COURSE STRUCTURE

The HONOURS PROGRAM course shall be designed as having 140 credits delivered in six (06) semesters with 1950 marks. The PROGRAM course shall be designed as having 120 credits delivered in six (06) semesters with 1800 marks.

Each Course shall be of 75 marks each except that AECC 1(ENVS) will be of 100 Marks and AECC 2 (MIL Communication*) will be of 50 marks.

* MIL: Modern Indian Languages – English / Bengali / Hindi (Self taught) / Nepali (Self taught)

At the time of admission, a student will identify an Honours Program (total 140 Credits) / Program Course (total 120 Credits) in which the student shall concentrate. Apart from the Discipline Specific Core Course the student will have to select Generic Elective courses and Discipline Specific Elective courses, Ability Enhancement Core Courses and Skill Enhancement Courses from the provided pool of choices.

OUTLINES OF CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM:

1. Discipline Specific Core Course (DSC) The course designed for papers under this category aim to cover the basics that a student is expected to imbibe in that particular A course, which should compulsorily be studied by a candidate as a core requirement is termed as a Core course.
2. Elective Course: Generally a course which can be chosen from a pool of courses and which may be very specific or specialized or advanced or supportive to the discipline/ subject of study or which provides an extended scope or which enables an exposure to some other discipline/subject/domain or nurtures the candidate’s proficiency/skill is called an Elective
   • Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) Course: An Elective course offered under the main discipline/subject of study is referred to as Discipline Specific
   • Generic Elective (GE) Course: An Elective course chosen from an unrelated discipline/subject, with an intention to seek exposure beyond discipline/s of choice is called a Generic Elective. The purpose of this category of courses is to offer the students the option to explore disciplines of interest beyond the choices they make in Core and Discipline Specific Elective
3. Ability Enhancement Courses (AEC): The Ability Enhancement (AE) Courses may be of two kinds: Ability Enhancement Compulsory Courses (AECC) and Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC).
   • Ability Enhancement Compulsory Courses (AECC): These courses are based upon the content that leads knowledge enhancement, (1) Environmental Science and (2) MIL
   • Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC): These courses may be chosen from a pool of courses designed to provide value-based and/or skill-based knowledge and should contain both theory and laboratory/hands on training/field The prime purpose of these courses is to provide students life-skills in hands-on mode so as to increase their employability.

4. Practical/Tutorials (One each with every discipline specific core and discipline/generic specific Elective course): Practical means Laboratory or field exercises in which the student has to do experiments or other practical works of two hour Tutorial means special instructions based on the Lectures.

5. Detailed Course Structure 

   Course Components	Number of Courses
   	B.Sc.		B.A.		B.Com.
   	Honours Program	Program	Honours Program	Program	Honours Program	Program
   Discipline Specific Core Course (DSC)	14	12	14	12	14	12
   Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) Course	4	6	4	4	4	4
   Generic Elective (GE) Course	4	---	4	2	4	2
   Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course (AECC)	2	2	2	2	2	2
   Skill Enhancement Course (SEC)	2	4	2	4	2	4
   Total Courses	26	24	26	24	26	24

6. Credit

The term ‘credit’ refers to the weightage given to a course, usually in terms of the number of

instructional hours per week assigned to it. This explains why usually ‘credit’ is taken to mean ‘credit hours’. The credits also determine the volume of course contents and delivery of Course such as lectures, tutorials, practical, assignments etc.

1. For the purpose of credit determination, instruction is divided into three components:

Lectures (L) – Classroom lectures of one-hour duration.

Tutorials (T) – Special, elaborate instructions on specific topics (from Lectures) of one-hour duration.

Practical (P) – Laboratory or field exercises in which the student has to do experiments or other practical work of two-hour duration.

1. Each one of these components is considered as equal to one credit hour. One lecture (L) as well as one Tutorial (T) of one hour a week is considered as one credit, whereas one Practical (P) of two hours a week is considered as one The total weightage given to a course in terms of credits will be equal to L + P/T, where L is the number of one hour Lectures per week, T is the number of one hour Tutorials per week, and P is the number of two hours Practical per week. This can be written in symbols as: C = L + P/T Where, C is the credit weightage for a particular course.

7. Note for CBCS in B.A. /B.Sc. /B.Com. Honours Program
• Students pursuing DSC in a particular subject will have to opt for SEC and DSE in the same subject
• GE Course subject must be different from DSC Course
• Practical/ Tutorial: Every Discipline Specific Core, Discipline Specific Elective and Generic Elective Course will have one Practical/ Tutorial. Wherever there is a Practical, there will be no Tutorial and Vice

8. Scheme for CBCS in B.A. Program
• DSE 1 and SEC 1 Course subject will be the same as DSC 1 course subject & DSE 2 and SEC 2 Course subject will be the same as DSC 2 course
• GE 1 Course subject must be different from DSC 1 and DSC 2 Course
• Practical/ Tutorial: Every Discipline Specific Core, Discipline Specific and Generic Elective Course will have one Practical/ Tutorial. Wherever there is a Practical, there will be no Tutorial and Vice

9. Scheme for CBCS in B.Sc. Program
• DSE 1 Course subject will be the same as DSC 1 course subject & DSE 2 course subject will be the same as DSC 2 course subject and DSE 3 course subject will be same DSC 3 course
• SEC 1 and SEC 2 Course subject could be chosen from any of the 3 DSC course subject taken
• Practical/ Tutorial: Every Discipline specific Core and Discipline Specific Elective Course will have one Practical/ Tutorial. Wherever there is a Practical, there will be no Tutorial and Vice

