Engineering seat aspirants in the State, who are attempting a slew of entrance exams to qualify for admissions, will be studying a revamped course from this academic year.
The Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) is in the process of implementing the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) for all undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) courses in its constituent college as well as colleges affiliated to it from 2015–16. Students will have ‘à la carte’ like option for subjects, and they will not have to wait until the final year for electives. VTU Vice-Chancellor H. Maheshappa told The Hindu that details of the new system would be updated on the university website by this month-end to help students and teachers prepare for it before classes begin.
Incidentally, this will be the second year in a row that the syllabi will be revamped.
“As we revise the syllabus once in every four years, we had made changes in 2014. But as the UGC directions came, we will have to make changes again this year,” he said. Prof. Maheshappa said while the first semester students would be the first batch to study under the CBCS scheme, the real changes would kick in during the third semester. “The first two semesters are likely to be close to the basics,” he added.
The number of theory subjects that students will study is yet to be decided. For the past two years, they have been having five theory subjects and three practicals, which by itself was a departure from the earlier six subjects and two practicals.
