ACADEMICS

Profile of Archana Sarma

Qualification:- M.A, Ph.D

Designation:- Associate Professor

Area of specialisation:- Sociology, Women Studies

Subject/ Area taught:- Political Theory, Public Policy, Human Rights, Indian Political Thought

Method adopted for teaching:- ( Besides chalk and talk) : Smart Board, Goggle classroom, Goggle Meet, Topic Related vdo"s

E-mail:- archanasarma69@gmail.com

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Any innovative contribution made in teaching learning

Assignment, Mock Parliament to give an idea about the functioning of Assembly/ Parliament and visit to few important offices like Finance, SB office etc to have interaction with the officers about how they work on policies and to fight against insurgency.

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Details of teaching contribution in Indian languages

Providing parallel explanations in English and the original Assamese language.

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Teaching- Learning and Research in Indian Knowledge System

A) Traditions of Pre-Colonial Indian Political Thought
i) Kabir: Syncretism

 

B) Introduction to Modern Indian Political Thought
i) Gandhi: Swaraj.
ii) Ambedkar: Social Justice

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Details of students" internship/ students" project supervision: Student project supervisor: (ANNEXURE- 1)

Name of the Student	Department	Topic	Date
Faruka Hussain	Education	"PARAMPARA-Flow of knowledge traditions from time immemorial"	From 3/5/25-

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Internship of the Students in details

Sl No.	Name	GU RN	Place of Internship	Year
1.	Nayana Buzarbaruah.	UA-221-018-013	Panbazar All Women PS	1/9/2023to 6/9/23
1	Tanisha Sharma	UA-231-018-0417	Boddhi Tree Foundation (Teaching Internship)	2025
2	Shruti Bordoloi	UA-231-018-0203	Royal Global University	2025
3	Bishnu Priya kalita	UA-231-018-0419	133 No Bongal pukhuri Adarsha LP school,Jorhat	2025
4	Nituparna Bharali	UA-231-018-0401	Emmanuel ´s Early Intervention (Rukminigaon)	2025
5	Karisma Bhuyan	UA - 231-018-0405	Emmanuel ´s Early Intervention (Rukminigaon)	2025
6	Pritismita Rajbongshi	231-018-0418	Emmanuel´s Early Intervention (Geetanagar)	2025
7	Chitralekha Rabha	UA-231-018-0421	Emmanuel´s Early Intervention (Geetanagar)	2025
8	Leena Rani Kalita	UA-231-018-0062	The Midway Journey (Azara)	2025
9	Arifa Sultana	UA-231-018-0336	Emmanuel´s Early Intervention (Geetanagar)	2025
10	Disha Talukdar	UA-231-018-0400	Emmanuel´s Early Intervention (Geetanagar)	2025

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Details of community engagement and service

Sl No.	Date	Place/ Venue	Name of the Programme	Activity	No of Students	Outcome	Any Other
1.	18th May, 2024	Visited Brindaban Ashram, an old age home in Noonmati	Extension and Outreach activity.	Interaction with the inmate of the house and serve them with some essential goods	10	Personal growth, social responsibility and positive change	-
2.	2nd April, 2025	Visited Emmanuel Rehabilitation Foundation, Guwahati	Awareness programme on World Autism Awareness Day	The students and teachers participated in a joint painting activity with the differently abled children of the institute. A few awareness activities were also done with people in general on understanding autism.	15	Inclusion, accept and understand them	-
3	7th April, 2025	An extension and outreach programme was conducted by the Department of Political Science at Adarsha Prathamik Vidyalaya, Basistha	Extension and outreach programme	Various activities and awareness drives on self-care, hygiene, and the environment were organised. Books were donated to the school library and a few stationery items were also distributed.	4th Sem	Awareness about safety, good touch bad touch, Cleanliness, Equiptolearn	-

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Seminar / workshop/ Group discussion organized

Group Discussion, on 1/09/2023/Nos of Students- 42/ Class 5th Sem (HC)

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Any contribution towards syllabus revision/ modification

Special invitee by the Deptt of Political Science , GU for the discussion of CBCS syllabus. Modified two papers of CBCS syllabus online for two papers.

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Paper presentation in Seminar/Conferences

Seminar Title	Level (National/ International/ State)	Title of the paper	Venue	Date	Sponsoring agency(if any)
ECONOMIC SURVEY DISCUSSION- (EGROW WEBINAR SERIES )	National	Participant	Online	31st January, 2021	Organised by EGROW

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Workshop/ Training/ Summer School Attended

Sl No.	Event title	Venue	Sponsoring agency	Duration (from- to)	Level	Venue
1	NEP 2020 Orentation & Sensitization Programme under MMTTP	Online	UGC	22nd April, 2024 to 2nd May, 2024	A+	Online

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Are you a member of any Academic/ Non-academic/University/other bodies

Sl No.	Name of the Organisation/ Institution	Position (Member/ Life member)	Year	Level
1	NEIPSA	Life Member	Since 2012	-
1	ARADHANA	Member	Since 2002	-

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Have you acted as Resource person/ Guest faculty in any programme

Sl No.	Date	Topic	Department
1	28th March, 2024	Gender and Patriarchy	Economics
2	March, 2024	Gender and Patriarchy	Women studies Cell
3	March, 2023	Gender and Patriarchy	Women studies Cell
4	2022	Gender and Patriarchy	Women studies Cell

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Any Teacher-led student research project under your guidance

Title of the project	Duration (From-to)	Sanctioned amt.	Released amt.	Ongoing/ Completed	Name of students involved
POLITICAL SOCIALISATION VIS-À-VIS POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR	3months. Jan,2021 to Mar, 2021	No	-	Completed	All 5th Sem Students (HC)

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No. of students under your mentorship with date of mentoring session held

Class	Date	Nos. of Students	Topic
1st sem	1/1/2021	7	Non Academic & Academic.
3rd Sem	5/3/2021	7
4th Sem	30/9/2022	6
1st sem	25/11/23 1/12/23	9 3	Non Academic & Academic.
2nd Sem	25/3/25	7
3rd Sem	18/8/23	9
4th Sem	25/3/23	4
5th Sem	24/8/23	8
6th sem	22/3/23	10
1st sem	29/10/24	6	Non Academic & Academic.
2nd Sem	15/3/24	6
3rd Sem	17/8/24 19/8/24 29/10/24	1 6 7
4th Sem	19/3/24	8
5th Sem	13/9/24	5
6th sem	6/3/24 23/4/24	5 2
2nd Sem	29/4/25	7
4th Sem	6/3/25 2/5/25	6 3
5th Sem
6th sem	29/4/25 2/5/25	2 8

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Association with the College corporate life

• Convener, Student Support Cell - for 12years (Approx)
• Jt. Convener, BA Admission - 2021
• Member, Anti Ragging Cell- 2021,2022,2023
• Convener, Grievance Redressal Cell- 2023-24
• Member, Grievance Redressal Cell- 2024-25
• Teacher in charge of the debating Society of College 2021-22/2022-23,2023-24
• Chairperson Internal Complain Committee – 2023-24, 2024-25

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Participation in any Extension/Outreach Activities

Name of the Activities	Date	Place	Remarks
Study tour to All women police station, Panbazar to conduct a study on Women"s rights Violation.	14/03/2023	Pan bazar WPS	06

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Contribution towards any environmental conservation / sustainable development

• Plantation in the college campus under the “Chief Minister"s Institutional Plantation Programme” on 18/7/22
• Plantation of trees in the College Capus and adopted village of the College to celebrate “World Environment Day” on 5/6/2023 and 5/6/2024