Jadavpur University - [JU], Kolkata - Master of Arts [M.A]

Compulsory Courses for Comparative Literature:

• Approaches of Comparative literature.
• Narrative Mode-I.
• Narrative Mode-II.
• Narrative Mode-III.
• Dramatic Mode-I.
• Dramatic Mode-II.
• Lyric Mode-I.
• Lyric Mode-II.
• Literary Transactions-I.
• Literary Transactions-II.
• Literary Transactions-III.
• Contemporary Approaches to Literature.
• Comparative Cultural Studies
• Cross-Cultural Literary Studies.

Optional Courses:
Area Studies:

• The literature of Africa, Course-I.
• The literature of Bangladesh, Course-I.
• The literature of Canada, Course-I.
• The literature of Latin America, Course-I.
• The literature of Africa, Course-II.
• The literature of Bangladesh Course-II.
• The literature of Canada, Course-II.
• The literature of Latin America, Course-II.

• Course-work:
• Film Language.
• Early Film Forms.
• Non-fiction Film.
• Hollywood Cinema and its Peripherals.
• Film Theory-I.
• Cinematic Realism in Global Context
• Indian Cinema: Industry and popular Forms.
• New waves across the World.
• Film theory-II.
• Indian Cinema: Alternative Practices
• Television and Popular Culture in India
• Practical Filmmaking
• Globalization, Culture and New Media.
• Film Practice in the Digital Era
• Film Theory 3
• Contemporary Asian Cinema
• Dissertation.

• Indian Historiography: Highlights.
• Modern India, 1885-1947.
• Life and Thought in Bengal
• The Twentieth-Century World: Global Capitalism and Its Contestations.

Semester-II

• History and Historiography.
• Postcolonial India, 1947-1977.
• Life and Thought in Bengal
• The Twentieth-Century World: An Age of Extremes?
• Economic Development and the Growth of World Capitalism.

Semester-III

• The Social and Political Impact of the Industrial Revolutions.
• Environmental History of South Asia.
• East Asia: History of Modern Japan.
• Modern Indian Political Thought: Liberalism and Idealism.
• Medieval Indian History, 1300-1800: Political Culture.
• Themes on Early Indian Society and Religion: (up to the Thirteenth Century).
• OR
• Politics in Bengal, 1911-1947.
• OR
• History of the United States, 1775-1850.
• OR
• European History: Russia, Socialism and the Russian Revolution.
• Early Indian Political Ideas and Institutions.
• OR
• Regional History – The Functioning of the State in Eastern India in the Late Medieval/ Early Modern Period.
• OR
• Social History of Modern India: Colonialism, Nationalism and Beyond.
• OR
• Twentieth-Century US.
• OR
• Capitalism, Modernisation and the Instability of Liberal Hegemony in Western Europe.
• OR
• Economic Changes in Colonial India: A case study of Bengal.
• OR
• Social History of Science and Technology: Magic, Science, Religion and Belief from the Ancient World to the Scientific Revolution.
• OR
• The Rise of the British Empire in a Global Perspective: Warfare, Technology and Societies in Transition 1700-1850.

Semester-IV

• History of Modern China: 1840-1980.
• OR
• History of Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Indo China and Thailand in the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Modern Indian Political Thought – Communalism, Humanism and Socialism and Dalitology.
• OR
• Modern Western Political Thought: The State, Society and Democracy.
• OR
• Medieval Indian History, 1300-1800: Economy and Culture.
• History of Indian Culture till 12th century.
• OR
• Regional History: Colonialism, Nationalism and Regionalism: The Assam Experience 1823-1947.
• OR
• Social History of Modern India: Colonial and Post-colonial History of the Margins.
• OR
• History of the U S A: The Civil War and Emergence of Modern America.
• OR
• European History: Socialism: The Soviet Experience.
• OR
• Economic Changes in Colonial India: North-eastern India/ North-western India/ Southern India/ Western India.
• OR
• Social History of Science and Technology in India: the Colonial phase.
• OR
• War, Society, Culture and Colonialism in South Asia, 1770-1947.
• I) Material Culture, Progress and the Intellectual Milieu in Early India.
• ii) Regional History: History of Punjab with special reference to the History of the Sikhs: from the late seventeenth century to the mid-nineteenth century (c. 1699- 1849).
• iii) Social History of Modern India: Colonial perceptions, Social changes, Political will and popular participation.
• The Far Side of the Dollar: Twentieth Century USA from the Great Depression to the Imperialism of Our Times.
• European History: Socio-cultural and Political Movements and Ideologies in Europe.
• State, Industry and Planning: Colonial and Post-colonial India.
• From Scientific Revolution to Modern Science.
• Science in Traditional and Modern World: Mesopotamia, Sinic World and the World of the Indigenous Tribes of the Americas.
• The Age of Total War 1790-1945.

• Logic (Indian)
• Logic (western)
• Epistemology (Indian)
• Epistemology (western)
• Ethics (Indian)
• Ethics (western)
• Philosophy of Language (Indian)
• Philosophy of Language (western)
• Metaphysics (Indian)
• Metaphysics (western)
• Phenomenology and Existentialism.
• Advaita Vedanta-I
• Advaita Vedanta-I
• Buddhism-I
• Buddhism-II
• Feminist Philosophy-I
• Feminist Philosophy-II.
• Logic-I
• Logic-II
• Philosophy of Mind-I
• Philosophy of Mind-II
• Philosophy of Science-I
• Philosophy of Science-II
• Social and Political Philosophy-I: Western social and political thought.
• Social and Political Philosophy-I: Western social and political thought.
• Modern Indian thought.
• Philosophical Approaches to Consciousness: Indian and Western.