Vacant seats opportunity to introduce new courses

After introduction of four-year Bachelor and B.Tech programme the DU will do away with BA and B.Sc programme. Due to this new change lots of seats will remain vacant in many colleges. However, college authorities are still working on redistributing seats originally sanctioned for these courses among the present honours, some consider this situation as opportunity to introduce new subjects.

DU will introduce these new four year courses in phase some courses will start this year and some will be launched next year in various colleges of DU. Once colleges will hire all required teachers and solve work-load issues, seats formerly belonging to those programmes will be transferred to these newly introduced courses.

Pratibha Jolly, Principal, Miranda House College, said, "This is a very good opportunity to diversify our portfolio. We have a strong backbone in IT infrastructure and we got the AC (academic council) approval some years ago." She further added, "We've made a formal request for computer science (Honours) and for others. We are yet to move the papers."

SGTB Khalsa College too has put in a request for computer science and for much the same reasons, they have been running bachelor in information technology and already have the teacher. For the other subjects they have placed a request with the University for journalism course. Jaswinder Singh, Principal, Khalsa College, said, "This is an opportunity to upgrade our courses but we are trying to approach only in areas in which resources are available."

According to the new plan, subjects that are rarely or not at all found in DU at undergraduate level will be introduced into colleges. For instance, subjects like Anthropology, Journalism, Mass Communication, Economics and Computer Science are among those.