OPTIONAL SUBJECTS:
ANTHROPOLOGY-
INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY, METHODS, SUB-DISCIPLINES
AND OTHER ISSUES. BASIC CONCEPT OF
SOCIAL CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY – MARRIAGE.
ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES.
DEFINITION OF ANTHROPOLOGY – ITS BRANCHES :
BIOLOGICAL, ARCHAEOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND LINGUISTICS. DEFINITION OF SUB DISCIPLINES OF BIOLOGICAL,
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY. RELATIONSHIP OF
ANTHROPOLOGY WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES. CONCEPTS OF ORIGINS OF LIFE, THEORIES OF
ORGANIC EVOLUTION LAMARCKISM AND DARWINISM. SYNTHETIC THORY OF EVOLUTION, COPES
LAW, DOLL’S LAW, ADAPTIVE RADIATION.
GEOGRAPHY –
FACTORS CONTROLLING AND FORM DEVELOPMENT, ENDOGENETIC AND
EXOGENETIC FORCES, MARINE RESOURCES, MARINE ENVIRONMENT AND SEDIMENTS, LAWS OF
THE SEA, EE2, CR2, CORAL REEFS. MARINE
PROVINES, SUBMARINE TOPOGRAPHY OF INDIAN, ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS, MAJOR
BOTTOM RELIEF FEATURES, MARINE SEDIMENTATION, MARINE BROMES AND PHYLUM TIDES.
HISTORY –
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND, GERMAN AND
RUSSIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION, ENLIGHTENMENT – MAIN IDEAS, THINKERS, COLONIES ETC.
BENGALI LITERATURE –
ORIGINS OF BENGALI LANGUAGE, PHONOLOGY AND
MORPHOLOGY, CHANGE OF SOUND AND BOISHNAVAPADABALI, ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF
BENGALI LITERATURE, EMERGENCE OF BENGALI LITERATURE.
POLITICAL SCIENCE & INTL. RELATIONS-
WESTERN
POLITICAL THOUGHT : GREEK POLITICAL THOUGHT, PLATO’S POLITICAL THOUGHT:
NATIONAL
INTEREST; POWER; BALANCE OF POWER.
SECURITY, DETERRENCE; TRANSNATIONAL ACTORS (NON STATE); GLOBALIZATION ; COLD
WAR; BIPOLARITY; ARMS RACE; NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT TILL END OF COLD WAR.
SOCIOLOGY-
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY – WHAT IS
SOCIETY? WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY? HOW TO STUDY SOCIETY? DIFFERENT WAYS OF CONCEIVING
OF SOCIETY, POSITIVISM – INTERPRETIVISM – SOCIOLOGY AND COMMON SENSE, SOCIOLOGY
AND OTHER SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGICAL THINKERS.
