Humanities & Social Sciences

Study for your doctorate in a professional and challenging school, where academic rigour and excellence are at the heart of everything we do. You will have the opportunity to work with leading academics and be part of a growing and vibrant community of doctoral scholars. This course at LPU emphasises off-the-shelf research to create new knowledge and explore future challenges. The researcher is expected to identify the research gaps, formulate objectives, develop methodologies for finding solutions to real-life problems. The course gives an overview of research including the philosophy of research. The course also covers stages of research, ethical considerations in research, quality of Journals, citations, indexing, and intellectual property rights including research ethics. The course is about discretion about IPR including patents, copyrights, design registration, and their filing, publishing, and granting. This will describe the types of research, various terminologies used during the research, and the design of the research. This course will also give brief information about various intellectual property rights. The course covers different ways of writing and presentation of research including a research paper, research proposal, State of Art Seminar, etc. Applicants who qualify UGC (NET/ JRF)/ CSIR (NET/ JRF)/ ICAR (JRF/ SRF) examination/ SLET (Punjab only)/ GATE/ GPAT score card/ ICAR (NET), SPM, Teacher Fellowship holder or passed M.Phil. (in regular mode only) are exempted from LPUNEST (Ph.D. ) entrance test (GATE/ GPAT score should be valid at the time of admission). The final selection for admission in Ph.D. is based on the performance in Entrance Test (70% weightage) and Interview (30% weightage) subject to scoring minimum marks in the Interview. However, if anyone is exempted from the LPUNEST (Ph.D. ) entrance test instead of the above-mentioned tests, then 100% weightage will be given to the Interview only. Unless otherwise specified by the University, the medium of instruction, course work, examination, question paper, synopsis, and the thesis will be English in all cases. Highlights
Teaching fellowship of Rs. 15600/- per month may be provided to full-time Ph.D. scholars subject to fulfilment of eligibility criteria.

DU SOL Eligibility Criteria for PG Courses:
The criteria are B.A. (Hons) pass in History from the University of Delhi with 60% marks or above. For admission through entrance based, the following criteria are required - (I) B.A. (Hons) in History from the DU with 50% marks and less than 60%. (ii) B.A. (Hons) in History other than DU with 55% marks. (iii) B.A. (Pass) from DU with 55% or above marks and 55% in history subject. (iv) B.A. (Pass) from other universities than DU with 60% or above marks in aggregate. (v) B.A. (Hons) in any subject other than history from other universities and DU with 55% or above marks in the aggregate. (vi) B.Sc. (Pass or Hons); B.Com. (Pass or Hons) from other universities or DU with 60% or above marks in aggregate.

Dear Aarushi, Because of the growth of many commercial and public organizations that employ graduates of this course, the scope of B.A. Geography Hons in India is rewarding and high. Students with a B.A. Geography Hons degree has numerous work prospects in a variety of fields. The B.A. Geography Hons programme strives to provide students with all of the resources they'll need to succeed in their chosen area. Following are some of the positions that B.A. Geography Hons graduates can start with:
Lecturer and teacher
GIS and Remote Sensing Specialist for Forest Managers
Urban and Regional Planner
Tourist Guide Translator Demographer Cartographer
Geographer.