Final year language study may be scrapped for Telangana degree students

The TGCHE move is aimed at allowing students to focus more on core subjects in the final year of the course work from next academic year.

Hyderabad: Starting next academic year, students of conventional degree courses may not have to pursue languages in their final year. The Telangana Council of Higher Education (TGCHE) is mulling to do away with the mandatory languages study in the final year of the course, particularly for those pursuing science programmes.

The move is being planned to allow students to focus more on the core subjects in the final year. The Council, which has constituted subject-wise expert committees to revamp the undergraduate course curriculum, has come up with this proposal during a recent meeting.

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If approved, students who have taken languages like Telugu, Hindi and Urdu as a second language will not have to study them in the third year.

“As there is a need to focus more on equipping students with core skills, particularly in science subjects, a proposal has been mooted to remove languages from the final year of degree course. Instead of languages, students will be studying more core subjects,” sources said.

In fact, this system was implemented in the State prior to 2021. However, the Council after recommendations of an expert committee introduced languages in the degree final year.

Also being planned is reducing the number of credits for the science programmes from 160 to 145 or 146. The move intends to make a uniform credits system across all conventional degree courses offered by the State universities.

Further, projects will be made mandatory for degree final year students as part of their course work. Students have to undertake projects in the industry or sector relevant to their study. Four credits may be allotted to the project work.

The mandatory project is already being introduced to some programmes like engineering. Also, degree students will be given a provision of studying courses from Swayam and NPTEL platforms. Credits earned after completing such courses can be transferred.