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.
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Emotions, Expressions and the Ego (Mind & Behaviour FC) Monsoon 2024 What is an emotion? What, if any, are the distinctions between passions, feelings, affects, sentiments, emotions (called “bhAva”-s in Indian psychology and theater theory) ? Are we always aware...
Know more »What kind of creature are you? A human being, no doubt. But what kind of creature is that? How should such a creature live? We will critically explore influential models of human nature in the Indic and Western philosophical traditions and...
Know more »Not all narratives become books and not all books are termed great. Many fabulous tales are transmitted orally and several terrific ideas are communicated through non-verbal means like art. Of the millions of stories and ideas and arguments that are...
Know more »GREAT BOOKS The Great Books course in Monsoon 2024 taught Professor Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Professor Gopalkrishna Gandhi will cover the following books in this order (the initials indicate who will be teaching which book): Isa Upanishad (RM) King Oedipus by Sophocles (RM)...
Know more »Books that act as political beacons are the focus of this course. Each one is a stellar example of the genre we know as narrative non-fiction, and each one has been cited and referred to by generations of scholars, practitioners,...
Know more »GREAT BOOKS: Course Abstract. Monsoon Semester, 2024 It is a truism that words mean something, and that they count for a great deal in life. However, the relation between thought, reality and time has always been a matter of debate....
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