Course Syllabi
Specific information about the course
Course Benefits
Provide structured learning opportunities
Instructors & Admins
Educators responsible for teaching and facilitating learning
Goal
Professional development and
Workplace learning
Duration
Trimester
(Twelve 90 minute sessions & optional interactive sessions)
Eligibility
10+2 (Science) with Distinction & Budding Interest in Vedanta/Philosophy
Equivalent Credits
01 International Credit
Course Description
Modern science unleashed stunning discoveries in the fundamental laws of matter, life and their interactions. Contemporary educational system encourages pedagogy based on a rational or scientific methodology. With validated proofs, science provided very good understanding into the reality. However, the key questions that need to be addressed are (a) can science provide a mature understanding of the reality (b) what does the philosophy of science convey with respect to its ability to provide greater understanding into the innate aspects of the reality (c) as an alternate paradigm, what is the role of science in the methodology and realizations associated to religion/spirituality and (d) does science have a complimentary role in formalizing the acceptance of spirituality.
Given the fact that today’s graduates do not study the philosophy of science, the Certificate Course on the Foundations of Science and Spirituality (FSS) will train a delegate to understand and realize the inherent connections between scientific and spiritual paradigms of the reality and thereby formalize upon a greater harmony between science and spirituality. As the most fundamental course in the subject matter of science-spirituality, the FSS course provides very useful realizations for furthering the application of science-spirituality synthesis framework in various fields of human engagement including Education, Scientific and Social Research, Career and Profession, Management and Philosophy. Given the universality of the taught subject matter, the FSS course remains as a very important node to gain needful intellectual maturity for fundamental and applied human endeavors into the reality and its formal application in all walks of life’s journey.
Course Benefits
- Inclusive knowledge
- Deeper understanding of science, philosophy and spirituality
- Adequate training in systematic and creative thinking
- Philosophical Worldview and its integration
- Practical realizations of spirituality
- Experience superlative to sensory and speculative frameworks
- Theoretical framework to infer upon life’s improvisation through meditation and detachment
- Customized solutions to dynamic challenges and crisis of life
- Balanced and optimized approaches
- Seamless integration based on one’s own faith grounded in either Rationality or Philosophy or Spirituality
Course Pedagogy
- Epistemological and Ontological analysis of Science, Religion, Spirituality and their Synthesis
- Deeper thinking and application of scientific knowledge in the innate aspects of reality
- Cultivation of inclusive knowledge to supplement scientific temper with Philosophical Worldview and Spiritual Wisdom
- Broadened thought process
- Thinking integrated with analytical, philosophical and spiritual personality factors
- Unconditioned and open-ended thinking converging to practical solutions based on the mature understanding of the reality
- Spirituality embedded into lifestyle
- Theoretical understanding to enhance detachment for efficient engagement in all walks of life
- With its highest subjectivity, spirituality provides solutions beyond scientific temper and philosophical wisdom.
- Integration of reductionistic and non-reductionistic paradigms of the reality.
- Possible scope to explore newer dimensions in the solutions sought for the resolution of critical issues in life’s journey.
- Possible scope to enhance the harmony between alternate thought processes and methodologies in human engagement..
Who can Register?
- Massive Online Open Course (MOOCs) Trainees in Value Education based on a rational framework
- Students enrolled in Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) discipline desiring academic training into philosophy of science, religion and spiritualty
- Enthusiastic Science and Technology Graduates desiring Professional Excellence and Distinction
- College and School Teachers in Science and Humanities Desiring Foundations in Philosophical Worldview
- Life Coach/Counsellors Desiring Holistic Approaches for Life’s Excellence and Distinction
Eligibility
- Graduate students and Professionals in science/technology
- Orientation towards Philosophy/Vedanta
Course Syllabi
Scientific Methods
- Elements of scientific method
- Foundations of Classical and Quantum Physics
- paradigm shift
- epistemology and ontology of science
- science beyond the science
Spirituality
- Holistic Personality Development (HPD)
- Professional Excellence (PROFEX)
- Personal Excellence (PEREX)
- Successful Life Journey – Insights based on Bhagavad Gita (SLJ)
Spirituality in World Religions
- Holistic Personality Development (HPD)
- Holistic Excellence (HEX)
- Distinction of Human Life (DOHL)
Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
- Scientific Methods
- Spirituality
- Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
- Cosmology and Cosmogony
- Origin and Evolution of Life
Credit Equivalence
| S. No. | Module Name | Lecture Hours | Assignment hours | Equivalent International Credits |
| 1. | Scientific Methods | 2 | 2 | 0.2 |
| 2. | Spirituality | 3 | 2 | 0.3 |
| 3. | Spirituality in World Religions | 2 | 2 | 0.2 |
| 4. | Synthesis of Science and Spirituality | 3 | 2 | 0.3 |
| Total | 10 | 8 | 1.0 | |
Course Instructors and Administrators
Prof. Ramagopal Uppaluri
Honorary Director
Responsibilities
● All Technical matters
● Troubleshooting
● Scientific Methods
● Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
Segar Millindar
Deputy Director
Responsibilities
● Spirituality
● Spirituality in World Religions
● Troubleshooting
Prof. Ramjee Repaka
Honorary Faculty
Responsibilities
● Synthesis of Science and Spirituality
● Synchronization
● Troubleshooting
Ajaya Kumar Sahoo
Honorary Faculty
Responsibilities
● Assignment Release and Grading
● Clarification of Doubts
Sravan Kumar Velisela
Dean (Outreach)
Responsibilities
● Registration & Enrollment
● Learning Support
● Assignment Release and Grading
● Issue of Certificates