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Cognition, Transformation and Lives

Prof. Alok Bajpai · IIT Kanpur

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About

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

INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Motivational and Self-help programmes

Lectures

Week 1 - Why do people do what they do?

  1. Lecture 01 - Cognition, Emotion and Transformation YouTube
  2. Lecture 02 - Self and Others YouTube
  3. Lecture 03 - Human Cognition YouTube
  4. Lecture 04 - Cognition and Human Behaviour YouTube
  5. Lecture 05 - Human Emotions YouTube

Week 2 - Where is the mind?

  1. Lecture 06 - Understanding Emotions YouTube
  2. Lecture 07 - Stories from the Brain YouTube
  3. Lecture 08 - Stories from the Brain contd. YouTube
  4. Lecture 09 - Humans and Madness YouTube
  5. Lecture 10 - Humans & Madness contd. YouTube

Week 3 - Understanding Transformation

  1. Lecture 11 - Vices & Virtues: Understanding Human Behaviour YouTube
  2. Lecture 12 - Change and its Context YouTube
  3. Lecture 13 - Can we transform? YouTube
  4. Lecture 14 - Need for transformation YouTube
  5. Lecture 15 - Process of Transformation YouTube

Week 4 - Gandhi’s process of transformation

  1. Lecture 16 - Biographical models of transformations YouTube
  2. Lecture 17 - Biographical narrative of Gandhi YouTube
  3. Lectuer 18 - Gandhi's process of transformation YouTube
  4. Lecture 19 - Transformation and Ethics YouTube
  5. Lecture 20 - Transformation and Society YouTube

Syllabus and materials

At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.

Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Kanpur
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Alok Bajpai
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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