Course | Department of Humanities and Social Sciences :: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

In the Btech program, the Department of HSS offers compulsory elective courses for 24 credits. Electives are offered in 4th and 5th (Level 1), 7th and 8th (Level 2) semesters only. Each individual course is of 6 credits. Apart from that, the department also offers minor program in Language and Literature, B-Tech preparatory course and an English Language Training (ELT) course.

BTech

BTech Level 1 | BTech Level 2 | Minor Course

Semester I

Code	Course Name	L–T-P	Credits
EN 001	Preparatory English I	3-2-0	10
HS 101	English Communication	2-0-2	0

Semester IV & V (Level 1)

Code	Course Name	L–T-P	Credits
HS 102	Introduction to International Politics	3-0-0	6
HS 103	Population in India's Development	3-0-0	6
HS 104	Visualizing Postcolonial India: Histories of Aesthetic and Political Concer	3-0-0	6
HS 105	Gandhi: Politics and Ideas	3-0-0	6
HS 106	Economic Development, Problem And Policy	3-0-0	6
HS 107	Problems of Philosophy	3-0-0	6
HS 107	Problems of Philosophy	3-0-0	6
HS 108	American Literature: A Retrospect And Structural English For Communication	3-0-0	6
HS 109	Business Economics	3-0-0	6
HS 110	Voices, Cultures, Strategies	3-0-0	6
HS 111	Philosophy: History And Problems	3-0-0	6
HS 112	Philosophy: Styles and Methods	3-0-0	6
HS 113	Cognitive Psychology	3-0-0	6
HS 114	Introduction to Cultural Studies	3-0-0	6
HS 115	Leadership And Communication in Historical Drama	3-0-0	6
HS 116	Sociology of India:- Conformities And Contradictions	3-0-0	6
HS 117	Tradition, Modernity And Social Change	3-0-0	6
HS 118	Culture & Environment: A Materialistic Approach	3-0-0	6
HS 119	Sociology Of Science	3-0-0	6
HS 120	Language, Culture and Cognition	3-0-0	6
HS 121	Understanding Psychology: Individual and Work Settings	0-0-0	0
HS 122	Language and society	3-0-0	6
HS 123	Game Theory and Economics	3-0-0	6
HS 124	Philosophical Issues In A Technological Age	3-0-0	6
HS 125	Macroeconomics	3-0-0	6
HS 126	International Economics	3-0-0	6
HS 127	Principles of Governance	3-0-0	6
HS 128	Introduction to Psychology	3-0-0	6
HS 129	Economic Theory: An Introduction	3-0-0	6
HS 130	Ethnic Conflict and Management	3-0-0	6
HS 131	Introduction To Linguistics	3-0-0	6
HS 132	History of Modern India	3-0-0	6
HS 133	Introduction to Phonetics	3-0-0	6
HS 134	Introduction to Archaeology	3-0-0	6
HS 135	Topics in Bilingualism	3-0-0	6
HS 136	Introduction to Indian Constitution and Political Processes	3-0-0	6
HS 137	Clasical Political Economy	3-0-0	6
HS 138	Psychology of Well Being	3-0-0	6
HS 139	The Short Story: Theory and Perspectives	3-0-0	6
HS 140	Visual Culture in Colonial South Asia	3-0-0	6
HS 140	Visual Culture in Colonial South Asia	3-0-0	6
HS 141	Introduction to Microeconomics	3-0-0	6
HS 142	Introduction to Indiaâ€™s Health System	3-0-0	6
HS 143	Perspectives on the history of m odern Europe	3-0-0	6
HS 144	Drama from Aristotle to Goethe	3-0-0	6
HS 145	Money and the Financial System	3-0-0	6
HS 146	Introduction to Modern Indian Political Thought	3-0-0	6
HS 147	War and Peace: Indiaâ€™s Military History	3-0-0	6
HS 148	Development and its Discontents	3-0-0	6
HS 150	Critical Prespectives on Caste in Contemporary India	3-0-0	6
HS 151	Cities	3-0-0	6
HS 152	Theatre of the Absurd	0-0-0	0
HS 153	Introduction to the Indian Epics: Ramayana and Mahabharata.	0-0-0	0
HS 154	The Science of Praxis	3-0-0	6
HS 155	Introductory Mathematical Economics	3--	6
HS 156	Economics of Health and Education	3-0-0	6
HS 158	Introduction to Language Acquisition	3-0-0	6
HS 160	Logical Reasoning	3-0-0	6
HS 162	Archaeological Studies in Ancient Technology	3-0-0	6

Semester VII& VIII (Level 2)

