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From the Desk of the Vice Chancellor

Greetings!

As the Vice Chancellor of this premier university, I am extremely pleased to share this space to converse with all of you. The University of Madras is a post- sesquicentennial institution which has forged a glorious path for itself and has been the site for significant scientific discoveries as well as the beacon for national and regional societal transformation. It has successfully managed to hold aloft its tradition even while keeping up with the emerging trends. One reason for this is the way in which the university has kept alive its interactions with all the stakeholders.

The COVID 19 pandemic has introduced a ‘new normal’ and its impact is felt in the workings of the university as well. The students have been attending the lectures online. While online learning has the advantage of being anytime and anywhere, it has taken away the peer group interaction and peer learning which are integral aspects of the university experience. We look forward to welcoming you to the campus very soon. Meanwhile, our faculty and administration will continue to bring the best to the virtual classrooms. As students, you need to view the restrictions posed by the pandemic as a temporary deterrent. Your focus should be to gain the competencies to conduct application oriented research in order to evolve as useful citizens of our society.

Our university boasts of faculty with a high degree of knowledge and commitment to offer the best in teaching and research. Given the context of the pandemic, we need to redefine our teaching-learning processes to offer the best pedagogic experience to our students. Similarly, the post-pandemic era demands that we hone the employment potential and entrepreneurial capacity of our learners. This necessitates that we focus on sponsored research in cutting edge areas.

Our administrative staff have been the backbone of the university. While we move towards a transparent and complete e-governance model, we need more support from you. When the teaching-learning process at our university – from admission to certification -- is moving into the digital era, your skills and competencies need to keep pace.

At our university, we are gearing up for the final round of NAAC re-accreditation. This has offered us an opportunity to assess our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges. Further, it has made us more determined to reiterate our quality benchmarks in teaching, research and extension activities. We are aware of this responsibility and fully prepared for it because, our university has always encouraged individual thinking within the established frameworks. This is echoed in the words of Tim Burners Lee, who initiated the World Wide Web: “We are forming cells within a global brain and we are excited that we might start to think collectively. What becomes of us still hangs crucially on how we think individually.” Let us unite to make the educational experience at the University of Madras a synergy of the best minds and best thoughts.

Prof.Dr.S.Gowri

Vice-Chancellor
University of Madras

Department of Defence and Strategic Studies

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About the Department

Security, an area that was not under the purview of the average citizen of the country, has today become a concept that is increasingly taking mindshare. This is due to many reasons such as increase in the scope of what constitutes ‘security’, change in the nature of conflict – bring security issue to our neighborhood - and the role of the media. Thus, in the current national and global security scenario, increased awareness in this subject is not only important, it becomes imperative.

In this regard, the Department of Defence & Strategic Studies was established in 1977 with former Air Vice Marshal FVA Scudder as the advisor.

Objective

Purpose of the Department

Being an academic center, the department serves multiple requirements.

  1. It serves to build the capacity of younger generations in critical analyses of strategic issues and thus organize a pool of experts on national security from a largely Indian perspective, but with global insight.
  2. It serves as a robust platform for constant interaction between military professionals, strategic thinkers and academicians to develop a cross-domain strategic culture. The department and its faculty have actively offered consultancy services to strategic security think tanks and the government on regional, national and international security related issues.
  3. The department also plays a direct vital service to the Indian armed forces as it provides academic and research inputs to the services through official collaboration.

 

Being a unique center for the study of national and international security issues, the department focuses on the following areas  as areas of focus:

  • National Security
  • South Asian Security issues - traditional & non-traditional
  • Arms Control
  • Issues of  nuclear proliferation
  • Conflict resolution
  • Confidence Building Measures
  • International terrorism
  • Economic Management
  • Legal aspects of international security
  • Maritime security
  • Environmental security
  • Other related areas

Vision

Scope of Academic Activities

Being a full-fledged department under the University of Madras, apart from regular duties of conducting regular full-time classes on-premises, the department initiates and actively participates in multiple academic activities at various levels – university, state, national and international levels.

In this regard, the department has been conducting interactive seminars/round tables and research monitoring on regular frequency. It invites celebrity alumni to deliver lectures on issues of contemporary relevance.

The department has linkages with various national and international think tanks.

As an extension of its services to the student community, the department provides guidance for employment in armed forces, government departments, the corporate sector and NGOs.

Institutional Affiliation

The Department of Defence & Strategic Studies is affiliated to the following institutions:

  • Officers Training Academy (OTA), Chennai
  • Defence Services Staff College, Wellington,
  • National Defence College, New Delhi

Contact Details

Department of Defence & Strategic Studies

University of Madras, Tholkappiar Campus, Chennai - 600 005

Phone: 91-44-25399634  |  E-mail: defence@unom.ac.in  /  defencestudies.unom@gmail.com

Our Faculties

Professor & Head

Dr. Utham Kumar Jamadhagni

Ph.D

  uthamkj@unom.ac.in    044-25399635

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Assistant Professor

Dr. E. Prabhakaran

Ph.D

  ecprabhakaran@unom.ac.in    044-25399636

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Assistant Professor

Dr. M Venkataraman

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D

  venkataraman@unom.ac.in    044-25399532

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Course Offered

Post Graduate

M.A Defence and Strategic Studies

Eligibility

B.Sc. Degree Examination in Chemistry Major with Mathematics and Physics as allied subject

Fee Structure

Master of Philosophy(M.Phil)

Defence and Strategic Studies

Eligibility

B.Sc. with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics under Triple Major System

Fee Structure

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D)

Full-Time/Part-Time

Eligibility

B.A./B.Sc./B.Com. in any branch except Indian Music, Western Music, Book Industry, Drawing and Painting, Languages(other than English), Oriental Cultures, Tourism, Corporate Secretary ship and Home Science

Fee Structure

Syllabus

P.G Degree
M.A Defence and Strategic Studies View/Download

Fees Structure

Fee Structure will be available soon

Timetable

Timetable will be available soon

M.Phil Scholars

Name Guide Topic Year Joined Year Completed Email Id
No M.Phil Scholars

Ph.D Scholars

Name Guide Topic Year Joined Year Completed Email Id
No Result available

Awarded Scholars

Ph.D 19
M.Phil Nil

Present Scholars

Ph.D Nil
M.Phil Nil

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