C.R. Gowri Shanker | 25th Dec 2012 Visakhapatnam:
Engineering, languages and few other courses are a passé now in Andhra University, philosophy, yoga, MBA among others are in thing!
Along with job opportunities, demand for the courses in the famed Andhra University is fluctuating annually. Once popular Kuchipudi dance course has now gone into history along with the famed film Shankarabharanam. There are few takers for Kuchipudi dance. Similarly, few students are opting for Anthropology, Sanskrit, Hindi, and Sociology.
The university has closed Diploma courses in French, Russian since it could not get the teachers! Andhra University in-charge vice-chancellor, Prof. P. George Victor says the university would not scrap any department but use the staff for research purposes, except in exceptional cases.
University offers 60 odd courses. “Students are opting job driven courses or courses which improve job opportunities. Some gear up for multiple job chances. Many engineering graduates now prefer MBA since it gives an edge over normal graduates in bank and other jobs because of drop in IT jobs. Demand for courses is fluctuating in tune with job opportunities,” Prof. George Victor told Deccan Chronicle.
Another popular course now is diploma in Yoga. “It is a self financing course and youth are opting for it. We have intake of 30 students and the demand is going up,” he adds.
Going down the memory lane, George Victor said there was craze among young women to learn Kuchipudi dance thanks to the Telugu hit movie Shankarabharanam. in which actor Manju Bhargavi’s performed the dance. After sometime, the craze waned.
“The university business is to encourage all subjects and offer all subjects. We cannot scrap a department if the demand for a course has waned. We turn them into research,” he explained.
Barring MA English, other MA language courses like Hindi, Sanskrit, Social Work, MA Linguistics have fallen flat. In a rare instance, MA Education department has been removed while science courses continue to flourish.
Engineering, languages and few other courses are a passé now in Andhra University, philosophy, yoga, MBA among others are in thing!
Along with job opportunities, demand for the courses in the famed Andhra University is fluctuating annually. Once popular Kuchipudi dance course has now gone into history along with the famed film Shankarabharanam. There are few takers for Kuchipudi dance. Similarly, few students are opting for Anthropology, Sanskrit, Hindi, and Sociology.
The university has closed Diploma courses in French, Russian since it could not get the teachers! Andhra University in-charge vice-chancellor, Prof. P. George Victor says the university would not scrap any department but use the staff for research purposes, except in exceptional cases.
University offers 60 odd courses. “Students are opting job driven courses or courses which improve job opportunities. Some gear up for multiple job chances. Many engineering graduates now prefer MBA since it gives an edge over normal graduates in bank and other jobs because of drop in IT jobs. Demand for courses is fluctuating in tune with job opportunities,” Prof. George Victor told Deccan Chronicle.
Another popular course now is diploma in Yoga. “It is a self financing course and youth are opting for it. We have intake of 30 students and the demand is going up,” he adds.
Going down the memory lane, George Victor said there was craze among young women to learn Kuchipudi dance thanks to the Telugu hit movie Shankarabharanam. in which actor Manju Bhargavi’s performed the dance. After sometime, the craze waned.
“The university business is to encourage all subjects and offer all subjects. We cannot scrap a department if the demand for a course has waned. We turn them into research,” he explained.
Barring MA English, other MA language courses like Hindi, Sanskrit, Social Work, MA Linguistics have fallen flat. In a rare instance, MA Education department has been removed while science courses continue to flourish.
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