B.A.PROGRAMME (COMPULSORY LANGUAGE AND DISCIPLINE COURSES)
The Restructured B.A. Programme Effective from July 2004 University of Delhi
UNIVERSITY OF DELHI DELHI B. A. PROGRAMME W.E.F. 2004 CONTENTS COMPULSORY LANGUAGE AND DICIPLINE COURSES Page Introduction Introduction, Prespective and Ordinance 1-7 A new B. A. Programme came into force with effect from July 2004. The erstwhile B.A. (Pass) has been replaced by a new programme of study Syllabi and Readings of : leading to the B.A. degree. The Academic Council of the University of Delhi adopted the Report of the B. A. Restructuring Committee and decided to Compulsory Language Courses 8-67 introduce a new B.A. Programme in its meeting held on 23rd September, 2003. Under this Resolution a B.A. Programme Committee was constituted at the Discipline Courses in Languages 68-123 University level to formulate Foundation and Application Courses and take appropriate measures to implement the programme. Subsequently University Departments was also asked to draft compulsory language and discipline Discipline Courses in other subjects 124-327 courses in their respective fields. The Academic Council adopted the Foundation and Application Courses along with some changes in the earlier resolution in its meeting held on 28.5.2004. The first set of compulsory language and discipline courses was also approved in the same Academic Council Meeting 28.5.2004 and the second set of courses on 11.12.2004, the third set of courses on 17.3.2005 and the fourth set of courses on 23.4.2005, were approved.
Perspective The perspective for the B.A. Programme is based on the view that there is need for an undergraduate programme 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 was an important initiative to provide quality education to the B.A. students and enabling them to have a solid grounding in some disciplines, acquire linguistic skills and some foundational knowledge and be equipped with some skills to enter the world of work. Consequently, the objectives of the B.A. Programme are: To enable a Graduate to acquire the basic intellectual equipment in terms of thinking ability, linguistic skills and reasonable knowledge in certain fields with which he/she can enter the world of work.
1 To give the students enough knowledge in a discipline to pursue (c) Foundation Courses are courses to help the students learn certain basic postgraduate studies. It is conveived both as a terminal degree with things about pursuit of knowledge, such as economic, social, cultrual substantial intellectual equipment and as an enabling degree for higher and political environment and major contemporary concerns. studes. (d) Application Courses are courses to provide practical skills and additional By offering a combination of relevant courses, changing the method of competencies to better equip the student but for which students do not teaching in the direction of greater interaction between teachers and have to go outside the University system. students and re-organizing the examination system, this objective is sought to be achieved within the overall framework of the existing 2. Structure: workload and faculty strength in the colleges. There shall be a total of twelve courses over three-year period with four courses To put in place structure and the contents of the programme to make it taught and examined every year. A full year course will have 3 credits and the an integrated and interdisciplinary programme with flexibility and choice. whole programme will have 36 credits for 12 courses. Each course shall have a To provide the students a demanding, but worthwhile and enjoyable value of three units, each unit taught in one term with a specified teaching time experience, in the form of a liberal education to enter the wider world of per unit. The courses may extend over one, two or three terms. The number of work or go for higher students after three years of college. credits for a course shall be defined in terms of a specified teaching time. Additional courses or modules may be taken by a student beyond the stipulated Ordinance relating to B.A. Programme requirements, both as audited courses or courses for which special certificates may be given after the student has taken the examinations. (B.A. Examination) as amended by the Executive Council on 04.06.2004. The twelve courses shall have the following distribution over the three-year The Restructured B. A. Programme shall be implemented in the regular stream period, with four courses each year : with effect from the academic year beginning July 2004. With the implementation of this B.A. Programme, the existing B.A. (Pass) and Course Category Number of Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 other restructured and vocational B.A. (Pass) in the regular stream shall stand Courses to be discontinued with effect from July 2004. Those students admitted to the Chosen by a aforesaid B.A. (Pass) in July 2003, or earlier, shall be governed by the provisions Student of the B.A. (Pass) until the expiry of their respective span period. Discipline Courses 6 1+1 1+1 1+1 (in 2 disciplins) (3 + 3) 1. Components: Language Courses 4 1+1 1+1 1+1 It shall comprise four categories of courses, viz.. Discipline Courses, Language (in 2 languages) (2 + 2) Courses, Foundation Courses and Application Courses. Foundation Courses 1 - 1 - (a) Discipline courses are courses that give the basics of the disciplines, while at the same time introducing the student to the recent developments Appliation Courses 1 - - 1 in the field of study. (b) Language Courses are courses to enhance linguistic skills and literary Total Number 12 4 4 4 sensibilities in students.
