Note: This course listing is for informational purposes only and does not constitute a contract between CIEE and any applicant, student, institution, or other party. The courses, as described, may be subject to change as a result of ongoing curricular revisions, assignment of lecturers and teaching staff, and program development. Courses may be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
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Required Language Courses
All language courses are arranged by either SIP or specific language departments within the University of Hyderabad.
Basic Hindi
Basic Hindi focuses on vocabulary, foundational grammar patterns, and traditional pedagogy more appropriate for students intending to enter the second semester of Hindi I following their time in India. This course is arranged by SIP.
Basic Hindi II
Students can expect to have a vocabulary of approximately 1,000 words and be able to construct simple sentences by the end of this course. The four skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—are given equal importance. They will be able to express themselves clearly and speak about their present, past, and future actions, and have simple conversations with Indian students, shop keepers, travelers, drivers, workers, etc.
Conversational Hindi
This course focuses on oral skills and cross-cultural communication in Hindi for beginners. Vocabulary related to daily life and practical necessities is reinforced through dialogues and conversations, drills, and such interactive classroom activities as role playing. Trips outside of the classroom are utilized to encourage students to speak Hindi in a real-life context. This course is appropriate for students who do not plan on taking Hindi II as part of their undergraduate experience. This course is arranged by SIP and co-coordinated by CIEE.
Intermediate Hindi
Students in this course can expect to master 500 words and 75-plus sentence structures. This course emphasizes conversational skills apart from learning the grammar found in the textbooks. At the end of the course, students are able to accurately pronounce the sounds of the Hindi alphabet, use and acquire Hindi outside of the classroom, and converse in Hindi with native speakers using proper Hindi. The teachings encourage the use of proper grammar in daily life activities by integrating them into lessons and conversations.
Intermediate Hindi II
Students can expect to master 1,500 words and 75-plus sentence structures in the texts. This course emphasizes conversational skills and grammar lessons in detail. As this course is the level above Intermediate Hindi, it includes such practical aspects as discussions and conversations with native speakers of Hindi and requires students to work with deeper parts of grammar and different styles of spoken Hindi.
Advanced Hindi
Students can expect to master all of the common words or vocabulary of daily life activities, as well as literary vocabulary and sentence structures of the language. This course has all the grammar lessons in detail and many activities that improve speaking skills, such as discussions, presentations, and field work. Students enrolling in this course should have a minimum 1,000 word vocabulary, including knowledge of all of sentence structures taught in the intermediate level. Textbook: Lalit Hindi Vyakaran Katha Rachna by Bharat Mitra Shastry
Basic Sanskrit
This course introduces students to the basics of Sanskrit language, focusing on script, basics of terminology in paninian grammar, sentence construction, reading, and spoken Sanskrit. This course is arranged by SIP.
Basic Telugu
This course introduces students to the basics of the Telugu language, focusing on conversation, reading, and writing. Whenever possible, emphasis is given to practice (dialogues, role playing, etc.), which allows students to use the language in real life contexts. This course is arranged by SIP.
Basic Urdu
This course introduces students to the basics of the Urdu language, focusing on conversation, reading, and writing. Whenever possible, emphasis is given to practice (dialogues, role playing, etc.), which allows students to use the language in real-life contexts. This course is arranged by SIP.
SIP Courses for Foreign Students
Below is a sampling of courses offered by the SIP administrative unit. A full course listing is available during the on-site registration period. Courses and course titles are subject to change depending on the faculty availability, so students are asked to remain flexible in their course choices.
