Philosophy Department

Course and programmes available:

 

Under graduate (Honours and Regular) Affiliated to Bodoland University.


At Present the department has been using two different mode of curriculum:
(i) CBCS system (Six Semesters)
(ii) NEP/2020 (Eight Semesters)

PAPERS TAUGHT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY

(UNDER CBCS SYSTEM)

Major  & General Course

Semester

Honours/General

Paper code

Name of paper

1st

Honours

C.1

Indian Philosophy

1st

Honours

C.2

Logic

2nd

Honours

C.3

Greek Philosophy

2nd

Honours

C.4

Ethics

3rd

Honours

C.5

Western Philosophy

3rd

Honours

C.6

Social and Political philosophy

    

3rd 

Honours

C.7

Applied Ethics

4th

Honours

C.8

Text on Indian philosophy

4th

Honours

C.9

Text on Western philosophy

4th

Honours

C.10

Truth Functional Logic

5th

Honours

C.11

Analytic Philosophy

5th

Honours

C.12

Continental Philosophy

6th

Honours

C.13

Philosophy of Religion

6th

Honours

C.14

Philosophy of Language

Generic Elective(Inter Disciplinary),&Discipline Specific Core Course

Semester

Honours/General

Paper code

Name of paper

1st

Honours&General

GE-1/DSC-1

Logic

2nd

Honours&General

GE-2/DSC-2

Ethics

3rd

Honours&General

GE-3/DSC-3

Indian Philosophy

4th

Honours&General

GE-4/DSC-4

Western Philosophy

Skill Enhancement Compulsory Course

Semester

Honours/General

Paper code

Name of paper

3rd

Honours/General

SEC-1

Critical thinking and decision making

4th

Honours/General

SEC-2

Art and film Appreciation

5th

General

SEC-3

Ethical decision making

6th

General

SEC-4

Yoga Philosophy

Discipline Specific Core Course(General)

Semester

General

Paper code

Name of paper

1st

General

DSC-1

Logic

2nd

General

DSC-2

Ethics

3rd

General

DSC-3

Indian Philosophy

4th

General

DSC-4

Western Philosophy

5th

General

DSE-5

Buddhism

6th

General

DSE-6

Greek Philosophy

SYLLABUS UNDER NEP IN PHILOSOPHY

UDALGURI COLLEGE, UDALGURI

FOUR YEARS UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME (FYUGP)

BASED ON  NEP 2020  UNDER BODOLAND UNIVERSITY

FOUR YEARS UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME (FYUGP) BASED ON NEP 2020 UNDER BODOLAND UNIVERSITY

The College follows the Programme Outcome (PO) & Course Outcome (CO) of Bodoland University to which it is affiliated. In addition, the college delineates the following points as programme outcomes:

UG Arts

  1. To realize the potential of learners in facing future challenges in the professional world and prepare them for building a developed nation.
  2. To develop subject-specific knowledge as a foundation for higher studies in the concerned field.
  3. To ensure that the learners graduate as restrained social beings with certain values infused in them. 4. Garnering the ability to contribute to society; Socially, culturally, academically and economically. 


Programme Outcome:

The Under Graduate course in Philosophy Honours initiates students to Epistemology and Metaphysics, Logic, Indian Philosophy, History of Modern and Western Philosophy and Ethics, Philosophy of Religion and Existentialism. The course develops interests in learning philosophy with clarity and analysing philosophical concepts with philosophical reflection and analysis. The course also helps to develop critical thinking. 

Course outcome:

SL No

Course Code

Title of the Course

Course Outcomes

1.

(PHLMAJ-

1014)

Greek Philosophy

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand the philosophical principles of Greek Philosophy along with the epistemology and metaphysical problems of Philosophy.

2.

PHLMIN –1014

Indian Philosophy

Upon completion of the course, students will gain detailed knowledge about the Outline of Indian Philosophy and the different schools of Indian thought like Cārvāka, Jainism and Buddhism.

3.

PHLIDC – 1014

Social and

Political

Philosophy

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand the relationship between family and society, state, equality and social progression as a whole.

4.

PHLSEC – 1013 

Professional

Ethics and

Insurance

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand the meaning of ethics, professional ethics and individual progression.

5.

PHLVAC – 1014 

Ethics and

Values

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand ethical values and duty with philosophy. perspective.

6.

PHLMAJ –1024 

Fundamentals of

Logic

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to know arguments and its forms along with formal techniques used for evaluating arguments as valid and invalid. They will also understand the idea of

     

set and set relations and apply diagrammatic method of testing arguments involving sets.

7.

PHLMIN 1024

Logic

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to know the argument and its forms along with formal techniques used for evaluating arguments as valid and invalid.

8.

PHLIDC 1013

Philosophy of

Religion

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand the students about religious ideology, religious language, symbolism, freedom of will, faith, reason and revelation.

9.

PHLSEC 1023

Critical Thinking

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand the situation and apply the thought, solving problems in competitive examinations.

10.

PHLVAC – 1024

Yoga and Health

Upon completion of the course, students will be capable of understanding about the importance of Yoga, health and meditation

11.

PHLMAJ 2014

Methods and

Conceptions of

Philosophy

(Indian approaches)

Upon completion of the course, students will be capable of understanding about the Indian theory of Knowledge.

12.

