About Department:
The department was established in the year 1956. It offers economics as one of the main subjects for graduate studies. It approaches a selective and scientific methodology to teach economics. For the first year students, a bridge course is offered to introduce them to the subject. Class room sections are interactive in nature and a wide range of reading materials are supplied to the students.
Courses Offered:
Name of the Course: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics
Programme Outcomes:
- Understanding the methods of Economic Analysis
- Understanding the graphical presentation of functional relationship between various economic variables
- Developing an insight into the contemporary economic situations by observing the ups and downs of macroeconomic variables.
- Presentation Skills – The students are advised to present their assignment topics at the end of the semester using power point tools.
- Analytical Skills – Both micro and macro economics involves the explanation of theories in an analytical way along with additional statistics; which helps the students to develop their analytical skills.
- Critical Evaluation Skills – It is not just presentation of facts but the a through critical evaluation of the earlier theories, which enables them to develop critical evaluation skills.
- Developing Reading habits – The course content recommends the students to read different reading materials which are helpful to develop reading habits among them.
Better Cognitive and Perspective Skills – Assignments related to news paper readings and contemporary economic issues helps students to be alert and follow the newspaper articles daily and develop better cognitive and perspective skills.