Advancement of Learning
As University of Calcutta is one of the oldest higher educational institutions in India, it has always been associated with innovation and quality education. The primary aim is to maintain its high standards of modernisation and to provide transformative training to the learners so that they can face any goal and any challenge in their professional and moral lives.
To nurture innovation and contemporary ideas and ideals, to promote scholarship of the highest standards, to support research that contributes to the betterment of the country and the world in totality and to maintain value education that will create the citizens of tomorrow. The human learning targets to inculcate the following values in the learners: Excellence, Responsibility, Analytical Capability, Integrity and kindness.
To create a bridge between lived experiences and academia, to expand horizons of the learners, to engage all stakeholders in a transparent dialogue-based system, to maintain internal structure with the highest possible efficiency, to encourage all sections of society to engage in learning, to continue dialogue with scholars and researchers from all over the globe, to recognize and support diversity, to build an alumni base and to promote environmental awareness.
As per the goal of the University, each course is set with a clearly defined objective and each aim to impart a specific knowledge base or skill set to the learners. The Departments take great care in designing their specific syllabus for the specific course and blend the traditional with the modern in their approaches. While the general aim is to equip the learners with employability skills and analytical prowess, each specific course is designed with specific outcomes in mind. These outcomes are assessed through traditional systems of examination and through interactions and academic programmes of different kinds. The departments ensure that the courses allow the students to develop skills in comprehension of their subjects, create a proper knowledge base, have the power to synthesize and integrate the knowledge received into demands made in application, and face any and all challenges. The examination system is designed in such a way that the learners can demonstrate what they have learnt and how far they can utilize the learning in their professional lives.
The traditional examination systems are employed in measuring the POs, PSOs and COs. Different Departments follow different methods. Some focus on pen and paper tests along with verbal testing within the classroom. Some focus on Practical and Laboratorybased Examinations to assess and evaluate. Certain Departments use academic programmes, such as Student Seminars, and Student Papers to measure the Programme Outcomes. While Course Outcomes are quite efficiently measured by the examination system, Programme Specific Outcomes often are reflected in the further progression of the individual learner. The Departments actively encourage the students to perform within and outside the classroom, and the institution, in order to allow the learner to self-assess the skills required to survive in the professional world. In many departments engagement in academic life takes the shape of presentations by students who are selected through a rigorous system. As the entire goal of the University is to develop skills and impart knowledge, such Departmental measurements are vital to the entire structure.
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