Syllabus for
BSc (Economics, Mathematics/Honours/Honours with Research)
Academic Year  (2023)

The Department of Computational Sciences at CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Delhi- NCR has created a niche in the realm of higher education in India through its programmes. Currently, the Department offers a wide array of undergraduate courses with multiple specializations in the disciplines of Computer Science, Statistics & Mathematics. A dedicated research block with all the latest research facilities boosts the morale of the faculty and research scholars alike. This is an ideal place for students with a research blend of mind to explore his/her passion. Apart from academics, students are moulded holistically through various cocurricular and extracurricular activities.

To promote the holistic development of the students and to sustain the academic creativity and inventiveness of the faculty the department engages in numerous workshops, seminars, industrial interfaces, faculty development programmes and many such endeavours. It is equipped with the highly committed team of instructors having versatile experience in teaching and research. The department also provides opportunities to work on collaborative projects with industry and international universities. 

VISION The Department of Computational Sciences endeavours to imbibe the vision of the University “Excellence and Service”. The department is committed to this philosophy which pervades every aspect and functioning of the department.

MISSION “To develop a computational scientist with ethical and human values”. To accomplish our mission, the department encourages students to apply their acquired knowledge and skills towards professional achievements in their car

The BSc (Economics and Mathematics) is a dual major three years graduate programme, to nurture the confidence and skills of the students in Economics and Mathematics. It aims to impart strong fundamentals and specialised aspects of Economics and Mathematics. The curriculum of this programme includes various theoretical courses along with industry relevant software tools to prepare young minds for the challenging opportunities available in the industries and research organisations. Also, based on the latest NEP guidelines, this programme offers a unique blend of the flexible credit system to support the individual learning needs with research bent. This programme is extended to the fourth year as a BSc (Hons) in Economics or Mathematics, with or without research.  

Programme Outcome/Programme Learning Goals/Programme Learning Outcome:

PO2: Demonstrate the problem solving skills in Economics and Mathematical Sciences.

PO3: Use effectively the mathematical and statistical tools in the analysis of economic and social problems

PO4: Understand and apply fundamental principles, concepts and methods of mathematics.

PO5: Demonstrate problem-solving skills using mathematical techniques

The Department of Computational Sciences at CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Delhi- NCR has created a niche in the realm of higher education in India through its programmes. Currently, the Department offers a wide array of undergraduate courses with multiple specializations in the disciplines of Computer Science, Statistics & Mathematics. A dedicated research block with all the latest research facilities boosts the morale of the faculty and research scholars alike. This is an ideal place for students with a research blend of mind to explore his/her passion. Apart from academics, students are moulded holistically through various co-curricular and extracurricular activities.

To promote the holistic development of the students and to sustain the academic creativity and inventiveness of the faculty the department engages in numerous workshops, seminars, industrial interfaces, faculty development programmes and many such endeavours. It is equipped with a highly committed team of instructors having versatile experience in teaching and research. The department also provides opportunities to work on collaborative projects with industry and international universities.

Human Resource is considered as a valuable resource in every organization. The world class companies compete among themselves to attract the best talent across the globe.  They view talent as competitive differentiator and one where the acquisition, engagement, development and retention of talent is considered as a strategic priority of business.  This course exposes the students to methods and practices to acquire, engage and develop talent, focus on development of strategic leaders within an organization and also deals with how talent and knowledge can be managed effectively for the development of the organization

This course covers the programming paradigms associated with Python. It provides a comprehensive understanding of Python data types, functions and modules with a focus on modular programming.

Course Objectives

1. To provide comprehensive knowledge of python programming paradigms.

Entrepreneurship is not just about start-ups: it is a topic that is rapidly growing in importance in government policy and in the behaviour of established firms. The course provides students with an understanding of the role and personality of the entrepreneur, and a range of skills aimed at successful planning of entrepreneurial ventures. Material covered includes fostering creativity and open-mindedness, knowledge acquisition and management, innovation systems, screening and evaluating new venture concepts, market evaluation and developing a marketing plan, legal Issues Including intellectual property, preparation of venture budgets, and raising finance. The major piece of assessment is the writing of a comprehensive business plan for a new venture.

The course aims at enhancing their financial skills as well as training the students to be financial educators with family and friends. There is a need for students to effectively plan and monitor their spending. The course aims at effectively training students and equipping them with the knowledge and tools to manage their finances and also teach others the same.

