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POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT LESSON PLANS
Academic Year: 2015- 2016
Sharmila Mitra DebAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Political Science
First Year HonoursPaper II Comparative PoliticsNo of classes per week: 4
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
Till Puja
Vacation
Development of Comparative Politics
Distinction between Comparative Government and
Comparative Politics.
Approaches to Comparative Politics:
Structural Functionalism.
Systems Analysis.
Institutional.
New Institutional.
Features of a Liberal Democratic System of
Government.
Features of a Socialist Political System of
Government.
Comparison between a Liberal Democratic system
and Socialist System of Government.
Separation of Powers in the U.S..
Internal assessment.
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Till Christmas Checks and Balances in the U.S.
Judicial Review (U.S.).
Ideology (China).
Internal assessment.
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Till Study Leave Democratic Centralism (China).
Referendum (Switzerland)).
Initiative (Switzerland).
Features and role of party system/parties in UK, USA
and PRC.
Interest groups: their role and performance in UK
and USA.
Short notes.
Revision/internal assessment.
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Second Year HonoursPaper III – Government and Politics in IndiaNo of classes per week: 4
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
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Party system: features and trends.
Major national political parties in India: ideologies
and programmes – BJP, INC.
Coalition politics in India: nature and trends.
Political parties in West Bengal: An overview.
Electoral process: Election Commission:
composition, functions, role.
Internal assessment.
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Till Christmas Role of business, working class, peasants in Indian
politics.
Role of (a) religion (b) language (c) caste (d) tribe
and (e) regionalism in Indian politics.
Internal assessment.
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Till Study Leave New Social Movements since the 1970s: 8
(a) environmental movements
b) women’s movements,
(c) human rights movements
Revision
Short notes
Internal assessment
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Third Year HonoursPaper V – Western Political Thought (Units I & II); Paper VI - Indian Political Thought and Movement (Units II & III)No of classes per week: 5
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
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Greek political thought: main features – Plato:
justice, communism – Aristotle: state, classifications
of constitutions.
Roman political thought: theories of Law and
Citizenship – contributions of Roman thought.
Medieval political thought in Europe: Main features.
Foundation of the Indian National Congress.
Bengal Partition and Swadeshi movement.
Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movement – Civil
Disobedience movement.
Alternatives to Congress politics: (a) Subhas Chandra
Bose and Forward Bloc (b) Congress Socialist Party
(c) the Communists.
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Till Christmas Political thought of Reformation. 3 5
Bodin: contributions to the theory of Sovereignty.
Movements against caste system and untouchability
– Ambedkar’s views on Social Justice and Depressed
Class.
Class and the nationalist movement under colonial
rule: working class movement and peasant
movement.
Roots of communal politics: Savarkar and Hindu
nationalism, Jinnah and two- nation theory
Internal assessment
Short notes
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Till Study Leave August 1942 movement – the INA- Naval Uprising
Revison/internal assessment
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Second Year GeneralPaper II – Comparative Government and Politics & segment of Paper IIINo of classes per week: 3
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
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Features of the American Constitution
US Congress:
House of Representatives.
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Senate.
Speaker.
Committee System.
Comparison between US and British Second
Chambers, Speakers and the Committee System.
US President – compared to British Prime Minister;
US Cabinet – compared to British Cabinet.
Indian President; Prime Minister.
The significance of the Chinese Revolution.
Internal assessment.
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Till Christmas Features in the Chinese Constitution.
Right and Duties of Chinese citizens.
Chinese legislature.
Chinese Executive.
Chinese Judiciary.
The Communist Party of China.
Internal assessment.
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Till Study Leave The Lok Sabha; Speaker; Committee System.
The Rajya Sabha.
Women’s movement in India.
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Third Year GeneralPaper IV – Contemporary Political and Administrative Issues in IndiaNo of classes per week: 2
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
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Composition and functions:
Prime Minister’s Office.
Cabinet Secretariat.
Cabinet Secretary.
Union Civil Service.
Recruitment and Training.
Union Public Service Commission.
Internal assessment.
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Till Christmas Local Government:
Concept, nature and types.
