 An overview of the emergence and evolution of the Development Studies as a subject of study along with its nature, focus, boundaries and future prospects  A critical analysis and application of key issues in development with their practical and policy relevance to the developing country contexts with particular reference to Bangladesh

Explain how competitive markets organize the allocation of scarce resources and the distribution of goods and services

Distinguish between the various forms of market failure and explain how governments might need to intervene

Describe the various types of markets and compare their efficiency

Recognize government failure and explain why government policy might fail

Relate the basic economic theory and principles to current microeconomic issues and evaluate related public policy

To provide a deep understanding of the basic concepts and tools of Sociological Theories.

To provide the students with the theoretical lens equipped with inquisitiveness for empiric evidences.

3. To enable the students to think critically.

Functional English qualifies students in understanding the basics of English language. Students are introduced to the varied aspects of the course which concentrates on bettering their skills and proficiencies of the language.

2. To help students in selection and use of a range of visual aids to support their presentations 3. To introduce students with various techniques to engage with audience and to deliver presentations with confidence

The main of the course is to introduce students with the main concepts and theories of international development, main actors involved, policies implemented. It also aims to foster student critical reflection on international development practices and lay the foundations for future individual study.

Understanding of basic macroeconomic concepts

Understanding Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Applying the learnt concepts and measures for Development Policy analysis

To Increase knowledge of the political science discipline; its principal theoretical frameworks and applications, conceptual vocabulary, and methods of inquiry; its major subfields of study; and its interrelationships with the other social science fields.

By this introductory course, students will know how to develop a critical understanding of their niche and surroundings, which is particularly important as a student of the discipline of development studies.

Objectives related to basic computer competency specify the skills a student must demonstrate before successfully completing the training. These statements typically include the knowledge of basic computing concepts, security measures and the ability to use popular software applications to produce documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Other objectives usually relate to creating and managing files and folders and retrieving data

6.1 Key Objective: The key objective of the course is: • To provide the scope to the students to learn about the history, culture, economy, geography and environmental issues of Bangladesh and also to learn about the historical and contemporary global issues so that the students could have the very basic understandings about the significant issues of national and international context in the realm of development studies discipline. 6.2 Specific Objectives: The other objectives of the course are: • To make the students familiar with the true and actual history of Bangladesh since the ancient period of Bengal up to now. • To create a sense of patriotism among the students through an in-depth review of the history of Bangladesh. • To make the students familiar with the famous personalities of Bangladesh so that they can learn many things from their (famous persons) lives. • To encourage the students to think about the economic and developmental features of Bangladesh from a critical point of view from the very beginning of the university life. • To discuss about the geography, topography and demographical features of Bangladesh. • To discuss the environmental challenges for Bangladesh of contemporary time and of the future. • Assessing the state of agricultural, industrial, education and health sector of Bangladesh. • To provide the students with the very basic ideas of the international relations and international politics. • To discuss about the historically important issues of the world in the context of development (e.g. renaissance, world wars etc.) • To assess the development history of some of the countries of the world and take lessons from them. • To discuss the contemporary global issues which are important in building up a harmonious international relationship among the nations of the world. • To make the students be able to think about the development issues in a critical way and to link the national context to the international context.

To examine the evolution of economic ideas and their relationship to social and cultural factors prevailing at the time from 1700 to present days.

To orient students with competing economic schools of thoughts, and notable thinkers and their contributions to economic thought to philosophical foundations and political implications.

To study the contributions of economists in economics discipline, as well as their relevance for development studies.

To enable students to develop skills of critical ability and reasoning to understand the development of economic analysis and use them to judge the appropriateness of economic development policy options.

1. To develop the foundational knowledge of various industrial-organizational psychological concepts that are relevant to development 2. Enable the students to apply various industrial-organizational psychological concepts for their own career planning and self-development.

To teach and review basic concepts in mathematics relevant for social sciences,

To help students express social sciences concepts using mathematical tools,

To enable the students to interpret results of a mathematical process,

To empower students to communicate results to an audience,

To facilitate an environment where students can collaborate for solving problems.

