Course No.

Course Title

Objectives  

PSMRSTC-101

Immersion Programme

PSMRSTC-102

Rural Society and Governance

• The objective of the paper is to provide a theoretical and detailed understanding about the rural society, its polity, culture and development along with its various perspectives. The detailed understanding of rural society thus, would enable the students to develop clarity about rural development and would thus set the base for rural development management in subsequent papers.

PSMRSTC-103

Management Perspectives & Leadership

• This course provides the students with detailed knowledge of management perspectives for enabling them to develop the ability and skills through management concepts, principles and practices.

PSMRSTC-104

Basics of Accounting, Finance & Economics

• This course provides the students with a detailed knowledge of accounting and finance and also enables them to develop ability and skills through accounting techniques and their application in practical work situation.

PSMRSTC-105

Basics of Research Methodology

• To familiarize students with basics of research, research process, sampling, data collection and hypothesis testing procedures. To equip students with the knowledge of qualitative research procedures. To familiarize participants with statistical software’s such as SPSS/EXCEL/NVIVO/ATLAS-TI.

PSMRSTC-106

Working with Communities

• To orient students about working with the community, its scope, different methods, prerequisite and phases of community mobilization. Further, to impart knowledge about the various community organizations and intervention models.

PSMRSTC-201

Field Work and Report Writing

• To acquaint the students with real life situation in the rural perspectives and to enable them to capture the knowledge explicitly in the form of report.

PSMRSTC-202

Rural Livelihood, Collective Actions and Organisations

• The objective of the paper is to provide students with understanding of rural livelihoods, challenges of livelihood, rural collectives and cooperatives.

PSMRSTC-203

Organisational Behaviour & Human Resource Management

• The objective of the course is to help the students to understand conceptual framework of organizational behavior human resource management. It will expose them to the contemporary issues faced by the organizations.

PSMRSTC-204

Entrepreneurship and Production Environment

• The academic goal is to develop the skills necessary for evaluating and creating a new venture, with the ability to communicate the endeavor effectively through written and verbal presentation. At the end of this course, students will be able to evaluate business opportunities as both an entrepreneur and an investor, within start-ups and established companies.

PSMRSTC-205

Value Chain and Marketing

• To acquaint the students with the basics of marketing and equip them with marketing skills for decision making in an organisation.

PSMRSTC-206

Rural Project Management

• To outline the need for Project Management and highlight different techniques of Project Planning & Management.

PSMRSTC-301

Summer Internship Project

• To work with the Government/Non Government agencies to gain on the job experience about their working.

PSMRSTC-302

Poverty and Development

• To make students understand the forces, which have shaped development both historically and in the contemporary world. Further, to develop a good understanding of regional differences in development and critically explore questions of causality with regard to origins and effects of development around the world.

PSMRSTC-303

Rural Social Infrastructure

• To offer students an orientation about fundamentals of social infrastructure in India. Further, to orient students with the knowledge of key educational policies, its thrusts areas in India. To assist them with the knowledge about dynamics of health and poverty and various health mission programme in India. To offer knowledge of housing & sanitation programmes along with its various aspects and implementation scale in India.

PSMRSTC-304

Rural Banking and Micro Finance

• To expose the students with the functioning of rural credit institutions in India and to enable students to understand the concept of micro-financing with special focus on Self Help Groups, its importance, prospects and importance of financial inclusion.

PSMRSTC-305

Social Problems And Marginalised Groups

• The objective of the paper is to provide students with understanding of social problems and marginal groups in India.

SMRSTC-401

Dissertation

• The dissertations will be carried out by the students under the guidance and supervision of a designated Faculty from the Department of Lifelong Learning. At the end of 3rd Semester, the student is expected to submit the synopsis of dissertation with a brief introduction, scope, objectives and research methodology after carrying out the review of related literature to the School through the Faculty Supervisor. 

PSMRSTC-402

Climate Change & Disaster Management

• The course will aware the students aware about global climate change and relevant disaster management practices.

PSMRSTC-403

Rural and Agricultural Marketing

• The objective of this course is to enable the students to develop a thorough understanding of the various concepts of rural marketing in general and agricultural marketing in particular.

PSMRSTC-404

Corporate Social Responsibility

• The purpose of this course is to acquaint the students with concepts of corporate social responsibility and its measurement. To understand concept business policy, strategies and different areas associated with CSR.

PSMRSTC-405

Voluntary Organizations

• To equip the students with the voluntarism its dimensions and implications. To help the students understand origin, structure and function of the NGOs in India. To aware the students about the various challenges being faced by the NGOs in new millennium.

PSMRSTO-406

Rural Development Indian Perspective (Open)

• The course will develop broader understanding about rural life to the students from other disciplines.