Rural government:
ZillaParishad – composition and function.
Role of Sabhadhipati and Saha sabhadhipati.
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Panchayat Samiti – Composition and functions.
Role of Sabhapati and Sahabhapati .
Sthayee Samities of the Zilla Parishadand.
Panchayat Samiti.
Internal assessment.
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Till Study Leave Gram Sabha.
Gram Sansad.
Representation of women in Rural Government.
Internal assessment.
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Dr.Sujata Chowdhury Academic Year: 2015-2016Year. :I(H)Paper. :P-II(unit3&4)
Classes per week: 4Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
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Introduction to Comparative Government &Politics
Executive:Theory and Interpretation
UK:Monarch and Prime-Minister
USA:President
Executive in France
Executive in Russia
Comparative study of:
Russian,French and American Presidency
British and French cabinet systems
Introduction to Judiciary as the third important
component of Modern Governments
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Till Christmas Judiciary in UK
Judiciary in USA-Judicial Review
Procuratorate and Courts in PRC: comparative
study
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Introduction to Legislature
Legislature in UK: composition and functions
Legislature in USA: composition and functions
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Role of second chambers in UK and USA
Committee system in UK and USA: comparative
study
Role of Speaker in UK and USA
Rights of the citizens of UK
Bill of Rights in USA
Rights of citizens in China
Duties of citizens in China
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Dr.S.ChowdhuryAcademic Year: 2015-16Year. :II(H)Paper :P-IV(unit-1&2)Classes per week: 4
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
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International Relations: a brief outline of its
evolution as an academic discipline
Some Basic concepts in International Relations:
Balance of Power
Bipolarity and Unipolarity
Neo-colonialism
Globalisation
Some Representative theories International
Relations
Realism
Pluralism
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Till Christmas World Systems Theory
Foreign policy:Concept and Techniques
Diplomacy
Propaganda
Military
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Till Study Leave Emergent issues in International Relations
Development
Regionalism and Integration
Terrorism
Discussion
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Dr.Sujata ChowdhuryAcademic Year: 2015-2016Year. :III(H)Paper. :PV-unit 3 & 4;PVII-unit 1 & 2 Classes per week: 5
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
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Paper-v
Hobbes: Founder of the science of Materialist
politics
Locke: Founder of Liberalism
Locke’s views on Natural rights, Liberty, property
and consent
Rousseau’s views on Freedom and Democracy.
Bentham: Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill’s views on Liberty and
Representative Government
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Paper VII
Social stratification and politics:
Caste
Class
Elite
Power, Authority and Legitimacy
Social bases of politics
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Till Christmas Paper V
Hegel: Civil society and State
Utopian and Scientific Socialism: Basic characteristics
Anarchism: an outline
Paper VII
Religion ,society and politics
Nationalism and State formation in Western Europe
and Third world
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Till Study Leave Paper-V
Varieties of Non-Marxian
Socialism:Fabianism,Syndicalism ,Guild socialism and
German Revisionism
Paper VII
Gender and Politics:Basic Issues
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Dr.S.ChowdhuryAcademic Year: 2015-2016Year: II (Gen) Political science Elective- Paper III No of Classes per week:3
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
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Preamble
Fundamental Rights
Right to Equality
Right to Freedom
Right against exploitation
Right to Religion
Cultural and Educational Right
Right to Constitutional Remedies
Fundamental Duties
Directive Principles of State policy
Amendment procedure
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Till Christmas Judiciary in India:
Supreme Court and the High Courts:composition and
functions
Judicial activism in India
Major issues in Indian politics:
Caste
Tribe
Religion
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Till Study Leave Election Commission: composition and functions 3 8
Electoral system in India
Party system in India: Nature
National political parties: Ideologies and
programmes
Regionalism: nature, roots and types
Government in the states: Governor
Chief Minister and Council of ministers
State legislature: composition and functions
Union-state Relations :Legislative
Administrative Relations
Financial Relations
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Dr.S.ChowdhuryThird Year GeneralAcademic Year: 2015-2016Paper IV- Contemporary Political and Administrative Issues in IndiaNumber of classes per week- 1
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
July to Oct UN: Purposes and Principles 2 12
(Puja Break) Peacekeeping and UN
Organs of UN
India and UN
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Nov - Dec Globalization and Its meaning
Globalization and its Outcome.
