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AC – 11/07/2022
Item No. – 5.8 (N)
University of Mumbai
Syllabus for Postgraduate Diploma in Memory Studies
Semester – I & II
(Choice Based Credit System)
(Introduced from the academic year 2023 -24)
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Date: 30/04/2022 University of Mumbai
Signature: Signature:
(Dr. Sudhir Nikam)
Chairman, Board of Studies Faculty of Dean
O:6819 Title of Course
Postgraduate Diploma in Memory Studies
O:6820 Eligibility Graduates in Arts / Science / Commerce or
equivalent examination
R:9597 Duration of Course
One Year
R:9598 Intake Capacity
40 Students per batch
R:9599 Scheme of Examination Theory Examination + Internal Evaluation
(60+40)
R: 9600 Standards of Passing
The candidate must obtain 40 % of the total
marks in external and internal examination to
pass the course
No. of years/Semesters: One Year -Two Semesters
Level: P.G. / U.G. / Diploma / Certificate
Pattern: Yearly / Semester
Status: New / Revised
To be implemented from Academic
Year : From Academic Year 2023 -2024
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University of Mumbai
Postgraduate Diploma in Memory Studies
(With effect from the academic year 2023 -2024)
Board of Studies in English
Dr. Sudhir Nikam (Chairperson)
Dr. Rajesh Karankal (Member) Dr. Santosh Rathod (Member)
Dr. Bhagyashree Varma (Member) Dr. Deepa Mishra (Member)
Dr. B. N. Gaikwad (Member) Dr. Dattaguru Joshi (Member)
Dr. Satyawan Hanegave (Member) Dr. Deepa Murdeshwar -Katre (Member)
Syllabus Sub-Committee
Dr. Anil Ashok Sonawane (Convener): Assistant Professor, Department of English, St.
Gonsalo Garcia College of Arts and Commerce, Vasai.
Dr. Elwyn Susan John (Member): Associate Professor, Sophia College, Mumbai.
Prerna Jatav (Member): Head, Department of English, R D National College, Mumbai.
Pravin Bhaskar (Member): Assistant Professor, Department of English, JSM’s Shantaram
Gholap College, Shivale
Jagdish Magar (Member): Assistant Professor, Department of English, K. B. College of
Arts and Commerce for Women, Kopari, Thane East
Dr. Prantik Bannerjee (Member): Associate Professor, Department of English, Hilsop
College, Nagpur
Dr. Sachin Gadekar (Member): Associate Professor, Department of English, Tuljaram
Chaturchand College (Autonomous), Baramati.
Dr. Dharmapal Fulzele (Member): Assistant Professor, Department of English, Dr.
Bhausaheb Ambedkar College, Bramhapuri.
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Preamble
Introduction:
Memories are preserved in various ways, through monuments, books, art objects, digital
technology, and oral traditions. It is important to note that memories, individual or collective,
play an important role in the formation of soci eties and social practices. One can notice that
traumas are recorded and represented in the form of memories. Memories are embodied in
many ways in societies reminding of genocides as well as happy times. They play an
important role to keep the societies operative in peaceful way. But memories and their
representations can also effect violence and further traumas. This course aims at an
understanding of operations of memories and their representation in art works in digital or
otherwise manner and the way they can be analyzed. The learners in this course will be
equipped with the techniques of close reading of the texts and methodologies to analyze
memories and produce knowledge that helps in doing away with the misjudgments of
existing social groups and attempt at cohabiting in peaceful manner.
Objectives of the course:
To create bridges between theories and how memories are practiced in societies, and
develop capabilities of locating theories in life experiences.
To understand the diverse knowledge systems and academic disciplines in a critical
and multidisciplinary manner.
To generate research scholarships by respecting each other’s diverse positionalities
and create societies of caring and sharing.
To build collective and collaborative resistance against cancel cultures.
Course outcomes:
CO 1: Learners will be able to apply their theoretical and methodological knowledge in their
personal, professional and social life by trying to create tolerant and inclusive environment
around them.
CO 2: Learners will successfully sensitize themselves, their families, friends, relatives and
the societies against every form of visible and invisible forms of violence that fractures the
societies.
CO 3: Learners will be gaining personal and professional directions about how to build their
career and profession across multiple disciplines.