Creative Writing in India
This is an interactive course between teacher and student, and students and students. It covers the student’s original creative writing of poems, stories, plays, chapters of a novel in progress, etc., focusing on the students’ interactions with each other. As an interactive course, each student’s own work is subjected to peer-group criticism. It also includes interaction between reader and writer, which helps improve both writing and reading abilities. The course also focuses on exercises on imitation, parody, pastiche, etc. of the published papers of well-known writers of the students’ choice. These exercises are scrutinized in the class. This course also helps students understand and imitate the poetic forms of villanelle, sestina, ghazal, sonnet, and pantoum. Instructor: Dr. Hoshang Merchant
Indian Philosophy
This course strives to explain the relationship between philosophy and religion, which is similar to the relationship between science and technology in India. It illustrates that religion is a philosophy applied to everyday life and that philosophy is the theoretical aspect, whereas religion is the practical aspect of the same. This course traces the origin of the Indian philosophy and religion, and tries to determine the various ideas and sects formed, established, merged, and assimilated. It looks into the roles of philosophy and religion that have been and continue to be very dynamic. The course ends by focusing on the different streams of thought that took shape in India and answers the following questions: Who am ‘I’? What is the ‘world’? What is my relationship with the world? What is involved in having a meaningful existence and what do I do? Instructor: Dr. K.S. Prasad
Kuchipudi Dance
The course is designed especially for SIP students with the goal of introducing them to Indian classical dance at the theoretical level, and providing practical exposure to the basics of Kuchipudi dance, the classical dance form of Andhra Pradesh. Students are taught the history and development of this classical dance form and the major technical elements of Indian dance. Students learn basic steps, hand gestures, and a simple dance. Instructor: Dr. Aruna Bhikshu.
The Making of Indian Modern Arts
The purpose of the course is to introduce students to some of the important works from the Indian subcontinent, to write in meaningful ways about visual imagery, and develop an interpretive framework that enables them to understand and appreciate the art that was produced in this region during this period. This course deals with the art that was produced in India during the 19th and 20th centuries. Dominated by, but not limited to, the history of interactions between eastern and western aesthetic values, the contours of the Indian artistic landscape were inexorably changed and enlarged during this period. From the Victorian academicism of Raja Ravi Varma to the artistic nationalism of the Bengal School, from the solitary modernism of Amrita Shergil to the shrill internationalism of the Bombay Progressives, from the marginalized outpourings of folk and tribal artists to the strident rhetorical strategies of post-colonial diasporic discourses, the artistic responses to the forces of modernity, colonialism, industrialization, and globalization have been pliant and resistant, complex and multiple. This course addresses what has sometimes been described as “the painful climb towards re-establishing a truly Indian artistic identity.” Instructor: Dr. Kirtana Thangavelu
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Development
NGOs have emerged as crucial agencies, in contemporary society, in responding to natural disasters, preventing environmental degradation, promoting literacy and health, improving the socio-economic condition of the poor, street children and child laborers, women, and marginalized people, in general. The objective of the course is to understand the nature, evolution, and linkages of the NGOs with state, funding agencies, and beneficiaries, especially street children and child laborers, from a sociological perspective. It attempts to understand the statutory law and management issues in Non-Profit Organizations and locate the role of NGOs in eradicating the problem of street children and child laborers in India. The course provides the students with both theoretical and practical exposure. Instructor: Dr. Ajailiu Niumai
Yoga: Theory and Practice
This course is designed especially for SIP students with the goal of introducing them to both theoretical and practical elements of yoga. It covers understanding yoga in the context of religion (yoga is not Hinduism) and different approaches in yoga based on age and stages in life, and so on. This course differs from the daily non-credit yoga classes offered on campus. *Note: Students are encouraged to seek out approval for this course before registration given the nature of the course. Instructor: Dr. Yashoda Thakore.
