History Departments

Program and Courses

Program and Course Outcomes-  

Objectives

• Students will learn the common course of human history.
• Students will learn to understand the world contextually and to understand, analyze, and evaluate both evidence and arguments and thus they will have an argumentative personality.
• Students will learn to explain how and why important events happen and change over time occurs.
• Students will learn to create knowledge and communicate it to others both orally and in writing.

The students of the department of History of Kalyani Mahavidyalaya completing the Honours course under the guidance of the University of Kalyani should come into sight with the following information and skills:

History

Learn a basic description of specific historical events either Indian or foreign. The syllabi basically focus the Indian history from pre historic period with its socio-political and economic development throughout the ages. The politico economic description of transitional period comes under vivid scrutiny along with world historical ones.

Critical Reading

We try to distinguish primary and secondary sources and the places from where they can gather and assess primary historical evidences. The department try to point out to have historical ideas, arguments, and points of view. Therefore the sense of historiography we try to infuse among them. In searching of primary sources we try to learn them about the historicity of a particular source, so that the interpretation given by them stands in a argument. In this course students are instructed to write a note on particular topic evaluating competing interpretations in the secondary historical literature. The course teach them the particular points as follows-

1. The location of relevant primary and secondary sources.
2. The logical structure of the paper.
3. The preparation of endnotes / footnotes.
4. The paper’s bibliography.
5. Assess the credibility of primary and secondary sources.

After completion of the course (both Honours and General Degree Course Respectively) the students become familiar with the History of

Honours Course:

• History of India up to 650 A.D.
• History of India from 650 to 1556 A.D
• The Rise of Modern West (15th to 18th Centuries)
• History of Europe from 1789 to 1919 A D
• History of India from 1556 to 1757
• History of India from 1757 to 1964
• History of China and Japan from 1839 to 1949
• Trends in World Politics

General Degree Course:

• Indian History (Pre-historic times to Sixteenth Century A.D.
• Indian History (C. 1526 to C. 1914 A.D)
• Indian History (C. 1526 to C. 1914 A.D )
• India and the World 1914 – 1964: Selected Themes

 Outcomes 

• Students will show the awareness of the chronology, account, major events, personalities and turning points of the history of India, Europe, and China and Japan.
• Students will offer multi-causal explanations of major historical developments based on a contextualized analysis of interrelated political, social, economic, cultural and intellectual processes.
• Students will correctly extract evidence from primary sources by analyzing and evaluating them in relation to their cultural and historical context and use them to reconstruct the history of the past by their argument.
• To learn to explain historical continuity and change
• To learn describe the influence of political ideologies, economic structures, social organization, cultural perceptions, and natural environments on historical events.
• Evaluate debates among historians.
• Formulate historical questions.
• Identify gaps in available records.

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