• To create awareness regarding current trends, issues and research as related to various aspects of Political Science.
• Inculcating an interdisciplinary / comparative approach to research
• Updating knowledge in pertinent areas of research.
• To acquaint the students with research methodology
• To orient the students to the techniques of documentation

 The students will be required to prepare a dissertation based on the synopsis presented in Semester III. They will be required to prepare a presentation of the dissertation topic. An external expert and an internal member will evaluate the same.

The division of marks will be as follows:

Internal evaluation:30 marks, on the basis of regularity, data collection, contact with the supervisor, originality of the work

Seminar and viva voce-70 marks

There will be a subject expert and two departmental examiners, one of whom will be the supervisor.