History, Philosophy, and Science of Ayurveda
This course is designed to give the students a basic understanding of Ayurveda. Students will be introduced to the History of Ayurveda and the systems of philosophy that have shaped Ayurveda and given it a holistic character. The students will get familiar with the basic tenents of Ayurveda, dietitics, healthy living, home remedies, preventive medicine and therapeutical techniques. They will gain an insight into the world of medicinal herbs. Instructor: Dr. Vinaya Bellakur
University of Hyderabad Direct Enrollment Courses
Please note that detailed course listings and syllabi for direct enrollment courses are typically not available before the start of the semester. Therefore, students should expect to be flexible regarding available course options and communicate with their home institution during course registration regarding their final course selection as necessary. However, CIEE recommends the following courses based on past student feedback:
Indian Writing in English
This course enlightens students to the socio-historical and cultural contexts of English and Indian writers. Apart from the usual literary and critical materials, students are required to sample a variety of English texts in circulation in Indian society. It also focuses on the education of English and opposition to its dominance in India. The course also looks at how English works with other Indian languages, and the differences between writers of English and Indian languages. Instructor: K. Narayana Chandran
Indians in Diaspora: Communities, Cultures, Representations
This course helps in understanding Diaspora, making and mapping of Indian Diaspora, culture and identity, gender and diaspora, Diaspora/motherland/hostland, and Diasporic representations. Because of its appealing multiplicity in formations and Diasporic articulations, Indian Diaspora has emerged as one of the most captivating and reflective site for conceptual as well as empirical understanding of ‘Diaspora’. This course endeavors to engage the students with certain core themes and questions—histories of Indian Diaspora; the critical processes of transformation of the Diasporic communities; their negotiations for new identities (hybrid as well as hyphenated) and space in the adopted lands with a simultaneous cultivation of imaginary and real socio-cultural, economic, and political ties with homeland; ethnic and gendered narratives; and the representations and productions of Diasporic communities (literature, music, film, television, and cyberspace). Instructor: Dr. Amit Kumar Mishra
Sociology of Gender
This course introduces the sociological study of gender, organized around theoretical perspectives, as well as definitional and analytical problems in the formation of the category of gender and its effects in society. It explores gender inequalities in various institutional contexts, and helps students gain an understanding of the women’s movement in India and the issues that have been central to it. Instructor: Dr. Aparna Rayaprol
Schools and Departments—Direct Enrollment
Students may consider various courses in the departments and schools listed below. However, this course list is not static, with final course listing available only during the on-site registration process. Many courses may have prerequisites attached as well. Additionally, university faculty may or may not allow foreign students into every course on this list, so students are expected to select multiple courses in each department where they have a particular interest as part of the pre-registration process.
Department of English (courses and faculty listing)
Creative Writing in India
Defining and Redefining Indian Dalit Literature
Gay Indian Literature
American Literature and Thought
Modern British Literature and Thought
Modern Indian Thought
Indian Writing in English
Romantic Literature and Thought
Victorian Literature and Thought
Faculty
Professors
Mohan G. Ramanan, Ph.D.(BITS, Pilani); Modern British and American Literature, Indo British Literary and Cultural Relations, Indian Literature and Culture (Dean of the School)
K. Narayana Chandran, Ph.D. (IIT Bombay); American Literature, Contemporary Poetry and Theory, English - History and Pedagogy of the Discipline in India, Reading Theories and Translation, Intertexuality and Intergenres
Sachidananda Mohanty, Ph.D. (IIT Kanpur); D.H. Lawrence and Twentieth Century Fiction, Intellectual History, Canon Formation, Nineteenth Century Literature, Regional Writing, Translation, Women’s Writing, Culture Studies
Syed Mujeebuddin, Ph.D. (Kent, U.K.); Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature, Indian Fiction in English, Shakespeare Studies, Victorian and Twentieth Century English Literature (Head of the Department)
M. Sridhar, Ph.D. (Hyderabad); Literary Criticism, Comparative Studies and Translation, Eighteenth and Twentieth Century English Literature
Hoshang Merchant, Ph.D. (Purdue); Twentieth Century American Literature, Renaissance Literature, Continental Literature (in translation), Gay Literature and Poetry
Readers
K. Suneetha Rani, Ph.D. (Hyderabad); Commonwealth Literature, Women’s Studies, Comparative Literature, Translation.
Pramod K Nayar, Ph.D. (Hyderabad); English Colonial Writing on India, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Literary and Cultural Theory.
D. Murali Manohar, B.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Hyderabad); Indian Writing in English, Indian English Women’s Fiction, Dalit Studies and Women’s Studies.
