(Info) Latest changes to CBSE syllabus Political Science class 12 for 2009

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Latest changes to CBSE Syllabus Political Science class 12 for 2009

POLITICAL SCIENCE, Class XII
Time : 3 hours
Max. Marks : 100

S.NO.		Forms of Questions		Marks for each question		No. of questions		Total Marks
1.		Very short answer type I	1				10				10
2.		Very short answer type II	2				10				20
3.		Short answer type I		4				10				40
4.		Long answer type		6				5				30
5.						
Total				35				100

II. Scheme of Options:  There will be no overall choice.  However, there is an internal choice in every question of 6 marks.

Part I : Contemporary World Politics 

Part I : 	Contemporary World Politics						Marks	
Unit 1		Cold war era in World Politics						14

Unit 2		Distribution of the second world and the collapse of bipolarity
Unit 3		US dominance in World Politics						16

Unit 4		Alternative centres of Economic and Political power	
Unit 5		South Asia in the Post-cold War Era

Unit 6		International organizations in a unipolar world				10
Unit 7		Security in Contemporary World

Unit 8		Environment and natural resources in global politics			10
Unit 9		Globalization and its critics

		Total I 								50

Part II : Politics in India since independence

										Marks
Unit 10 	Era of one-party dominance					16
Unit 11		Nation-building and its problems	

Unit 12		Politics of planned development
Unit 13		India’s external relations					6
Unit 14 	Challenges to and restoration of Congress system		14

Unit 15		Crisis of the constitutional order		
Unit 16		Regional aspirations and conflicts				14

Unit 17		Rise of new social movements	
Unit 18		Democratic upsurge and coalition parties			
Unit 19		Recent issues and challenges			

			Total II						50

Grand total  (I + II)	100

The detailed content of unit 8 which has been added in the syllabus are as follows-

Unit 8:- Environment and Natural resources in Global politics: Environment Movement and evolution of global environment norms, Conflicts over traditional and common property resources, right of indigenous people, India’s stand on global environmental debates.

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