The purpose of this module is to familiarise students with the main analytic debates in the field of gender and development. Four institutional domains (households, family and kinship, the market, the community and the state) through which gender relations are both defined and transformed receive separate attention. An introductory survey of conceptual approaches to gender is followed by a treatment of central topics which include: the move from WID (women in development) to GAD (gender and development) as critical perspectives in development studies, conceptual approaches to households, men and masculinities in development, globalisation and women’s employment, gender, state and governance, women’s movements and state-civil society relations, gender, conflict and post-conflict, and finally an appraisal of prospects for gender-aware planning and empowerment.

The goal is to develop students’ analytical and consulting skills in the area of public finance. Thecourse is targeted to those students whose major is in public administration, business-governmentrelations, or management in the service industry (education, health care, culture, etc.).

The aim of Governance and Development is to provide students with an in-depth understanding of societal governance and development processes in countries and regions of the Global South. This includes a dual theoretical focus on (1) the structures, institutions, policies and practices that frame governance of the economy and wider society and (2) the interplay between powerful actors such as the government, state agencies, domestic and foreign business groups, labor unions, ethnic and civil society networks and movements, and international organizations.

The major in French Language & Literature, the major in French Studies, and the Certificate in French Language & Francophone Cultures are interdisciplinary programs that provide students with opportunities to acquire advanced language proficiency and both a knowledge of and engagement with the literary, cultural, socio-historical, and political traditions of the French-speaking world

A course dealing with statistical concepts including measures of central tendency and dispersion, probabilitydistributions, the Central Limit Theorem, Sampling, Estimation, Hypothesis testing, Analysis of Variance,Correlation and Regression analysis, Multiple Regression and Statistical Forecasting

To learn fundamentals of migration process and how they apply to interpretation of modern migration flows.

To analyse migration as a key dynamic within globalisation as it plays an essential part in economic and social change and contributes to a transformation of the international political as well as economic order.

To analyse economic, social, and cultural implications of migration based on composition and geography of migrant flows.

To engage in discussions how migration may affect bilateral and regional relations, security, national identity and sovereignty.

To encourage critical thinking about the relations between labour migration and the changing world of work and employment

1. To analyze various anthropogenic aspects of gender 2. To explore the relationship between gender and various development discourses 3. To find out the roles and responsibilities of states and non-state actors in the arena of gender and development

The goal of this course is to provide students with the essential tools and concepts of development economics, to prepare them to understand what makes underdevelopment persist and what helps development succeed.

We will jointly explore diverse dimension and measures of development, as well as the application of microeconomic analysis to issues of development in poor countries, including the study of household decisions and the analysis of institutions and norms influencing development.

In the last two decades civil society actors have emerged as major players in governance, development, and social problem solving. They are both agents and objects of globalization, democratization, and shifting patterns of governance.

To explore the insights of the Human Development paradigm and the recent discourses in order to conceptualize development.

To achieve the course objective, this course has been designed with a number of readings and active tasks.

This course expects that the students will be enlightened on the foundational ideas of Human Development and the current debates prevailing in this field

Also, it will help the students to seek available policy options for the Human Development of the Third World.

This course aims to acquaint students with the problems of agricultural sector that are being faced by Bangladesh in the process of development. It also focuses on the scope of rural development. Thus, the course helps the students to understand the complex transformation of agriculture and rural parts of Bangladesh and opens the door to design research in this field.

To introduce students with the agricultural system in Bangladesh

To make familiar with the rural development theories

To help understanding the complex problem prevails in the field of agriculture and rural transformation

To find out the scopes of further research in agriculture and rural transformation

To enable students to identify and frame problems that require policy interventions,

To introduce the actors involved in public policy making

To provide the students with the theoretical lens needed to analyze the policy-making processes

To equip the students with the basic understanding of tools and methods needed for assessing the evidence in different stages of policy-making

To enable the students to critically assess the theories in the context of Bangladesh.

To enable the students to prepare a long paper based on the lessons learned.