10. Scheme for CBCS in B.Com. Program
• All DSC, DSE, GE, SEC courses will be compulsory courses with internal choices in the DSE courses
• Practical/ Tutorial: Every discipline specific Core, Discipline Specific Elective and Generic Elective Course will have one Practical/ Tutorial. Wherever there is a Practical, there will be no Tutorial and Vice

11. Curriculum:

The subjects and papers for the course shall be recommended by the Board of Under-Graduate Studies in each respective subject from time to time in accordance with the rules of the University of North Bengal.

i) Scheme for CBCS in B.A. /B.Sc./B.Com. Honours Program

Year	Semester	Discipline Specific Core Course (DSC)	Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course (AECC)	Skill Enhancement Course (SEC)	Discipline Specific Elective Course (DSE)	Generic Elective Course (GE)
1	1	Paper – 1	AECC-1 (ENVS)			GE – 1 Paper 1
		Paper – 2
	2	Paper – 3	AECC-2 (MIL) **			GE – 1 Paper – 2
		Paper – 4
2	3	Paper – 5		SEC Paper – 1		GE – 2 Paper – 1
		Paper – 6
		Paper – 7
	4	Paper – 8		SEC Paper – 2		GE – 2 Paper – 2
		Paper – 9
		Paper – 10
3	5	Paper – 11			DSE Paper – 1
		Paper – 12			DSE Paper – 2
	6	Paper – 13			DSE Paper – 3
		Paper – 14			DSE Paper – 4

 

** Note: MIL means Modern Indian Languages. Options under MIL includes English, Bengali, Hindi (Self taught), Nepali (Self taught)

• Students pursuing DSC in a particular subject will have to opt for SEC and DSE in the same subject
• GE Course subject must be different from DSC Course

 

Practical/Tutorial: Every Discipline specific Core, Discipline Specific Elective and Generic Elective Course will have one Practical/Tutorial. Wherever there is a Practical, there will be no Tutorial and Vice Versa. ii) Scheme for CBCS in B.A. Program
Year	Semester	Discipline specific Core Course (DSC)	Language Core Course (LCC 1)	Language Core Course (LCC 2)	Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course (AECC)	Skill Enhanceme nt Course (SEC)	Disciplin e Specific Elective Course (DSE)	Generic Elective Course (GE)
1	1	Discipline Specific Core 1 (Paper-1)	Bengali / Nepali/Hindi (Self-taught) (Paper-1)		AECC-1 (ENVS)
		Discipline Specific Core 2 (Paper-1)
	2	Discipline Specific Core 1 (Paper-2)		English (Paper-1)	AECC-2 (MIL)
		Discipline Specific Core 2 (Paper-2)
2	3	Discipline Specific Core 1 (Paper-3)	Bengali / Nepali/Hindi (Self-taught) (Paper-2)			SEC 1 Paper-1
		Discipline Specific Core 2 (Paper-3)
	4	Discipline Specific Core 1 (Paper-4)		English (Paper-2)		SEC 1 Paper-2
		Discipline Specific Core 2 (Paper-4)
3	5					SEC 2 Paper-1	DSE 1 Paper 1	GE-1 (Paper-1)

 

							DSE 2 Paper 1
	6					SEC 2 Paper-2	DSE 1 Paper 2	GE-1 (Paper-2)
							DSE 2 Paper 2
·                     DSE 1 and SEC 1 Course subject will be the same as DSC 1 Course subject & DSE 2 and SEC 2 Course subject will be the same as DSC 2 Course subject. ·                     GE 1 Course subject must be different from DSC 1 and DSC 2 Course subject. Practical/ Tutorial: Every Discipline specific Core, Discipline Specific and Generic Elective Course will have one Practical/ Tutorial. Wherever there is a Practical, there will be no Tutorial and Vice Versa. iii) Scheme for CBCS in B.Sc. Program

Year Semester     Discipline specific Core Course (DSC)   Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course (AECC)   Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) Discipline Specific Elective Course (DSE)         1   1 Discipline Specific Core 1 (Paper-1)   AECC-1 (ENVS)     Discipline Specific Core 2 (Paper-1) Discipline Specific Core 3 (Paper-1)   2 Discipline Specific Core 1 (Paper-2)   AECC-2 (MIL)     Discipline Specific Core 2 (Paper-2) Discipline Specific Core 3 (Paper-2)     2   3 Discipline Specific Core 1 (Paper-3)     SEC 1 Paper-1   Discipline Specific Core 2 (Paper-3) Discipline Specific Core 3 (Paper-3)   Discipline Specific Core 1 (Paper-4)   SEC 1

 

	4	Discipline Specific Core 2 (Paper-4)		Paper-2
		Discipline Specific Core 3 (Paper-4)
3	5			SEC 2 Paper-1	DSE 1 Paper 1
					DSE 2 Paper 1
					DSE 3 Paper 1
	6			SEC 2 Paper-2	DSE 1 Paper 2
					DSE 2 Paper 2
					DSE 3 Paper 2

 

• DSE 1 Course subject will be the same as DSC 1 Course subject & DSE 2 Course subject will be the same as DSC 2 Course subject and DSE 3 Course subject will be same DSC 3 Course
• SEC 1 and SEC 2 Course subject could be chosen from any of the 3 DSC Course subject taken
• Practical/ Tutorial: Every Discipline specific Core and Discipline Specific Elective Course will have one Practical/ Wherever there is a Practical, there will be no Tutorial and Vice Versa.