The department of Philosophy, Yoga and Cultural Tourism was started in Tagore Government Arts and Science College in the year 1988 as the DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND INDIAN CULTURE to fulfill the following objectives

a) To promote Philosophy among graduate students

b) To intergrate Philosophy and cultural study with a special focus of Indian Culture

The syllabus of the department was revised on 27th April 1992.

The department was reformulated as DEPARTMETN OF PHILOSOPHY, YOGA AND CULTURAL TOURISM in the year 1996. The scope of the department was broadened to meet the present requirments.

Following papers on yoga and culture tourism were added.

Paper XI- Yoga theory
Paper XIV- Yoga practice
Paper XVII �Culture Tourism

To give a practical knowledge of cultural heritage of India in addition to the theoretical paper on Culture Toruism, syllabus related study tours were introduced since 1996. This consists of taking the students to visit the sites of cultural importance and writing a detailed project report on it.

Again, the syllabus of the department was revised and upadated on February 2003 with the approval of Board of Studies constituted by The Pondicherry University.

SYLLABI-RELATED PART-TIME PLACEMENT FOR POOR STUDENTS

In order to help the poor students in continuing their studies syllabi related part-time placement have been arranged. This arrangement has been made with the help of some tourism and travel agencies in Pondicherry .

At present two students of the department are making use of this arrangement.

DEPARTMENT LIBRARY

The department has collection of 315 books in the department library. It covers almost all the papers in the B.A syllabus. Apart from that it has some fine collections on other areas of philosophy, culture and Indian Temples. It is readily available to the faculty and the students of their academic use.

PHILOSOPHY ASSOCIATION

As a part of extra-curricular activities of the department, PHILOSOPHY ASSOCIATION was started in the year 1990. the objective was to enrich the philosophy students academically and providing them with opportunities to meet and discuss with experts. And they have yoga classes which they make menatlly and physically fit, some of them are shown below

 

Philosophy Faculty
Mr.N.Barthasarathi,M.A.,M.Phil.,B.Ed. ,             HOD

Dr.V.Jayaraman,M.A.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.,PGGT.

M.Sampathkumar,M.A.,M.Phil.

Dr.M.Balaji M.A.,M.Phil.,Ph.D.,PGD YOGA.
FIRST YEAR
First Semester
Language-I

English-I

Indian Philosophy-I

Western Philosophy

Publi Administration
Second Semester
Language-II

English-II

Indian Philosophy-II

Western Philosophy-II

Environmental Studies
SECOND YEAR
Third Semester
Language-III

English-III

Contemporary Indian Philosophy

Contemporary Western Philosophy

Yoga and Philosophy of LIfe
Fourth Semester
Language-IV

English-IV

Theoretical Philosophy

Political Philosophy

Western Logic
THIRD YEAR
Fifth Semester
Critical Thinking

Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo

Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi

Philosophy of Thiruvalluvar

Philosophy of Region

Human Rights from an Ethical Perspective

Indian Culture
Sixth Semester
Applied Ethics

Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore

Introduction to Thinkers of Social Reform

Philosophy of Mahakavi C.Subramanya Bharathi

Philosophy of Education

Introduction to India Epistemology

Feminist Philosophy