CO 4: Learners will be able to gain critical perspective for looking at memories manifest in
various forms.
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University of Mumbai
Postgraduate Diploma in Memory Studies
Semester: I
Course: Theory
Course Title: Memory Studies: An Introduction
Paper: I
(With effect from the academic year 2022 -23)
01 Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit
System
i Name of the Program Postgraduate Diploma in Memory Studies
ii Course Code
iii Course Title Memory Studies: An Introduction
iv Course Contents Enclosed a copy of the syllabus
v References and Additional References Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi Credit Structure (No. of Credits) 04
vii No. of lectures per Unit 15
viii No. of lectures per week 04
ix No. Tutorials per week 01
x Total Marks 100
02 Scheme of Examination Theory Examination + Internal Evaluation
(60+40)
03 Special notes, if any No
04 Eligibility, if any Graduate of any stream or Equivalent
05 Fee Structure As per University Structure
06 Special Ordinances / Resolutions if
any No
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Unit I: Memory Studies: Introductory Terms and Concepts 10
lectures
1. Roediger, Henry L., and James V. Wertsch. “Creating a New Discipline of Memory
Studies.” Memory Studies , vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 2008, pp. 9–22,
doi:10.1177/1750698007083884 .
2. “Chapter -I” from Gadekar, Sachin. Between Cultural Memory and Post -colonialism:
A Study of African and South Asian Novels . Kalamazoo: Ekpyrosis Press, 2022.
3. Memory
Collective Memory, Cultural Memory, Paper Memory, Screen memory , Post
Memory
Unit II: On Memory 10
lectures
1. Rose, Steven. 2010. “Memories are Made of This.” In Radstone and Schwarz, 198 -
208.
2. Sutton, John, et al. 2010. “Memory and Cognition.” In Radstone and Schwarz, 209 -22
3. Freud, Sigmund. 1962 [1899]. “Screen Memories.” In The Standard Editing of the
Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud . London: Hogarth Press. Pp. 302 -
322.
4. Astrid, Erll & Ann Rigney (2006): Literature and the production of cultural memory:
Introduction, European Journal of English Studies , 10:2, 111 -115
Unit III: Memory and Psychoanalysis 10
lectures
1. Kennedy, Roger. 2010. “Memory and the Unconscious.” In Radstone and Schwarz,
179-197.
2. Antze, Paul. 2006. “The Other Inside: Memory as Metaphor in Psychoanalysis.” In
Memory Cultures , Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin, eds. New Brunswick,
NJ: Transaction Publishers. Pp. 96-113.
3. Terdiman, Richard. 2010. “Memory in Freud.” In Radstone and Schwarz, pp. 93-108.
4. Poems: Sylvia Plath, “Daddy”
W. H. Auden, “In Memory of Sigmund Freud” Semester I– Paper I
Title: Memory Studies: An Introduction
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Sujata Bhat, “Search for my Tongue”
Unit IV: Memory and Mourning 10 lectures
1. Halbwachs, Maurice. 1992. On Collective Memory . Chicago: University of Chicago
Press. Pp. 37-53, 193-235.
2. Richter. Gerhard. 2010. “Acts of Memory and Mourning: Derrida and the Fictions of
Anteriority.” In Radstone and Schwarz, pp. 150-160.
3. Connerton, Paul. 1989. “Commemorative Ceremonies” and “Bodily Practices.” In
How Societies Remember . Cambridge University Press. Pp. 41-71 and 72-104
4. “Introduction” in Aanchal Malhotra “Remnants of a Separation: A History of the
Partition through Material Memory”, Harper Collins: New Delhi, 2015.
5. Poems: Agha Shahid Ali, “Postcard from Kashmir”
Dilip Chitre “The Felling of the Banyan Tree”
6. Film: “Ararat” Director: Atom Egoyan
Evaluation Pattern:
Internal Assessment (40 Marks):
Sr. No. Particulars Marks
1 Classroom Attendance & Participation 10
2. Oral Presentation (10 Minutes with or without PowerPoint) 10
3 Written Assignment 20
Suggested Topics for Internal Assessment:
1. The topics of internal assessments will be collaboratively decided by the teachers and the
students.
