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	0-0-0	0
HS 101	English Communication	2-0-2	0

Semester IV & V

Code	Course Name	L–T-P	Credits
HS 137	Clasical Political Economy	3-0-0	6
HS 136	Introduction to Indian Constitution and Political Processes	3-0-0	6
HS 135	Topics in Bilingualism	3-0-0	6
HS 134	Introduction to Archaeology	3-0-0	6
HS 133	Introduction to Phonetics	3-0-0	6
HS 107	Problems of Philosophy	3-0-0	6
HS 132	History of Modern India	3-0-0	6
HS 131	Introduction To Linguistics	3-0-0	6
HS 130	Ethnic Conflict and Management	3-0-0	6
HS 129	Economic Theory: An Introduction	3-0-0	6
HS 128	Introduction to Psychology	3-0-0	6
HS 127	Principles of Governance	3-0-0	6
HS 126	International Economics	3-0-0	6
HS 122	Language and society	3-0-0	6
HS 123	Game Theory and Economics	3-0-0	6
HS 125	Macroeconomics	3-0-0	6
HS 124	Philosophical Issues In A Technological Age	3-0-0	6
HS 119	Sociology Of Science	3-0-0	6
HS 121	Understanding Psychology: Individual and Work Settings	0-0-0	0
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 120	Language, Culture and Cognition	3-0-0	6
HS 118	Culture & Environment: A Materialistic Approach	3-0-0	6
HS 117	Tradition, Modernity And Social Change	3-0-0	6
HS 116	Sociology of India:- Conformities And Contradictions	3-0-0	6
HS 115	Leadership And Communication in Historical Drama	3-0-0	6
HS 113	Cognitive Psychology	3-0-0	6
HS 114	Introduction to Cultural Studies	3-0-0	6
HS 112	Philosophy: Styles and Methods	3-0-0	6
HS 109	Business Economics	3-0-0	6
HS 111	Philosophy: History And Problems	3-0-0	6
HS 110	Voices, Cultures, Strategies	3-0-0	6
HS 106	Economic Development, Problem And Policy	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 162	Archaeological Studies in Ancient Technology	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 254	Consumer Behaviour	3-0-0	6
HS 150	Critical Prespectives on Caste in Contemporary India	3-0-0	6
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	3-0-42	90
HS 146	Introduction to Modern Indian Political Thought	0-0-0	0

Semester VII& VIII

Code	Course Name	L–T-P	Credits
HS 202	Modern Western Drama	0-0-0	0
HS 203	Human Resource Management	3-0-0	6
HS 204	Phenomenology And Analytical Philosophy	0-0-0	0
HS 205	Language And Communication	0-0-0	0
HS 207	Concepts and Ideologies in Social Life	0-0-0	0
HS 208	Applied Psychology	0-0-0	0
HS 209	Critical Thinking	0-0-0	0
HS 210	Science, Technology And Innovation: Sociological Perspectives	0-0-0	0
HS 211	Sound Structure Of Language And Speech Analysis	3-0-0	6
HS 212	Public Economics	0-0-0	0
HS 213	Psychology of Health and Adjustment	3-0-0	6
HS 214	Industrial Organization	0-0-0	0
HS 216	Investigating Justice in Detective Fiction	0-0-0	0
HS 217	Social History of Technology in Modern India	3-0-0	6
HS 218	Ecology and Society	0-0-0	0
HS 162	Archaeological Studies in Ancient Technology	3-0-0	6
HS 220	Modern Indian Drama	0-0-0	0
HS 221	Management of Organizational Behaviour	0-0-0	0
HS 222	Philosophy of Science	0-0-0	0
HS 223	Entrepreneurship and Economic Development	0-0-0	0
HS 224	Literature and Cognition	0-0-0	0
HS 225	Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Autobiography	3-0-0	6
HS 226	Philosophical Issues	0-0-0	0
HS 227	Communication: Technology, Culture and Drama	0-0-0	0
HS 228	Sociology of Cyberspace	0-0-0	0
HS 229	Environmental Economics	3-0-0	6
HS 233	History of Contemporary India	0-0-0	0
HS 230	India-s Northeast: A Panoramic Perspective	0-0-0	0
HS 231M	Sociology of Communication	0-0-0	0
HS 232	Economics of Climate Change	3-0-0	6
HS 234	Understanding Sustainable Development	0-0-0	0
HS 235	Writing Systems of the World	0-0-0	0
HS 236	Sociological Perspectives on Modernity	3-0-0	6
HS 237	Subaltern Voices and Narratives	0-0-0	0
HS 238	Masculinities in Literature and Popular Culture	0-0-0	0
HS 239	Economics of Uncertainty and Information	3-0-0	6
HS 240	Literature and Science Writing	0-0-0	0
HS 241	Cinema and the City	0-0-0	0
HS 242	Transboundary Waters: Conflict and Cooperation	0-0-0	0
HS 243	Law and Society	0-0-0	0
HS 244	Indian Business History	0-0-0	0
HS 150	Critical Prespectives on Caste in Contemporary India	3-0-0	6
HS 206	Contemporary Indian Literature in English	3--	6
HS 250	Introduction to the Indian Epics: Ramayana and Mahabharata	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

