ECON321 Application of Legal Laws in Economics
Law and business go hand in hand. In fact, every business activity to be successful must have the backing and a sanction of law. With increasing globalization and governmental regulation for all business activities, the survival and growth of the organizations depend to a large extent on their compliance of existing regulations individually, as well as their ability to influence public policies in the area of their concern collectively. However, the course is designed to provide a broad understanding of legal issues impacting upon business and the legal processes involved in the management of an organization. Besides the legal aspects of contract management, the course will focus on important legal issues in business and management especially in today's knowledge economy and the internet environment.
ECON315 Economic System and Society
The main objectives of this course is to introduce students to Marxist political economy; compare the Marxist approach with alternative theoretical perspectives on capitalism and its drivers and contradictions; compare different approaches to key concepts in Marxian political economy; and examine critically the Marxist contributions to the study of development and contemporary capitalism. This course will reflect the socio-economic change in Historical perspective, capitalism as an economic system, structure of capitalism and capitalism in global context.
ECON322 Regional Economics
The course intends to provide a specialization with respect to planning and development and the strategies thereof. It gives a framework for concepts theories and models related to regional development. The course also aims at introducing disparities in regional development at national as well as global levels.
ECON301 Fundamentals of Operations Research
Operations Research provides quantitative basis for decision making or enhances a managers’ ability to make long range plans and to solve the everyday problems of running a concern. Linear programming is used to find a solution for optimizing a given objective, similarity Network analyses help the manager to plan schedule monitor & control large projects. Queuing theory deals with the situation in which queue is formed.
ECON325 Fundamentals of Econometrics – I
This course presents the basic econometrics techniques emphasizing numerical estimation of economic relationships as applied to practical economic and managerial problems. To enable the students to learn the basic econometric techniques relating to the estimation of parameters. On successful completion of the course the students should have understood the estimation techniques, learned the difficulties involved in the estimation process, evaluation of parameters and enable understanding of scientific decision-making process.
ECON330 Fundamentals of Behavioural Economics
This course familiarizes students with the approach to economics and presents economic models that take into account the rich psychological structure of human decision-making. We analyze the consequences of using such a nuanced behavioral model of decision-making, and of taking into account the existence of social preferences (such as other regarding, altruistic preferences) and so forth. The course deals also with the implications human irrationality would have for economic policy-making as well as research into human subjective wellbeing (“happiness”) and its economic correlates.
ECON327 Basics of Health Economics
The course aims to understand the economic theory of health and healthcare. The emphasis will be on key economic concepts that health economists use to analyze health and healthcare markets.
BS301 Group Dynamics and Team Building
BC301 Receptive and Expressive Communication Skills
To enable the students to adopt strategies for effective reading and writing skills. The course would enhance student’s vocabulary, language and fluency. It would also teach the students to deliver professional presentations.
FBL Foreign Business Language-V
AAMN100 Minor Project
Determine that the student is able to undertake the work of research designing, testing and anlysing. Assess the student’s mastery of the factual information, the theoretical concepts, and the methodological approaches in his/her field.
AHSJSP101 Summer Project – I
The first year of the programme covers foundation courses imparting to the students insights into the essential areas of Economics. At the end of the first year, the student is required to undertake a project during the intervening summer. This helps the student to put the theory he / she learnt in the first year into practice through rigorous investigation of a topic and apply the quantitative techniques in the analysis of the economic problems.
ECON326 Fundamentals of Econometrics – II
Application of economic theory need a reasonable understanding of economic relationships and relevant statistical methods. The econometric theory thus becomes a very powerful tool for understanding of applied economic relationships and for meaningful research in economics. This paper accordingly is devoted to equip the students with basic theory of econometrics and relevant applications of the methods. All this will enhance the understanding of scientific decision-making process.
ECON329 Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions
The main objective of this course is to familiarize the students with the basic aspects of mergers and acquisitions and to develop a solid understanding of commonly discussed and applied issues in merger and acquisitions.
ECON328 Labour Economics
The primary goal of this course is to understand the basic concept labour markets. The course will familiarize students with economic theories of labour supply and demand decisions, wage determination, human capital, unemployment, gender and race discrimination, work incentives, unionization, and the evaluation of social programs.
PSCI323 International Organizations
The UN over the years has played an important role in maintaining international peace and security. I. This paper will be of immense use for the students, as it would provide an in-depth knowledge of the working, functioning and role of various organs of the League of Nations and the UN.
ECON306 Fundamentals of Environmental Economics
Environmental issues at local, national and global levels are among the foremost challenges facing society today and are a result of complex interactions of natural processes with economic forces and policies. The effects of development on the environment and access to resources is one of the most challenging fields that has grown over the past four decades and is now one of the key areas of study. Since policies for preventing environmental degradation is at the heart of every nation’s policy-making, this course equip the students with key environmental issues faced by any developing nation. It lays down the fundamental understanding of sustainable development, ways to measure it and how these policies can be implemented.
BS302 Stress and Coping Strategies
To develop an understanding the concept of stress its causes, symptoms and consequences. To develop an understanding the consequences of the stress on one’s wellness, health, and work performance.
BC302 Social Communication
The main emphasis of this course would be to enable students to learn the dynamics of social communication and to demonstrate the ability to learn the nuances of informal communication.
FBL Foreign Business Language-VI
Major Project
Determine that the student is able to undertake the work of research designing, testing and analyzing. Assess the student’s mastery of the factual information, the theoretical concepts, and the methodological approaches in his/her field.
