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CES BA Tool Courses

CES BA Tool Courses

Category

Course Code

Course Title

Spoken English

ES 226 E

A Basic Course in Spoken English

ES 227 E

Spoken Communication Skills

ES 228 E

Spoken English for Conferences and Seminars

ES 229 E

English Pronunciation for Interpreters

English Grammar

ES 231 E

Elementary English Grammar

ES 232 E

Remedial English Grammar

ES 233 E

Advanced English Grammar

ES 234 E

Contrastive English Grammar

Structure of English

ES 236 E

A Course in English Vocabularies - I

ES 237 E

A Course in English Vocabularies - II

ES 238 E

Basic Sentence Structure

Comprehension and Composition

ES 241 E

A Course in Comprehension

ES 242 E

Rhetoric of English Comprehension

ES 243 E

Rhetoric of English Composition

ES 245 E

Language in Use

Interpretation

ES 246 E

Study Skills

ES 247 E

Interpretation of Texts

ES 248 E

Reading Strategies for Specialised Texts

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.