2. The topics for presentation and assignments should be decided in such a manner so that the
students can connect the varied theoretical arguments with their real-life experiences.
3. The marking criteria will be shared with the students prior to the assessments.
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Evaluation: Semester End Examination Pattern 60 Marks Hours: 02 Semester End Examination (60 Marks):
The Semester End Examination for 60 marks will have four questions of 15 marks each (with
internal choice):
Question 1 Objective (15/20) 15 Marks
Question 2 Short Notes (3/5) 15 Marks
Question 3 Short Answer (3/5) 15 Marks
Question 4 Application/Long answer (2/3) 15 Marks
Recommended Readings
Connerton, Paul. How societies remember . Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Connerton, Paul. The spirit of mourning: history, memory and the body . Cambridge
University Press, 2011.
Eberle, Scott G. "Memory and mourning: An exhibit history." Death studies 29.6 (2005):
535-557.
Fara, Patricia, and Karalyn Patterson, eds. Memory . Vol. 10. Cambridge University Press,
1998.
Freud, Sigmund. "Screen memories." The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological
Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume III (1893 -1899): Early Psycho -Analytic Publications .
1962. 299-322.
Kuriloff, Emily A. Contemporary psychoanalysis and the legacy of the Third Reich: History,
memory, tradition . Routledge, 2013.
LeMahieu, D. L. "Digital memory, moving images, and the absorption of historical
experience." Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal 41.1 (2011): 82-106.
Mitchell, Juliet. "Memory and psychoanalysis." Memory 10 (1998): 95.
Neumann, Birgit, and Martin Zierold. "Cultural Memory and Memory Cultures." Travelling
Concepts for the Study of Culture, ed. by Birgit Neumann/Ansgar Nünning,
Berlin (2012): 225-248.
Radstone, Susannah, and Bill Schwarz. Memory: Histories, theories, debates . Fordham
University Press, 2010.
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Sandy, Mark. Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning . Routledge, 2016.
White, Rob. Freud's memory: psychoanalysis, mourning and the foreign body . Springer,
2008.
Winter, Alison. "Film and the Construction of Memory in Psychoanalysis, 1940 –
1960." Science in Context 19.1 (2006): 111-136.
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University of Mumbai
Postgraduate Diploma in Memory Studies
Semester: I
Course: Theory
Course Title: Memory and History
Paper: II
(With effect from the academic year 2022 -23)
01 Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit
System
i Name of the Program Postgraduate Diploma in Memory Studies
ii Course Code
iii Course Title Memory and History
iv Course Contents Enclosed a copy of the syllabus
v References and Additional References Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi Credit Structure (No. of Credits) 04
Vii No. of Lectures Per Unit 15
viii No. of Lectures Per Week 04
viii No. Tutorials per week 01
ix Total Marks 100
02 Scheme of Examination Theory Examination + Internal Evaluation
(60+40)
03 Special notes, if any No
04 Eligibility, if any Graduate of any stream or Equivalent
Certificate
05 Fee Structure As per University Structure
06 Special Ordinances / Resolutions if
any No
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Unit I- Memory and History (I) 10
Lectures
1. Allan Megill. 1998. “History, Memory, Identity.” History of the Human Sciences
11(3): 37-62.
2. Carolyn Steedman. 2001. “The Space of Memory: In an Archive.” In Dust .
Manchester: Manchester University Press. Pp. 66-88.
3. Novel: Monica Ali- Brick Lane
4. Novel: Amitav Ghosh - The Shadow Lines
Unit II: Why Memory Studies? 10
Lectures
1. Radstone, Susannah. 2008.“Memory Studies: For and Against.” Memory Studies 1(1):
31-39.
2. Kansteiner, Wolf. 2002. “Finding Meaning in Memory: A Methodological Critique of
Collective Memory Studies.” History and Theory 41: 190-197.
3. Comaroff Jean and John Comaroff. 2012. “History on Trial: Memory, Evidence and
the Forensic Production of the Past.” In Theory from the South . Boulder, CO:
Paradigm Publishers. Pp. 133-152.
4. Documentary Films:
“Persepune”, Director: Jayant Dasgupta
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_33YMGOGqUA&t=844s
“The Battle of Bhimakoregaon”, Somnath Waghmare
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDw43hJf_IY&t=4s
Unit III: Memory and Trauma 10
Lectures
1. Van Alphen, Ernst. 1999. “Symptoms of Discursivity: Experience, Memory,
Trauma.” In Mieke Bal et al., eds. Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present .
