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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University

Location

Hisar, Haryana, India

Department

College of Home Science, Department of Extension Education

Description

Haryana Agricultural University includes a need-based curriculum for women. The College offers a 4-year undergraduate degree with career-oriented courses under professional electives in Dietetics, Textile Designing, Pre-school Management, Mass Communication, Distance Education, and Housekeeping. It offers advanced degrees in various departments including the Department of Extension Education, which focuses on development, particularly in rural areas, and includes postgraduate research.

Programmes

  1. Master of Science - Extension Education - This degree includes coursework entitled "Communication For Development" as a study of: the meaning, nature, and importance of communication; the key elements in communication process; theories and models of communication in society; factors influencing effective communication and barriers to communication; communication pattern and linkages; the innovation decision process; types of innovation and their rate of adoption; adopters categories; opinion leaders; diffusion network; and communication strategy for development. It also requires coursework in development psychology, instructional technology, journalism for rural development, and research and evaluation methods.

  2. PhD - Extension Education - This degree includes coursework in advanced research techniques and measurement, research management, educational technology, organisational management, women's programming, and training and evaluation, as well as a study of extension systems in India and abroad.

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Contact

Dr. Nishi Seth
CCS Haryana Agricultural University
Hisar Haryana
125 004
India
Tel: (1662)31171/73 OR 73721/29
Fax: 1662-34952


Placed on the Communication Initiative site May 27 2009
Last Updated August 11 2009



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