Course Name: Water, Society and Sustainability

Course abstract

The global water scenario is beset by multiple challenges: water availability, severe inequity to water access and entitlements across social and spatial lines, frequent floods and droughts, disputes over corporate control of limited water resources, etc. The world appears to be on track to halve the number of people without access to safe clean water. However, in the urban Global South, this success masks regional and local inequalities and a process of urbanization without infrastructure, which is particularly acute in the growing peripheries of existing cities. Interestingly enough, lessons can be learnt from small-scale community water conservation practices and localized needs-driven initiatives. Within this context, it is important to understand and address water beyond the physical and technical attributes and explore the complex and cyclical processes through which water shapes, and, is in turn shaped by society. The course is located at the intersections across water, technology, science and society towards sustainable future. It combines fundamental theoretical, methodological approaches and empirical case studies to introduce and familiarize students with water-society relationship: the contemporary challenges and prospective potentials.


Course Instructor

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Prof. Jenia Mukherjee

Dr Jenia Mukherjee is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Her research interest spans across environmental humanities, water political ecology, urban ecology and development studies. In 2013, she was awarded the World Social Science Fellowship by the International Social Science Council. In 2010 and 2015 she received the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Government of Australia sponsored Australian Leadership Awards Fellowship (ALAF) for her research on riverine island communities. She had conducted and organized several workshops, conferences and seminars. She had recently organized an AICTE course on Combining hydrology and hydrosocial: Towards comprehensive understanding of river systems at IIT Kharagpur (October 2017). She had published three books (2014, 2018), several articles and book chapters in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.
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 Course Duration : Sep-Oct 2020

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 Enrollment : 20-May-2020 to 21-Sep-2020

 Exam registration : 14-Sep-2020 to 02-Nov-2020

 Exam Date : 20-Dec-2020

Enrolled

2816

Registered

180

Certificate Eligible

131

Certified Category Count

Gold

0

Silver

4

Elite

44

Successfully completed

83

Participation

27

Success

Elite

Silver

Gold





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AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75 AND FINAL SCORE >=40
BASED ON THE FINAL SCORE, Certificate criteria will be as below:
>=90 - Elite + Gold
75-89 -Elite + Silver
>=60 - Elite
40-59 - Successfully Completed

Final Score Calculation Logic

  • Assignment Score = Average of best 3 out of 4 assignments.
  • Final Score(Score on Certificate)= 75% of Exam Score + 25% of Assignment Score
Water, Society and Sustainability - Toppers list
Top 1 % of Certified Candidates

TANUSHREE BARUAH 85%

COTTON UNIVERSITY

DEBOSMITA SAHA HAZRA 85%

University of Calcutta, Shahid Kshudiram Siksha Prangan, Alipore


Top 2 % of Certified Candidates

ALKA ABRAHAM 78%

MAR ATHANASIUS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING


Top 5 % of Certified Candidates

DR MITRAJIT CHATTERJEE 76%

Kabi Sukanta Mahavidyalaya

CHANDRALOK KUMAR 73%

MUAZ ARIF 73%

School of Open Learning, Delhi University

ISHANI RAJKHOWA 72%

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi

ZAHEER UD DIN SHEIKH 72%

YASHVEER SINGH JADON 72%

MADHAV INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE

Enrollment Statistics

Total Enrollment: 2816

Registration Statistics

Total Registration : 180

Assignment Statistics




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Assignment Score: Distribution of average scores garnered by students per assignment.
Exam Score : Distribution of the final exam score of students.
Final Score : Distribution of the combined score of assignments and final exam, based on the score logic.