Course Description

This course is designed to expose the students to the basic principles of microeconomic theory. The emphasis will be on thinking like an economist and the course will illustrate how microeconomic concepts can be applied to analyze real-life situations.

Course Objectives

1. To understand that economics is about the allocation of scarce resources and how that results in trade-offs.
2. To analyse the role of prices in allocating scarce resources in market economies and explain the consequences of government policies in the form of price controls.
3. To predict positive as well as normative view points on concepts of market failure and the need for government intervention.

The course –Market and Economy – covers the pertinent themes in both Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. It aims at providing a systematic introduction to mainstream approaches to the study of economics and enable students to understand the basic concepts of economic development.

Course description      

This course intends to facilitate coexistence in a rapidly changing world characterised by diversity and exponential new development in social structure. The course aims creates ability to practice harmonious living and develop necessary skills to enrich each other in society. The skills covered will be: Social adaptability, Environmental adaptability, Legal adaptability.

Course Objectives

1. To inculcate in students the spirit of social tolerance, political responsibility and compassion towards different sections of the society.
2. To create awareness among students about the various pertinent laws of the land they should be aware of as responsible citizens and the consequences of their violations.
3. To sensitize the students towards environmental issues and encourage them to think of sustainable alternative solutions.

• To expose learners to a variety of texts to interact with
• To help learners classify ideologies and be able to express the same
• To expose learners to visual texts and its reading formulas
• To help learners develop a taste to appreciate works of literature through the organization of language
• To help develop critical thinking
• To help learners appreciate literature and the language nuances that enhances its literary values

• To help learners understand the relationship between the world around them and the text/literature
• To help learners negotiate with content and infer meaning contextually
• To help learners understand logical sequencing of content and process information

·         To help improve their communication skills for larger academic purposes and vocational purposes

·         To enable learners to learn the contextual use of words and the generic meaning

·         To enable learners to listen to audio content and infer contextual meaning

·         To enable learners to be able to speak for various purposes and occasions using context specific language and expressions

·         To enable learners to develop the ability to write for various purposes using suitable and precise language.

This is an introductory course to understanding the emergence and development of crime fiction as a literary genre. Once considered as popular literature insignificant to the canon, crime fiction exists as a genre that is relevant to the current times, especially to understand the society in which we live in today. This course will engage discussions on the concepts of crime and justice, and enable students to identify how crime impacts individuals and communities. Certain discourses will include socio-cultural understanding of crime and punishment, role of detectives and police officers and their interactions with civilians, and how gender, race, class, religion play a role in these narratives. Through this course, students will critically analyse textual works in the form of short stories, chapters, essays, novels, along with visual sources such as documentaries, films, television and web series and animated works.

Course Objectives

The objective of this course is to:

●      Sensitise students to the real-world scenario of conflict and violence and its consequence thereof.

●      Introduce crime fiction and its sub-genres

●      Study the impact of crime on literature and society.

●      Explore different forms of crime fiction from across the globe.

●      Identify works of crime fiction that are yet unexplored such as regional works with linguistic variabilities.

The present decline in environmental quality calls for a stricter enforcement of laws relating to protection of environment. The objective of this course is to give an insight into various legislations that has been enacted in our country for protection of environment and also to create awareness among the citizens of the country about the duties cast on them under various legislations in relation to protection of environment.

Course Objectives:

• To impart an in-depth knowledge of environmental legislations to students from diverse backgrounds.
• To interpret, analyse and make a critique of the legislations and Case laws relating to environment
• To provide a brief understanding of various developments that has taken place at international level to check various environmental harms.

This course, thus, has been specifically designed for the non-law people. It aims to address the linkages between the corporate and the human rights in the form of CSR. It critically analyses one significant question – whether the issues of human rights should be addressed by the corporate sector mandatorily or voluntarily, in different social contexts? The strengths and weaknesses of the CSR initiatives in India and other countries are analysed. Also, the international commitments, with special reference to the role of United Nations are seen.

Course Objectives: Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR, as it is popularly referred to, is a combination of ethical, philanthropic, legal and economic responsibilities of a corporate organization towards the social transformation by addressing the social issues in collaboration with Government and NGOs. The corporate entities are more into profit making business and in this race, they often forget that their activities are causing harm to and not protecting the environment as well as human rights of the people.

Course Description: Calculus is a discipline of mathematics that studies limits, motion, and rates of change. Proficiency in calculus is vital for math students for a better understanding of the subject and the advancement of the field. This course offers a modern introduction to calculus with a conceptual knowledge of the underlying mathematical concepts as its primary objective.

