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Academic Program
Pass/Fail (quality of work equal to a grade of C- or above) grades will be given for SOU 310 (India Past and Present) and SOU 385(Public Health in India). SOC 354 (Issues in Contemporary India) and the course offered by the director, SOU 390 Religions of India will receive letter grades.* Should non-Davidson students require letter grades for SOU310 and SOU385, the director of the program will give his/her assessment of a student's performance, in terms of a letter grade, in a statement to the registrar of the student's college.Lectures and field trips for the courses are arranged exclusively for the Program. Speakers, who are invited from all over India, are recognized authorities in their fields. Usually classes are conducted Monday through Friday. Weekends are kept for field trips and rest. All classes will be conducted in a building within a two minute walk from the Guest House.
Methods of assessment for these courses vary. Students will be required to submit summaries of the lectures and to take the final examination. The art history course will require writing assignments on sites visited.
*A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D, D-, F
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The course consists of twenty sessions. The first ten will relate to historical topics, the latter ten relate to Indian women's writing. The segment on women's writing seeks to encourage thinking about women's identities. Through exercises in analysis and interpretation, students will evaluate the impact of writing as strategy by women writers in India.
Coordinator: Dr. Vincent Kumaradoss, Reader, Department of History, Madras Christian College, Chennai.
SOC354 Issues in Contemporary IndiaTheses lectures focus on issues on which vigorous debates are taking place among Indian scholars. Some of the topics are: conditions of the environment, position of women, economic policies of the government and mass media. Coordinator: Dr. Crosby Vijayakumar, Professor, Department of Political Science, Madras Christian College
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SOU385 Public Health in IndiaThese lectures view public health from economic, social, political and medical perspectives. Some of the topics are: AIDS, health status of women and children, occupational health and the impact of the environment on health. Coordinator: Dr. Millie Nihila, Assistant Professor of Economics in Stella Maris College, Chennai. Dr. Nihila's field of specialization is health economics. |
This is an on-site seminar offered by the director of the program, Dr. Jonathan Berkey. Apart from the on-site lectures, there will be seminars on such topics as the rise of religious fundamentalism and the politization of religious literature.
Coordinator: Dr. Joseph Sathiaraj, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Madras Christian College
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