cumulative Grade Point Average
(CGPA) based on student’s performance in examinations which enables the student to move across
institutions of higher learning. The uniformity in evaluation system also enables the potential
employers in assessing the performance of the candidates.

Definitions

(i) ‘Academic Programme’ means an entire course of study comprising its programme structure,
course details, evaluation schemes etc. designed to be taught and evaluated in a teaching
Department/Centre or jointly under more than one such Department/ Centre.

(ii) ‘Course’ means a segment of a subject that is part of an Academic Programme.

(iii) ‘Programme Structure’ means a list of courses (Core, Elective, and Open Elective) that makes
up an Academic Programme, specifying the syllabus, credits, hours of teaching, evaluation and
examination schemes, minimum number of credits required for successful completion of the
programme etc. prepared in conformity to University Rules, eligibility criteria for admission.

(iv) ‘Core Course’ means a course that a student admitted to a particular programme must
successfully complete to receive the degree, and which cannot be substituted by any other
course.

(v) ‘Elective Course’ means an optional course to be selected by a student out of such courses
offered in the same or any other Department/Centre.

(vi) ‘Open Elective’ means an elective course which is available for students of all programmes,
including students of the same department. Students of other Department will opt these
courses subject to fulfilling of eligibility of criteria as laid down by the Department offering the
course.

(vii) ‘Credit’ means the value assigned to a course which indicates the level of instruction.

(viii) ‘One Credit’ equals to one-hour lecture/tutorial/or two-hour practical per week. Credit for a
practical may be proposed as part of a course or as a separate practical course.

(ix) ‘SGPA’ means Semester Grade Point Average calculated for individual semester.

(x) ‘CGPA’ is Cumulative Grade Points Average calculated for all courses completed by the
students at any point of time. CGPA is calculated each year for both the semesters clubbed
together.

(xi) ‘FGPA’ is Final Grade Points Average calculated in the last year of the course by clubbing
together CGPA of two years, i.e., four semesters. FGPA is being given in Transcript form. To
benefit the student a formula for conversation of FGPA into %age marks is given in the
Transcript.

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III. MASTER’S PROGRAMME DETAILS

Programme Objectives (POs)

The ‘Master of Arts in Geography’ programme offered by the department, “aims at empowering
students with knowledge and skills for spatial thinking and analysis, to navigate real world problems,
and contribute to society in a meaningful way”.

Programme Specific Outcomes (PSOs)

At the end of the two-year (four-semester) course, students will have comprehensive knowledge
about contemporary issues in geography, both physical and human.

Programme Structure

The Master’s programme is a two-year course divided into four-semesters. A student is required to
complete 90 credits for the completion of course and the award of degree.

Part Year Semester Semester

Part – I First Year Semester I Semester II
Part – II Second Year Semester III Semester IV

Elective Courses /
Core Courses
Open Elective Courses (*)

Grand Total
Total No. of

(per paper)
Semester

Credits
Papers

Credits
(per paper)

(per paper)
Credits

Credits
Credits

Credits
Papers

Papers
No. of

No. of
Total

Total

I 3 5 15 1 5 05 4 5 20
II 3 5 15 1 5 05 4 5 20
III 2 5 10 3 5 15 5 5 25
IV 2 5 10 3 5 15 5 5 25
Total 10 5 50 8 5 40 18 5 90

 All courses, whether Core and Elective, will have 5 hours of teaching per week. However, in
practical courses, the equivalent of one-hour of lecture/tutorial (L/T) will be two-hours
practical (P).
 (*) In-lieu of up to two Elective courses of the department (in semesters III and/or IV),
students can offer Open Electives courses of up to 10 credits from other departments.
 Duration of examination of each course shall be 3 hours (for Theory courses) and 4 hours (for
Practical courses).
 Each course will be of 100 marks, out of which 70 marks shall be allocated for semester
examination, and 30 marks for internal assessment.

The semester wise details of Master’s Course are given below.

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SEMESTER I

The student will study three core courses, which are compulsory; and select one elective course.

Core Courses (All the three courses are compulsory)

Course Course Name Hours per Week Credits

Code L T P
GEOG1C01 Geomorphological Analysis 4 1 0 5
GEOG1C02 Geography of India 4 1 0 5
GEOG1C03 Statistical Techniques in Spatial Analysis 4 1 0 5

Elective Courses (Select any one course)

Course Course Name Hours per Week Credits

Code L T P
GEOG1E01 Analytical Physical Geography (Practical) 2 0 6 5
GEOG1E02 Climatology and Biogeography 4 1 0 5
GEOG1E03 Cultural Geography (*) 4 1 0 5
GEOG1E04 Geography of Urban Environment 4 1 0 5
GEOG1E05 Historical Geography 4 1 0 5
GEOG1E06 Population and Development (*) 4 1 0 5
GEOG1E07 Social Geography of India (*) 4 1 0 5
GEOG1E08 Techniques and Methods of Regional Analysis 4 1 0 5
GEOG1E09 Transport Network and Flow Analysis 4 1 0 5
GEOG1E10 Urban Geography 4 1 0 5

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SEMESTER II

The student will study three core courses, which are compulsory; and select one elective course.

Core Courses (All the three courses are compulsory)

Course Course Name Hours per Week Credits

Code L T P
GEOG2C01 Environment and Ecology 4 1 0 5
GEOG2C02 Contemporary Human Geography 4 1 0 5
GEOG2C03 Remote Sensing and Geographical 2 0 6 5
Information System (Practical)

Elective Courses (Select any one course)

Course Course Name Hours per Week Credits

Code L T P
GEOG2E01 Agricultural Geography 4 1 0 5
GEOG2E02 Everyday Geographies (*) 4 1 0 5
GEOG2E03 Geographies of Gender and Development in 4 1 0 5
South Asia
GEOG2E04 Geography of Cryosphere 4 1 0 5
GEOG2E05 Geography of Global Capitalism 4 1 0 5
GEOG2E06 Geography of Migration 4 1 0 5
GEOG2E07 Heritage Conservation 4 1 0 5
GEOG2E08 Hydrology and Water Resources Management 4 1 0 5
GEOG2E09 Multivariate Statistical Analysis 4 1 0 5
GEOG2E10 Regional Geography 4 1 0 5

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SEMESTER III

The student will study two core courses, which are compulsory; and select three elective courses.

In-lieu of one of the three elective courses, students may select open elective course(s) equivalent to
5 credits, from open elective courses offered by other departments.

Core Courses (Both the courses are compulsory)

Course Course Name Hours per Week Credits

Code L T P
GEOG3C01 Modern Geographical Thought 4 1 0 5
GEOG3C02 Research Methods and Techniques in 4 1 0 5
Geography

Elective Courses (Select any three courses)

Course Course Name Hours per Week Credits

Code L T P
GEOG3E01 Cities of Global South (*) 4 1 0 5
GEOG3E02 Climate Change and Adaptations 4 1 0 5
GEOG3E03 Demography and Population Geography 4 1 0 5
GEOG3E04 Development Theory and Regional Policy 4 1 0 5
GEOG3E05 Digital Image Processing (Practical) 2 0 6 5
GEOG3E06 Geographical Information System (Practical) 2 0 6 5
GEOG3E07 Geography in India 4 1 0 5
GEOG3E08 Geography of South Asia 4 1 0 5
GEOG3E09 Land, Ocean and Atmosphere Interaction 4 1 0 5
GEOG3E10 Landslide Risk Analysis 4 1 0 5
GEOG3E11 Media Geography 4 1 0 5
GEOG3E12 Natural Resources Management 4 1 0 5
GEOG3E13 Regional Development in India (*) 4 1 0 5
GEOG3E14 Sexuality and Space (*) 4 1 0 5
GEOG3E15 Territorial Bases of Politics in India 4 1 0 5

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SEMESTER IV

The student will study two core courses, which are compulsory; and select three elective courses.

In-lieu of one of the three elective courses, students may select open elective course(s) equivalent to
5 credits, from open elective courses offered by other departments.

Core Courses (Both the courses are compulsory)

Course Course Name Hours per Week Credits

Code L T P
GEOG4C01 Vulnerability and Disaster 4 1 0 5
GEOG4C02 New Economic Geography 4 1 0 5

Elective Courses (Select any three courses)

Course Course Name Hours per Week Credits

Code L T P
GEOG4E01 Project Report (Dissertation) 1 0 8 5
GEOG4E02 Applied Climatology (Practical) 2 0 6 5
GEOG4E03 Culture, History and Landscape 4 1 0 5
GEOG4E04 Demographic Techniques 4 1 0 5
GEOG4E05 Energy Geographies 4 1 0 5
GEOG4E06 Environmental Impact Assessment (*) 4 1 0 5
GEOG4E07 Gender, Space and Society in India 4 1 0 5
GEOG4E08 Geographies of Social Justice in India 4 1 0 5
GEOG4E09 Geography of Health 4 1 0 5
GEOG4E10 Geography of Himalaya 4 1 0 5
GEOG4E11 Integrated Watershed Management 4 1 0 5
GEOG4E12 Terrain Modelling 4 1 0 5
GEOG4E13 Trans Geographies (*) 4 1 0 5
GEOG4E14 Urban and Regional Planning 4 1 0 5
GEOG4E15 Urban Development and Management 4 1 0 5

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Selection of Elective Courses

Each elective course, including courses marked as open elective (*), will be offered to a maximum of
25 students from the department, based on merit (and other additional academic abilities2) to be
decided by the department at the beginning of each semester. For an elective course, including
courses marked as open elective (*), to run in any of the semesters, it should be offered by a
minimum of 5 students.

In the case of project report (dissertation), a maximum of two students per faculty member will be
offered at the beginning of third semester, but the evaluation will be done at the end of fourth
semester.

Allocations to elective courses, including project report (dissertation), are purely academic, on the
basis of merit (and additional academic abilities), and no reservations or concessions will apply.

Eligibility for Open Elective Courses

Elective course marked by an asterisk (*) are also available to post-graduate students from Faculty of
Arts, Faculty of Social Sciences, and Department of Environmental Studies (University of Delhi).

The maximum number, and eligibility criteria for the open elective courses (*) for students from
outside the department will be decided by the department at the beginning of each semester.

Students of other departments, offering the open elective courses will have to abide by the various
rules and regulations of the Department of Geography. Any, request for re-adjustment of time-
tables, and re-scheduling of submission of assignments or conduct of mid-semester and end-
semester examinations will not be entertained.

Teaching

The faculty of the Department is primarily responsible for organizing lecture work for the Master’s
program. Weekly teaching plan is tentative. There shall be 90 instructional days per semester
excluding examinations (mid-semester or end-semester examinations).

The students selected for project report (dissertation) are expected to utilize a minimum of 8 hours
per week on tasks associated with the project report (dissertation) – review of literature, collection
and analysis of data, preparation of tables and maps, report writing, etc. in consultation with the
Supervisor. This is in addition to the one hour mandatory consultation with the Supervisor.

The students offering project report (dissertation) will have to attend the classes of other courses as
per the time-table. They will have to appear in mid-semester examinations, and submit assignments
of other core and elective courses as per schedule.

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As decided by the Department Council.

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Eligibility for Admission

Exam Type Seats Distribution (by category)

General SC ST OBC Total
Entrance 19 6 3 10 38
Merit 19 6 3 10 38
Total 38 12 6 20 76

Exam Type Course Requirements Marks Requirements

Entrance BA (Hons) / BSc (Hons) in Geography from 55% or above marks in aggregate
University of Delhi or any other university or an equivalent grade
recognized by University of Delhi
BA / BSc / B.Ed. with Geography or its 55% or above in Geography
equivalent from University of Delhi or any papers and 50 % or above in
other university recognized by University of aggregate or an equivalent grade
Delhi
Merit BA (Hons) Geography from University of Delhi 50% or above marks in aggregate
or an equivalent grade

Kindly note that additional reservations (including supernumerary categories), and concessions
apply as per the latest university rules.

Assessment of Students’ Performance and Scheme of Examinations

Assessment of students’ performance shall consist of following two components:

 Internal Assessment – 30
 Attendance – 5
 Assignments – 15
 Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
 End-Semester Examinations – 70

The scheme of examination for practical courses, field-based courses, and the course on project
report (dissertation) has been explained in the individual course details.

Pass Percentage and Promotion Criteria

A student has to score a minimum of 40% in each course (whether theory or practical), separately in
the end-semester examination (28 of 70 marks), and in the total (40 of 100 marks) to pass the
course. No separate pass is required in the internal assessment component. Students failing in an
individual course are allowed to repeat only the end-semester examinations in the next appropriate
session, but within the span period (see below). No repetition will be allowed in practical and field-
based courses, and no re-submission of dissertation is permissible in the course on project report
(dissertation). Also there is no provision for repeating or re-submitting any of the components of
internal assessments (assignments and mid-semester examinations).

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Part I to Part II Progression

A student should separately pass 50% of the core and elective courses in Part I (Semesters I and II),
i.e. three of the six core courses, and one of the two elective courses, to secure promotion to Part II
of the master’s program (Semester II to Semester III). However, the student will have to clear the
remaining paper(s) while studying in Part II of the programme. Students not promoted to Part II, can
however retain the marks in the papers in which they have secured Pass marks.

Conversion of Marks into Grades

Conversion of Marks into Grade as per standard University rule

Grade Points

Grade point table as per University Examination rule

SGPA / CGPA / FGPA Calculation

As per University Examination rule

Conversion of FGPA into Marks

As notified by competent authority the formula for conversion of FGPA into marks is: Final %age of
marks = CGPA based on all four semesters × 9.5

Division of Degree into Classes

Post Graduate degree to be classified based on FGPA obtained into various classes as notified into
Examination policy.

Attendance Requirement

As per University Examination rule

Span Period

No student shall be admitted as a candidate for the examination for any of the Parts/Semesters after
the lapse of four years from the date of admission to the Part I/Semester I of the Master’s
Programme.

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Guidelines for the Award of Internal Assessment Marks in Master’s Programme

The Internal Assessment of 30 marks will comprise following three components:

 Attendance – 5
 Assignments – 15
 Mid-Semester Examinations – 10

Conversion of attendance into marks will be as per the following standard formula:
 0 mark for Attendance below 67%
 1 mark for Attendance equal and above 67% but below 70%
 2 marks for Attendance equal and above 70% but below 75%
 3 marks for Attendance equal and above 75% but below 80%
 4 marks for Attendance equal and above 80% but below 85%
 5 marks for Attendance equal and above 85%

Assignments can be individual or group work based term-papers (with or without presentations),
book reviews, field diary/journal, research papers, etc. The assignments, being a component of
internal assessment, can never be repeated or re-submitted.

Mid-semester examination will be conducted for all courses in which an end-semester examination
is also to be held. They are to be held preferably in the week before the mid-semester break, and
should follow the pattern and rigour, similar to the end-semester examinations. Mid-semester
examination will be of 2-hours duration and carry 50 marks. The marks are to be proportionately
reduced to 10 with rounding to nearest whole mark. No classes (lectures, tutorials or practicals) will
be held during the week in which the mid-semester examinations are held. Mid-semester
examinations will not be held again for absenting students, and such students will be awarded zero
marks. The mid-semester examinations, being a component of internal assessment, can never be
repeated.

In the course on project-report (dissertation), the internal assessment will be based on the
supervisor’s evaluation of the student’s performance in performing various tasks associated with
preparation of the project report (dissertation), over the span of one-year (Part II).

In the event of a student failing to obtain 40% marks (separately in end-semester examination and
total), the internal assessment will not be repeated, and the marks obtained in the first instance will
carry forward.

Hence, students are advised to take the internal assessments seriously as there is no provision for
internal assessments to be repeated.

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IV. COURSE WISE CONTENT DETAILS FOR MASTER’S PROGRAMME

Course Code – A Note on Formulation

The course-codes are alpha-numeric combination of eight digits (five letters and three numbers).

The first four digits are capital alphabets referring to the discipline (of the Master’s programme).
Here, “GEOG”, refers to the discipline “Geography”, which is a common prefix for all the course
codes, thereby distinguishing these courses from courses of other disciplines.

The fifth digit is a number, referring to the semester. Each number is read as follows –
1 is Semester I
2 is Semester II
3 is Semester III
4 is Semester IV

The sixth digit is a capital alphabet, referring to the type of course. This is read as follows –
C is for Core courses
E is for Elective courses

The seventh and eighth digits are numbers, referring simply to the serial number of individual
courses, within each category.

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester I

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester I – Core Course

GEOG1C01: GEOMORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) An understanding of the linkages between landscape form and processes.
2) Familiarity and experience applying fundamental concepts in physical systems.
3) Practice in using models, data and logical reasoning to critically evaluate and connect
information about geomorphic processes.

Course Learning Outcome:

1) Explain basic principles for development of landforms through time.
2) Make an initial geomorphological fieldwork.
3) Learn the techniques of geomorphological analysis.

Course Contents:
Unit-I. Geomorphology: Approaches in analysis of geomorphology, fundamental concepts in
geomorphology, scopes of geomorphology
Unit-II. Global morphology and tectonics: Development of ideas of global tectonics, continental
drift, palaeo-magnetic evidence, global seismicity, sea-floor spreading; plate tectonics,
mountain building with the Himalaya as an example.
Unit-III. Surface processes and landforms: slope processes and forms, fluvial processes and
landforms, aeolian processes and landforms, glacial and periglacial processes and
landforms, work of ocean and coastal landforms
Unit-IV. Endogenetic and Exogenetic Processes Interaction: rate of uplift, measurement techniques,
denudation rates, factors controlling denudation rates, effects of tectonics on drainage
development, sea level change
Unit-V. Planetary geomorphology: approaches to planetary geomorphology, landforms
development

Suggested Readings:
1. Allison, Robert (ed.) 2002. Applied Geomorphology: Theory and Practice, John Wiley & Sons
Ltd., Chichester, U.K.
2. Anderson, R.S. and Anderson, S.P. 2010. Geomorphology: The Mechanics and Chemistry of
Landscapes, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
3. Bierman, P.R. and Montgomery, D.R. 2014. Key Concepts in Geomorphology, Macmillan
Education, New York.
4. Bloom, A.L. 2003. Geomorphology: A Systematic Analysis of Late Cenozoic Landforms,
Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi.

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5. Bridges, E.M. 1990. World Geomorphology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
6. Clark, M.J. (ed.) 1988. Advances in Periglacial Geomorphology, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.,
Chichester, U.K.
7. Condie, K.C. 2003. Plate Tectonic and Crustal Evolution, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford,
Burlington.
8. Huggett, R.J. 2011. Fundamentals of Geomorphology, Routledge, New York.
9. Kale, V.S. and Gupta, A. 2001. Introduction to Geomorphology, Orient Longman, Hyderabad,
India.
10. Knighton, A.D. 1984. Fluvial Forms and Processes, Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd., London, U.K.
11. Leopold, L.B., Wolman, M.G., and Miller, J.P. 1964. Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology, W.H.
Freeman Company, San Francisco.
12. Richards, K.S. 1982. Rivers: Form and Processes in Alluvial Channels, Methuen & C., Ltd.,
London.
13. Schumm, S.A. 1977. The Fluvial System, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
14. Singh Savindra. 2014. - , Prayag Pustak Bhawan, Allahabad.
15. Summerfield, M.A. 1991. Global Geomorphology, Pearson Prentice Hall, U.K.
16. Thornbury, W.D. 1969. Principles of Geomorphology, John Wiley and Sons, New York.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1 Geomorphology: Concept and Processes Allison, Robert (ed.) (2002)
Approaches in analysis of Bierman, P.R. and Montgomery, D.R.
Geomorphology (2014)
Fundamental concepts in Thornbury, W.D. (1969) Huggett, R.J.
Geomorphology (2011)
Week 2 Geomorphic Processes Thornbury, W.D. (1969)
Scopes of Geomorphology Allison, Robert (ed.) (2002); Bierman,
P.R. and Montgomery, D.R. (2014)
Week 3 Global Morphology and Tectonics Anderson, R.S. and Anderson, S.P. (2010)
Development of ideas of global Anderson, R.S. and Anderson, S.P. (2010)
tectonics
Week 4 Plate tectonics Anderson, R.S. and Anderson, S.P. (2010)
Modes of landform development Anderson, R.S. and Anderson, S.P. (2010)
Week 5 Surface Processes and Landforms Anderson, R.S. and Anderson, S.P. (2010)
Week 6 Slope processes and forms Kale, V.S. and Gupta, A. (2001)
Week 7 Fluvial processes and landforms Leopold, L.B., Wolman, M.G., and Miller,
J.P. (1964)
Week 8 Aeolian processes and landforms Kale, V.S. and Gupta, A. (2001)
Week 9 Glacial, Periglacial processes and Bloom, A.L. (2003); Clark, M.J. (ed.)
landforms (1988)
Week 10 Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11 Mid-Semester Break
Week 12 Rates of uplift and denudation Condie, K.C. (2003)
Week 13 Effects of tectonics and drainage Condie, K.C. (2003)
development
Week 14 Sea level change Knighton, A.D. (1984); Schumm, S.A.
(1977)
Week 15 Planetary geomorphology Anderson, R.S. and Anderson, S.P. (2010)
Week 16 Approaches to planetary Anderson, R.S. and Anderson, S.P. (2010)
geomorphology
Week 17 Landform development Summerfield, M.A. (1991)

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Activity Assessment Tasks
No.
I Knowledge of fundamental Lectures and Tutorials Assignments
concepts in Geomorphology
II Knowledge of tectonic Lectures and Tutorials Assignment
movements
III Knowledge of surface processes Lectures, Tutorials and Field Field diaries
and resultant landforms visits
IV Knowledge of rates of uplift vis- Lectures and Tutorials Assignment
à-vis denudation
V Knowledge of geomorphology Lectures and Tutorials Assignments
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester I – Core Course

GEOG1C02: GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course on the Geography of India assumes’ that the students are familiar with the basic
landforms, climate, soil, vegetation and population characteristics of India.
2) It is a course designed to enable students to broaden and deepen their understanding of India.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Students would gain understanding of ‘new’ geography of their country.
2) The spatial variations of dimensions of vitality and vulnerability would help them see the
strength and weakness of the country.
3) The course would help students to contextualize much of their further learnings, teaching and
research on India within the contents of this course.

Course Contents:
Unit I: India as a Geographical Entity: Ancient, Medieval and Colonial.
Unit II: Vitality of India: Spatial Pattern of Multi-culturalism, Economic Dynamism, Middle Class.
Unit III: Vulnerable India: Spatial Pattern of Poverty, Hunger, and Disability.
Unit IV: Place and Space (Place Names, Place Based Goods, Displacement).
Unit V: India in the Global Context (Indian Diaspora and Trade).

Suggested Readings:
1. Deshpande, C. B.1992.India a Regional Interpretation. New Delhi: Northern Book Center
2. Drèze, Jean and Amartya Sen. 1996. India: Development and Participation. Oxford University
Press
3. Jayaram, N. 2004. The Indian Diaspora: Dynamics of Migration. Sage
4. Kapur, Anu. 2010. Vulnerable India: A Geographical Study of Disasters. Sage
5. Kapur, Anu. 2015. Made Only in India: Goods with Geographical Indications. Routledge.
6. Khullar, D.R. 2008. India: A Comparative Geography, Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.
7. Krishan, Gopal. 2017. The Vitality of India: A Regional Perspective, Rawat Publications.
8. McKinsey & Company Inc. 2013. Reimagining India: Unlocking the Potential of Asia’s Next
Superpower. Simon & Schuster.
9. Ramachandran, R. 2018. A History of Hinduism: The Past, Present and Future. Sage.
10. Singh, Jagdish, 2003. India: A Comprehensive Geography, Radha Publications, Gorakhpur.
11. Shukla, Sandhya. 2003. India Abroad. Hyderabad: Orient Longman.
12. Tharoor, Shashi. 2016. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India. Aleph Book Company
13. Wolpert, Stanley. 2005. India, 3rd Ed. Berkeley: University of California Press

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Teaching Plan:
Week 1-2 : India as a Geographical Entity
Week 3-4 : Sequential Occupancy of India: Ancient and Medieval
Week 5-6 : Colonial Impact
Week 7-8 : Vitality of India: Indicators
Week 9 : Vitality of India Spatial Pattern
Week 10 : Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11 : Mid-Semester Break
Week 12-13 : Vulnerable India: Indicators
Week 14 : Vulnerable India: Spatial Pattern
Week 14-15 : Place and space, Place Names, Place Based Goods,
Week 16-17 : Space, Displacement, Diaspora

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course learning outcomes Teaching and learning activity Assessment
No. task
I Broaden and deepen the Lecture; audio-visual; interaction; Q&A
understanding of India discussion
II Know the weaknesses of India Lecture; audio-visual; interaction; Q&A
discussion
III Know the strengths of India Lecture; audio-visual; interaction; Q&A
discussion
IV Understand the relationship Lecture; audio-visual; interaction; Term paper
between India and its geography discussion
V Understand the relationship Lecture; audio-visual; interaction; Term paper
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester I – Core Course

GEOG1C03: STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES IN SPATIAL ANALYSIS

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course studies the concept of statistics and its geographical applications.
2) It lays the foundation of quantitative techniques to the students for spatial analysis.
3) It will enhance the ability to interpret data statistically.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will learn various statistical skills.
2) The students will know how the statistical theories and functions will be applied in geography.
3) The students will learn about the significance test to strengthen their argument with facts and
represent data.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction: indices of inequality and disparity, Probability Theory: Normal, Binomial and
Poisson distributions.
Unit II: Hypothesis testing: F-Distributions, analysis of variance, one-way and two-way
classification.
Unit III: Non-parametric Tests: Chi-Square, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis.
Unit IV: Correlation and Regression Analysis: rank order and product moment correlation; linear
regression, multi-linear regression.
Unit V: Pattern Analysis: nearest neighbor analysis, quadrant analysis, entropy analysis, trend
surface analysis; Introducing Flow Analysis Techniques.

Suggested Readings:
1. Bart James E. and Gerld M. Barber, 1996. Elementary Statistics for Geographers, The Guieford
Press, London.
2. Briggs, W. 2016. Uncertainty: The soul of modeling, probability & statistics. Springer
International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-39756-6.
3. Eldon, D. 1983. Statistics in Geography: A Practical Approach, Blackwell, London.
4. Cressie, N.A.C. 1991. Statistics for Spatial Analysis, Wiley, New York.
5. Gregory, S. 1978. Statistical Methods and the Geographer (4th Edition), Longman, London.
6. Davis, John C. (2002). Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology (third edition), John Wiley &
Sons.
7. Mathews, J.A. 1987. Quantitative and Statistical Approaches to Geography: A Practical
Manual, Pergamon, Oxford.
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Geography (second edition), McGraw Hill, Boston.
9. Nussbaum, E. M. 2015. Categorical and Nonparametric Data Analysis: Choosing the Best
Statistical Technique. New York: Taylor & Francis. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-39756-6
10. Rohatgi, V. K. and Saleh, A. K. 2015. An Introduction to Probability and Statistics, John Wiley &
Sons, New Jersy.
11. Tayler, P.J. 1977. Quantitative Methods in Geography: An Introduction to Spatial Analysis,
Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, London.
12. Wei, W.S. 1990. Time Series Analysis: Variate and Multivariate Methods, Addison Wesley
Publishing.
13. Yeates, Mauris, 1974. An Introduction to Quantitative Analysis in Human Geography, Mc Graw
Hill, New York.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction, Origin and Context
Session 2: Concept of probability theory.
Week 2: Session 1: Outline of normal, binomial and poison distribution
Session 2: Solving Problems related to distributions
Week 3: Session 1: Type I and Type II error
Session 2: Concept of Significance test
Week 4: Session 1: Z-Test and solving of problems
Session 2: t-test and solving of problems.
Week 5: Session 1: Concept of hypothesis testing
Session 2: Null and research hypothesis
Week 6: Session 1: Inductive approach
Session 2: Deductive approach
Week 7: Session 1: Concept of F-Distribution
Session 2: Null and research hypothesis
Week 8: Session 1: Deductive approach
Session 2: Concept of F-Distribution
Week 9: Session 1: Solvang’s problems of F-Distributions
Session 2: Concept of ANOVA
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: One-way classification
Session 2: Two-way classification
Week 13: Session 1: Solving problems of One-way and Two-way classification
Session 2: No-parametric test
Week 14: Session 1: Chi-Square, Kolmogorov-Smirnov
Session 2: Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis
Week 15: Session 1: Problem solving of non-parametric test
Session 2: Correlation and its types
Week 16: Session 1: Linear regression, multi-linear regression and flow analysis techniques
Session 2: Rank order and Product moment correlation
Week 17: Session 1: Pattern Analysis
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Outcomes Activity
I Concept of probability Classroom lectures, PPTs How is the conceptualization of
density function and and tutorials, debate and PDF and its types applied in
normal, binomial and discussions statistical analysis?
poison distributions
II Sampling theory Classroom lectures and Sampling theory and its uses in
tutorials, PPTs, debate social science research
and discussions
III F-Distributions and Classroom lectures and How to conceptualise the ANOVA
ANOVA tutorials,PPTs, debate with one-way and two-way
and discussions classification?
IV Non-Parametric test Classroom lectures,PPTs Uses of non-parametric tests in
and tutorials, debate and scientific discourse
discussions
V Correlation and Classroom lectures PPTs Uses of Correlation and regression
regression and tutorials, debate and in spatial analysis
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester I – Elective Course

GEOG1E01: ANALYTICAL PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY (PRACTICAL)

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 2, Practical – 6)

Course Objectives:
1) To know diverse methods of analysing and interpreting geographical and geological data.
2) To develop an understanding of how this knowledge may be applied in practice.

Course Learning Outcome:

1) Apply the water balance equation to various hydrological problems in time and space.
2) Learn the techniques of geographical analysis.
3) Analyse hydro-meteorological data for better water resource management in an area.

Course Outline:
Unit-I. Quantitative analysis of morphometric data.
Unit-II. Interpretation of geological maps and identification of rocks.
Unit-III. Surface soil loss equations of watersheds.
Unit-IV. Flood frequency analysis: Waybill’s plotting position, Gumbel and Log Pearson Type-III
distributions.
Unit-V. Water balance analysis; Humidity and aridity indices: Koeppen, Bailey and Thornthwaite
classification.

Suggested Readings:
1. Chorley, R.J. (ed.) 1972. Spatial Analysis in Geomorphology, Harper and Row.
2. Doornkamp, J.C. and King, C.A.M. 1971. Numerical Analysis in Geomorphology: An
Introduction, Arnold, London.
3. Mayer, L. 1990. Introduction to Quantitative Geomorphology, Prentice Hall, New Jersy.
4. Morisawa, M. 1983. Geomorphological Laboratory Mannual, John Wiley & Sons, New York.
5. Pal, S.K. 1998. Statistics for Geoscientists: Techniques and Application, Concept Publication
Company, New Delhi.
6. Singh, R.L. 1980. Elements of Practical Geography, Kalyani Publications, New Delhi.

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Teaching Plan:
Week 1 Quantitative Analysis of Morphometric Morisawa, M. (1983); Mayer, L. (1990)
data
Week 2 Quantitative Analysis of Morphometric Morisawa, M. (1983); Mayer, L. (1990)
data
Week 3 Interpretation of Geological Maps Singh, R.L. (1980)
Week 4 Interpretation of Geological Maps and Singh, R.L. (1980)
Rocks
Week 5 Surface Soil loss Equations of watersheds Doornkamp, J.C. and King, C.A.M.
(1971)
Week 6 Flood Frequency Analysis: Waybill’s plotting Pal, S.K. (1998)
position, Gumbel and Log Pearson Type-III
distributions
Week 7 Flood Frequency Analysis: Waybill’s plotting Pal, S.K. (1998)
position, Gumbel and Log Pearson Type-III
distributions
Week 8 Flood Frequency Analysis: Waybill’s plotting Pal, S.K. (1998)
position, Gumbel and Log Pearson Type-III
distributions
Week 9 Water balance Analysis Thornthwaite, C.W. and Mather, J.R.
(1957)
Week 10 Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11 Mid-Semester Break
Week 12 Water balance Analysis Thornthwaite, C.W. and Mather, J.R.
(1957)
Week 13 Humidity and Aridity Indices: Koeppen, Thornthwaite, C.W. and Mather, J.R.
Bailey and Thornthwaite classification (1957)
Week 14 Humidity and Aridity Indices: Koeppen, Thornthwaite, C.W. and Mather, J.R.
Bailey and Thornthwaite classification (1957)

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Activity Assessment Tasks
No.
I Quantitative Analysis of Lectures/Tutorials and Field visit Field visit / Lab work
Morphometric data /laboratory based Practicals
II Interpretation of Geological Lectures/Tutorials and Field visit Field visit / Lab work
Maps and identification of /laboratory based Practicals
Rocks
III Surface Soil loss Equations of Lectures/Tutorials and Field visit Field visit / Lab work
watersheds /laboratory based Practicals
IV Flood Frequency Analysis Lectures/Tutorials and Field visit Field visit / Lab work
/laboratory based Practicals
V Water balance Analysis; Lectures/Tutorials and Field visit Field visit / Lab work
Humidity and Aridity Indices /laboratory based Practicals

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MASTER OF ARTS IN GEOGRAPHY

Semester I – Elective Course

GEOG1E02: CLIMATOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objective:
1) In depth study of Climatology and Biogeography.
2) Knowledge of interrelationship between man and nature.
3) Detail discussion of floral and faunal provinces and its various dimensions.

Course Learning Outcome:

1) Dynamics of climate and related theories.
2) Understanding of Vegetation as an index of climate.
3) Assessment of different aspects of floral and faunal provinces.

Course Content:
Unit I: Energy in the earth-atmosphere system.
Unit II: Circulations within the atmosphere.
Unit III: World Climatic Patterns (Koppen)
Unit IV: Evolution of major groups of floral and faunal provinces.
Unit V: Ecological successions: stages and climax.

Selected Readings:
1. Clarke, G. L. 1967. Elements of ecology, New York: John Wiley Pub.
2. Haden-Guest, S., Wright, J. K. and Teclaff, E. M. 1956. World Geography of Forest Resources,
New York: Ronald Press Co.
3. Hoyt, J.B. 1992. Man, and the Earth, Prentice Hall, U.S.A.
4. Huggett, R.J. 1998. Fundamentals of Biogeography, Routeldge, U.S.A.
5. Lal, D. S. 2003. Climatology, Allahabad: Sharda Pustak Bhawan.
6. Lapedes, D.N. 1974. Encyclopaedia of Environmental Science (eds.), McGraw Hill.
7. Mathur, H.S. 1998. Essentials of Biogeography, Anuj Printers, Jaipur.
8. Mountain and Tree cover in Mountain Regions Report. 2002, UNEP-WCMC.
9. Parmesan, C., Yohe, G. 2003. A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across
natural systems. Nature, 421 (6918), 37–42.
10. Singh Savindra 2015. Paryawaran Bhoogol, Prayag Pushtak Bhawan, Allahabad (Hindi).
11. Sivaperuman, Chandrakasan et al. 2018. Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation in
Tropical Islands. Academic Press, London.
12. Trewartha G. T., 1980. An Introduction to Climate, McGraw Hill Company, New York.

