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To provide students with wider scope at graduate level itself in practically relevant and advanced areas of study and research.
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To relate history discipline with practical needs and tasks.
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To encourage multi-disciplinary approach.
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To make students inquisitive and intellectually more sharp.
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To give thrust on studying History subject as a process rather than an aggregate of finished state of affairs. It must be taught as a social science studying processes and human affairs in a developmental perspective. This requires a holistic approach opposed to the usual practice of dividing History into social political economic cultural and so on as independent facets.
CORE COURSES include:
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Semester I
Methodology and Perspectives of Social Science
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Semester II
Cultural Transitions in Pre- Modern Kerala
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Semester III
Making of Modern Kerala
Informatics
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Semester IV
Understanding the Past
Early Societies in India
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Semester V
Institutions in Pre Colonial India
State and Societies in the Ancient world
India: Nation in the Making
Trends in Historical Writings
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Semester VI
Issues in Contemporary India
Situating Medieval World
Understanding Modern World
Capitalism and Colonialism
Choice based Course