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Culture varsity announces new courses

BHUBANESWAR: City-based Utkal University of Culture, India’s first institution of its kind, has announced various post-graduate and diploma programmes for the ensuing academic session commencing July 1.

University Registrar K.C. Mallick told The Hindu that most of the 16 programmes announced were innovative and interdisciplinary in nature and designed to suit the employability needs of the students.

The university announced post-graduate programmes in Culture Studies, South and South-East Asian Studies, Cultural Heritage and Conservation, Sociolinguistics (through correspondence course) and Tourism and Hospitality Services (self financing course). It also re-launched the one-year post-graduate diploma courses in Jain and Buddhist Studies besides the six-month certificate course in Tamil language. Each of the programmes would have 30 seats.

The nine-year-old university that introduced masters degree programmes in performing arts and visual art last year has departments of drama (direction, acting and stage craft), dance (Odissi and Chhau), vocal music (Odissi and Hindustani), instrumental music (flute, violin, tabla, mardal and sitar), painting, applied art and design, art history and aesthetics and sculpture. Except the 10-seat strength department of sculpture, all other departments have 20 seats each.

An admission test would be conducted for the aspiring students of the visual art programmes, the registrar said.

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