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DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCES  
       
     ACADEMIC PROGRAMS  
   
 
 
  • B.A. Honours
  • General Course for students with Honours in Other Arts Subjects.
     
 

     
    PRESENT FACULTY  
       
   
       
Name of the Teaching staff   Designation Highest qualification Specialization
               
  Sm. Kumkum Chattopadhyay   Associate Professor & Head of the Department   M.A. (1st Class)   International Relations & Public Administration
               
  Dr. Sima Kundu   Associate Professor   M.A., Ph.D.   Political Theory & Political Sociology
               
  Sm. Piku Dasgupta   Assistant Professor   M.A. (1st.class first)   Political Theory & Comparative Politics, International Relations
               
  Sm. Gargi Mukhopadhyay   Assistant Professor   M.A. (1st.class third)   Political Theory & Comparative Politics, Public
               
     
     
    RESEARCH ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT  
       
   
All the teachers of the Department are engaged in research and academic activities. Some of them also deliver lectures as resource persons.
  1. Sm. Kumkum Chattopadhyay has completed major part of her UGC Minor Research Project on 'Rabindranath and Developmental ethos'.
  2. Sm. Piku Dasgupta os doing a project on “Internal Marginalisation to Urban Vulnerabilities – a Case Study of Domestic Help in Kolkata.”
  3. Sm Piku Dasgupta and Sm. Gargi Mukhopadhyay have attended a Refresher Course at Jadavpur University on “Global Changes and Contemporary India” from 04.01.2020 – 27.01.2010.
  4. Sm. Kumkun Chattopadhyay has particilated in a Residential Sebsitivity Awareness Motivation Workshop under the Capacity Building of Women Managers in the Higher Education Scheme of the UGC organized by the Women’s Studies Centre, Rabindra Bhawan from 16.03.2010 – 20.03.2010.
  5. Sm. Piku Dasgupta delivered Special Lectures in Millia – Al – Ameen College in February 2010.
  6. Sm. Piku Dasgupta has been nominated as a member of the UG Board of Studies, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata.

All the teachers have publications in various books and journals to their credit

  1. Sm. Gargi Mukhopadhyay has contributed a chapter on “Globalisation in India: New Frontiers and Emerging Challenges” edited by Swapan Pramanik and Ramanuj Ganguly, PHI Learning Private Limited, New Delhi, 110001, 2010.
  2. Sm. Kumkum Chattopadhyay has published a paper on “Rabindranath and JagadishChandra in “Puro Pathik,” a Sharadiya Journal of the Kamarhati Municipalitym 2009.
     
 
       
     
   
    PAPIYA (DUTTA) ROY MEMORIAL LECTURE

 

 
    ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT  
     
 
Papiya (Dutta) Roy Memorial Lecture Srabonti Banerjee Memorial Lecture  

  • Since 2001, The Department conducts two endowment lectures each year (since 2001)
  1. Papiya (Dutta) Roy Memorial Lecture
  2. Srabonti Banerjee Memorial Lecture
  • Renowned Academicians are invited to deliver lectures to enrich both the students and the teachers. Prof. Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Prof. Mohit Bhattacharya, Prof. Sobhanlal Dutta Gupta, Prof. Rakhahari Chatterjee, Sri Debesh Das are a few of them.
     
  • This year Dr. Kushanana Chauhury, a visiting Fellow of Centre for Studies in Social Sciences and Prof. Sobhablal Dutta Gupta have deliverer the Papiya (Dutta) Roy Memorial Lecture and Srabanti Banerjee Memorial Lecture respectively.
     
  • The Department has a good seminar library and Book Bank to help the students all through the year.
     
  • Students are encouraged to present seminar papers on topics related to current affairs and of national and international relevance.
     
  • News reading sessions are held at regular intervals to help the students become conversant with local, national and international news.
     
  • Wall magazines on various political matters are prepared by the students if the department at regular intervals.
     
 
       
    EXTENSION ACTIVITIES  
       
    Teachers:

Sm. Kumkum Chattopadhyay publishes her stories, poems and novels in various magazines.
Her story “Binirman” has won The telegraph Salt Lake Super Souvenir 2009 award as the Best Fiction.
 

 
   
 

EXCURSION

  Students:
  • The students participate in Interdisciplinary Certificate Course on Ethics and Value Education organized jointly by the Department of Political Science and Philosophy in collaboration with the Women’s Studies Centre, Bethune College.
     
  • All the students take Computer course (Basic) and some take advance Computer course at the Webel Computer Training Centre located in the College.
     
  • Students participate in Intra college competitions and Annual Festival of the College.
Name of student Activity Award
Shalini Das Indipop, (Aalap – Bethune College Fest), 2009 1st
  Western Vocal Solo – Umang – Bhawanipur Educational Society Fest, 2009 1st
  Rabindra-sangeet - Intar College Competition 1st
Meera Dasgupta
Memorial Prize
Declared the best Music Talent of the College in 2010
 
 
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