MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSIGNMENT (First Year) July 2015 and January 2016 Sessions

POLITICAL THEORY (MPS-001)

TUTOR MARKED ASSIGNMENT

Course Code: MPS-001

Assignment Code: Asst/TMA/2015-2016

Marks: 100

Answer five questions in all, selecting at least two questions from each section. Each

question is to be answered in about 500 words. Each question carries 20 marks.

SECTION- I

1. What do you understand by contemporary political theory? Elaborate.

2. What is Procedural and Substantive Democracy? Explain.

3. Discuss the inter-relationship of equality with justice or equality with liberty.

4. Write a note on Group Differentiated citizenship.

5. What is Civil Disobedience? Is it different from Satyagraha?

SECTION- II

Write a short note on each part of the following questions in about 250 words.

6. (a) Welfare State

(b) Lenin on party as vanguard of the proletariat

7. (a) Frankfurt School

(b) Some representative conservatives

8. (a) Core characteristics of Fundamentalism

(b) Anti- colonial Nationalism

9. (a) Sex- Gender distinction

(b) Technique of non-violent action

10. (a) Republican government

(b) Globalization and Identity Politics

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THEORY AND PROBLEMS (MPS-002)

TUTOR MARKED ASSIGNMENT

Course Code: MPS-002

Assignment Code: Asst/TMA/2015-16

Marks: 100

Answer five questions in all, selecting at least two questions from each section. Each

question is to be answered in about 500 words. Each question carries 20 marks.

SECTION- I

1. Describe the essential elements of the centre-periphery model of underdevelopment

bringing out the views of different scholars.

2. Critically examine the post-positivist approach to international relations.

3. Examine the response of the international community to the growing incidence of terrorism.

4. Critically examine the concept of self-determination with reference to its application in multi-ethnic societies.

5. Assess the position of China in the present international order.

SECTION- II

Write a short note on each part of the following questions in about 250 words.

6. a) Functionalism and Neo-functionalism

b) NGOs and social movements

7. a) Human rights accountability of Transnational Corporations

b) Intervention in the post-War period

8. a) Features of the non-proliferation regime

b) The problem of global disarmament

9. a) Role of foreign aid in development process

b) FDI and Portfolio investment

10. a) Future of the Nation-state

b) Post-Soviet state formation in Central Asia

INDIA: DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT (MPS-003)

TUTOR MARKED ASSIGNMENT

Course Code: MPS-003

Assignment Code: Asst/TMA/2015-16

Marks: 100

Answer five questions in all, selecting at least two questions from each section. Each

question is to be answered in about 500 words. Each question carries 20 marks.

SECTION-I

1. Explain the evolution of political democracy and economic development in India during 1947-67.

2. Critically examine the following in about 250 words each:

a) The idea of planning

b) The Karachi resolution

3. How does social inequality affect politics and developmental policies in India? Explain.

4. Discuss the working of federal system in India.

5. Write an essay on the ethnic politics in north-east India.

SECTION-II

6. Comment on the following in about 250 words each:

a) Media and public opinion

b) Significance of elections in Indian democracy

7. Comment on the following in about 250 words each.

a) Language and politics in India

b) The basis of regionalism in India

8. Enumerate the similarities and differences between substantive and procedural types of democracy.

9. Comment on the following in about 250 words each:

a) Development and gender

b) Role of civil society in Indian democracy

10. Discuss the features of farmers’ movements in contemporary India.

COMPARATIVE: POLITICS: ISSUES AND TRENDS (MPS-004)

TUTOR MARKED ASSIGNMENT

Course Code: MPS-004

Assignment Code: Asst/TMA/2015-16

Marks: 100

Answer five questions in all, selecting at least two questions from each section. Each

question is to be answered in about 500 words. Each question carries 20 marks.

SECTION-I

1. Critically examine main features of the Political Economy approach to the study of comparative Politics.

2. Write an essay on different approaches to the study of nationalism.

3. Analyse the impact of growing influence of regional integration on the nature and functions of the state.

4. Describe and evaluate the Marxist conception of Civil Society.

5. Write Short notes on the following in about 250 words each:

(a) Gandhian Perspective of State

(b) State building and nation building

SECTION-II

6. Examine different approaches adopted by states to deal with ethnic groups in plural societies.

7. Distinguish between a dominant party system and a one party system and describe the demerits of each.

8. How has the nature and role of bureaucracy been changing in the times of globalization?

9. Explain the differences between North and South on environmental issues and factors responsible for those.

10. Critically examine different perceptions in the debate on the role of women in development.

MA ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT,2015-16

Master’s Degree Programme in English

(MEG)

ASSIGNMENT

(For July 2015 and January 2016 Sessions)

Compulsory Courses of M.A. English – 1st Year)

British Poetry-01

British Drama-02

British Novel-03

Aspects of Language-04

School of Humanities

Indira Gandhi National Open University

Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110 068

Master’s Degree in English

Assignments for 1st year Compulsory Courses

Course Code: MEG

Dear Student,

This booklet contains all the assignments of the Compulsory Courses of MA (English) 1st year

namely:

MEG-01 British Poetry

MEG-02 British Drama

MEG-03 British Novel

MEG-04 Aspects of Language

Each course will comprise one assignment of 100 marks. This assignment will be tutor marked.

