Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 24: IGNOU has introduced UGC Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) for the Bachelor’s Degree Programmes offered through Common Prospectus.
The CBCS provides the learners with flexibility to study the subjects/courses at their own pace; greater choice of interdisciplinary, intra-disciplinary and skill-based courses; and mobility to different institutions for studies.
The system has the several advantages like learners can undertake as many credits as they can cope with; without repeating all courses in a given semester if s/he fails in one/more courses, allows learners to choose a combination of inter-disciplinary, intra-disciplinary courses, skill oriented courses; even from other disciplines according to their learning needs, interests and aptitude, makes education broad-based and at par with global standards, offers flexibility for learners to study at different times and at different institutions to complete the programme.
Credits earned at one institution can be transferred to another institution. Grading for Bachelors Degree Programmes under CBCS IGNOU uses 10-Point Grading System for evaluating learners’ achievement for Bachelor Degree Programmes.
For the July 2019 session, IGNOU is offering only “General Bachelors Degree programme under CBCS with the Disciplines like Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Mathematics, Hindi, Urdu, English and Sanskrit.
A learner can choose any two of these twelve disciplines for completing BA programme. Once the two disciplines are chosen in the first semester, he/she has to take Core Courses and Discipline Specific Elective Courses from those two Disciplines only in all the subsequent semesters.
The University has launched several programmes like Awareness Programme on GST, Post Graduate Certificate in Climate Change (PGCCC), Post Graduate Diploma in Development Studies (PGDDVS), Certificate Programme in Yoga and Certificate in Persian Language, which are being introduced from the current session.
“Keeping in view the difficulties being faced by the prospective students in registering themselves under Choice Based Credit System, which has been introduced for the first time from the ongoing admission session, the University has further extended the last date of admission upto 31st of July, 2019 for all programmes without any Late Fee”, informed Dr Sandeep Gupta, Regional Director I/c and Dr Asha Upadhyay, Assistant Regional Director and Admission Incharge of the Regional Centre Jammu.
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