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Teaching Plan
Week 1: Introduction (Trewartha G. T., (1980) and ( Lal, D. S. 2003)
Week 2: Air masses and fronts (Trewartha G. T., (1980) and (Lal, D. S. 2003)
Week 3: Air masses and fronts (Trewartha G. T., (1980) and (Lal, D. S. 2003)
Week 4: Weather phenomenon related to air masses (Trewartha G. T., 1980) and (Lal, D. S. 2003)
Week 5: Theories of planetary winds and circulation (Trewartha G. T., 1980) and (Lal, D. S. 2003)
Week 6: Theories of planetary winds and circulation (Trewartha G. T., 1980) and (Lal, D. S. 2003)
Week 7: Jet streams (Trewartha G. T., (1980) and (Lal, D. S. 2003)
Week 8: Indian monsoon (Parmesan, C., Yohe, G. 2003).
Week 9: Climatic classifications (Trewartha G. T., (1980) and (Lal, D. S.2003)
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12 Nature and scope of Biogeography (Huggett, R.J. 1998).
Week 13: Basic ecological principles (Clarke, G. L. (1967).
Week 14: Major groups of floral provinces (Mathur, H.S. 1998)
Week 15: Major groups of faunal provinces (Mathur, H.S. 1998)
Week 16: Ecological succession (Parmesan, C., Yohe, G. 2003).
Week 17: Stages and Climax of Ecological succession (Hoyt, J.B. 1992).

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Introduction to the basic Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, presentations,
concepts climatology and documentaries, discussions discussions and debates.
weather phenomenon and tutorials.
II Deep understanding of the Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, presentations,
different climatic variables documentaries, discussions discussions and debates.
and their impacts on the and tutorials.
global climate
III Overview of contemporary Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, presentations,
global climatic phenomenon documentaries, discussions discussions and debates.
such as climate change and and tutorials.
global warming
IV Insights to the principles of Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, presentations,
Biogeography documentaries, discussions discussions and debates.
and tutorials.
V Understand the Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, presentations,
geographical distribution documentaries, discussions discussions and debates.
and the impacts of climate and tutorials.
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester I – Elective Course

GEOG1E03: CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To enhance the understanding of culture using key concepts of geography
2) To develop analytical skills to decode culture
3) To provide a critical understanding of the contemporary issues and the politics underlying it

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Make sense of culture
2) Geographic epistemologies for analysing culture
3) Develop analytical capability to read contemporary issues of culture

Course Contents:
Unit I: Approaches to cultural geography: morphology of cultural landscape; representational and
more-than-representational critiques.
Unit II: Concepts: culture, politics, identity and the other issues like, space, place, landscape,
ideology, hegemony, gender, class, sexuality, race, ability and caste.
Unit III: Methodologies: reading landscapes: textuality, iconography, participant observation and
interviews, participatory methods.
Unit IV: Creation of Cultural Spaces: body, home, city, nation, and globe.
Unit V: Politics of Difference: caste, class, race, gender, sexuality.

Suggested Readings:
1. Anderson, K., Domosh, M., Pile, S., & Thrift, N. (eds.). 2002. Handbook of cultural
geograph,. Sage.
2. Blunt, A. 2005. Cultural geography: cultural geographies of home. Progress in human
geography, 29(4), 505-515.
3. Cavallaro, D. 2001. Critical and Cultural Theory: Thematic Variations, Athlone Press, London
and New Brunswick, NJ.
4. Cosgrove, D. 1984. Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape, London: Croom Helm.
5. Cosgrove, D., & Daniels, S. (Eds.), 1988. The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic
Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments, Cambridge University Press.
6. Duncan, J. S. 2005. The city as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan
Kingdom, Cambridge University Press.
7. Hirsch, E and Hanlon, M. 2003. The Anthropology of Landscape: perspectives on space and
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8. Lorimer, H. 2005. Cultural geography: the busyness of being more-than-
representational'. Progress in human geography, 29(1), 83-94.
9. Mitchell, D. 1996. ‘California: The Beautiful and the Damned’ from the ‘Lie of the Land:
Migrant Workers and the California Landscape, 13-35, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press
10. Mitchell, D. 2000. Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction, Blackwell
11. Rose, G. 2008. Looking at Landscape: The Uneasy Pleasures of Power. In The Cultural
Geography Reader (pp. 183-187), Routledge.
12. Sauer, C. O. 1925. The Morphology of Landscape. University of California Publications,
Geography 2, 19-54.
13. Valentine, G. 2014. Social geographies: space and society, Routledge.
14. Whatmore, S. 2006. Materialist returns: practising cultural geography in and for a more-than-
human world, Cultural geographies, 13(4), 600-609.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introductory class
Session 2: Cultural Geography and its scope
Week 2: Session 1: Morphology of Cultural Landscape: Life and works of Carl O Saur
Session 2: Morphology of Cultural Landscape: Landscape
Week 3: Session 1: Morphology of Cultural Landscape: Representational Approach
Session 2: Morphology of Cultural Landscape: Representational Approach
Week 4: Session 1: Morphology of Cultural landscape: Non-Representational Approach
Session 2: Morphology of Cultural landscape: More-Than-Representational Approach
Week 5: Session 1: Concepts: Culture; Cultural Politics, Critical Infrastructure
Session 2: Concepts: Identity and the Other
Week 6: Session 1: Concepts: Space/ Place/ Landscape
Session 2: Concepts: Ideology
Week 7: Session 1: Concepts: Hegemony
Session 2: Concepts: Strategies & Resistance
Week 8: Session 1: Methodologies: Textuality
Session 2: Methodologies: Iconography
Week 9: Session 1: Methodologies: Participant Observation
Session 2: Methodologies: Interviews
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Methodologies: Participatory methods
Session 2: Production of Cultural Spaces: Body
Week 13: Session 1: Production of Cultural Spaces: Home
Session 2: Production of Cultural Spaces: Public space
Week 14: Session 1: Production of Cultural Spaces: City
Session 2: Production of Cultural Spaces: Nation
Week 15: Session 1: Production of Cultural Spaces: Globe
Session 2: Politics of Difference: Class
Week 16: Session 1: Politics of Difference: Caste/ Race
Session 2: Politics of Difference: Gender
Week 17: Session 1: Politics of Difference: Sexuality
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Scope of cultural geography; Classroom lectures and Review of papers
Different approaches to Cultural discussion Class discussion
landscapes
II Introduction to concepts Classroom lectures and Class discussions &
discussions Writing tasks
III Basic knowledge of analysing cultural Classroom lectures and Field based task and
spaces on field discussion on field work report on methods
IV Understanding the production of Classroom lecture and Field based
and cultural spaces applying concepts discussion assignment
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester I – Elective Course

GEOG1E04: GEOGRAPHY OF URBAN ENVIRONMENT

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course attempts to acquaint the students to the conceptual process of urban
environment.
2) The course examines the questions related to urban urbanization and contemporary
environmental issues in India.
3) It also critically evaluates the policies and interventions aimed at sustainable urban
environment development and management strategies.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will be able to understand the concepts and process of urban environmental
issues.
2) The students will be able to analyse the consequences of urban environmental consequences
at different scales.
3) The students will be able to get updated knowledge of sustainable environmental
management strategies and institutional arrangements.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introducing Urban Environment: nature and concept, relevance of the study at local,
regional and global level, dynamics of urban environment.
Unit II: Urban Development Concepts and Process: trend of urbanization in developed and
developing countries, physical expansion of cities, ecological foot prints and urban heat
island.
Unit III: Urbanization and Environment in India: trends and patterns of urbanization; contemporary
environmental issues: water, air, solid waste and e-waste pollution; slums: ecological and
health consequences; Case studies.
Unit IV: Sustainable Environmental Management: urban infrastructure; green building, open and
green patches; sustainable waste management; wastewater management strategies; Case
studies.
Unit V: Urban Governance: sustainable development goals; Government programmes, polices and
initiatives.

Suggested Readings:
1. Badcock, B. 2002. Making Sense of Cities: A Geographical Survey, Oxford University Press,
London
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3. Friedmann, J. 1995. Where we stand: A Decade of World City Research, In: P. L. Knox and P.
Taylor (eds) World Cities in a World-system. 21-47. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge:
4. Hardoy, J. E., Mitlin, D. Satterthwaite, D. 1992. Environmental Problems in Third World Cities,
Earthscan, Great Britain.
5. Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) & UN Centre for Human Settlements
(Habitat) 2001. The State of Indian Cities 2001, HUDCO and Habitat, Nairobi- New Delhi.
6. Michael, P. 2009. Urban Geography: A Global Perspective, Taylor & Francis, Great Britain.
7. Marcotullio, P. and Mc Granahan. G. 2007. Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From
Local to Global and Back, Earthscan, Great Britain.
8. Murray, Robin 2002. Zero Waste, Greenpeace Environmental Trust, Londoan
9. Newman, P. 2002. The Environmental Impacts of Cities, Environment and Urbanization, 18:
275.
10. Singh, R. B. (ed.) 2015. Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian
Mega Cities, Springer, Japan.
11. Singh, Savindra 2015. ParyavaranBhoogol, PrayagPustakBhavan, Allahabad (Hindi)
12. Roberts, P., Ravetz, J. and George, C. 2009. Environment and the City. Routledge, London
13. White, R. 1994. Urban Environmental Management, Routledge, London

Teaching Plan:
Week 1 - Overview, nature and concept
Week 2 - Approaches and urban dynamics
Week 3 - Urbanization trends
Week 4 - Physical expansion of cities
Week 5 - Urban congestion and crowding
Week 6 - Ecological foot prints and urban heat island
Week 7 - Patterns of urbanization in India
Week 8 - Water and air based problems
Week 9- Solid waste and e-waste
Week 10 - Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11 - Mid-Semester Break
Week 12 - Slums and ecological and health consequences
Week 13 - Urban infrastructure
Week 14 - Green buildings and open patches
Week 15 - Management strategies and SDGs,
Week 16 - Programmes and policies
Week: 17 - Governance and Wrap up discussions & feedback

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Learning Activity
I Conceptual understanding Classroom lectures, Assignments/discussions on concept
of urban environment tutorials and PPTs and dynamics of urban environment
II Physical Expansion of Cities; Classroom lectures, Presentations/discussions on
Urban Heat Island tutorials and PPTS expansion of cities, urban heat island
III Environmental issues in Classroom lectures, Assignments/discussions/Presentati
India and their tutorials and PPTS ons/ on problems and their
consequences consequences with case studies
IV Urban environmental Classroom lectures, Assignments/Debates/Presentations
management strategies tutorials and PPTs on infrastructure and management
infrastructure strategies with case studies
V Urban Governance: Classroom lectures, Assignments/Discussions/Presentati
Environmental tutorials and PPTs ons on assessment of programmes
Development programmes and policies
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester I – Elective Course

GEOG1E05: HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) The students will be exposed to the historical dimensions in geography.
2) The students will be conscious of the various components of historical geography.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will be able to understand and analyse the principal issues confronting historical
geography.
2) The students will get an insight into various components of historical geography.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Evolution of Historical Geography: Introduction, early (1700-1920), modern (1920-50),
contemporary (1950 onwards).
Unit II: Sources of evidence and data.
Unit III: Re-construction of Natural World: physical environment, landscape.
Unit IV: Historical Geographies of Human World: power and control, rural transformations,
urbanization, industrialization, trade, transport and communications.
Unit V: Historical Geography of India

Suggested Readings:
1. Ali, S.M. 1966. The Geography of the Puranas, People’s Publishing House, Delhi.
2. Baker, A.R.H (ed.) 1972. Progress in Historical Geography, David and Charles.
3. Baker, A.R.H., Hamshere, J.D., Langton, J., 1972. Geographical Interpretation of historical
Sources, David and Charles.
4. Bharadwaj, O.P., 1986. Studies in the Historical Geography of Ancient India, Sundeep
Prakashan, Delhi.
5. Butin, Robin A., 1993. Historical Geography: Through the Gates of Space and Time, Edward
Arnold, London.
6. Graham Brian, Nash Catherine, 2000. Modern Historical Geographies, Longman, Essex,
England.
7. Guelke, L., 1982. Historical Understanding in Geography: An idealist approach, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge.
8. Law, B., 1968. Historical Geography of Ancient India, Societe Asiatique deiParis, Paris.
9. Pacione, M., 1987. Historical Geography: Progress and Prospect, Croom Helm, London.
10. Roberts, P.E., 1995. Historical Geography of India, Vol. I & II, Printwell, Jaipur.

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11. Sircar, D.C., 1971. Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India, Motilal banarasi
Dass, India
12. Tamaskar, B.G., 1985. Contributions to Historical Geography of India, Inter-India Publications,
New Delhi.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction to historical geography
Session 2: Introduction to historical geography
Week 2: Session 1: Early phase (1700-1920)
Session 2: Early phase (1700-1920)
Week 3: Session 1: Modern phase (1920-50)
Session 2: Modern phase (1920-50)
Week 4: Session 1: Contemporary period (1950 onwards)
Session 2: Contemporary period (1950 onwards)
Week 5: Session 1: Sources of Evidence and Data
Session 2: Sources of Evidence and Data
Week 6: Session 1: Re-construction of physical environment
Session 2: Re-construction of physical environment
Week 7: Session 1: Historical geographies of landscape
Session 2: Historical geographies of landscape
Week 8: Session 1: Historical geographies of power and control
Session 2: Historical geographies of power and control
Week 9: Session 1: Historical geographies of rural transformations
Session 2: Historical geographies of rural transformations
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Historical geographies of urbanization
Session 2: Historical geographies of urbanization
Week 13: Session 1: Historical geographies of industrialization
Session 2: Historical geographies of industrialization
Week 14: Session 1: Historical geographies of trade, transport and communications
Session 2: Historical geographies of trade, transport and communications
Week 15: Session 1: Case Study – Historical Geography of India
Session 2: Case Study – Historical Geography of India
Week 16: Session 1: Case Study – Historical Geography of India
Session 2: Case Study – Historical Geography of India
Week 17: Session 1: Conclusions
Session 2: Summing up and looking ahead

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Activity Assessment Tasks
No.
I Evolution of Historical Classroom lectures and tutorials Q&A
Geography
II Sources of Evidence and Data Classroom lectures and tutorials Q&A
III Re-construction of Natural Classroom lectures and tutorials Q&A
World
IV Historical Geographies of Classroom lectures and tutorials Q&A
Human World
V Historical Geography of India Classroom lectures and tutorials Q&A

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester I – Elective Course

GEOG1E06: POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course intends to apprise the students about different perspectives related to population
and development nexus.
2) Student shall learn about the demographic transition models, its genesis, process and
consequences from spatial perspectives.
3) Students shall also understand the various population policies and programmes for the
sustainable population management.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) After taking this course, a candidate should be able to appreciate diverse perspective of
population and development debate.
2) Students will be confident to visualise the consequences of demographic transition on the
economy, society and politics.
3) They should be able to have a clear understanding of population policies and its vital role
towards managing the population affairs on the path of sustainability.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Historical perspectives on population and development.
Unit II: Demographic Transition: origins, processes, and effects; regional patterns.
Unit III: Consequences of Demographic Transition: economic, social, and political.
Unit IV: Population policies and planning.

Recommended Readings
1. Birdsell, N., Kelley, A.C., and Sinding, S.W. 2001. Population matters: demographic change,
economic growth, and poverty in developing world. Auckland: Oxford University Press.
2. Dyson, T. .2010. Population and development: the demographic transition. London: Zed Books.
3. Ehrlich, P.R. and Ehrlich, A.H. 1996. Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment. 6th
edition, W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco.
4. Gould, W.T.S. 2009. Population and Development, London: Routledge.
5. Graff, M., and Bremner, J. 2014. A practical guide to population and development, Washington
DC: Population Reference Bureau.
6. James, K.S. 2011. India’s demographic change: opportunities and challenges. Science 333
(6042), 576-580.
7. May, J.F. 2012. World population policies: their origin, evolution, and impact, Washington
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8. Meadow, D.H., Meadows D.L., Randers J., and Behrens W.W. III. 1973. The Limits to Growth. I
Report of the Club of Rome, The New American Library, New York.
9. Meadows, D.M. and Meadows, D.L. and Randers, J. 1992. Global Collapse or A Sustainable
Future, Earthscan Publications, London.
10. National Research Council 1986. Population growth and economic development: policy
questions, Washington DC: National Academic Press.
11. National Research Council 2003. Cities transformed: demographic change and its implications
in the developing world. Panel on Urban Population Dynamics, M.R. Montgomery, R. Stren, B.
Cohen, and H.E. Reed, eds., Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social
Sciences and Education, Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
12. Weeks, J.R. 2008. Population: an introduction to concepts and issues. 10th edition, Belmont,
CA: Thomson Wadsworth.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Historical perspectives on population and development
Week 2: Historical perspectives on population and development
Week 3: Historical perspectives on population and development
Week 4: Historical perspectives on population and development
Week 5: Demographic transition: origins, processes, and effects; regional patterns
Week 6: Demographic transition: origins, processes, and effects; regional patterns
Week 7: Demographic transition: origins, processes, and effects; regional patterns
Week 8: Demographic transition: origins, processes, and effects; regional patterns
Week 9: Demographic transition: origins, processes, and effects; regional patterns
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Consequences of demographic transition: economic, social, and political
Week 13: Consequences of demographic transition: economic, social, and political
Week 14: Consequences of demographic transition: economic, social, and political
Week 15: Consequences of demographic transition: economic, social, and political
Week 16: Population policies and planning
Week 17: Population policies and planning

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Learning Activity
I Understanding debates on Classroom lectures Conceptualising the historical
population and development and tutorials perspectives on population and
inter-relationships development issues: pessimistic,
optimistic and neutralist views
II Examining demographic Classroom lectures Understanding the demographic
transition models across and tutorials transition model and regional
developed and developing patterns
world
III Implications of demographic Classroom lectures Examining salient implications of
transitions on economy, and tutorials demographic transition on society,
society and politics economy, and politics
IV Role of population policies Classroom lectures Understanding roles of population
and planning and tutorials policies and programmes

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester I – Elective Course

GEOG1E07: SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To acquaint the students to the unique social geography of India
2) To allow students to appreciate the roles of geographic factors in socio-cultural regionalisation
3) To provide an understanding of the socio-geographical elements within a framework of pan
Indian unity and regional specificity.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Knowledge of the geographic basis of socio-cultural regionalisation in India and continuity and
correspondence of socio- political and geographic boundaries.
2) Knowledge the religious identity in regional context; geographic factors underlying patterning
of languages
3) Understanding pan Indian unity and regional specificity of varna and jati along with other
spatial dimensions of caste

Course Contents:
Unit I: Social Geography of India: Nature and Scope, Indian society - a study in unity and diversity;
Centripetal and centrifugal forces, Aryavarta, Dakshinpatha, Narmada Chota-Nagpur axis ,
regional identities and regionalism.
Unit II: Historical Bases of Socio cultural regionalization of India: Elements in the development of
socio cultural regions; continuity and change in the historically evolved regional structure-
correspondence between solasa mahajanpadas and mughal subahs, inversion of regional
structure in colonial period, implications of emerging regional structure since
independence.
Unit III: Religion and regional culture: Religious diversity and regional identity, Geographical factors
explaining the distribution of the tribal religions, Hindus, Muslims, Christian, Buddhist, Jain
and Sikh communities.
Unit IV: Geographic analysis of caste and tribe: Varna and jati-pan Indian structure and regional
specificity, Caste Regions, caste and settlement morphology, distribution of SC population,
Tribes in India, dominance and dispersion of Tribal population, penetration of tribal
regions.
Unit V: Spatial patterning of language in India: Major Language families and their speech areas,
linguistic diversity, the politics of stability and fluidity of language returns; language loss,
language retention and language shift.

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Suggested Readings:
1. Ahmed, A. 1999. Social Geography, Rawat publications, Jaipur.
2. Ahmed, A. 1993. (ed) Social Structure and Regional Development: A Social Geography
Perspective, Rawat Publications, Jaipur.
3. Singh, K.S. 1993. People of India Vol I to XI, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
4. Raza, M. and Ahmed, A. 1990. An Atlas of Tribal India, Concept Publishing Co, Delhi.
5. Sopher, D. (ed.) 1980. An Exploration of India: Geographical Perspectives on Society and
Culture, Cornell Press, New York.
6. Schwartzberg, J. 1978. A Historical Atlas of South Asia, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
7. Crane Robert, I. 1973. Regions and Regionalism in South Asian Studies: An Exploratory Study,
Duke University Durham.
8. Registrar General of India, 1972. Economic and Socio cultural Dimensions of Regionalization of
India, Census Centenary Monograph No 7, New Delhi.
9. Pannikar, K.M. 1959. Geographical Factors in Indian Histor, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay.
10 Subba Rao, B. 1958. Personality of India, MS University Press, Baroda.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction to the course, Nature and Scope, Indian society - a study in
unity and diversity; Centripetal and centrifugal forces,
Session 2: Aryavarta, Dakshinpatha, significance of Narmada Chota-Nagpur axis,
regional identities and regionalism
Week 2: Session 1: Elements in the development of socio cultural regions - terrain and
agroclimatic conditions.
Session 2: Elements in the development of socio cultural regions - mode of economy,
diety and dialect.
Week 3: Session 1: Emergence of geographic nodes of socio cultural regionalization - the
solasa mahajanpadas.
Session 2: Continuity and change in the historically evolved regional structure –
correspondence between solasa mahajanpadas and mughal subahs.
Week 4: Session 1: Inversion of regional structure in colonial period, implications of emerging
regional structure since independence.
Session 2: Inversion of regional structure in colonial period, implications of emerging
regional structure since independence.
Week 5: Session 1: Religious diversity and regional identity, Geographical factors explaining
the distribution of the tribal religions.
Session 2: Spatial patterning of the Hindu population
Week 6: Session 1: Spatial patterns and geographical factors explaining the distribution of the
Muslims in India.
Session 2: Spatial patterns and geographical factors explaining the distribution of the
Muslims in India (contd.)
Week 7: Session 1: Spatial patterns and factors explaining the distribution of the Christian
community in India.
Session 2: Spatial patterns and factors explaining the distribution of the Christian
community in India.
Week 8: Session 1: Spatial patterns and factors explaining the distribution of the Sikhs in India.
Session 2: Spatial patterns and factors explaining the distribution of the Sikhs in India.
Week 9: Session 1: Spatial patterns and factors explaining the distribution of the Buddhists in
India.
Session 2: Spatial patterns and factors explaining the distribution of Jains in India.
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations

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Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Varna and jati-pan Indian structure and regional specificity,
Session 2: Caste Regions,
Week 13: Session 1: caste and settlement morphology
Session 2: Distribution of SC population
Week 14: Session 1: Tribes in India, dominance and dispersion of Tribal population, penetration
of tribal regions
Session 2: Tribes in India, dominance and dispersion of Tribal population, penetration
of tribal regions.
Week 15: Session 1: Tribes in India, dominance and dispersion of Tribal population, penetration
of tribal regions.
Session 2: Linguistic diversity, Geographic patterning of languages
Week 16: Session 1: Linguistic diversity, Geographic patterning of languages,
Session 2: Stability and fluidity of language returns; language loss, language retention
and language shift.
Week 17: Session 1: Stability and fluidity of language returns; language loss, language retention
and language shift.
Session 2: Wrap up discussions and feedback

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Relevance of understanding the Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on Centripetal
unique nature and scope of Discussion on and Centrifugal forces/
social geography of India ; horizontal and vertical regional identities
horizontal and vertical diversities.
diversities within pan Indian
Unity
II Understanding of the geographic Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on specific
basis of socio-cultural Discussion on elements region with regard to
regionalisation in India of socio cultural tracing elements of
regionalisation. regionalisation and sub
regionalisation.
III Understanding the religious Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on selected
identity in regional context Discussion on religious region with regard to
and regional identities. district-wise distribution of
population by religion
IV Understanding pan Indian unity Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on specific
and regional specificity of varna Discussion on and region with regard to
and jati along with other spatial regional specificity of distribution of SC
dimensions of caste. jati, caste regions and population district-wise.
caste driven settlement
morphology.
V Understanding geographic Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on specific
factors underlying patterning of Discussion on language region with regard to
languages families, speech areas tracing elements of
and fluidity and stability regionalisation and sub
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester I – Elective Course

GEOG1E08: TECHNIQUES AND METHODS OF REGIONAL ANALYSIS

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) Regional Science is a field of the social sciences concerned with analytical approaches to
problems that are specifically regional in nature.
2) In the broadest sense, any social science analysis that has a spatial dimension is embraced by
regional scientists.
3) The students will be exposed to a wide variety of techniques and methods used in regional
analysis.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will be able to understand and analyse the role of population and migration in
regional economic analysis.
2) The students will be able to appreciate and analyse the implications of region’s economic
analysis in regional studies.
3) The students will be able to comprehend and analyse the significance of decision analysis and
spatial statistics.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction: origin, growth, scope and nature of regional science.
Unit II: Regional Demographic Analysis: census data, population projection, migration estimation.
Unit III: Regional Economic Analysis: regional income estimation and social accounting;
interregional flow analysis and balance of payment statements; regional cycle and
multiplier analysis; regional industrial location and complex analysis; interregional and
regional input-output techniques.
Unit IV: Decision Analysis: game theory and decision analysis.
Unit V: Spatial Statistics and Analysis.

Suggested Readings:
1. Bendavid, A. 1991. Regional and Local Economic Analysis for Practitioners, Praeger, New York.
2. Brian Field and MacGregor Bryan, 1987. Forecasting Techniques for Urban and Regional
Planning, Univ. College London.
3. Davis H. Craig, 1990. Regional Economic Analysis and Project Evaluation, UBC Press.
4. Ebdon David, 1985. Statistics in Geography, Basil Blackwell.
5. Isard Walter, 1960. Methods of Regional Analysis: An Introduction to Regional Science, MIT
and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
6. Isard Walter, et. Al. 1998. Methods of Interregional and Regional Analysis, Aldershot, Ashgate.

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7. Klosterman, R. E. 1990. Community Analysis and Planning Techniques, Rowman & Littlefield
Savage, Maryland.
8. Krueckeberg, Donald A. and Silvers Arthur L. 1974. Urban Planning Analysis: Methods and
Models, John Wiley, NY.
9. Maki, Wilbur and Lichty Richard, 2000. Urban Regional Economics: Concepts, Tools,
Applications, Iowa State Univ. Press.
10. Oppenheim, Norbet, 1980, Applied Models in Urban and Regional Analysis, Prentice-Hall, New
Jersey.
11. Treyz George I. 1993. Regional Economic Modelling: A Systematic Approach to Economic
Forecasting and Policy Analysis, Academic Publishers, Boston.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Origin of Regional Science
Session 2: Origin of Regional Science
Week 2: Session 1: Growth of Regional Science
Session 2: Growth of Regional Science
Week 3: Session 1: Scope of Regional Science
Session 2: Scope of Regional Science
Week 4: Session 1: Nature of Regional Science
Session 2: Nature of Regional Science
Week 5: Session 1: Census Data
Session 2: Census Data
Week 6: Session 1: Population Projection
Session 2: Population Projection
Week 7: Session 1: Migration Estimation
Session 2: Migration Estimation
Week 8: Session 1: Regional Income Estimation and Social Accounting
Session 2: Regional Income Estimation and Social Accounting
Week 9: Session 1: Interregional Flow Analysis and Balance of Payment Statements
Session 2: Interregional Flow Analysis and Balance of Payment Statements
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Regional Cycle and Multiplier Analysis
Session 2: Regional Cycle and Multiplier Analysis
Week 13: Session 1: Regional Industrial Location and Complex Analysis
Session 2: Regional Industrial Location and Complex Analysis
Week 14: Session 1: Interregional and Regional Input-Output Techniques
Session 2: Interregional and Regional Input-Output Techniques
Week 15: Session 1: Game Theory and Decision Analysis
Session 2: Game Theory and Decision Analysis
Week 16: Session 1: Spatial Statistics and Analysis
Session 2: Spatial Statistics and Analysis
Week 17: Session 1: Summing up
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Outcomes Activity
I Knowledge of disciplinary Classroom lectures Evaluating the relevance of the
history and evolution discipline in Geography and
Regional Studies
II Role of population and Classroom lectures Projection of population of selected
migration in regional Practical work based on spatial units (country, state, district,
economic analysis secondary data etc.) using various techniques.
III Implications of region’s Classroom lectures Calculation of regional multiplier
economic analysis in Practical work based on Calculation of Location Quotient
regional studies secondary data Application of Shift-Share Analysis
IV Significance of decision Classroom lectures Applications of decision analysis
analysis Practical work based on
secondary data
V Significance of spatial Classroom lectures Applications of spatial statistics
statistics Practical work based on
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester I – Elective Course

GEOG1E09: TRANSPORT NETWORK AND FLOW ANALYSIS

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) The students will be exposed to the role and significance of ‘transport’ in geography.
2) The students will be conscious of the various facets of transport network.
3) The students will be conscious of the various techniques of flow analysis.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will be able to understand and analyse the principal issues confronting the
transportation systems today.
2) The students will get an insight into ‘how transportation systems work’, through live case-
study from India and World.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Transport for spatial interaction: Spatial interaction and time-space convergence, enlarging
the catchment area of markets, dynamic relationship between transport and spatial
readjustment, role of transport as a lead sector.
Unit II: Problem of accessibility: The transport network, network shape and location, regional
variations in its density, methods of measurement, transport and spatial processes, traffic
flow and regional interaction.
Unit III: Graph theory and Network Geometry: Concept of topology, topological measurement of
network efficiency.
Unit IV: Urban Transport: Profile of urban transport facilities, traffic in towns, transport services
and urban land use pattern, role of intermediary transport modes, modal split.
Unit V: Regional Transport Planning: The framework of regional transport planning traffic
generation, methods of forecasting, zonal interchange of traffic, mode and route
assignment methods; Indian Transport: Transport development during colonial and plan
periods, transport and regional structure of Indian Economy, metropolitan transport.

Suggested Readings:
1. Ashton, W.D., 1966. The Theory of Traffic Flow, Methuen , London
2. Berry, B.J.L et a., 1966. Essays on Commodity Flow and Spatial Structure of Indian Economy,
Department of Geography, Chicago.
3. Berry, B.L.J. and Marble, D.F. (eds.) 197). Spatial Analysis: A Reader in Statistical Geography,
Prentice Hall.
4. Brooks, P.W., 1994. The Development of Air Transport Hurst, M.E. (ed.) Transportation
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5. Cooley, C.H. 1994. The Theory of Transportation, in Hurst, M.E. (ed.) Transportation
geography: Comments and Reading, Mc Graw Hill, 15-29.
6. Fleming, D.K. and Hayuth, Y. 1994. Spatial Characteristics of Transportation Hubs: Centrality
and Intermediacy, Journal of Transport Geography, 2 (1), 3-18.
7. Gautam, P.S. 1992. Transport Geography of India: A Study of Chambal Division, M.P., Mittal
Publications, New Delhi
8. Haggett, P. 1965. Locational Analysis in Human Geography, London.
9. Haggett, P. and Chorley, R.J. 1969. Networks Analysis in Geography, London.
10. Kansky, K.J., 1963. Structure of Transportation Networks: Relationships between Network
Geometry and Regional Characteristics, University of Chicago, Department of Geography,
Research Paper, Chicago, 84.
11. Nagar, V.D. and Gautam S. 1964. Principles and Problems of Indian Transport, Kailash Pustak
Sadan, Gwalior.
12. Owen, W. 1968. Distance and Development: Transport and Communications in India,
Washington.
13. Raza, M. and Aggarwal, Y. 1986. Transport Geography of India, Concept Publishing Company,
New Delhi.
14. White, H. P. and Senior, M.L. 1983. Transportation Geography, Longman Inc. New York.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Spatial interaction and time-space convergence
Session 2: Enlarging the catmint area of markets
Week 2: Session 1: Dynamic relationship between transport and spatial readjustment
Session 2: Dynamic relationship between transport and spatial readjustment
Week 3: Session 1: Role of transport as a lead sector
Session 2: The transport network
Week 4: Session 1: Network shape and location
Session 2: Regional variations in its density
Week 5: Session 1: Methods of measurement, transport and spatial processes
Session 2: Methods of measurement, transport and spatial processes
Week 6: Session 1: Traffic flow and regional interaction
Session 2: Graph theory and Network Geometry
Week 7: Session 1: Concept of topology
Session 2: Topological measurement of network efficiency
Week 8: Session 1: Topological measurement of network efficiency
Session 2: Profile of urban transport facilities
Week 9: Session 1: Traffic in towns
Session 2: Transport services and urban land use pattern
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Role of intermediary transport modes
Session 2: Modal split
Week 13: Session 1: The framework of regional transport planning traffic generation
Session 2: The framework of regional transport planning traffic generation
Week 14: Session 1: Methods of forecasting
Session 2: Zonal interchange of traffic
Week 15: Session 1: Mode and route assignment methods
Session 2: Transport development during colonial and plan periods
Week 16: Session 1: Transport and regional structure of Indian Economy
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Week 17: Session 1: Conclusions – Future of Transportation
Session 2: Summing up and looking ahead

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Learning Activity
I Role of transport in spatial Classroom lectures Q&A
interaction and tutorials
II Knowledge of problems in Classroom lectures Q&A
accessibility and tutorials
III Knowledge of graph theory and Classroom lectures Q&A
network geometry and tutorials
IV Knowledge of urban transport Classroom lectures Comparative case-study of towns
and tutorials
V Knowledge of regional Classroom lectures Transport planning of a line
transport planning with special and tutorials between two points
reference to India Selected case-studies in India

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester I – Elective Course

GEOG1E10: URBAN GEOGRAPHY

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To critically understand the complexities of urban cities and the experience of living in these
cities.
2) To critically understand a broad range of issues that cities face today.
3) To provide a basic social, cultural, political and economic understanding of cities.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) To understand the linkages between urban cities and the societal forces that shapes it.
2) Critically analyse contemporary urban issues from a geographical perspective.
3) Understand urban issues in order to engage with possible and effective planning and policy
interventions.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction: Defining the city, understanding the different approaches in examining the
city and its transformations.
Unit II: Urban Transformations in Historical Contexts: Early cities to industrial cities, cities in the
world system and global cities, colonial and post-colonial cities.
Unit III: Urban society: Social organisation of the city, emergence of urban cultures and sub-
cultures, nature of urban economy, the production of urban elite and poor.
Unit IV: Governing the City: Role of state in urban planning and development, local politics,
citizenship and governance.

Suggested Readings:
1. LeGates T.R. and Stout F. (ed.) 2016. The City Reader (6th edition), Routledge: London and New
York.
2. Andrew, E.G.J, McCann, E and Thomas, M 2015. Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction,
Wiley, Blackwell, UK.
3. Bhattacharya, B. 2006. Urban Development in India since Pre-Historic Times, Concept
Publishing Company, New Delhi.
4. Bridge, G Watson, S. (eds.) 2010. The Blackwell City Reader (2nd Edition), Wiley-Blackwell, UK.
5. Gilbert, A and Gugler, J (eds.) 1992. Cities, Poverty, and Development: Urbanization the Third
World, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
6. Fainstein, S. S and Campbell, S (eds) 2011. Readings in Urban Theory (3rd Edition), Wiley-
Blackwell, UK.
7. Hall, T. 2002. Urban Geography (2nd Edition), Routledge: London and New York.

