DU's B.Tech in humanities entrance test on Aug 26
The Delhi University is launching a meta-course, B.Tech in humanities from this academic session, reported the Times of India. The course will be conducted by the university's Cluster Innovation Centre (CIC) and will be based on the 'design your own degree’ concept, offering flexibility to students in choosing their subjects. The meta-course will open up a range of career opportunities for students.
Due to an exciting response from students, the application process that started on July 25 has been extended to continue till August 17 and the date for entrance exam has been rescheduled from August 5 to August 26. (Read more)
DU officials told TOI that the course welcomes students who are already pursuing a regular course in the university. The dates have been extended to cater to students from School of Open Learning (SOL) and Non-Collegiate programme as well.
The B.Tech in humanities will be interdisciplinary and flexible and will comprise eight semesters. In the first semester, students will be taught Mathematical Awareness, Art of Communication, Impact of Technology, Cultural Diversity and Linguistic Plurality and Research Methods. DU will have mentors to assist students in selecting the appropriate papers as per their chosen stream, once the students have chosen their desired streams.
Classes for the first and eighth semesters will be held at CIC while students must choose different colleges for the remaining semesters where they must opt courses within five different streams, namely- journalism, education, counseling, historical tourism, and art and design. The student will be examined and marked in that paper by the university from where he/she is pursuing the paper. (Read more)
MM Chaturvedi, programme coordinator of CIC informed TOI that the center received more than 400 applications for a total of 40 seats. According to him, all the five streams offer enough flexibility and are job oriented ensuring career opportunities in relevant sectors. CIC will also integrate innovation projects involving hands-on working with the industry segments from the first year itself, thus offering job options to students.
Addressing apprehensions among faculty members of colleges as well those applying for the meta-course regarding switching of college and the credit transfer system, Chaturvedi ensures that CIC is working out a way so that students do not have to go far but only switch from one college to another in the same location. (Read more)
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