IBA Karachi - Department of Social Sciences & Liberal Arts

Courses

Semester 1	Semester 2
English Grammar and Composition Calculus I with Plane Geometry History of Ideas I Fundamentals of Sociology Introduction to Historical Methods	Intermediate English Grammar and Composition Introduction to Statistics History of Ideas II South Asian History Introduction to Psychology
Semester 3	Semester 4
Speech Communication Foreign Language I Statistical Inference Pakistan History Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology	Socioeconomic Philosophy of Islam or Philosophy, Logic and Ethics Foreign Language II Introduction to Political Science Culture, Media, Society Introduction to Urban Studies
Summer
8-Week Responsible Citizen Initiative
Semester 5	Semester 6
Computational Research Methods Major Core I Major Core II Humanities Elective I Natural Science Elective	Major Core III Major Core IV- Research Methods Major Elective I Non-Specialization Elective I Visual Studies Elective I
Summer
10-Week Research Internship
Semester 7	Semester 8
Major Elective II Major Elective III Major Elective IV Non-Specialization Elective II Culminating Experience I	Major Elective V Major Elective VI Humanities Elective II Culminating Experience II (6 credits)

University Core (4)	Supporting Core (5)
Intermediate English Grammar and Composition Introduction to Statistics History of Ideas II South Asian History Introduction to Psychology	SSC239 - History of Ideas I SSC238 - History of Ideas II SSC221 - South Asian History MTS202 - Statistical Inference SSC302 - Computational Research Methods
Social Sciences Core (7)	Non-Specialization Core (5)
SSC231 - Fundamentals of Sociology SSC232 - Introductions to Historical Methods SSC233 - Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology SSC234 - Introduction to Urban Studies SSC216 - Culture Media and Society SSC217 - Introduction to Political Science SSC218 - Introduction to Psychology	MTS101 - Calculus-I and Plane Geometry MTS102 - Introduction to Statistics SSC106 - Intermediate Grammar and Composition SSC201/205/209/330 - Foreign Language I (Arabic/French/Mandarin/German) SSC202/206/210/331 - Foreign Language II (Arabic/French/Mandarin/German)
Final Year Project
SSC491 - Culminating Experience-I SSC492 - Culminating Experience-II

Psychology
4 Core Courses	6 Electives from the following list
PSY301 - Research Methods in Psychology PSY302 - Human Development PSY351 - Introduction to Social Psychology PSY304 - History and Systems of Psychology	PSY352 - Industrial and Organizational Psychology PSY353 - Media Psychology PSY359 - Cognitive Psychology PSY362 - Abnormal Psychology PSY366 - Cyber Psychology PSY367 - Personality Psychology PSY372 - Cross-Cultural Psychology PSY364 - Gender Psychology PSY365 - Counselling Psychology PSY368 - Educational Psychology PSY370 - Clinical Psychology PSY371 - Physiological Psychology PSY369 - Positive Psychology PSY373 - Environmental Psychology PSY350 - Consumer Psychology
Political Science
4 Core Courses	6 Electives from the following list
POL301 - Research Methods in Political Science POL302 - History of Political Thought POL303 - Comparative Politics POL402 - Political Systems and Political Regimes	POL351 - Political Psychology POL370 - Politics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Punjab POL352 - Foreign Policy in China POL353 - State and Society POL354 - War: Conceptual Underpinnings POL355 - Human Rights and Law POL359 - The Modern Middle East POL365 - Introduction to Foreign Policy Analysis POL362 - Pakistan's Foreign Policy POL364 - Political Philosophy POL372 - Negotiation and Conflict Resolution POL366 - Culture and Power in Human Societies POL371 - Modern Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Anarchism POL367 - Global Urbanisms HUM380 - Advanced Readings in Pakistan's History HUM376 - A History of the Cold War MCS372 - Political Communication POL376 - Perspectives in Pakistan's Political Economy POL374 - Community Planning and Development POL373 - History, Theory and Practice of Diplomacy POL375 - History of Decolonization POL378 - China's Contemporary Security Environment POL377 - Politics of Resistance in the Middle East POL379 - Women's Issues and Activism in Pakistan MCS366 - Digital Activism and Democracy POL350 - Political Violence, Civil War, and Terrorism
Media and Communication Studies
4 Core Courses	6 Electives from the following list
MCS301 - Research Methods in Media and Communications MCS302 - Gutenberg to Google: A Social History of Media MCS303 - Theories of Media and Communication MCS401 - Communication for Social Change	PSY353 -Media Psychology MCS352 - Media, Law, and Ethics MCS353 - Race, Class, and Gender in Film and Television MCS354 - The International Newsroom MCS355 - Analyzing the News MCS358 - Communication in Advertising MCS359 - Watching Films MCS360 - History of Film MCS364 - Theories of Film and Television MCS366 - Digital Activism and Democracy MCS372 - Political Communication MCS368 - Media Anthropology MCS371 - Journalism and Public Discourse HUM383 - Narrative and Identity in Pakistani Literature MCS375 - Literary and Visual Cultures in a New Media Age MCS373 - Ethnicities, Diaspora and the Media MCS374 - Taking it Like a Man: American Masculinities in Visual Culture MCS378 - Karachi in the Media MCS377 - Fundamentals of Design and Communication MCS370 - The Western Travel Documentary in a Global Context MCS376 - Parallel Cinema, Gender and Realism MCS350 - Lights, Camera, History: Representations of Medieval South Asia in Bollywood
History
4 Core Courses	6 Electives from the following list
From Empires to Nation-States: A History of the Pre-20th Century World Topics in Historiography Twentieth Century International History Research Methods in History: Primary Source Genres	HUM380 - Advanced Readings in Pakistan's History HUM381 - Sufis, Steppe Nomads and Silk Roads: A History of Islamic Central Asia HUM368 - Intellectual and Cultural History of Muslim Spain HUM384 - The Persian Literary Culture of Lahore in the Ghaznavid Period (977-1186) HUM376 - A History of the Cold War HUM369 - The Making of the Mughal Empire: An Intellectual and Cultural History HUM371 - 1947/1971: Interrogating Partitions, Narrative Selves HUM378 - A History of the Fable in its Greek, Arabic and Indic Traditions HUM379 - Don Quixote and its Andalusian Milieu SSC121 - Major Themes in World History MCS302 - Gutenberg to Google: A Social History of Media NSC351 - History of Science POL302 - History of Political Thought POL370 - Politics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Punjab A History of the Indian Ocean World Historiography of Early Islam Ecological History