Lecturers
Anna Kurian James, (Senior Scale) Ph.D. (CIEFL, Hyderabad); Children’s Literature, Popular Culture, Indian Writing in English
Sindhu Menon, Ph.D. (Hyderabad) (Senior Scale); Post Colonial Theory, Romantic Literature, Children’s Literature, Shakespeare Studies, Indo-British Literary and Cultural Transactions, Early Indian Literature in Translation with focus on drama and poetry, Literary Criticism and Theory
Department of Political Science (courses and faculty listing)
Contemporary Political Theory
Democratic Theory and Practice
Foreign Policies of Major Powers
Government and Politics in China
Indian Political Process
Indian State and Administration
International Political Economy
International Relations II
Marxian Socialist Political Thought
Organization Theory: Public Policy Perspective
Political Parties in India
Politics of Globalization
Rural Development
Technology and Politics
Faculty
Professors
Rajendra Govind Harshe, Ph.D. (JNU); International Relations, Comparative and Area Studies with Reference to Afro Asia and Political Theory (On EOL as Vice-Chancellor, Allahabad University).
Shantha Sinha, Ph.D. (JNU); Indian Government and Politics, Political Sociology, Political Development, Rural Political Processes (on EOL as Chairperson, National Commission for Child Welfare, Govt. of India)
Prakash C. Sarangi, Ph.D. (Rochester); Political Theory, Comparative Politics
P. Eashvaraiah, Ph.D. (Kanpur); Indian Political Process, Political parties in India, Agrarian Politics in India, Modern Political Theory with Reference to Socialism and Feminism
I. Ramabrahmam, Ph.D. (Hyderabad); Public Policy, Governance, Higher Education and Training (Head of the Department)
G.Sudarshanam, Ph.D. (Kakatiya); Public Administration, Public Policy, Rural Development
Md.Moazzam Ali, Ph.D. (JNU); International Relations, Comparative Politics, Russian and East European Studies, Human Rights, Modern Ideologies
Arun Kumar Patnaik, Ph.D. (JNU); Political Theory, Political Economy of Development
Jyotirmaya Sharma, M.A. (HULL; Political Philosophy / Theory, Indian Political Thought
K.C. Suri, Ph.D. (JNU); Pulic Policy, Democratic Theory
Readers
Sanjay Palshikar, Ph.D. (Poona); Political Theory, Indian Political Process
Vasanthi Srinivasan, Ph.D. (Ottawa); Political Philosophy, Comparative Politics
Prithvi Ram Mudiam, Ph.D. (London); International Relations: Indian Foreign Policy, South Asian Politics, International Political Economy
Manjari Katju, Ph.D. (London); Indian Political Process, Politics of Hindu Nationalism, Women Studies
K.Y. Ratnam, Ph.D. (JNU); Indian Politics, Dalit Politics in India, Democratic Process in A.P.
Lecturers
B. Chandrasekhara Rao, M.A. (Andhra), (Dip. in Strategic Studies); Comparative Government and Politics, Indian Government and Politics, Chinese Studies, Dalit Politics
R. Ramdas, (Senior Grade) Ph.D. (JNU); Indian Political Process, Tribal Development, Comparative Politics
B.L.Biju, Ph.D. (Kerala); Political Theory, Indian Political Process, Politics of Globalization
Naushad Anwar Sulaiman, Ph.D. (JNU); International Relations, West-European Studies
Department of Economics
Applied Econometrics
Development Economics
Economics of Healthcare: Theory and Policy
Evolution of Indian Economy Since Independence
Financial Econometrics
Financial Economics
International Finance
Law and Economics
Micro Economic Theory
New Institutional Economics
Operations Research for Applied Economic Analysis
Political Economy of Development
Public Finance
Transitional Economics
Faculty
Professors
G. Nancharaiah, Ph.D. (Andhra); International Economics, Agricultural Economics, Development Economics & Mathematical Economics (Dean of the School)
K.N. Murty, Ph.D. (Gujarat); Econometrics, Applied Economics and Statistics
B. Kamaiah, Ph.D. (IIT, Bombay); Monetary and Financial Economics
J.V.M.Sarma, Ph.D. (Gujarat); Public Economics, Corporate Finance, Econometrics and Computer Applications
Naresh Kumar Sharma, Ph.D. (ISI, Delhi); Development Economics, Agricultural Economics, Science and Technology, Gandhian Economic Thought
Vathsala Narasimhan, Ph.D. (ISI, Calcutta); Economic Theory, Mathematical Economics and Economics of Development with special reference to agriculture
A.V. Raja, Ph.D. (IIT, Kanpur); Micro Economic Theory, Industrial Economics, and Theory of the Firm, Law & Economics (Head of the Department)
