EXISTING STRUCTURE (Applicable for students admitted from 2022 to 2025)

For the BA (H) Sociology Programme, the following UGCF framework is from the proposed schemes of the AUD Undergraduate Curriculum Framework 2022.

Below is an excerpt from the draft NHEQF relevant to the UG level.

UGCF for a Single Discipline Major in Sociology.

Notes:

1. Those students who have been diagnosed with requiring extra help in English will be compulsorily assigned the English Proficiency Course as SE1 in the AEC1/SE1 slot.
2. AEC (1/2/3) will be Hindi (at the appropriate diagnostic level), English for Academic Purposes and the compulsory course on Environment respectively.
3. In the Three-year BA degree programme with single discipline major all students will do
   • 52 credits of compulsory courses from the discipline major and 8 credits of elective courses from the discipline. They will definitely do 60 credits (50% weightage) of courses from their discipline major. They could additionally take a further 12 credits through optional choices within their discipline.
   • Three compulsory Ability Enhancement Courses: English, Hindi and Environment, each of 4 credits totalling to 12 credits.
   • One Ability Enhancement Optional Course of 4 credits. They could do an additional 12 credits of AEOs by choosing AEO options.
   • One Skill Enhancement Course of 4 credits. They could do an additional 4 credits of SEs by choosing SE options.
   • One Generic Elective Course of 4 credits. They could do an additional 12 credits of GEs by choosing GE options.
   • The EL 1-6 option would allow a student to earn a minor in a discipline if they choose DSCs worth 24 credits from a single discipline different from their major. Further, change of Major may be facilitated in the 2^nd Semester if the concerned student does well in EL1 of the major they wish to change to, based on prior application and meeting all requirements posited by the respective programme committees.
4. In the Four-year BA degree with research in a single discipline all students will do
   • 60 credits of compulsory courses from the discipline major, and 32 credits of elective courses from the discipline major. They will definitely do 92 credits of courses from their discipline major. Further, 10 credits will cover a research methodology course related to their discipline major of 4 credits and 6 credits of a Research Project Report. Thus 102 credits (over 60% weightage) would be from their discipline major. They could additionally take a further 12 credits through optional choices within their discipline in the first three years.
   • The fact that the 4^th year amounting to 42 credits is spent entirely on the discipline major compares well with the first year of a two-year Masters programme in the discipline major.
   • In the Four-year BA (Hons) degree in a single discipline all students will do 60 credits of compulsory courses from the discipline major, and 12 credits of elective courses from the discipline major. Further, 10 credits will cover a research methodology course related to their discipline major of 4 credits and 6 credits for seminar paper/s in their discipline major. They will definitely do 82 credits (50% weightage) of courses from their discipline major. They could additionally take a further 12 credits through optional choices within their discipline in the first three years. Those who have taken EL 1-6 in a single (minor) discipline other than their major would continue to have an opportunity to take up to 5 ELs in the same (minor) discipline in their 4th year.

Abbreviations and types of academic courses

The following types of courses/academic engagements are envisaged in the AUD UGCF:

• Discipline specific core (DSC): These are the compulsory discipline specific courses.
• Elective (EL): DSC of a discipline other than the student’s major.
• Discipline specific elective (DSE): These are elective discipline specific courses.
• Generic elective (GE): These are courses that are interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary in nature.
• Ability enhancement
  • Ability enhancement compulsory (AEC): These will be the compulsory ability enhancement courses. (English, Hindi and Environment)
  • Ability enhancement optional (AEO): These are optional ability enhancement courses and could cover sustainable development, global citizenship, courses like Understanding India, Introduction to Social Sciences and Humanities, Nature of Science, Logic and Reasoning etc.
• Skills enhancement (SE): These will be a basket of courses aimed at improving skills and fostering vocational training. These could include courses on Python Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis amongst others that come from vocational training.
• Value based education (VBE): These will be a basket of courses aimed at imparting value- based education. These could include courses on Happiness, Yoga, Health and Well-being, Desh Bhakti (Indian Constitution and Democracy) etc.
• Community engagement and service (CES): This will involve courses and field-based engagements developed by the Centre for Outreach and Extension.

The above framework maintains a strong disciplinary core while at the same time allowing the student to have a broad base through compulsory language and environment components. Community service and value-based education are also taken care of via compulsory components. The large number of choices available in Ability Enhancement Optional courses, Skill Enhancement courses, Generic Electives both via compulsory components and choices, will allow the student to build their knowledge of social sciences and humanities, the natural sciences and provide an interdisciplinary flavour. This structure, while admitting a student to a major, is also flexible to allow the student to change their major during the programm of study. It takes care of the core ideals of the NEP, NHEQF, UGC FYUP while ensuring that disciplinary major requirements are not diluted.

Another important point it takes care of is the fact that for 75% of UG students, the three-year undergraduate degree will be a terminal degree. While such students will do 50% of their courses from their major discipline, they can choose to do the other 50% from courses not related to their discipline but from other areas that may be of interest or those that improve their employment prospects.

The 4^th year also maintains a good balance between disciplinary major requirements and other interests so as to allow a student to make the choice of whether they wish to pursue a higher degree within their discipline major or to move into other areas during their higher studies or find employment after their 4 -year degree

List of courses offered for the students admitted from 2022 to 2025.