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8. Fyfe, N.R and Kenny, J.T. 2005. The Urban Geography Reader, Routledge: London and New
York.
9. Latham, A., McCormick, D., McNamara, K., and McNeil, D. 2009. Key Concepts in Urban
Geography, Sage: London, California, New Delhi, Singapore.
10. Knox, P and Pinch, S. 2010.Urban Social Geography (6th edition), Pearson: England
11. Brunn, S.D., Hays-Mitchell, M., Ziegler, D.J. 2012. Cities of the World: World Regional Urban
Development (5th edition), Rowman and Littlefield Publishers: England
12. Davidson, M. Martin, D. 2013. Urban Politics. Critical Approaches, Sage: London, California,
New Delhi, Singapore.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Syllabus overview
Session 2: Defining the city
Week 2: Session 1: Defining the city
Session 2: Approaches in examining the city and its transformations
Week 3: Session 1: Approaches in examining the city and its transformations
Session 2: Approaches in examining the city and its transformations
Week 4: Session 1: Early cities to Industrial cities
Session 2: Early cities to Industrial cities
Week 5: Session 1: Early cities to Industrial cities
Session 2: Cities in the world system and global cities
Week 6: Session 1: Cities in the world system and global cities
Session 2: Colonial and Post-colonial cities
Week 7: Session 1: Colonial and Post-colonial cities
Session 2: Colonial and Post-colonial cities
Week 8: Session 1: Cities of global south
Session 2: Cities of global south
Week 9: Session 1: Social organisation of the city
Session 2: Social organisation of the city
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Emergence of urban cultures and sub-cultures
Session 2: Emergence of urban cultures and sub-cultures
Week 13: Session 1: Nature of urban economy
Session 2: Nature of urban economy
Week 14: Session 1: Nature of urban economy
Session 2: The production of urban elite and poor
Week 15: Session 1: The production of urban elite and poor
Session 2: Role of state in urban planning and development
Week 16: Session 1: Role of state in urban planning and development
Session 2: Local politics, citizenship and governance
Week 17: Session 1: Local politics, citizenship and governance
Session 2: Summing up and Wrap up discussions

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Understanding the Classroom lectures Tutorial Assignments
complexities of urban cities Group discussions
II Understanding the Classroom lectures Mid -term examinations
development of and Group presentations
transformation of cities
over time
III Develop a basic social, Classroom lectures Tutorial Assignments
political and economic Focus City discussions
understanding of
contemporary urban issues
IV Understanding the linkages Classroom lectures End term examinations
between cities, state and Focus City presentations
the people and issues of
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester II

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MASTER OF ARTS IN GEOGRAPHY

Semester II – Core Course

GEOG2C01: ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) Various dimensions of the ecosystems, their spatial distribution.
2) Anthropogenic interventions and resultant impacts on various ecosystems.
3) Understanding of environmental governance.

Course Learning Outcome:

1) Detailed exposure to the concept of ecosystem, processes, theories and concepts.
2) In-depth knowledge of anthropogenic interventions and impacts, conservation strategies
and planning.
3) Evaluation and achievement of different environmental programs, policies and legislations.

Course Content:
Unit I: Environment and Ecosystem: Concepts and approaches, global environmental problems
and sustainable development.
Unit II: Urban Environmental Problems and their Management: Air, water and solid waste.
Unit III: Desert and Coastal Ecosystems: Desertification-process and patterns, management
strategies, issues and problems in coastal ecosystem, mangroves, integrated coastal zone
management.
Unit IV: Mountain Ecosystems: Mountain ecology, risks and vulnerabilities, highland-lowland
interactive systems, biodiversity and conservation.
Unit V: Environmental Governance: Environmental policies and programs, environmental
education and legislation.

Suggested Readings:
1. Alexander, Mike. 2008. Management planning for nature conservation: A theoretical basis &
practical guide, Springer.
2. Balakrishnan, M., 1998. Environmental Problems and Prospects in India, in Das, R.C., et. al.
Oxford & IBH Pub., New Delhi.
3. Consensus Study Report, 2005. Valuing Ecosystem Services: Toward Better Environmental
Decision-Making, National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science
and Technology Board, Committee on Assessing and Valuing the Services of Aquatic and
Related Terrestrial Ecosystems. National Academies Press, Washington.
4. Das, R. C., 1998. The Environmental Divide: The Dilemma of Developing Countries, A.P.H. Pub.,
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5. Freedman, Bill. 1995. Environmental Ecology: The Ecological Effects of Pollution, Disturbance,
and Other Stresses, Academic Press. London.
6. Gole, P., 2001. Nature Conservation and Sustainable Development in India, Rawat Pub., Jaipur.
7. Hooja, R., et. al., (ed.) 1999. Desert, Drought and Development: Studies in Resource
Management and Sustainability, Rawat Pub, Jaipur
8. Hussain, M., (ed.) 1996. Environmental Management in India, Rawat Pub., Jaipur
9. Munn, T., (ed.) 2001. Encyclopaedia of Global Environmental Change, John Wiley & Sons, West
Sussex 7.
10. Ramakrishanan, P. S. 1997. Conservation and Management of Biological Resources in
Himalaya, Oxford & IBH Pub., New Delhi.
11. Singh Savindra, 2015. Paryavaran Bhoogol. Prayag Pushtak Bhawan, Allahabad (Hindi).
12. Singh, R.B., (ed.) 1990. Environmental Geography, Heritage Pub., New Delhi.

Teaching Plan
Week 1: Introduction (Freedman, Bill. 1995).
Week 2: Concepts and Approaches (Singh, R.B., (ed.) 1990).
Week 3: Global environmental problems (Consensus Study Report, 2005).
Week 4: Urban Environmental Problems and their impacts (Alexander, Mike. (2008).
Week 5: Urban Heat Island (UHI) (Balakrishnan, M., 1998).
Week 6: Management of Urban ecosystems: Air, Water and Solid waste (Balakrishnan, M., 1998).
Week 7: Issues and challenges in Desert ecosystem (Hooja, R., et. al., (ed.) 1999).
Week 8: Coastal Ecosystems: prospects and challenges (Gole, P., 2001).
Week 9: Coastal pollution, mangroves and Integrated Coastal Zone Management (Gole, P.,
2001).
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break (Fieldwork)
Week 12 Sustainable management of Mountain ecosystem (Singh R. B. and J. Martin, 1995).
Week 13 Risks and vulnerability in Mountains (Pandey, 2002).
Week 14: Biodiversity and Conservation strategies (Alexander, Mike. 2008).
Week 15: Environmental Policies and Programs (New Environmental Policy GOI 2006).
Week 16: Environmental Education (New Environmental Policy GOI 2006).
Week 17: Environmental legislation (Hussain, M., (ed.) 1996).

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Introduction to the basic Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
concepts in Environment and documentaries, discussions, presentations,
Ecology fieldworks and tutorials. discussions and debates.
II Detailed discussion of Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
environmental problems and documentaries, discussions, presentations,
their impacts on urban fieldworks and tutorials. discussions and debates.
ecosystems
III Deep understanding of the Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
challenges faced by coastal documentaries, discussions, presentations,
and desert ecosystems fieldworks and tutorials. discussions and debates.
IV Understand the role of Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
conservation and documentaries, discussions, presentations,
management strategies for fieldworks and tutorials. discussions and debates.
sustainable development of
Mountain ecosystems
V People’s perception and role Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
of governmental agencies for documentaries, discussions presentations,
sustainable management of and tutorials. discussions and debates.
ecosystems

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester II – Core Course

GEOG2C02: CONTEMPORARY HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To introduce current debates within human geography and develop an understanding of the
contexts within which these debates emerged.
2) To critically understand a broad range of contemporary socio-spatial issues that society
experiences and undergoes.
3) To provide a basic social, cultural, political and economic understanding from global and local
perspectives to a broad range of contemporary issues.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Understand the contribution of the discipline of geography to social sciences.
2) Connect theory with practice.
3) Critically analyse contemporary social issues from a geographical perspective.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction: Foundational and Contemporary issues and debates, defining space and
place, understanding different approaches in conceptualising space and place.
Unit II: Socio-spatial interconnections: Place-making, processes of place making in everyday lives,
identities, difference and exclusion.
Unit III: Critical geopolitics: Territoriality and power, nationalism, citizenship and governance,
conflicts.
Unit IV: Development Geographies: Theories of development, Re-thinking development,
development in the global south.

Suggested Readings:
1. Kitchin, B and Thrift N (eds) 2009. International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Elsevier
2. Benko, G and Strohmayer, U (eds) 2004. Human Geography. A History for the 21st Century,
Routledge, London and New York.
3. Cloke, P., Crang, P. and Goodwin, M. (eds.), 2014. Introducing Human Geographies, Third
Edition, Routledge, London and New York.
4. Kobayashi, A and MacKenzie, S. 1989. Remaking Human Geography, Routledge, London New
York.
5. Agnew, J.A. and Duncan, J.S. 2016. The Wiley Companion to Human Geography, Wiley, UK.
6. Daniels, S and Lee, R. (eds) 1996. Exploring Human Geography: A Reader, Routledge, London
and New York.
7. Hubbard P, Kitchin B and Valentine G. 2008. Key Texts in Human Geography, Sage, London.

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8. Cloke, P., Philo, C., Sadler, D. 2003. Approaching Human Geography: An Introduction to
Contemporary Theoretical Debates, Sage: London.
9. Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R., Bartley, B., Fuller, D. 2005. Thinking Geographically. Space, Theory
and Contemporary Human Geography, Continuum: London.
10. Aitken, S.C, Valentine, G. 2015. Approaches to Human Geography. Philosophies, Theories,
People and Practices, Sage: London, California, Delhi, Singapore.
11. Agnew, J.A., Livingstone, D.J., Rogers, A. 1996. Human Geography: An Essential Anthology,
Wiley: U.K

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Syllabus overview
Session 2: Foundational and Contemporary issues and debates
Week 2: Session 1: Foundational and Contemporary issues and debates
Session 2: Defining space and place
Week 3: Session 1: Defining space and place
Session 2: Understanding different approaches in conceptualising space and place
Week 4: Session 1: Understanding different approaches in conceptualising space and place
Session 2: Understanding different approaches in conceptualising space and place
Week 5: Session 1: Place-making
Session 2: Place-making
Week 6: Session 1: Processes of Place making in everyday lives
Session 2: Processes of Place making in everyday lives
Week 7: Session 1: Identities, difference and exclusion
Session 2: Identities, difference and exclusion
Week 8: Session 1: Identities, difference and exclusion
Session 2: Territoriality and power
Week 9: Session 1: Territoriality and power
Session 2: Nationalism; Citizenship and governance
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Nationalism; Citizenship and governance
Session 2: Nationalism; Citizenship and governance
Week 13: Session 1: Conflict
Session 2: Conflict
Week 14: Session 1: Theories of Development
Session 2: Theories of Development
Week 15: Session 1: Rethinking development
Session 2: Rethinking development
Week 16: Session 1: Development in the global south
Session 2: Development in the global south
Week 17: Session 1: Summing up and Wrap up discussions

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Activity Assessment Tasks
No.
I Understand current debates in Classroom lectures Tutorial
human geography Group discussions Assignments
II Understand the contribution of Classroom lectures Mid -term
spatial studies in the Group presentations examinations
understanding of society
III Develop a basic social, political Classroom lectures Tutorial
and economic understanding of Group discussions Assignments
contemporary issues
IV Understand global and local Classroom lectures End term
issues and draw linkages Group presentations examinations
between theory and practice

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester II – Core Course

GEOG2C03: REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (PRACTICAL)

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 2, Practical – 6)

Course Objectives:
1) To develop an understanding of remote sensing, GIS and GPS technologies and their potential
applications.
2) To develop basic skills to interpret remote sensing images for various applications in
geography.
3) To develop basic skills to use GIS for various applications in geography.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Overall understanding of potential of Remote Sensing, GIS and GPS
2) Understanding of image interpretation
3) Understanding of GIS analysis workflow and integrated applications in various domains of
Geography

Course Contents:
Unit I: Remote Sensing: principles, historical development, satellite and sensors, concept of
resolution, photography vs. image, GPS applications
Unit II: Aerial photography: stereoscopy, principles of aerial photo interpretation
Unit III: Electromagnetic radiation principles; interaction mechanism with atmosphere and earth
surfaces; spectral responses of earth surface features, visual interpretation of satellite
images
Unit IV: Definition, Development and Applications: elements of GIS; geographic objects: point, line
and area; coordinate systems and map projections
Unit V: Geographic Data, Input, Storage and Editing: spatial and attribute data, vector and raster
based models, digitization; storage and manipulation of GIS data bases, presentation of GIS
output

Suggested Readings:
1. Burrough, P.A. and McDonnell, R.A. 1998. Principles of Geographic Information Systems,
Oxford University Press.
2. Chang, K-t. 2006. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, Tata McGraw-Hill.
3. DeMers, M. 2009. Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems, 4th Edition, John Wiley &
Sons.
4. Gupta, R.P. 2018. Remote Sensing Geology, 3rd Edition, Springer.
5. Heywood, I., Cornelius, S., Carver, S. 2011. An Introduction to Geographic Information
Systems, 4th Edition, Pearson Education.

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6. Jensen, J.R. 2006. Remote Sensing of the Environment: An Earth Resource Perspective, 2nd
Edition, Pearson Education.
7. Joseph, G. 2005. Fundamentals of Remote Sensing, Orient Blackswan.
8. Lillesand, T.M., Kiefer, R.W. and Chipman, J.W. 2004. Remote Sensing and Image
Interpretation, 5th Edition, Wiley.
9. Longley, P.A., Goodchild, M., Maguire, D.J. and Rhind, D.W. 2010. Geographic Information
Systems and Science, 3rd Edition, Wiley.
10. Sabins, F.F. 2007. Remote Sensing: Principles and Interpretation, 3rd Edition, Waveland Press.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Theory: Remote Sensing: principles, historical development, components, types,
Satellite and sensors
Practical: Introduction to Remote Sensing Software, Image visualization
Week 2: Theory: Concept of resolution, photography vs. imaging
Practical: Comparison of images with various resolution concepts
Week 3: Theory: Principles of Aerial photography: stereoscopy
Practical: Basic calculations (scale, height of objects) on aerial photographs
Week 4: Theory: Principles of aerial photo interpretation
Practical: Visual Interpretation of Aerial Photographs
Week 5: Theory: Electromagnetic radiation principles, Interaction mechanism with
atmosphere and earth surfaces
Practical: Colour composite in remote sensing software
Week 6: Theory: Spectral responses of earth surface features; visual interpretation of
satellite images
Practical: Visual interpretation of satellite images, Part-1
Week 7: Theory: Remote sensing of common geographical features, interpretations
Practical: Visual interpretation of satellite images, Part-2
Week 8: Theory: GPS theory and applications
Practical: Hands-on exercises on GPS data collection
Week 9: Theory: GIS: Definition, development and applications, components & elements of
GIS
Practical: Introduction to GIS Software
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Theory: Geographic objects: point, line and area, Coordinate system and map
projection, Geo-referencing,
Practical: Geo-referencing
Week 13: Theory: Geographic Data, Input, Storage and Editing, spatial and attribute data,
Digitization
Practical: Digitization and data joining
Week 14: Theory: Vector and raster based models, Storage and manipulation of GIS data
bases
Practical: Vector & raster conversion, Geoprocessing tools
Week 15: Theory: GIS functions, query, proximity, neighbourhood, network, overlay etc.
Practical: Query and Proximity Analysis
Week 16: Theory: Integrated applications of GIS, Remote Sensing and GPS
Practical: Overlay Analysis
Week 17: Theory: Presentation of GIS output
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Overall understanding of Lecture, demonstration, Comparison of images with
potential of Remote and hands-on Practical different resolutions.
Sensing Technology and exercises Hands-on exercise with location
GPS data collections using GPS.
II Understanding of photo Lecture, demonstration, Calculation of scale, height
interpretation and hands-on practical using photogrammetric
exercises principles.
Visual interpretations aerial
photographs.
III Understanding of remote Lecture, demonstration, Visual interpretations remote
sensing image and hands-on practical sensing images with different
interpretation exercises resolutions.
IV Overall understanding of Lecture, demonstration, Assessment of geographical
potential of GIS Technology and hands-on practical problems from the GIS
exercises perspectives.
V Understanding of GIS Lecture, demonstration, Comparison and usage of raster
analysis workflow and and hands-on practical and vector database.
integrated applications in exercises Preparation of GIS based map
various domains of using basic GIS database and
Geography analysis functions.

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester II – Elective Course

GEOG2E01: AGRICULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course attempts to introduce the students to the nature and origin of agriculture and its
regions.
2) The course examines the questions related to agricultural development and productivity in
India.
3) It also critically evaluates the environmental consequences and emerging perspective and
policies and interventions aimed at sustainable agriculture

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will be able to understand and analyse the historical perspective of agriculture.
2) The students will be able to analyse the agriculture development and productivity and its
impacts on various sectors
3) The students will be able to get updated knowledge of contemporary issues and strategies.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Agricultural Geography: Nature & scope, Origin and dispersal of agriculture – Major
theories of origin of agriculture and gene-centres of agriculture - New World and Old
World.
Unit II: Models and Regions in Agricultural Geography: Bases of classification; normative models;
Regionalisation: Concept and criteria; Agricultural regions of India.
Unit III: Agricultural Development and Productivity in India: Concept, Criteria of agricultural
development; Agricultural Productivity: Concept and Determinants, Regional imbalances,
Socio-economic and human health consequences.
Unit IV: Environmental Consequences of Agriculture in India: Concept, process, regional patterns
and consequences: ground water depletion and contamination; salinity and alkalinity,
deterioration of soil fertility and soil erosion; Case Studies.
Unit V: Emerging Perspectives in Agriculture and Government Initiatives: Sustainable urban
agriculture, food security and safety, national agriculture policy.

Suggested Readings:
1. Bryant, C.R., Johnston, T.R. 1992. Agriculture in the City Countryside, Belhaven Press, London.
2. Burch, D., Gross, J. and Lawrence, G. (eds.), 1999. Restructuring Global and Regional
Agriculture, Ashgate Publishing Company, Burlington.
3. Cakmak, I. and Welch, R. M. (eds), 2009. Impacts of agriculture on Human Health and
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4. Ferroni, Marco, 2013. Transforming Indian agriculture- India 2040: Productivity, Markets and
Institutions, Sage Publications, New Delhi.
5. Grigg, D.B. 1984. Introduction to Agricultural Geography, Hutchinson, London.
6. Mohammad, N. 1992. New Dimension in Agriculture Geography, Vol. I to VIII, Concept
Publishing Company, New Delhi.
7. Mohammad, N. and Rai, S.C. 2014. Agricultural Diversification and Food Security in the
Mountain Ecosystem, Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi.
8. Roling, N.G., and Wageruters, M.A.E. (eds.) 1998. Facilitating Sustainable Agriculture,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
9. Shafi, M. 2006. Agricultural Geography. Pearson Education, Delhi.
10. Singh, J., and Dhillon, S.S. 1994. Agricultural Geography, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi.
11. Singh, R. B. 2000. Environmental Consequences of Agricultural Development: A Case Study
from the Green Revolution state of Haryana, India, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment
82, 97–103.
12. Tiwari, R. and Singh, B. 1994. Krishi Bhoogol, Prayag Pustak Bhandar, Allahabad. (Hindi).
13. White P. 2007. Emergence of agriculture: A global view, Routledge, London.
14. Wright J. 2009. Sustainable agriculture and food security in an era of oil scarcity, Earthscan,
London.
15. Young, A. 1998. Landuse Resources: Now and for the Future, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Introduction and Nature and Scope
Week 2: Origin and dispersal of agriculture in world
Week 3: Theories and genecentre of agriculture
Week 4: Old world gene centre
Week 5: New world gene centre
Week 6: Models in agriculture
Week 6: World agriculture regionalisation
Week 7: Agriculture regions of India
Week 8: Determinants of Agriculture
Week 9: Agriculture development: concept & criteria
Week 10: Mid-semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid –semester Break
Week 11:Overview on Indian Agriculture
Week 12:Agriculture productivity
Week 13:Impacts of agricultural productivity
Week 14:Environmental consequences of agriculture development, (cont.)
Week 15:Environmental consequences of agriculture development
Week 16:Sustainable urban agriculture, Food security and safety
Week 17:Government initiatives and Wrap up discussions and feedback

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Learning Activity
I Origin and growth of Classroom lectures Why origin of agriculture took
agriculture tutorials and PPTs place in particular area?
Discussions/ Assignments.
II Regionalisation and Classroom lectures Discussion/Debate/Presentations
Agricultural regions of India. tutorials and PPTs regionalisation, agriculture
regions in India
III Driving forces of regional Classroom lectures Assignment/ presentation on
imbalances in productivity and tutorials and PPTs agricultural productivity and its
their consequences on impacts.
different sectors.
IV Environmental consequences Classroom lectures Discussions/ Assignments on
of agricultural development tutorials and PPTs consequences of agriculture
development with case studies
V Food security and safety, Classroom lectures Assignments /Discussion/
Sustainable agriculture, policy tutorials and PPTS Presentations on emerging
issues and initiatives

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester II – Elective Course

GEOG2E02: EVERYDAY GEOGRAPHIES

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15 (Field Journal)
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To engage students methodologically to unpack urban spaces and processes
2) To study the dynamics of ‘everyday’ as a methodological tool
3) To make sense of ‘everyday’ context as a field and source of data

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Engage with literature on urban every-day and diverse forms of agency and methodologies
2) Reflect the ways in which methodological lenses are constituted through understanding urban
cultural spaces
3) Innovative methodological approaches and field Journal writing

Course Contents:
Unit I: Locating urban studies and the everyday: Ontology and epistemology of urban studies;
cities and the everyday; Field work and Field Journal.
Unit II: Settling: Meanings of residing, housing and home; ‘House/homelessness’
Unit III: Encountering: Concept, ethnography and encountering; everyday encounters
Unit IV: Participation: Everyday participation in urban space; Participating as a method; Public
space and digital realm
Unit V: Protesting: Meaning of protest, protest as agency, protest vs participation
Unit VI: Mobilities: Understanding the everyday politics of mobility

Note: This course will require regular field visits, and at the end of the course each student will
submit a Field Journal as part of the evaluation.

Suggested Readings:
1. Brown, G. 2008. Ceramics, clothing and other bodies: affective geographies of homoerotic
cruising encounters, Social & Cultural Geography, 9(8), 915-932.
2. Bunnell, T., Yea, S., Peake, L., Skelton, T. and Smith, M. 2012. Geographies of
friendships, Progress in Human Geography, 36(4), 490-507.
3. Caldeira, T. P. 2017. Peripheral urbanization: Auto-construction, transversal logics, and politics
in cities of the global south. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 35(1), 3-20.
4. Derickson, K. D. 2015. Urban geography I: Locating urban theory in the ‘urban age’, Progress in
Human Geography, 39(5), 647-657.
5. Harding, A. and Blokland, T. 2014. Urban theory: a critical introduction to power, cities and
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6. Hinchliffe, S. and Whatmore, S. 2006. Living cities: towards a politics of conviviality, Science as
culture, 15(2), 123-138.
7. Hubbard, P. 2017. City, Routledge
8. Ley, D. 2003. Artists, aestheticisation and the field of gentrification, Urban studies, 40(12),
2527-2544.
9. Parnell, S. and Oldfield, S. (eds.). 2014. The Routledge handbook on cities of the global south,
Routledge.
10. Philo, C. and Wilbert, C. 2004. Animal spaces, beastly places. In Animal spaces, beastly
places (pp. 15-50), Routledge.
11. Quayson, A. 2010. Signs of the times: Discourse ecologies and street life on Oxford St.,
Accra. City & Society, 22(1), 72-96.
12. Phillips, R. and Johns, J. 2012. Fieldwork for human geography, Sage.
13. Roy, A. 2005. Urban informality: toward an epistemology of planning, Journal of the American
planning association, 71(2), 147-158.
14. Zukin, S. 2009. Naked city: The death and life of authentic urban places, Oxford University
Press.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction to the course
Session 2: Locating urban studies and the everyday
Week 2: Session 1: The concept of everyday within urban studies
Session 2: Introduction to Field Journal
Week 3: Session 1: Urban settling: Meaning of housing, home and homelessness
Session 2: Urban settling as a method to urban research
Week 4: Session 1: Urban settling: Field visit
Session 2: Urban Settling: Field visit
Week 5: Session 1: Urban settling: Discussion on field visit.
Session 2: Everyday urban encounters: Lecture on concept
Week 6: Session 1: Everyday urban encounters: Discussion on methods
Session 2: Everyday urban encounters: Field visit
Week 7: Session 1: Everyday urban encounters: Field visit
Session 2: Everyday urban encounters: Discussion and presentation
Week 8: Session 1: Participation: Introduction lecture on concept and method
Session 2: Participation: Field visit
Week 9: Session 1: Participation: Field visit
Session 2: Participation: Discussion and presentation
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Methodological reflections on Unit 2, 3, 4
Session 2: Protest: Lecture: Concept, politics and method
Week 13: Session 1: Protest: Field visit
Session 2: Protest: Field visit
Week 14: Session 1: Protest: Discussion
Session 2: Protest: Writing and presentation of research
Week 15: Session 1: Mobilities: Everyday mobilities as concept and method
Session 2: Mobilities: Field visit
Week 16: Session 1: Mobilities: Field visit
Session 2: Mobilities: Field visit
Week 17: Session 1: Mobilities: Writing and presentation of research
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Learning Activity
I Theoretical understanding of Lecture, Reading Class discussion and review of
‘urban and everyday’ and its and discussion papers
methodological notions
II Cities as settlements, settling Lectures, Field Field visits, Data generation and
down as a method of studying Visits, Movie discussion, Presentation
the urban shows, Discussion
III Everyday encounters as urban Lectures, Field Field visits, Data generation and
method: strangers, Visits, Movie discussion, Presentation
conversations, fights and waiting shows, Discussion
as methodological practice
IV Participation: can everyday Lectures, Field Field visits, Data generation and
practice of coffee drinking, Visits, Movie discussion, Presentation
running and walking help shows, Discussion
understanding the urban
methodologically?
V Protest: Distinct dimension Lectures, Field Field visits, Data generation and
protest as urban method Visits, Movie discussion, Presentation
shows, Discussion
VI Mobility as methodology Lectures, Field Field visits, Data generation and
Visits, Movie discussion, Presentation
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester II – Elective Course

GEOG2E03: GEOGRAPHIES OF GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH ASIA

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To provide students with understanding of particular gender issues in the S Asian region.
2) To equip students with an understanding of intersections of these gender issues with the
process of development.
3) To help students in appreciating the role of gender transformative interventions in
addressing both the above.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Understanding of S Asia as a geographic region and particularities of patriarchy within this
region.
2) Appreciating spatial basis of gender disparities in well-being, capabilities and opportunities in
the region.
3) Knowledge of key approaches to Gender and Development, measures of GEM and GDI and
appreciating gender transformative interventions for change.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Gender Roles and Gender Relations in South Asia: South Asia as a geographic and cultural
region, transgender roles, gender relations in South Asia, South Asian region as region of
‘classic patriarchy’.
Unit II: Gender Disparities in Well Being and Human Development in South Asia: Spatial patterns
of sex ratio differentials due to son preference and daughter discrimination, spatial
patterns of gender disparities in female literacy, work force participation; gender, health
and access to healthcare; land ownership and property rights; Household decision making ,
patterns of participation in local and national politics.
Unit III: Gendered Approaches and Measures of Development: Gender Empowerment Measure
(GEM), Gender Development Index(GDI), ‘position’, ‘condition’ and ‘status’ of women,
strategic and practical needs, comparison and critique of WID, WAD and GAD approaches
to gender and development.
Unit IV: Gender and Development in South Asia: Defining empowerment; empowerment , access
and agency; characteristics of gender blind, gender neutral and gender transformative
Interventions and policymaking; selected case studies.

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Suggested Readings:
1. Banu Ayesha, 2016. Human Development, Disparity And Vulnerability: Women In South Asia,
Human Development Report Background Paper, UNDP.
2. Kapadia, Karin, 2002. The Violence of Development: The Politics of Gender, Identity and Social
Inequalities in India, Delhi, Kali for Women
3. Beneria, Lourdes, 2003. Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics as if All People
Mattered, New York and London: Routledge.
4. Louise Edwards and Mina Roces, Eds. 2000. Women in Asia: Tradition, Modernity and
Globalization’, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
5. Nussbaum, Martha C. 2001. Women and Human Development: the Capabilities Approach,
Cambridge University Press.
6. World Bank, 2001. Engendering Development: Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources,
and Voice, Oxford University Press, 2001
7. Parpart, Jane, Patricia Connelly and Eudine Barriteau, 2000. Theoretical Perspectives on
Gender and Development’ International Development Research Centre.
8. March, C., Smyth, I. and Mukhopadyay, M. 1999. A Guide to Gender Analysis Frameworks’,
Oxfam, Great Britain.
9. Visvanthan, Nalini, Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff and Nan Wiegersma, (eds.) 1997. The
Women, Gender and Development Reader’. Zed Books.
10. Moser, Caroline, 1993. Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training,
Routledge.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction to the course, overview and relevance.
Session 2: S. Asia as a geographic and cultural region.
Week 2: Session 1: S. Asia as a geographic and cultural region- implications for gender and
development.
Session 2: Concept of gender roles and its spatial underpinnings.
Week 3: Session 1: Gender roles and gender relations in S Asia.
Session 2: Theoretical understanding of patriarchy in S Asia using Walby’s framework.
Week 4: Session 1: Theoretical understanding of patriarchy in S Asia - Kandiyoti’s ‘classic
patriarchy’.
Session 2: Implications of patriarchal culture in S. Asia, examining son preference and
daughter discrimination.
Week 5: Session 1: Implications of patriarchal culture on capabilities and opportunities in
South Asia.
Session 2: Son preference and Sex ratio differentials in S Asia: Bangladesh, Pakistan,
Sri Lanka
Week 6: Session 1: Son preference and Sex ratio differentials in S Asia: India, Nepal.
Session 2: Gender and Health as a development and cultural issue in S Asia.
Week 7: Session 1: Gender disparities in school enrolment, drop outs, female literacy:
Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Session 2: Gender disparities in school enrolment, drop outs, female literacy: India,
Nepal.
Week 8: Session 1: Work force participation in rural and urban areas: Bangladesh, Pakistan,
Sri Lanka
Session 2: Work force participation in rural and urban areas: India, Nepal.
Week 9: Session 1: Patterns of women’s participation in household decision making and local
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Session 2: Patterns of women’s participation in household decision making and local
and national politics- implications for change: India and Pakistan.
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Concepts and patterns of Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), Gender
Development Index (GDI)
Session 2: Global Patterns of Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM), Gender
Development Index(GDI),
Week 13: Session 1: Reading Trends and Patterns of GEM and GDI in S Asian region.
Session 2: Understanding the differences between ‘position’, ‘condition’ and ‘status’
of women
Week 14: Session 1: Concept of strategic gender interests and practical needs- case study
Session 2: Comparison and critique of WID and WAD approaches.
Week 15: Session 1: GAD – theoretical base, critiques
Session 2: Understanding empowerment as a development goal, its relationship with,
access and agency, nature of interventions and their implications for
gender.
Week 16: Session 1: Gender transformative intervention- selected case study from India.
Session 2: Gender transformative intervention- selected case study from Pakistan
and Nepal
Week 17: Session 1: Gender transformative intervention- selected case study from Bangladesh
and Sri Lanka.
Session 2: Wrap up discussions and feedback

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Activity Assessment Tasks
No.
I Critical understanding of S Asia Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on
as a geographic region and Discussion on S Asia as a Patriarchy and reading
understanding of particularities socio-cultural region Kandiyoti “ Bargaining
of patriarchy within this region. with Patriarchy” and
V. Geetha “ Patriarchy”
II Appreciating culturally driven Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on
gender disparities in well- Discussion on son preference women’s land
being, capabilities, and daughter discrimination ownership and property
opportunities and life chances as well as gender disparities in rights in S Asia.
within the region key areas of well being Reading “ A Field of
One’s Own”
III Knowledge of key approaches Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on GDI
to Gender and Development, Discussion on measures of rankings for countries
Concept of GEM and GDI and GEM and GDI in S Asia
rankings of S. Asian countries
in comparative perspective
IV Appreciating Access, Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on case
Empowerment and Agency and Discussion on gender sensitive studies showing gender
gender transformative interventions for change transformative
interventions for change. interventions.

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MASTER OF ARTS IN GEOGRAPHY

Semester II – Elective Course

GEOG2E04: GEOGRAPHY OF CRYOSPHERE

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objective:
1) To make student understand glacial geomorphology and hydrology using earth observation
and GIS.
2) Of specific interest are glacier variations and response to climate which includes
consequences of the cryospheric change to society such as glacial hazards and its impact on
livelihood of Himalayan mountain dwellers.

Course Learning Outcome:

1) The course will help in understanding cryosphere geography and its relevance in the present
time.
2) Student will learn how to use Earth Observation and GIS for glacier and glacial lake inventory
and impact assessment on society.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction to Cryosphere Geography: concept, nature and scope, global distribution and
contemporary relevance.
Unit II: Glacial Geomorphology and Hydrology: glacial system, permafrost/ground ice, runoff,
glacial lake environment.
Unit III: Mapping and Monitoring Glaciers and Glacial Lakes: remote sensing and GIS for glacier
inventory, mass balance, glacial Lake parameter retrieval.
Unit IV: Applied Glaciology: glacier variations-response to climate change, glacial hazards and
mountain society, field trip follow up.

Suggested Readings:
1. Barry, Roger G and Gan, Thian Yew, 2011. The Global Cryosphere Past, Present and Future.
Cambridge University Press.
2. Pelto, Mauri, 2017. Recent Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Glaciers (The Cryosphere
Science Series), Wiley-Blackwell, UK
3. Benn, D. I., and Evans, D. J. A. 1998. Glaciers and Glaciations, New York, New York, Wiley
4. Andrews, J. T. 1970. Glacial systems, Belmont, California, Wadsworth
5. C.J. van der Veen. 2013. Fundamentals of Glacier Dynamics, Second Edition, CRC Press
6. Embleton, C., and King, C. A. M. 1975. Glacial Geomorphology, New York, New York, Wiley
7. ICIMOD, 2013, Glacial Lakes and Glacial Lake Outburst Floods in Nepal,
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8. Kulkarni, A. V. 1992. Mass balance of Himalayan glaciers using AAR and ELA methods. Journal
of Glaciology, 38: 101-104
9. Pellikka,P and Rees, W.G. 2010. Remote Sensing of Glaciers-Techniques for Topographic,
Spatial and Thematic Mapping of Glaciers, CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group, London, U.K.
10. Sugden, D. E. and John, B. S. 1976. Glaciers and Landscape, New York, New York, Wiley
11. Slaymaker, Olav and Kelly, Richard, 2006. The Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change,
Wiley-Blackwell
12. Richardson, Shaun D. and Reynolds, John M. 2000. An overview of glacial hazards in the
Himalayas, Quaternary International, 65/66, 31-47

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Concept, Nature and Scope (Barry, Roger G and Gan, Thian Yew., 2011)
Week 2: Global distribution (Barry, Roger G and Gan, Thian Yew., 2011)
Week 3: Contemporary relevance (Barry, Roger G and Gan, Thian Yew., 2011)
Week 4: Glaciers and snow cover in Himalaya (Pelto, 2017)(Benn, D. I., Evans, D. J. A., 1998)
Week 5: Glacial system, glaciations and deglaciation (Andrews, J. T., 1970)
Week 6: Paleo-glaciology (C.J. van der Veen., 2013)
Week 7: Permafrost/ground ice (Embleton, C., and King, C. A. M., 1975)
Week 8: Runoff (Pellikka, P. and Rees, W.G. 2010)
Week 9: Glacial lake environment (Pellikka,P and Rees, W.G., 2010)
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Remote sensing and GIS for glacier inventory (ICIMOD, 2013)
Week 13: Mass balance (Kulkarni, A. V., 1992)
Week 14: Glacial Lake parameter retrieval (Slaymaker, Olav and Kelly, Richard, 2006)
Week 15: Snowfall and mountain livelihood (Slaymaker, Olav andKelly, Richard, 2006)
Week 16: Glacier variations-response to climate change (Sugden, D. E. and John, B. S., 1976)
Week 17: Glacial hazards and mountain society (Richardson, Shaun D. Reynolds, and John M.,
2000)

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Deep understanding regarding Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
cryosphere geography. documentaries, Presentations, discussions
discussions and tutorials. and debates.
II Knowledge about glacial Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
system, permafrost areas and documentaries, Presentations, discussions
glacial lake environment. discussions and tutorials. and debates.
III Use of Remote Sensing and GIS Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
for studying glaciers and glacial documentaries, Presentations, discussions
lakes. discussions and tutorials. and debates.
IV Understanding impact of glacier Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
and snow fall variation induced documentaries, Presentations, discussions
hazards on the livelihood of fieldworks and and debates.
mountain dwellers. discussions.

