The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Forget CET, look at arts and science colleges instead

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Wednesday, Jul 06, 2005

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Forget CET, look at arts and science colleges instead

Vani Doraisamy

For those looking beyond medicine and engineering, the options are plenty

MORE OPTIONS: College courses are morphing in content, mostly to benefit students. — Photo: R. Ragu

CHENNAI: If you thought arts and science courses were poor cousins to professional courses, all you need to do is take a look at some of the `revamped' courses on offer in some Chennai colleges.

Be it being contemporary or job-validity, these courses are aimed at making students as employment-worthy as engineering or medical degree would.

In fact, even conventional courses such as history and English literature have been `overhauled' to make them relevant to the times.

All-new syllabus

Loyola College, for instance, has an all-new syllabus for its courses, which focuses on aspects such as communication skills, spoken English and personality development as part of the foundation course.

Next year, the college would introduce a postgraduate course in Media Arts in Tamil.

At Ethiraj College, courses on offer are microbiology, advanced zoology and animal biotechnology.

UG courses

This year, undergraduate courses in English literature and communication skills and clinical nutrition have been introduced.

While the history course has been given an image-makeover as Tourism and Travel Management, on the Economics front, it is Business Economics.

After bringing all its M.Phil courses under the autonomous stream, Presidency College has introduced a paper in Computational Mathematics for B.Sc., apart from offering a B.Com in Corporate Secretaryship and B.Sc in Botany and Plant Biology as well as in Biotechnology.

New College, under the self-financing stream in its evening college, has come up with postgraduate courses in Visual Communication, Corporate Secretaryship, Biotechnology and Information System and Management.

For those looking beyond medicine and engineering, the options are aplenty.

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