The course is designed to study various academic and applied disciplines involving the scientific study of mental processes and behavior, perception, cognition, emotion, personality and interpersonal relationships. This includes many sub-fields of study application concerned with areas such as human developments, sports, health, industry, law and spirituality. Diverse schools of thought will be also discussed under this course.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: GED 232
Course Name:
Introduction to Psychology
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: GED 233
Course Name:
Introduction to Science Studies
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
What exactly is “science”? How do scientific ideas become knowledge? How does our society, government, and culture understand and respond to science and medicine? The interdisciplinary field of science studies is introduced through exploration of topics that include gender and science, cultural studies of medicine, and the “science wars.”
Course Code: GED 234
Course Name:
Introduction to Mind and Behavior
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will investigate the puzzling relationship between mind and matter. Most people can see the plausibility of two different institutions: (i) our minds and our bodies are different (our minds just don’t seem physical as our bodies do, even to the extent that the laws of physics do not apply); (ii) brains are the seats of minds, which makes minds very much material. To accept one option and take it that our minds are material means we have to explain how the world of matter can generate mental phenomena; and this is no easy task. The other option is also problematic: if we take mind and matter to be entirely separate substances, the how and why of their interaction is just mysterious. Indeed, the explanational gap is very similar in either case.
Course Code: GED 263
Course Name:
Modern Bangla Literature (1)*
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course is designed to provide the students with a comprehensive idea of the Modern Bangla Literature (18th to mid-20th century). The course includes theoretical discussions of some important selected works by major Bangla writers of the period. The course is divided into following three sections: (I) Poetry: Michael Madhusudan Datta, Rabindranath Tagore, Qazi Nazrul Islam and Jasim Uddin; (II) Prose: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Meer Musharraf Hussain, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarat Chandra Chatterjee and Pramath Chawdhury; and (III) Drama: Michal Madhusudan Datta, Dinabandhu Mitra, Rabindranath Tagore and Dijandralal Roy.
* This course will be taught in Bangla
Course Code: GED 301
Course Name:
Development Studies
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course explores a range of substantive debates in development by drawing on empirical and theoretical work from the disciplines of economics, political science, sociology and anthropology. The course aims to provide students with a broad understanding of current debates on development. Topics include various theories of development and their history, demography, development economics, development anthropology, development geography, environmental development, development management, economic history.
Course Code: GED 302
Course Name:
History of World Art and Architecture
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will look at the history of world art and architecture from the beginning to the present. Through this course students will learn about the patterns of development in the field of art and architecture; world famous monuments, paintings, sculptures and minor art objects, major artists, architects and also methods of interpretation. In addition to examining visual strategies of representation, the course explores the varied ways in which art reflects and shapes social, religious, and political concerns.
Course Code: GED 303
Course Name:
Introduction to Dance
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course provides a basic understanding of history of dance, its various forms, theory and practices. Topics include dance and the human body and mind, dance and society, folk dance, popular or social dance, theatrical dance, Asian classical dance.
Course Code: GED 304
Course Name:
Anthropology and Global Social Problems
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course introduces anthropology approaches to some of the central problems humans face around the world, including environmental degradation and cultures of consumption, hunger and affluence, war, racial division and other forms of inequality. The goal is to challenge our beliefs about some taken for granted assumptions about human behavior and psyche by examining cultures with different conceptions of personality, self and cognition. Will examine the issues of the role of nature and nurture in development, the nature of intelligence, coming of age, the association of psychological characteristics with gender and the naturalness of emotions.
Course Code: GED 305
Course Name:
International Human Rights
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course is planned to study human rights, primarily from an international perspective, including civil, political, social, and economic rights, self-determination, and minority rights. In addition to dealing with theoretical questions of universalism and relativism, it will also explore the controversies surrounding the contemporary practice of human rights, with special emphasis on the role of politics in their interpretation, implementation, and enforcement.
Course Code: GED 308
Course Name:
Introduction to Philosophy (2)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course provides major philosophers contributions to philosophy and a focused analysis of their theory of knowledge, especially the links between power, discourse, and knowledge. This will also introduce the methods and issues of contemporary analytic philosophy in the field of epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and decision theory. Students can also explores some of the basic issues in aesthetics, including representation, expression, the definition of ‘art’, and conceptions of individual artworks, from a contemporary analytic perspective.