Botany B.Sc
About the Program
The new curriculum of B.Sc. in Science (Botany) offers essential knowledge and technical skills to study plants in a holistic manner. Students would be trained in all areas of plant biology using a unique combination of core, elective and vocational papers with significant inter-disciplinary components.
Students would be exposed to cutting-edge technologies that are currently used in the study of plant life forms, their evolution and interactions with other organisms within the ecosystem. Students would also become aware of the social and environmental significance of plants and their relevance to the national economy.
B.Sc. Botany Programme covers academic activities within the classroom sessions along with practical concepts at laboratory sessions. Infield, outstation activities and projects are also required to be organized for real-life experience and learning.
Candidates who have curiosity in plants kingdom, ecosystem, love exploring exotic places and wish to work as researchers or professions like Botanist, Conservationist, Ecologist, etc. can choose B.Sc. Botany course.
Key Information
Programme Objectives
- Programme outcomes (POs):
- Transformed curriculum shall develop educated outcome-oriented candidature, fostered with discovery- learning, equipped with practice & skills to deal practical problems and versed with recent pedagogical trends in education including e-learning, flipped class and hybrid learning to develop into responsible citizen for nation-building and transforming the country towards the future with their knowledge gained in the field of plant science.
- PO 1
- CBCS syllabus with a combination of general and specialized education shall introduce the
- concepts of breadth and depth in learning
- PO2
- Shall produce competent plant biologists who can employ and implement their gained knowledge in basic and applied aspects that will profoundly influence the prevailing paradigm
- of agriculture, industry, healthcare and environment to provide sustainable development.
- PO 3
- Will increase the ability of critical thinking, development of scientific attitude, handling of problems and generating solutions, improve practical skills, enhance communication skill, social interaction, increase awareness in judicious use of plant resources by recognizing the
- ethical value system.
- PO 4
- The training provided to the students will make them competent enough for doing jobs in Govt. and private sectors of academia, research and industry along with graduate preparation for national as well as international competitive examinations, especially UGC-CSIR NET,
- UPSC Civil Services Examination, IFS, NSC, FCI, BSI, FRI etc.
- PO 5
- Certificate and diploma courses are framed to generate self- entrepreneurship and self-
- employability, if multi exit option is opted.
- PO 6
- Lifelong learning be achieved by drawing attention to the vast world of knowledge of plants
- and their domestication.
