Course info

Course Description 

IKS: An Overview is a skill enhancement course offered to students pursuing undergraduate programmes at Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth. CVV aims in making our students conscious of the treasure of knowledge that exists in the world of Indic Knowledge Traditions (IKT). CVV is committed to research, propagate, and integrate IKT with the modern schools of knowledge. 

Course Introduction 

This course will serve as an introduction to Indic Knowledge Traditions to learners pursuing different programmes at Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth. Themes include introduction to ancient Indian contributions to science, technology, architecture, health, wellness, psychology, public administration, and governance, along with the wisdom from the larger Vedic corpus. The course will help students to build awareness of IKT, develop pride, inspiration and motivation to study further and explore their application to solve problems of the modern world. 

Course Objective 

The following are the objectives of the course: 

• To introduce the rich knowledge treasure of Indian knowledge traditions 
• Encourage students to compare and contrast them to modern sciences 
• Encourage them to come up with ideas to solve world problems in economics, law, architecture, Education 

Course Outcome 

At the end of this course the student will be able to: 

• Identify different marvels of Indian civilisation, both concrete and abstract 
• Relate them to the specific knowledge traditions to which they belong 
• List different streams of Indic Knowledge Traditions (IKT) and their constituents 
• Summarise key ideas and principles of each of the streams with examples from daily lives 
• Explain the importance of learning Itihāsa and Purāṇa, and the larger Vedic corpus 
• Identify one or more stream of IKT that they would like to take up for a detailed study in the upcoming semesters to explore application to solve problems of the contemporary world 
• Discover the multi-dimensional nature of IKT 

Prerequisites 

• No pre-requisites necessary 

Teaching Pedagogy 

Various pedagogical methods, involving interactive classroom audio-visual lectures as well as modern methods like collaborative learning, project-based self-learning, and based on the module and topic. It includes hands-on activities, interactive sessions, discussion forums, learner presentations, quizzing, case studies, assignments and projects.