M.A._in_Arts_and_Aesthetics
Course_Structure:
The_course_structure_is_as_follows:
SEMESTER_I:
1:_SAA_414 _Introduction_to_Film_Studies_(Compulsory)
2:_SAA_501 _Introduction_to_Theatre_and_Performance_Studies_(Compulsory)
3:SAA_405 _Methods,_Materials_and_Meaning_in_Visual_Art_(Compulsory)
4:_SAA_440 _Critical_Writing_for_the_Arts_(Compulsory)
SEMESTER_II:
1:_SAA_465 _Indian_Cinema_Past_and_Present_(Compulsory)
2:_SAA_574 _History_of_Performance:_The_Indian_Context_(Compulsory)
3:_SAA_401 _Indian_Art_and_Architecture_from_Proto-history_to_the_Eighteenth_Century_(Compulsory)
4:_Optional _Optional_Course
SEMESTER_III:
1._SAA-568_ _Film/_Media:_Theory_and_Aesthetics_(Compulsory/Optional)_**
2._SAA-566_ _Theatre_and_Performance_Studies:_Theory_and_Aesthetics_(Compulsory/Optional)_**
3._SAA-567_ _Visual_Studies:_Theory_and_Aesthetics_(Compulsory/Optional)_**
4._------ Optional_Course
5._------ Optional_Course
**_In_the_III_semester,_students_are_expected_to_take_any_two_of_the_Theory_and_Aesthetics_courses_as_compulsory_courses,_as_well_as_two_optional_courses._If_they_wish,_they_may_take_the_third_Theory_and_Aesthetics_course_as_an_optional_course.
SEMESTER_IV:
Students_take_four_optional_courses_in_the_final_semester.
Optional_Courses:_
Given_below_is_a_list_of_optional_courses_designed_for_the_M.A._programme,_which_are_taught_by_rotation._Additional_courses_may_be_introduced_by_guest_faculty_from_time_to_time.
SAA-403 _Visual_Culture_and_the_Representation_of_Difference
SAA-404 _Bhakti_Movement:_Texts_Contexts_and_Performance_
SAA-406 _Indian_Dance:_Theory_and_Practice_
SAA-408 _Art_of_Indic_Asia
SAA-409 _World_Theatre_Scene:_Theory_and_Practice_Interface
SAA-410 _Actor_and_his_Art:_Body-Mind_Dynamics_
SAA-413 _The_Indian_Temple:_Development_&_Form
SAA-415 _Film_and_the_Historical_Imagination_
SAA-416 _Science_Fiction_Cinema_
SAA-417 _Shakespeare_on_Indian_Stage_
SAA-420 _Textual_Sources_of_Indian_Art
SAA-430 _Global_Art_Cinema_
SAA-431 _Advanced_Research_Seminar_in_Cinema_Studies_
SAA-451 _Indian_Temple_Sculpture_and_Architecture_350_AD_to_1350_AD
SAA-454 _Arts_of_the_Mughal_Court
SAA-455 _The_Cultural_History_of_Modern_Indian_Theatre_
SAA-456 _Music_and_Modernity:_The_Case_of_North_India_1850-1960_
SAA-461 _Indian_Terracotta_Art
SAA-466 _Cinema_and_Modernity_
SAA-468 _Buddhist_Visual_Culture:_From_Theravada_to_Neo-Buddhism
SAA-491 _Sound_Theories_and_Practices
SAA-496 India_Through_the_Lens:_Photographic_Practices
SAA_497 Vijayanagara-Nāyaka_Art_and_Architecture.
SAA-503 _The_Arts_of_the_Rajput_World
SAA-504 _Aspects_of_Musical_Performance_
SAA-505 _The_Comic_Traditions_in_Performance_
SAA-511 _Folklore_and_Oral_Tradition_
SAA-515 _Museums_and_the_Representation_of_Culture
SAA-516 _Film_Genres_–_Theories_and_Histories_
SAA-519 _Asian_Cinemas_
SAA-521 _Contemporary_Indian_Cinema_
SAA-522 _Cinema_and_Television_in_the_Digital_Age_
SAA-526 _The_Indian_New_Wave_
SAA-527 _Political_Theatre_in_20th Century_
SAA-551 _Modernism_&_Critical_Revisions_
SAA-552 _Contemporary_Indian_Theatre:_Movement_&_Institutions_
SAA-553 _Dance,_Body_and_Society_:_Functional_Perspective_&Changes_
SAA-554 _Music_and_Community
SAA-555 _Living_Traditions_of_Indian_Performing_Arts
SAA-557 _Adaptation_and_Staging_of_Texts _
SAA-558 _Cultural_Studies_and_Performance_
SAA-559 _Asian_Art:_Post-colonial_Paradoxes_
SAA-562 _Non-Fiction_Film_Practice_