Syllabus for
BSc (Economics, Data Analytics/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. 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 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 career. The department also moulds the students to be socially responsible and ethically sound. 

The undergraduate program of B.Sc.(Economics, Data Analytics) is an interdisciplinary dual major programme. The key feature of this program is the combination of insights from data analytics and economic skills with hand on experience in various tools and technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Big Data, NLP etc. Also, particular focus on skills required for the complex decision-making in Applied Microeconomics, Finance, Market Research, Operations and Policy Analysis. The progressive approach in the design of the curriculum facilitates students to pursue research/career in the areas of Data Analytics or Economics.

This programme prepares students to become Data Analysts and Economists with various career options, such as Associate Data Analysts, Public Policy Makers, Professors, Civil Servants, Actuaries, Defense Personnel, Researchers, and BFSI (Banking, Financial Services & Insurance). 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 B.Sc.(Hons) in Economics or Data Analytics, with or without research. 

Programme Outcome/Programme Learning Goals/Programme Learning Outcome:

PO2: To address the challenging requirements in the domain related to Data Analytics and Economics.

PO3: To use effectively the data analytics 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

PO6: Apply appropriate methods and tools for research and development in the chosen discipline

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.

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.

To enable the students to understand the fundamental concepts of problem solving and programming structures. The Objective of the course is to teach students the basic principles of programming. These principles will help lay a solid foundation for the students in pursuing courses related to programming during the program. The Course lays emphasis on the fundamentals of programming. 

The course enables students to provide a strong foundation for Data Science and applications related to it. They also understand the underlying core concepts and emerging technologies in data science and learn the process of working with data on large scale. The course also provides the required knowledge about the digital fundamentals of computers. The course covers topics like number systems, logic gates, and flips flops. The discussion about the working of devices like encoders and decoders, multiplexers, and demultiplexers are dealt.

Course Objectives:

1. To provide a strong foundation for data science and the application area related to it, train to explore the process of data pre-processing and machine learning, and to inculcate the importance of ethics while handling data and problems in data science.

2. To provide students with a fundamental understanding of the digital computing concepts from a hardware and software perspective.

Course Description:

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:

To provide comprehensive knowledge of Python programming paradigms.

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 course has been conceptualized in order to introduce the students to the study of international relations. It introduces students to major theoretical approaches to understand international politics and diplomacy.

 To introduce the students to:

●       The nature, scope and importance of International Relations/Politics

●       The basic concepts of International Relations such as Sovereignty, Security, balance of Power etc.

●       The contemporary global issues

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.

This course aims at developing an understanding about the issues involved in defining and simulating perception, identifying the problems where AI is required and the different methods available to compare and contrast different AI techniques available, to define and explain learning algorithms and to provide the student additional experience in the analysis and evaluation of complicated systems.

Course Objectives 1. To understand the importance of Artificial Intelligence. 2. To understand various AI techniques. 

The course develops an understanding about the issues involved in defining and simulating perception, identifying the problems where AI is required and the different methods available to compare and contrast different AI techniques available, to define and explain learning algorithms and to provide the student additional experience in the analysis and evaluation of complicated systems. 

Course Objectives 1. To understand the various AI techniques. 

This course is a classical approach to the concepts behind modern computer operating systems. Considers the unifying concept of the operating system as a collection of cooperating sequential processes. Covers topics including file systems, virtual memory, disk request scheduling, concurrent processes, deadlocks, security, and integrity.

Course Objectives:

1. Learn fundamental operating system abstractions such as processes, threads, files, Semaphores, IPC abstractions, shared memory regions, etc.,

2. Learn the principles of concurrency and synchronization, and apply them to write correct concurrent programs/software,

3. Learn basic resource management techniques (scheduling, time management, space management) and principles and how they can be implemented. These also include issues of performance and fairness objectives, avoiding deadlocks, as well as security and protection. 

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.

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

Understanding close relationships is among the central goals of social psychology. Close relationships range from family ties to friendships to romantic and sexual relationships. Our main purpose will be on learning about the life cycle of adult intimate (i.e., romantic) relationships, ranging from stages of initial attraction and relationship initiation to growth and maintenance of the relationship, and in some cases, dissolution. Although other close relationships such as close friendships, family, and work relationships will also be addressed and integrated into the course, they will be of secondary importance. Class meetings will consist mainly of facilitated discussions and student-led presentations on topics such as the biological bases of attraction and love, commitment and interdependence, relationship cognition, attachment, communication, sexuality, relational interaction patterns, relationship satisfaction, and the social context of relationships (e.g., the influence of others) conflict, relationship dissolution, and relationship maintenance.

CO1: Understand the major concepts and models of interpersonal relationships.

CO2: Evaluate the different types of relationships and their impact on one's life.

CO3: Use strategies to enhance everyday life challenges and sustain effective relationships

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.