DOON UNIVERSITY DEHRADUN

SSR PART-II
DOON UNIVERSITY, DEHRADUN
Environmental Economics: As per the mandate of the Supreme Court, all
academic disciplines need to run courses in environmental studies. So, the
faculty members of SENR run this course for the Dept of Economics.
Discrimination Studies: In order to teach courses like Discrimination
Economics and Gender Economics, experts from outside are often sought.
Management: In order to run courses like business forecasting, financial
economics and business economics, faculty members from School of
Management are involved.
Foreign Languages: Given the value addition with knowledge of foreign
languages, students often take courses in foreign languages either in the
School of Languages or the faculty members from SOL is invited to take
lectures in the School of Social Sciences.
Some efforts are in pipeline to introduce interdisciplinary programmes such as
Actuarial Economics, Social Work etc, to be jointly run by several schools and
departments.
6. Courses in collaboration with other universities, industries, foreign
institutions, etc.
We currently do not run any course in collaboration with other universities and
institutions. But we are proactively looking for such opportunities.
Moreover, our faculty members are engaged as co-supervisors in guiding PhD
and research scholars from other universities as well. (Please refer to Section
39 for more details)
7. Details of programmes discontinued, if any, with reasons:
No programmes hav e been discontinued so far.
8. Examination System: Annual/Semester/Trimester/Choice Based Credit
System
Semester system
(Note: The Department of Economics has adapted the course structure and
credit distribution systems according to model CBCS (choice based credit
systems) as proposed by UGC. However, the specialization courses have their
own syllabus as per the mandate of the Academic Advisory Board and the
Academic Council.)
9. Participation of the department in the courses offered by other
departments
Students can opt for courses from other department as zero credit courses.
Faculties of the departments are occasionally involved in teaching specific
courses run by other Departments. A list of such courses and the operating
Department are as below.
School of Social Sciences
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