Course Name: Regional Development and Planning
Paper Code: GGY - HC - 5016
Course objectives
This paper is a core paper that intends to introduce students to the rationale underlying the relevance of balanced regional development and spatial inequalities in geography
It seeks to develop new insights among students on the issue of development and disparities among geographical regions
Course outcomes
The paper will be useful for students in developing ideas on disparities within and between countries and their fallout.
The paper will help provide theoretical insights and perspectives to students if they wish to pursue a research programme in future.
The paper be very useful for students preparing for UGC NET-JRF / SLET exam and other competitive exams including civil services.
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Regional Planning and Development
1. Definition of Region, Evolution and Types of Regional planning: Formal, Functional, and Planning Regions and Regional Planning; Need for Regional Planning; Types of regional Planning.
2. Choice of a Region for Planning: Characteristics of an Ideal Planning Region; Delineation of Planning Region; Regionalization of India for Planning (Agro Ecological Zones)
3. Theories and Models for Regional Planning: Growth Pole Model of Perroux; Growth Centre Model in Indian Context; Myrdal, Hirschman, Rostow and Friedmann; Village Cluster
4. Concept of Development and Regional Disparity, Concept of sustainable development, Measuring development: Indicators (Economic, Social and Environmental); Human development.
5. Planning regions of India with special reference to North-East India
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Course Name: Field Techniques in Geography
Paper Code: GGY - HC - 5026
Course objectives: The paper Field Work and Research Methodology is of pedagogical importance as it lets students acquire the first hand experience about the geography of a particular region. It also help to gather required information so as the problem under investigation is studied in depth as per the predefined objectives.
Course outcomes
● This course will help students to proceed with a research problem and the steps she/he should adopt and the tools and craft to be employed which doing quality research.
● Students perceive fieldwork to be beneficial to their learning because through it they experience ‘geographical reality’, have deeper understanding of the subject,
● The students will have a chance to interact with respondents and collect data through questionnaire directly from the field.
● Develop understanding about designing and writing a field report.
Field Work and Research Methodology (Practical)
1. Field Work In Geographical Studies – Role, Value, Data and Ethics of Field-Work
2. Defining the Field and Identifying the Case Study – Rural / Urban / Physical / Human / Environmental.
3. Field Tools and Techniques – Merits, Demerits and Selection of the Appropriate Technique; Observation (Participant / Non Participant), Questionnaires (Open/ Closed / Structured / Non-Structured); Interview with Special Focus on Focused Group Discussions; Space Survey (Transects and Quadrants, Constructing a Sketch)
4. Surveying: Concept of ground surveying, Plane and Geodetic Surveying, Conduct of Surveying using Plane Table (Radial Method and Intersection Method) and Prismatic Compass (Open Traverse and Closed Traverse).
5. Field study (within the country/neighbouring countries) and preparation of field report – Aims and Objectives, Methodology, Analysis, Interpretation.
Practical Record
1. Each student will prepare an individual report based on primary and secondary data collected during field work.
2. The duration of the field work should not exceed 10 days.
3. The word count of the report should be about 8000 to 12,000 excluding figures, tables, photographs, maps, references and appendices.
4. One copy of the report on A 4 size paper should be submitted in soft binding.
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Course Name: Climate Change: Vulnerability and Adaptation
Paper Code: GGY-HE-5016
Course objectives
● To make the students understand that climate change is a continuous process in both global and regional environments.
● To impact information and knowledge about the impacts of climate change and the different modes of human adaptation to climate change.
● To educate the students that climate change is a global issue and its management needs global concern and co-operation.
Course outcomes
● The students will acquire knowledge and skill to detect the noticeable impacts of climate change in their vicinity.
● (ii) The students may join various govt. and non-govt. agencies dealing with climate change study and mitigation.
● (iii) The students will be able to know the extent to which the people and their economic activities are vulnerable to climatic changes and may suggest some adaptation strategies to the affected people, especially in the agricultural sector.
Climate Change: Vulnerability and Adaptation
1. Science of Climate Change: Understanding Climate Change; Green House Gases and Global Warming; Global Climatic Assessment- IPCC
2. Climate Change and Vulnerability: Physical Vulnerability; Economic Vulnerability; Social Vulnerability
3. Impact of Climate Change: Agriculture and Water; Flora and Fauna; Human Health
4. Adaptation and Mitigation: Global Initiatives with Particular Reference to South Asia.
5. National Action Plan on Climate Change; Local Institutions (Urban Local Bodies, Panchayats)
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Course Name: Social and Political Geography
Paper Code: GGY-HG-5026
Unit I : Social Geography
1. Social Geography: Concept, Origin, Nature and Scope.
2. Peopling Process of India: Technology and Occupational Change; Migration.
3. Social Categories: Caste, Class, Religion, Ethnicity and Gender and their Spatial distribution
4. Geographies of Welfare and Well being: Concept and Components – Healthcare, Housing and Education.
5. Social Geographies of Inclusion and Exclusion, Slums, Gated Communities, Communal Conflicts and Crime.
Unit II Political Geography
1. Introduction: Concepts, Nature and Scope.
2. State, Nation and Nation State – Concept of Nation and State, Attributes of State – Frontiers, Boundaries, Shape, Size, Territory and Sovereignty, Concept of Nation State; Geopolitics; Theories (Heartland and Rimland)
3. Electoral Geography – Geography of Voting, Geographic Influences on Voting pattern,
Geography of Representation, Gerrymandering.
4. Political Geography of Resource Conflicts – Water Sharing Disputes, Disputes and Conflicts Related to Forest Rights and Minerals.
5. Politics of Displacement: Issues of relief, compensation and rehabilitation: with reference to Dams and Special Economic Zones
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Course Name: Urban Geography
Paper Code: GGY - HE - 5056
Course objectives
This paper introduces students to the field of urban geography and its specificities
It seeks to develop new insights among students on the relevance of an urban economy and geography and associated problems in a rapidly urbanizing world.
Course outcomes
The paper will be useful for students in developing ideas on how geographical factors organize urban spaces and how geographers seek to address city specific problems and issues.
It will build skills for students seeking to enrol in a research programme and/or provide openings for them with urban/city planning agencies.
Urban Geography
1. Urban geography: Introduction, nature and scope
2. Patterns of Urbanisation in developed and developing countries
3. Functional classification of cities: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
4. Urban Issues: problems of housing, slums, civic amenities (water and transport)
5. Case studies of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Guwahati and Chandigarh with reference to Land use and Urban Issues
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Course Name: Agricultural Geography
Paper Code: GGY - HE - 5066
Course objectives
This paper introduces students to the field of agricultural geography and its specificities
It seeks to develop new insights among students on the relevance of agriculture and allied activities shape the economy and geography of an area, region, country or the globe.
Course outcomes
The paper will be useful for students in developing ideas on how geographical factors tangent on agricultural activities and how geographers seek to address issues of agricultural development and agricultural disparities.
It will build skills for students seeking to enrol in a research programme and/or provide openings for them with agricultural /rural planning agencies
Agricultural Geography
1. Defining the Field: Introduction, nature and scope; Land use/ land cover definition and classification.
2. Determinants of Agriculture: Physical, Technological and Institutional
3. Agricultural Regions of India: Agro-climatic, Agro-ecological & Crop Combination Regions.
4. Agricultural Systems of the World (Whittlesey’s classification) and Agricultural Land use model (Von Thuenen, modification and relevance).
5. Agricultural Revolutions in India: Green, White, Blue, Pink
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