Hanover: University Press of New England. Pp. 24-38.
2. Fassin, Didier and Richard Rechtman. 2009. The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into
the Condition of Victimhood . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Pp. 15 -39, 77 -97,
157-162, 250-263, 275-284.
3. Thiranagama, Sharika. 2013. “The Self at a Time of War in Sri Lanka.” Journal of
Historical Sociology 26(1): 19-40.
4. Film: “Hotel Rwanda”, Director: Terry George
5. Short Story: Saadat Hasan Manto, “Toba Tek Singh” Semester I – Paper II
Title: - Memory and History
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Evaluation: Semester End Examination Pattern 60 Marks Hours: 02 Unit IV: Witness, Testimony, and Memory 10
Lectures
1. Das, Veena. 2000. “The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Poisonous Knowledge, and
Subjectivity.” In Veena Das et al. eds. Violence and Subjectivity . Berkeley: University
of California Press. Pp. 205-225.
2. Agamben, Giorgio. 2002. Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive . New
York: Zone Books. Pp. 15-39, 87-135.
3. Hirsch, Marianne and Leo Spitzer. 2010. “The Witness in the Archive: Holocaust
Studies/Memory Studies.” In Radstone and Schwarz, pp. 390-405.
4. Novels:
J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace
Art Spiegelman - The Complete MAUS
Evaluation Pattern:
Internal Assessment (40 Marks):
Sr. No. Particulars Marks
1 Classroom Attendance & Participation 10
2. Oral Presentation (10 Minutes with or without PowerPoint) 10
3 Written Assignment 20
Suggested Topics for Internal Assessment:
Topics for internal assessment: -
1. The topics of internal assessments will be collaboratively decided by the teachers and the
students.
2. The topics for presentation and assignments should be decided in such a manner so that the
students can connect the varied theoretical arguments with their real-life experiences.
3. The marking criteria will be shared with the students prior to the assessments.
Semester End Examination (60 Marks):
The Semester End Examination for 60 marks will have four questions of 15 marks each (with
internal choice):
Question 1 Objective (15/20) 15 Marks
Question 2 Short Notes (3/5) 15 Marks
Question 3 Short Answer (3/5) 15 Marks
Question 4 Application/Long answer (2/3) 15 Marks
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Recommended Readings :
Craps, Stef. Postcolonial witnessing: Trauma out of bounds . Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2013.
Das, Veena, et al., eds. Violence and subjectivity . Univ of California Press, 2000.
Douglass, Ana, and Thomas A. Vogler. Witness and memory: The discourse of trauma .
Routledge, 2012.
Erll, Astrid. Memory in culture . Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Fassin, Didier, and Richard Rechtman. The empire of trauma: An inquiry into the condition
of victimhood . Princeton University Press, 2009.
Finley, Moses I. "Myth, memory, and history." History and theory 4.3 (1965): 281-302.
Heller -Roazen, Daniel. "Remnants of Auschwitz: the witness and the archive." (1999).
Hirsch, Marianne. The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the
Holocaust . New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
Leo, Mieke Bal Jonathan V. Crewe. Acts of memory: Cultural recall in the present . Upne,
1999.
Radstone, Susannah, and Katharine Hodgkin, eds. Regimes of memory . London: Routledge,
2003.
Radstone, Susannah. "Trauma and screen studies: Opening the debate." SCREEN -LONDON -
42.2 (2001): 188-192.
Tumblety, Joan, and Joan Tumblety. Memory and History . Routledge, 2013.
Turim, Maureen. Flashbacks in film: memory & history . Routledge, 2013.
