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. 
• At the end of 4th Semester, the dissertation needs to be submitted through the Faculty Supervisor.  Guidelines and format of the dissertation would be shared with the students.

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.

Course No.

Course Title

Course Outcomes

PSMRSTC-101

Immersion Programme

PSMRSTC-102

Rural Society and Governance

• Generate awareness about Panchayati Raj Institutions working in rural context.
• Apply fundamental of convergence and divergence in rural cultural perspectives.
• Use the knowledge of rural social institutions to better rural governance.

PSMRSTC-103

Management Perspectives & Leadership

• Students would be able to apply the basic principles and different functions of management in the organisational setting;
• Strategic management would enable the students to chalk out strategies for better management in the rural areas.
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PSMRSTC-104

Basics of Accounting, Finance & Economics

• learn the basics of accounting;
• understand the rules of debit and credit and their application;
• develop an understanding of trial balance;
• prepare trading and profit and loss account and balance sheet of sole proprietorship; and

apply basics of finance in real life situations.

PSMRSTC-105

Basics of Research Methodology

• Use knowledge for evaluating the field data.
• Apply relevant approach for data collection.
• Design data collection instrument.

PSMRSTC-106

Working with Communities

• Use the knowledge to design rural interventions for various communities.

• Utilise the range of community capitals and the possible strategies to empower the communities.
• Enabling the students to evolve as a development professional.
• Use the ethical standards and principles for community mobilization, participation and interventions.

PSMRSTC-201

Field Work and Report Writing

• The students will make the strategies in the field of related work to be communicated to the Government/Non- Government for further action.

PSMRSTC-202

Rural Livelihood, Collective Actions and Organisations

• Students will develop techniques for empowering rural communities through sustainable livelihood options.
• With the understanding of the village cooperatives, SHGs, Collectives organizations the students will have avenues for societal involvement of rural people for the better employment options.

PSMRSTC-203

Organisational Behaviour & Human Resource Management

• The students will be able to apply OB approaches in organizational settings.
• The students will be able to design teams on the basis of group dynamics.
• The students will be able to understand the reasons of conflict and solve the same in organizational settings.
• Students will be able to make wise decisions by applying various decisions making approaches.
• To apply the  HRM policies, strategies and practices for better management of HR in organizational perspective

PSMRSTC-204

Entrepreneurship and Production Environment

• Utilize the human skills for creative and new idea generation.
• Write business plan keeping in mind the lenders’ and investors expectations.
• To forecast the supply and demand needs with respect to production.
• Assess the impact of agriculture on rural development.

PSMRSTC-205

Value Chain and Marketing

• To design and develop marketing strategies to enhance market shares.
• To apply the understanding of the consumer behavior for developing better segmentation and positioning strategies.
• To develop and optimal-mix of product handling warehousing inventory, transporting in the supply chain process.
• To apply the inventory management techniques for managing the optimal stocks.

PSMRSTC-206

Rural Project Management

• Use the basics of project planning and project Implementation in business setting.
• Apply various reviews techniques for better management of the project.

PSMRSTC-301

Summer Internship Project

• The student’s will be able to submit the report of the tasks undertaken and share on the job learning experiences during the internship project.

• Design strategies for alleviating poverty.
• Apply dynamics of population growth for poverty reduction.
• Application of poverty reduction policy practices and options.

• To develop an understanding about the scope of social infrastructure in the context of rural areas.
• To equip the students with the key issues of educational infrastructure in the rural context of India.
• To equip them with the basic knowledge of rural health infrastructure and various mission programmes and its implementation.
• To acquaint the students with key knowledge domain of housing and sanitation landscape of India.

• Spreading awareness about rural credit and rural credit institutions among rural people.
• Define strategies for financial inclusion especially in rural context.

• Students will develop techniques for empowering rural communities through providing those mechanisms to deal with social problems.
• With the understanding of the problems of marginal, women and youth and juvenile they will be able to provide rural people with remedial mechanism and where to approach when such problems emerges.

PSMRSTC-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. 
• At the end of 4th Semester, the dissertation needs to be submitted through the Faculty Supervisor.  Guidelines and format of the dissertation would be shared with the students.

PSMRSTC-402

Climate Change & Disaster Management

• Student will be able to use the knowledge about global climate change and disaster management trends in designing localized intervention strategies to manage climatic changes.
• Understanding of disaster trends and management techniques will help student in designing techniques for better management of disasters.

PSMRSTC-403

Rural and Agricultural Marketing

• Students would be able to apply their knowledge about rural and agricultural marketing for sustainable rural development.
• Students would be able to design strategies for exploiting  marketing opportunities in rural settings:

PSMRSTC-404

Corporate Social Responsibility

• Students will be able to use various techniques learnt through corporate social responsibility for empowering rural communities.
• Students will be able to create in CSR based activities for betterment of society.

PSMRSTC-405

Voluntary Organizations

• The student shall be able to apply the knowledge while establishing/working with a non- governmental organization (NGOs).
• The student shall be able to take better decisions while framing /assessing issues concerning establishment/working with NGOs in future.

PSMRSTO-406

Rural Development Indian Perspective (Open)

• The student will be able to use the knowledge of development in the various aspects of their life
• Students will be able to apply the knowledge gained to understand rural society