DU Planned courses on Art of Emotional Happiness and Intelligence

DU Planned courses on Art of Emotional Happiness and Intelligence

Post Date: August 12, 2022

As part of the Undergraduate Curriculum Framework-2022, Delhi University will introduce value-added courses on subjects like emotional intelligence, art of happiness and Indian fiction from the academic year 2024-25. The matter will now be referred to the executive council, the highest decision-making body of the university. Students may take one or more such value-added courses per semester. The recently held DU Academic Council meeting approved the proposal to launch 24 such courses aimed at developing critical thinking.

Value Added Courses Courses designed by

Some of these courses are Emotional Intelligence, Art of Happiness, Financial Literature and Ethics, Vedic Mathematics and Values of Indian Traditional Systems. These courses are designed by Value Addition Courses Committee headed by Professor N Kumar. The value-added courses are designed keeping in mind the National Policy on Education 2022.

Students will be taught how to cope with stress, maintain physical and hormonal balance by

Credits earned through these courses will be added to the student’s academic bank of credits. The courses are inspired by major campaigns launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi like Fit India and Swachh Bharat. Under the Art of Being Happy, students will be taught how to deal with stress, the physical and hormonal basis of happiness, the causes of happiness and interpersonal relationships for self-realization.

Two-credit course will be as:
In the Emotional Intelligence course, students will gain insight into building positive relationships and discover personal strengths and strategies for emotional intelligence, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.

Various components like critical thinking, empathy, teamwork etc.

This is the first time such a course has been launched in a reputed university like DU. They will act as game-changers from the point of view of social construction, – he said.
They include various elements like critical thinking, empathy, team work, scientific temperament, Indian knowledge system, moral, cultural, and constitutional values and creative writing, – Mr. Kumar told PTI.

These courses only turn a blind eye to questions of intellectual perspective

The short-sighted concept of the VAC rubric is clearly the result of a centralized initiative that does not involve the participation of faculty from all disciplines. Therefore, the teachers said that they did not get any representation in many subjects.

Seven members of the academic council dissented in the meeting held on August 3. According to dissident members, these courses address the question of intellectual tendencies that need to be nurtured in students, and consider India as a cosmopolitan place of cultural and philosophical dialogue between peoples, languages and traditions.

Students will learn about Indian principles and values

The university will introduce a course to introduce students to Indian fiction in English and to critically and analyze novels in the context of their own life situations. However, many university teachers believe that the value-added curriculum under the Undergraduate Curriculum Framework (UGCF) will “discourage critical thinking”.

Through this course, students will learn about Indian ethos and values through Indian fiction, develop creative thinking through imagination, and realize the potential of imagination to bring about social and cultural change.