COURSE:

 

• Course Curriculum for Undergraduate Courses under Choice Based CreditSystem

 

As per guidelines of Cooch Behar PanchananBarma University the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) is introduced in Under Graduate course of studies and examinations from the academic year 2017-18.

 

• Choice Based Credit System(CBCS):

 

The CBCS provides an opportunity for the students to choose courses from the prescribed courses comprising core, elective/minor or skill-based courses. The courses can be evaluated following the grading system, which is considered to be better than the conventional marks system. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce uniform grading system in the entire higher education in India. This will benefit the students to move across institutions within India to begin with and across countries. The uniform grading system will also enable potential employers in assessing the performance of the candidates. In order to bring uniformity in evaluation system and computation of the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) based on student’s performance in examinations, the UGC has formulated the guidelines to be followed.

 

• Definitions:

1. Academic Session means academic year from July toJune.

 

2. Year means the period commencing from 1st day of July and ending 30th Junefollowing.

 

3. Semester means a period of six months beginning from July to December and January to June of each academic session containing equivalent to 90 actual teachingdays.

 

4. Credit means the unit by which the course work is measured. It is equivalent to one hour of teaching (Lecture or Tutorial) or two hours of Practical work/Field work perweek.

 

• Course ofStudies:

 

• A Candidate shall be allowed to pursue any one of the Undergraduate Degree programmes of the University (not more than one) at atime.

 

• Scheme for Choice Based Credit System in B.A. HonoursProgramme:

 

An undergraduate degree with Honours in a subject may be awarded if a student completes -

• 14 Core Courses (CC) in the Honourssubject.
• 4 Discipline Specific Elective Courses (DSE) from the Honourssubject.
• 4 Generic Elective Courses (GE) as offered by the college. GE must be different from Honourssubject.
• 2 Ability Enhancement Compulsory Courses (AECC), namely (i) Modern Indian Language (MIL) i.e. Bengali / English (ii) EnvironmentalStudies.
• 2 Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC) to provide value-based and / or skill-based knowledge. SEC will be the same as Honourssubject.
• Studentswhohadstudied EnglishasFirstLanguageintheHigherSecondaryLevelwillhavetostudy Alternative English instead of Bengali in LCC 1 andAECC1.

 

• CourseDetails:

 

Year	Semester	Core Course (14)			Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) Course (4)			Generic Elective (GE) Course (4)			Ability Enhancement Compulsory (AECC) Course (2)			Skill    Enhancement (SEC) Course (2)
		Course	Credit	Full Marks	Course	Credit	Full Marks	Course	Credit	Full Marks	Course	Credit	Full Marks	Course	Credit	Full Marks
I	1	I	6	50				GE-I	6	50	ENVS	4	50
		II	6	50
	2	III	6	50				GE-2	6	50	MIL	2	50
		IV	6	50
II	3	V	6	50				GE-3	6	50				SEC-1	2	50
		VI	6	50
		VII	6	50
	4	VIII	6	50				GE-4	6	50				SEC-2	2	50
		IX	6	50
		X	6	50
III	5	XI	6	50	DSE-I	6	50
		XII	6	50	DSE-II	6	50
	6	XIII	6	50	DSE-III	6	50
		XIV	6	50	DSE-IV	6	50
TOTAL			84	700		24	200		24	200		6	100		4	100

 

 

Total Credit: (84+24+24+6+4) = 142

Full Marks: (700+200+200+100+100) = 1300

 

• Choice of Honours subjects in DewanhatMahavidyalaya:

 

 

Sl No.	Honours subject
1.	Bengali
2.	English
3.	Sanskrit
4.	History
5.	Political Science
6.	Education
7.	Philosophy
8.	Geography

 

 

• Choice of 2 Generic Elective subjects (Any one from eachgroup):

 

Group A	Group B
Bengali	History
English	Political Science
Sanskrit	Education
Philosophy	Geography

 

• Scheme for Choice Based Credit System in B.A. RegularProgramme:

 

An undergraduate degree with Regular Program in Arts may be awarded if a student completes -

• 12 Core Courses which includes 4 core courses each in 2 disciplines of choice (DSC), i.e. 4 x 2 = 8 core courses, and 2 core courses each in English and MIL respectively (2 x 2 = 4 core courses), which are referred to as Language Core Courses(LCC).
• 2 courses each from a list of Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) courses (2 x 2 = 4 courses) based on the 2 disciplines of choice selected in corecourse.
• 2 courses from the list of Generic Elective Courses (GE) offered by the college. GE must be different DSC
• 2 Ability Enhancement Compulsory Courses (AECC), namely (i) Modern Indian Language (MIL) i.e. Bengali / English (ii) EnvironmentalStudies.
• 4 Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC) to provide value-based and/or skill-basedknowledge.
• StudentswhohadstudiedEnglishasFirstLanguageintheHigherSecondaryLevelwillhavetostudy Alternative English instead of Bengali in LCC 1 andAECC1.

 

• CourseDetails:

 

Year	Semester	Core Course (12)			Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) Course (4)			Generic Elective (GE) Course (2)			Ability Enhancement Compulsory (AECC) Course (2)			Skill Enhancement (SEC) Course (4)
		Course	Credit	Full Marks	Course	Credit	Full Marks	Course	Credit	Full Marks	Course	Credit	Full Marks	Course	Credit	Full Marks
I	1	LCC- 1(MIL)	6	50							MIL	2	50
		DSC-1A	6	50
		DSC-2A	6	50
	2	LCC- 2(ENG)	6	50							ENVS	4	50
		DSC-1B	6	50
		DSC-2B	6	50
II	3	LCC- 3(MIL)	6	50										SEC-1	2	50
		DSC-1C	6	50
		DSC-2C	6	50
	4	LCC- 4(ENG)	6	50										SEC-2	2	50
		DSC-1D	6	50
		DSC-2D	6	50
III	5				DSE-IA	6	50	GE-1	6	50				SEC-3	2	50
					DSE-2A	6	50
	6				DSE-1B	6	50	GE-2	6	50				SEC-4	2	50
					DSE-2B	6	50
TOTAL			72	600		24	200		12	100		6	100		8	200

 

 

Total Credit: (72+24+12+6+8) = 122

Full Marks: (600+200+100+100+200) = 1200

 

• Choice of subjects in B. A. Regular Course in DewanhatMahavidyalaya:

 

• Students have to select 2 discipline courses (DSC): (Any 1 from each of the following 3groups)

 

Group A	Group B	Group C
Bengali	History	Political Science
English	Philosophy	Geography
Sanskrit	Education

 

• Students will have to select 2 Generic subjects from each of the following 2groups:

 

Group A	Group B
Bengali	History
English	Political Science
Sanskrit	Education
Philosophy	Geography