MA (DLB) - OP Jindal Global University

‘Student-Centred Learning’ Approach to Teaching• Students will learn theories and develop analytical skills toconstruct informed generalisations.• Students will be probed to go beyond immediate news-makingevents and encouraged to perform deeper thinking about thewellsprings of particular phenomena.• Students will be familiarised with subtle power realities whichdrive political actors to violate or abide by human rights as wellas domestic and international laws.• Faculty members urge students to ask “how and why” politicalconsiderations trump legal and economic considerations, andtrain them to pose counter-factual ‘what-if/why-not’ scenarios.• Faculty members orient students to appreciate how internationallaw, politics and the global economy have co-evolved over time.• Classroom learning is supplemented by interactions withpractitioners from foreign diplomatic missions, businessassociations and international lawyers based in or visiting Delhi.The imperative of carrying forward classroom-based debates anddiscussions into publications is a cornerstone of the M.A. (DLB).ResearchAs India’s first global policy school, JSIA’s scholarly publicationsagenda is spearheaded by the following six faculty member-ledand student-driven thematic research centres, which rigorouslystudy challenges and offer solutions to contemporary worldproblems:• Centre for Global Governance and Policy (CGGP)• Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (CDN)• Centre for Emerging Economy Diplomacy (CEED)• Centre for Study of Political Violence (CSPV)• Centre for Africa, Latin America and Caribbean Studies(CALACS)• Centre for European Studies (CES)Jindal Journal of InternationalAffairs (JJIA)Jindal Journal of International Affairs (JJIA) is the main academicpublication of JSIA. Its inaugural edition was published in October2011 and has won critical acclaim.Careers for M.A. (DLB) Studentsa. Practitioner Track: Experienced practitioners who haveprofound knowledge and connections within intergovernmentaland non-governmental sectors assists students in finding theright internships in the United Nations system, otherintergovernmental, regional and non-governmentalorganisations, financial institutions, think tanks anddiplomatic missions.The curriculum of the M.A. (DLB) includes a mandatory GuidedInternship requirement that will go a long way into preparingoutgoing graduates for careers in the multiple opportunitiesafforded by ever-expanding career streams like peace andconflict resolution, international justice, international economicdevelopment, humanitarian relief, human rights advocacy,political and economic risk analysis etc. Graduates of JSIA areversatile international affairs professionals.b. Research Track: M.A. (DLB) students who aim at academiccareers are trained in social science theory and methods ofthe highest quality, so that they become eligible for admissionwith scholarship to Ph.D. programmes to top internationaluniversities. They will be identified early and mentored byfaculty members who specialise in various thematic issues andgeographical regions of the world.International CollaborationsJSIA provides rare opportunties for students to be taught by worldrenowned professors from prestigious international institutions.• JSIA was launched through astrategic partnership with theTokyo-based United NationsUniversity (UNU)’s Institute forSustainability and Peace. JSIA’sstudents can take credit coursesthrough video lecture formatfrom UNU’s Masters degree inSustainability, Development andPeace.• JSIA has entered into asemester abroad studentexchange programme withIndiana University’s Schoolof Public and EnvironmentalAffairs (SPEA), U.S.A. and theDepartment of Political Science,William Paterson UniversityU.S.A., wherein students cantake credit courses at these institutions, which are ranked amongthe top American graduate schools in international affairs.• JSIA has understandings with leading think-tanks such as TheBrookings Institution, U.S.A.; Global Foundation for Democracyand Development (GFDD) of the Dominican Republic; andGateway House, India, to provide internship opportunities forM.A. (DLB) students.Taiwan Education CentreJSIA hosts India’s first Taiwan Education Centre, which has beenestablished by National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan with thebacking of the Ministry of Education, Government of Taiwan. TheCentre is directed by a Taiwanese specialist in Mandarin Chineselanguage and imparts beginner’s, intermediate and advanced-levelMandarin lessons to students from JGU and other institutions. TheCentre is building a base of Chinese language specialists in India,whose relations with the Greater China region are increasinglycrucial for world order.