Aims: The TMAs are concerned mainly with assessing your application and understanding of the

course material. You are not required to reproduce chunks of information from the course

material but to use the skills of critical appreciation that you may have acquired during the course

of study. These assignments aim to teach as well as to assess your performance. Please ensure

that you read the texts and the accompanying study guides that we have prepared for you. Let me

repeat: you must read all the texts prescribed. Do make points as you go along. If there is

anything you do not understand, please ask your Counsellor at the Study Centre for clarification.

Once you are able to do the assignments satisfactorily, you will be ready to take the exam with

confidence.

Instructions: Before attempting the assignment please read the following instructions carefully.

1 Read the detailed instructions about the assignments given in the Programme Guide for

Elective Courses.

2 Write your roll no. name, full address and date on the top right corner of the first page of

your response sheet(s).

3 Write the Course Title, Assignment Number and the Name of the Study Centre you are

attached to in the centre of the first page of your response sheet(s).

The top of the first page of your response sheet should look like this:

ROLL NO. ……………………………….

NAME: …………………………………..

ADDRESS:……………………………….

……………………………………………

COURSE TITLE:……………………………….

ASSIGNEMNT NO. …………………………….

STUDY CENTRE:……………………………... DATE:……………………………….

4 Use only foolscap size paper for your response and tag all the pages carefully.

5 Write the relevant question number with each answer.

6 You should write in your own handwriting.

7 Submission: The completed assignment should be sent to the Coordinator of the

Study Centre allotted to you by 31 March 2016 (if enrolled in the July 2015

session) and 30th Sept, 2016 (if enrolled in the January 2016 session).

MEG-01: BRITISH POETRY

ASSIGNMENT

Programme: MEG

Max. Marks: 100

Ast code: MEG-01/TMA/2015-16

Dear Student,

In a conventional class your teacher would have discussed your assignment with you,

pointed out what made a good essay and what a bad one. We have done exactly this

in Unit 52 of the British Poetry (MEG-01) course. Read it carefully and

discuss it with your counsellor and class-fellows at the Study Centre. Thereafter decide

upon a topic, i.e. a period or literary group in the history of British poetry. You may,

if you wish, select a topic from the list given in 52.2.1 (p. 70) in Block X.

Alternatively, you could write on a British poet of your choice. You may write on a poet

discussed in the units, i.e. on the syllabus, or even a poet we have not discussed in

detail such as Robert Burns, G.M. Hopkins, R.S. Thomas, Ted Hughes or Seamus Heaney.

You may have heard some of our lectures on The Movement, Philip Larkin and Ted

Hughes on the EduSat. It may now be available on e-gyankosh on www.ignou.ac.in

You have yet another choice. Write an essay on a famous poem in English literature.

Having decided upon your topic, do your research and then read section 36.5 in

Unit 36 in Block VIII for a model essay and a format for presentation. You may learn

how to present your term paper/sessional essay from 36.5. You must not quote from

unacknowledged sources.

To sum up, write an essay on a period or a literary group in British poetry or a British

poet or a British poem in about 3000 words on the model provided in 36.5 (in unit 36).

The full marks for the essay is 100.

We look forward to reading your sessional essay.

Sincerely yours

Teacher

MEG-02: BRITISH DRAMA

ASSIGNMENT

(Based on Blocks 1-9)

Programme: MEG

Ast code: MEG-02/TMA/2015-16

Max. Marks: 100

Answer no. 1 and any 4 of the remaining questions.

8x5=40

1 Explain the following passages with reference to their contexts and supply brief

critical

comments where necessary :

a. See, see, where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!

One drop would save my soul, half a drop: Ah, my Christ.

b. Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh:

Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,

Will even weigh; and both as light as tales.

c. I hit a blow on the ridge of his Skull, laid him stretched out,

and he split to the knob of his gullet.

d. It is not in time that my death shall be known;

It is out of time that my decision is taken

If you call that a decision

To which my whole being gives entire consent.

I give my life

To the Law of god above the Law of Man.

e. Astride of a grave and difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave –

diggers puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries.

But habit is a great deadener.