BTech

BTech Level 1 | BTech Level 2 | Minor Course

Code	Semester	Stream	Course Name	L-T-P-C	Faculty	Class Room
HS 231M	III	English	Comparative Drama	3-0-0-6	Debapriya Basu Rohini Mokashi-Punekar	2101
HS 113	V	Psychology	Cognitive Psychology	3-0-0-6	Naveen Kashyap	L2
HS 123	V	Economics	Game Theory and Economics	3-0-0-6	Debarshi Das	3102
HS 129	V	Economics	Economic Theory: An Introduction	3-0-0-6	Agnirup Sarkar	L1
HS 133	V	Linguistics	Introduction to Phonetics	3-0-0-6	Priyankoo Sarmah	5205
HS 144	V	English	Drama from Aristotle to Goethe	3-0-0-6	Debapriya Basu	1G1
HS 147	V	History	War and Peace: Indiaâ€™s Military History	3-0-0-6	Vipul Dutta	1G2
HS 154	V	Sociology	The Science of Praxis	3-0-0-6	Ngamjahao Kipgen	L3
HS 158	V	Linguistics	Introduction to Language Acquisition	3-0-0-6	Bidisha Som	5003
HS 160	V		Logical Reasoning	3-0-0-6	Abhishek Kashyap	5101
HS 162	V	Archaeology	Archaeological Studies in Ancient Technology	3-0-0-6		5002
HS 318M	V	English	Contemporary Literary theory	3-0-0-6	Liza Das	2101
HS 213	VII	Psychology	Psychology of Health and Adjustment	3-0-0-6	Dilwar Hussain	5003
HS 217	VII	History	Social History of Technology in Modern India	3-0-0-6	John Thomas	5002
HS 225	VII	English	Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Autobiography	3-0-0-6	Rohini Mokashi-Punekar	L1
HS 229	VII	Economics	Environmental Economics	3-0-0-6	Mrinal Kanti Dutta	5205
HS 236	VII	Sociology	Sociological Perspectives on Modernity	3-0-0-6	Sambit Mallick	5101
HS 250	VII	English	Introduction to the Indian Epics: Ramayana and Mahabharata	3-0-0-6	Kiran Keshavamurthy	1G1
HS 252	VII	Development Studies	Pandemics, Health and Society	3-0-0-6	Daksha Parmar	1G2
HS 253	VII	Development Studies	Social Movements in India	3-0-0-6	Vasundhara Jairath	L3
HS 418M	VII	Linguistics	Language and Thought	3-0-0-6	Bidisha Som	2101

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