<p>Postgraduate students at Bangalore University will have to compulsorily choose open electives as part of their course work from this academic year. <br /><br />The open electives concept allows a student to familiarise himself/herself with basic concepts of a stream of study outside of the subjects that he or she has chosen for the course. For instance, an arts student will get to study basics in Physics and a science student will have the option to study basics of English literature. <br /><br />A decision to this effect was taken at the university academic council meeting on Wednesday. According to Vice-Chancellor Prof B Thimme Gowda, the open electives will be offered in the third semester of the PG course work and it will be a compulsory four-credit course. <br /><br />However, students will have the choice of deciding the elective of their choice. In fact, students will have the freedom of choosing an elective in a subject offered in another college too. Students studying on the Jnanabharathi campus could also choose courses in other colleges and vice-versa. <br /><br />The university is introducing compulsory subjects for undergraduate courses too. As of now, students have to study environmental science and Indian Constitution in the first two semesters of degree. <br /><br />The university has now introduced Science and Society as a mandatory subject for arts and commerce students in the third semester. <br /><br />For science students of third semester, they have introduced a course called Culture, Diversity and Society. Students have to clear the exam in these subjects to pass their degree courses. The university is also thinking of introducing such compulsory courses for the remaining three semesters of the undergraduate degree too, the VC added.<br /><br />Kannada mandatory<br />In addition, Kannada will be made a mandatory subject across all courses. The university has arrived at this decision based on a recommendation by Kannada Development Authority. As far as students from outside Karnataka and international students are concerned, they would have a separate syllabus for this.<br /><br /> They would be studying just basic Kannada. Since the syllabus for the subject is yet to be framed, the university will introduce Kannada as a subject to them from the academic year 2016-17. <br /><br />Another major decision taken at the meeting was to make MEd a two-year course. BEd has been made a two-year course (it was one-year earlier) and the same has now been extended to MEd. On these lines, even the BPEd course will be two years long. </p>.<p>Further, the university has approved as many as 26 colleges to function as research centres. Out of these, 23 colleges have been granted permission for all the subjects they sought while the other three colleges have been given permission to only some of the subjects for which they had applied. <br /><br />In all, as many as 32 colleges had applied for permission. The university will authorise these centres to function as research centres, in order to accommodate more PhD admissions. <br /><br />There is a lot of demand for PhD and the university is currently unable to accommodate all the applicants. These centres will be authorised to guide research scholars only in the subjects for which the university grants approval. <br /></p>
<p>Postgraduate students at Bangalore University will have to compulsorily choose open electives as part of their course work from this academic year. <br /><br />The open electives concept allows a student to familiarise himself/herself with basic concepts of a stream of study outside of the subjects that he or she has chosen for the course. For instance, an arts student will get to study basics in Physics and a science student will have the option to study basics of English literature. <br /><br />A decision to this effect was taken at the university academic council meeting on Wednesday. According to Vice-Chancellor Prof B Thimme Gowda, the open electives will be offered in the third semester of the PG course work and it will be a compulsory four-credit course. <br /><br />However, students will have the choice of deciding the elective of their choice. In fact, students will have the freedom of choosing an elective in a subject offered in another college too. Students studying on the Jnanabharathi campus could also choose courses in other colleges and vice-versa. <br /><br />The university is introducing compulsory subjects for undergraduate courses too. As of now, students have to study environmental science and Indian Constitution in the first two semesters of degree. <br /><br />The university has now introduced Science and Society as a mandatory subject for arts and commerce students in the third semester. <br /><br />For science students of third semester, they have introduced a course called Culture, Diversity and Society. Students have to clear the exam in these subjects to pass their degree courses. The university is also thinking of introducing such compulsory courses for the remaining three semesters of the undergraduate degree too, the VC added.<br /><br />Kannada mandatory<br />In addition, Kannada will be made a mandatory subject across all courses. The university has arrived at this decision based on a recommendation by Kannada Development Authority. As far as students from outside Karnataka and international students are concerned, they would have a separate syllabus for this.<br /><br /> They would be studying just basic Kannada. Since the syllabus for the subject is yet to be framed, the university will introduce Kannada as a subject to them from the academic year 2016-17. <br /><br />Another major decision taken at the meeting was to make MEd a two-year course. BEd has been made a two-year course (it was one-year earlier) and the same has now been extended to MEd. On these lines, even the BPEd course will be two years long. </p>.<p>Further, the university has approved as many as 26 colleges to function as research centres. Out of these, 23 colleges have been granted permission for all the subjects they sought while the other three colleges have been given permission to only some of the subjects for which they had applied. <br /><br />In all, as many as 32 colleges had applied for permission. The university will authorise these centres to function as research centres, in order to accommodate more PhD admissions. <br /><br />There is a lot of demand for PhD and the university is currently unable to accommodate all the applicants. These centres will be authorised to guide research scholars only in the subjects for which the university grants approval. <br /></p>
