Course Type | Course Code | No. Of Credits |
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Foundation Core | SH3DP101 | 2 |
Semester and Year Offered: Semester 1
Course Coordinator and Team: Program Coordinator
Email of course coordinator:
Pre-requisites:
Course Objectives/Description:
The aim of this orientation (duration 10 days) is to familiarize the learner with the experience, practice and concept of rural engagement. In this course, learners explore their feelings, assumptions, images, and thoughts about rural India. Through this course, learners learn to experience the rural, engage with families and groups in a village to understand their world views, and evolve their own preliminary understandings of the rural context. It is expected that at the end of this phase learners will have made a preliminary assessment of the realities and existential dilemmas of an action researcher in the development sector and their own interest in such a life-path.
Course Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course students will be able to:
Brief description of modules/ Main modules: Not a taught course
Assessment Details with weights:
Reflective paper: Motivation to work with the rural community
Reading List: Its a workshop course with experiential learnings.