DOON UNIVERSITY DEHRADUN

SSR PART-I
DOON UNIVERSITY, DEHRADUN
Evening classes in foreign languages have been introduced for general
public in view of emerging demands. The classes are taken by the regular
teaching faculty.
In School of Languages, efforts are made to engage faculty native speakers
of foreign languages. For example, in teaching of Chinese, Japanese and
Spanish, the university has availed the services of native speaking faculty from
time to time. Beginning February 2016, the university is going to have native
speaking Japanese faculty supported by JICA.
The M.Tech Programme in Environmental Technology in SENR has been
introduced with financial assistance from UGC under Innovative Scheme.
∗ Research
A course on Research Methodology is mandatory in all Ph D programmes.
In addition, it is a compulsory course in most of the UG and PG programmes.
To develop research potential of the students undertaking a research based
project in some of the professional courses or a dissertation is mandatory in
partial fulfillment for obtaining PG degrees in all courses and UG degree in
some courses.
In the department of economics, a course titled “Special Report” was also
introduced in 2015 in order to encourage the students further for undertaking
research activities.
Students are encouraged to submit research papers and present their
research at national/ international platforms. The university provides special
assistance to teachers and students for seminars and other research-related
academic activities.
Faculty members are encouraged to undertake funded research projects
from bodies such as ICSSR, UGC, DST, AICTE, ICAR, etc., and, this enables
participation of students in active research.
The university has allowed 50 percent of the overhead charges in research
projects of the faculty members for their use in research and academic
activities.
1.1.4 To what extent does the university use the guidelines of the
regulatory bodies for developing and/or restructuring the curricula? Has
the university been instrumental in leading any curricular reform which
has created a national impact?
The UGC guidelines and model curriculum serve as a basis for designing
curriculum of all the courses of university.
Since the academic programmes in the university commenced in 2009, all
relevant inputs and guidelines from universities such as JNU, DU, GB Pant
University, etc., were taken into consideration during designing of syllabus
and the credit structure.
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