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Short Term Course on India’s environment: Contested pasts and future challenges
Posted Date: 21 Mar 2008 Resource Type: Articles/Knowledge Sharing Category: General
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Posted By: Bala Member Level: Diamond
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University of Delhi
Short Term Courses will start on Sept 8, 2008. They will conclude Dec 15, 2008.
The last date for submission of applications for the courses beginning September 2008 is June 7, 2008.
India’s environment:
Contested pasts and future challenges
The course aims to be an introduction to key themes to environmental
histories and conservation challenges in India. This is a nation state with diverse ecological contexts and human cultures, differing environmental traditions and lively debates about alternative futures. The paper mainly focuses on the colonial period and its aftermath, but seeks to place these events in larger perspective. The subsequent emergence of conflicts and projects related to nature conservation in the twentieth century and their record forms a major part of the course.
Selections from a rich corpus of original sources including travel writings;
pictorial books, memoirs add variety to the study of the region. The idea will be compare and contrast past trends, present day dilemmas and future options.
Thus a debate on Project Tiger or the fate of the elephant, big dam controversies or peasant or tribal land rights today will be discussed with a view to the past as well as the future.
Aims and objectives :
This course has two related objectives. It will acquaint you with the
historic ecological legacies of India and enable you to gain an independent view
of the major currents of change that have made it what it is today. Due to the
close connections across and between different parts of the world, broader
themes impinge on our journey. These will include imperial rule and its
consequences for a largely peasant society, the cultural and religious dimensions of conflicts relating to the use and abuse of nature, choices of technology and patterns of resistance. The study will try to identify what features make India distinct in its forms of environmental control and change. Key arenas of conflict such as hunting and agricultural expansion, conservation and extermination, science and local know ledges will give the syllabus an ecological and sociological focus.
Short Term Courses for Foreign and Indian Students
The University of Delhi is pleased to announce a program of Short-Term Courses for foreign & Indian students. The first set of courses will be offered from September to Mid-December and January to April every year. These courses will be of 10 weeks duration, each course being roughly 40 hours long. The courses will consist of classroom lectures, field visits, performances, demonstrations, guest lectures etc. Each student will need to enroll in at least 3 of the bouquet of courses being offered. The maximum number of courses for which a student can enroll is five (5). The course fee per course is Rs.20,000/-
or US$ equivalent (Approximately US $ 500 per course). The fee shall include
instruction, course material, local field visits etc but shall NOT cover travel, boarding and lodging. The University of Delhi will facilitate arrangements for boarding and lodging but takes no responsibility for the same. The students must come with medical insurance.
Interested persons should send an email to
director@ducc.du.ac.in and hinducol@del3.vsnl.net.in, filling in the Performa along with a short background on their educational qualifications. Details of the courses, including the course content etc is on the University of Delhi website, www.du.ac.in.
Please also send your application alongwith the copies of your transcripts with a banker’s cheque/demand draft for in favour of
The Registrar
University of Delhi
Delhi.
US$ 50/- (Foreign Students)
Rs. 500/- (Indian Students) as your application fee
The basic objective of these courses is to provide introductory but insightful introduction to different aspects of the history and culture of India. The courses that actually get offered will depend on the enrolment. The last date for submission of applications for the courses beginning September 2008 is June 7, 2008.
Short Term Courses will start on Sept 8, 2008. They will conclude Dec 15, 2008.
1. Orientation etc. : Sept 8 to Sept 14, 2008
2. Teaching : Sept 15 - Dec 15, 2008 with a break from Oct 1 to Oct 15.
For more details, visit http://www.du.ac.in
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