By TCN News,
Aligarh: Madarsa students are now eligible for admission to courses run by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Aligarh Muslim University. In order to integrate Madarsa education with mainstream education system, the Academic Council of AMU on Tuesday took the decision to declare Madarsa students eligible for admission to various courses run by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from the next academic session.
Presiding over the meeting, Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis, Vice Chancellor remarked that founder of the institution, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan wanted to integrate religious education with modern education and this decision is aimed at fulfilling his cherished dream.
The Academic council has approved the report in this regard submitted by the Dean, Faculty of Theology, Prof. Ali Mohd. Naqvi and also authorized the Deans of the concerned faculties to submit the specific proposal within 10 days to the Controller of Examination.
The faculties of Arts and Social Sciences at AMU have following departments:
Faculty of Arts
Department of Arabic
Department of Comp. Study and Indian Languages
Department of English
Department of Fine Arts
Department of Hindi
Department of Linguistics
Department of Modern Indian Languages
Department of Philosophy
Department of Persian
Department of Sanskrit
Department of Urdu
Faculty of Social Science
Department Of West Asian Studies
Department Of Economics
Department of Education
Department of History
Department of Islamic Studies
Department of Mass Communication
Department of Information Science
Department of Psychology
Department Physical Health & Sports Education
Department of Political Science
Department of Sociology and Social Work
In order to provide better job opportunities to students, the Academic Council has resolved to set-up a Central Placement Cell and nominated Dr. Afifullah Khan, Department of Wild Life Sciences, as the Honorary Placement Officer to initiate the process.
According to Dr. Rahat Abrar, Public Relation Officer, AMU, the Academic Council of the University has resolved to explore the possibility of introducing new courses such as M.Sc. (Information Technology), B. Sc. (Geophysics), Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Social Works (BSW) and Bachelor of Mass Communication (BMC) and the matter was referred to the Board of Studies of the concerned departments.
Link:
http://www.amu.ac.in/index.htm