2. Write in your own words a character sketch of Hamlet. 15

3. Evaluate Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist as a comedy. 15

4. According to Shaw Professor Higgins has ‘touches of Sweet’. Bring out the pathos in

Higgins’s character in the light of Shaw’s observation. 15

5. Comment on the imagery and symbolism in Look Back in Anger. 15

6. Bring out the existentialist elements in Estragon and Vladimir. 15

MEG - 03

BRITISH NOVEL

ASSIGNMENT 2015 - 2016

(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)

Max. Marks: 100

Answer all questions.

1. Trace the development of modern English fiction with specific reference to the

major shifts in literary perspective during the nineteenth century. 20

2. Attempt aMarxist reading of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. 20

3. What is the importance of the Fairytale mode in Great Expectations? 20

4. How is Jameson’s criticism of Conrad’s politics relevant to Heart of Darkness? 20

5. What do you understand by the term ‘Stream of Consciousness’, explain with

reference to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

6

MEG-04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT

Course Code: MEG-04/TMA/2015-16

Max. Marks: 100

All questions are compulsory

1 Write short notes on the following giving examples where necessary. 20

i Problems in defining a speech community

ii The scope of Quantifiers

iii Difference between Dialect and Register

iv Blends in English morphology.

2 Discuss the general methodological principles of Saussure. Give examples to

illustrate your answer. 20

3 What is language planning? Why do we require it? Discuss the various types of

language planning. 20

4 Discuss the growth of English in India. Describe some of the features which

separate Indian English from other varieties of English. 20

5 What is the inflectional morphology and how does it differ from derivational

morphology. Give examples. 20

MA Education Assignment-2015-16

ASSIGNMENTS

M. A. (Education) –1st Year

(January – 2015)

&

(July – 2015)

School of Education

Indira Gandhi National Open University

Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068

ASSIGNMENTS

MASTER OF ARTS (EDUCATION)-1st YEAR

January 2015

&

July 2015

Please Note:

a) The Assignment Responses (ARs) may be submitted by hand or sent by registered post to

the Programme – in – Charge of your Programme Study Centre.

b) You should retain a copy of all the assignments in your own interest.

MES-011: UNDERSTANDING EDUCATION

Assignment: 01

a. How have changes in political system influenced the education system in India? Elaborate with examples. (500 words)

b. What are the new teacher education structures, which were established on the recommendation of National Policy on Education-1986? Critically comment on their relevance and contribution to improving teacher education in India. (500 words)

c. Discuss the importance of institutionalization of community participation. Explain the role of Janshala Programme and Lok Jumbish Project in achieving the goal of universalization of elementary education. (500 words)

MES-012: EDUCATION: NATURE AND PURPOSES

Assignment: 01

a. Is education a discipline? Justify your answer with suitable arguments. (500 words)

b. Define the concept of knowledge? How do you confirm that knowledge obtained from various sources is valid or not? (500 words)

c. Describe the aims of education propagated by Paule Freire and Ivan Illich? How can the ideas of Freire and Illich contribute to improving the education system of India? Explain

with suitable examples. (500 words)

MES-013: LEARNING, LEARNER AND DEVELOPMENT

Assignment: 01

i) Describe the nature and importance of learning Languages and Social Sciences in school curriculum. (500 words)

ii) Explain declarative and procedural knowledge. Elaborate on the learning strategies for improving procedural knowledge. (500 words)

iii) Motivation is one of the key factors in the learning process. Substantiate the statement using illustrations. (500 words)

MES-014: SOCIETAL CONTEXT OF EDUCATION

Assignment: 01

i) Write an essay on the status of implementation of Right to Education Act 2009 in your school. Which two sections of the Act are most difficult to implement and why?

(500 words)

ii) Do you think our school education system provides equitable education? Provide arguments in support of your answer. (500 words)

iii) You have read in Unit 10 of Block 3 of MES-014, why teaching is considered a profession. Which areas of profession development of teachers are neglected and what measures would you suggest to improve this profession? (500 words)

MES-015: OPERATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF EDUCATION

Assignment: 01

a. What are various innovative alternative models of education? How is teacher training in Eklavya and Mirambika different from traditional approach? (500 words)

b. Visit a Block Resource Center (BRC)/Cluster Resource Center (CRC) in your nearby area. Prepare a report highlighting day-to-day activities taking place there. Explain how

BRCs/CRCs contribute to in-service teacher training programmes (500 words)

c. What do you mean by instructional planning? Discuss the major steps a teacher has to follow during instructional planning? Cite suitable examples. (500 words)

MES-016: EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Assignment: 01

a. What is the need of educational research? Discuss various types of educational research with examples. (500 words)

b. What do you mean by experimental design? Discuss various types of true-experimental designs with examples from education. (500 words)

c. Propose a topic for a qualitative research. Explain its objectives, methodology and procedure for data analysis. (500 words)