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University of Mumbai
Postgraduate Diploma in Memory Studies
Semester: II
Course: Theory
Course Title: Memory Space and Identity
Paper: III
(With effect from the academic year 2022 -23)
01 Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit
System
i Name of the Program Postgraduate Diploma in Memory Studies
ii Course Code
iii Course Title Memory Space and Identity
iv Course Contents Enclosed a copy of the syllabus
v References and Additional References Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi Credit Structure (No. of Credits) 04
Vii No. of Lectures Per Unit 15
viii No. of Lectures Per Week 04
viii No. Tutorials per week 01
ix Total Marks 100
02 Scheme of Examination Theory Examination + Internal Evaluation
(60+40)
04 Eligibility, if any Graduate of any stream or Equivalent
Certificate
05 Fee Structure As per University Structure
06 Special Ordinances / Resolutions if
any No
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UNIT I : Memory and Gender 10
Lectures
1. Fox, Nicole. 2019. “Memory in Interaction: Gender -Based Violence, Genocide, and
Commemoration," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 45(1): 123-148.
2. Khromeychuk, Olga. 2016. "What place for women in Ukraine’s memory politics?"
Open Democracy Russia, 10.
3. Gupta, Alisha Haridasani. 2020. “For Three Suffragists, a Monument Well Past Due,”
New York Times, August 6.
4. Novel: Jhumpa Lahiri - The Lowland
Unit II: Memory and History (II) 10
Lectures
1. Nita Kumar. 2001. “Children and the Partition.” In The Partitions of Memory . Suvir
Kaul, ed. Delhi: Permanent Black. Pp. 269-301.
2. Bloun, Francis and William Rosenberg. 2011. “The Social Memory Problem.” In
Processing the Past: Contesting Authority in History and the Archives . Oxford:
Oxford University Press. Pp. 97-115.
3. Novel: Ngugi wa Thiongo - Petals of Blood
Unit III: Memory, Diaspora and back to the roots 10
Lectures
1. Bayo Holsey, “Slavery and the Making of Black Atlantic Memory, Routes of
Remembrance: Refashioning the Slave Trade in Ghana. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2008, 151-95
2. Stuart Hall, “Cultural Identity and Diaspora,” in Jonathan Rutherford, ed., Identity,
Community, Culture, Difference . London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1990, 222-37
3. Avtar Brah, “Diaspora and Memory” in “Cartographies of Diaspora,” 1998,
Routledge
4. Femke Stock, “Home and Memory” in Kim Knott ed. “Diasporas” 2010 Rawat
Publications.
5. Novels:
Bapsi Sidhwa - Icecandy Man
Rohintan Mistry - Family Matter
Unit IV: Digital Memory 10 Lectures
1. Andrew Hoskins, “The restless past: an introduction to digital memory and media,” in
Andrew Hoskins ed., Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition . New York
and London: Routledge, 2018, 1-24. Semester II– Paper III
Title: - Memory Space and Identity
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Evaluation: Semester End Examination Pattern 60 Marks Hours: 02 2. Martin Pogacar, “Culture of the Past: Digital Connectivity and Dispotentiated
Futures,” in Andrew Hoskins ed., Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition .
New York and London: Routledge, 2018, 25-47.
3. Amanda Lagerkvist, “The Media End: Digital Afterlife Agencies and Techno -
existential Closure,” in Andrew Hoskins ed., Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in
Transition . New York and London: Routledge, 2018, 48-83.
Evaluation Pattern:
Internal Assessment (40 Marks):
Sr. No. Particulars Marks
1 Classroom Attendance & Participation 10
2. Oral Presentation (10 Minutes with or without PowerPoint) 10
3 Written Assignment 20
Suggested Topics for Internal Assessment:
Topics for internal assessment: -
1. The topics of internal assessments will be collaboratively decided by the teachers and
the students.
2. The topics for presentation and assignments should be decided in such a manner so
that the students can connect the varied theoretical arguments with their real-life
experiences.
3. The marking criteri a will be shared prior to the assessments.
Novel: Fang Fang - Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City
Film: “Her”, Director: Spike Jonze
Semester End Examination (60 Marks):
The Semester End Examination for 60 marks will have four questions of 15 marks each (with
internal choice):
Question 1 Objective (15/20) 15 Marks
Question 2 Short Notes (3/5) 15 Marks
Question 3 Short Answer (3/5) 15 Marks
Question 4 Application/Long answer (2/3) 15 Marks
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Recommended Reading
Agnew, Vijay, ed. Diaspora, memory and identity: A search for home . University of Toronto
Press, 2005.
Baronian, Marie -Aude, Stephan Besser, and Yolande Jansen, eds. Diaspora and memory:
figures of displacement in contemporary literature, arts and politics . No. 13. Rodopi,
2007.