This course is about creating an experience for change. It aims to enable the students to understand the processes and approaches to contemporary development communication. Students will learn to perform situation analysis and problem tree analysis to address the development issues. Learners will acquire the skills to design and implement development communication strategies combining participatory methods with communication processes, media, and digital tools best suited for a specific situation relevant to current times. Storyboarding, Concepts, and Approaches to Development Communication, and Communication Strategies for Development. In the first section, the course participants will start seeing and exploring various methods of digital storytelling - and applying them to the work. Learners will use storyboard tools, concepts, and frameworks for giving a voice to their stories. Learners will develop a reflective learning journal using a storyboard tool. In the second section, students will understand various approaches to development communication and reflect on development awareness campaigns to explore the best communication practices. In the third section, they will learn problem tree analysis.

To develop students’ familiarity with major concepts, terminologies and methods of quantitative research in social sciences.

To gain familiarity with alternative research methods and complex issues inherent in finding a research problem, selecting an appropriate research design, and implementing a research project.

To explain the basic concepts and procedures of sampling, measurement, data collection, analysis and reporting.

To develop analytical and critical thinking skills and use them to judge the appropriateness of research findings.

• Understand key concepts from economic, political, and social analysis as they pertain to the design and evaluation of environmental policies and institutions.

• Appreciate concepts and methods from ecological and physical sciences and their application in environmental problem solving.

• Appreciate the ethical, cross-cultural, and historical context of environmental issues and the links between human and natural systems.

• Reflect critically about their roles and identities as citizens, consumers and environmental actors in a complex, interconnected world.

• To understand major International Relation Theories and Geo-politics

• To familiar with international institutions and global governance

• To understand the stakes of Bangladesh in world order

• To present the multiple dimensions of poverty and how they can be measured.

• To explore both the proximate and deeper factors that trap people in poverty or assist them to escape poverty.

• To compare trends in poverty reduction across continents and regions and to consider the key factors accounting for these trends.

• To examine the impact of international interventions and initiatives on efforts to eradicate poverty.

• Identify the key activities in the project life cycle.

• Recognize the components of a project charter and how to be appropriately scale them based on the size of a project.

• Understand the role of the “triple constraint” in project management and apply it in determining project scope.

• Keep projects on track by managing project risks and effectively using a communication plan.

• Capture valuable project lessons and use them to define and improve project management practices within your organization.

• Introducing students to qualitative research methods and discussing the appropriateness of these methods for different areas of research and types of research questions.

• Exposing students to insights in the practice of qualitative research and encouraging them to experiment in the use of the fundamental methods for qualitative data collection and analysis.

• Sharing experience in collecting, analysing, and reporting from qualitative research, and discussing the challenges and opportunities of publishing qualitative research.

• Acquire theoretical knowledge in the field of urban and rural sociology and anthropology

• Develop analytical insight in urban and rural development problems using sociological and anthropological theory

• Gain insight into the contribution that development sociology and anthropology can make to rural and urban development policy

• Acquire and practice general academic skills

• To improve understanding of disaster risk management concept, framework and approaches

• To improve capacity on disaster preparedness, response and recovery

• To identify and apply suitable disaster risk reduction measures

• To understand the cross-cutting issues in disaster risk management and able to take appropriate measures to address them.

• Economic development under colonialism, the colonial legacy, population, trade and development, land reform, the Green Revolution, industrialization strategies, distribution of the gains from development and growth.

• Political economy of institutions and research methodology in political economy.

• The students will learn the techniques of research and how to design a viable research.

• They will concentrate on selection and formulation of a research problem and write a successful research proposal based on an identified research problem.

• To construct pertinent methodology

• Collecting real life data and data management

• Analyzing data, presentation of information and report writing

• To assess the student’s overall and in-depth understandings about the core issues, concepts, theories, debates, discussions in the field of development that he/she has learnt throughout the previous semesters of undergraduate level.

• To give the students the opportunity to revitalize their already gained knowledge.

• To make the “would be graduates” competent for the job market.

• Comprehensive Viva Voce and Thesis Defence is a verbal counterpart to students’ written thesis. Thesis demonstrates students’ skills at presenting their research in writing. In the viva examination, a student will demonstrate his/her ability to participate in academic discussion with research colleagues.