Course Objectives​: This course will help the learner to

COBJ 1: develop a solid understanding of the concepts in differential calculus such as limit, continuity and differentiability and their inter-relationships.

COBJ 2: to acquire the ability to think logically and precisely; understand, apply and generalise mathematical ideas.

COBJ 3: recognize the appropriate tools of calculus to solve applied problems.

CO2:Understand the properties of continuous functions and prove that

differentiabilityimpliescontinuity

 CO3:ProveMeanvaluetheoremsandanalyseitsgeometricinterpretation.

CO4:ComputederivativesofanyorderandapplyLeibniz’theoremtofindnthderivativeofproductoftwofunctions.

CO5:MasterthefundamentalconceptsofpartialdifferentiationandapplyEuler’stheoremforhomogeneousfunctions.

 CO6:Gainknowledgeontheconceptssuchasasymptotes,concavity/convexityandsingularpointsandapplythesamefor curvetracing.

Course Description:

This course aims at enabling the students to know various principles, problem solving skills in integral calculus and enables the students in applying it in finding length of arcs, surface areas and volumes of solids of revolution, improper integrals.

Course Objectives​:

COBJ 1:understand the fundamentals of integration and definite integration.

COBJ 2:establish reduction formulae for the integration of various types of functions.

COBJ 3:  understand and apply integration. 

Course Description:

This course is designed to introduce the basic concepts of statistics, presentation of data and descriptive measures. This course also introduces the concept of probability.

Course Objectives:

1. To enable students to understand various types of data.

2. To develop ability to summarize data using appropriate graphs, tables and statistical measures.

3. To have understanding of basic concepts of probability and its applications. 

The course provides basic knowledge of investment alternatives available for individuals and outlines the functioning of primary and secondary markets. It also focuses on giving exposure to students on stock market trading and strategies.

Course Description

This course is designed to give a systematic school-wise introduction to mainstream approaches to the study of macroeconomics. The course begins by introducing students to the various important macroeconomic variables and its measurement technique. Then the course proceeds on a systematic introduction to the important macroeconomic theory adopting a chronological school-wise pattern; beginning from the Classical to the Keynesians, Monetarists, New Classicals and New Keynesians. It has been designed in such a way that it stimulates awareness on the evolution; critiques and debates in the mainstream macroeconomic thought and provided insights into macroeconomic challenges and policy management in progressive nations. It is also intended that this course will develop the ability for objective reasoning about macroeconomic issues.

 Course Objectives

1. To introduce to the students, the basic principles of macroeconomic theory.
2. To enable the students to understand the characteristics of major macroeconomic variables.
3. To provide a vivid understanding to students on the evolution of macroeconomic thought.
4. To equip students to analyse the dynamic interactions between the major macroeconomic variables.

This course is the second part of a compulsory two-course sequence. This part is to be taught in Semester II following the first part in Semester I. The course gives an introduction into differential equation, linear algebra, derivatives and application using calculus. A central aim to this course is to increase "mathematical maturity", confidence and familiarity with the types of problems that students will encounter and built upon later.

• To expose learners to a variety of texts to interact with
• To help learners classify ideologies and be able to express the same
• To expose learners to visual texts and its reading formulas
• To help learners develop a taste to appreciate works of literature through the organization of language
• To help develop critical thinking
• To help learners appreciate literature and the language nuances that enhances its literary values

• To help learners understand the relationship between the world around them and the text/literature
• To help learners negotiate with content and infer meaning contextually
• To help learners understand logical sequencing of content and process information

·         To help improve their communication skills for larger academic purposes and vocational purposes

·         To enable learners to learn the contextual use of words and the generic meaning

·         To enable learners to listen to audio content and infer contextual meaning

·         To enable learners to be able to speak for various purposes and occasions using context specific language and expressions

·         To enable learners to develop the ability to write for various purposes using suitable and precise language.

IPR have assumed increased significance in global trade. Over the last two decades IPR protection has expanded in an unprecedented pace resulting in economic growth. Understating IPR legal regime is vital for protecting innovation and creation. This course aims at providing basic working knowledge in the area of intellectual property and examines, analyzes and studies the remarkable subject of International Intellectual Property Law and how to enforce trademarks, patents and copyrights beyond national boundaries. Special emphasis will be placed on international standards for intellectual property and its implementation, application and practices in national jurisdictions. In addition the course covers the differences and similarities between the diverse national intellectual property systems.

