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 Catalogue
Course Code: GED 303
Course Name:
Introduction to Dance
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
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.
Course Code: GED 309
Course Name:
Classical Sociological Theory
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course explores the work of the four founders of sociological thinking: Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Simmel. Students will read on issues ranging from the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the rise of the nation-state and bureaucracy, and the division of labor in modern society, to the mental reaction to the metropolis. Through the reading of these complex writings, the course will provide a thorough understanding of the promises and curses of modernity, as they are perceived within competing sociological frameworks.
Course Code: GED 311
Course Name:
Bangla for Print Media
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
An Introduction to Bangla language: Shadhu Bangla, Standard Bangla of Bangladesh, standard Colloquial Bangla, Dialects, Usage of loan words and translation, Standard Bangla spelling, Sentence structure, modern trend, punctuation. Composition: Editorial, Post-editorial, Column, reporting feature writing, editing.
Course Code: GED 312
Course Name:
Bangla for Electronic Media
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
An Introduction to Bangla Language: Shadhu Bangla, Standard Bangla of Bangladesh, Standard Colloquial Bangla, Dialects, Usage of loan words and translation. Speech synthesis: pronunciation, intonation, pitch, speed, punctuation/scanning. Loud reading: subjective reading, objective reading, reading with content attachment, throwing, expression. Desk work: report writing, desk reporting, new working, news transfer, translation. Presentation: Confidence, out-fit.
Course Code: GED 322
Course Name:
Modern Bangla Literature (2)*
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is to endow the students with an all-inclusive notion of the Modern Bangla Literature (18th to mid-20th century). The course includes theoretical discussions on selected works by major Bangla literary figures of the period. The course is divided into following three sections: (I) Poetry: Jibananda Das, Sudhindranath Datta, Bishnu Dey, Abul Hussein (II) Prose: Manik Bandhopadhya, Bibhutibushan Bandhapadhya, Humayun Kabir and Syed Mujtaba Ali; and (III) Drama: Sachin Sen Gupta, Tulsi Lahiri, Nurul Momen and Bijon Bhattacharya.
* This course will be taught in Bangla
Course Code: GED 323
Course Name:
Logic
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course will examine various philosophical issues arising in the foundations of logic, such as the following: existence, definite description, reference and truth, semantic paradoxes, implication and presupposition, modalities and “possible worlds,” logical truth, the nature of logical knowledge, and logic in natural language.
Course Code: GED 324
Course Name:
Experiencing the Past
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course is planned to generate in the students a tactile experience of behavior and culture of the past. It will begin with a socio-political overview of a particular period of pre-modern history of Bengal. Thereafter, the students will explore, by means of field survey methods, one archaeological site of the period and record material evidences at the site with the help of various documentation techniques. Finally, they will reconstruct the past in the same landscape with the help of drawings, models, photographs, graphs, charts etc. The course will be offered during the semester break in the winter.