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Ph.D Courses

Ph.D Courses

 

Ph.D. Semester-I

 

List of Courses to be offered for the Monsoon Semester

 

Compulsory course

Course No.

Course Title

Credits

Teaching Faculty

*Course Coordinator

LS 637

Research Methodology - Theory

2

A.S. Kharat*, A.K. Mondal, K. Natarajan, S.N. Panwar, S.S. Komath, S.K. Jha, P.C. Rath, S. Gourinath, S. Saran, A. Bansal, A. Nandi, D. Sharma, K. Kar, N Ramchiary, R.P. Singh, Unnat P. Pandit, Mukesh Jain, Pawan Kumar Dhar

 

Optional courses

 

Any Three Courses to be opted out of which
at least ONE course being compulsory from the assigned group

Group

Course No.

Course Title

Credits

Faculty

I

LS 646

Plant Pathogen Interaction

2

A Nandi*, S Chakraborty & PK Verma

I

LS 684

Crop Genomics

2

N Ramchiary*, AK Sarkar & PK Verma

II

LS 640

Current Concepts in Immunology

2

N Puri

II

LS 641

General and Applied Microbiology

2

AK Johri*,AS Kharat& A Bansal

II

LS 643

Topics in Radiation and Cancer Biology

2

RP Singh*, N Mondal & AB Tiku

III

+LS 638

Eukaryotic Gene Expression-II

2

K Natarajan*& R Muthuswami

III

+LS 644

Cell Signalling

2

PC Rath* & S Saran

III

+LS 665

Advanced Animal Developmental Biology

2

S. Saran

IV

LS 642

Topics in Neuroscience

2

SK Jha* & A C Mondal

IV

+LS 648

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

2

AC Mondal*, SK Jha & B N Mallick

V

LS 639

Molecular Biophysics

2

AK Saxena* & S Gourinath

V

LS 685

Biomacromolecules in Bioengineering

2

 K Kar* & V Yadav

+ LS 638, LS 644, LS 665 and LS 648 - NOT RUNNING THIS SEMESTER

Ph.D. Semester-II

 

List of Courses to be offered for the Winter Semester

 

Compulsory courses

Course No.

Course Title

Credits

Teaching Faculty

*Course Coordinator

LS 655

Research Methodology - Experimental

5

Each Faculty member guiding newly admitted Ph D students in an academic year

LS 656

Term paper, Research Proposal and Seminar

3

S Chakraborty*, R Muthuswami, A C Mandal, N Puri, K Kar, A Bansal

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.