Course Description: This course aims at developing the ability for logical arguments and perform mathematical computations. It also helps the students to understand the theory of equations and matrices and develop a solid foundation in mathematics. 

Course Objectives​: This course will help the learner to

COBJ 1: Develop logical foundations to understand and construct logical arguments to support or refute mathematical assertions.

COBJ 2: Understand the techniques to solve polynomial equations of higher degrees.

COBJ 3:  Gain knowledge in matrix algebra, spectral theory, and their applications.

Course Description: This course aims at introducing the students to the methods of solving ordinary and partial differential equations.

Course objectives​: This course will help the learner to

COBJ 1:   Solve first and higher order ordinary differential equations.

COBJ 2:   Form PDE and solve linear and nonlinear PDE’s of the first order.

Apply the concepts of ODE and PDE to solve real-world problems.

This course aims toprovide fundamentals of Python programming language like data structures, programming structures, functions, plotting 2D, 3D graphs. Students will explore python tools, libraries, packages to use in Algebra, Calculus and differential equations.  

COBJ 1:  gain proficiency in using Python for programming.

COBJ 2:  acquire skills in usage of suitable functions/packages of Python.

COBJ 3: apply the knowledge of python for Algebra, Calculus and Differential equations.

Course Description

This hands-on course introduces students to the fundamentals of digital media production, providing them with the skills and knowledge needed to create compelling content in various digital formats. Through practical exercises and projects, students will learn the essentials of pre-production, production, and post-production processes in the digital media landscape. They will explore techniques for capturing and editing audio and video, designing graphics, and creating engaging multimedia content. The course will also examine the influence of digital media on society, including its impact on culture, communication, and storytelling. By the end of the course, students will be proficient in producing professional-quality digital media projects and will have a critical understanding of the broader implications of digital media production.

Course Objectives:
1. Design impactful stories using effective structures, engaging visuals, and multimedia elements, tailored to specific platforms and audiences.
2. Get hands-on experience with audio/video recording and editing software, graphic design principles, and popular digital media platforms to produce effective storytelling projects.
3. Evaluate digital storytelling projects, identify effective techniques, and analyze the broader impact of digital media on communication and society.
4. Utilize various storytelling methods, collaborate effectively in teams, and communicate creative vision through presentations and project critiques.
5. Apply digital media skills to various platforms and emerging technologies, adapting your approach to diverse audiences and storytelling goals.

Course Description:

Dr B R Ambedkar is one of the great intellectuals who has contributed to nation-building as an anti-caste leader, ardent philosopher of social justice, political economist, and principal architect of the Indian constitution. An organic intellectual, Dr Ambedkar developed his political philosophy by critically examining his personal experiences and encompassing them with a rigorous analysis of India’s social structure and history. This course will facilitate students to broaden their understanding of the social, economic and political thoughts of Dr Ambedkar. Further, this course will engage with the critical ideas of ‘Liberty, Equality and Fraternity’ to enable young minds to examine the socio-political realities in the Indian context.

Course Objectives:

To engage with the intellectual legacy of Dr B R Ambedkar.

To foster a critical approach to examine the social, political, and economic inequalities with Ambedkar’s political philosophy.

The course will introduce the students to how UN public policy has evolved in achieving its core mandate to maintain international peace and security through establishing cooperation among countries to address the issues without borders, towards achieving sustainable development Under the Sustainable Development Agenda with its economic, social and environmental dimensions the UN has gone beyond its earlier objective of preventing war and is ensuring human security.

Course Objectives

The course aims to help students:

 To understand the working of United Nations Organization.

 To identify the sustainable development goals and their necessity in the world

 To understand the various ways in which citizens can promote the SDGs

This multidisciplinary course examines the concept of leadership and the psychological and social processes that characterize leadership. We will explore the qualities of effective leadership and the role of situational factors that make some forms of leadership more effective than others. We will explore paradox and complexity in discussions of leadership and will explore the dynamics of identity and power in the unfolding of leadership. In this course, students will not only learn about leadership in traditional ways, such as readings and discussion, but will explore their personal leadership style and plan their goals for personal leadership growth.

Course Description: This course is designed to teach the basic concepts of random variables, generation functions and an introduction to inferential statistics. It also gives a brief idea about standard probability distributions, sampling and how they are applied in real time situations.

Course Objective: Develop an understanding of random variables, probability distributions, and two dimensional random variables, as well as sampling distributions, inferential statistics.