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester II – Elective Course

GEOG2E05: GEOGRAPHY OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) Taking perspectives from Geography, Economics, History and Political science, the course
tends to address key issues and developments that have gone into making of the present
World Economic Landscape
2) To introduce the student to basic concepts of global economy

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Basic concepts of the Global economy
2) The political economic forces that have shaped the world

Course Contents:
Unit I: Economic systems: capitalist, socialist and mixed economies, the geography of world
economy
Unit II: Geospatial paradigms: Historical materialism, Productive forces, relations of production,
types of economic systems.
Unit III: Socio-economic spatial relations: Territorial division of labour, location of productive
forces, economic-geographic links and flows.
Unit IV: Changing geographies of capitalism: Colonial expansion, Development, Post-colonial states,
Neo liberalism, Globalisation and Regionalism, Resistance movements and alternative
imaginations.

Suggested Readings:
1. Beaud, M. 2004. A history of capitalism, 1500-2000, Aakar Books
2. Bery, B.J.L., Conkling, E.C. and Ray, D.M. 1993. The Global Economy: Resource Use, Locational
Choice and International Trade, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall.
3. Cox, K. R. (eds.) 1997. Spaces of Globalisation- reasserting the Power of the Local, Guilford
Press, New York and London.
4. D’Costa, A. P. 2004. The Indian software industry in the global division of labour. In India in the
global software industry (pp. 1-26), Palgrave Macmillan, London.
5. Friedman, T. L. 2006. The world is flat: The globalized world in the twenty-first century (p. 593),
London: Penguin.
6. Gilpin, R. 2011. Global political economy: Understanding the international economic order,
Princeton University Press.
7. Gwynne, R., Shaw, D. and Klak, T. 2014. Alternative capitalisms: Geographies of emerging
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8. Hardt, M. and Negri, A. 2001. Empire, Harvard University Press.
9. Harvey, D. 2006. Spaces of Global capitalism, Verso.
10. Knox, P., Agnew, J. A. and McCarthy, L. 2014. The Geography of the World Economy,
Routledge.
11. Lechner, F. J. and Boli, J. (eds.). 2014. The Globalization Reader, John Wiley & Sons.
12. Murray, W. E. and Overton, J. 2014. Geographies of Globalization, Routledge.
13. Peet, R. and Hartwick, E. 2015. Theories of Development: Contentions, Arguments,
Alternatives, Guilford Publications.
14. Porter, P. W. and Sheppard, E. 1998. A World of Difference: Society, Nature, Development,
Guilford Press.
15. Power, M. 2004. Rethinking Development Geographies, Routledge.
16. Rosser, J. B. and& Rosser, M. V. 2018. Comparative Economics in a Transforming World
Economy, Mit Press.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction to the course
Session 2: Types of Economic systems and characteristics.
Week 2: Session 1: Types of Economic systems and characteristics.
Session 2: Nature of economies across the world
Week 3: Session 1: Geospatial paradigms
Session 2: Geospatial paradigms
Week 4: Session 1: Geospatial paradigms
Session 2: Geospatial paradigms
Week 5: Session 1: Geospatial paradigms
Session 2: Socio-economic spatial relations
Week 6: Session 1: Socio-economic spatial relations: Division of Labour
Session 2: Socio-economic spatial relations: Division of Labour
Week 7: Session 1: Socio-economic spatial relations: Global production
Session 2: Socio-economic spatial relations: Global production
Week 8: Session 1: Socio-economic spatial relations: Trade
Session 2: Socio-economic spatial relations: Trade
Week 9: Session 1: Socio-economic spatial relations: Finance
Session 2: Socio-economic spatial relations: Finance
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Changing geographies of capitalism: Colonial expansion
Session 2: Changing geographies of capitalism: Post War Developments
Week 13: Session 1: Changing geographies of capitalism: The Development Agenda
Session 2: Changing geographies of capitalism: The Development Agenda
Week 14: Session 1: Changing geographies of capitalism: Neo Liberalism and Globalisation
Session 2: Changing geographies of capitalism: Neo Liberalism and Globalisation
Week 15: Session 1: Changing geographies of capitalism: Regionalism
Session 2: Changing geographies of capitalism: Regionalism
Week 16: Session 1: Changing geographies of capitalism: Resistance Movements
Session 2: Changing geographies of capitalism: Resistance Movements
Week 17: Session 1: Student activity
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Types of economic Systems: In Class Lectures Class Test
theory and Practice Tutorial discussion
II Understanding Development of Class Lectures Class Test
economy Tutorial discussion
III Key concepts and processes in Class Lectures Class Test
global economy Tutorial discussion Long Essay
IV Historical development of Global Class Lectures Long Essay
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester II – Elective Course

GEOG2E06: GEOGRAPHY OF MIGRATION

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course endeavours to encourage the understanding of issues and challenges of human
migration from spatial perspectives.
2) Different forms of human migration, its characteristics and regional patterns shall be
highlighted.
3) Place of migration issues in the 2030 SDG agenda shall be evaluated.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) This course should allow the candidates to learn about the basic concepts related to human
migration.
2) Furthermore, the student will become conversant with the different forms of human
migration, its characteristics, types, regional patterns, major drivers and consequences across
geographical context.
3) Students should be able to appreciate the various dimensions of global environmental change
and human migration.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Migration Overview: basic concepts, data source, measures, and historical perspectives
Unit II: Internal Migration: concepts, characteristics, typologies, regional patterns, explanations,
and implications
Unit III: International Migration: concepts, characteristics, typologies, regional patterns,
explanations, and consequences
Unit IV: Migration Policies and Governance: regional models across global north-global south
Unit V: Migration, Environment, and Climate Change linkages: floods, droughts, desertification,
natural disasters; Migration, Development, and Sustainable Development Goals.

Suggested Readings:
1. Brettell, C. B., and Hollifield, J.F. (eds.) 2014. Migration Theory: Talking across Disciplines, 3d
ed. New York: Routledge.
2. Castles, S., de Haas, H. and Miller, M.J. 2014. The Age of Migration: International Population
Movements in the Modern World, 5th ed. New York and London: Guilford.
3. Hatton, T., and Williamson, J.G. 1998. The age of mass migration: causes and economic
impact, New York: Oxford University Press.
4. Kosinsk, L.A., Elahi, K.M. (eds.) 1985. Population redistribution and development in South Asia,
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5. Li, W., Skop, E., Morken, A. 2017. Geography of Migration, London: Oxford University Press.
6. Mavroudi, E. and Nagel, C. 2016. Global migration: patterns, processes, and politics, New York,
NY: Routledge.
7. Mishra, D.K. (eds.) 2016. Internal migration in contemporary India, New Delhi: Sage.
8. Naerssen, T.V., Spaan, E., and Zoomers, A. 2008. Global migration and development, New
York: Routledge.
9. Piguet,E., and Laczko F. (eds.) 2014. People on the move in a changing climate: the regional
impact of environmental change on migration, New York: Springer.
10. Rajan, S.I., and Bhagat R.B. (eds.) 2018. Climate change, vulnerability and migration, London:
Routledge.
11. Rajan, S.I., and Percot, M. (eds.) 2012. Dynamics of Indian migration: historical and current
perspectives, London: Routledge.
12. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 2009. Human Development Report 2009:
Overcoming barriers- human mobility and development, New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Migration Overview: basic concept and issues
Week 2: Migration Overview: Data Sources and measures
Week 3: Migration Overview: historical perspectives
Week 4: Internal Migration: concepts
Week 5: Internal Migration: characteristics and typologies
Week 6: Internal Migration: regional patterns, explanations, and consequences
Week 7: International Migration: Concepts
Week 8: International Migration: characteristics and typologies
Week 9: International Migration: regional patterns, explanations, and consequences
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Migration policies and governance: emerging issues
Week 13: Migration policies and governance: regional models across global north-south
Week 14: Migration, environment, and climate change linkages
Week 15: Migration, environment, and climate change linkages: floods, droughts, and
desertification
Week 16: Migration, Development and Sustainable Development
Week 17: Migration, Development and Sustainable Development

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Outcomes Learning Activity
I Basic concepts and issues Classroom lectures Understanding definitions of migration,
related to human and tutorials its measurement, and historical
migration perspectives
II Basic concepts and issues Classroom lectures Understanding definition,
related to internal and tutorials characteristics, typologies, regional
migration patterns, explanations and
consequences of internal migration
III Basic concepts and issues Classroom lectures Understanding definition,
related to international and tutorials characteristics, typologies, regional
migration patterns, explanations and
consequences of international
migration
IV Issues related to Classroom lectures Understanding emerging policies issues
migration policies and and tutorials and challenges related to human
governance migration and governance
V Issues related to Classroom lectures Understanding emerging issues related
migration, environment, and tutorials to migration, environment, and climate
climate change linkage; change inter-relationships
development, and Understanding migration, development,
sustainable development and sustainable development goals
goals (SDG) inter-relationships (SDGs)

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Semester II – Elective Course

GEOG2E07: HERITAGE CONSERVATION

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To critically understand the meaning of heritage and the relevance of heritage conservation.
2) To understand how policies at the global level and at national levels shape conservation
practices.
3) To appreciate the different meanings of heritage and particularly how diverse communities
understand, practice and preserve heritage.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) To understand the intersections between space, culture, history and heritage.
2) To develop an interdisciplinary approach towards heritage conservation and relate theory,
every-day practices and policy.
3) To develop ideas and suggestions for new and innovative ways in which heritage can be
identified and conserved effectively.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction: Concept of heritage, different perspectives on heritage culture and history,
terms, definitions and trope.
Unit II: The Content of Heritage: Global perspectives of heritage, the world heritage concept,
Implementation of World Heritage Convention, Broadening the representation and
meaning of heritage-Intangible and tangible heritage.
Unit III: Conserving Heritage: Heritage complexities, tensions and ethical challenges, conservation
and management of cultural and natural heritage, heritage and socio-economic
development, community based heritage work.
Unit IV: Heritage Conservation with Particular Reference to India: Managing and interpreting
heritage in India, representing complicated and diverse heritages of India, government of
India policies and programs on heritage conservation.

Suggested Readings:
1. Lowenthal, D. 2003. The Past is a Foreign Country, Cambridge University Press: UK
2. UNESCO World Heritage Convention 1972.
whc.unesco.org/en/globalstrategy/#analysiswhc.unesco.org/en/criteria/
3. UNESCO, 2003. Intangible Heritage Convention.
4. Rodney Harrison, 2013. Heritage: Critical Approaches, Routledge, London.
5. Harold, Kalman, 2014. Heritage Planning: Principles and Process, Routledge, New York.
6. Laurajane Smith, 2006. Uses of Heritage, Routledge, London.

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7. Boym, S. 2002. The Future of Nostalgia, Basic Books, Case, New York.
8. Miles Glendinning, 2013. The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation,
Routledge, London and New York.
9. Chitty, G. 2017. Heritage, Conservation and Communities. Engagement, Participation and
Capacity Building, Routledge, London and New York.
10. Silva, K.D., and Chapagain, N.K. (eds) 2013. Asian Heritage Management. Contexts, Concerns ,
Prospects, Routledge, London and New York.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Syllabus overview
Session 2: Concept of heritage
Week 2: Session 1: Perspectives on heritage culture and history
Session 2: Perspectives on heritage culture and history
Week 3: Session 1: Terms, definitions and trope
Session 2: Terms, definitions and trope
Week 4: Session 1: Global perspectives of heritage
Session 2: World heritage concept
Week 5: Session 1: World heritage concept
Session 2: Implementation of World Heritage Convention
Week 6: Session 1: Broadening the representation and meaning of heritage
Session 2: Intangible and tangible heritage
Week 7: Session 1: Intangible and tangible heritage
Session 2: Heritage complexities; tensions and ethical challenges
Week 8: Session 1: Heritage complexities; tensions and ethical challenges
Session 2: Conservation and management of cultural and natural heritage
Week 9: Session 1: Conservation and management of cultural and natural heritage
Session 2: Heritage and socio-economic development
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Heritage and socio-economic development
Session 2: Community based heritage work
Week 13: Session 1: Community based heritage work
Session 2: Managing and interpreting heritage in India
Week 14: Session 1: Managing and interpreting heritage in India
Session 2: Managing and interpreting heritage in India
Week 15: Session 1: Representing complicated and diverse heritages of India
Session 2: Representing complicated and diverse heritages of India
Week 16: Session 1: Government of India policies and programs on heritage conservation
Session 2: Government of India policies and programs on heritage conservation built
environment and the imagination of urban landscapes – in global South
Week 17: Session 1: Summing up and Wrap up discussions
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment
No. Activity Tasks
I Understanding the theoretical approaches in  Classroom lectures Tutorial
heritage conservation  Group discussions Assignments
II Understanding international policies in  Classroom lectures Mid -term
shaping the concept and practice of heritage  Group presentations examinations
conservation.
III Develop an understanding of challenges in  Classroom lectures Tutorial
heritage management and the role of  Focus Case study Assignments
community in heritage protection, awareness discussions
and conservation.
IV Understanding the context, tropes and  Classroom lectures End term
challenges in heritage conservation in India.  Focus Case study examinations
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester II – Elective Course

GEOG2E08: HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course give a holistic view of the water environments i.e., hydrology seen as a water
carrier in nature with human influence.
2) To know diverse methods of collecting the hydrological information, which is essential to
understand surface and groundwater hydrology?
3) To develop an understanding of how this knowledge may be applied in practice in an
economic and environmentally sustainable manner.

Course Learning Outcome:

1) Apply the water balance equation to various hydrological problems in time and space.
2) Describe how components of the water cycle are influenced by human activities.
3) Analyse hydrological data in order to evaluate water resource management in an area.

Course Contents:
Unit-I. Introduction: The history of hydrology, System Concept in hydrology, hydrologic cycle,
elements of hydrologic cycle, human impact on the hydrologic cycle, water balance.
Unit-II. Surface Water Hydrology: River basin and problems of regional hydrology, sources of
streamflow, streamflow hydrograph, streamflow measurement, rainfall-runoff
relationships, flow duration curve, surface water resource of India, wetlands hydrology.
Unit-III. Groundwater Hydrology: Divisions of subsurface water, formations according to their
water-bearing properties, types of aquifer and aquifer properties, Darcy’s law and
elementary groundwater flow equation, geological formations as aquifers, groundwater
monitoring, groundwater resource estimation.
Unit-IV. Contemporary Issues and Challenges: Drought, flood, water use conflicts, water quality and
major water pollutants (points and non-point source), water quality criteria for different
uses.
Unit-V. Water Resource Planning, Management and Policy: Water resources management
(demand and supply side), watershed management, water harvesting, national water
policy.

Suggested Readings:
1. Abbas, B.M. 1982. The Ganges Water Dispute, Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
2. Aggarwal, A. 1991. Floods, Floodplains and Environmental Myths, Centre for Science and
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3. Andrew, D. W. and Trimble, S. 2004. Environmental Hydrology, 2nd Edition, Lewis Publishers,
CRC Press.
4. Beek, E., Loucks, P.D. 2005. Water Resource Systems Planning and Management: An
Introduction to Methods, Models and Applications, UNESCO, Paris.
5. Bhattacharya, S.K. 1988. Urban Domestic Water Supply in Developing Countries, CBS
Publishers, CR Distributors, Delhi.
6. Chow, V.T., Maidment, D.R. and Mays, W.L. 1988. Applied Hydrology, McGraw-Hill
International Editions, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.
7. Beach, Tim and Jonathan, M.F. 2017. Wetland Hydrology: The International Encyclopaedia of
Geography, Wiley Online Library.
8. Jain, S.K., Aggarwal, P.K. and Singh, V.P. 2007. Hydrology and Water Resources of India,
Springer, The Netherlands.
9. Karanth, K.R. 1988. Groundwater: Exploration, Assessment and Development, Tata-McGraw
Hill, New Delhi.
10. Mahajan G. 1989. Evaluation and Development of Groundwater, Ashish Publishing House, New
Delhi.
11. Micklin, Philip, P. 1996. Man and the water cycle: challenges for the 21st century, Geojournal,
39 (3): 285-298.
12. Rai, S.C. 2017. Hydrology and Water Resources: A Geographical Perspective, Ane Book Pvt.
Ltd., New Delhi.
13. Singh, V.P. 1995. Environmental Hydrology, Kluwar Academic Publications, The Netherlands.
14. Subramanya, K. 2010. Engineering Hydrology, Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.
15. Thornthwaite, C.W. and Mather, J.R. 1957. Instructions and Tables for Computing Potential
Evapotranspiration and the Water Balance, Drexel Institute of Technology, Centerton, New
Jersy.
16. Todd, D.K. 1980. Groundwater Hydrology, John Wiley, New York.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1 Introduction Subramanya, K. (2010); Rai, S.C. (2017)
The history of hydrology Chow, V.T., Maidment, D.R. and Mays,
W.L. (1988); Rai, S.C. (2017)
System Concept in hydrology Chow, V.T., Maidment, D.R. and Mays,
W.L. (1988); Rai, S.C. (2017)
Week 2 & 3 Hydrologic Cycle; Elements of Hydrologic Chow, V.T., Maidment, D.R. and Mays,
Cycle: precipitation, interception, W.L. (1988); Rai, S.C. (2017);
evaporation, evapo-transpiration, Subramanya, K. (2010
infiltration, subsurface water, surface
water & runoff
Human impact on the hydrologic cycle Micklin, Philip, P. (1996); Rai, S.C. (2017)
Water Balance Thornthwaite C.W. and Mather, J.R.
(1957); Rai, S.C. (2017)
Week 4 River basin and problems of regional Subramanya, K. (2010); Jain, S.K.,
hydrology Aggarwal, P.K. and Singh, V.P. (200
Week 5 Sources of streamflow; streamflow Chow, V.T., Maidment, D.R. and Mays,
hydrograph; streamflow measurement W.L. (1988); Rai, S.C. (2017)
Week 6 Rainfall-runoff relationships; flow Subramanya, K. (2010); Rai, S.C. (2017);
duration curve; surface water resource of Todd, D.K. (1980)
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Week 8 Divisions of subsurface water Subramanya, K. (2010); Rai, S.C. (2017);
Formations according to their water- Todd, D.K. (1980)
bearing properties
Types of aquifer and Aquifer properties
Darcy’s law and elementary groundwater
flow equation
Week 9 Geological formations as Aquifers Subramanya, K. (2010); Rai, S.C. (2017);
Groundwater monitoring Todd, D.K. (1980)
Groundwater resource estimation

Week 10 Mid-Semester Examinations

Week 11 Mid-Semester Break
Week 12 Drought management Aggarwal, A. (1991); Bhattacharya, S.K.
(1988)
Week 13 Flood management Abbas, B.M. (1982); Bhattacharya, S.K.
(1988)
Week 14 Water use conflicts Beek, E., Loucks, P.D. (2005); Abbas,
B.M. (1982); Rai S.C. (2017)
Week 15 Water quality and major water pollutants Beek, E., Loucks, P.D. (2005); Rai S.C.
(points and non-point source) (2017)
Water quality criteria for different uses
Week 16 Water resources management (demand Beek, E., Loucks, P.D. (2005); Rai S.C.
and supply side) (2017); Sharma et.al. (1992)
Watershed Management
Week 17 Water harvesting Beek, E., Loucks, P.D. (2005); Rai S.C.
National Water Policy (2017)

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Activity Assessment Tasks
No.
I Knowledge of fundamental Lectures and Tutorials Assignments
concepts in Hydrology
II Knowledge of Surface water Lectures, Tutorials and Field Field diaries
hydrology visits
III Knowledge of ground water Lectures, Tutorials and Field Field diaries
hydrology visits
IV Knowledge of contemporary Lectures and Tutorials Assignments
issues and challenges
V Knowledge of Water Resource Lectures and Tutorials Assignments
Planning, Management and
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester II – Elective Course

GEOG2E09: MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course shall equip the students to have a basic understanding of multivariate statistical
analyses. It shall allow them to understand purpose and basic assumptions related to
regression models.
2) They will also learn about different family of regression models, with data requirements,
assumptions, and diagnostic tests.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) This course must train the student about the need, purpose, and advantage of regression
models over other crude methods.
2) Students should be well conversant with different families of regression models, its underlying
assumptions, data requirements, interpretation of regression results, and able to apply the
diagnostic test to check the model fit.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction to regression models: assumptions, properties, and applications
Unit II: Bivariate linear regression
Unit III: Multiple regression
Unit IV: Logit regression
Unit V: Factor analysis; Principal component analysis

Suggested Readings:
1. Berry, W.D. 1993. Understanding Regression Assumptions, Sage Publications, London.
2. Dunteman, G.H. 1989. Principal Component Analysis, Sage Publications, London.
3. Kim, J., and Mueller, C.W. 1978. Factor Analysis: Statistical Methods and Practical Issues, Sage
Publications, London.
4. Menard, S. 2002. Applied Logistic Regression Analysis. 2nd edition, Sage Publications, London.
5. Retherford, R.D., and Choe, M.K. 1993. Statistical Models for Causal Analysis, Wiley& Sons
Inc, New York.
6. Schroeder, L.D., Sjoquist, D.L., and Stephan, P.E. 1986. Understanding Regression Analysis: An
Introductory Guide, Sage Publications, London.
7. Goddard, J., Kirby, A. 1976. An Introduction to Factor Analysis. Concepts and Techniques in
Modern Geography, Institute of British Geographers, London.
8. Daultrey,S. (1976) Principal Component Analysis. Concepts and Techniques in Modern
Geography, Institute of British Geographers, London.

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Teaching Plan
Week 1: Introduction to regression models: basic concept
Week 2: Introduction to regression models: assumptions and properties
Week 3: Introduction to regression models: applications
Week 4: Bivariate linear regression: basic concepts
Week 5: Bivariate linear regression: assumptions and properties application
Week 6: Bivariate linear regression: application
Week 7: Multiple linear regression: basic concepts
Week 8: Multiple linear regression: assumptions and properties and application
Week 9: Multiple linear regression: application
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Logit regression: basic concepts
Week 13: Logit regression: assumptions and properties and application
Week 14: Logit regression: application
Week 15: Factor analysis: basic concept
Week 16: Factor analysis: properties and application
Week 17: Principal component analysis: concept, properties and application

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Basic concepts of regression Classroom lectures and Understanding basic concept
models tutorials of regression model
II Concepts and application of Classroom lectures and Doing bivariate regression
bivariate linear regression tutorials model
III Concepts and application of Classroom lectures and Doing multiple regression
multiple regression tutorials model
IV Concepts and application of Classroom lectures and Doing logit regression model
logit regression tutorials
V Concepts and application of Classroom lectures and Doing factor analysis
factor analysis tutorials
VI Concepts and application of Classroom lectures and Doing principal component
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester II – Elective Course

GEOG2E10: REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) The students will be exposed to ‘regional’ approach in studying geography.
2) The students will be conscious of the various facets of regional geography – foundations and
dimensions, regional consciousness and identity, and forms and evolution.
3) The students will be aware of the hierarchy of regional divisions of India.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will be able to understand and analyse the principal issues confronting the
regions today.
2) The students will get an insight into ‘how regions work’, through case-study from India.
3) The students will be able to understand and analyse the principal issues confronting the
different regions of India.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction: origin and development of regional studies, regional approach, methods of
regionalization.
Unit II: Foundations and Dimensions of Regional Geography: ecological foundations, economic
foundations, social and cultural dimensions.
Unit III: Regional Organization of Space: regional consciousness and identity, region and political
life.
Unit IV: Forms and Evolution of Regional Organization: societies without space, regional
organization of traditional and industrial societies, globalization and new territorial order.
Unit V: Future of the Regional Approach: selected case-studies from India.

Suggested Readings:
1. Abler R., Adams J. S., and Gould P. R., 1971. Spatial Organization: A Geographer’s View of the
World, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall.
2. Claval Paul, 1998. An Introduction to Regional Geography, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford and
Massachusetts.
3. De Blij H. J. 1971. Geography: Regions and Concepts, John Wiley and Sons.
4. Deshpande C. D. 1992. India: A Regional Interpretation, ICSSR, New Delhi.
5. Johnson E. A. J. 1970. The Organization of Space in Developing Countries, MIT Press,
Massachusetts.
6. Johnston R. J. And Hauer J. 1990. Regional Geography: Current Developments and Future
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7. Johnston R. J. and Sidaway J. D. 2004. Geography and Geographers: Anglo-American Human
Geography since 1945, Arnold, London.
8. Mandal R. B. (ed.), 1990. Patterns of Regional Geography – An International Perspective. Vol. 1
– Conceptual Development.
9. Minshull Roger, 2007. Regional Geography: Theory and Practice, Transaction Publishers.
10. Singh R. L. 1971. India: A Regional Geography, National Geographical Society of India.
11. Spate O. H. K. and Learmonth A. T. A. 1954. India and Pakistan – A General and Regional
Geography, Methuen.
12. Whittlesey D. 1952. The Regional Concept and the Regional Method in P. James and C. F. Jones
(eds.), American Geography – Inventory and Prospect, AAAG.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Development of Regional Studies
Session 2: Development of Regional Studies
Week 2: Session 1: Regional Approach
Session 2: Regional Approach
Week 3: Session 1: Methods of Regionalization
Session 2: Methods of Regionalization
Week 4: Session 1: Ecological Foundations of Regional Geography
Session 2: Ecological Foundations of Regional Geography
Week 5: Session 1: Economic Foundations of Regional Geography
Session 2: Economic Foundations of Regional Geography
Week 6: Session 1: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Regional Geography
Session 2: Social and Cultural Dimensions of Regional Geography
Week 7: Session 1: Regional Consciousness and Identity
Session 2: Regional Consciousness and Identity
Week 8: Session 1: Region and Political Life
Session 2: Region and Political Life
Week 9: Session 1: Societies without Space
Session 2: Societies without Space
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Regional Organization of Traditional Societies
Session 2: Regional Organization of Traditional Societies
Week 13: Session 1: Regional Organization of Industrial Societies
Session 2: Regional Organization of Industrial Societies
Week 14: Session 1: Globalization and the New Territorial Order
Session 2: Globalization and the New Territorial Order
Week 15: Session 1: Conclusions – Future of the Regional Approach
Session 2: Regionalization of India by O. H. K. Spate and R. L. Singh
Week 16: Session 1: Case Study – Regional Geography of India (Himalaya Mountain)
Session 2: Case Study – Regional Geography of India (Indus-Ganga Plain)
Week 17: Session 1: Case Study – Regional Geography of India (Peninsular Plateau)
Session 2: Case Study – Regional Geography of India (Coastal Plain and Islands)

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Learning Activity
I Knowledge of the regional Classroom lectures Relevance of the regional
approach in geography and tutorials approach
II Knowledge of foundations and Classroom lectures Comparative study of ecological,
dimensions of regional and tutorials economic and socio-cultural
geography dimensions
III Knowledge of regional Classroom lectures Case-study of regional
organization of space and tutorials consciousness leading to
regionalism
IV Knowledge of forms and Classroom lectures Comparative case-study of
evolution of regional and tutorials traditional and industrial societies
organization
V Future of the regional approach Classroom lectures Case-study of selected regions
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Core Course

GEOG3C01: MODERN GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course aims to provide knowledge of disciplinary developments post 1970.
2) It aims to enable students to contextualize the conceptual traditions within geography along
with the major philosophical influences.
3) It promotes an understanding of the fluidity, expansion and inclusivity of Modern
Geographical Thought as against imperial underpinnings and latent eurocentricity.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) A thorough knowledge of the growth, development, philosophical influences and relevance of
geography from 1970 to the present time.
2) Knowledge of emerging areas and new theorisations within the discipline
3) An appreciation of the discipline’s dynamic and inclusive nature.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Brief Disciplinary History: Early origins, imperial influences and multi paradigmic nature;
towards professionalization and institutionalisation; a contested discipline.
Unit II: Philosophical Influences in Modern Geographical Thought: Behaviouralism, Realism,
Marxism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism and Postmodernism.
Unit III: Emergence of Modern Geography: Key developments in the 1970’s; post positivist
Humanistic Geography; Behavioural Geography; Marxist Geography, Feminist Geography;
Postmodern Geographies.
Unit IV: Ontological turns and New Theories in Modern Geography: New ontologies of space and
place; cultural turn, emotional turn, narrative turn; fieldwork and politics of
representation; decolonizing geographical research; Grounded Theory, Minor Theory, Non-
Representational Theory.
Unit V: Future of Geography: Drivers of global relevance, emerging subfields, difference, diversity
and greater inclusivity in a globalising world.

Suggested Readings:
1. Cresswell, Tim, 2013. Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction, Wiley Blackwell.
2. Nayak, Anoop & Jeffrey Alex, 2011. Geographical Thought: An Introduction to Ideas in Human
Geography, Harlow: Prentice Hall.
3. Gregory, Derek; Johnston, Ron; Pratt, Geraldine; Watts, Michael; Whatmore, Sarah, 2009. The
Dictionary of Human Geography, Wiley-Blackwell.
4. Bonnett, Alastair, 2008. What is geography? Sage Publications.

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5. Hubbard, Phil., Kitchin, Rob, and Gill Valentine, 2008. Key Texts in Human Geography, Sage
Publications.
5. Castree, R, A. Rogers and D. Sherman, 2005. Questioning Geography: Fundamental Debates,
Blackwell.
6. Hubbard, Phil., Kitchin, Rob., Bartley Brendan and Duncan Fuller, (eds) 2002.Thinking
Geographically: Space, Theory and Contemporary Human Geography, Continuum
7. Crang, Mike and Nigel Thrift, 2000. Thinking Space, Routledge.
8. Holt Jensen Arid, 1999. Geography: History and Concepts, Sage Publications.
9. Peet, Richard, 1998. Geographical Thought, Blackwell.
10. Benko, Georges, Strohmayer, Ulf, 1997. Space and Social Theory, Blackwell Publishers.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction to the course, Bridging with CBCS undergraduate syllabus and
overview; Early origins, imperial influences.
Session 2: Multi paradigmic nature of the discipline, towards professionalization and
institutionalisation.
Week 2: Session 1: Towards professionalization and institutionalisation, a contested discipline.
Session 2: Philosophical influences on Modern Geographical Thought-Behaviouralism.
Week 3: Session 1: Philosophical influences on Modern Geographical Thought- Realism.
Session 2: Philosophical influences on Modern Geographical Thought- Marxism.
Week 4: Session 1: Philosophical influences on Modern Geographical Thought- Structuralism.
Session 2: Philosophical influences on Modern Geographical Thought- Post
Structuralism.
Week 5: Session 1: Philosophical influences on Modern Geographical Thought –
Postmodernism.
Session 2: Key developments in the 1970’s, Disciplinary androcentricity and racism
Phenomenology and post positivist Humanistic Geography.
Week 6: Session 1: Behavioural Geography- key themes, critiques
Session 2: Marxist Geography-key themes, critiques
Week 7: Session 1: Feminist Geography- key themes, intersectionality
Session 2: Feminist Geography-intersectionalities, post-feminist geographies?
Week 8: Session 1: Post Modern Geographies
Session 2: Post Modern Geographies (contd.)
Week 9: Session 1: New ontologies of space and place, hetrerotopias.
Session 2: New ontologies of space and place, production of space, trialectics of
space.
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Ontological turns- cultural turn
Session 2: Ontological turns -emotional turn, narrative turn
Week 13: Session 1: Fieldwork and politics of representation
Session 2: Decolonizing geographical research, Purposing Minor Theory
Week 14: Session 1: Minor Theory (contd.), Grounded Theory approach
Session 2: Grounded Theory approach (contd.), Non Representational theory.
Week 15: Session 1: Non Representational theory (contd.)
Session 2: Future of Geography-drivers of global relevance
Week 16: Session 1: Emerging areas and new subfields overview and examples
Session 2: Difference, diversity and greater inclusivity in a globalising world
Week 17: Session 1: Portrait of discipline relevant to contemporary global and local concerns-
Session 2: Wrap up discussions and feedback

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Teaching and Learning Activity Assessment Tasks
No. Outcomes
I Knowledge of Lectures and Tutorials/seminars; Assignment on paradigms
disciplinary history and Presentation and discussion on
evolution imperial underpinnings, multiple
paradigms
II Knowledge of Lectures and Tutorials/seminars; Assignment on any two major
important philosophical Discussion and details of major philosophical influences on
influences on the philosophical influences the work of geographers
discipline
III Knowledge of post Lectures and Tutorials/seminars; Assignment on critique of
positivist geographies Discussion on emergence of new positivism and responses
geographies in the 1970’s within mainstream geography.
IV Knowledge of Lectures and Tutorials/seminars; Assignment on Cultural turn;
Ontological turns and Discussion on ontological turns Assignment on decolonizing
New Social Theories in and newer social theories in the research/ purposing Minor
Geography discipline theory/ Nonrepresentational
Theory
V Appreciating the Lectures and Tutorials/seminars; Assignment on Future of
relevance of Geography Discussions on difference, Geography as an inclusive and
in assessing diversity and relevance of integrative discipline.
contemporary global geography
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Core Course

GEOG3C02: RESEARCH METHODS AND TECHNIQUES IN GEOGRAPHY

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course attempts to introduce the students to the basic knowledge related to geographical
field research design.
2) The course examines the questions related to data collection, methods and its analysis.
3) It also critically evaluates the dissertation based on field survey.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will be able to understand basic concepts of field research methods and research
design in geography.
2) The students will be able to do field work through practical experience and get skills of data
collection methods and processing and analysis of obtained data.
3) The students will be able to write dissertation based on field work on given topic.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction to Geographical Research: Concept, Significance, Types and Approaches to
Research in Geography; Literature survey; Research Ethics; Limitations.
Unit II: Research Design: Steps, Identification and formulation of Research Problem; Research
questions; Aims and Objectives.
Unit III: Data Sources and Methods of Data Collection: Nature of Data: qualitative and quantitative,
Primary Data: Field survey, Selection of sample, Questionnaire, Interview, Observation,
PRA; Secondary Data.
Unit IV: Data Analysis: Processing of Data; tabulation, graphic presentation and analysis of Data;
Referencing; Structure of dissertation.

