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MA Students are reminded that the end-semseter exams will be conducted at two venues:
1. North campus, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences - if you are enrolled in a North campus college.
2. South Campus, Arts faculty, University of Delhi South Campus - if you are enrolled in a South campus college.
Please note that exams are NOT conducted at individual colleges.
Lecture: “The White Helmets Organization: Terrorist Accomplices & a Source of Disinformation” By Prof. Maxim S. Grigoryev, Member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation & President, Foundation for the Study of Democracy.
8 November 2019 (Friday) at 10 AM
Course Structure
MPhil Course Work 2019-20
Format of the M. Phil. Written Entrance Examinations
Candidates were required to attempt three questions, two from Section A, and one from Section B. In Section A, there were six essay-type questions, one from each sub-discipline as a paired choice, of which candidates had to attempt any two. In Section B, candidates were required to attempt any one bibliographic essay question.
Structure of M. Phil. Coursework for the Academic Year 2017-2018
Two compulsory courses (1 and 2) and one optional course, the total value of which will be 100 x 3= 300 marks.
1. Research Methodology: 100 marks
(Offered in the first semester: August-December 2017)
The introductory lectures focused on the use and operationalization of concepts in social science research, the relation between research and theory, and the literature review. The course introduced students to some important quantitative and qualitative techniques, and acquainted students with the issues of research ethics and plagiarism, and sought to provide them guidance on how to find sources and write a research proposal.
Mode of evaluation:
Exams: 100 marks
2. Concepts, Trends and Classics in Politics: 100 marks
(Offered in the second semester: January -April 2018)
Lectures were delivered on a select set of generic and discipline-wide concepts and trends with the simultaneous reading of prescribed classic texts (1 text for M.Phil. students and 2 for Ph.D. students) customized to students’ broad research interests, guidance of which was provided by the assigned faculty. The 6 concepts chosen were: power, state, rights, governance, security and culture.
Mode of evaluation
Exams: 40 marks
Response Notes on assigned readings: 10 marks
Review Essay: 15 marks
Research Proposal (written): 10 marks
Research Proposal (viva): 25 marks
3. One optional course: 100 marks
(2 optional courses were offered in each semester. Students chose one course from these four.)
Two optional courses offered in the August-December 2017 semester:
1. Subaltern Politics in India
2. Political Theology Debates: Brahminical, Buddhist, Christian
Two optional courses offered in the January-May 2018 semester:
1. Doing International Relations: Exploring Alternative Trajectories
2. Knowledge, Development and Politics: Conceptual and Field Issues
Mode of evaluation
Term Paper (Written)/ Term Paper (Written) and Exams: 75 marks
Term Paper (viva): 25 marks