Course Descriptions

The transition from a hunting-gathering society to agricultural production and sedentary life. The main political, economic, scientific, philosophical, artistic and religious developments in the history of humanity from the beginning of the agricultural revolution until the medieval period. The ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese, Greek and Roman civilizations and their impact on later civilizations.

Critical thinking and logical argumentation. Academic research. Annotations, citations, quotations. Identification of arguments, reasoning, logical cohesion. Debates. Evaluative summary. Interview.

Introduction to academic genres. Key figures in particular areas of academic life. Synthesizing different sources. Key scientific figure. Reading about and listening to a scientific process. Choosing and describing a scientific process in speech and writing. Reports of different research methods. Lab report or literature search. Passive voice, adverbial clauses and adjective clauses. Understanding and using key vocabulary from a particular domain.

Introduction to the use of statistics in economics and administrative science analysis. Basic statistical concepts used by social scientists. Displaying data. Measures of central tendency and variability. Frequency distributions. Normal distribution. Basic concepts of probability. Sampling distribution and hypothesis testing. One-sample hypothesis testing in social research.

History of political thought in the ancient Greek, medieval, and early modern periods. Origins and development of the modern concepts of power, state, justice, sovereignty, and democracy. Political thought of the major philosophers such as Plato, St. Augustine, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Marx

Key theories in particular areas of academic life. Technical diagrams. Key rhetorical features in a written argument. Future scientific developments in particular fields. Academic sources to write a review of literature. Presentation of the literature review. Language for describing part-whole relations in technical diagrams. Future tenses, noun clauses. Key academic vocabulary from a particular field.

General Elective-I

Similarities and differences between various political systems. State-society relations, parliaments and governments, democratic institutions, policy making processes, political parties and party systems, electoral systems, central-local relations and political culture. A comparative survey of various Western, non-Western, democratic and authoritarian systems.

The basic theories in Ethics (the Philosophy of Morality). The practical implications of these theories in particular professions and areas such as engineering, medicine, pharmacology, genetics, technological innovation, artificial intelligence and robotology, management, marketing, international relations, public services, media and law. The meaning and significance of virtue and values. Moral principles within particular professions and their foundation in Ethics.

General Elective-II