26 July – 6 August 2021
Objective
The capacity building programme will engage with participants and provide them with intensive training on specific basic courses that form the core to teaching applied economics.
The course will do this by engaging in the content for teaching material, method of lecture delivery, and providing a teaching plan for a class. There will be an extra focus on delivering courses specifically through online mode of teaching. There will also be discussion on in-class activities that are possible in some of the topics and discussion related to evaluation in subjects while teaching a course.
Target Clientele
The programme welcomes Social Science teachers from colleges and university departments across India. The programme will have a strong orientation towards applied economics through faculty from other areas of social sciences and development studies could apply. Other things remaining the same, preference will be given to younger teachers.
Programme Structure
The course will have lectures across different modules which form the core to teaching applied economics. The course will consist of four modules that are core to teaching of applied economics:
Module 1: Microeconomics
Module 2: Macroeconomics
Module 3: Econometrics
Module 4: Issues in Indian Economy
Course Completion Certificate
Participants who successfully complete the programme will be given a course completion certificate.
Course Directors
Thiagu Ranganathan & P L Beena
Resource Persons
Prof. Sunil Mani
Prof. Praveena Kodoth
Prof. Irudaya Rajan
Prof. K N Harilal
Prof. Vinoj Abraham
Dr. M Parameswaran
Prof. K P Kannan
Prof. K J Joseph
Prof. Indira Devi
Prof. Manoj Panda
Prof. Mridul Eapen
Prof. Lekha Chakraborty
Prof. C Veeramani
Dr. Vijayamohan Pillai
Dr. Ravi Raman
Dr. Himanshu
Dr. Debajit Jha
Dr. P L Beena
Dr. Thiagu Ranganathan