Lucknow: In line with the newly-adopted National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the Lucknow University has introduced concepts related to the novel coronavirus pandemic in the four-year undergraduate course.
This is aimed at teaching students about the present scenario and also the upcoming challenges. The syllabus has been approved by their respective boards of studies and the faculty board. This will be tabled at the academic council meeting for final approval on July 17.
“Our four-year UG courses focus on providing student employability at every step, hence, concepts which are the need of the hour have been included. For the first time, we will be teaching school mental health that will include studying and researching about the mental health of both teachers and students,” psychology coordinator Archana Shukla was quoted as saying by news agency IANS.
According to Shukla, the pandemic has raised the stress and anxiety levels in every age group and both, mental health and stress, have been included to provide better employability to students.
Similarly, the students will be taught about the health care system, especially with respect to the COVID-19 in social work department.
“To make the course job-oriented we have focused more on field work in our new UG syllabus. For learning a concept, a student has to go among the people to explore and find out challenges. We will be teaching the health care system in which we will teach about the organisation of the people, institutions and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations at the time of the pandemic,” social work department head, Prof Anoop Kumar Bhartiya was quoted as saying by the news agency.
Political science courses also saw changes in syllabus with respect to the current scenario. “In the new syllabus, we have focused on the changed scenario. We have one paper on contemporary global issues that talks about how international politics is going to change after the pandemic,” a senior faculty member said.
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