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| torilaure | Posted
on 05-May-03 08:47 PM
Dear all, This is for your information. You can pass it around. Inquiries will be entertained at info@immersioncourse.org.np ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOCIAL SCIENCE BAHA invites applications for the 6th Immersion Course on Contemporary Social Issues The new session commences on 2 June 2003. The objective of the Course is to enable Nepali gradduates to intellectually comprehend critical contemporary issues though an intense exposure to oliberal arts and social sciences as they relate to Nepali society. The moderators for the coming session are: Krishna Bhattachan Intro to Scoiology, Research Methodology and Ethnicity Dilli Ram Dahal Intro to Anthropology Kunda Dixit Media and Society Dipak Gyawali Economics and Society Ajaya Dixit Technology and Society Pratyoush Onta History and Society Seira Tamang Gender and Society Hari Sharma Politics and Society Shanta Dixit Education and Society Sapana Malla Pradhan Law and Society Basic qualification: Bachelor's degree Class size: 26 participants Course duration: 16 weeks Course timing: 6:30 to 8:30 am (Mon-Fri) Application deadline: 20 May 2003 Course fee: Rs. 10,000 (course material included) Partial scholarship will be available for able and needy participants. Participants will also have free access to the Social Science Baha Library for the duration of the course. For details, visit www.himalassociation.org/baha/immersion or call 5521393 Application forms are available from Social Science Baha, Himal Association, Patan Dhoka, and can also be downloaded from our web-site. The Immersion Course is run by the Social Science Baha with support from the Rato Bangla Foundation and Inter-DIsciplinary Analysts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| isolated freak | Posted
on 05-May-03 09:25 PM
Can I join teh course but skip Bhattachan's racially biased, baseless, unecesarily critical and political agenda driven classes? I already have a liberal arts degree from a college in the US. Thanks. |
| isolated freak | Posted
on 05-May-03 09:26 PM
oh.. shoot.. i'll just email my query to the address provided. |
| HahooGuru | Posted
on 06-May-03 04:35 AM
Just a note of fun: This lecture series should be named as Dixit and Associates lecture series. It reminds the joke of Santosh Pant'S TV serial: sala-sali-vena-kaka-bhatij jamma hum, ani bhada ma nagayeko purano ghar lai school ma convert garou ....... It looked like that kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...... na chahada nachahadai pani ..... kina bhane tyaha three Dixit haru ko naam dekha paryooooooooooooooooo. I am very much hopeful that I am tooooooooooooooooo wrong. HG |
| ashu | Posted
on 06-May-03 05:44 AM
I think it's OK if three (related to one another) Dixits are teaching the students. I would NOT make that an issue. What I would actually wonder a lot more is about this: Since social sciences -- in general -- are ideologically/politically contentious fields (and all the more so in Nepal), and since beginning students are better off FIRST being exposed to the strengths and weaknesses of DIVERSE viewpoints/ideologies/arguments so that they can -- with an open mind -- learn to assess what is what before they go on to make up their mind as to what they want to believe in, my only worry here is that the faculty's DOMINANT ideological orientation (from what I know of them) is well to the left of center. Sure, nothing's wrong with being well to the left of center. That's not an issue. The issue is for a course that purports to immerse beginning students in the modes of thinking in the social sciences, it'd have been good to see if there was some kind of a balance in the faculty's ideological orientation so that the students would learn PLURAL and even contradictory but valid ways of making sense of our complex, complicated "society". Failing that -- and I hope I am dead wrong -- this course may turn out to be just another cleverly disguised 'indoctrination seminar' that follows the established party line. I raise this issue only as a friend/well-wisher of the Immersion Course. oohi ashu ktm,nepal |