2 3 Discipline Courses : A student shall do 6 discipline courses, 3 in each discipline Students opting for three courses in Commerce shall not be ordinarily allowed in Social Sciences, Humanities, Languages, Mathematical Sciences, Commerce, to take application courses on Banking and Insurance, Entrepreneurship and Home Science, Education, Music & Fine Arts and Applied Social Sciences & Tax Management unless specially permitted by the B.A. Committee of the Humanities. college. Language Courses : A student shall do 4 language courses. Of these, 2 courses Students opting for three courses in Mathematics shall not be allowed to take are to be in English and 2 courses are to be in Hindi/other Indian Languages. application courses on Mathematics for Social Sciences. Appropriate language courses in stream A, B & C will be offered to specific Students taking three courses in Statistics shall not be allowed to take groups of students on the advice of the B.A. Committee of the College keeping application courses on Basic Statistics. in view their specific academic needs according to the rules to be made in consultation with the Departments. Students who have not studied Indian Students taking three courses in Computer Science shall not be allowed to take Languages at School shall have the option of taking two additional courses in the application course on Computer Application/Information Technology. a discipline in lieu of the two courses in Hindi or other Indian Languages. A Student taking a language as a discipline has the option of dropping the two compulsory language courses and may take the same number of Courses in a Foundation Courses, comprising any sub-set of the following, shall be on offer in each college, of which every student shall choose one course: discipline instead.
Social Enquiry 3. The University B.A. Programme Committee: Contemporary India: Economy, Politics and Society There shall be a B.A. Programme Committee of the University of Delhi, whose Human Rights, Gender and Environment composition has been laid down in regulations on the subject. Language, Literature and Culture. The University B.A. Programme Committee shall consider and formulate new The foundation courses, their contents and the readings shall be worked out proposals to add or modify the Foundation and Application Courses and and finalized by the University B.A. Programme Committee. introduce new inter-disciplinary courses (since they are not part of any single Discipline) for approval by the Academic Council. The Discipline and Language Application Courses shall be offered in each college depending upon the Courses shall continue to be formulated by the Departments through their faculty profile and the availability of facilities, of which, every student shall B.A. Committee of Courses (The existing B.A. (Pass) Committees of Courses choose one course. The application courses, their contents and the readings shall be re-named as B.A. Committees of Courses). shall be worked out and finalised by the University B.A. Programme Committee. The Committee shall be empowered to review the B.A. Programme as a whole A student may apply to the B.A. Committee of the college for special permission and make changes in specific aspects or components from time to time or as to take a maximum of two additional courses from the list of Foundation Courses and when necessary. It shall endeavour to address the needs of the Hindi and Application Courses in lieu of the corresponding number of Discipline medium students and those enrolled in the School of Correspondence Courses Courses provided that the student takes a minimum of four Discipline Courses in transition to Campus of Open Learning. in two disciplines. Every College offering the B.A. Programme shall have a B.A. Committee to Students shall not be ordinarily allowed to take more than eight language administer the B.A. Programme and to coordinate with the University B.A. courses in all including the Application Courses on Translation and Creative Programme Committee. The composition of the Committee shall be as per Writing and not more than six courses in any one language. The Foundation regulations on the subject. Course, Language, Literature and Culture is an Inter Disciplinary Course and will not be counted as a Language Course.
