Undergraduate Studies

The programme is delivered through a total number of 96 credits over six semesters. In order to receive a BA (Hons) degree in Sociology, these credits must be earned in the following manner:

Total seats
44 seats (offered at Kashmere Gate campus)

Medium of instruction
English

Eligibility

Applicants need to have passed the class XII examination with at least 50% marks from CBSE or any recognised Board. (Relaxation of 5% marks for SC/ST/PwBD/D-OBC (NCL)/Defence/KM).

Selection Procedure

The selection will be based on merit on the basis of the marks obtained in class XII. Merit will be calculated on the basis of the best four subjects and will not include any vocational subjects as listed by CBSE.

Reservations norms of Government of NCT of Delhi will apply.

AUD caters primarily to the study of the humanities and the social sciences. It aims to bridge academic excellence with concerns of social justice and equity and aspires to make teaching and learning processes liberating undertakings that carry transformative potentials across diverse strata of society. The BA programmes housed in SUS are central to the University’s vision and offer students a unique liberal arts education that acquaints them with diverse approaches to knowledge. It aims to achieve a good balance between the range and depth of the subjects studied. The programmes aim at developing students’ critical awareness of relationship between self and society, and at questioning common sense assumptions of their everyday world. This is done through innovative pedagogies involving theoretical, methodological and transformative aspects of teaching-learning processes.

The seven programmes in the School offer courses which respond to societal questions at local, national, global levels. These are related to understanding of historical and contemporary perspectives on caste, class, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, language, disability, and the interactions between these factors. Study of these factors orients students towards a nuanced, humanistic and holistic understanding of the local, the national and the global perspectives. The interdisciplinary structure of the School enables the students to credit and audit courses across disciplines, and therefore develop cross-disciplinary perspective to the understanding of society.

The School not only aims at providing disciplinary and interdisciplinary education to students but at imparting a critical understanding of their own role as local, national and global citizens. The emergence of this understanding is also premised on the way in which the student is envisaged not merely as recipient of knowledge but as an active participant in production of the university itself as a space of emergence of critical understanding.