Intro to Range of Academic Disciplines

Major Core + Electives


Course title

Course code

Credit hours

Pre-requisite

Psychology

Psychology core courses

Research Methods in Psychology

MTS20

4

SSC218

Human Development

SSC221

3

SSC218

History and Systems of Psychology

SSC238

3

SSC218

Introduction to Social Psychology

SSC239

3

SSC218

Psychology electives (6 from the following list)***

Human Resource Management /Management and Human Resource

HRM401/HRM464

3

 

Organizational Behaviour /Management and Organizational Behaviour

MGT221/MGT231

3

 

Memory and Attention

PSY275

3

SSC218, PSY301

Consumer Psychology

PSY350

3

 

Industrial and Organizational Psychology

PSY352

3

SSC218, PSY301

Media Psychology

PSY353

3

SSC216/218, MCS/PSY301

Cognitive Psychology

PSY359

3

SSC218, PSY301

Abnormal Psychology

PSY362

3

SSC218, PSY301

Gender Psychology

PSY364

3

SSC218, PSY301

Counseling Psychology

PSY365

3

SSC218, PSY301

Cyber Psychology

PSY366

3

SSC218, PSY301

Personality Psychology

PSY367

3

SSC218, PSY301

Educational Psychology

PSY368

3

SSC218, PSY301

Positive Psychology

PSY369

3

SSC218, PSY301

Clinical Psychology

PSY370

3

SSC218, PSY301

Physiological Psychology

PSY371

3

SSC218, PSY301

Cross-Cultural Psychology

PSY372

3

SSC218, PSY301

Environmental Psychology

PSY373

3

SSC218, PSY301

Climate Change: Psychology of Denial, Impacts, and Adaptation

PSY374

3

SSC218, PSY301

Forensic and Criminal Psychology

PSY376

3

SSC218, PSY301

Political Science

Political Science core courses

Research Methods in Political Science

POL301

3

SSC217

History of Political Thought

POL302

3

SSC217

Comparative Politics

POL303

3

SSC217

Political Systems and Political Regimes

POL402

3

SSC217

Political Science electives (6 from the following list)***

Public Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice

ECO560

3

 

A History of the Cold War

HUM376

3

 

Advanced Readings in Pakistan's History

HUM380

3

SSC151, SSC221

Digital Activism and Democracy

MCS366

3

SSC216/217, POL/MCS301

Political Communication

MCS372

3

SSC216/217, POL/MCS301

Political Violence, Civil War, and Terrorism

POL350

3

SSC217, POL301

Political Psychology

POL351

3

SSC217/218, POL/PSY301

Foreign Policy in China

POL352

3

SSC217, POL301

An Introduction to Legal Theory

POL353

3

 

War: Conceptual Underpinnings

POL354

3

SSC217, POL301

Human Rights and Law

POL355

3

SSC217, POL301

The Modern Middle East

POL359

3

SSC217, POL301

Studying the City in the Global South: Planning, Politics and Development

POL360

3

SSC217

Pakistan's Foreign Policy

POL362

3

SSC217

Political Philosophy

POL364

3

SSC217

Introduction to Foreign Policy Analysis

POL365

3

SSC217

Culture and Power in Human Societies

POL366

3

SSC217, POL301

Global Urbanisms

POL367

3

SSC217, POL301

Politics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Punjab

POL370

3

SSC217, POL301

Modern Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism, Anarchism

POL371

3

SSC217

Negotiation and Conflict Resolution

POL372

3

SSC217, POL301

History, Theory and Practice of Diplomacy

POL373

3

SSC217

Community Planning and Development

POL374

3

SSC217, POL301

Feminist Legal Theory and Practice

HUM396

3

 

History of Decolonization

POL375

3

SSC217, POL301

Perspectives in Pakistan’s Political Economy

POL376

3

SSC217

Politics of Resistance in the Middle East

POL377

3

SSC217, POL301

China’s Contemporary Security Environment

POL378

3

SSC217, POL301

Women’s Issues and Activism in Pakistan

POL379

3

 

Winners, Losers, and Bystanders: Political Economy Perspectives on Global Changes

POL450

3

SSC217, POL301

Transnational Islamic Politics in the Post-9/11 World

POL451

3

 

