The department of Political Science is a part of the glorious heritage of St. Xavier’s College. As a community of Students and Faculty, the Department is committed to academic freedom and equal access to education. Our ultimate aim is to enable our diverse student body to become successful and influential professionals in their future academic, political and social life.

Objectives

With the acceptance of Autonomy from the academic session July 2006, the college provided an enormous challenge in terms of the opportunity to frame its own syllabus. The department has used this opportunity to frame its syllabus in ways so that the students get introduced to more contemporary themes with a definite focus.

Syllabus

The department provides comprehensive programme of instruction in the fundamental areas of the discipline: political institutions and processes, development and transformation of theory and concepts, understanding different approaches to political analysis, political sociology, public administration and the legal contexts necessary for understanding politics and debates about it. The opportunity given by autonomy is being used by the department to make changes in the syllabus with the help of a rich Board of Studies, so that the syllabus is not fossilized.