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The Standing Committee connected Academic Matters of Delhi University connected Monday sought revisions successful immoderate History and Economics electives, peculiarly successful the 1 titled ‘Economics and Gender’, according to members of the group.
The determination came during a gathering erstwhile elective courses were projected for the 2nd semester of the Post-Graduate Curriculum Framework (PGCF).
The committee seeking to see topics specified arsenic intimate spouse violence, home violence, workplace violence, and crimes against women successful portion 3 of the said people caused a disturbance successful the meeting, with immoderate members arguing that it had “nothing to bash with economics”.
Monami Sinha, a subordinate of the committee said, “The Head of the Department of Economics responded by asserting that these themes represent an important area of economical inquiry. She noted that determination exists important scholarly lit and theoretical enactment connected the economical costs of unit against women and its implications for maturation and improvement astatine the nationalist level.”
During a treatment of the History syllabus, immoderate members argued that it allocated “too overmuch abstraction to planetary history”. Other readings that were dropped included Shireen Moosvi’s “Work and Gender successful Mughal India”
The archetypal syllabus proposals are submitted by the respective department’s Committee of Courses, aft which the Standing Committee of Academic Matters volition contiguous them to the world assembly for approval.
The proposals are for the 2nd semester of the PG program nether the National Education Policy 2020 and are meant to align with the Undergraduate Curriculum Framework. This was the archetypal twelvemonth students studied nether the caller structure, and students successful PGCF volition soon participate their 2nd semester.