Suggested Readings:
1. Black, James A. and Champion, D.J. 1976. Methods and Issues in Social Research, John Wiley
and Sons, New York.
2. Bonnett, Alastai, R. 2008. What Is Geography? Sage, London.
3. Creswell, J. W. 2009. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods
Approaches, Sage, California, USA
4. Gopal, Krishan and Singh, Nina, 2016. Researching Geography: The Indian Context. Routledge,
Delhi.
5. Harris, C. 2001. Archival Fieldwork, Geographical Review, 91 (1-2), 328-334
6. Hart, C. 1999. Doing Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination,
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7. Hay. I. 2010. Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, 3rd ed. Oxford University
Press, South Melbourne, Australia,
8. Lunsbury J.F. and Aldrich, F.T. 1979. Introduction to Geographic Field Methods and Techniques,
Charles E. Mercill Publishing Company, Columbus.
9. Misra, R. P. 2015. Research Methodology: A Handbook, Concept Publishing Company, New
Delhi.
10. Montello, Daniel R. and Sutton, P.C. 2006. An Introduction to Scientific Research in Geography,
Sage Publications, London.
11. Oliver, Paul, 2004. Writing Your Thesis, Vistaar Publications, New Delhi
12. Preece, R. 1994. Starting Research: An Introduction to Academic Research and Dissertation
Writing, Continuum, London.
13. Sharma, P.R., R. S. Yadava and Sharma, V.N. 2011. Research Methodology: Concepts and
Studies, R. K. Books, New Delhi.
14. Stoddard, Robert H. 1982. Field Techniques and Research Methods in Geography,
Kendall/Hunt for National Council for Geographic Education.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1 - Overview about research in geography
Week 2 - Types and approaches of research
Week 3 - Literature survey
Week 4 - Research ethics
Week 5 - Research design and process
Week 6 - Identification of problem
Week 7 - Research questions, objectives
Week 8 - Nature and sources of data
Week 9- Primary data sources: field survey
Week 10- Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11- Mid-Semester Break
Week 12 - Questionnaire & interview
Week 13 - Observation & PRA
Week 14 - Secondary data sources
Week 15 - Processing and analysis of data
Week 16 - References and Structure of dissertation
Week: 17 -Dissertation writing

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Outcomes Learning Activity
I Conceptual background Classroom lectures Assignments/ discussion on concepts of
of Research tutorials and PPTs field research
II Identify and formulate Classroom Assignments/presentations/ debates on
of Research Problem lectures, tutorials formulation and preparation of research
and PPTs problem
III Methods of Data Classroom Assignments/discussions/presentations
Collection and Field lectures, tutorials on using techniques for primary survey
survey, and PPTs
IV Processing and Analysis Classroom lectures Presentations/discussions on detailed
of Data and writing and tutorials structure of dissertation
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E01: CITIES OF GLOBAL SOUTH

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To critically understand the complexities of urban cities in the global context and the
experience of living in these cities.
2) To critically understand a broad range of issues that global cities face today.
3) To provide a social, cultural, political and economic understanding of global cities of the South.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) To understand the linkages between global cities of the South and the particular context in
which they emerge.
2) Critically analyse contemporary issues of Cities in the South from a geographical perspective.
3) Understand urban issues of specific contexts, in the case of global cities in the South in order
to work for possible and effective planning and policy interventions.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Understanding Global Cities: Definitions and approaches in understanding global cities -
foundational Ideas, Marxist and post-modern views.
Unit II: Cities in Global Economy: Globalization and cities; emergence of new economy-
information communication technologies (ICTs) and informal sectors; Gentrification and
social exclusion.
Unit III: Politics, Governance in Global Cities: Local politics and governance in global era; Issues and
politics of community development and empowerment; contemporary planning and its
impact on everyday lives of citizens.
Unit IV: Future of Global Cities: Sustaining new ways of living and ideas of green cities; Global
terrorism, violence, loneliness and homelessness and public policy; Smart cities.

Suggested Readings:
1. Castells, Manuel, 2009. The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (v. 1-3) The Rise of
Network Society; The Power of Identity, End of Millennium, (Second edition), Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing.
2. Castells, Manuel, Gustavo Cardoso, 2006. The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy,
Washington, DC, Center for Transatlantic Relations.
3. Hall, P. 2001. Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation and Urban Order, Phoenix.
4. Hall, P. 2002. Cities in Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the
Twentieth Century, 3rd Edition, Oxford: Blackwell.

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5. Misra, R.P. (ed.) 2013. Urbanization in South Asia: Focus on Mega Cities, Cambridge University
Press, New Delhi.
6. Nandy, A, 2001. An Ambiguous Journey to the City: The Village and other Odd Ruins of the Self
in the Indian Imagination, New Delhi: OUP.
7. Sassen, S (ed.) 2002. Global Network, Linked Cities, New York: Routledge.
8. Scott, A.J. 2002. Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy, Oxford: OUP.
9. Southhall, A. 1998. The City in Time and space, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
10. Datta, A. and Shaban, A. (eds), 2017. Mega-Urbanisation in Global South: Fast Cities and New
Urban Utopias of the Post-colonial State, Routledge: London and New York.
11. Parnell, S. and Oldfield, S. 2014.The Routledge Handbook on Cities of Global, Routledge,
London and New York.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Syllabus overview
Session 2: Understanding Global cities
Week 2: Session 1: Foundational Ideas
Session 2: Marxist Approaches
Week 3: Session 1: Post-modern Approaches
Session 2: Globalisation and cities
Week 4: Session 1: Globalisation and cities
Session 2: Emergence of new economy
Week 5: Session 1: New economies of information communication technologies (ICTs)
Session 2: New economies of information communication technologies (ICTs)
Week 6: Session 1: Informal sectors
Session 2: Informal sectors
Week 7: Session 1: Gentrification and social exclusion
Session 2: Gentrification and social exclusion
Week 8: Session 1: Local politics and governance in global era
Session 2: Local politics and governance in global era
Week 9: Session 1: Issues and politics of community development and empowerment
Session 2: Issues and politics of community development and empowerment
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Contemporary planning and its impact on everyday lives of citizens
Session 2: Contemporary planning and its impact on everyday lives of citizens
Week 13: Session 1: Sustaining new ways of living and ideas of green cities
Session 2: Sustaining new ways of living and ideas of green cities
Week 14: Session 1: Global terrorism, violence
Session 2: Global terrorism and violence
Week 15: Session 1: Loneliness and homelessness
Session 2: Loneliness and homelessness
Week 16: Session 1: Public policies in tackling the emerging issues in Cities of Global South
Session 2: Smart cities
Week 17: Session 1: Summing up and Wrap up discussions
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment
No. Activity Tasks
I Understanding the complexities of Cities Classroom lectures Tutorial
of Global South Group discussions Assignments
II Understanding the economic processes Classroom lectures Mid -term
of development of Cities of Global South Group presentations examinations
III Develop a social, political and economic Classroom lectures Tutorial
understanding of contemporary urban Focus City discussions Assignments
issues in Cities of Global South.
IV Understanding the future of Urbanism Classroom lectures End term
and urbanisation trends in Cities of Focus City presentations examinations
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E02: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ADAPTATIONS

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objective:
1) Providing in depth knowledge of Climate Change.
2) Assessment of Climate Change impacts on fragile ecosystems.
3) Adaptation strategy and governance.

Course Learning Outcome:

1) Understanding of various dimensions of Climate Change.
2) Significance of adaptation strategies.
3) Evaluation of role of Local and global organisations.

Course Content:
Unit I: Science of Climate Change: Meaning, Concept and Approaches.
Unit II: Measuring Climate Change: Stress, exposure, risk and vulnerability related to climatic
hazards and disasters.
Unit III: Empirical Assessment of Climate Change Adaptation: Assessment in fragile ecosystems;
Mountain, Desert and Coastal.
Unit IV: Climate Change Adaptation: Role of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) and Resilience
for Future Sustainability
Unit V: Policy Framework for Climate Change Adaptation: SDGs Approach, International Climate
Change Agreements and Local Governance.

Suggested Readings:
1. Adger, W. N. 2006. Vulnerability, Global Environmental Change, 16 (3), 268-281
2. Agrawala, S. and Fankhauser, S. (Eds.), 2008. Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate
Change: Costs, Benefits and Policy Instruments, OECD, Paris
3. Barros, Vicente R. (eds.), 2014. Climate Change 2014. Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability:
Global and Sectoral Aspects. Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (Part B; Regional Aspect), Cambridge University Press, New York.
4. Bergkamp, G., Orlando, B. and Burton, I. 2003. Change: Adaptation of Water Resources
Management to Climate Change, IUCN, Gland.
5. Brewster, E. N. 2010. Climate Change Adaptation: Steps for a Vulnerable Planet, New York,
Nova Science.
6. IPCC, 2012. Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change
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Climate Change [Field, C.B., V. Barros, T.F. Stocker, D. Qin, D.J. Dokken, K.L. Ebi, M.D.
Mastrandrea, K.J. Mach, G.-K. Plattner, S.K. Allen, M. Tignor, and P.M. Midgley (eds.)].
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY, USA, 582 pp.
7. IPCC, 2013. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, the Fifth Assessment Report of
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, T.F., D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M.
Tignor, S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 1535 pp.
8. Mukherji Shormila, 2004. Fragile Environment, Manak Publication Pvt. Ltd.
9. NDMA, 2009. National Disaster Management Guidelines-Management of Landslides and Snow
Avalanches. Publication of National Disaster Management Authority, Government of India.
New Delhi
10. Pandey, R, Jha, S. 2011. Climate vulnerability index –measure of climate change vulnerability
to communities: a case of rural Lower Himalayas, India, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies
Global Change, Published online December 2011
11. Rai, S.C. 2009. Land Use and Climate Change, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York.
12. Reid, Hannah. 2014. Climate change and human development, London, UK : Zed Books
13. Singh, Savindra, 2015. Paryavaran Bhoogol, Prayag Pushtak Bhavan Allahabad (Hindi).

Teaching Plan
Week 1: Introduction of Climate Change (Barros, Vicente R. (eds.), 2014).
Week 2: Concepts of Climate Change (Reid, Hannah. 2014).
Week 3: Approaches to Climate Change adaptation (Bergkamp, G., Orlando, B. and Burton, I.
2003).
Week 4: Climatic Stress, exposure (Pandey, R, Jha S., 2011).
Week 5: Vulnerability and Risk related to climate change
Week 6: Climatic hazards and disasters (NDMA, 2009).
Week 7: Climate Change: Assessment in fragile ecosystem (Mukherji Shormila, 2004).
Week 8: Assessment of Mountain ecosystem (NDMA, 2009 and Pandey, B. W. 2002)
Week 9: Assessment of Coastal and Desert ecosystems IPCC, 2013).
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break (Fieldwork)
Week 12 Role of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge (ITK) (Barros, Vicente R. (eds.), 2014).
Week 13: Climate Change Resilience (Adger, W. N., 2006).
Week 14: Future Sustainability (IPCC, 2012)
Week 15: Climate Change Adaptation and role of SDGs (Brewster, E. N. 2010).
Week 16: Climate Change Agreements (IPCC, 2012)
Week 17: Regional Cooperation and Local Governance (NDMA, 2009)

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Introduction to climate Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
change adaptations in documentaries, discussions, discussions and debates.
different geographic tutorials and fieldwork.
conditions
II Detailed study of Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
vulnerability risk factors documentaries, discussions, discussions and debates.
related to climate change tutorials and fieldwork.
III Empirical understanding of Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
different bio-geographic documentaries, discussions, discussions and debates.
regions tutorials and fieldwork.
IV Role of indigenous practices Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
and adaptation methods to documentaries, discussions, discussions and debates.
combat climate change tutorials and fieldwork.
V Role of different players Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
from the formulation to documentaries, discussions, discussions and debates.
implementation of policies tutorials and fieldwork.

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E03: DEMOGRAPHY AND POPULATION GEOGRAPHY

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course intends to orient the students towards interdisciplinary perspectives on population
issues at different geographical scales.
2) It will acquaint the candidate to appreciate the role of spatial perspectives towards showcasing
population changes and its impact on the economy, society, environment and politics at diverse
geographical spheres.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) After taking this course, a candidate should be able to appreciate the active role of population
geography as a distinct field of human geography.
2) S/he should be conversant with different sources of demographic data, and well versed with
debates on population-development linkages.
3) Students should be able to examine the different components of population change, its
drivers, and their consequences upon contemporary socio-economic, environmental, and
political changes.

Contents:
Unit I: Demography and Population Geography: nature, scope, development, sources of
population data.
Unit II: Population Composition: age, sex, literacy, rural- urban; theories of population: Malthus
and critique; the demographic transition theory, population composition and theories.
Unit III: Mortality: measurements, theories, regional patterns.
Unit IV: Fertility and Nuptiality: measurements, theories, regional patterns.
Unit V: Migration: theories, typologies, patterns and flows; causes and consequences.

Suggested Readings
1. Birdsell, N., Kelley, A.C., and Sinding, S.W. 2001. Population Matters: Demographic Change,
Economic Growth, and Poverty in Developing World, Auckland: Oxford University Press.
2. Clarke, J.I. 1972. Population Geography. 2nd edition, Oxford: Pergamon Press.
3. Dyson, T. 2010. Population and Development: The Demographic Transition, London: Zed
Books.
4. Jeffery, R., and Jeffery, P. 1997. Population, Gender, and Politics: Demographic Change in Rural
North India, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
5. May, J.F. 2012. World Population Policies: Their Origin, Evolution, and Impact, Washington
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6. Newbold, K.B. 2010. Population Geography: Tools and Issues, New York: Rowman and
Littlefield Publishers Inc.
7. Poston, D.L., and Bouvier, L.F. 2010. Population and Society: An Introduction to Demography,
New York: Cambridge University Press.
8. Poston, D.L., and Micklin, M. (eds.) 2005. Handbook of Population, New York: Kluwer
Academic.
9. Preston, S., Heuveline, P., and Guillot, M. 2000. Demography: Measuring and Modelling
Population Processes, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
10. Seigal, J.S., and Swanson, D.A. (eds.) 2004. The Methods and Materials of Demography. 2nd
edition, San Diego, CA: Elsevier Academic Press.
11. Srinivasan, K. 2017. Population Concerns in India: Shifting Trends, Policies, and Programs, New
Delhi: Sage.
12. Weeks, J.R. 2008. Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues. 10th edition, Belmont,
CA: Thomson Wadsworth.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Understanding the definitions, concepts, and issues related to population geography
Week 2: Scope and development of the sub-field; sources of population data
Week 3: Population Composition: Age, Sex, Literacy, Rural-urban
Week 4: Theories of Population: Malthus and his critique; the Demographic transition theory
Week 5: Mortality: Basic concepts and measurements
Week 6: Mortality: Theories, determinants, regional patterns
Week 7: Fertility and nuptiality: Basic concepts and measurements
Week 8: Determinants of fertility
Week 9: Theories/explanations of fertility decline
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Migration: basic concepts
Week 13: Migration: theories
Week 14: Migration: typologies
Week 15: Migration: patterns and flows
Week 16: Migration: causes
Week 17: Migration: consequences

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Learning Activity
I Understanding of fundament issues and Classroom Developing basic concepts
concepts of population; inter-relationships lectures and and issues related to
with other social science disciplines tutorials population issues
including geography
II Understanding of population composition: Classroom Examining population
age and sex, education, marital status, lectures and characteristics and
rural-urban; population theories tutorials composition
III Basic concepts of mortality: determinants Classroom Understanding of
and consequences, regional patterns lectures and mortality measures and
tutorials determinants
IV Basic concepts of fertility: determinants Classroom Understanding of
and consequences, regional patterns lectures and fertility/nuptiality
tutorials measures and
determinants
V Basic concepts of migration: determinants Classroom Understanding of
and consequences, regional patterns lectures and migration measures,
tutorials types, and models

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E04: DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND REGIONAL POLICY

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course studies the conception of space in Anglo-American traditions of regional
development theory.
2) It lays the theoretical foundation for the various development concepts and models, which
originated post 1950s.
3) It also critically evaluates the numerous regional policies originating from the above theories.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will be aware of Anglo-American academic traditions, and overlapping
disciplinary roots of the regional development theories.
2) The students will know how the development theories evolved over four very dissimilar
phases, with substantial variation in emphasis and character:
a) Urban-Industrial Growth Pole Strategies (1950-70)
b) Neo-Populist Regional Development Strategies (1970-90)
c) Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization (1990-2010)
d) Sustainable Human Development (2010 onwards)
3) The students will learn about the regional policies emanating out of these development
theories.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction: Origin and Context, Concept of Space and Region, Rationalization of Regional
Planning and Spatial Policy.
Unit II: Common Regional Policy Objectives: regional Imbalance as a policy problem; growth,
income distribution and spatial inequality.
Unit III: Rival Regional Planning Strategies: urban-industrial growth pole strategies; polarization
and the development of underdevelopment; neo-populist regional development strategies.
Unit IV: Globalization of Development Policy: liberalization, privatization and globalization;
sustainable human development.
Unit V: Conclusion: territorial regional planning; state, development and regional planning.

Suggested Readings:
1. Friedmann J. 1966. Regional Development Policy: A Case Study of Venezuela, Cambridge,
Mass., MIT.
2. Friedmann J. 1973. Urbanization, Planning and National Development, Sage Pub., London.

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3. Gore C. 1984. Regions in Question: Space, Development Theory and Regional Policy, London,
Methuen.
4. Gore C., Köhler G., Reich U-P. and Ziesemer T. 1996. Questioning Development: Essays on the
Theory, Policies and Practice of Development Intervention, Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg.
5. Gore C. 2000. ‘The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing
Countries’, World Development, 28 (5), 789-804, Elsevier Science Ltd.
6. Hirschman A. O. 1958. The Strategy of Economic Development, New Haven, Yale University
Press.
7. Lo Fu-chen and Salih K. 1978. Growth Pole Strategy and Regional Development Policy: Asian
Experiences and Alternative Approaches, Pergamon, Oxford.
8. Myrdal G. 1957. Economic Theory and Underdeveloped Regions, London, Duckworth.
9. Peet R. 1999. Theories of Development, Guilford Press, New York.
10. Stohr W. B. and Taylor D. R. F. 1981. Development from Above or Below? The Dialectics of
Regional Planning in Developing Countries, John Wiley, Chichester.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction,
Origin and Context
Session 2: Concept of Space and Region,
Rationalization of Regional Planning and Spatial Policy
Week 2: Session 1: Bertil Ohlin (1933) – Inter-regional Income Equalization,
August Losch (1938, 1954) – Hierarchical Order in an Ideal Economic
Region
Session 2: Gunnar Myrdal (1957) – Circular and Cumulative Causation,
John Friedmann (1966) – Spatial Integration of Space Economy
Week 3: Session 1: Willliam Alonso (1968) – Aggregate Efficiency vs. Interregional Equity,
Willliam Alonso (1971) – Large City Problem: Optimum City Size Debate
Session 2: H. W. Richardson (1973) – Large City Problem – Urban Primacy from a
National Perspective,
Michael Lipton (1977) – Urban Bias
Week 4: Session 1: Francois Perroux (1955) – Growth Pole Concept
Session 2: Transformation of Growth Pole into Regional Theory
Week 5: Session 1: Albert O. Hirschman (1958) – Interregional Transmission of Growth,
Jeffrey G. Williamson (1965) – Disparity vis-à-vis Development
Session 2: J.-R. Boudeville (1966) – Strategy of Polarized Development,
John Friedmann (1966) – Regional Development Policy
Week 6: Session 1: Theodore W. Schultz (1950) – Urban-Industrial Growth and Agricultural
Incomes,
William A. Lewis (1954) – Dualistic Model of Development
Session 2: Douglass C. North (1955) – Regional Exports and Economic Growth,
Harvey S. Perloff (1960) – Industrial Location, Natural Resources and
Regional Growth
Week 7: Session 1: B. F. Hoselitz (1952) – Geography of Modernization,
Peter Gould (1965) – Geography of Modernization
Session 2: Brian J. L. Berry (1971) – Hierarchical Diffusion
Week 8: Session 1: Failure of Urban-Industrial Growth Pole Strategies
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Week 9: Session 1: Andre G. Frank (1967) – Spatial Image of World Capitalist System,
Milton A. Santos (1969) – Shared Space
Session 2: J. Friedmann (1972) – Theory of Polarized Development,
David Slater (1974) – Colonialism and Spatial Structure of
Underdevelopment
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Question of National Development Strategy
Session 2: E. A. J. Johnson (1970) – Market Towns as Rural Growth Centres,
W. Stohr and F. Todtling (1977) – Selective Spatial Closure
Week 13: Session 1: D. A. Rondinelli and K. Ruddle (1978) – Strategy of Integrated Regional
Development,
J. Friedmann and Mike Douglass (1978) – Agropolitan Development
Session 2: J. Friedmann and C. Weaver (1979) – Territorial Regional Planning
Week 14: Session 1: Developmental Planning,
Globalization of Development Policy,
Shift from Historicism to A historical Performance Assessment
Session 2: John Williamson (1989) – Washington Consensus,
UNDP (1990) – Sustainable Human Development
Week 15: Session 1: Charles G. Gore (1995) – Southern Consensus: Latin American,
Neo-Structuralism and East Asian Developmentalism,
Joseph E. Stiglitz (2004) – Post Washington Consensus
Session 2: Joshua C. Ramo (2004) – Beijing Consensus,
Larry Summers (2010) – Mumbai Consensus
Week 16: Session 1: Territorial Regional Planning as an Alternative,
Territorial Interests,
Organic Conception of Region
Session 2: Regional Planning,
State, Territory and Power,
Development and Regional Planning
Week 17: Session 1: Characteristics and Policy Formation in Developmentalist States,
Regional Planning Strategies,
Regional Planning Practices
Session 2: Summing up and looking ahead
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Learning Activity
I Concept of space, as visualized Classroom lectures How is the conceptualization of
in regional development and tutorials space in regional development
theoretical structure different from other disciplines?
II Causes of regional imbalances, Classroom lectures Debate on efficiency and equity.
spatial inequalities; and and tutorials Incidents of urban bias.
problems of large cities. Problem in large city vis-à-vis
Problems of large city
Explore possible contemporary
issues and innovations.
III Regional development Classroom lectures How the concept of growth pole
discourse in 1950s and 1960s – and tutorials transformed into a regional
emphasis on ‘urban’ and theory?
‘industry’. Reasons for failure of growth-pole
Regional development strategies.
discourse in 1970s and 1980s – Essential ingredients of a national
neo-populist emphasis on development strategy.
‘rural’ and ‘agriculture’. Explore possible contemporary
issues and innovations.
IV Regional development Classroom lectures How did the development policy
discourse in 1990s and 2000s – and tutorials globalize?
globalization of development Evaluation of normative vs.
policy. explanatory frameworks
Explore possible contemporary
issues and innovations.
V Regional planning practices and Classroom lectures Critical evaluation of regional
strategies in developmentalist and tutorials planning practices and strategies.
states. Explore possible contemporary
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E05: DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING (PRACTICAL)

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 2, Practical – 6)

Course Objectives:
1) To make students acquainted with standard digital image processing techniques through
hands-on practical exercises
2) To enable students to extract land-use/land-cover and other valuable information from the
digital remote sensing images for different geographical applications

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Overview of Digital Image processing and image enhancement techniques for better
interpretation
2) Understanding of multi-resolution data fusion and visualization
3) Understanding of Image Classification and Change detection techniques

Course Contents:
Unit I: Digital image, supply and storage of digital data, radiometric and geometric correction,
image registration
Unit II: Colour Composite, image enhancement, filtering, transformation, indices
Unit III: Colour enhancement, image fusion, perspective visualization
Unit IV: Digital image classification: supervised and unsupervised classification; accuracy
assessment
Unit V: Digital change detection

Suggested Readings:
1. Canty, M.J. 2014. Image Analysis, Classification and Change Detection in Remote Sensing, 3rd
Edition, CRC Press.
2. Gibson, P.J., Power, C.H., Rudahl, K.T. and Goldin, S.E. 2000. Introductory Remote Sensing:
Digital Image Processing and Applications, Routledge.
3. Gonzalez, R.C. and Woods, R.E. 2007. Digital Image Processing, 3rd Edition, Pearson.
4. Jensen, J.R. 2015. Introductory Digital Image Processing: A Remote Sensing Perspective, 4th
Edition, Pearson.
5. Lavender, S. and Lavender, A. 2015. Practical Handbook of Remote Sensing, CRC Press.
6. Liang, S. 2004. Quantitative Remote Sensing of Land Surfaces, Wiley.
7. Mather, P. M. and Koch, M. 2011. Computer Processing of Remotely Sensed Images: An
Introduction, 4th Edition, Wiley-Blackwell.
8. Navulur, K. 2007. Multispectral Image Analysis using the Object-Oriented Paradigm, CRC Press.
9. Richards, J.A. 2013. Remote Sensing Digital Image Analysis: An Introduction, Springer.

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10. Tso, B. and Mather, P.M. 2009. Classification Methods for Remotely Sensed Data, 2nd Edition,
CRC Press.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Theory: Digital Image Processing and spatial statistics
Practical: Computation of spatial statistics on 2-D matrices
Week 2: Theory: Digital image acquisition, storage, format conversion
Practical: Import, format conversion and display of images
Week 3: Theory: Image radiometric correction
Practical: Dark-object subtraction technique and de-striping
Week 4: Theory: Image geometric correction and co-registration
Practical: Geometric correction and image to image registration
Week 5: Theory: Colour Composites and interpretation
Practical: Colour composites from multispectral images and interpretation
Week 6: Theory: Image enhancement, contrast stretching, filtering
Practical: Contrast stretching on RAW image, filtering operations
Week 7: Theory: Image transformation, PCA, indices
Practical: PCA and Indices (at least 3) computation on multi-spectral image
Week 8: Theory: Image fusion
Practical: Image fusion exercise
Week 9: Theory: Perspective visualization
Practical: Hands-on exercise on perspective visualization
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Theory: Digital Image classification methods
Practical: Image space and feature space conversion, sampling concepts
Week 13: Theory: Unsupervised classification
Practical: Unsupervised classification on an image
Week 14: Theory: Supervised classification
Practical: Supervised classification on an image
Week 15: Theory: Classification accuracy assessment
Practical: Error Matrix Calculation
Week 16: Theory: Digital Change Detection
Practical: Change detection from temporal images, matrix computation and
interpretation
Week 17: Theory: Summing up
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Outcomes Activity
I Overview of Digital Lecture, demonstration, Image registration and radiometric
Image processing and and hands-on practical correction on any Indian Remote
Pre-processing of exercises Sensing satellite data.
images
II Understanding of Lecture, demonstration, Enhancement of any raw satellite
image enhancement and hands-on practical data.
techniques for better exercises Segregation of Vegetative and
interpretation other classes from multispectral
image.
III Understanding of Lecture, demonstration, Comparison of high spatial/spectral
multi-resolution data and hands-on practical image with fused images.
fusion and visualization exercises Comparison of various images after
applying fusion techniques.
IV Understanding of Lecture, demonstration, Comparison of landcover map
Image Classification and hands-on practical garneted from same image using
exercises supervised and unsupervised
classification techniques.
V Understanding of Lecture, demonstration, Assessment of urban sprawl,
Change detection and hands-on practical deforestation etc. using time-series
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E06: GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (PRACTICAL)

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 2, Practical – 6)

Course Objectives:
1) To make students acquainted with standard GIS techniques through hands-on practical
exercises
2) To enable students to use GIS as a decision support system for different geographical
applications
3) To enable students for preparation of thematic maps using GIS tools.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Understanding of geospatial data management and analysis functions
2) Understanding of analytical modelling with GIS
3) Understanding of thematic map designing using GIS

Course Contents:
Unit I: GIS data management and work flow: DBMS, Geo-database, Web-GIS
Unit II: GIS analysis functions: Geo-processing, spatial Analysis, network analysis, overlay analysis
Unit III: Analytical modelling in GIS, multi-criteria evaluation, analytical hierarchic process
Unit IV: Cartographic Techniques of Mapping: Thematic map designing using GIS, Layout
Unit V: Applications of GIS: environmental modelling, disaster management, social science etc.

Suggested Readings:
1. Chang, K-t. 2006. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems, Tata McGraw-Hill.
2. DeMers, M. 2009. Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems, 4th Edition, John Wiley
& Sons.
3. 3 Fisher, P. and Unwin, D.J. 1995. Re-presenting GIS, John Wiley.
4. Graser, A. 2016. Learning QGIS, 3rd Edition, Packt.
5. Heywood, I., Cornelius, S., Carver, S. 2011. An Introduction to Geographic Information
Systems, 4th Edition, Pearson Education.
6. Kresse, W. and Danko, D.M. (eds.), 2012. Springer Handbook of Geographic Information,
Springer.
7. Law, M. and Collins, A. 2018. Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop, 5th Edition, ESRI Press.
8. Longley, P.A., Goodchild, M., Maguire, D.J. and Rhind, D.W. 2010. Geographic Information
Systems and Science, 3rd Edition, Wiley.
9. Okabe, A. (ed.), 2005. GIS-Based Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Taylor and
Francis.
10. Peterson, G.N. 2009. GIS Cartography, A Guide to effective map designing, CRC Press.

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11. Shekar, S. and Xiong, H. (eds.), 2008. Encyclopaedia of GIS, Springer.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Theory: GIS data management and work flow: DBMS
Practical: Data joining, query analysis
Week 2: Theory: Geo-database
Practical: Geo-database creation: point, line, area
Week 3: Theory: Web-GIS
Practical: Web-GIS applications
Week 4: Theory: Geoprocessing vector data
Practical: Geoprocessing tools
Week 5: Theory: Spatial Analysis
Practical: Spatial analysis tools
Week 6: Theory: Network analysis
Practical: Network analysis, shortest path, location-allocation
Week 7: Theory: Overlay analysis
Practical: Overlay analysis exercise
Week 8: Theory: Analytical modelling in GIS
Practical: Overlay analysis exercise
Week 9: Theory: Multi-criteria evaluation, analytical hierarchic process
Practical: AHP exercise with sample data
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Theory: Cartographic Techniques of Mapping
Practical: Usage of cartographic tools
Week 13: Theory: Thematic map designing using GIS / Layout
Practical: Designing a thematic map using GIS
Week 14: Theory: Applications of GIS, Social science applications
Practical: Case study with sample GIS database
Week 15: Theory: Environmental modelling with GIS
Practical: Case study with sample GIS database
Week 16: Theory: Disaster Management with GIS
Practical: Case study with sample GIS database
Week 17: Theory: Summing up
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Outcomes Activity
I Understanding of Lecture, demonstration, Creation of geodatabase for any GIS
geospatial data, and hands-on practical application.
storage and exercises Preparation of census thematic map
management from Census of India WebGIS database.
II Understanding of Lecture, demonstration, Perform overlay analysis on sample
various GIS analysis and hands-on practical data set for any decision support
functions exercises problem.
III Understanding of Lecture, demonstration, Use AHP for any spatial decision
analytical modelling and hands-on practical support problem.
with GIS exercises
IV Understanding of Lecture, demonstration, Prepare thematic maps (with minimum
thematic map and hands-on practical two plates) using various techniques.
designing using GIS exercises
V Overview and hands- Lecture, demonstration, Usage of GIS analysis for any two
on experience on and hands-on practical application areas using sample dataset.
applications of GIS in exercises
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E07: GEOGRAPHY IN INDIA

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) As a discipline geography has nearly 100 years of existence within the formal system of
university education in India.
2) Although students are made aware of geographical ideas and concepts that emerged from
USA, Canada, Europe and other parts of the world, what is India's contribution to the
knowledge of geography is rarely brought to light.
3) This course has been designed so that post graduate students are well acquainted with “their
discipline in their country".

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students would engage with a critical understanding of the evolution, growth and
characteristics of geography as a science in India.
2) How Higher Education, Policies have impacted the status of Geography in India would be an
important component to add depth to the analysis.
3) Students would be introduced to geographers of India (their life and works) with an aim to
gather the purpose and works of key contributors to geography in India.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Origin of Geography in India: Ancient, Medieval, Colonial and Post-Colonial
Unit II: Characteristics of Geography in India: Diversity and Disparity
Unit III: Geography in India: Contribution and School
Unit IV: Practice of Geography in India: Theoretical and Applied
Unit V: Status of Geography in India: Comparisons and Concerns
Unit VI: Geography in India within a Globalizing world

Suggested Readings:
1. Deshpande, C.D. 1974. Geography in India, in Roland J. Fuchs and John M. Street
(eds.) Geography in Asian Universities, Honolulu: Oriental Publications, pp. 86-133.
2. Dikshit, K.R. 2006. The changing Western perspective on geography and the Indian
context, Transactions, Institute of Indian Geographers, 28 (2): 123–155.
3. Dikshit, R.D. 2001. Indian Geography: An encounter with reality, Transactions, Institute of
Indian Geographers, 17 (2): 145–163.
4. Kapur, Anu. 1998. Indian Geography: A Future with a Difference, Allied Publishers.
5. Kapur, Anu. 2002. Indian Geography: Voice of Concern, Concept Publishing Co.

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6. Kapur, Anu. 2004. Geography in India: A Languishing Social Science’. Economic and Political
Weekly, 39 (37 – Sep. 11-17): 4187-4195.
7. Misra, R.P. (Ed.) 1983. Contributions to Indian Geography; Volume 1: Concepts and
Methods, New Delhi: Heritage Publishers.
8. Mukherjee, A.B. 1991. What ails Indian geography? in Jayamala Diddee (ed.) Emerging Trends
in Indian Geography, Jaipur: Rawat Publications, pp. 135-155.
9. Sharma, H.S. (Ed.). 2004. Progress in Indian Geography 2000-2004: A Country Report, New
Delhi: Indian National Science Academy

Teaching Plan:
Week 1 – 2 : Origin of Geography in India: Ancient and Medieval
Week 3 – 4 : Development of Geography in India: Colonial and Post-Colonial
Week 5 – 6 : Characteristics of Geography in India: Diversity and Disparity
Week 7 – 9 : Geography in India: Contribution and Schools
Week 10 : Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11 : Mid-Semester Break
Week 12 – 13 : Practice of Geography in India: Theoretical and Applied
Week 14 – 15 : Status of Geography in India: Comparisons and Concerns
Week 16 – 17 : Geography in India within a Globalizing World

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

(Each Student should expect one individual assignment which may involve a case of studying in depth
the life and works of a geographer of India or an institution which engages with geographical works
in India like Census of India, Planning Institutions, Mapping Organisations, etc.)

Unit Course learning outcomes Teaching and learning activity Assessment

No. task
I Understanding of the evolution and Lecture; audio-visual; Q&A
growth of geography as a science in interaction; discussion
India
II Understanding the characteristics of Lecture; audio-visual; Q&A
geography in India interaction; discussion
III Disparities and differences in the Lecture; audio-visual; Q&A
production of geographical knowledge interaction; discussion
IV Professionalization of geography in the Lecture; audio-visual; Term paper
country; Higher Education Policies interaction; discussion
impact on the Geography in India
V Type of knowledge that is being Lecture; audio-visual; Q&A
produced interaction; discussion
VI Relevance of Geographical knowledge Lecture; audio-visual; Q&A
produced in India at the global level interaction; discussion

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E08: GEOGRAPHY OF SOUTH ASIA

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) Explore South Asia as a region and a concept
2) Examine its geostrategic significance
3) Understand it in global context

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Dimensions of South Asia as a region
2) Distinct location in International Politics
3) Representations of South Asia as an identity

Contents:
Unit I: South Asia as a region: geography, polity, history and economy; South Asia as a concept
Unit II: Social formations in South Asia: Caste, religion, gender and sexuality, kinship and marriage
Unit III: South Asian Urbanisms and Urbanization: Origins and post-colonial development and
urbanization, Neo liberal globalization/urbanisation.
Unit IV: South Asia: Geo Strategic space, Indian Ocean Region and evolving role of the Indo-Pacific,
Expanding Geography
Unit V: South Asia in global context: migration and Diaspora, security and regional cooperation.

