Section of teachers blocking 4-year DU programme

Physics department,for instance,held a meeting on Monday to prepare the syllabus of the four-year programme. But two teachers have written to the department heads,stating their disassociation with the committee.

A letter had also been written to the head of the department for holding a general body meeting of Physics teachers on the four-year undergraduate programme.

According to R C Tandon,head of the department,lack of space for holding a meeting of around 600 teachers was the reason behind not holding the general body meeting. “Some teachers have disassociated themselves from the committee for forming the syllabus. However,we will be able to meet the March deadline for making the syllabus,” Tandon said.

The department,on Monday,came up with names for Physics papers,which will be offered in the four-year programme.

Debajyoti Choudhury of the Physics department said,“Apart from the lack of time in framing the syllabus,accommodating multiple exit points in the course is turning out to be a problem.”

In the existing three-year format,students of B Sc Programme take papers in various subjects,however,in the proposed format,the students will study two subjects as their major and minor discipline.

Making the syllabus for minor discipline papers is another hurdle,teachers said. “We have to take into consideration students who would have studied Physics in Class XII and those who would not have. Suppose there is a Maths (H) student who opts for Physics as their minor discipline and has studied the subject earlier,how does one make a course that also suits a History (H) student who has not studied Physics in Class XII,but has opted for the Physics as their minor discipline,” Choudhury said.

Abha Dev Habib,who teaches Physics at Miranda House and was one of the teachers to disassociate themselves from the committtee formulated to form the 4-year syllabus,said,“The entire scheme has been implemented in a top-down manner.”