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Ashoka University’s undergraduate course curriculum is taught across three semesters: Spring, Summer and Monsoon (Fall). Courses are broadly divided into three categories – Foundation Courses (core curriculum), Major & Minor Courses and Co-Curricular Courses.
You may search courses offered at Ashoka here. Please use the drop down menu to choose the specific semester and subject to see the full list of courses under each department. Foundation courses are offered in all semesters and do not have prerequisites. Offerings in other categories differ in each semester. Some higher level major/minor courses may have prerequisites.
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Policymakers are increasingly adopting behavioural science to tackle profound policy challenges. While traditional policy tools focus on financial resources, laws and incentives, a behavioural science approach focuses on human biases, heuristics, social norms, and choice architecture. Borrowing from various long-standing disciplines such as psychology, economics, sociology, and neuroscience, behavioural science has helped tackle complex development challenges, such as improving education outcomes by enhancing student learning, raising savings rates, promoting energy and water conservation, improving sanitation practices, empowering women, improving health and nutrition outcomes for women and children and strengthening institutions, among others.
The course teaches to solve complex social problems with a keen understanding of human behaviour. The goal of this course is to help students think creatively and critically about public policy issues by providing an understanding of how behavioral science can be used to understand policies in the real world. The course will introduce cutting-edge research in behavioral science and its implications for public policy. In this course, students will learn the fundamental principles of applied behavioural science and explore how these principles can be used for public policy and programme implementation, and drive change in the broader social ecosystem through lectures, behavioural games and case studies in the Indian context.