Chassot, Joanne. Ghosts of the African diaspora: re -visioning history, memory, and identity .
Dartmouth College Press, 2018.
Hirsch, Marianne, and Nancy K. Miller, eds. Rites of return: Diaspora poetics and the
politics of memory . Columbia University Press, 2011.
Hodgkin, Katharine, and Susannah Radstone, eds. Memory, history, nation: contested pasts .
Transaction Publishers, 2005.
Hoskins, Andrew, ed. Digital memory studies: Media pasts in transition . New York:
Routledge, 2018.
Hoskins, Andrew. "The end of collective memory." Digital memory studies: Media pasts in
transition (2017).
Hua, Anh. "Diaspora and cultural memory." Diaspora, memory, and identity: A search for
home (2005): 191-208.
Lacroix, Thomas, and Elena Fiddian -Qasmiyeh. "Refugee and diaspora memories: The
politics of remembering and forgetting." Journal of Intercultural Studies 34.6 (2013):
684-696.
Leydesdorff, Selma, Luisa Passerini, and Paul Richa rd Thompson, eds. Gender and memory .
Transaction Publishers, 2007.
Radstone, Susannah. "Memory studies: For and against." Memory studies 1.1 (2008): 31 -39.
Reading, Anna. "Seeing red: A political economy of digital memory." Media, Culture &
Society 36.6 (2014): 748-760.
Tamm, Marek. "Beyond history and memory: New perspectives in memory studies." History
Compass 11.6 (2013): 458-473.
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University of Mumbai
Postgraduate Diploma in Memory Studies
Semester: II
Course: Practical
Course Title: Memory Studies – Project
Paper: IV
(With effect from the academic year 2022 -23)
01 Syllabus as per Choice Based Credit
System
i Name of the Program Postgraduate Diploma in Memory
Studies
ii Course Code
iii Course Title Memory Studies -Project
iv Course Contents Enclosed a copy of the syllabus
v References and Additional References Enclosed in the Syllabus
vi Credit Structure (No. of Credits) 04
vii No. of Lectures Per Unit 15
viii No. of Lectures Per Week 04
ix No. Tutorials per week 01
02 Total Marks 100
03 Scheme of Examination Internal Evaluation (75+25)
04 Eligibility, if any Graduate of any stream or Equivalent
Certificate
05 Fee Structure As per University Structure
06 Special Ordinances / Resolutions if any No
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Project:
The following are only a few suggested texts / films and topics.
Similar topics keeping the learning and local context may be given to the students. In
consultation with their respective guide
1. Film: “Inglorious Bastards”, Director: Quentin Tarantino
2. Documentary Film: “I am not a witch”, Somnath Waghmare
URL: https:/ /www .youtube.com/watch?v=QG4g9pXwHSQ
3. Poetry Collection: Dunya Mikhail, “The Iraqi Nights”
4. Students can visit monuments and talk to public about how they relate to their
memories of the monuments or the space. For e.g., Gateway of India in Mumbai
5. Students can interview people from specific/various social groups enquiring the kind
of techniques/ways they use to preserve memories and what kind of memories.
6. Memory and oral history projects
7. Digitization of memory where internet databases can be created about events that
have scarred national/state/community/family memories
The students may be encouraged to use strategies such as interview, online/offline survey,
field visits, collection of documents etc.
Guidelines for reporting and presenting project
The report may be submitted in Print (typewritten) format or in Non-Print (Blog/Vlog /Web -
page/documentary) format.
Format of the Print Report:
The full content of the report must be bound together so that the pages cannot be
removed or replaced.
The cover of the report must contain, title, name of the candidate, name of the
Diploma course, Semester, Name of the Guide/Co -guide and the year of submission.
Page numbers must be mentioned at the bottom of each page and Margin should be
1.5” on the left and 1” on the remaining 3 sides.
Use separate index sheets for all chapters. Each chapter should begin on a new page.
Report must contain all the necessary documents such as certificate of the guide,
training completion Certificate by the institute/ organization, student declaration
certificate, acknowledgements, table of contents, bibliography, appendix (if any) etc.
Learners should use simple and good English while writing the report. Avoid
grammatical errors.