G. Omkarnath, Ph.D. (JNU); Classical Economics, Political Economy of Development and Capital Theory.
J. Manohar Rao, Ph.D. (JNU); Development Theory and Policy, WTO and Globalization, Classical Political Economy, Economics of Science, Technology and Technical Change, Micro-Economic Theory, Comparative Economic Systems
S.Sandhya, Ph.D. (JNU); Demography, Population and Development, Health Economics
Readers
R.V. Ramana Murthy, Ph.D. (Hyderabad); Indian Plan Models, Planning in India, Economics of Business Enterprises
R. Vijay, Ph.D. (Hyderabad); Political Economy, Development Economics, New Institutional Economics
N.A. Khan, Ph.D. (Allahabad); Public Finance, International Business, Macro Economics, Infrastructure Economics
Debashis Acharya, Ph.D. (Hyderabad); Macro-monetary Economics, Banking, Financial Markets
V.Vamsicharan, Ph.D (Massachusetts); Macro Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy
Lecturers
K. Laxminarayana, (Selection Grade) M.A. (Hyderabad); Political Economy and Agricultural Economics
B. Nagarjuna, (Senior Scale) Ph.D (Hyderabad); Industrial Economics, Transitional Economics and International Finance, Indian Economy
Phanindra Goyari, (Senior Scale) Ph.D. (Hyderabad); Econometrics, Mathematical Economics, Agricultural Economics, and Model Building & Simulation in Economics
G.Sridevi, Ph.D (Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore); Food Security, Health Care, Gender and Poverty
S. Limakumba Walling, Ph.D.
Prajna Paramita Mishra, Ph.D. (Hyderabad); Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, special research interest in the area of mining and economic valuation
Alok Kumar Mishra, Ph.D. (Hyderabad); Macroeconomic Dynamics, Financial Economics, Derivatives and Risk Management, Structured Finance, Econometric Models
Department of History (course and faculty listings)
Ancient India
Cultural History of Modern India
Indian National Movement
Law and Society in Colonial India
Medieval India
Modern Asia
Science and Human Past
Science and Technology in Medieval India
Women in India from 18th Century
The World of Indian Ocean
Faculty
Professors
Aloka Parasher Sen, Ph.D. (London); Ancient and Early Medieval Indian History, Socio Economic History of the Deccan, Women's History, Historical Archaeology and Urban History, Historiography
R.L. Hangloo, Ph.D. (JNU); Medieval Indian History, Medieval Indian State and also specialist on Kashmir and Central Asia. (on EoL 01.01.2011- 31.12.2012)
Atlury Murali, Ph.D. (JNU); Social and Cultural History of Colonial India with special reference to rreedom struggle, Peasant Movements, Women's Studies, Environmental Studies and History of Computers, Science, Technology and Medicine
K. P. Rao, Ph.D. (Nagpur); Field Archaeology, Pre and Proto History, Ancient Indian History, Iron Age, Megalithic Culture and Ancient Trade (Head of the Department)
Rila Mukherjee, Ph.D. (France) (Ph.D., Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris); Economic History of Southasia, Early Modern European History, Democracy and Citizenship Studies, Maritime and Oceanic History (on Deputation 14.10.2011 - 13.10.2013)
Rekha Pande, Ph.D. (Allahabad); Medieval Indian History, Socio-economic History, Women’s History, Religion, Society and Cultural History, Science and Technology.
