IIT-Gandhinagar to Offer Humanities Course

Gujarat: Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) will offer humanities courses. IIT-Gn is all set to introduce a new curriculum that will devote 25 % of academics into humanities. The step is taken amid concerns about the shortage of well-rounded students passing out from technical institutions.

Professor Sudhir Jain, IIT-Gn Director has said that they are finalizing the curriculum. He informed that it will be in place by July when the new academic session begins. According to a statement issued by Professor Sudhir Jain, if I am a mechanical engineer and I am strong in basics, then I will get a chance to learn much more from colleagues and superiors once I start working. But I will never get a chance to learn philosophy or literature unless I learn it in college. He added that they want to offer their students that opportunity.

As per sources, the new curriculum will divide academics into four parts - humanities, basic sciences, core subjects and electives. This will be a departure from the curricula in other, older IITs where courses apart from core technical subjects occupy much less weightage in their grade systems.

(Source: www.indianexpress.com)