Media and Culture

Media and Culture core courses

Critical Theories and Methods

MCS340

4

SSC216

Media Aesthetics and History: Film, TV and Digital Media

MCS310

3

SSC216

Critical Media Practice I: Digital Image, Sound, and Story

MCS311

3

SSC216

Critical Media Practice II: Multimodal Publication and Design

MCS312

3

SSC216

Media and Culture electives (6 from the following list)***

Media, Law, and Ethics

MCS352

3

SSC216

Race, Class, and Gender in Film and Television

MCS353

3

SSC216

The International Newsroom

MCS354

3

SSC216

Analyzing the News

MCS355

3

SSC216

Crime and Legality in Visual Cultures

MCS357

3

SSC216

Journalism Essentials for Business: Visibility in the Age of New Media

MCS358

3

 

Watching Films

MCS359

3

SSC216

History of Film

MCS360

3

SSC216

Foundations of Screenwriting

MCS364

3

 

Digital Activism and Democracy

MCS366

3

SSC216/217, POL/MCS301

Media Anthropology

MCS368

3

SSC216, MCS301

The Western Travel Documentary in a Global Context

MCS370

3

SSC216

Journalism and Public Discourse

MCS371

3

SSC216

Political Communication

MCS372

3

SSC216/217, POL/MCS301

Ethnicities, Diaspora and the Media

MCS373

3

SSC216

Taking it Like a Man: American Masculinities in Visual Culture

MCS374

3

SSC216

Literary and Visual Cultures in a New Media Age

MCS375

3

SSC216

Parallel Cinema, Gender and Realism

MCS376

3

SSC216

Fundamentals of Design and Communication

MCS377

3

SSC216

Karachi in the Media

MCS378

3

SSC216

Fan Studies: Theory and Practice

MCS379

3

SSC216

Feminism Technology and Media

MCS 380

3

 

Social Media Marketing

MKT569

3

 

Media Psychology

PSY353

3

SSC216/218, MCS/PSY301

Cultural Globalization and Media

MCS450

3

 

Print, Identity and the Public Sphere: Urdu in early colonial north India

HST357

3

 

Monsters, witches and mad women in world literature

HUM

3

 

Communication for Social Change

MCS341

3

 

History

History core courses

From Empires to Nation-States: A History of the Pre-20th Century World

HST301

3

SSC232

Topics in Historiography

HST302

3

SSC232

Twentieth Century Global History

HST303

3

SSC232

Research Methods in History: Primary Source Genres

HST304

4

SSC232

History electives (6 from the following list)***

A History of the Indian Ocean World

HST352

3

SSC232

Historiography of Early Islam

HST353

3

SSC232

Ecological History

HST354

3

SSC232

The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires

HUM368

3

 

Intellectual and Cultural History of Muslim Spain

HUM369

3

SSC232

The Making of the Mughal Empire: An Intellectual and Cultural History

HUM371

3

SSC221

1947/1971: Interrogating Partitions, Narrative Selves

HUM376/ HST356

3

 

A History of the Cold War

HUM378

3

 

A History of the Fable in its Greek, Arabic and Indic Traditions

HUM379

3

 

Don Quixote and its Andalusian Milieu

HUM380

3

 

Advanced Readings in Pakistan's History

HUM381

3

SSC151, SS221

Sufis, Steppe Nomads and Silk Roads: A History of Islamic Central Asia

HUM384

3

SSC232, SSC221

The Persian Literary Culture of Lahore in the Ghaznavid Period (977-1186)

HUM387

3

SSC232, SSC221

Sufism: A Social, Political and Economic History

HST357

3

 

Print, Identity and the Public Sphere: Urdu in early colonial north India

HST351

3

 

Lights, Camera, History: Representations of Medieval South Asia in Bollywood

MCS350

3

SSC216

History of Science

NSC351

3

 

Science and Medicine in Islamic Societies 700 – 1700

NSC361

3

SSC217

History of Political Thought

POL302

3

SSC217, POL301

Politics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Punjab

POL370

3

SSC217, POL301

History of Decolonization

POL375

3

 

Major Themes in World History

SSC121

3

SSC232

Labour, Capital and Colonialism: The making of modern South Asia

HST 355

3

SSC216

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