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College has committed to innovations in knowledge delivery through an optimal use
of available technology. Innovative teaching pedagogy which is popular in many
subjects is a source of creative thinking for the students.
College introduced Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS) in the academic year 2016-
17. Syllabi for 35 papers for UG and 11 papers in PG for open electives have been
designed by the departments during the academic year 2015-16.
Teaching Learning Evaluation
Much of the innovation that has taken place in the College relates to this important
criterion of teaching-learning-evaluation. Autonomy has provided teachers with the
freedom to devise innovative teaching-learning methodologies in their curriculum and
this has been a continuous process.
Streaming of students to cater to academic diversity:
Faced with the challenge of mixed ability classes, the Department of English used the
opportunity provided by the conferment of autonomy to divide students into three
learning streams based on their ability levels in the English language at the entry
stage. Levels are gauged through the instrument of a diagnostic test administered in
the first week after admission to College. The objective is to help a student to journey
from the level he or she is actually located in and follow a graded path upwards to
more advanced levels. Accordingly, the curriculum and teaching approach were
customized differently for each stream. Currently, there are three streams to which
students are assigned in the first year. In the second year, students may elect for a
regular courser or opt for a special course according to their interest irrespective of
the stream they were assigned to in the first year... The system is working well and
has been delivering tangible benefits in terms of student progression in General
English.The Department has innovated to develop a theme-based curriculum and
syllabus that is customized differently for each stream. Department of English has
begun the process of setting up both a Language Learning Centre and a Materials
Production Centre. The Language Learning Centre is an attempt at departing from
conventional language labs towards a more dynamic learning processwhere activity
and language tasks can be integrated. Through the Materials Production Centre, the
Department hopes to enlist its faculty into the task of designing and producing a wide
range of audio-visual materials which are culturally appropriate, rather than
depending on costly material aimed at Western audiences. Remedial classes, tutorials
and peer teaching have been regular features of almost all departments.
There are 39 Certificate Courses of 60 hours‘ duration for Arts students and 120 hours
for Science students. Each Course fetches 4 credits.
Mandatory research requirement:
Various postgraduate programs have a mandatory research requirement in terms of
dissertation writing/project work. The postgraduate students of Economics have an
eight credit dissertation and are graded on the basis of three internal seminars namely
proposal seminar, work in progress seminar and final seminar, one long essay and a
dissertation. Postgraduate students of Political Science, English and Social Work have
a dissertation requirement. The postgraduate students of Micro Biology have a full
semester dedicated for the dissertation.
The Department of Environmental Science has made a research-based dissertation
mandatory in the final semester of the B. Sc. course. All undergraduate courses have
term paper writing as a compulsory academic activity. Apart from this, College offers
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