Courses and Credit Structure of FYUGP

Understand Courses and Credit Structure of FYUGP

The Four-Year UG Programme (FYUGP), has two possible versions:
(a) UG Honours Programme consisting of different courses in four years and an optional project in the fourth year
(b) UG Honours with Research Programme consisting of different courses in four years and a mandatory research project in the fourth year In either version, the student has the exit option at the end of the third year with a UG Degree. The students who complete the four-year UG programme need to do only one year of PG programme.
• The students who exit at the end of the third year need to do two years of PG programme. The total credits of the three-year UG Programme are 133 and that of the four-year UG Programme are 177

1.1. Major
The student should choose any one discipline as the Major and earn minimum 50% credits in it out of the total credits. In the three-year UG programme, it is specified that the student should earn minimum 68 credits in the Major discipline out of the total credits of 133 to qualify for a UG Degree in that Major. • In the four-year UG programme, it is specified that the student should earn minimum 92 credits in the Major discipline out of the total credits of 177. • In the four-year programme, in addition to the 92 credits in the Major, the student should do either three courses of total 12 credits in the Major discipline or a Project of 12 credits in the Major discipline to qualify for a UG Honours Degree in that Major discipline. • If the project in the Major discipline is a research project under a research guide, the student is qualified for a UG Honours with Research Degree in that Major discipline.

1.2. Minor
If a student earns minimum 12 credits in a discipline other than the Major discipline, the student is said to have entered the Minor stream. In the case of “Major with Multiple Disciplines pathway”, the student should earn 12 credits each in two different disciplines other than the Major. • In the case of “Major with Minor pathway”, the student should earn minimum 20% credits out of the total credits of the programme, in a single discipline other than the Major, and this is called the Minor discipline. • In the three-year UG programme, it is specified that the student should earn minimum 27 credits in the Minor discipline to qualify for a UG degree with a Major and a Minor. • In the four-year UG programme, it is specified that the student should earn minimum 35 credits in the Minor discipline to qualify for a UG Honours degree with a Major and a Minor.

1.3. General Foundation Courses
It is mandatory for all the students who enrol for a four-year UG programme to acquire 39 credits from 13 general foundation courses which are classified into four different sub categories (approximately about 30% of the total credits of 133 decided for the three-year programme). • Each general foundation course has 3 credits. The general foundation courses should be completed in the first three years of FYUGP.

Minimum Number of Courses
SI NO.	Name of the General Foundation Course	No. of Courses	Required Credits
1	Ability enhancement course	4	12
2	skill enhancement course	3	9
3	value added course	3	9
4	multi-disciplinary course	3	9

The four Ability Enhancement Courses
(AEC) are offered by language departments, one each in the first four semesters – two of them (AEC1 and AEC3) by English department, and the other two (AEC2 and AEC4) by Other Language departments.

The three Value Added Courses
(VAC) are also offered by language departments – the first one (VAC1) in the first semester is offered by Other Language departments, the second and third ones (VAC2 and VAC3), respectively in second and sixth semesters, are offered by English department.

Skill-Enhancement Courses
(SEC), the first one (SEC1) in the fourth semester is offered by English department. The other two SEC (SEC2 and SEC3), respectively in the fifth and sixth semesters, can be offered by all departments.

Multi-Disciplinary Course
In the first three semesters of the FYUGP, the student should learn one Multi-Disciplinary Course (MDC) each from a discipline other than the Major and Minor disciplines already chosen.The first and second MDC (MDC1 and MDC2), respectively in the first and second semesters, can be offered by all departments. The third MDC (MDC3) in the third semester is common to all the students, with Kerala-Specific content (KS), and offered by English (E) and Other Language (OL) departments. Each MDC has 3 credits.  Total 9 credits should be earned from MDC. In the case of the “Double Major pathway”, except for the four AEC, all the other nine general foundation courses will be distributed between the two Major disciplines.

1.4. Internship
All the students should undergo internships / apprenticeships in a firm, industry, or organization or training in labs with faculty and researchers in their own or other HEIs/research institutions during the summer term. Internship has 2 credits and it should be completed in the first three years of FYUGP

1.5. Project
In the fourth year of the four-year UG programme, the student has the option to do a Project of 12 credits in the chosen Major discipline to earn a UG Honours Degree in that Major. Any faculty member of the college / university / higher education institute (HEI) can guide the student for the project. Instead of the Project, in the fourth year of the four-year UG programme, the student has the option of doing three courses of total 12 credits in the chosen Major discipline to earn a UG Honours Degree in that Major. If the student opts for UG Honours with Research Degree, he/she should do a mandatory research project under the supervision of a faculty member who is a recognized research guide of the college / university / higher education institute (HEI). The detailed guidelines for the Project in UG Honours programme and UG Honours with Research Programme should be specified by the BoS in each Major discipline.

SI NO.	Categorization of Courses for all Programmes	3-year UG	4-year UG
1	major [core]	17	23
2	minor [complementary]	6	8
3	multi-disciplinary courses [MDC]	3	3
4	ability enhancement courses [SEC]	4	4
5	skill enhancement courses [SEC]	3	3
6	value-added couses [VAC]	3	3
7	summer internship/field based learning	1	1
8	research project/desertation	-	1
	Total courses	36	44(47)