Suggested Readings:
1. Ahmed, A. 2009. Geography of the south Asian subcontinent: A critical approach, Concept
Publishing Company.
2. Anjaria, J. S., and McFarlane, C. (eds.), 2011. Urban navigations: Politics, space and the city in
South Asia, Routledge.
3. Batra, A. 2012. Regional Economic Integration in South Asia: Trapped in Conflict? (Vol. 64),
Routledge.
4. Chattopadhyaya, H., and Sarkar, S. K. (eds.), 2003. Ethnic Composition and Crisis in South Asia:
India (Vol. 1), Global Vision Publishing House.
5. Hagerty, D. T. 2005. South Asia in world politics, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
6. Hirst, J. G. S., and Zavos, J. 2013. Religious traditions in modern South Asia, Routledge.
7. Jain, B. M. 2010. India in the new South Asia: strategic, military and economic concerns in the
age of nuclear diplomacy (Vol. 45), IB Tauris.
8. Mathur, S. K. 2007. Global Economic Trends and South Asia, ICFAI Books.
9. Mitra, A. P., and Sharma, C. (eds.), 2012. Global environmental changes in South Asia: a
regional perspective, Springer Science & Business Media.

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10. Schug, G. R., and Walimbe, S. R. 2016. A companion to South Asia in the past (Vol. 31), John
Wiley & Sons.
11. Sharma, S. L., and Oommen, T. K. (eds.), 2000. Nation and National Identity in South Asia,
Orient Blackswan.
12. Sundaram, C., Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, 2005. Modern South Asia: History, Culture,
Political Economy, Contemporary South Asia - Abingdon, 14(2), 234
13. Tewari, S., and Khanijo, R. (eds.), 2016. The Indo Pacific Region: Security Dynamics and
Challenges. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd.
14. Warikoo, K. (ed.), 2009. Himalayan frontiers of India: historical, geo-political and strategic
perspectives, Routledge.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction to the course
Session 2: South Asia as a region: geography, polity, history and economy
Week 2: Session 1: South Asia as a region: geography, polity, history and economy
Session 2: South Asia as a region: geography, polity, history and economy
Week 3: Session 1: South Asia as a region: geography, polity, history and economy
Session 2: South Asia as a region: geography, polity, history and economy
Week 4: Session 1: South Asia as a concept
Session 2: South Asia as a concept
Week 5: Session 1: Social formations in South Asia: Family, Kinship and Marriage
Session 2: Social formations in South Asia: Family, Kinship and Marriage
Week 6: Session 1: Social formations in South Asia: Gender
Session 2: Social formations in South Asia: Caste
Week 7: Session 1: Social formations in South Asia: Sexuality
Session 2: Social formations in South Asia: Religion
Week 8: Session 1: South Asian Urbanisms: Origin
Session 2: South Asian Urbanisms: Post-colonial development
Week 9: Session 1: South Asian Urbanisms: Urbanisation
Session 2: South Asian Urbanisms: Neo liberal globalisation/urbanisation
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: South Asia: Geo Strategic space
Session 2: South Asia: Geo Strategic space
Week 13: Session 1: South Asia in global context: security
Session 2: South Asia in global context: Security
Week 14: Session 1: South Asia in global context: Regional cooperation
Session 2: South Asia in global context: Regional cooperation
Week 15: Session 1: South Asia in global context: Migration
Session 2: South Asia in global context: Diaspora
Week 16: Session 1: Movie Screening and Discussion
Session 2: Student Activity
Week 17: Session 1: Student activity
Session 2: Closing lecture: Summarising South Asia

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I South Asia as Region and Lecture presentation Reading and class discussion
Concept
II Social formations in South Lecture presentation and Class discussion based on
Asia that make it distinct movie screenings readings
region
III Distinct development and Lecture presentation, Video Class discussion based on
urbanisation experiences screenings and Class readings
readings
IV Geo political significance of Lecture presentation Class discussion based on
South Asia readings
V South Asia as seen in global Lecture presentation and Movie review
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E09: LAND, OCEAN AND ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course will lay the foundation of the understanding of coupled dynamics between land
and ocean, ocean and atmosphere, land and atmosphere.
2) It will enhance the understanding of relationship and linkages between land, ocean and
atmosphere.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will understand the earth system sciences and impacts of climate variability.
2) The student shall be able to use different models for climate forecasting and understanding.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction to earth system science: Definition and scope of earth system science,
Geographic perspective to earth system science, interaction between five spheres.
Unit II: Land-Ocean Interaction: shelf-sea-ocean linkages, coupling Phenomenon, land ocean
interactions, processes and issues.
Unit III: Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction: significance of ocean atmosphere interaction, coupling
phenomenon, concept of boundary layers, ocean –atmosphere interaction near the
tropics.
Unit IV: Sea surface warming and Climate variability: Inter-annual variability and decadal variability,
Tele-connections of India summer monsoon with southern oscillation, Indian Ocean
Dipole and ENSO Modoki. Global impact of ENSO, IOD and ENSO Modoki, New faces of
climate variability; Ningaloo Nino, California Nino, Sub tropical dipoles.

Suggested Readings:
1. Brian, J. S., Barbara, W.M. 2010. The Blue Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science,
3rdEdition, Wiley.
2. Ernst, W.G. 2000. Earth Systems: Processes and Issues, Cambridge University Press.
3. Garatt, J.R. 1992. The Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Cambridge University Press.
4. André Monaco, Patrick Prouzet (edt) 2014. The land- sea interactions, Willey Press.
5. Eric B Kraus, 2010. Atmosphere Ocean interactions, Oxford University Press
6. Sahu N.,Behera SK,Yamashiki Y,Takara K and Yamagata T. 2012. IOD and ENSO impacts on the
extreme stream-flows of Citarum river in Indonesia, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-
011-1158-2. Volume 39, Issue 7-8, pp 1673-1680.
7. Sahu N.,Behera SK, Ratnam JV, Silva RV, Parhi P, Duan W, Takara K, Singh RB and Yamagata T.
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Climate Dynamics, March, 42,1509-1516, DOI 10.1007/s00382-013-2006-3.
8. Swadhin K. Behera and Toshio Yamagata, 2015. Indo-Pacific Climate variability and
Predictability, World Scientific Press, Singapore.
9. Swadhin Behera and Toshio Yamagata, 2011. Dynamics of the Indian and Pacific Oceans,
Chapter 4, (eds) Moffatt H.K., and Shuckburgh E., Environmental Hazards: The Fluid Dynamics
and Geophysics of Extreme Events, vol.21, Lecture note series, IMS, NUS, Singapore.
10. Toshio, Y., Morioka, Y., & Behera, S., 2015. Old and New Faces of Climate Variations. In Indo-
Pacific Climate Variability and Predictability (Vol. 7).World Scientific Co., Singapore.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction, Origin and Context
Session 2: Introduction to earth system science.
Week 2: Session 1: Scope of earth system science
Session 2: Geographic perspective to earth system science
Week 3: Session 1: interaction between five spheres
Session 2: interaction between five spheres
Week 4: Session 1: Land-Ocean Interaction
Session 2: shelf-sea-ocean linkages
Week 5: Session 1: Coupling Phenomenon
Session 2: land ocean interactions
Week 6: Session 1: Processes and issues of land-ocean interaction
Session 2: Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
Week 7: Session 1: significance of ocean atmosphere interaction
Session 2: coupling phenomenon
Week 8: Session 1: concept of boundary layers
Session 2: Ocean –atmosphere interaction near the tropics.
Week 9: Session 1: Sea surface warming and Climate variability
Session 2: Inter-annual variability
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Decadal variability
Session 2: Teleconnections of India summer monsoon with southern oscillation
Week 13: Session 1: Teleconnections of India summer monsoon with southern oscillation
Session 2: Indian Ocean Dipole
Week 14: Session 1: ENSO Modoki
Session 2: Global impact of ENSO
Week 15: Session 1: Global impact of IOD
Session 2: Global impact of ENSO Modoki
Week 16: Session 1: New faces of climate variability
Session 2: Ningaloo Nino
Week 17: Session 1: California Nino
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Learning Activity
I Introduction to earth system science: Classroom How is the
Definition and scope of earth system lectures, PPTs and conceptualization of
science, Geographic perspective to earth tutorials, debate PDF and its types
system science, interaction between five and discussions applied in statistical
spheres. analysis?
II Land-Ocean Interaction: shelf-sea-ocean Classroom lectures Sampling theory and
linkages, coupling and tutorials, PPTs, its uses in social
Phenomenon, land ocean interactions, debate and science research
processes and issues. discussions
III Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction: Classroom lectures How to
significance of ocean atmosphere and tutorials, PPTs, conceptualise the
interaction, coupling phenomenon, debate and ANOVA with one-
concept of boundary layers, ocean– discussions way and two-way
atmosphere interaction near the tropics. classification?
IV Sea surface warming and Climate Classroom Uses of non-
variability: Tele-connections of India lectures,PPTs and parametric tests in
summer monsoon with southern tutorials, debate scientific discourse
oscillation, Indian Ocean Dipole and and discussions
ENSO Modoki. Global impact of ENSO,IOD
and ENSO Modoki, New faces of climate
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E10: LANDSLIDE RISK ANALYSIS

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To provide a holistic understanding of landslide risk analysis
2) To enable students to efficiently address the issues related to landslide management

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Understanding of landslide hazard and risk assessment methods
2) Understanding and usage of geospatial technologies in landslide studies
3) Overview of landslide risk reduction program and policies

Course Contents:
Unit I: Landslide: definition, types, causes, historical events
Unit II: Landslide hazard assessment, tools and techniques: geomorphologic, statistical, non-
parametric and advanced techniques
Unit III: Landslide risk assessment, tools and techniques: vulnerability, risk, geotechnical analysis,
preparedness and coping capacity
Unit IV: Geo-spatial technologies for Landslide hazard and risk assessment; prediction and early
warning
Unit V: National and international programs on landslide risk reduction, role of NGOs and local
communities, gender role and agencies

Suggested Readings:
1. Anderson, M.G. and Holcombe, E. 2013. Community-based Landslide Risk Reduction:
Managing Disasters in Small Steps, The World Bank.
2. Dikau, R., Brunsden, D., Schrott, L. and Ibsen, M-L. (eds.),1996. Landslide Recognition:
Identification, Movement and Causes, Wiley.
3. Glade, T., Anderson, M. and Crozier, M.J. (eds.), 2005. Landslide Hazard and Risk, John Wiley.
4. Lee, E.M. and Jones, D.K.C., 2004. Landslide Risk Assessment, Thomas Telford.
5. Margottini, C., Canuti, P. and Sassa, K. (eds.), 2013. Landslide Science and Practice, Volume 1
to 7, Springer.
6. Ramaswamy, S.M. and Singh, B. (eds.), 2017. Landslide Research: The DST's Initiatives, New
India Publishing Agency.
7. Sassa, K. and Canuti, P. (eds.), 2009. Landslides: Disaster Risk Reduction, Springer.
8. Sassa, K., Fukuoka, H., Wang, F. and Wang, G. (eds.), 2005. Landslides: Risk Analysis and
Sustainable Disaster Management, Proceedings of the First General Assembly of the
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9. van Westen, C.J. et al., 2012. Landslide Inventory, Hazard and Risk Assessment in India, in: B.
Pradhan and M. Buchroithner (eds.), Terrigenous Mass Movements, Springer.
10. Yamagishi, H. and Bhandary, N.P. (eds.), 2017. GIS Landslides, Springer.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction, concepts, definitions
Session 2: Overview of Landslides, historical events
Week 2: Session 1: Landslide types
Session 2: Causes and consequences
Week 3: Session 1: Need for landslide hazard and risk assessment
Session 2: Geomorphologic techniques for landslide hazard assessment
Week 4: Session 1: Statistical and non-parametric techniques for landslide hazard zonation
Session 2: Statistical and non-parametric techniques for landslide hazard zonation
Week 5: Session 1: Advanced techniques for landslide hazard zonation Part-I
Session 2: Advanced techniques for landslide hazard zonation Part-II
Week 6: Session 1: Landslide risk assessment, tools and techniques Part-I
Session 2: Landslide risk assessment, tools and techniques Part-II
Week 7: Session 1: Landslide vulnerability, risk
Session 2: Geotechnical analysis
Week 8: Session 1: Landslide preparedness
Session 2: Coping Capacity
Week 9: Session 1: Overview of GIS tools used in landslide studies
Session 2: Geo-spatial technologies for landslide hazard assessment
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Geo-spatial technologies for landslide risk assessment
Session 2: Geo-spatial technologies for landslide risk assessment (Cond.)
Week 13: Session 1: Landslide prediction
Session 2: Early warning systems
Week 14: Session 1: National programs on landslide risk reduction
Session 2: International programs on landslide risk reduction
Week 15: Session 1: Role of NGOs
Session 2: Role of local communities
Week 16: Session 1: Gender role and agencies
Session 2: Community based landslide risk reduction
Week 17: Session 1: Summing up
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Understanding of causes Lecture and Tutorial Case study of two important
and severity of landslides landslide events from Himalayas
and critical analysis
II Understanding of landslide Lecture and Tutorial Comparison of landslide hazard
hazard assessment methods assessment tools and techniques
III Understanding of landslide Lecture and tutorial Comparison of landslide risk
risk assessment methods exercises assessment tools and techniques
IV Understanding and usage of Lecture, demonstration, Preparation of landslide hazard
geospatial technologies in and hands-on tutorial and risk map from sample data
landslide studies exercises sets
V Overview of landslide risk Lecture and tutorial Critical review of landslide risk
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E11: MEDIA GEOGRAPHY

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To critically understand the intersection between geography and media.
2) To understand how mediascapes take shape and influence spatial thinking
3) To understand the role of media in bringing rapid transformations in society.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) To understand the role media is playing in expanding the horizons of geographical knowledges.
2) To critically engage with changing constructs of space and place as an outcome of media
related branding, representation and regeneration.
3) To be able to understand the intersection between the physical realm and the digital realm
and the continuous making of space and place that goes beyond conventional episteme.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction: Concept of media and the production of space and place; understanding the
different approaches in mediascapes; understanding different forms of media and
geographical knowledge.
Unit II: The Media Industry: Political economy of media industries, production of consumptive
cultures, advertising and global markets; creation of global capital and markets.
Unit III: Mediascapes: Mediated spaces of affect; everyday representations of space and place in
different forms of media; politics of representations and reproduction in mediascapes.
Unit IV: Moral economy of Media: Media and the public sphere; free speech and democratisation;
value of engagement and participation of audiences and producers.

Suggested Readings:
1. Aitken, Stuart C., and Leo E. Zonn. 1994. Place, Power, Situation, and Spectacle: A Geography
of Film, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
2. Boym, S. 2002. The Future of Nostalgia, New York: Basic Books. Casey.
3. Burgess, J. and John R. Gold, eds. 1985. Geography, the Media, and Popular Culture, New York:
St. Martin’s.
4. Jenkins, H. 2006. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, New York: New
York University Press.
5. Adams, P. C. 2009. Geographies of Media and Communication: A Critical
Introduction, London: Wiley-Blackwell.
6. Adams, PC, Craine, J, Dittmer, J (eds) 2014. The Ashgate Research Companion to Media
Geography, Aldershot: Ashgate Press.

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7. Travis, C. And von Lunen. A. (eds), 2016. The Digital Arts and Humanities, Neogeography,
Social Media, Big Data Integrations and applications, Springer: Switzerland.
8. Gokulsing, K.M., and Dissanayake, W. 2009. Popular Culture in a Globalised India, Routledge:
London and New York.
9. Rajagopal, A. and Rao, A. 2016. Media and Utopia: History Imagination and Technology,
Routledge: London and New York.
10. Chung, W.H.K. and Keenan, T. (eds), 2006. New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory
Reader, Routledge: London and New York.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Syllabus overview
Session 2: Concept of media
Week 2: Session 1: Mediated production of space and place
Session 2: Approaches to studying mediascapes
Week 3: Session 1: Approaches to studying mediascapes
Session 2: Forms of media and production of geographical knowledges
Week 4: Session 1: Political economy of media industries
Session 2: Political economy of media industries
Week 5: Session 1: Production of consumptive cultures, advertising and global markets
Session 2: Production of consumptive cultures, advertising and global markets
Week 6: Session 1: Creation of global capital and markets
Session 2: Creation of global capital and markets
Week 7: Session 1: Mediated spaces of affect
Session 2: Mediated spaces of affect
Week 8: Session 1: Everyday representations of space and place in media (Print Media)
Session 2: Everyday representations of space and place in media (Television)
Week 9: Session 1: Everyday representations of space and place in media (Films)
Session 2: Everyday representations of space and place in media (Social media)
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Everyday representations of space and place in media (Social media)
Session 2: Everyday representations of space and place in media (Video games)
Week 13: Session 1: Politics of representations and reproduction in mediascapes
Session 2: Politics of representations and reproduction in mediascapes
Week 14: Session 1: Media and the public sphere
Session 2: Media and the public sphere
Week 15: Session 1: Free speech and democratisation
Session 2: Free speech and democratisation; free speech and democratisation;
Week 16: Session 1: Value of engagement and participation of audiences and producers
Session 2: Value of engagement and participation of audiences and producers
Week 17: Session 1: Summing up and Wrap up discussions
Session 2: Summing up and Wrap up discussions

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Understanding the theoretical Classroom lectures Tutorial
approaches in reading mediascapes Group discussions Assignments
II Understanding the mediascape and Classroom lectures Mid -term
the drivers of the media industry Group presentations examinations
III Develop a social and political Classroom lectures Tutorial
understanding of contemporary Case study discussions Assignments
mediascapes
IV Understanding the linkages between Classroom lectures End term
media and transformation of society Case study presentations examinations

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MASTER OF ARTS IN GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E12: NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objective:
1) Awareness about resource availability, accessibility, utilization, its use and misuse.
2) Spatial distribution of natural resources.
3) Resource management and governance.

Course Learning Outcome:

1) At the end the course student should learn importance of natural resources.
2) Conservation methods and awareness about community participation.
3) Assessment of role of national and international efforts to mitigate resource problems.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction: Concept, approaches and appraisal to natural resource management.
Unit II: Natural Resources: Land, Water, Forest.
Unit III: Problems in Resource Management: Issues and constraints in resource management,
Environmental, Political and Socio-Economic challenges.
Unit IV: Integrated Resource Management: Case Studies (any one) from Himalayan, coastal and
desert regions, use of techniques of RS and GIS.
Unit V: Governance: Policy, Planning and Institutional advancement in natural resource
management.

Suggested Readings:
1. Berkes, F. (ed.), 1989. Common Property Resources: Ecology and Community Based Sustainable
Development, Belhaven Press London.
2. Mather, A.S. and Chapman, K. 1995. Environmental Resources, Longman, Harlow, England.
3. McClay, K.R. 1995. Resource Management Information System: Process & Practice, Taylor
Francis, London.
4. Mitchell B. 1988. Geography and Resources Analysis, 2nd edition, Longman, London.
5. Mitchell, B. 1997. Resource and Environmental Management, Longman, Harlow, England.
6. Newson, M.D. 1991. Land, Water and Development: River Basin Systems and Management,
Routledge,London.
7. Owen, S. and Owens, P.L. 1991. Environment, Resources and Conservation, Cambridge
University Press, New York.
8. Pandey, B. W. (ed.) 2000. Natural Resource Management, Mittal Publication, New Delhi.
9. Rees, J. 1990. Natural Resources: Allocation, Economics and Policy, Routledge, London.
10. Singh, Jagdish, 2006. Sansadhan Bhoogol, Radha Publications, New Delhi (Hindi).

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11. Taylor, Russel D., and Torquebiau, Emmanuel (Eds.). 2011. Natural Resource Management and
Local Development, Springer, Netherland.
12. Thakur, B. 2003-2018. Perspectives in Resource Management in Developing Countries, Vol.1-13,
Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Introduction to NRM
Week 2: Concept and approaches
Week 3: Appraisal to natural resource management
Week 4: Types of Natural Resources
Week 5: Land, Water and Forest resources
Week 6: Utilization and monitoring of resources
Week 7: Issues and constraints in resource management
Week 8: Environmental challenges
Week 9: Socio-Economic challenges
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Integrated Resource Management
Week 13: Case Studies from Himalayan region
Week 14: Case Studies from coastal and desert regions,
Week 15: Governance
Week 16: Policy and Planning for Himalaya
Week 17: Institutional advancement in natural resource management.

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Deep understanding of Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
concept and approaches of documentaries, fieldworks, discussions and debates.
Natural Resources discussions and tutorials.
Management
II Knowledge of availability Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
and spatial distributions of documentaries, fieldworks, discussions and debates.
natural resources, discussions and tutorials.
III Overview of issues and Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
constraints in natural documentaries, fieldworks, discussions and debates.
resources management discussions and tutorials.
IV Socio-economic, political Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
and technological inputs in documentaries, fieldworks, discussions and debates.
resource management discussions and tutorials.
V In-depth perception and Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
value of planning and documentaries, discussions discussions and debates.
policies of natural resource and tutorials.
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MASTER OF ARTS IN GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E13: REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objective:
1) Our main focus is teach changing paradigm of regional development and why at present there
is need of sustainable regional development strategy.
2) Apart from these of specific interest is to cover the role of NITI Aayog and planning
commission and its various regional development strategies shaping present and future
regional development pattern in India.

Course Learning Outcome:

1) The course will help in understanding concept and need of sustainable regional development
along with changing paradigm of regional development in India.
2) It will improve understanding about role of various development ideas shaping regional
development strategies.
3) Understanding spatial and temporal pattern of area development, poverty and HDI indicators.

Course Content:
Unit I: Concept of Regional Development: changing paradigm, need for sustainable regional
development
Unit II: Indian Development Thought: development ideas of Gandhi, Census of India, Planning
commission, and NITI Aayog.
Unit III: Identification of Regional Disparities: spatial patterns and temporal trends, Human
Development Index
Unit IV: Regionalisation for Sustainable Development: area development programmes, agro
climatic regions, metropolitan regions.
Unit V: Regional development strategies: Growth Center, Special Economic Zones, watershed
approach, micro level planning.

Suggested Readings:
1. Bardhan, P. 1984. The Political Economy of Development in India, Oxford, Blackwell.
2. Bhalla, A.S. 1992. Uneven Development in the Third World: A Study of India and China, London,
Macmillan.
3. Dreze, J. and Sen, A. 1996. Indian Development: Select Regional Perspectives, Oxford
University Press.
4. Ganguli B.N. 1997. Indian Economic Thought: A 19th Century, Perspective, Tata McGraw Hill,
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5. Misra, R.P. (ed.) 1992. Regional Planning Concepts, Techniques, Policies and Case Studies,
Concept Publishing Pvt. Ltd, Delhi.
6. Mitra, Ashok. 1961. Levels of Regional Development in India, Census of India 1, no. 04 Part 1,
4.
7. Nath, V. 2009. Regional Development and Planning in India, Concept Publishing Company.
8. Sharma, H.S and Chattopadhyaya, S. 1998. Sustainable Development: Issues and Case Studies,
Concept Publishing, Delhi.

Teaching Plan
Week 1: Changing paradigm (Misra, R.P., Nath, V.,)
Week 2: Need for sustainable regional development (Misra, R.P., Nath, V.,)
Week 3: Regional development and planning in India (Misra, R.P., Nath, V.,)
Week 4: Early development ideas; Kautilya (Dreze, J. and Sen, Bardhan, P.,)
Week 5: Modern ideas; Naroji, Ranade, development ideas of Gandhi(Dreze, J. and Sen, Bardhan,
P.,)
Week 6: Planning commission, NITI AayogI (Dreze, J. and Sen, Bardhan, P.,)
Week 7: Spatial patterns and temporal trends (Mitra, Ashok, Nath, V., Sharma, H.S and
Chattopadhyaya, S.,)
Week 8: Human Development Index, poverty by region (Mitra, Ashok, Nath, V., Sharma, H.S and
Chattopadhyaya, S.,)
Week 9: Agro climatic regions, metropolitan regions (Mitra, Ashok, Nath, V., Sharma, H.S and
Chattopadhyaya, S.,)
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Ecological regions (Bardhan, P., Sharma, H.S and Chattopadhyaya, S., Ganguli B.N.,)
Week 13: Area development programmes (Bardhan, P., Sharma, H.S and Chattopadhyaya, S.,
Ganguli B.N.,)
Week 14: Growth center approach (Bardhan, P., Sharma, H.S and Chattopadhyaya, S., Ganguli
B.N.,)
Week 15: Special Economic Zones (Bardhan, P., Sharma, H.S and Chattopadhyaya, S., Ganguli
B.N.,)
Week 16: Watershed approach (Misra, R.P., Bhalla, A.S., Nath, V.,)
Week 17: Micro level planning (Misra, R.P., Bhalla, A.S., Nath, V.,)

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Deep understanding of concept Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, discussions
of regional development and documentaries, discussions and debates.
planning in India. and tutorials.
II Knowledge about early and Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
modern ideas of Indian documentaries, discussions Presentations,
development thought. and tutorials. discussions and debates.
III Assessment of spatial and Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
temporal Regional Disparities in documentaries, discussions Presentations,
India based on HDI. and tutorials. discussions and debates.
IV How area development Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
programmes are contributing in documentaries, discussions Presentations,
shaping regional development. and tutorials. discussions and debates.
V In-depth study of regional Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
development strategies. documentaries, discussions Presentations,
and tutorials. discussions and debates.

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E14: SEXUALITY AND SPACE

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To understand geographers’ contributions to sexuality studies
2) To know the ways in which sexuality mediates the production of space and place

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Concepts and terminologies of diverse sexualities
2) Reflect on sexuality as a key player in production of space

Course Contents:
Unit I: Critical Beginnings: sexualising/ queering geography
Unit II: Concepts and terminologies
Unit III: Hegemonic sexuality and resistance: heteronormativity and its others
Unit IV: Sexualising space: Home, public space, cyber space, nation and globe
Unit V: Methodologies in sexuality and space research

Suggested Readings:
1. Bell, D., & Valentine, G. (Eds.), 1995. Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities, Psychology
Press
2. Binnie, J., & Valentine, G. 1999. Geographies of sexuality-a review of progress, Progress in
human geography, 23(2), 175-187.
3. Boellstorff, T. 2012. Some notes on new frontiers of sexuality and
globalisation. Understanding Global Sexualities: New Frontiers, London: Routledge, hal, 171-
185.
4. Brown, G. 2008. Ceramics, clothing and other bodies: affective geographies of homoerotic
cruising encounters, Social & Cultural Geography, 9(8), 915-932.
5. Brown, M. P. 2005. Closet space: Geographies of Metaphor from the Body to the Globe,
Routledge.
6. Browne, K. 2005. Snowball sampling: using social networks to research non‐heterosexual
women, International journal of social research methodology, 8(1), 47-60.
7. Browne, K. 2006. Challenging queer geographies, Antipode, 38(5), 885-893.
8. Browne, K., Lim, J., & Brown, G. (Eds.), 2009. Geographies of Sexualities: Theory, Practices and
Politics, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
9. Boyce, P. 2006. Moral ambivalence and irregular practices: contextualizing male-to-male
sexualities in Calcutta/India, Feminist review, 83(1), 79-98.

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10. Gorman-Murray, A. 2006. Homeboys: uses of home by gay Australian men, Social & Cultural
Geography, 7(1), 53-69.
11. Hubbard, P. 2013. Cities and sexualities, Routledge.
12. Kole, S. K. 2007. Globalizing queer? AIDS, homophobia and the politics of sexual identity in
India, Globalization and health, 3(1), 8.
13. Oswin, N. 2008. Critical geographies and the uses of sexuality: Deconstructing queer space,
Progress in Human Geography, 32(1), 89-103.
14. Shahani, P. 2008. Gay Bombay: Globalization, love and (be) longing in contemporary India,
SAGE Publications, Delhi.
15. Tellis, A. 2007. Cyberpatriarchy: Chat rooms and the construction of 'man to man ‘relations in
urban India. In East-West Identities (pp. 361-372). Brill.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction to the course
Session 2: Critical Beginnings: Sexuality
Week 2: Session 1: Critical Beginnings: Sexualising/ queering Geography
Session 2: Critical Beginnings: Sexualising/ queering Geography
Week 3: Session 1: Critical Beginnings: Sexualising/ queering Geography
Session 2: Critical Beginnings: Sexualising/ queering Geography
Week 4: Session 1: Concepts and terminologies
Session 2: Concepts and terminologies
Week 5: Session 1: Concepts and terminologies
Session 2: Concepts and terminologies
Week 6: Session 1: Hegemonic sexuality and resistance: heteronormativity
Session 2: Hegemonic sexuality and resistance: heteronormativity
Week 7: Session 1: Hegemonic sexuality and resistance: LGBTQ resistances
Session 2: Hegemonic sexuality and resistance: LGBTQ resistances
Week 8: Session 1: Sexualising space: Home
Session 2: Sexualising space: Home
Week 9: Session 1: Sexualising space: Public space
Session 2: Sexualising space: Public space
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Sexualising space: Cyber space
Session 2: Sexualising space: Cyber space
Week 13: Session 1: Sexualising space: Nation
Session 2: Sexualising space: Nation
Week 14: Session 1: Sexualising space: Globalisation
Session 2: Sexualising space: Globalisation
Week 15: Session 1: Methodologies in sexuality and space research
Session 2: Methodologies in sexuality and space research
Week 16: Session 1: Methodologies in sexuality and space research
Session 2: Student Activity
Week 17: Session 1: Student activity
Session 2: Closing lecture: Summarising geographies of sexualities

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Activity Assessment
No. Tasks
I Geographer’s engagement with Class lecture Paper review
sexuality
II Introduction to concepts and Class lecture and discussion Class test
terms
III Social and spatial production of Class lecture, group discussion, Short essay
sexuality Movie screening
IV Nuanced understanding of Class lecture, Group discussion Field report
sexual spaces and Field visit
V Undertaking sexual research Lecture and Field visit Field report
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester III – Elective Course

GEOG3E15: TERRITORIAL BASES OF POLITICS IN INDIA

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To provide students with an understanding of the territorial bases of the state and role of
geographic factors in shaping political history.
2) To provide an overview of constituencies and their evolution as well as politico electoral
regions of India
3) To provide an understanding of India’s role and position in regional blocs and among Indian
Ocean and SAARC countries.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) To appreciate the role of terrain and other geographical factors in India’s political history.
2) To understand the process of evolution of constituencies and politico electoral regions of India
3) An understanding of India’s position in regional power blocs, bilateral relations with SAARC
countries and the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean region.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Geographical Bases of the Indian State: India as a federal state-Territoriality, Location and
size; Population: Distribution, ethnic and religious composition, quality; Implications in the
current geopolitical context.
Unit II: Territorial Factors in India’s Political History: Role of terrain, rivers and sea coasts in
shaping India’s political history, forces of integration and separation; role of geographical
factors on the continuity of political and social boundaries, coexistence of regional
diversities within pan Indian unity.
Unit III: Internal Conflicts and Problems of Nation Building: Religious conflicts: Linguistic conflicts,
insurgency and separatist movements as failure to federalize, environmental movements
and issues of rehabilitation and livelihoods, river water disputes, politics of exclusion and
inclusion in nation building.
Unit IV: Electoral support and Territorial Representation: Constituencies and their
evolution, Redistricting: Issues and concerns; Regional and National parties, the politics of
coalition, Patterns of electoral support and representation; reading the emerging politico
electoral regions of India.
Unit V: Geography of International Relations: ASEAN and SAARC as regional power blocs and
India’s position within them, India’s bilateral relations with SAARC nations; Geopolitics of
the Indian Ocean and India’s position in the region; Between two worlds India’s position in
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Suggested Readings:
1. Adhikari, S. 1997. Political Geography, Rawat publications, Jaipur and Delhi.
2. Bandhopadhya, J. 1991. The Making of India’s Foreign Policy, Allied Pub, Delhi.
3. Bhambri, C.P. 1991. Political Process in India, Vikas, New Delhi.
4. Brass, P.R. 1990. The Political Economy of India since Independence, Cambridge University
Press, New Delhi.
5. Brass, P.R. 1983. Caste, Faction and Party in Indian Politics, Vol I and II, Chankya Pub, Delhi.
6. Brass, P. R. 2003. The production of Hindu Muslim Violence in Contemporary India, Oxford
University Press, Delhi.
7. Varshney, A. 2002. Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India, Yale Univ Press,
New Haven.
8. Weiner M and J Osgoodfield (eds.), 1975. Electoral Politics in the Indian States, Centre for
International Studies, MIT.
9. Pannikar, K.N. 1955. Geographical Factors in India’s History, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay.
10. Harrisson, S. et al (eds.) 1999. India and Pakistan: The First Fifty Years, Woodrow Wilson
Centre and Cambridge University Press.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction and overview, relevance of the course
Session 2: Understanding India as a federal political unit: Territoriality, Location and
size
Week 2: Session 1: Political implications of population distribution, ethnic and religious
composition, quality.
Session 2: India as a federal political unit- the forces of integration and separation;
coexistence of regional diversities within pan Indian unity.
Week 3: Session 1: Appreciating territorial factors in India’s political history- Role of terrain.
Session 2: Appreciating territorial factors in India’s political history- rivers and sea
coasts in fostering integration and isolation
Week 4: Session 1: Role of geographical factors in continuity and change in the political and
social boundaries.
Session 2: Conflicts and Disputes, Conflicts and disputes as problems of nation making
Week 5: Session 1: India’s border disputes.
Session 2: River water disputes (International and state)
Week 6: Session 1: Linguistic conflicts in India
Session 2: Caste conflicts in contemporary India
Week 7: Session 1: Religious conflicts in contemporary India
Session 2: Environmental movements and issues of rehabilitation and livelihoods.
Week 8: Session 1: Environmental movements and issues of rehabilitation and livelihoods:
case study from NBA
Session 2: Insurgency and separatist movements as issues related to failure to
federalize.
Week 9: Session 1: Evolution of political constituencies in India
Session 2: Redistricting- issues and concerns
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Regional Parties, and National parties
Session 2: Politics of coalition- balancing the regional and national issues
Week 13: Session 1: Patterns of electoral support and representation
Session 2: Patterns of electoral support and representation
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Session 2: Reading emerging politico electoral regions of India
Week 15: Session 1: ASEAN and SAARC as regional blocs and India’s position within these blocs
Session 2: Geo politics of the Indian Ocean region and India’s position in this region.
Week 16: Session 1: SAARC as a regional bloc. India’s position within SAARC
Session 2: Bilateral relations with SAARC countries: Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka
Week 17: Session 1: Bilateral relations with SAARC countries: Pakistan
Session 2: Wrap up discussions and feedback

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I To understand India as a Lectures and Tutorials; Reading OHK Spate “ India
political unit in terms of Discussion on India as a and Pakistan”
geographic bases of the state federal state.
II To appreciate the role of Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment based on
terrain and other geographical Discussion on nature of reading Pannikar KN, (1955),
factors in India’s political terrain and role of sea Geographical Factors in
history. coast in India’s political India’s History, Bharatiya
history Vidya Bhavan, Bombay

III To understand internal Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on case studies

conflicts and problems of Discussion on conflicts of river water disputes
Nation building in India and disputes between /rehabilitation and
states, inclusive nation livelihood issues
building.
IV To understand the process of Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on mapping
evolution of constituencies Discussion on evolution politico electoral regions of
and politico electoral regions of constituencies and India based on last three
of India politico electoral regions Lok sabha elections.
of India
V An understanding of Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on mapping
(i) Regional blocs , bilateral Discussion on ASEAN India’s position in ASEAN
relations with SAARC countries and SAARC as regional and Indian Ocean region
(ii) The geopolitics of the power blocs, the geo-
Indian Ocean region and politics of Indian Ocean
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Semester IV

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Core Course

GEOG4C01: VULNERABILITY AND DISASTER

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) The course begins with a discussion on alternative concepts of disasters, calamity, risk and
hazard.
2) The course then proceeds to aggregate the models used to benchmark disasters
3) In the final it de-myths that disasters are natural and lays bare the role of vulnerability in
creating disasters and what needs to be managed.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The student gains a perspective of disasters different than the Nature as Cause of Disaster.
2) The student keen to pursue a profession in Disasters can do so by addressing real life issues of
vulnerability of people.
3) Students could become champions to spread the ‘real’ reason for disasters and thus become
the torchbearers of change needed to mitigate disasters especially in India.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Idea of a Disaster vs. Hazards vs Risk
Unit II: Classification of Disasters (Focus on why these classifications evolved)
Unit III: Disasterscape: Concept and Characteristics (World and India examples)
Unit IV: Response to Disaster, Traditional and Colonial
Unit V: Post Independence Response to Disasters (Tri-forces, NGOs, Disaster Management Act)
Unit VI: Vulnerability: Concept, Measurement, Models; Vulnerability and Disaster: Myth of the
Natural Disaster

Suggested Readings:
1. Bankoff, G., G. Frerks and D. Hilhorst (eds.) 2003. Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters,
Development and People, Earthscan.
2. Beck, Ulrich, 1992. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity, Sage.
3. Cutter, Susan (ed). 1993. Environmental Risks and Hazards, Pearson.
4. Drabek, Thomas, 2010. The Human Side of Disaster, Taylor and Francis
5. Government of India, 2005. Disaster Management Act, 2005, The Gazette of India, New Delhi.
6. Kapur, Anu. et al. 2005. Disasters in India: Studies of Grim Reality, Rawat Publications, Jaipur
and Delhi.
7. Kapur, Anu, 2008. On Disasters in India, Cambridge University Press.
8. Kapur, Anu, 2010. Vulnerable India: A Geographical Study of Disaster, Sage.

