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Bhubaneswar, April 11: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has started drafting a model curriculum for 19 undergraduate courses.
The model curriculum that is to be implemented from the coming academic session is being drafted to ensure a uniform syllabus under the Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS).UGC has asked all government universities and colleges to implement the semester and grading system from the 2015-16 academic session.
Under CBCS, one course will have to be compulsorily taken as a core requirement with the students then choosing an elective course that is specific to the discipline from a pool of courses.The elective courses have been divided into three types. These categories are discipline-specific elective course, dissertation or project and general elective course. The students will also have to take an ability enhancement compulsory course and skill enhancement courses.
The ability enhancement compulsory courses will remain the same in every discipline and will include subjects such as environmental science and English or MIL communication. The skill enhancement courses may be chosen from a pool of courses designed to provide value-based and skill-based knowledge.
According to the model draft syllabi, the Bachelor of Science (B Sc) Honours will have 11 core courses. It will further have 10 discipline-centric elective and six general elective courses from which the students have to choose four.The B Sc programme for life sciences and medical sciences will have four core courses each under botany, zoology and chemistry. From the discipline-centric electives, students have to choose any two each from the three subjects.
Under arts and humanities, the candidates can specialise in as many as 19 subjects, including history and tourism, defence and strategic studies. Nine specialised subjects have been included under commerce and management, 19 under the science stream and 10 under other subjects that include Bachelor of Education, foreign languages and fine arts.The UGC has asked all state and central universities and colleges to adopt the model syllabi.