Kanpur: IIT-Kanpur on Tuesday announced the comprehensive improvement of his curriculum, putting a new template with broken features.
Transformative steps are part of the 2020-21 academic review committee report (UGARC 2020-21), which was approved by the IIT-K Senate in his meeting held for October 6-7.
Director, Iit-Kanpur, Prof.
Abhay Karandikar said, “In Iit Kanpur, we always believe in supporting our students through a curriculum that not only improves their skills but produces agile and updated 21st century engineers and entrepreneurs with the latest technological and academic innovation .
Settling the existing curriculum, the introduction of courses that are relevant to the changing world today and a scoring system that was revised in the continuation of our steps in this direction and in line with the recommendation of the national education policy (2020) from the government.
“” the key aspect of revamp It is very necessary to flexibility to the system that allows it to adapt to changes in the academic landscape throughout the world.
We hope that these features will enable IIT Kanpur to become the Preferent Institute for its programs both nationally and internationally, “he added.
IIT Kanpur has offered one of the most flexible academic programs with the main double, minor and double options with master’s degree options in different departments.
The changed curriculum will introduce a new title option, including the Honors degree and the new antardepartmental program option.
It will also expand the scope of learning to include social science, communication, humanities, economics, management and the environment (scheme).
Core courses will be restructured to provide greater flexibility in the core curriculum.
Technology will encourage teaching and pedagogy to take learning to the next level.
Furthermore, this program will also allow the calculation of designated online courses carried out by students on the MOOC platform to be calculated for credit.
Transformational Templat for undergraduate education will include innovative features such as new opportunities for student exchange in all institutions for the Master part of the Bachelor’s Dual Degree Program, directly entered into gifted students through a globally recognized Olympics, academic credit for approved entrepreneurial activities and learning Approved is done in the regulated industry, and the title of option comes out for students who want to leave the program in the middle.
The existing assessment scheme has been made more granular with fine-grained student evaluation mechanisms.
It also imagines more roads for guidance and counseling with strong focus on ethics.
Also included with Revamp will be a reform of porridge in the rules governing the termination of undergraduate programs with a degree, because of the performance of students inadequate, in line with the recommendations of national education policies (2020).
The academic program and related curriculum in IIT Kanpur experienced a comprehensive review every ten years.
This review was started at 2020-21 initiated in November 2018 and finished September 202 after a detailed consultative process involving various stakeholders including alumni.
The review process begins with a tiring deliberation in a committee consisting of 17 members taken from various academic departments and student communities.
This was followed by a round of discussions in the department, the Senate and an open house involving faculty in general and representatives of students.
Final report, taking into account the feedback received from the Department, Senate, and Open House, placed before the Senate for the discussion, which is then approved.