Regulations, Curriculum and Syllabi

B.A. Public Policy

Programme Educational Objectives

• This Programme facilitates the progress of graduates from students into competent professionals capable of addressing complex, emerging real world issues
• We supplement our programme with NCC, through which we hope to instill a sense of discipline, resilience and patriotism.
• Through guest lectures, seminars and fieldwork featuring IAS/IPS/IRS officers, we hope to impart mastery over skills that our students can use to redress real-world problems. As such, this programme is ideal for those who seek to be a part of the steel frame of India.
• Our undergraduate curriculum is designed to provide an immersive experience preparing for the UPSC/IAS exam along with several other competitive exams. B.A. Public Policy is a programme that opens the doors to many prestigious employment opportunities with the government through over 130+ competitive exams.
• Encourage the students to advance a range of generic skills helpful in employment, internships, and social activities.
• Formulating business problems and provide innovative solutions to enable the students to be future ready management leaders who are compassionate and yet efficient.

Programme Outcomes

• Demonstrate competence in institute level specialized knowledge of Public Policy specialization as a solution to complex realworld problems.
• Use appropriate knowledge and skills to identify, formulate, analyze and solve complex problems in order to reach substantiated conclusions; able to comprehend solution to sustain problems originating in the diverse areas.
• Conduct investigations of complex problems by methods that include appropriate experiments, analysis, and interpretation of data and synthesis of information in order to reach valid conclusions. Search for, locate, extract, organise, evaluate, and use or present information that is relevant to a particular topic; identify the developments in various branches of Commerce and Business.
• Design solutions for complex, open-ended problems and to design systems, components or processes that meet specified needs with appropriate attention to health and safety risks, applicable standards, and economic, environmental, cultural and societal considerations. Ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking by understanding the concepts; ability to examine the results and apply them to various problems appearing indifferent branches.
• Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern accounting and IT tools including prediction and modeling to complex activities with an understanding of the limitations; Capable to use various technical ICT tools (like spreadsheet) for exploring, analysis, and using the information for business purposes.
• Work effectively as a member and leader in teams, preferably in a multi-disciplinary setting.
• Communicate complex concepts within the profession and with society at large. Such ability includes reading, writing, speaking and listening, and the ability to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, and to give and effectively respond to clear instructions.
• Understanding the roles and responsibilities of the professional in society, especially the primary role of protection of the public and the public interest.
• Analyze social and environmental aspects of activities. Such ability includes an understanding of the interactions that Commerce has with the economic, social, health, safety, legal, and cultural aspects of society, the uncertainties in the prediction of such interactions; and the concepts of sustainable design and development and environmental stewardship.
• Apply professional ethics, accountability, and equity. Able to ascertain unethical behaviour, falsification, and manipulation of information: To manage self and various social systems.
• Incorporate economics and business practices including project, risk, and change management into the practice and to understand their limitations. Capable to work independently in diverse projects and ensure detailed study of various facets.
• Motivate learners for lifelong learning abilities such as information-handling, entrepreneurial skills, self-esteem, decisionmaking, self-management, empathy, tolerance of others, creativity, a sense of humour, flexibility, adaptability, critical judgment, thinking, planning, practical skills, learning-to-learn, discussing and communicating, create values for life and build their character for lifetime.

Programme Specific Outcomes

• To give comprehensive knowledge of public policy and several other branches that includes politics, economics, sociology, governance etc.
• To help the students build a concrete footing for advanced studies in public policy and to stand with the requirement for employment.
• To equip the students with a world of work, particularly, work of the future. The student will get a first-hand exposure of working in the real world and providing an extreme and rigorous base for teaching, research, and allied business administrations.
• To develop managerial knowledge and tactical dexterity, with a broader skill set and encourages them to seek out audacious, innovative solutions for today‟s business, enable the students to formulate business problems and provide innovative solutions thus, molding them into future visionaries, management leaders that are compassionate yet efficient.