THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala University Academic Council has approved 42 new programmes and the syllabi prepared by the Board of Studies for these courses. The varsity came up with the programmes following a direction from the state government.The varsity has decided to start these ‘new-gen’ courses from this academic year. The Academic Council meeting, chaired by Vice Chancellor V P Mahadevan Pillai was held on Thursday.
The programmes are:
lBSc — mathematics & computer application; aquatic biology & zoology; botany & ayurvedic pharmacy; geology & digital survey; physics with complimentary 1 (mathematics) and complimentary 2 (machine learning); health & fitness management.
lBA — ancient indian history & archeology; economics & media studies; english & media studies; economics & mathematics; malayalam & cultural studies; english and malayalam literature; political science & human rights; political science and woman studies
lBCom — account data science; blue economy & maritime law.
lBBA— logistics.
lMSc — chemistry with specialisation in drug design & development; geology with specialisation in geo informatics; physics with specialisation in nano science; zoology with specialistion in bio systematic & bio diversity; statistics with specialisation in data analytics; climate change & disaster management; botany with specialisation in ethno botany and ethno pharmacology.
lMA — economics (behavioral economics & data science); political science (international relations); history (world history and historiography); woman studies.
lMCom — international trade, rural management
lMSW — disaster management.
Besides, a few courses have been announced for university departments.