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Online Courses Demystifying Finance
A critical understanding of the landscape of finance and economy is critical today for students and young professionals from any and every field of education or expertise. It goes without saying that economic policies and the flow of finances shape almost every aspect of our lives and lay at every cross section of our interest – public policy, ecology, development, budget, social security, energy, infrastructure, banking, climate, social justice, labour – and so on. While finance tends to have a say on every decision of our lives, the domain of shaping financial decisions is something that we tend to outsource to “experts”. Often the same experts keep the domain so obfuscated and alien that we find very little say in shaping the discourse around it. Steeped in neoliberal market fundamentalism many a time the same experts shape policies that have far reaching consequences for both our social and ecological canvas. Where do we go to access knowledge that deals with the issues that concern us in a language that one can comprehend and even relate to?
FINANCESHALA is designed as a space, an online classroom where we demystify finance.
Sadly, in most institutes of higher learning today, the classrooms and courses are so designed that discourage critical learning. They largely avoid a critical take even while explaining key concepts and ideas. While there are a range of options available in digital space by way of online curriculum, these too are by and large “mainstream” or market-adjusted courses. They do not allow for the space to question and widen the spectrum by factoring in the social context, the larger concerns of political economy from a people’s perspective. And if most of the things around us seem to be in the need of serious rethinking, how do we even get there without getting to the roots.
We believe that FINANCESHALA can help fill that void.
In Financeshala we would like to bring together a range of senior progressive voices as experts and also several young research practitioners, economists, public policy practitioners and researchers who can break down concepts, ideas and take deep dives into sectors with a perspective of equity and rights, informed by both social and ecological justice . While we may feel that each classroom should have the opportunity to draw from them, or rather they should have the opportunity to reach each classroom, it is not possible without relying at least to some extent on the digital media. We believe Financeshala can be the academic space where you can access these voices and where these voices find you.
We would be taking up subjects as varied as Climate Finance & CoP, Inequality, Plastics & Waste, Platform Economy & Labour, Reading Budget, Introduction to Development Finance, The Debt landscape of India, India’s Just Energy Transition and so on. For each such course we would bring in experts and our colleagues who in the course of five lectures would not just break down key concepts but also give you hands-on knowledge in that domain. Each lecture (of two hours) would have defined objectives and outcomes as well as reading materials so that at the end of the ten hours you would have the critical insights you would need to both integrate the ideas in your own research or career.
Each thematic course – Five Lectures – Two Hours Each – Combination of Resource Persons – Batches of about 30 to ensure interaction – Course Materials – Conceptual Clarity – Real World Experience – Hands-On Knowledge & Application – Certificates
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