Course Structure

In each semester, a student is required to take up three compulsory and two optional courses ( in total, five courses). In order to complete the M.A. Programme, a student shall complete twenty courses over four semesters in two academic years.

Each course carries six credits, and each Semester carries a minimum of thirty credits.

The courses offered under this Programme are as follows:

(a) Compulsory Courses

• Sociological Theory 1
• Sociological Theory 2
• Sociological Theory (Recent Development) 3
• Research Methodology 1
• Research Methodology 2
• Sociology in India
• Social and New Social Movements
• Study of Sociological Text 1
• Study of Sociological Text 2
• Study of Sociological Text 3
• Study of Sociological Text 4
• Comprehensive viva voce to be conducted in the presence of an external examiner and the faculty at the end of the fourth/final semester

(b) Elective/Optional Courses

• Development Studies
• Sociology of Ethnicity and Identity
• Society and Social Change in Assam
• Perspectives on Indian Society
• Sociology of South Asia 1
• Sociology of South Asia 2
• Sociology of Science and Technology
• Rural Society in India
• Urban Society in India
• Sociology of Indian Diaspora
• Sociology of Religion
• Sociology of Change
• Criminology
• Environment and Society
• Gender and Society 1
• Gender and Society 2
• Sociology of Pluralism and Nationalism
• Population and Society
• Globalization and Society