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9. Parasuraman, S. 2004. India Disasters Report: Towards a Policy Initiatives, Oxford University
Press.
10. National Centre for Disaster Management, 2001. Report of the High Powered Committee (HPC)
on Disaster management, New Delhi, http://nidm.gov.in/PDF/pubs/HPC_Report.pdf.
11. Tripathi, Punam, 2018. Vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A Study of Disasters and
Response, Routledge.
12. United Nations, 2004. Living With Risk: A Global Review of Disaster Reduction Initiatives.
13. Wisner, B., P. Blaikie, T. Cannon and I. Davis, 2004. At Risk: Natural Hazards, Peoples'
Vulnerability and Disasters, Routledge (Second Edition).
14. World Disasters Report, http://www.ifrc.org/en/publications-and-reports/world-disasters-
report/

Teaching Plan:
Week 1-2 : Idea of a disaster
Week 3 : Classification of Disasters
Week 4 : Disasterscape: Concept and Characteristics
Week 5 : Disasterscape: India and Global Case studies
Week 6 – 7 : Traditional Response to Disaster
Week 8 : Colonial Response to Disasters
Week 9 : Post Independence Response to Disasters
Week 10 : Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11 : Mid-Semester Break
Week 12 : Post Independence Response to Disasters
Week 13 : Vulnerability: Concept and intersection with Disaster
Week 14 – 15 : Vulnerability and Disaster: Models
Week 16 – 17 : Vulnerability and Disasters: Myth of the Natural Disaster

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course learning outcomes Teaching and learning Assessment
No. activity task
I Familiarize students with alternative concepts of Lecture; audio-visual; Q&A
disasters, calamity, risk and hazard interaction; discussion
II Assessing why these classifications evolved Lecture; audio-visual; Q&A
interaction; discussion
III Understanding the landscape of disasters Lecture; audio-visual; Q&A
interaction; discussion
IV Assessing the various responses in case of Lecture; audio-visual; Term paper
disaster with special reference to India interaction; discussion
V A shift in the focus from “nature” as a cause of Lecture; audio-visual; Q&A
disaster to “vulnerability” as cause of disaster interaction; discussion
VI A perspective of disasters different than the Lecture; audio-visual; Q&A
Nature as Cause of Disaster interaction; discussion

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Core Course

GEOG4C02: NEW ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) The students will appreciate the significance of social, cultural and political factors as central
to the functioning of economies; and that the economic processes needs to be analysed in
social, cultural and political contexts.
2) The students will be exposed to contemporary themes in economic geography, which
emerged in post 1970s; and be conscious of the numerous economic issues confronting the
world economic system.
3) The students will realise the relevance of economic geography for analysing contemporary
societies and economies.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will be able to appreciate that geography and space matter in economy.
2) The students will be able to identify some key issues that economic geography engages with.
3) The students will be able to comprehend and analyse the principal questions confronting the
contemporary space-economy:
a) What are ‘economic’ reasons for variations in spatial distribution of population and
resources?
b) How to solve the ‘mystery’ of economic growth?
c) Has the role of ‘distance’ and ‘proximity’ declined?
d) Has the World become ‘flat’?

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction to Spatial Economics: the re-discovery; issues in spatial economic systems;
economic-geographic links.
Unit II: Stages of Growth; Evolution of Economic Systems and Sectors: stages of economic growth;
evolution of economic systems; three-sector hypothesis and post-industrial society;
informal economy and social accounting.
Unit III: Information and Knowledge Economies in Spatial Systems: information revolution,
economies of human attention; knowledge economies and imagination age; creative
industries and cultural economies, recreating economic spaces.
Unit IV: Economies of Urban Systems: FIRE & ICE economies and global cities; city re-imaging, city
branding and place marketing, place-making and place-led development.
Unit V: Space-Economy of International Systems: economic groupings; economic gravitations;
economic cooperation and integration, sustainable development goals (Goal 17: global
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Suggested Readings:
1. Anderson William P. 2012. Economic Geography, Routledge, London.
2. Coe N. M., Kelly P. F. and Yeung H. W. C. 2007. Economic Geography: A Contemporary
Introduction, Blackwell, Oxford.
3. Dicken P. 1990. Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy, Harper
Collins Publishers, New York.
4. Fujita Masahisa, Krugman Paul and Venables Anthony, 2001. The Spatial Economy: Cities,
Regions and International Trade, The MIT Press.
5. Grossman G. 1984. Economic Systems, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
6. Hanink D. M. 1997. Principles and Applications of Economic Geography, John Wiley, New York.
7. Jovanovich М. 1998. International Economic Integration: Limits and Prospects, Routledge.
8. Knox Paul, Agnew John, McCarthy Linda, 2008. The Geography of the World Economy, OUP,
USA.
9. Lee R. and Wills J. (eds.), 1997. Geography of Economics, Arnold, New York.
10. Machlup Fritz, 1977. A History of Thought on Economic Integration, Columbia University Press,
New York.
11. MacKinnon D. and Cumbers A. 2007. An Introduction to Economic Geography: Globalization,
Uneven Development and Place, Pearson/Prentice Hall, Harlow.
12. Murray Warwick E. 2006. Geographies of Globalization. Routledge.
13. Prager Jean-Claus and Thisse Jacques-Francois, 2012. Economic Geography and the Unequal
Development of Regions, Routledge, London.
14. Sachar A. and Oberg S. (eds.) 1990. The World Economy and the Spatial Organisation of Power,
E.S.F. Publication, Strasbourg.
15. Sassen Saskia, 2012. Cities in a World Economy, Sage.
16. Sheppard E. and Barnes T. J. 1984. The Capitalist Space Economy: Geographical Analysis after
Ricardo Marx and Strafa, Unwin Hyman, London.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: The Re-discovery,
Issues, Factors, Hierarchies, and Models and Assumptions in Spatial
Economic Systems
Session 2: Economic-Geographic Links
Week 2: Session 1: Concept of Growth
Survey of Stages of Economic Growth
Session 2: Marxian Stages of Development of Productive Forces,
Rostovian Stages of Economic Growth
Week 3: Session 1: Evolution of Economic Systems and its Implications
Session 2: Three-sector Hypothesis
Post-Industrial society and emergence of Quaternary and Quinary sectors
Week 4: Session 1: Social Accounting and Informal Economy
Session 2: Social Accounting and Informal Economy (case studies)
Week 5: Session 1: Political Economy of Resource Extraction
Session 2: Political Economy of Resource Extraction (case studies)
Week 6: Session 1: Social Marketing of Green Products
Session 2: Social Marketing of Green Products (case studies)
Week 7: Session 1: Urban Agriculture
Session 2: Inland Waterways
Week 8: Session 1: Information Revolution
Session 2: Information Super-highways and Netocracy
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Session 2: Knowledge Economies and Creative Industries,
Imagination Age and Economies
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Economy of World Heritage Sites, and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Session 2: Cultural Economies of Geographical Indications
Week 13: Session 1: Recreation of Creative Economic Spaces (Historic City Centres,
Urban Villages, etc.)
Session 2: FIRE and ICE Economies, Global and Smart Cities
Week 14: Session 1: City Re-imaging City Branding and Place Marketing
Session 2: Place-making and place-led development
Week 15: Session 1: Evolution of Economic Groupings
Session 2: Survey of contemporary Economic Groupings
Week 16: Session 1: Economic Gravitations
Session 2: Progressions in Economic Cooperation and Integration
Week 17: Session 1: Sustainable Development Goals
Session 2: Summing up and looking ahead
Wrap up discussions and feedback

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Outcomes Activity
I Significance of space in Classroom lectures Case-Study of events/items
economy Practical work based on displaying links between geography
secondary data and economy
II Trajectory of growth Classroom lectures Determine stages of growth of spatial
Evolution of sectors Practical work based on units (state/district)
secondary data Case-Study of social accounting of
Field-visits informal workers
Case-Study of political economy of
resource extraction
Case-Study of social marketing of
green products
III Role of information in Classroom lectures Case-Study of information overload
economic activities Field-visits Case-Study of products with GI and
Dominance of associated cultural economy
knowledge in economic Case-Study of world heritage sites
activities and intangible heritage
IV Economy and economic Classroom lectures Calculate composite index of smart
framework of modern Practical work based on cities
urban systems secondary data Case-Study of historic city centres
Field-visits and urban villages
Case-Study of city-reimaging and
place marketing
V Globalization of Classroom lectures Calculate centre of economic gravity
economic systems Practical work based on of selected spatial units
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E01: PROJECT REPORT (DISSERTATION)

Credits: Total – 4

Marks: Total - 100 Internal Assessment – 30

Project Report (Dissertation) – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 13, Practical – 84)

Course Objectives:
1) The students will be taught how to write a project report / dissertation
.
Course Learning Outcomes:
1) The students will learn to write a project report / dissertation, after duly following all the steps
in research methodology, which are taught in the course entitled Research Methods and
Techniques in Geography (Course No. GEOG3C02).

3
Lecture is 1-hour per week consultation with the Supervisor.
4
Practical is 8-hours per week on tasks associated with the project report (dissertation) – review of
literature, collection and analysis of data, preparation of tables and maps, report writing, etc. in
consultation with the Supervisor.

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E02: APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY (PRACTICAL)

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 2, Practical – 6)

Course Objectives:
1) To disseminate the first hand experiences of the climate prediction processes.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will learn the tools and techniques of climate prediction methods.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction to Climatology: climate components and its impact, climate and society,
weather and health.
Unit II: Climate data and its use, methods and techniques of data analysis, downscaling methods,
bioclimatology.
Unit III: Weather Predictability: Numerical weather prediction, processes and limitations.
Unit IV: Empirical Orthogonal Function, Exceedance probability and relative operating
characteristics (ROC), regression methods, use of general circulation models for weather
prediction.

Suggested Readings
1. Antonio Navarra, Valeria Simoncini, 2010. A Guide to Empirical Orthogonal Functions for
Climate Data Analysis, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
2. Antonio NavarraEugenia Kalney, 2003, Atmospheric Modeling, Data Assimilation and
Predictability, Cambridge University Press, London.
3. John E Hobbs, 2016. Applied climatology: A study of Atmospheric Resources, Elsevier, London
4. Russell D. Thompson and Allen Perry (eds.), 1997. Applied Climatology: Principles and Practice,
Routledge, London.
5. Swadhin Behera and Toshio Yamagata 2016. Indo-Pacific Climate Variability and Predictability,
World Scientific, Singapore.
6. Sahu N. Robertson A. Boer R. Behera S. DeWitt D.G. Kaoru T. Kumar M. Singh R.B. 2016.
Probabilistic Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts of the Citarum River, Indonesia, Based on General
Circulation Models, Journal of Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, doi
10.1007/s00477-016-1297-4.
7. Tim Palmer and Renate Hagedorn (eds.), 2006. Predictability of Weather and Climate,
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Teaching Plan:
This is Practical paper so weekly teaching plan will be announced in the class.

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Activity Assessment Tasks
No.
I Introduction Lectures/Tutorials Assignments
II Analysis of climate data Lectures/Tutorials and Lab work and
laboratory based Practical assignments
III Weather Prediction Lectures/Tutorials and Lab work and
laboratory based Practical assignments
IV Empirical Orthogonal Function Lectures/Tutorials and Lab work and
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E03: CULTURE, HISTORY AND LANDSCAPE

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To critically understand the inter-relations between human society and landscapes.
2) To understand how landscapes take shape in a larger historical and socio-political contexts.
3) To understand how landscapes are products of both local issues contextualised within broader
socio-political contexts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) To understand the intersections between geographical space, society and history.
2) Critically analyse and understand the evolution of contemporary landscapes from a
geographical perspective.
3) To understand the continuous making of landscapes and how they reflect human struggles,
contestations, conflicts and ambiguities.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction: Concept of landscape; understanding the different approaches to studying
landscape; re-evaluation of landscape and new cultural geography
Unit II: The Content of Landscape: Finding the colonial and tropicality; local and the vernacular
landscape; memories and memorialisation of landscapes;
Unit III: Reproduction of Landscape: everyday representations of landscape in literature, popular
media and new media; politics of representations and reproduction of landscapes;
Unit IV: Metropolitan Landscapes: Modernity and the spectacles of urban landscapes; built
environment and the imagination of landscapes – in global North and South;

Suggested Readings:
1. Cosgrove, D.E. 1984. Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape, University of Wisconsin: USA.
2. Bender, B. 1993. Landscape: Politics and Perspectives, London: Berg.
3. Boym, S. 2002. The Future of Nostalgia, New York: Basic Books. Casey.
4. Edward S. 2002. Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps, Minneapolis and,
London: University of Minnesota Press.
5. Corner, James, 1999. Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape
Theory, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
6. Daniels, Stephen, 1993. Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England
and the United States, Cambridge: Polity Press.
7. Hirsch, Eric and O'Hanlon, Michael, 1995. The Anthropology of Landscape: Perspectives on
Place and Space, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

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8. Mitchell, W.J.T. 2002. Landscape and Power, 2nd ed., The University of Chicago Press, Chicago
and London.
9. Doherty,G. And Waldheim, C. (eds), 2016. Is Landscape...? Essays on the Identity of Landscape,
Routledge: London and New York.
10. Terkenli, T.S and ‘d Hauteserre, A. (eds), 2006. Landscapes of a new Cultural Economy of
Space, Springer: Netherlands.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Syllabus overview
Session 2: Concept of landscape
Week 2: Session 1: Concept of landscape
Session 2: Approaches to studying landscape
Week 3: Session 1: Approaches to studying landscape
Session 2: Re-evaluation of landscape and new cultural geography
Week 4: Session 1: Re-evaluation of landscape and new cultural geography
Session 2: Colonial landscapes
Week 5: Session 1: Colonial landscapes
Session 2: Construction of tropicality in colonial landscapes
Week 6: Session 1: Local and the vernacular landscape
Session 2: Local and the vernacular landscape
Week 7: Session 1: Memories and memorialisation of landscapes
Session 2: Memories and memorialisation of landscapes
Week 8: Session 1: Affect and landscapes
Session 2: Affect and landscapes
Week 9: Session 1: Everyday representations of landscape in literature
Session 2: Everyday representations of landscape in literature
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Everyday representations of landscape in popular media
Session 2: Everyday representations of landscape in popular media
Week 13: Session 1: Everyday representations of landscape in new media
Session 2: Everyday representations of landscape in new media
Week 14: Session 1: Politics of representations and reproduction of landscapes
Session 2: Politics of representations and reproduction of landscapes
Week 15: Session 1: Modernity and the spectacles of urban landscapes
Session 2: Built environment and imagination of urban landscapes – in global North
Week 16: Session 1: Built environment and imagination of urban landscapes – in global North
Session 2: Built environment and imagination of urban landscapes – in global South
Week 17: Session 1: Built environment and imagination of urban landscapes – in global South
Session 2: Summing up and Wrap up discussions

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment
No. Activity Tasks
I Understanding the theoretical approaches Classroom lectures Tutorial
in reading landscapes Group discussions Assignments
II Understanding the development of and Classroom lectures Mid -term
transformation of landscapes over time Group presentations examinations
III Develop a social and political Classroom lectures Tutorial
understanding of contemporary Focus Case study Assignments
landscapes discussions
IV Understanding the linkages between Classroom lectures End term
modernity and landscape production Focus Case study examinations
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E04: DEMOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course shall equip the students with a basic understanding of demographic concepts and
issues.
2) It shall enable them to understand different sources of demographic data and related data
limitations.
3) The students will learn about estimates of different measures related to fertility, nuptiality,
mortality, and population projections.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) This course must train the student about the concepts and issues of demography.
2) Students should have good knowledge of various sources of demographic data and related
limitations.
3) They must be conversant with different estimations methods related to fertility, nuptiality,
mortality, migration, urbanization, and population projections.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction to Basic Concepts and Measures: rate, ratios, proportions, person-years of life
Unit II: Sources of Demographic Data: census, vital statistics, surveys, UN/ other government
publications
Unit III: Population Age-structures: quality of data and adjustments
Unit IV: Basic Measures of Mortality and Life Table; Fertility and Nuptiality; Migration and
Urbanization
Unit V: Population Projections

Suggested Readings
1. Carmichael, G.A. 2016. Fundamentals of Demographic Analysis: Concepts, Measures, and
Methods, Springer, London.
2. Hinde, A. 2009. Demographic Methods, Routledge, London.
3. Moultrie, T.A., Dorrington, R.E., Hill, A.G., Hill, K., Timaeus, I., and Zaba, B. (eds.) 2013. Tools of
Demographic Estimation, Paris: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.
4. Office of the Registrar General of India, and United Nations Population Fund, 2014. Training
Manual on Demographic Techniques. New Delhi: ORGI, UNFPA-India.
http://india.unfpa.org/en/publications/training-manual-demographic-techniques
5. Preston, S., Heuveline, P., and Guillot, M. 2000. Demography: Measuring and Modelling
Population Processes, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.

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6. Seigal, J.S., and Swanson, D.A. (eds.) 2004. The Methods and Materials of Demography. 2nd
edition, San Diego, CA: Elsevier Academic Press.
7. Watcher, K.W. 2014. Essential Demographic Methods, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press.
8. Yusuf, F., Martins, J.M., Swanson, D.A. 2014. Methods of Demographic Analysis, Springer,
London.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Understanding basic population concepts and measures
Week 2: Understanding basic population concepts and measures
Week 3: Sources of demographic data
Week 4: Sources of demographic data
Week 5: Population age-structure
Week 6: Quality of population data and adjustments
Week 7: Basic measures of mortality and life tables
Week 8: Basic measures of mortality and life tables
Week 9: Basic measures of mortality and life tables
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Basic measures of fertility and nuptiality
Week 13: Basic measures of fertility and nuptiality
Week 14: Basic measures of migration and urbanization
Week 15: Basic measures of migration and urbanization
Week 16: Population projections
Week 17: Population projections

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Understanding of basic Classroom lectures and Conceptualising basic concepts
concepts and measures in tutorials and measures in demography
demography
II Learning various sources of Classroom lectures and Understanding different sources
demographic data tutorials of demographic data
III Age-sex composition of Classroom lectures and Understanding population age-
population, data quality tutorials sex structure, data quality and
issues adjustment methods
IVA Measures of mortality Classroom lectures and Understanding measures of
tutorials mortality
IVB Measures of fertility and Classroom lectures and Examining measures of
nuptiality tutorials fertility/nuptiality
IVC Measures of migration and Classroom lectures and Examining measures of migration
urbanization tutorials
V Doing Population Teaching and Learning Undertaking population
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E05: ENERGY GEOGRAPHIES

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To understand the geographical perspectives on Energy
2) To understand the centrality of energy to human civilization
3) To engage with key debates on major energy systems

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Geographical study of Energy
2) Knowledge of current debates in field of energy geographies

Course Contents:
Unit I: Geographical perspectives on energy
Unit II: Historical development of energy; the global trends and patterns in energy
Unit III: Energy resources of the World: Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Nuclear, and Renewable energy
Unit IV: Contemporary Issues: Energy security, Geo-Politics of energy, Energy, environment and
sustainable development

Suggested Readings:
1. Bridge, G. 2008. Global production networks and the extractive sector: governing resource-
based development. Journal of Economic Geography, 8(3), 389-419.
2. Calvert, K. 2016. From ‘energy geography’ to ‘energy geographies’: Perspectives on a fertile
academic borderland. Progress in Human Geography, 40(1), 105-125.
3. Cherp, A. and Jewell, J. 2011. The three perspectives on energy security: intellectual history,
disciplinary roots and the potential for integration. Current Opinion in Environmental
Sustainability, 3(4), 202-212.
4. Colgan, J. D. 2013. Petro-aggression: When Oil Causes War, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge.
5. Freese, B. 2016. Coal: A Human History, Basic Books.
6. Gordon, R. T. 1982. Inventions that changed the World, READER'S DIGEST (selected entries).
7. Huber, M. 2015. Theorizing energy geographies. Geography Compass, 9(6), 327-338.
8. Lahiri-Dutt, K. (ed.) 2014. The Coal Nation: Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India,
Surrey, Ashgate, U.K.
9. Nakidenovid, N., Grübler, A., & McDonald, A. (Eds.). 1998. Global Energy Perspectives,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
10. Nel, W. P., & van Zyl, G. 2010. Defining limits: Energy constrained economic growth. Applied
Energy, 87(1), 168-177.

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11. Simeon, D. 1996. Coal and colonialism: production relations in an Indian coalfield, c. 1895–
1947. International Review of Social History, 41(S4), 83-108.
12. Tyfield, D. 2014. King Coal is Dead! Long Live the King: The Paradoxes of Coal's Resurgence in
the Emergence of Global Low-Carbon Societies. Theory, Culture & Society, 31(5), 59-81.
13. Verrastro, F. A., Ladislaw, S. O., Frank, M., and Hyland, L. 2010. The geopolitics of energy:
emerging trends, changing landscapes, uncertain times. A Report of the CSIS Energy and
National Security Program October.
14. Victor, D. G., Jaffe, A. M., & Hayes, M. H. (Eds.), 2006. Natural gas and geopolitics: From 1970
to 2040. Cambridge University Press.
15. Watts, M. 2009. Crude politics: Life and death on the Nigerian oil fields. Niger delta economies
of violence working papers, 25.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction to Class
Session 2: Importance of Energy, Key innovations
Week 2: Session 1: Geographical perspectives on Energy: Energy geographies
Session 2: Geographical perspectives on Energy: Theorising Energy in Geography
Week 3: Session 1: Historical development of Energy
Session 2: Global trends and patterns in Energy
Week 4: Session 1: Coal: Shaping Britain
Session 2: Coal: Shaping China
Week 5: Session 1: Coal: India
Session 2: Coal: Low Carbon Societies
Week 6: Session 1: Oil: Global Production Network
Session 2: Oil: Petro State and Resource Cure
Week 7: Session 1: Oil: Assemblages
Session 2: Oil: Movie Show
Week 8: Session 1: Oil Geographies and Chokepoints
Session 2: Natural Gas: Origins and Global Trends
Week 9: Session 1: Natural Gas: Fuel of the future
Session 2: Natural Gas: Geo Politics
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Nuclear Energy
Session 2: Nuclear Energy
Week 13: Session 1: Renewable Energy
Session 2: Renewable Energy
Week 14: Session 1: Renewable Energy
Session 2: Energy Security
Week 15: Session 1: Energy Security
Session 2: Geo Politics of Energy
Week 16: Session 1: Geo Politics of Energy
Session 2: Energy and Environment
Week 17: Session 1: Energy and Environment
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Learning Activity
I To understand geography’s Lecture presentation Readings and discussion.
contribution to Energy studies. and class Interaction.
II To know the historical trajectories in Lecture presentation Readings and class
development of Energy and its and class Interaction. discussion.
implications. Understanding Global
Trends and patterns in Energy.
III Locating the trajectories of different Lecture presentation Bi-weekly readings and
Energy Sources and their social. and class Interaction. class discussion.
Spatial and political implications. Argumentation and
writing.
IV To make sense of contemporary Lecture presentation Readings and class
issues concerning energy and the and class Interaction. Discussion.
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E06: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) It lays the foundation of environmental issues and its impact on society.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will learn various issues related to environmental impact assessment and its
importance.

Course Contents:
Unit I: EIA: Principles of EIA, Concepts and approaches, methods and procedure and currents
issues in EIA, POSCO imbroglio.
Unit II: EIA: evaluation and mitigation, cost-benefit analysis of DMRC and Golden Quadrilateral
projects and valuation of environmental impacts, public participation, presentation and
review.
Unit III: Selected National and International Procedures of EIA: Developed and Developing countries
EIA Procedures, National Green Tribunal.
Unit IV: Case Studies of environmental impact assessment: Water Impact Assessment; Hydro-
electric power Impact Assessment; Ecological Impact assessment; Social Impact
Assessment; Mining Impact Assessment.
Unit V: Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations and Policies in India.

Suggested Readings
1. Betty Bowers Marriott, 1997. Environmental Impact Assessment, Mc Graw Hill Professional
Bookstore.
2. Goel ,R.S. 2000. Environmental Impacts Assessment of water Resources Projects -concerns,
Policy Issues Perceptions and Scientific Analysis, Oxford Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
3. Goel R.S., and R.N. Srivastava, 1999. Hydropower and River Valley Development Environment
Management, Case Studies and Policy Issues, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt., New Delhi.
4. Goudie, A. 2000. The Human Impact on the Natural Environment, Blackwell, Publishers,
Oxford.
5. J. Glasson, R. Therivel and A. Chadwick, 1994. Introduction to Environmental Impact
Assessment: Principles and Procedures, Process, Practice and Prospects, Research Press,
Delhi.
6. Judith, Petts (eds.) 1999. Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment, Blackwell Science
Publication.
7. Prasad, K. and Goel, R. S. 2000. Environmental Management in Hydro Electric Projects,

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Concept Pub., New Delhi.
8. Richard, K. Morgan, 1999. Environmental Impact Assessment: A Methodological Perspective,
Springer.
9. Sinclair, J., 2000. Canadian Environmental Assessment in Transition, University of Waterloo
Press, Waterloo.
10. Smith, L.G., 1993. Impact Assessment and Sustainable Resource Management, Longman,
Harlow.
11. Subramanian, V., 2001. Text Book on Environmental Sciences, Narosa Publishing House, N.
Delhi.
12. Eccleston, C. H., 2017. Environmental Impact Assessment: A Guide to Best Professional
Practices, CRC Press, New York.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction, Principles of EIA
Session 2: Concepts and approaches of EIA
Week 2: Session 1: Methods and procedure in EIA
Session 2: Currents issues in EIA, POSCO imbroglio-I
Week 3: Session 1: Currents issues in EIA, POSCO imbroglio-II
Session 2: EIA: evaluation and mitigation
Week 4: Session 1: Cost-benefit analysis of DMRC
Session 2: Golden Quadrilateral projects
Week 5: Session 1: Selected national procedures
Session 2: Selected national procedures
Week 6: Session 1: Selected international procedures
Session 2: Selected international procedures
Week 7: Session 1: Examples from developing countries
Session 2: Examples from Developed countries
Week 8: Session 1: National green Tribunal I
Session 2: National Green Tribunal II
Week 9: Session 1: Valuation of environmental impacts -I
Session 2: Valuation of environmental impacts -II
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Public participation, presentation and review-I
Session 2: Public participation, presentation and review-II
Week 13: Session 1: Case Studies of environmental impact assessment-I
Session 2: Case Studies of environmental impact assessment-II
Week 14: Session 1: Water Impact Assessment-I
Session 2: Water Impact Assessment-II
Week 15: Session 1: Hydro-electric power Impact Assessment-I
Session 2: Hydro-electric power Impact Assessment-II
Week 16: Session 1: Social Impact Assessment-I
Session 2: Social Impact Assessment-II
Week 17: Session 1: Mining Impact-I
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Principles of EIA, Concepts and Classroom lectures, How is the
approaches, methods and PPTs and tutorials, conceptualization of PDF
procedure and currents issues debate and discussions and its types applied in
in EIA statistical analysis?
II EIA: evaluation and mitigation, Classroom lectures and Sampling theory and its
Golden Quadrilateral projects tutorials, PPTs, debate uses in social science
and valuation of and discussions research
environmental impacts
III National and International Classroom lectures and How to conceptualise the
Procedures of EIA, National tutorials, PPTs, debate ANOVA with one-way and
Green Tribunal. and discussions two-way classification?

IV Case Studies of environmental Classroom lectures, Uses of non-parametric

and impact assessment PPTs and tutorials, tests in scientific discourse
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E07: GENDER, SPACE AND SOCIETY IN INDIA

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To enable students to understand the relevance of and developments in the subfield of
geography of gender in India.
2) To equip students with an understanding of regional variations in construction of gender
through the frame of genderscapes.
3) To provide an understanding of spaces of indigenous feminisms in the Indian context.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Understanding the emergence of the subfield of geography of gender as well its trajectory of
growth in India.
2) Understanding gendered implications of public and private spaces and spatial variations in
construction of gender in India.
3) Understanding the concept of a genderscape and appreciating regional genderscapes in India.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Geography of Gender: Development of and theoretical approaches to the study of gender
in geography; contextualising growth and development of the sub field in India.
Unit II: Gender and Space: Division of space into private and public spaces, Gendered spaces;
Spatial variations in the construction of gender in India.
Unit III: Spatial Patterns and Bases of Gender inequalities: Patriarchy, son preference, social value;
new reproductive technology, skewed sex ratios, gendered patterns of crime and violence,
gender disparities in selected indicators of social wellbeing.
Unit IV: Towards Genderscapes: Concept of Genderscape, Regional Genderscapes in India,
Genderscapes of violence and well-being in India.
Unit V: Indigenous Feminisms and Spaces of Resistance: Theorizing indigenous feminisms,
indigenous feminisms, power and agency in patriarchy; indigenous feminisms and spaces
of resistance.

Suggested Readings:
1. Phadke Shilpa, Ranade Shilpa and Sameera Khan, 2011. Why Loiter: Women and Risk on
Mumbai Streets, Penguin
2. Gregory Derek et al., 2009. Dictionary of Human Geography, 5th Edition, Wiley
3. Geetha V. 2007. Patriarchy, Stree publications
4. Mazumdar Vina and N Krishnaji (eds), 2001. Enduring Conundrum: India’s Sex Ratio, Centre for
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5. Spain Daphne, 1992. Gendered Spaces, University of North Carolina Press.
6. Agarwal Bina, 1994. A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia, Cambridge
University Press.
7. Mc Dowell Linda, 1999. Gender, Identity and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies,
Blackwell Publishers, Oxford.
8. McDowell, Linda and Sharp, Joanne, eds. 1997. Space/Gender/Knowledge: Feminist Readings.
London: Arnold.
9. Massey Doreen, 1994. Space, Place and Gender, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
10. Walby Sylvia, 1990. Theorizing Patriarchy, Wiley Blackwell publishers.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction to the course, overview and relevance.
Session 2: Understanding Sex and Gender as contested terms.
Week 2: Session 1: Gender roles and gender relations
Session 2: Questioning initial invisibility of women as subjects and practioners in
geography, responses to visibilize women in geographical research.
Week 3: Session 1: Examining theoretical approaches to the study of gender in geography.
Session 2: Examining theoretical approaches to the study of gender in geography
(contd.) - growth trajectory in the Anglo Saxon world
Week 4: Session 1: Contextualising growth and development of the sub field in India- early
origins.
Session 2: Contextualising growth and development of the sub field in India-from the
margins to critical mass.
Week 5: Session 1: Contextualising growth and development of the sub field in India- concerns
and opportunities.
Session 2: Gender as performance, spatiality of gender.
Week 6: Session 1: Gendered division of space into public and private- theoretical issues
relating to access in India.
Session 2: Gendered spaces in the everyday
Week 7: Session 1: Socio cultural regions and spatial variations in the construction of gender in
India- Northern and Western India
Session 2: Socio cultural regions and spatial variations in the construction of gender in
India- Southern and Eastern India.
Week 8: Session 1: Productive and punitive aspects of patriarchy, kinship contracts.
Session 2: Culturally driven son preference, social value and new reproductive
technology
Week 9: Session 1: India’s declining sex ratio from 1901-2011.
Session 2: Gendered patterns of crime and violence
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Inter Gender disparities in selected indicators of social wellbeing- access to
health care.
Session 2: Inter Gender disparities in selected indicators of social wellbeing- literacy
Week 13: Session 1: Inter Gender disparities in selected indicators of social wellbeing- work
participation rates
Session 2: Concept of Genderscape- realm of Nature, meaning, social relations and
agency within genderscapes.
Week 14: Session 1: Mapping regional genderscapes in India
Session 2: Genderscapes of violence and well-being in India
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Session 2: Theorizing indigenous feminisms in the Indian context - patriarchal power
and agency in classic patriarchy
Week 16: Session 1: Indigenous feminisms, patriarchal power and agency through productive
aspects of patriarchy.
Session 2: Indigenous feminisms and creation of spaces of resistance- liminality
Week 17: Session 1: Indigenous feminisms and spaces of resistance- adaptability
Session 2: Wrap up discussions and feedback

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Outcomes Activity
I Understanding the Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on reading Monk
emergence of the subfield Discussion on emergence of and Hanson 1992.
of geography of gender as the subfield of geography of
well its trajectory of gender as well its trajectory of
growth in India growth in India
II Understanding gendered Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on reading
implications of public and Discussion on differential Phadke et al 2010 and
private spaces and the access to public spaces, mapping gendered access to
spatial variations in terrain, women’s labour and public spaces
construction of gender in construction of gender roles
India. and relations.
III Understanding spatial Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on mapping and
patterns of sex ratio and Discussion on gender explaining declining sex ratio,
gender disparities in key differences in literacy, work in conjunction with change in
areas of well being force participation and key indicators of well-being
regional patterns of Crimes in selected meso-regions of
against Women India
IV Understanding the Lectures and Tutorials; Assignment on explaining
concept of a genderscape Discussion realm of meaning within
and appreciating regional selected regional
genderscapes in India genderscapes
V Theorizing Indigenous Lectures and Tutorials; Essay based on lectures and
Feminisms Discussion reading Kandiyoti
“Bargaining with Patriarchy”

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E08: GEOGRAPHIES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE IN INDIA

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) The course examines the questions related to social problems and social justice to
marginalised sections of society.
2) It also critically evaluates the policies and interventions aimed at providing social justice to
marginalized sections in India.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will able to understand the idea of social justice in Geography and its relevance
in Indian context.
2) Understanding Historical context of marginalisation and Injustice, Appreciating socio-
economic problems in India.
3) Assessment of Programmes and Policies and legal framework for Social Justice and
empowerment.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction to Geography of Social Justice: Concept and components of social justice,
Overview of theories of social justice, Ethics.
Unit II: Historical Context of Marginalisation and Injustice: Stratification of Indian society; caste
system; Caste discrimination and violence; Spatial distribution of SC & ST population, and
Minorities; Resource distribution,
Unit III: Social (in) Justice in India: Urban and Rural dimensions; Urbanisation and the question of
Caste; globalisation and capitalism; migration; Poverty, Inequality, land rights and security:
Case Studies.
Unit IV: Programmes, Policies and safe guards for Social Justice and Empowerment: Role of civil
society and media; contemporary movements; Social and economic and political
empowerment, SDG-16, Policies and interventions.
Unit V: Legal Framework and Social Justice in India: Human rights, Constitutional Provisions, Laws,
Acts

Suggested Readings:
1. Arneson, Richard, 1989. Equality and Equal Opportunity for Welfare, Philosophical Studies, 56,
pp. 77-93
2. Atkinson, A. B. 1983. Social Justice and Public Policy, Wheatsheaf Books Ltd., Sussex.
3. Balagopal, K. 1988. Probing in the Political Economy of Agrarian Classes and Conflicts,
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4. Bhattacharjea, A. 1997. Social Justice and the Constitution, Indian Institute of Advanced Study,
Shimla.
5. Channa Subhadra Mitra and Pencher P. Joan, 2013. Life as a Dalit: Views from the Bottom on
Caste in India, Sage Publication India Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi
6. Clayton, Matthew and Williams Andrew, 2004. Social Justice, Blackwell Publishing, USA.
7. Govt of India, 2005, Social, Economic and Educational Status of the Muslim Community in
India, Report of the Sachar Committee.
8. Govt. of India, 1985. Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Rural Development, Government
of India, New Delhi, Report of the committee to review the existing Administrative
Arrangement for Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation Programmes, December.
9. Harvey, David, 2010. Social Justice and the City, revised edition, University of Georgia Press,
London.
10. Mukharji, Partha N. 1992. Class and Ethnic Movements in India, Rudebeck, 13:30
11. Omvedt, Gail, 1994. Dalit and the Democratic Revolution: Dr. Ambedkar and the Dalit
Movement in Colonial India, Sage, New Delhi.
12. Oommen, T. K. 1990. State and Society in India, Sage, New Delhi.
13. Rawls, John, 1982. Social Units and Primary Goods, in Amartya Sen and Bernard Willians, eds.,
Utilitarianism and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
14. Smith David Marshall, 1997. Geography and Social Justice: Social Justice in a Changing World,
Basil, Blackwell.
15. Throat, S.K., 1999. Ambedkar’s Role in Economic Planning and Water Policy, Shipra
Publication, New Delhi.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Introduction to Geography of Social Justice
Week 2: Ethics, Social Justice in Geography
Week 3: Concept and components, Theories of social justice
Week 4: Stratification of Indian society; Caste system in India,
Week 5: Spatial distribution of SC & ST population, and Minorities
Week 6: Caste discrimination and violence
Week 7: Resource distribution
Week 8: Urban and Rural dimensions; globalisation and capitalism;
Week 9: Migration; Poverty, Inequality
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Land rights and security;
Week 13: Civil society and media; contemporary movements
Week 14: Social, economic and political empowerment, SDG-16
Week 15: Policies and interventions.
Week 16: Human rights, Constitutional Provisions,
Week 17: Laws, Acts and Summing up and looking ahead & Wrap up discussions and feedback

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Learning Activity
I Understanding the idea of Classroom lectures Assignments/ Discussions on
social justice in Geography and tutorials concepts, components and
theories of social Justice
II Understanding Historical Classroom lectures Assignments/ Presentations on
Context of Marginalisation and and tutorials social and educational profiles of
Injustice spatial distribution of SC/ST, Minority reading Census
SC, ST and minorities data on marginalized groups and
III Appreciating specific socio- Classroom lectures Presentation/debates Case studies
economic problems and tutorials assignments
IV Knowledge of Programmes and Classroom lectures Assignment/ Presentations based
Policies for Social Justice and and tutorials on critical evaluation of selected
Empowerment. policies and programmes
V Examining Legal Framework for Classroom lectures Discussions/Presentations on
Social Justice in India and tutorials adequacy of existing legal
framework in addressing issues of
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E09: GEOGRAPHY OF HEALTH

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course intends to reorient the students towards interdisciplinary perspectives on
population health issues at different geographical scales.
2) It will acquaint the candidate to appreciate the role of spatial perspectives towards
showcasing drivers of population health transition and major approaches used to explain it.
3) Students shall be able to understand the interplay of social environment, global
environmental changes and its association with population health.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Students would be acquainted with the basic concepts of population health from geographical
perspectives.
2) Students would get clear understanding about the process of population health transition and
its major drivers. In addition, students should recognize the mechanism of how social and
economic environment shapes population health.
3) Further, the linkages between global environmental changes and population health should be
well understood.

