The catalogue of core courses required for the major includes 11 courses of 4 credits each offered by the Department, 3 courses of 4 credits each offered by the School, and an undergraduate dissertation of 12 credits. This amounts to a total of 68 credits. The courses along with credit weightage are listed as follows:
- Logic and Scientific Methods (4)
- Academic Writing (4)
- Introduction to International Relations (4)
- Global History and International Relations (4)
- Understanding Modernity (4)
- India in World Affairs (4)
- International Organizations and Global Governance (4)
- Theorizing International Relations (4)
- Global Political Thought (4)
- Interrogating Histories and Theories of Economic Development (4)
- Knowing and Governing Ecosystems and Economies (4)
- International Security (4)
- Science, Technology and International Relations (4)
- International Law and World Politics (4)
- Undergraduate Dissertation (12)
Students are expected to take at least 10 courses of 4 credits each from the Department’s catalogue of major elective courses. The elective weightage is 40 credits. An illustrative list of Departmental elective courses is as follows:
- Cities of the Global South (4)
- Liberalism and its Critics (4)
- Agriculture in/vs the Environment: The Nation-State and Planetary Limits (4)
- Agri-Food Systems: Work and Technology in Contemporary Asia (4)
- Constitution, Governance and Politics in India (4)
- Understanding Bureaucracies (4)
- International Relations of Asia (4)
- International Thinking in Indian History (4)
- Literature and World Politics (4)
- Ecological Economics: Nature, Time, Justice (4)
- Comparative Constitutionalism (4)
- Inequality and Social Policy for Development (4)
- Science Diplomacy (4)
- China in World Affairs (4)
- India’s Development in Comparative Perspective (4)
- Deciphering Perceptions: Masking and Unmasking World Politics (4)
- Political Biographies and World Politics (4)
- Cinema and World Politics (4)
- Problem-Solving in International Relations (4)