Code	Course Name	L–T-P	Credits
HS 255	Gender and Society	3--	6
HS 201	India’s Foreign Policy and Diplomacy	3-0-0	6
HS 202	Modern Western Drama	3-0-0	6
HS 203	Human Resource Management	3-0-0	6
HS 204	Phenomenology And Analytical Philosophy	3-0-0	6
HS 205	Language And Communication	3-0-0	6
HS 206	Contemporary Indian Literature in English	3-0-0	6
HS 207	Concepts and Ideologies in Social Life	3-0-0	6
HS 208	Applied Psychology	3-0-0	6
HS 209	Critical Thinking	3-0-0	6
HS 210	Science, Technology And Innovation: Sociological Perspectives	3-0-0	6
HS 211	Sound Structure Of Language And Speech Analysis	3-0-0	6
HS 212	Public Economics	3-0-0	6
HS 213	Psychology of Health and Adjustment	3-0-0	6
HS 214	Industrial Organization	3-0-0	6
HS 216	Investigating Justice in Detective Fiction	3-0-0	6
HS 217	Social History of Technology in Modern India	3-0-0	6
HS 218	Ecology and Society	3-0-0	6
HS 220	Modern Indian Drama	3-0-0	6
HS 221	Management of Organizational Behaviour	3-0-0	6
HS 222	Philosophy of Science	3-0-0	6
HS 223	Entrepreneurship and Economic Development	3-0-0	6
HS 224	Literature and Cognition	3-0-0	6
HS 225	Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Autobiography	3-0-0	6
HS 226	Philosophical Issues	3-0-0	6
HS 227	Communication: Technology, Culture and Drama	3-0-0	6
HS 228	Sociology of Cyberspace	3-0-0	6
HS 229	Environmental Economics	3-0-0	6
HS 233	History of Contemporary India	3-0-0	6
HS 230	India-s Northeast: A Panoramic Perspective	3-0-0	6
HS 231	Sociology of Communication	3-0-0	6
HS 232	Economics of Climate Change	3-0-0	6
HS 234	Understanding Sustainable Development	3-0-0	6
HS 235	Writing Systems of the World	3-0-0	6
HS 236	Sociological Perspectives on Modernity	3-0-0	6
HS 237	Subaltern Voices and Narratives	3-0-0	6
HS 238	Masculinities in Literature and Popular Culture	3-0-0	6
HS 239	Economics of Uncertainty and Information	3-0-0	6
HS 240	Literature and Science Writing	3-0-0	6
HS 241	Cinema and the City	3-0-0	6
HS 242	Transboundary Waters: Conflict and Cooperation	3-0-0	6
HS 243	Law and Society	0-0-0	0
HS 244	Indian Business History	0-0-0	0
HS 245	Race in the American and South African Novel	3-0-0	6
HS 246	Mathematical Economics	3-0-0	6
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HS 247	Engineering Psychology	3--	6
HS 250	Introduction to the Indian Epics: Ramayana and Mahabharata	3-0-0	6
HS 251	Social Choice and Welfare	3-0-0	0
HS 252	Pandemics, Health and Society	3-0-0	6
HS 253	Social Movements in India	3-0-0	6
HS 254	Consumer Behaviour	3-0-0	6

Minor course

SL.No	Code	Course Name
1	HS 232M	Linguistic Analysis
2	HS 320M	Literature and film: the word and the image
3	HS 418M	Language and Thought
4	HS 417M	Philosophy of Language
5	HS 318M	Contemporary Literary theory
6	HS 231M	Comparative Drama

BTech

BTech Level 1 | BTech Level 2 | Minor Course

Code	Semester	Stream	Course Name	L-T-P-C	Faculty
HS 231M	III	English	Comparative Drama	3-0-0-6	Rohini Mokashi-Punekar
HS 119	V	Sociology	Sociology Of Science	3-0-0-6	Sambit Mallick
HS 126	V	Economics	International Economics	3-0-0-6	Bhaskar Jyoti Neog
HS 128	V	Psychology	Introduction to Psychology	3-0-0-6	Naveen Kashyap
HS 129	V	Economics	Economic Theory: An Introduction	3-0-0-6	Agnirup Sarkar
HS 133	V	Linguistics	Introduction to Phonetics	3-0-0-6	Priyankoo Sarmah
HS 147	V	History	War and Peace: Indiaâ€™s Military History	3-0-0-6	Vipul Dutta
HS 158	V	Linguistics	Introduction to Language Acquisition	3-0-0-6	Bidisha Som
HS 211	VII	Linguistics	Sound Structure Of Language And Speech Analysis	3-0-0-6	Shakuntala Mahanta
HS 213	VII	Psychology	Psychology of Health and Adjustment	3-0-0-6	Dilwar Hussain
HS 214	VII	Economics	Industrial Organization	3-0-0-6	Amarjyoti Mahanta
HS 217	VII	History	Social History of Technology in Modern India	3-0-0-6	John Thomas
HS 231	VII	Sociology	Sociology of Communication	3-0-0-6	Rituparna Patgiri
HS 236	VII	Sociology	Sociological Perspectives on Modernity	3-0-0-6	Visakh Madhusoodanan Subha
HS 239	VII	Economics	Economics of Uncertainty and Information	3-0-0-6	Bodhisattva Sengupta
HS 418M	VII	Linguistics	Language and Thought	3-0-0-6	Bidisha Som

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