No aspects of the structure of the report should be omitted.
Guidelines for the instruction and assessment
Students may be allotted project mentors to guide them through the process.
Students may be allotted a co-guide in case of availability and necessity. Semester II – Paper IV
Title: - Memory Studies -Project
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Students may be encouraged to take up a project in pair or group (depending on the
context)
Students may be trained to present final project to improve their presentation skills,
A well-planned rubric and additional guidelines may be prepared by the study center
keeping in view the core content, quality of the project and presentation of work.
Evaluation Pattern:
Internal Assessment (100 Marks):
Sr.
No. Particulars Marks
1 Project Field Work (minimum 25 hours)
Report (Up to 5000 words) / Up to 30 pages including images, graphs,
appendix etc.) 75
2 Presentation (with the use of ICT tools) 25
Recommended Reading: -
Hamilton, Paula, and Linda Shopes, eds. Oral history and public memories . Temple
University Press, 2009.
Kansteiner, Wulf. "Finding meaning in memory: A methodological critique of collective
memory studies." History and theory 41.2 (2002): 179-197.
Keightley, Emily. "Remembering research: memory and methodology in the social
sciences." International journal of social research methodology 13.1 (2010): 55-70.
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Signature: Signature:
(Dr. Sudhir Nikam)
Chairman, Board of Studies Faculty of Dean
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(Appendix ‘B’)
New ordinances 6819& 6820 relating to the
Post Graduate Diploma in Memory Studies.
1. Necessity for starting the
course: Humanities always proved useful to solve the social
conflicts. Memories emerging from social conflicts of
various kinds all over the world have often been invoked
reminding people not to let similar situations emerge.
The effect of traumas of social confli cts have been
recorded in various art forms and this course aims at
making the students aware of analyse the representation
of memories in art forms and digital manifestations. The
growing presence of social networking and various
online portals making it possible to create individual
channels this course aims at preparing the students to use
their analytical skills to foray into the new job avenues
in the virtual world as well as media industry. The Post
Graduate Diploma in Memory Studies would thus create
a viable opportunity for honing the following skills
i) It would harness employability skills by bridging
the gap between academia media and society around .
ii) It would bring social awarenessand technical
language as skills to the learners to analyse the issues
related to memory and its relation to the human beings
all over the world .
iii) It would help the learners to have effective rapport
at all levels.
iv) It would instil confidence to face challenge s that
might emerge in the profession from time to time.
2. Whether the UGC has
recommended the course: UGC has given guidelines for introduction of career -
oriented courses
(https://www.ugc.ac.in/oldpdf/xiplanpdf/revisedcareerori
entedcourses.pdf ). Universities are allowed to run the
diploma / certificate courses and with due approval of its
governing councils/ statutory council wherever required
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(Ref: https://www.ugc.ac.in/faq.aspx ). However, u/s 5(16)
under Maharashtra Public Universities Act, 2016 (Mah.
Act No. VI of 2017), Universities are em powered to start
to prescribe the courses of instruction and studies in
choice -based credit system for the various examinations
leading to specific degrees, diplomas or certificates in a
stand -alone format or joint format with other State or
national or gl obal universities.
3. Whether all the courses have
commenced from the academic
year 2019 -2020 (2022 -23): The above course recommended by the BoS in English, and
further approved by the statutory bodies is to be
introduced from the Academic Year 202 3-2024.
4. The courses started by the
University are self -financed,
whether adequate number of
eligible permanent faculties
are available?: The course is purely self -financed. The department/affiliated
colleges interested in its affiliation need to comply with
the norms laid down as above.
5. To give details regarding the
duration of the Course and is it
possible to compress the
course?: The duration of the course is maximum 12 month (two
semesters) with total 60 contact hours consisting of
maximum 4 Credits on completion of total 60 hours per
course.
6. The intake capacity of each
course and no. of admissions
given in the current acade mic
year: The intake capacity is set to maximum 40 students per
batch.
7. Opportunities of Employability
/ Employment available after
undertaking these courses: i) Be employed with various jobs related to media
industry.
ii) Be employed as a freelance researcher on various
research projects.
iii) Be employed for teaching jobs at various levels.
Signature:
(DrSudhirNikam)
Chairman, Board of Studies