Contents:
Unit I: Introducing Geography of Health: fundamental concepts; Approaches explaining
Geography of Health: ecological, social, and spatial perspectives.
Unit II: Global Health Transition: the epidemiological transition, its drivers, and regional patterns.
Unit III: Social Environment and Health: health inequalities across global, regional, and
neighbourhood scales; health care systems and inequalities in health care services.
Unit IV: Global Environmental Change and Health: air quality; contamination of food, and water;
climate change, temperature extremes, natural hazards.
Unit V: Emerging Health Challenges: Urban health and well-being; Gender equity in health;
migration and health; unhealthy lifestyle and chronic diseases; ageing and health;
adolescent/youth and health.

Suggested Readings
1. Anthamatten, P. and Hazen, H. 2011. An introduction to the Geography of Health, Routledge,
New York.
2. Braveman, P., Egerter, S., Williams, D.R. 2011. The Social determinants of health: coming of
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3. Brown, T., McLafferty, S., and Moon, G. (eds.) 2010. A Companion to Health and Medical
Geography, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
4. Burton, L.M., Kemp, S.P., Leung, M., Matthews, S.A., and Takeuchi, T.A. 2011. Communities,
Neighbourhoods, and Health: Expanding the Boundaries of Place, Springer, New York.
5. Curtis, S. 2004. Health and Inequality: Geographical Perspectives, Sage Publications, London.
6. Freudenberg, N., Klitzman, S., and Saegert, S. (eds.) 2009. Urban Health and Society:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Health and Practice, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
7. Gaimard, M. 2014. Population and Health in Developing Countries, Springer, New York.
8. Gatrell, A.C. and Elliott, S.J. 2015. Geographies of Health: An Introduction. 3rd edition, Wiley-
Blackwell, Oxford.
9. Kawachi, I., and Berkman, L.F. (eds.) 2003. Neighborhoods and Health, Oxford University Press,
Oxford.
10. Luginaah, I., and Kerr, R.B. (eds.) 2015. Geographies of Health and Development, Burlington,
VT: Ashgate.
11. Misra, R.P. 2007. Geography of Health: A Treatise on Geography of Life and Health in India,
Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi.
12. Meade, M.S. and Emch, M. 2010. Medical Geography. 3rd edition, Guilford Press, New York.
13. Sen, G., and Ostlin, P. (eds.) 2010. Gender Equity in Health: The Shifting Frontiers of Evidence
and Action, Routledge, New York.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Introducing geography of health: basic concepts and issues
Week 2: Introducing geography of health: basic concepts and issues
Week 3: Approaches to explaining geography of health: ecological, social
Week 4: Approaches to explaining geography of health: spatial
Week 5: Global health transition: concept and issues
Week 6: Global health transition: its drivers and regional patterns
Week 7: Social environment and health: health inequalities I (global and regional patterns)
Week 8: Social environment and health: health inequalities I (local patterns)
Week 9: Social environment and health: health care systems and inequalities in health care
services
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Global environmental change and health: air quality and health
Week 13: Global environmental change and health: contamination of water, food, and health
Week 14: Global environmental change and health: climate change, extreme weather, and health
Week 15: Emerging health challenges: urban health and well-being
Week 16: Emerging health challenges: gender equity in health
Week 17: Emerging health challenges: migration and health; lifestyle and chronic disease; ageing
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
IA Understanding basis Classroom lectures and Examining basic concepts and
concepts and issues of tutorials issues of geography of health
health geography
IB Conceptualising Classroom lectures and Understanding approaches of
approaches of doing health tutorials doing geography of health
geography
II Examining health transition Classroom lectures and Conceptualising the health
tutorials transition and its drivers
III Understanding health Classroom lectures and Examining the concept of
inequalities tutorials health inequalities and its
implications
IV Linkages between health Classroom lectures and Understanding linkages
and global environmental tutorials between global environmental
changes changes and health
V Emerging health issues and Classroom lectures and Understanding emerging
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MASTER OF ARTS IN GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV– Elective Course

GEOG4E10: GEOGRAPHY OF HIMALAYA

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) Understanding physiological characteristics, ecology of river basins of Himalaya.
2) Mapping vulnerability, hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in Himalaya.
3) Evaluation of livelihood and Sustainability in Himalaya.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) In depth understanding of Third Pole and regional entity of Himalaya.
2) Spatial distribution of hazards and risks and mitigation in Himalaya.
3) Conservation strategies, good practices and success stories.

Course Content:
Unit I: Himalayan Physiology: Structures; Folds and faults and Vertical divisions.
Unit II: Regional Entity: Regional characteristics, river basin based divisions (Sir Sydney Burard)
Unit III: Hazard Risk and Vulnerability: Floods, Cloudburst and Landslides (Case Study).
Unit IV: Fragile Ecosystem Syndromes: Developmental Implications (Case Studies).
Unit V: Management of Himalayan Fragility: Integrated Resource Management, Movements and
Institutions for Himalayan Conservation (Case studies).

Suggested Readings:
1. Ahmad, E. 1992. Geography of the Himalaya, Kalyani Publication, Ludhiana.
2. Bose, S.C. 1976. Geography of the Himalaya, National Book Trust, New Delhi.
3. Burrard, S. G., Hubert, S. and Hayden, H. 1908. A Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the
Himalaya Mountains and Tibet: The high peaks of Asia, Superintendent Government Printing.
4. Gupta. K.M. (ed.), 1990. Himalaya: Man, and Nature, Lancer Books, New Delhi.
5. Kapur, A. 1995. Paradise in Peril: An Ecological Profile of the Kashmir valley, Allied publishers,
Delhi.
6. Lall, J.S. (ed.), 1981. The Himalaya: Aspects of Change, Oxford University Press, Delhi.
7. M.J. Crozier, 1986. Landslides: Causes, Consequences and Environment, Croom Helm, London.
8. Mohammad, Noor and Rai, S.C. 2014. Agricultural Diversity and Food Security in the Mountain
Ecosystem, Concept Publishing Company, New delhi.
9. Pandey, B.W. 2002. Geo-environmental Hazards in Himalaya, Assessment and Mapping, Mittal
Publication, New Delhi.
10. Pandey, B. W, Negi, V. S. and Kumria, Poonam, 2018. Environmental Concerns and Sustainable
Development in Himalaya, Research India Press, New Delhi.

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11. Sah, N.K., Bhatt, S.D., and Pande, R.K. (eds.), 1990. Himalaya: Environment, Resources and
Development, Shree Almora Book Depot, Almora.
12. Sen Roy, S. and Singh, R.B. 2002. Climate Variability, Extreme Events and Agricultural
Productivity in Mountain Regions, Oxford & IBH Pub., New Delhi, pages 232.
13. Singh, R. B. Schickhoff, Udo and Mal Suraj (eds) 2016. Climate Change, Glacier Response and
Vegetation Dynamics in the Himalaya, Springer, Switzerland.
14. Singh, R.B. 1998. Sustainable Development of Mountain Environment of India and Canada,
New Delhi, Oxford & IBH Pub., 1998, Pages 345.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Introduction of Himalaya (Bose, S.C., 1976; Ahmad, E. 1992).
Week 2: Physical characteristics, folds and faults (Bose, S.C., 1976)
Week 3: Vertical divisions of Himalaya (Bose, S.C., (1976)
Week 4: Regional characteristics of Himalaya (Burrard, S. G., & Hubert, S. H., Hayden. 1908).)
Week 5: Division of Himalaya by Sir Sydney Burrard (Burrard, S. G., & Hubert, S. H., Hayden.
1908).)
Week 6: Hazard Risk and Vulnerability in Himalaya (Singh, R.B. 2005.)
Week 7: Floods, Cloudburst (Pandey, B.W. 2002)
Week 8: Landslides, (Case Study) (M.J. Crozier 1986)
Week 9: Agricultural (cropping, horticulture and animal husbandry) development in Himalaya
(Sen Roy, S. and Singh, R.B. 2002)
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break (Fieldwork)
Week 12 Forestry in Himalayan region (MOEFCC Report 2017)
Week 13: Tourism in Himalaya (Tourism Development Corporation Report 2017)
Week 14: (Case Study)
Week 15: Management of Himalayan Fragility (Singh, R.B. 1998)
Week 16: Environmental Movements in Himalaya (Sah, N.K., Bhatt, S.D., Pande, R.K. (eds.), 1990)
Week 17: Biodiversity Conservation and Management (Case studies) (Singh, R. B. Schickhoff, Udo
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Understanding the Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
significance of Himalaya for documentaries, discussions, presentations, discussions
the Indian Sub-continent tutorials and fieldworks. and debates.
II Detailed discussion on the Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
livelihood opportunities in documentaries, discussions, presentations, discussions
the natural extremes tutorials and fieldworks. and debates.
III Thorough explanations on Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
the disasters in Himalayas documentaries, discussions, presentations, discussions
and their management tutorials and fieldworks. and debates.
strategies
IV Overview of the recent Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
developmental programs for documentaries, discussions, presentations, discussions
Himalayan region tutorials and fieldworks. and debates.
V In-depth observation on the Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments,
sustainable management documentaries, discussions, presentations, discussions
strategies for mountains in tutorials and fieldworks. and debates.
general and Himalayas in
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MASTER OF ARTS IN GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E11: INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) A comprehensive approach to integrated watershed management
2) To identify threats to watershed health and learn sustainable and integrated ways to
ameliorate those threats.
3) Intended for students interested in the sustainable management of watershed applying earth
observation and GIS.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Conceptual understanding of Integrated Watershed Management.
2) Understanding the factors affecting the quantity and quality of water within a watershed.
3) How to use Earth Observation and GIS for watershed analysis and management.

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction of Watershed: Definition, Principles and objectives.
Unit II: Characteristics of Watershed: Physical and hydrological characteristics.
Unit III: Soil and Water Quality: Soil erosion, estimation of soil erosion, Water quality and land use.
Unit IV: Flood and Drought Assessment: Flood and drought assessment, analysis and mitigation.
Unit V: Integrated Watershed Management and Modelling: integrated approach and watershed
models.

Suggested Readings:
1. Debarry Paul A. 2004. Watershed: Processes, Assessment and Management, John Wiley &
Sons, New Jersey.
2. Dhruva N.V.V., Sastry G. and Patnaik U.S. 1990. Watershed Management, Indian Council of
Agricultural Research, New Delhi.
3. Tideman E.M. 1999. Watershed Management–Guidelines for Indian Conditions, Omega
Scientific Publishers, New Delhi.
4. Iyer K. G. and Roy U.N., (ed.), 2005. Watershed Management and Sustainable Development,
Kanishka Publishers, New Delhi.
5. Gregersen H.M, Folliott P.F and Brooks K.N. 1983. Integrated Watershed Management:
Connecting People to their Land and Water, CAB International, London.
6. Randhir O. Timothy, 2007. Watershed Management-Issues and Approaches, IWA Publishing.
7. Singh V.P and Frevert D.K. (ed.), 2005. Watershed Models, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis.
8. Rahaman, M.M. and Varis, O. 2005. Integrated water resources management: evolution,
prospects and future challenges, sustainability, Sci. Pract. Policy, 1, 15–21.

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9. Morgan R.P. 2009. Soil Erosion and Conservation, John Wiley and Sons.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Introduction to Watershed (Dhruva N.V.V., Sastry G. and Patnaik U.S., 1990).
Week 2: Principles and Objectives of watershed (Randhir O. Timothy, 2007)
Week 3: Watershed health and sustainability (Randhir O. Timothy, 2007)
Week 4: Watershed management policies and decision making (Debarry Paul A., 2004).
Week 5: Physical and hydrological characteristics (Debarry Paul A., 2004).
Week 6: Delineation of watershed, field trip follow up (Tideman E.M., 1999).
Week 7: Soil erosion, estimation of soil erosion (Morgan R.P., 2009).
Week 8: Water quality and pollution (Morgan R.P., 2009).
Week 9: Types and sources of pollution, land use and water quality (Gregersen H.M, Folliott P.F
and Brooks K.N. 1983).
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Flood and drought assessment and classification (Gregersen H.M, Folliott P.F and Brooks
K.N. 1983).
Week 13: Analysis techniques, mitigation planning (Debarry Paul A., 2004).
Week 14: Introduction to integrated approach (Debarry Paul A., 2004).
Week 15: Watershed assessment models (Rahaman, M.M.; Varis 2005).
Week 16: Earth Observation and GIS (Singh V.P and Frevert D.K., 2005).
Week 17: Integrated watershed management case studies (Iyer K. G. and Roy U.N., 2005).

Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:

Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Deep understanding of Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
watershed along with its documentaries, discussions discussions and debates.
principles and objectives. and tutorials.
II Knowledge about Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
characteristics of documentaries, fieldworks, discussions and debates.
watershed. discussions and tutorials.
III Understanding of issues Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
regarding soil and water documentaries, fieldworks, discussions and debates.
focussing mainly on soil discussions and tutorials.
erosion and water pollution.
IV Assessing flood and drought Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
problems and their documentaries, fieldworks, discussions and debates.
mitigation strategies. discussions and tutorials.
V In-depth understanding of Classroom Lectures, PPTs, Assignments, Presentations,
integrated watershed documentaries, discussions discussions and debates.
management and and tutorials.
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E12: TERRAIN MODELLING

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To develop an understanding of terrain extraction principles, modelling and potential
applications.
2) To enable students to efficiently deal problems in physical geography and environmental
issues.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Board understanding of Digital Terrain Modelling
2) Understanding of digital terrain and surface model generation tools
3) Understanding of Primary and Secondary topographic Attributes and applications

Course Contents:
Unit I: Digital Terrain Modelling: principles and applications, data sources, scale and quality
assessment.
Unit II: Principles of Photogrammetry, Radargrammetry, LiDAR and GPS-based altitude
determination.
Unit III: DTM vs. DSM, Contour/Point interpolation: IDW, Spline, Krigging etc.; 3D Visualization
Unit IV: Terrain Analysis on Gridded DEM: slope, aspect, curvature, flow direction, watershed
delineation etc.
Unit V: Terrain Classification; Secondary topography Attributes – wetness indices, stream-power
indices, radiation indices, temperature indices etc.

Suggested Readings:
1. De Mers, M.N. 2008. Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems, 4th Edition, John
Wiley & Sons, NewYork.
2. El-Sheimy, N., Valeo, C. and Habib, A. 2005. Digital Terrain Modeling: Acquisition,
Manipulation and Applications, Artech House.
3. Florinsky, I.V. 2012. Digital Terrain Analysis in Soil Science and Geology, Academic Press,
Elsevier.
3. Jensen, J.R. 2007. Remote Sensing of the Environment: An Earth Resource Perspective, 2nd
Edition, Pearson.
4. Jensen, J.R. 2015. Introductory Digital Image Processing: A Remote Sensing Perspective, 4th
Edition, Pearson.
5. Li, Z., Zhu, C. and Gold, C. 2004. Digital Terrain Modeling: Principles and Methodology, CRC
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6. Peckham, R.J. and Jordan, G. (eds.), 2007. Digital Terrain Modelling: Development and
Applications in a Policy Support Environment, Springer.
7. Wilson, J.P. and Gallant, J.C. (eds.), 2000. Terrain Analysis: Principles and Applications, John
Wiley & Sons.
8. Wilson, J.P. 2018. Environmental Applications of Digital Terrain Modeling, Wiley-Blackwell.
9. Zhou, Q., Lee, B. and Tang, G. (eds.), 2008. Advances in Digital Terrain Analysis, Springer.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction to the Digital Terrain Modelling
Session 2: Digital Terrain Modelling: principles and applications
Week 2: Session 1: DEM data sources and scale
Session 2: DEM quality assessment
Week 3: Session 1: Photogrammetry Principles
Session 2: Photogrammetric computations
Week 4: Session 1: Radar Principles
Session 2: Radargrammetry
Week 5: Session 1: LiDAR principles
Session 2: LiDAR computation
Week 6: Session 1: GPS Principles
Session 2: GPS-based altitude determination
Week 7: Session 1: Concepts of DTM and DSM, Interpolation
Session 2: IDW, Spline, Trend Surface
Week 8: Session 1: Krigging
Session 2: Krigging
Week 9: Session 1: 3D visualization principles
Session 2: 3D visualization techniques
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Gridded DEM concepts, applications
Session 2: Slope, aspect, curvature computation
Week 13: Session 1: Flow Direction
Session 2: Watershed delineation
Week 14: Session 1: Terrain Classification
Session 2: Terrain Classification
Week 15: Session 1: Wetness indices
Session 2: Stream-power indices
Week 16: Session 1: Radiation indices
Session 2: Temperature indices
Week 17: Session 1: Summing up
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Board understanding of Lecture and Tutorial Evaluation of DEM from different
Digital Terrain Modelling sources in GIS.
II Understanding of Lecture and Tutorial Numerical exercises to compute
DTM/DSM extraction elevation from source data
techniques
III Understanding of digital Lecture, demonstration, Hands-on exercises to compute
surface model generation and hands-on tutorial various interpolation models
tools exercises from point data sources.
3-D visualization of the terrain in
software and interpretation.
IV Understanding of Primary Lecture, demonstration, Computation of various
topographic Attributes and and hands-on tutorial parameter in a GIS software.
applications exercises
V Understanding of Secondary Lecture, demonstration, Computation of various indices
topographic Attributes and and hands-on tutorial in a GIS software.
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E13: TRANS GEOGRAPHIES

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) To apply key concepts of geography to understand Trans lives and life worlds.
2) To bring awareness about Trans identities and issues.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) Understanding of concepts and terminologies of Trans identities and communities.
2) Application of geographical knowledge to Trans issues and life worlds.
3) Awareness of Trans persons’ needs for policy interventions at different levels and scales.

Contents:
Unit I: Concepts and Terminologies, Trans Identities; Geographical concepts
Unit II: Trans bodies: Key Theorisations
Unit III: Trans persons and the Home space; Trans persons and Urban space
Unit IV: Trans persons and the nation-state: laws, recognitions and Policies
Unit V: Globalisation: Activism & Rights, Trans-local/ National- connections

Suggested Readings:
1. Bradford, N. J. 1983. Transgenderism and the cult of Yellamma: Heat, sex, and sickness in
South Indian ritual, Journal of Anthropological Research, 39(3), 307-322.
2. Browne, K., Nash, C. J., & Hines, S. 2010. Introduction: towards trans geographies, Gender,
Place & Culture, 17(5), 573-57.
3. Choi, Y. 2013. The Meaning of Home for Transgendered People. In Queer Presences and
Absences (pp. 118-140), Palgrave Macmillan, London.
4. Dhall, P., & Boyce, P. 2015. Livelihood, exclusion and opportunity: socioeconomic welfare
among gender and sexuality non-normative people in India (No. IDS Evidence Report; 106).
IDS.
5. Doan, P. L. 2010. The tyranny of gendered spaces–reflections from beyond the gender
dichotomy, Gender, Place & Culture, 17(5), 635-654.
6. Dutta, Aniruddha, and Raina Roy, 2014. Decolonizing transgender in India: Some
reflections, Transgender Studies Quarterly 1, no. 3: 320-337.
7. Ekins, R., & King, D. 2006. The transgender phenomenon, Sage.
8. Halberstam, J. 2005. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Sub cultural Lives, NYU
Press.
9. Hines, S. 2010. Queerly situated? Exploring negotiations of trans queer subjectivities at work
and within community spaces in the UK, Gender, Place & Culture, 17(5), 597-613

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10. Knopp, L. 2001. A queer journey to queer geography, Placing autobiography in geography, 78-
98.
11. Knopp, L. 2004. Ontologies of place, placelessness, and movement: Queer quests for identity
and their impacts on contemporary geographic thought, Gender, Place & Culture, 11(1), 121-
134.
12. Nash, C. J. 2010. Trans geographies, embodiment and experience, Gender, Place &
Culture, 17(5), 579-595.
13. Johnston, L. 2016. Gender and sexuality I: Genderqueer geographies? Progress in Human
Geography, 40(5), 668-678.
14. Reddy, G. 2006. With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, Yoda Press.
15. Whittle, S., and Stryker, S. 2006. The Transgender Studies Reader, EEUU: Routledge.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: Introduction to the course
Session 2: Concepts in Geography
Week 2: Session 1: Concepts in Geography
Session 2: Concepts & terminologies: Trans Identities and Subjectivities
Week 3: Session 1: Concepts, terminologies: Communities
Session 2: Concepts, terminologies: Communities
Week 4: Session 1: Body: Theorisations
Session 2: Body: Theorisations
Week 5: Session 1: Body: Theorisations
Session 2: Body: Theorisations
Week 6: Session 1: Trans-persons and the Home
Session 2: Trans-persons and the Home
Week 7: Session 1: Trans-persons and the Home
Session 2: Interactions with Trans Persons
Week 8: Session 1: Trans-genders and Urban space
Session 2: Trans-genders and Urban space
Week 9: Session 1: Trans-genders and Urban space
Session 2: Trans-genders and Urban space
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Trans-genders and the nation-state: Rights Intervention
Session 2: Trans-genders and the nation-state: laws and recognitions
Week 13: Session 1: Trans-genders and the nation-state: laws and recognitions
Session 2: Trans-genders and the nation-state: Policies
Week 14: Session 1: Trans-genders and the nation-state: Policies
Session 2: Visit to Trans gender CBOs
Week 15: Session 1: Globalisation: Activism, Rights. Trans-local/ National- connections
Session 2: Globalisation: Activism, Rights. Trans-local/ National- connections
Week 16: Session 1: Globalisation: Activism, Rights. Trans-local/ National- connections
Session 2: Globalisation: Activism, Rights. Trans-local/ National- connections
Week 17: Session 1: Student activity
Session 2: Closing lecture: Summarising Trans Geographies

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks
No. Activity
I Terminologies and concepts Lecture presentation Class test
II Understanding gender and Lecture presentation and Class test, readings and
sex beyond binaries class interaction discussions
IIIA Home as an ideological Lecture presentation, class Short essay based on
construct, exclusionary interaction with trans lecture, readings and
identified persons interaction with guest
IIIB Urban Experiences Lecture presentation with Film content analysis
Film screening; Field visit Discussion
IV Limits of citizenship, ideology Lecture presentation, Visit Short Report
of the nation to community based
organisation
V Trans national processes and Lecture presentations and Short essay
networks of activism and interactions with trans
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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E14: URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) The students will be exposed to basic concepts of urban and regional planning.
2) The students will be conscious of pioneering thinkers in urban planning.
3) The students will be aware of the background theory of regional planning and its processes.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will learn about basic principles of urban and regional planning.
2) The students will know about pioneering thinkers in the field of urban planning.
3) The students will study about the different theoretical background and structure of the
regional planning process

Course Contents:
Unit I: Introduction: application to urban and regional planning; ‘planning’ as an activity;
objectives in planning – simple and complex.
Unit II: Pioneer Thinkers in Urban Planning: Anglo-American tradition; European tradition.
Unit III: Theorizing Regional Planning: introduction, approaches, controls, policy cycle and planning
process, planning professionals, power relations, regional growth and development,
regional spatial structure, sustainable regional development.
Unit IV: The Planning Process: systems planning versus master planning; new planning paradigms;
spatial strategic coordination.
Unit V: Urban and Regional Planning Practices in India: public sector (national, inter-state, state,
district, metropolitan and local), private and joint sector.

Suggested Readings:
1. Glasson John and Marshall Tim, 2007. Regional Planning, Taylor and Francis, London and New
York.
2. Hall Peter and Tewdwr-Jones Mark, 2010. Urban and Regional Planning, Routledge, London
and New York.
3. Kulshreshta S. K. 2012. Urban and Regional Planning in India: A Handbook for Professional
Practice, Sage, New Delhi.
4. Lichfield N., Kettle P. and Whitbread M. 2016. Evaluation in the Planning Process: The Urban
and Regional Planning Series (Volume 10), Elsevier.
5. RahmaanA. U. 2011. The Imperatives of Urban and Regional Planning: Concepts and Case
Studies from the Developing World, Xlibris Corporation.
6. Stiftel B. and Watson V. 2005. Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Psychology Press.

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7. Wang X. and Hofe R. 2008. Research Methods in Urban and Regional Planning, Springer.
8. Wong C. 2006. Indicators for Urban and Regional Planning: The Interplay of Policy and
Methods, Routledge.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1: Session 1: The Application to Urban and Regional Planning, ‘Planning’ as an Activity
Session 2: Objectives in Planning – Simple and Complex
Week 2: Session 1: Howard, Wright
Session 2: Unwin and Parker
Week 3: Session 1: Perry, Stein and Tripp
Session 2: Geddes and Abercrombie
Week 4: Session 1: Soria Y Mata, Le Corbusier
Session 2: Garnier and May
Week 5: Session 1: Approaches (Rationality vs. Interpretative)
Session 2: Controls (Elite vs. Participatory)
Week 6: Session 1: Policy Cycle
Session 2: Regional Planning Process (Vertical vs. Horizontal)
Week 7: Session 1: Planning Professionals
Session 2: Power in Planning; Planning and Democracy
Week 8: Session 1: ‘Traditional’ Theories of Regional Growth
Session 2: ‘Traditional’ Theories of Regional Growth
Week 9: Session 1: Competitive Regions – A Contemporary Approach
Session 2: Competitive Regions – A Contemporary Approach
Week 10: Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11: Mid-Semester Break
Week 12: Session 1: Hierarchies of Activities and Settlements
Session 2: Growth Poles, Clusters and Agglomeration Economies
Week 13: Session 1: Transport and Connectivity
Session 2: Polycentric Development
Week 14: Session 1: Conflict and Opportunity
Session 2: Dimensions of Sustainability and Sustainable Regional Development
Week 15: Session 1: Goals, Objectives and Targets
Session 2: Forecasting, Modelling and Plan Design, Plan Design and Plan Evaluation;
Week 16: Session 1: Implementing the Plan
Session 2: New Planning Paradigms
Week 17: Session 1: Spatial Strategic Coordination
Session 2: Planning Practices in India

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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Learning Activity
I Basic and introductory Classroom lectures Relevance of regional planning
knowledge of regional planning and tutorials
II Knowledge of pioneering Classroom lectures Selected study of thinkers and
thinkers of urban planning and tutorials their contributions
III Knowledge of theoretical Classroom lectures Assignment on selected theories
background of regional planning and tutorials
IV Knowledge of the planning Classroom lectures Evaluate working of planning
process today and tutorials process
V Knowledge of regional planning Classroom lectures Evaluate planning practices in
practices in India and tutorials India

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MASTER of ARTS in GEOGRAPHY

Semester IV – Elective Course

GEOG4E15: URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT

Credits: Total – 5

Marks: Total - 100 Attendance – 5

Assignments – 15
Mid-Semester Examinations – 10
End-Semester Examinations – 70

Duration (Hours per week): Total – 5 (Lecture – 4, Tutorial – 1)

Course Objectives:
1) This course attempts to acquaint the students with urban issues and components.
2) The course examines the questions related to urban poverty and slums in India.
3) It also critically evaluates the infrastructure development and programmes & policies aimed
at sustainable urban development and management strategies.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1) The students will be able to understand the concepts and components of urban development
and management.
2) The students will be able to analyse the urban poverty and slums at different scales.
3) The students will be able to get updated knowledge of urban infrastructure development
management and urban governance.

Course Content:
Unit I: Urban Issues and Components: Concept of urban development and management;
urbanization: trends, patterns; challenges in developing world.
Unit II: Urban Poverty Alleviation: Concept of urban poverty, poverty and informal sector; urban
basic services for the poor; employment opportunities; Case studies
Unit III: Slum Improvement and Upgradation in India: Nature of slum; evaluation of slum
improvement programmes and schemes; resettlement and rehabilitation actions;
infrastructure development in slums; Case Studies.
Unit V: Infrastructure Development Management: Urban land use planning; water supply and
sanitation; housing; traffic; disaster management.
Unit V: Sustainable Urban Development and Management: Integrated infrastructure development
planning; Management towards sustainable cities; Government programmes and policies.

Suggested Readings:
1. Atkinson, A. et. al., 1999. The Challenges of Environmental Management in Urban Areas,
Ashgate Pub. Co., Sydney.
2. Gilbert, R., Stevenson, G. H. and Stren, R. 1996. Making Cities Work, Earthscan Publications,
London.
3. Hardoy, J.E., Mitlin, D. and Satterthwaite, D. 1992. Environmental Problems in Third World
Cities, Earthscan, London.
4. Joss, Simon, 2015. Sustainable Cities: Governing for Urban Innovation, Palgrave, London.
5. Kundu, A. 1993. In the Name of Urban Poor: Access to Basic Amenities, Sage, Delhi.

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6. Maitra, A. K. 2000. Urban Environment in Crisis, New Age International Publishers, New Delhi.
7. Pugh, C. 1996. Sustainability, the Environment and Urbanization, Earthscan Publications,
London.
8. Ronald, J. F., et.al. 1994. Mega City Growth and the Future, United Nations
University Press, New York.
9. Singh, K. and Steinberg, F.M. 1996. Urban India in Crisis, New Age International Limited
Publications, New Delhi.
10. Singh, R.B. (ed) 2006. Sustainable Urban Development, Concept Publishing Company, New
Delhi.
11. Singh, R. B. (ed) 2015. Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega
Cities, Springer, Japan.
12. Sivaramakrishnan, K.C. 2001. Problems of Governance in South Asia, Centre for Policy
Research, New Delhi.
13. Timothy, B. 2009. Sustainable Urban Development, Routledge, London
14. Wheeler, S.M. and Beatley, T. 2014. The Sustainable Urban Development, Routhledge, New
York.

Teaching Plan:
Week 1 - Overview and nature
Week 2 - Concept and components
Week 3 - Trends and patterns of urbanization
Week 4 - Concept of urban poverty
Week 5 - Poverty and informal sector
Week 6 - Urban basic services
Week 7 - Employment opportunities
Week 8 - Improvement and infrastructure of slums
Week 9 - Resettlement and rehabilitation
Week 10 - Mid-Semester Examinations
Week 11 - Mid-Semester Break
Week 12 - Urban landuse
Week 13 - Water supply and sanitation
Week 14 - Housing and Traffic
Week 15 - Urban Disaster
Week 16 - Government programmes and policies
Week: 17 - SDGs and Wrap up discussions & feedback

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 Department of Geography
University of Delhi
Delhi - 110 007
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Facilitating the achievement of Course Learning Outcomes:
Unit Course Learning Outcomes Teaching and Assessment Tasks
No. Learning Activity
I Conceptual background of Classroom lectures, Assignments/discussions on urban
urban development and tutorials and PPTs issues
management
II Urban poverty and basic Classroom lectures, Assignments/Discussion/Debates
services tutorials and PPTs on urban poverty and urban basic
services
III Nature of slum; Classroom lectures, Review/Assignments/Discussions
infrastructure tutorials and PPTs on slums and available
development in slums infrastructure
IV Urban Infrastructure Classroom lectures, Knowing the understanding level of
management strategies tutorials and PPTs management strategies through
tests, presentations, debates etc.
V Government programmes Classroom lectures, Reviewing the institutional
and policies; tutorials and PPTs arrangements through
assignments/ presentations

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