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Jan-Feb Economic Reforms in India since 1991 3 3
Name: Sreeparna Dasgupta.Academic Year: 2015-2016First Year HonoursPaper: Paper I ( First Half)No. of Classes per week: 4
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
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What is Politics Approaches to the Study of Political Science
– Normative, Behavioral, Post Behavioral, Feminist.
Theories of State ( Origin, Nature, Functions): Contract, Idealist, Liberal and Neo-Liberal Theories.
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Till Christmas 1. Concept of State Sovereignty : Monistic and Pluralistic Theories. Changing concept ofSovereignty in the context of Globalisation.
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Till Study Leave 1. Democratic Theories : David Held’s Classification.
2. Liberty, Equality, Rights , Law and Justice(Rawls).
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3. Empirical Political Theory: System’s Analysis,Structural Functionalism.
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Internal assessments/class assignments etc. 15
Sreeparna DasguptaSecond Year HonoursAcademic Year: 2015-2016Paper: Paper III (First Half)No of Classes per week: 4
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
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1. Framing of the Indian Constitution.2. Fundamental Rights and Duties – Directive
Principles.3. Union Executive.
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Till Christmas 1. Union Legislature.
2. Government in the States.
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Till Study Leave 1. Government in the States (CONTD).
2. Nature of Indian Federalism: Union-State Relations.
3. The Judiciary; judicial activism.
4. Constitutional Amendments.
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Internal assessments/class assignments etc. 10
Sreeparna DasguptaThird Year HonoursAcademic Year: 2015-2016
Paper: Paper VI (First Half) and Paper VIII (Second Half)No of Classes per week: 5
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
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Paper VI :
1. Features of Ancient Indian Political Thought
– Kautilya.
2. Medieval Political Thought in India.
3. Modern Indian Political Thought- Rammohun Roy
4. Gandhi.
5. M.N. Roy.
Paper VIII :
1. Continuity and Change in Indian Administration.
2. Organisation of the Union Government.
3. Organization of the State Government.
4. Civil Service in India.
5. Planning and Planned Administration.
6. District Administration.
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Till Christmas Paper VI (contd.) :
1. Views on Nationalism: Bankim Chandra, Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore.
Paper VIII (contd.):
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1. Financial Administration-CAG, PAC and Estimates Committee.
2. Local Self Government
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Till Study Leave Paper VI (contd.) :
1. Narendra Deva.
2. Syed Ahmed Khan.
Paper VIII (contd.):
1. Local Self Government(contd.)
2. Citizen and Administration : Lokpal and
Lokayukt.
Internal assessments/class assignments etc.
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Name: Sreeparna Dasgupta.Academic Year: 2015-2016First Year GeneralPaper: Paper II& Paper I
No. of Classes per week: 3 for group A & 3 for group BTime Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
Till Puja 1. Political Systems – liberal democratic, 8 11
Vacation socialist and authoritarian. Forms of government: unitary, federal, presidential, parliamentary.
2. British Constitution: salient features.
3. British Legislature.
4. British executive
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Monarchy
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Till Study Leave 4. Party system – role of the opposition
5. Salient features of the constitution of Russia,France and Switzerland.
Paper I
1. Democracy and Fascism.
2. Nationalism and Internationalism
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Internal assessments/class assignments etc. 07
Sreeparna DasguptaThird Year GeneralAcademic Year: 2015-2016Paper: Paper IV No of Classes per week: 2
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
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1. Human Rights: meaning and nature.
2. Human rights in the Constitution of India
3. Human Rights in India
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4. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Till Christmas 1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights(contd.)
2. State Human Rights Commission
3. Urban Local Self Government- meaning and nature
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Till Study Leave SECOND HALF-URBAN GOVERNMENT
1. History of Urban Local Self Government in India.
2. 74TH Amendment.
