INDIRA GANDI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY

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MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA)

Master of Business Administration is a modular programme: Post-graduate Diploma in Management (eleven courses), followed by specialisation stream (five course). Thereafter, successful completion of two integrative courses, a project, and an elective courses leads to the award of an MBA degree. The learners must be graduates with three years experience at supervisory level. The admission to the programme is taken in both January and July sessions. The programme consists of 21 courses. A. All the eleven courses in PGDIM (MS-1 to MS-11)
B. Five courses from the selected Specialisation Stream
C. Five Integrative courses: Compulsory (MS-91 and MS-95), project course equivalent to two courses and one elective course (MS-92/93/94/96/97)
D. Integrative Courses A learner has to complete five Integrative courses, two Compulsory, one Elective (out of five courses), and a Project which is equivalent to two courses.
Compulsory Courses
MS-91 Advanced Strategic Management
MS-95 Research Methodology for Management Decisions
MS-100 Project (equivalent to two courses)
Elective Courses (any one)
MS-92 Management of Public Enterprises
MS-93 Management of New and Small Enterprises
MS-94 Technology Management
MS-96 Total Quality Management
MS-97 International Business

MASTER OF ARTS (ECONOMICS)
The programme offers an opportunity to learners for higher studies in Economics. Besides, offering the core courses available in other universities, it includes courses in some of the emerging areas in Economics such as insurance, finance and computer applications that are expected to be extremely useful in the present scenario of economic liberalization and globalization.
Compulsory Courses
First Year Courses
MEC-001 Microeconomic Analysis
MEC-002 Macroeconomic Analysis
MEC-003 Quantitative Methods for Economic Analysis
MEC-004 Economics of Growth and Development
MEC-005 Indian Economic Policy
Second Year Courses
MEC-006 Public Economics
MEC-007 International Trade and Finance
MEC-008 Economics of Social Sector and Environment
MEC-009

MECP-001
Research Method in Economic
OR
Project Work
Optional Courses
MECE-001 Econometric Methods
MECE-003 Actuarial Economics: Theory and Practices
MECE-004 Financial Institutions and Markets
MPA-015 Public Policy and Analysis to be taken together
MPA-017 Electronic Governance

MASTER OF ARTS (PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION)
The programme deals with the theories of the State, Society and Public Administration. It discusses, various aspects of management pertaining to human resources and public systems. It provides a detailed discourse on Indian administration and covers areas related to public policy, disaster management, e-governance and decentralized governance. All the courses are of eight credits each, except two courses (Electronic Governance and Disaster Management which are of four credits each and both are to be taken together. Besides, there is also project work worth eight credits.
First Year (Compulsory) Courses
MPA-011 State, Society and Public Administration
MPA-012 Administrative Theory
MPA-103 Public Systems Management
MPA-014 Human Resource Management
Second Year Courses
MPA-015 Public Policy and Analysis
MPA-016 Decentralisation and Local Governance
MPA-017 Electronic Governance
MPA-018 Disaster Management
MSO-002 Research Methods and Methodologies
MPS-003 India : Democracy and Development
MPAP-002 Project Work

MASTER OF ARTS (SOCIOLOGY)

The MA programme is Sociology is designed to provide advanced sociological knowledge, perspectives, and skills to a wide cross-section of learners, including those in remote inaccessible areas. In terms of content, it focuses on classical and advanced concepts and theories, research methods and perspectives, the contemporary state of sociology in India, education, migration, urbanization, and the issues of development. Against this backdrop the programme aims to reflect on (i) the rapid processes of social transformation (caused by globalization, penetration of ICT, expansion of new frontiers of knowledge, paradigm shift in development strategy, holocaust of global terrorism, resurgence of local resistance against domination, grass-roots assertion of marginalized groups to share power and development), (ii) issues involved in the process of development, (iii) various theories, concepts and methods applied to, comprehend these processes, (iv) social process and their inter linkages with global, regional and local manifestations. The programme is available in both Hindi and English. This is a 64 credits programme with compulsory and elective courses. The student has to take compulsory and elective courses. The student has to take compulsory courses worth 32 credits in the first year and optional worth 32 credits in the second year.
First Year Courses
MSO-001 Sociology Theories and Concept
MSO-002 Research Methods and Methodologies
MSO-003 Sociology of Development
MSO-004 Sociology in India
Second Year Courses (learner may choose any four)
MSOE-001 Sociology of Education
MSOE-002 Diaspora and Transitional Communities
MSOE-003 Sociology of Religion
MSOE-004 Urban Sociology
MPA-016 Decentralisation and Local Governance
MPS-003 India : Democracy and Development

MASTER'S PROGRAMME IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT, MA (RD)
The Master's Programme in Rural Development is a unique programme, which ensures rural orientation to every learner. This programme aims at providing extensive knowledge and information pertaining to various aspects of rural development in the Indian context. Apart from providing an integrated understanding of the factors and issues associated with rural development, this programme also introduces the learner to research methods in rural development. A crucial component of this programme is a dissertation based on empirical research in rural areas.
This programme (66 credits) has five compulsory and six elective courses. Each course, except the dissertation is worth six credits. The dissertation is worth 12 credits.
First Year
Compulsory Courses
MRD-101 Rural Development – Indian Context
MRD-102 Rural Development – Programmes
MRD-103 Rural Development – Planning and Management
MRD-004 Research Methods in Rural Development
MRDP-001 Dissertation

Second Year

Optional Courses (choose any five)
RDD-6 Rural Health Care
RDD-7 Communication and Extension in Rural Development
MRDE-101 Rural Social Development
MRDE-002 Voluntary Action in Rural Development
MRDE-003 Land Reforms and Rural Development
MRDE-004 Entrepreneurship and Rural Development