DOON UNIVERSITY DEHRADUN

SSR PART-II
DOON UNIVERSITY, DEHRADUN
1. Name of the Department:
Department of Economics, School of Social Sciences.
(Note: As per the DPR of the university the School has three departments
under its purview. Department of Economics, Department of Social Work and
Department of Psychology. However, only one department is on operation
since 2010)
2. Year of establishment:
July 2010
3. Is the Department part of a School/Faculty of the university?
Yes, Department of Economics is part of School of Social Sciences, Doon
University
(Note: However, as per the mandate of the University, all the departments and
schools ought to foster interdisciplinary learning and research. Therefore,
although the Department of Economics is operationally governed as a part of
School of Social Sciences, in the academic front, it supports and takes support
from other departments and Schools such as School of Management, School of
Environment and Natural Resources, School of Languages and School of
Communication.)
4. Names of programmes offered (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated
Masters; Integrated Ph.D., D.Sc., D.Litt., etc.)
The School currently offers three programmes as below.
a) MA Economics -Two Years (Intake Capacity-20): Eligibility for Admission
–through University Entrance after a Bachelor’s Degree from any recognized
University
b) MSc Economics -Five Years Integrated (Intake Capacity-60): Eligibility
for Admission –through University Entrance after a 10+2 Degree from any
recognized Board
c) MPhil/PhD in Economics (Intake Capacity-3): Eligibility for Admission –
through University Entrance after a Master’s Degree from any recognized
University
5. Interdisciplinary programmes and departments involved`
At the current juncture, no academic discipline can remain truly isolated from
other disciplines and the Department of Economics is no exception. Some
elements of such inter disciplinary nature of the programmes and courses are
as below.
Mathematics, Statistics and Computers: Economics curriculum contains a
significant coverage of quantitative techniques that require skills in
mathematics, statistics and computation. Therefore, it becomes necessary for
the department to rely of experts with these background both from other
schools of the University as well as from outside the university.
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