Programme of Studies

PROGRAMME OF STUDIES

The Programme of studies offered by the College is known as TDC-H (CBCS), a Three-Year Degree Course (Honours) of 6 Semesters under the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS), as prescribed by Bodoland University, Kokrajhar. The college offers Honours in Arts for six subjects.

  1. COURSE TYPES

Courses of study offered under TDC (CBCS) comprise the following types:

Core Course

A course to be compulsorily studied by a student as a core requirement to cover the basics that a student is expected to imbibe in a particular discipline of study.

Elective Course

A course which can be chosen from a pool of courses and which may be very specific or specialized or advanced or supportive to the discipline / subject of study or which provides an extended scope or which enables an exposure to some other discipline / subject / domain or nurtures the student’s proficiency / skill.

Elective courses can be of two types:

  1. Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) Courses: Elective courses offered under the main discipline of study.
  2. Generic Elective (GE) Courses: Elective courses chosen from an unrelated discipline / subject with an intention to seek exposure beyond the discipline of choice. A Core Course offered in a programme of study may be treated as a Generic Elective by another subject.

Ability Enhancement Courses (AEC)

AEC courses are of two types:

  1. Ability Enhancement Compulsory Courses (AECC): These are compulsory courses based on content that leads to knowledge enhancement. These are mandatory for all disciplines.
  2. Skill Enhancement Courses (SECs): These are compulsory value-based and/or skill-based courses aimed at providing hands-on training and skills so as to increase students’ employability.

COURSES OFFERED BY THE COLLEGE

Don Bosco College, Chapaguri (Bongaigaon) offers the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) programme in the following subjects:

COURSE Honours / General Elective Subjects offered
Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) Bodo
Economics
Education
English
Political Science
History

A student is expected to choose one Honours Subject and two subjects other than the Honours subject from the above list as General Elective Subjects.

BASIC COURSE STRUCTURE

The College adheres to the following course structure of Bodoland University, Kokrajhar:

DETAILED COURSE STRUCTURE – BA. HONOURS

The following tables give the detailed course structure of the BA Honours programme offered by the College.