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The
raison d'être
of the B.A. Programme is the need for an undergraduate programme
that is relevant
to the immediate environment of social opportunities while, at the
same time, giving the student the basic intellectual equipment
expected of a programme of higher education.
It
is a useful and attractive academic programme that enables a student
to acquire the thinking ability, linguistic skills and broad-based
knowledge needed to enter the world of work. At the same time, this
programme gives the students enough knowledge in a discipline to
pursue post-graduate studies. The B.A. Programme is thus conceived
both as a terminal degree with substantial intellectual prowess and
as an enabling degree for higher studies.
The structure and contents of the programme make it an integrated
and inter-disciplinary programme with flexibility and choice. Thus
the B.A. Programme is bound to provide the students a demanding but
worthwhile and enjoyable experience in the form of a liberal
education.
Structure
There is a total of twelve courses over a three-year period with
four courses taught and examined every year. A full-year course has
3 credits and the whole programme has 36 credits for 12 courses.
Components
The B.A. Programme comprises four categories of courses:
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Discipline Courses:
A student has to choose two discipline
courses in Year I and she/he will continue with the same
discipline courses in Years II & III. In all, a student will do
six papers in two disciplines over a three-year period. The
college, at present, offers the following discipline courses:
English, Economics, History, Philosophy and Political Science.
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Language Courses:
A student shall do four language courses. Of these, two courses
are to be in English (one each in first and third year).
The remaining two courses are to be in Hindi/other Indian
Languages (one each in first and second year). The college
offers the following Indian Languages in addition to Hindi:
Persian, Sanskrit and Urdu.
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Foundation Courses:
A student has to take one foundation course in the second year
in addition to the discipline and language courses out of the
following two offered by the college: Contemporary India,
and Language, Literature & Culture.
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Application Courses:
These courses are offered in the third year of the B.A.
Programme in addition to the discipline and language courses. A
student has to choose one Application based course out of the
following offered by the college at present: Creative Writing,
Globalization and Mass Communication.
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