3. Municipal Corporation composition and Functions.
4. Municipalities- Composition and Functions
5. Ward committee and Borough committee
6. Women’s representation in Urban local self
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Government
Internal assessments/class assignments etc. 2
Sayoni ChoudhuriAssistant Professor,First Year HonoursPaper I Unit III & IV- Political Theory.Number of classes per week- 3
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
July to Oct
(Puja Break)
Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism with special reference to relationship between base and superstructure.
Theory of class and class struggle. Marx’s concept of Freedom and Democracy:
Nature, Features and Critique. Internal Assessment
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Nov - Dec Marxist Approach to politics. Marx’s Theory of State: Relative Autonomy
of the State.
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Jan-May . Marxian theory of Revolution. Major Debates in Marxism: Lenin- Rosa
Luxemburg Debate. Internal Assessment and Discussion
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Sayoni ChoudhuriSecond Year HonoursPaper IV Unit III & IV- International RelationsNumber of classes per week- 5
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
July to Oct
(Puja Break)
Cold War: phases and understanding the
post Cold War era.
Europe in Transition: (a) EEC to EU.
Europe in Transition: and (b) Ethnicity and Nationalism in Eastern Europe since 1990’s.
Internal Assessment
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Nov - Dec
Indian Foreign Policy: Basic Principles and Evolution.
UNO and its organs; Peace keeping Function and Human Rights.
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Jan-April Foreign Policy of USA and China.
Developing Countries and their problems: (a) NAM: Relevance,
(b) Regionalism: ASEAN, SAFTA and SAARC, OPEC, OAU. (c ) West Asia-Palestine problem after Cold War.
Internal Assessment and Discussion
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Sayoni ChoudhuriThird Year HonoursPaper VII Unit III & IV- Political SociologyPaper VIII Unit I & II- Public Administration
Number of classes per week- 5
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
July to Oct Paper VII 12
(Puja Break) Classification and types of Political systems.
Political Participation.
Military and Politics: conditions and types of intervention.
Political Culture and Political Socialization.
Paper VIII
Nature, scope and Evolution of Public. Ad; Private and Public Administration; Principles of Socialist Management.
Major Concepts in Administration. Ecological approach to Public. Ad Challenges to Public. Ad: New Public
Administration (NPA); Comparative Public Administration (CPA) and Development Administration
Internal Assessment
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Nov - Dec Paper VII
Groups in politics: political parties and pressure groups.
Political Communication; Electoral
Behaviour
Political Development and Social Change-
Role of Tradition and Modernity
Paper VIII
Administrative Processes: decision making; communication and control; leadership; co-ordination.
Internal Assessment
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Jan-Feb Paper VIII
Bureaucracy: Max Weber and Marx
Policy Making: Models and Methods of
Implementation.
Discussion
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Sayoni ChoudhuriFirst Year GeneralPaper I- Political TheoryNumber of classes per week- 3
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
July to Oct
(Puja Break)
Nature and scope of Political Science; Different Approaches: (a) Normative approach (b) BehaviouralApproach (c) Marxist Approach.
Sovereignty of the State: Monistic Theory, Pluralistic Theory, Doctrine of Popular Sovereignty.
Theories of the State: Contract theory, Idealist theory, Liberal and Neo-liberal theory, Marxist theory and Gandhian theory.
Internal Assessment
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Nov - Dec Nature of International Relations, Liberal Approach, Realist Approach.
Law : Schools of Jurisprudence, Theories of Law and sources of Law
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Jan-May Marxism: Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism, Concept of Class and Class Struggle, Revolution and Lenin’s theory of Imperialism
Methods of Representation, PoliticalParties and Pressure Group.
Internal Assessment and Discussion
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Sayoni Choudhuri
Third Year GeneralPaper IV- Contemporary Political and Administrative Issues in IndiaNumber of classes per week- 2
Time Period Topics to be Covered No. of Classes No. of Weeks
July to Oct
(Puja Break)
Foreign Policy: major determinants; Indian
foreign policy
Basic characteristics.
Internal Assessment
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Nov - Dec Parliamentary Procedures with special
reference to West Bengal Legislature.
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Jan-Feb Overall discussion and discussion of short
notes and broad questions.
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