Natural Science Electives (1 from the following list)	Visual Studies Electives (1 from the following list)
NCS351 - History of Science NCS354 - Introduction to Environmental Sciences NCS358 - Sustainable Cities and Communities HUM382 - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics HUM377 - Are We Becoming Post-human? Technology, Society and Ethics. NSC359 - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics NSC360 - Climate Change and Us HUM455 - Environmental Anthropology	HUM366 - Art of the Islamic World HUM350 - Empire and Vision: Between Production and Representation of South Asian Cities MCS353 - Race, Class, and Gender in Film and Television MCS359 - Watching Films HUM371 - 1947/1971: Interrogating Partitions, Narrative Selves MCS375 - Literary and Visual Cultures in a New Media Age MCS373 - Ethnicities, Diaspora and the Media MCS374 - Taking it Like a Man: American Masculinities in Visual Culture MCS376 - Parallel Cinema, Gender and Realism HUM368 - Intellectual and Cultural History of Muslim Spain HUM451- Screening the Body: Gender, Race and Nation in Visual Culture HUM450 - Islamic Book Arts 1200-1800 MCS377 - Fundamentals of Design and Communication MCS370 - The Western Travel Documentary in a Global Context MCS350 - Lights, Camera, History: Representations of Medieval South Asia in Bollywood MCS366 - Digital Activism and Democracy
Humanities Electives (2 from the following list)
HUM352 - Reading Poetry SSC107 - History of Economic Thought HUM355 - Anglo-Indian Narrative and the Postcolonial Subject HUM357 - Philosophy, Logic and Ethics HUM360 - Creative Writing HUM380 - Advanced Readings in Pakistan's History HUM381 - Sufis. Steppe Nomads and Silk Roads: A History of Islamic Central Asia HUM383 - Narrative and Identity in Pakistani Literature HUM370 - From Ghalib to Bollywood HUM372 - History of Anthropological Thought HUM377 - Are We Becoming Post-human? Technology, Society and Ethics. HUM384 - The Persian Literary Culture of Lahore in the Ghaznavid Period (977-1186) HUM376 - A History of the Cold War HUM369 - The Making of the Mughal Empire: An Intellectual and Cultural History HUM368 - Intellectual and Cultural History of Muslim Spain HUM369 - Introduction to Literary Modernism HUM367 - Borders and Boundaries: South Asian and Middle Eastern Feminist Fiction HUM382 - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics HUM378 - A History of the Fable in its Greek, Arabic and Indic Traditions HUM371 - 1947/1971: Interrogating Partitions, Narrative Selves HUM379 - Don Quixote and its Andalusian Milieu SSC235 - Introduction to Linguistics SSC121 - Major Themes in World History SSC213 - Advanced English Composition POL364 - Political Philosophy POL366 - Culture and Power in Human Societies POL302 - History of Political Thought POL371 - Modern Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Anarchism POL373 - History, Theory and Practice of Diplomacy MCS355 - Analyzing the News MCS352 - Media, Law and Ethics HUM388 - An Introduction to the Islamic Scholarly Tradition HUM385 - A Textual Introduction to Rumi HUM386 - Unearthly Things and Sad Destinies: An Introduction to Literary Theory HUM 387 - Sufism: A Social, Political and Economic History HUM452 - Ethnographic Theory and Practice MCS371 - Journalism and Public Discourse POL362 - Pakistan's Foreign Policy POL376 - Perspectives in Pakistan's Political Economy HUM456 - Evolution of Music in South Asia HUM454 - Prophets in the Abrahamic Traditions POL379 - Women's Issues and Activism in Pakistan HUM485 - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind HUM453 - Spirituality in Islam: Classical Texts and Themes HUM457 - Ethnomusicology: Music and Culture MCS302 - Gutenberg to Google: A Social History of Media HUM455 - Environmental Anthropology

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