Readers
Sanjay Subodh, Ph.D. (Punjab); Medieval Indian Historiography, Science and Technology, Medieval Archaeology
R. Swarupa Rani, Ph.D (Hyderabad); Social and Cultural History of Colonial India, Social and Cultural History of Deccan, Women’s History, Historiography
Anindita Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. (London); Modern Indian History, Modern Western Ideas and Their Impact, Law and Society, Society and Culture
Lecturers
V. Rajagopal, (Senior Grade) Ph.D. (Wisconsin); Modern Indian History, Social History, History of South Indi
Rakesh Pandey, Ph.D. (London); Cultural and Intellectual History of Modern India, Theories and Methods in History, Social and Cultural Theories
Department of Sociology (course and faculty list)
Advanced Sociological Theory
Caste in Modern India
Changing Indian Family
Classical Sociological Theory
Contemporary Development Issues
Corporate Business and Society
Decentralized Governance and Development
Environment and Sustainable Development
Equality and Inequality
Foundations of Social Sciences
Indian Society I: Approaches to the Study of Indian Society
Indian Society II: Social Change in Modern India
Industrial Relations and Contemporary Capitalism
Introduction to Social Research
Introduction to Study of Society
Law, State, and Society
Marxism and Capitalism
Modernity and Modernization
Modern Sociological Theory
People, Nation, and State
Population and Society
Religion and Society
Religion, Law, and State
Roots of Social Protest
Rural and Urban Societies
Rural Society and Agrarian Change
Science, Culture, and Society
Social Stratification
Social Theories, Modernities, and Politics of Geography
Sociology of Culture
Sociology of Development
Sociology of Education
Sociology of Gender
Sociology of Health, Sickness, and Healing
Sociology of Muslim Communities
Sociology of Organizations
Technology, Culture, and Society
Urban Sociology
Faculty
Professors
E. Haribabu, Ph.D. (I.I.T, Bombay); Sociology of Science and Technology
Sasheej Hegde, Ph.D. (Bangalore); Philosophy of Social Science, Social Theory, Law and Aspects of Indian Sociology/Historiography
Sujata Patel, Ph.D. (JNU); Social Theory, Urban Studies, State and Society Studies, Social Movements
Vinod K. Jairath, D.Phil. (Univ. of Sussex, UK); Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Development, Social Identities (Head of the Department)
K. Laxmi Narayan, Ph.D. (Mysore); Urban Sociology, Social Demography, Backward Classes
Readers
Aparna Rayaprol, Ph.D (Pittsburgh); Sociology of Gender, Indian Diaspora, Urban Sociology, Qualitative Research Methods
N. Purendra Prasad, Ph.D (Hyderabad); Agrarian Studies, Sociology of Health
Nagaraju Gundimeda, Ph.D. (Hyderabad); Sociology of Education, Information Technology and Society
C. Raghava Reddy, Ph.D. (Hyderabad); Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Organisations
Pushpesh Kumar, Ph.D.
Lecturers
V. Janardhan, Ph.D (Hyderabad); Sociology of Industrial Relations; Corporate Business and Societies
Satya Priya Rout, Ph.D. (ISEC, Bangalore); Sociology of Environment, Natural Resource Management and Development
Department of Anthropology
Applied Anthropology and Tribal Welfare
Archaeological Anthropology
Economic Anthropology
Kinship and Marriage
Theories of Culture
Theories of Social Structure
Center for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies
Historical Linguistics and Language Families of South Asia
Introduction to Computational Linguistics
Introduction to Social Linguistics
Introduction to Translation Studies
Language Typology
Paninian and Western Theories of Language
Semantics
Special Readings in Translation Comparative Literature
Department of Hindi
Department of Philosophy
Department of Sanskrit Studies
Department of Telugu
Department of Urdu
School of Performing Arts, Fine Arts, and Communication
To enroll courses in this school, student must fulfill the required pre-requisites set by the department/school
Communication
Dance
Theater Arts
Painting/Print-Making/Sculpture
History of Indian Art
20th Century Indian Art
School of Life Sciences
To enroll courses in this school, student must fulfill the required pre-requisites set by the department/school
Animal Sciences
Biochemistry
Biotechnology
Plant Sciences
School of Mathematics and Computer/Information Sciences
Computer and Information Sciences
Mathematics
Statistics
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