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Courses » Cognition, Transformation and Lives

Cognition, Transformation and Lives

About the course
This course addresses anyone who is interested in change, not the temporary change, but transformation at a deeper, sustained level; whether individual or collective. The course is structured to provide a basic knowledge of Psychology and Neuroscience before using a narrative biography of Mahatma Gandhi to elucidate the process of transformation. It does not look at Mahatma Gandhi’s politics rather at the Man who left behind a model of transformation. We posit it in a scientific analysis here.

Intended Audience
Students, professionals, or anyone Interested in Mind

Prerequisites
None. Working knowledge of English.
Preferably, listen to Prof. Braj Bhushan’s lectures on NPTEL –‘Introduction to Psychology’

Industries that will recognize this course
Motivational and Self-help programmes

677 students have enrolled already!!

Course instructor



Dr. Alok Bajpai has been trained in Psychiatry at National Institute of Mental health and NeuroSciences (NIMHANS) Bangalore. He did his DPM, MD and is currently practicing at Kanpur and is also the Psychiatrist with Counselling cell, IIT Kanpur. His research interest are in Physics of Brain, Sleep and EEG.

Course layout


Week 1: 

Why Do people do what they do?


Week 2: 

Where is the mind?


Week 3: 

Understanding Transformation


Week 4: 

Gandhi’s process of transformation.



Suggested Reading
1. My experiments with truth – Mohandas Gandhi
2. Morgan and King – Introduction to Psychology 

More details about the course

Course url: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc17_hs22
Course duration: 04 weeks
Start date and end date of course: 24 July 2017-18 August 2017
Date of exam: 24 September, 2017
Time of exam: Shift 1: 9 am-12 noon; Shift 2: 2 pm-5 pm
Any one shift can be chosen to write the exam for a course

Final List of exam cities will be available in exam registration form.
Registration url - Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
Exam Fee: The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee of approximately Rs 1000 needs to be paid. 


Certificate

E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score.

Final score = 25% assignment score + 75% exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of scores of Best 3 out of 4 assignments 

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.