DU honours courses may span 4yrs from 2013

From years, Delhi University (DU) offers three years undergraduate honors courses but from July 2013, the duration of these courses will be four years. Vice-Chancellor Dinesh Singh said that this move will provide more independence to DU colleges in setting the courses based on the needs of students'.

The current programmes will be replaced by the multi-disciplinary four year programme and it will also have exit options at the end of second and third years. Those who exit the course at the end of two and three years will be awarded by a diploma or a degree respectively while those who will complete all four years will receive honours degree with specialization.

The current undergraduate courses at DU doesn't provide students with a platorm to showcase their talent but the very new four-year degree course will ensure a platform to discover their inner strengths.

This move is in its initial stages and will require involvement of colleges in the formulation of courses. In order to create a sense of involvement and ownership, a fraction of courses will be left with the colleges to check the level of preferences. It will help colleges in finding as what are the preferences of students and what they want to study.

DU is also hoping to have a full-fledged credit system in place in the beginning of 2013 session and under this system, DU students will get a chance to choose courses from different constituent colleges. This credit transfer system will also facilitate international exchange program for students of DU.

Source: Richha Bhatnagar (Shiksha Team)