Department of Economics

BA Economics Model one is a 3 year bachelor's degree course that provides students an in-depth understanding about the various problems facing economies, major thoughts and theories in Economics, economic functions, international relations and trade along with economic growth and development.

This course is mainly for students who have an interest to know about the Economy. At the end of three year BA Economics programme, the students will be able to :-

PO1- Build a strong foundation in Economics
PO2- Seek variety of career options in profession like teaching, Indian Economic Service, financial analyst, economic advisor etc
PO3- Equip with skills and knowledge to excel in their future careers
PO4- Can enter into master programmes like MA Economics , MSc Economics
PO5- Develop entrepreneurial skills

At the end of three year BA Economics programme the students will be able to:-

PSO1- Understand the application of economic concepts and theories in both theoretical and practical aspects.
PSO2- Help to know how economics and human behavior are related.
PSO3- Students can understand the problems faced by different areas of economic life, methods to solve it and help to understand how to bring economic development.
PSO4- Develop proficiency in international relationships between different economies.
PSO5- Attain knowledge in public economics and related concepts.
PSO6– Analyse working of four factors of production in economics like, land, labor, capital and business organization and how it is rewarded.
PSO7- Covering other disciplines comes under social science like, political science, history, sociology etc by three year program.

After completing each discipline under three year BA Economics programme the students will be able :-

SEMESTER 1

Core Course: Perspectives And Methodology Of Economics

CO1 - Help to understand the various disciplines under social science

CO2 - Deals with methods, rules,tools and postulates employed in economic disciplines.

CO3 - This study of society and the manner in which people behave and influence the world around us.

CO4 - Cover major schools of thoughts in Economics and it includes research methodology

CO5 - To introduce the importance and fundamentals of business research

Complementary Course:Social Formation In Pre Modern India

CO1 - It deals with facts abouts ancient society, their customs, culture etc

CO2 - Cover the factors contributed to the emergence of feudalism

CO3 - Help to understand political economy of Delhi Sultanate

CO4 - Attain knowledge about Mugal Social Formation and factors contributed to it.

SEMESTER 2

Core Course: Micro Economic Analysis I

CO1 - The paper provides an introduction about micro economics

CO2 - Gives a detailed analysis about demand and supply.

CO3 - Help to understand the consumer behavior in given situations.

CO4 - Can attain knowledge in theories of production and cost

Complementary Course: Transition To The Contemporary World

CO1 - course explains the trials and turbulences and transitions that the world had experienced and analyses the problems of the present day world developments.

CO2 - To know the French Revolution and its impact

CO3 - To know about imperialism and related concepts

CO4 - To understand The Great Depression and about international organizations

SEMESTER 3

Core Course: Micro Economic Analysis II

CO1 - Analyzing the various market forms detaily

CO2 - Understands monopolistic competition and oligopoly market forms more detaily. Covering theories and concepts comes under this.

CO3 - The course contains income distribution among various factors of production and factor pricing

CO4 - Attain proficiency in the discipline of welfare economics and important theories comes under this.

Core Course :Economics Of Growth & Development

CO1 - Discuss basic concepts dealt with economic growth and development

CO2 - Also contain different approaches to the development process

CO3 - Brings knowledge in theories regards growth v/s development

CO4 - Allows to know more about human resource and human capital formation.

Complementary Course:An Introduction To Political Science

CO1 - Gives an account of basics of political science discipline

CO2 - To know major political ideologies like Liberalism, Gandhism etc

CO3 - To understand the exact outcome of democracy and includes classification of government

SEMESTER 4

Core Course : Macroeconomics I

CO1 - Provides an introduction to broad discipline of macro economics

CO2 - Gives a detailed study of the classical schools of thought of macro economics

CO3 - Learn Keynesian macroeconomics detaily

CO4 - Help to understand Orthodox Keynesian model of macro economics

Core Course: Public Economics

CO1 - Provides a detailed analysis of Indian public finance and federal finance

CO2 - Students can acquire information in public revenue of in a broad sense

CO3 - Also states the detailed analysis of public expenditure

Complementary Course :Indian Constitution-Social Issues In India

CO1 - To know the Indian Constitution, fundamental rights and duties of people

CO2 - To study about Indian federalism and decentralisation

CO3 - To understand the Judicial system in India

CO4 - To analyse various challenges faced by Indian political system

SEMESTER 5

Core Course : Quantitative Techniques

CO1 - Help to study mathematics for economic analysis and related topics

CO2 - The paper deals with calculus, differentiations and derivation

CO3 - Helps to understand matrixes, set theory and other related concepts

CO4 - Gives a detailed analysis of probability

Core Course : Macro Economics II

CO1 - Study the theories of Consumption and Investment

CO2 - The paper also deal with concept of money and problems like Inflation and Unemployment

CO3 - Study the fluctuations in trade cycle along with monetary and fiscal policy

CO4 - Analyze the Post Keynesian Schools of Macroeconomic Thoughts in a broad sense

Core Course:Environmental Economics

CO1 - Primarly focus on awareness about necessity of protecting nature and it's resources and its careful implementation

CO2 - Study meaning of natural resource,eco system, biodiversity and its conservation

CO3 - Study environmental -social issues, impacts and methods to solve it

CO4 - Know more about the relationship between economics and environmental analysis

Core Course : Introductory Econometrics

CO1 - To know the discipline of econometrics some detaily

CO2 - To understand more about regression

CO3 - Help to understand multiple regression,detection etc

Open Course :Fundamentals Of Economics

CO1 - This course is designed to make the undergraduate students of other disciplines aware of the basic ideas and concepts in Economics.

CO2 - To know fundamentals of public revenue and public expenditure

CO3 - To understand financial system and international trade

CO4 - To understand Indian economic development

SEMESTER 6

Core Course : Quantitative Methods

CO1 - Course intends to provide an introduction to statistical methods and tools

CO2 - Help to know methods of data collection,classification, tabulation etc.

CO3 - Chapters deals with dispersion and central tendency

CO4 - Provides a detailed discussion about index numbers

Core Course :International Economics

CO1 - The course provides knowledge about the basic principles that tend to govern trade at the global level and related theories

CO2 - To know about Balance of Payment and Balance of Trade

CO3 - Gives a detailed explanation about foreign exchange market

CO4 - To know international monetary system and trade system

Core Course : Money & Financial Markets

CO1 - To know Indian financial system detaily

CO2 - To acquire knowledge in money system and banking

CO3 - To know detailed analysis of money market and capital market

Core Course :Indian Economy

CO1 - To build a information and knowledge about Indian economy v/s Kerala economy

CO2 - To know the features of India's demographic system

CO3 - Provides an understanding about the agricultural -industrial -service sector

CO4 - To analyze Economic Planning and Development Issues of Indian economy