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BA : BACHELOR OF ARTS

Programme DescriptionBACHELOR OF ARTS

Programme Short DescriptionBA
School Short DescriptionSOSS
School DescriptionSchool of Social Sciences
Programme Description
Admission to B.A. Programme is through two streams.

i) Non-formal: The non-formal stream is for those students who have not passed 10+2 or its equivalent exami
for admission to B.A.
ii) Formal: Formal stream of admission is 10+2 or its equivalent examination.

The university follows the credit system. One credit is equal to 30 hours of learners study time. To earn Bache
32 credits per year. For earning 96 credits, a student has to opt for courses from three categories.
(1) Foundation Course (2) Elective Courses and (3) Application-Oriented Courses as given hereunder.
Programme

Foundation Courses

Elective Courses

BA
24 Credits
56 Credits or 64 Credits
In addition to these courses, all BDP students have to study an awareness course on environment entitled -An
understanding and enrich knowledge about the prevalent environmental concerns and issues; and managemen
SCHEME OF STUDY

In order to enable you to complete Bachelor of arts Programme within the minimum period of three years, yo
you should take the prescribed credits in Foundation Courses (BSHF 101, FEG 1 or FHD 2 and FEG 2 or any
second year you should take the remaining credits of Foundation Course and Elective Courses. In the third ye
ApplicatioN Oriented Courses.
How to Choose Courses for B.A.

In the first year of study, you should take 16 credits in Foundation Courses (BSHF101, FEG1 or FHD2 and F
second year you should take the remaining 8 credits of Foundation Course (FST1) and Elective Courses. In th
in Application-Oriented Courses. We discuss below the choices available in all these groups.
Foundation Courses: In this category of courses, you have to choose from the following:
FEG 1 or FHD 2
FEG 2 or BHDF 1 or any one of the listed Modern Indian Languages.

BSHF 101 (Foundation Course in Humanities and Social Sciences), and FST 1 (Foundation Course in Scienc

Elective Courses: The main task is to select elective courses. Please remember that as a learner in an Open Un
noticed that the list of elective courses is very big and you have to choose courses worth 56 or 64 credits from
that you should have studied mathematics as one of the subjects at 10 + 2 level. If you want elective courses i
48 credits in that discipline.
B.A. (Major)

If you want to go for indepth studies of one particular discipline to obtain B.A. Major or you want to pursue t

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