4 5 4. Teaching Methods: exempted from re-appearing in those courses. In case a particular course is not offered in a College, the B.A. Committee may The successful candidates will be classified on the combined results of Part-I, consider allowing the students to attend classes in another College where it is Part-II and Part-III examinations as follows:- offered provided the B.A. Committees of both the colleges agree and make arrangements for teaching, evaluation and computation of attendance. Every First Division - 60% marks or more in the aggregate. college shall offer a critical minimum number of courses. Second Division - 50% marks or more but less than 60% in the aggregate. 5. Examinations: Third Division - All others. The evaluation system for the B.A. Programme shall include continuous internal assessment based on tutorials/written assignments / term papers/ Regulations: presentations/seminars, House Examinations and attendance, in addition to the annual University Examinations, in accordance with Ordinance VIII-E. The B.A. Programme Committee of the University shall be made up of the following members: 6. Pass percentage and classification of successful candidate: Three Deans including Deans of Arts and Social Sciences and one other Dean by The minimum marks required to pass the examination at the end of each year rotation from the Faculties of Mathematical Sciences, Commerce and Business, (Part-I examination, Part-II examination and Part-III examination) shall be 36% Education, Music & Fine Arts and Applied Social Sciences & Humanities. in each course (theory and practical separately) and 36% in the aggregate of Three Heads of Departments by rotation not represented by the Deans. four courses. Three Principals by rotation. The candidate must secure 36% marks in the University examination and 36% marks Three Professors nominated by the Vice-Chancellor. in the total of University examination and Internal Assessment taken together. Eight College teachers by seniority, of whom four shall have experience up to Provided that at the end of the 1st year, a candidate who has not passed the 10 years. Part-1 examination but has secured at least 25% marks in the aggregate of the all the courses taken together (including Internal Assessment and practical Two distinguished academics from outside the University nominated by the test, if any) and pass marks (separately in theory and practical) in at least two Vice-Chancellor. courses, may be permitted to proceed to the 2nd year class and take The Chairperson of the Committee shall be nominated by the Vice Chancellor. subsequently the examination in the remaining courses of Part-I in which he/ she has not secured the pass marks, along with the Part-II examination. The quorum of a meeting of the University B.A. Programme Committee shall be seven members including one Dean, one Head of the Department, one Principal, Similarly, at the end of the 2nd year, a candidate who does not pass the Part-II one Professor and two College teachers. The Committee shall formulate its examination (including a candidate who has not passed the Part-I examination own modalities regarding conduct of meetings, other than the quorum. also) but has secured at least 25% marks in the aggregate (including Internal Assessment and practical tests, if any) of the Part-II examination and pass The Committee shall be reconstituted every two years. marks (separately in theory and practical in at least two courses of 2nd year, may be permitted to proceed to the 3rd year class and take the examination in The B.A. Committee of the College will consist of Teacher-in-Charge of the the remaining courses of Part-I and/or Part-II which he/she might have not Departments participating in the B.A. Programme with the Principal or her/his cleared by then, along with the Part-III examination. nominee as Convener. A candidate for the Part-III examination who has not passed but has secured at The B.A. Committee of the college shall be reconstituted every two years. least 36% marks in any course/s (theory and practical separately) shall be 6 7 COMPULSORY LANGUAGE COURSES ENGLISH BASIC ENGLISH (STREAM C) Duration : 2 Years 1. English Objective : To develop the following skills : 2. Hindi 3. Sankrit Reading :
4. Urdu Ability to read silently and comprehend the central idea as well as details in 5. Panjabi simple and short passages. Ability to read a text aloud a normal speed and pronounce words correctly. 6. Assamese 7. Bengali Writing :
8. Marathi Ability to write legibly, using approriate cases (higher and lower) and 9. Oriya punctuation. 10. Sindhi Ability to fill a variety of forms in daily use . Ability to write short notes, simple notices, invitations, leave and job 11. Tamil applications. 12. Telugu Ability to organise a paragraph using appropriate linkers, writing simple 13. Kannada descriptive and narrative pieces. 14. Manipuri Listening 15. Buddhist Studies (Pali) Ability to understand words, in isolation and context. Ability to understand instructions, requests and class lectures.
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