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Sunday, Jun 20, 2004

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New B.Com (Hons) course from this year

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JUNE 19. As part of its attempt to make the academic content of its courses contemporary and in tune with changing social and academic needs, Delhi University's Academic Council has approved of the recommendations of the Faculty of Commerce and Business about the restructuring of the B.Com (Hons) course which will be introduced in this coming academic session in a new form.

Changed to meet modern day challenges, Information Technology has been integrated into the course, which will require students to clear 22 papers during the three-year term. While the first year will have seven papers, the second year will have eight papers. Although the third year will once again have seven papers, students will choose four optional papers in two groups from the offered ten groups, with one being from the Social Sciences.

One of the major changes in the new course is the integrated approach which now makes languages and social sciences compulsory/optional papers instead of being taken under the subsidiary category. While students will initially do projects for experience based learning, internships in business organisations have been planned as part of the long-term plan by the University.

Among the issues discussed during the Academic Council meeting held on Friday, the recommendations of the faculty on the report submitted by the Empowered Committee to review the restructuring of the B.Com (Hons) have been approved with minor additions and modifications based on the suggestions made during the Council meeting.

The course, however, may cost a little more, what with the Council also approving in principle "a modest development fee where necessary to be charged from students'' to meet the immediate needs of additional infrastructure such as computer labs. It has, however, suggested a complete fee waiver for SC/ST and Physically handicapped students whose family income is below a specified limit.

The draft ordinance for providing a governance structure for the School of Open Learning was also approved by the Academic Council to complete the transition of the School of Correspondence courses and Continuing Education to the Campus of Open Learning.

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