UGC, DU panels meet to draw roadmap for three-year format

“We have recommended scrapping foundation courses, applied courses and slots for co-curricular activities to make room for students to study additional DC-1 papers. Students can study 3 DC-1 papers from semester 3-6 along with one DC-2 paper each year,” S K Garg, principal, Deen Dayal Upadhayay College and DUPA president, said.

The body has also recommended changing the name of BTech in Psychological Science programme to BA Honours in psychology. “We have recommended retaining the nomenclature of the BMS programme,” he said.
Besides, the body has recommended adding a few papers of allied engineering to the present BTech course structure to bring them on par with BTech offered in other universities, Garg said.

While DU administration has constituted a committee of college principals to look into the issue, the UGC has also constituted a standing committee to suggest ways in which the only FYUP batch can make a shift to the three-year mode.

In the second meeting, and purportedly the final meeting, of the standing committee appointed by the UGC, similar suggestions were made. Delhi University Teachers’ Association president Nandita Narain, who is a member of the advisory committee, said, “In the remaining two years we have suggested that students should study a total of 16 papers. They can either study 14 main disciplines papers and two concurrent subject papers or they can study 12 main discipline papers and four concurrent ones. In addition to this, they will have to study one compulsory paper on environmental sciences.”