Understand culture, history, language, and human expression
10 courses available
Anthropology is the study of humans, past and present in their cultural and biological conditions. It deals with determining what humans are, how they evolved, and how they differ from one another.
Archaeology is a subfield of anthropology. It exposes students to reconstruct extinct cultures from the artefacts as it studies the ancient and recent human past through material remains.
Art restoration is a specialized course which involves inspection, documentation, treatment and precautionary care of art objects.
A curator is a manager or overseer of a cultural heritage institution such as gallery, museum, library, or archives in charge of content and institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material.
Restoration (cultural heritage) is the process through which trained professionals clean, repair and restore damaged artwork. These types of art work could include paintings to sculptures to even manuscripts. Ancient artefacts, monuments and paintings are maintained and given a new life by art conservators and restoration experts.
Museology is the branch of knowledge concerned with the study of the purposes and organisation of museums with emphasis on development of museums and in evolving fresh methods and techniques to improve their working. It covers activities such as preservation, restoration and excavation of ancient monuments and art material.
Bachelor of Arts is a three year degree course after +2 in which mostly 4 or 5 subjects are taught such as Hindi, English or other language, Political Science, History, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Psychology or other social science subjects or Fine Arts, Health & Physical Education etc. Specialisation or honours courses can also be done in any one subject as a major.
Learning foreign languages not only strengthens better understanding of cultures, perspectives, employability but also improves cognitive skills, concentration span, memorisation and multi-tasking skills in an individual.
Liberal studies involves the multidisciplinary study of subjects ranging from Humanities to Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts. The aim of the course is to develop critical thinking.
Library Science course is the study of managing, maintaining and preserving records and information. Information of various types is sourced and classified for users with the help of record management, preserved and disseminated with the help of technology.