PHLMAJ 2024

Formal Logic

Upon completion of the course, students will be capable to prove the validity of arguments, argument and argument forms. To apply the rules of inference in both propositional and predicate logic.

13.

PHLMIN 2014

General

Philosophy

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand the Philosophical perspective of realism, idealism, space and time, test of truth.

14.

PHLIDC – 2013 

Environmental Ethics

Upon completion of the course, students will be aware of the environmental ethics for the better sustainability of the development.

15.

PHLSEC – 2013 

Logic & Reasoning

Upon completion of the course, students will be capable to prove the validity of arguments, arguments and argument forms

16.

PHLMAJ 2034

Methods and

Conceptions of

Philosophy

(Western approaches)

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to know the types of philosophy and the study of the great thinkers. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to understand the epistemological and metaphysical perspectives of the philosophers like Descartes, Spinoza,

Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel etc

17.

PHLMAJ 2044

(Western

Philosophy)

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to learn and understand the subject matter contemporary western philosophy

18.

PHLMAJ2054

Philosophy of Vienna Circle

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to learn understand with the subject matter of contemporary western Philosophy.

19.

PHLMIN 2024

Indian

Philosophy (Orthodox)

Upon completion of the course, students will benefit with the knowledge of Six major schools of Indian Hindu Philosophy, the concept of truth and knowledge, the concept of ethics, happiness, moksha, way to moksha.

20.

PHLINT–2012 

Internship

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to apply fundamental and disciplinary concepts and methods to the principal areas of study. They will also develop the skills and knowledge of specific professional fields of study.

21.

PHLMAJ 3014

Philosophy of Religion

Upon completion of the course, students will be aware of Life beyond parochialism and the relativity of religious believes.

22

PHLMAJ 3024

Philosophy of Language, Truth

& Meaning

Upon completion of the course, students will be visiting life in matters of our discovery of life. Lofty and greater treatments in matters of language, meaning and truth will be dawned upon in the young mind

23

PHLMAJ 3034

Phenomenology and

Existentialism

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand the nuances of the individual life. The study enhance democratic treatment at large thereby creating new awareness to life at large.

24

PHLMAJ 3044

Philosophy of

Art and Culture

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand life to the tune of time–tested values of Indian Art and Culture. Life of resilience would be inculcated in the young mind.

25

PHLMIN3014

Indian Classic

Scriptures

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand Life, and deep-rooted in philosophy will be understood. Life distorted segregation in the so-called modern waves will have a meaning.

26

PHLMAJ -3054 

Applied Ethics

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to learn the ethical issues from practical point of view relating to different aspects such as Bio-medical ethics, Animal and Land ethics and IPRs

27

PHLMAJ 3064

Philosophy of

Logic

Upon completion of the course, students will know the relation between logic and other fields of logic such as Generality, Form, and logician second order vocabulary.

28

PHLMAJ 3074

Indian Logic

Upon completion of the course, students will develop analytical mindsets along with critical thinking.

29

PHLMAJ3084

Contemporary

Indian

Philosophy

Upon completion of the course, students will understand the life urgencies in matters of socio – cultural aspects. They will understand religion, life and morality from a modern perspective.

30

PHLMIN – 3024 

Buddhism

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand Buddhism and his teachings. They will also learn that Buddhism is one of the most disciplined schools of philosophy

31

PHLMAJ –4014 

Western Philosophy

Upon completion of the course, students will learn and understand the subject matter of contemporary western philosophy.

32

PHLMAJ –4024 

Comparative

Religion

Upon completion of the course, students will enable to describe some of the basic principles of Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Jainism. They will be able to compare the basic principles of one religion to another religion

33

PHLMAJ –4034

Many Valued

Logic

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to apply basic concepts of MVL to solve problems at various levels. Apply MVL diverse physics related fields like design of electronic circuits and tests circuits for faults and defects. Understand and throw substantial light on the issue of relativism. Apply MVL in quantum mechanics.

34

PHLMAJ –4044

Philosophy of

Science

Upon completion of the course, students will beknowing the key questions like, what counts as science, about the scientific method and about the scientific theories and its source of knowledge

35

PHLMAJ-4054

Research

Methodology

Upon completion of the course, students will be capable of developing skill in qualitative and quantitative data analysis and presentation, the ability to choose methods appropriate to research aims and objectives, and research design.

36.

PHLMIN-4014 

Indian Ethics

Upon completion of the course, students will know about the ethical systems of Indian philosophy and how to establish moral principles and standards of human behaviour

37.

PHLMAJ 4064

.

Meta-Ethics 

Upon completion of the course, students will understand the metaphysical, epistemological and commitment of moral thought and practices

38.

PHLMIN-4024 

Political

Philosophy

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to analyze a variety of problems in political philosophy and compose the fundamental qualities of the relation of ethics and politics.

39.

PHLADL 4024 OR

(PHLADL 4024

+ PHLADL

4034 +

PHLADL 4044)

Dissertation on

Research Project

Upon completion of the course, students will be capable of developing their writing research papers and presentations. They will have the ability to choose methods appropriate to research aims and objectives and research design.

40.

PHLADL4024

Review of

Literature and

Research

Publication

Upon completion, students will be able to peruse researching Higher education.

41.

PHLADL4034

Research Proposal Writing

 

42.

PHLADL4044

Philosophy of Gita

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to find the purpose of human values and to live with it fully.