To All Heads of Departments,
University of Delhi
11 July 2014
Dear Colleagues,
The DUTA Executive, in its meeting held on 5 July, discussed the issue of the restructuring of courses for the students admitted in 2013. It made the following suggestions which could be considered in the Committee of Courses:
- At least 14 papers from the main discipline / Honours course should be offered over the next two years (so that students would study a minimum of 18 papers of the main discipline in three years).
- Departments may use the Honours papers prepared for DC-I or pre-FYUP Honours papers to prepare the course work (sequence of papers) for 2013 FYUP batch. Preparation of new papers and syllabi at this juncture should be avoided.
- At least two papers from disciplines other than the main discipline should be offered (equivalent to the level of the two concurrent papers studied by pre-FYUP students), for which tutorials must also be offered.
- The appeal by President DUSU and other students’ organisations that, to avoid over-burdening, a student should not have to offer more than four papers per semester, should be given sympathetic consideration. In any case the number of papers per semester should not be more than what it was in the pre-FYUP courses.
- Optional papers, wherever present in the pre-FYUP Honours courses, should be restored.
- There should be no Research Methodology papers, Foundation and Applied papers in the second and third year, or any period for CA.
It may be noted that the recommendations of the Principals’ Committee are advisory in nature and not binding on the Committees of Courses. We are hopeful that, notwithstanding the rather limited time at their disposal due to inaction on the part of the university administration over the past several days, the Committees of Courses would make best possible transitory arrangement for the students. As teachers our commitment is to provide these students well structured courses with sound academic content.
Warm regards,
| NANDITA NARAIN President, DUTA |
HARISH KHANNA Secretary, DUTA |
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