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Guidelines for Curriculum and Planning of Academic Session for AY 2021-22
In the context of the University embarking on the journey of JAIN 2.0 and transformation of
curriculum including teaching-learning and evaluation methods (TLEP) in the light of new
opportunities and challenges of the emerging higher education landscape including the
initiative of Academic Bank of Credit (ABC), the following additional guidelines are issued.,
to facilitate for curriculum review by the Boards of Studies and the planning to be
undertaken by the Departments.
I. Minimum and Offered Credit Units:
JAIN (Deemed-to-be University) will, considering regulatory requirements, define
minimum credit units that are required for the award of a degree/ qualification but
offer about 10% more so that to some extent, courses in which student struggle to pass,
can be ignored and they can still earn minimum credits required for award of a degree.
UG Programmes:
Programme Min Credit Units
(CU) Required
Min Credits to be
offered
CU (Core + Discipline
Specific Electives)
CU (GE,
AECC,SEC
3Y BA/BSc/
BBA/BCom
132 Up to 148 75-80% 20-25%
3Y (Hons)
programmes
148 Up to 162 75-80% 20-25%
4Y
B Tech/B Des
160 Up to 176 75-80% 20-25%
4Y Hons/
Minor Spl.
180 Up to 198 75-80% 20-25%
PG Programmes:
Programme Minimum Credit
Units Required
MinimumCredits
to be offered
Credit Units for
Core + Electives
Credit Units for
Projects +
Open Electives
2Y MBA 102 Up to 115 40%+35% Min 15%+10%
2Y MCA 100 Up to 110 40%+35% Min 15%+10%
2Y MSc/
MA/M Com
90 Up to 100 40%+35% Min 15%+10%
2Y M Tech 68 Up to 75 40%+35% Min 15%+10%
II. Planning for Contact Hours for the given Credit Units in a Programme:
Following example of any stream of B Tech Programme explains the point:
Total credit units 160
Credits offered 176
Theory Credits 130 Total Hours 130X15 = 1950
Practical/ Lab 46 Total Hours 40X30 = 1380 (1 CU for Practicals = 2 hrs)
Total Hours 3330
Average per Semester Hours = 3330/ 8 = 417
Per week hours (effective 15-week semester) = 417/15= 26-28 hours
Similar calculations can be made for other programmes as per credit units offered for
UG and PG programmes by the University in para-I.

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III. Different Categories of Courses to be part of the New Curriculum (All are required to
radically re-think the Curriculum and prepare TLEPs accordingly)
For UG (4-Years) as per CBCS
1. Core Courses: As required for the programme and to include English-1 of 4 credit units
and English -2 of 4 credits units including Communicative English. Core Courses to also
include the other languages Hindi/ Sanskrit/ Kannada/ Addl. English (for those who did
not opt for Indian language in 10+2) – 2 courses of 4 credit units each under core
courses.
2. Discipline Specific Electives: As required for any programme. This will include all
projects under project centric learning and as well as other projects. The projects under
Project Centric Learning in the first year (in semester 1 and 2) will also include alongside
a compulsory course on “Fundamentals of Innovation and venture development
entrepreneurship” and therefore, these two will have 3 credit units each. This course
will be delivered through i4 Centre @ JAIN/ LinkedIn modules/ both. Course details are
given in Annexure-A at the end. In subsequent semesters these projects will have 2
credit units each. The programmes having a course on “Entrepreneurship” under this
or any other such title, will now not be required and should be removed from courses
matrices.
3. Generic Electives (GE): Open elective – 5 courses of 3 credit units each from semester
3-7 with total 15 Credit units.
4. AECC: To include Environmental Studies of 4 credit units and Constitutional Values of 3
Credit with total 7 credit units.
5. SEC: To include Mind Management & Human Values (including assessment of learnings
through ECAs and CCAs) – 3 credit units in semester 1 and 2 each and 2 credit units
each from semester 3 – 7 making total 3X2 + 2X5 or 16 credit units
6. Total credit units under 4, 5 and 6 above are 15+7+16 = 38 which is 21.6% of 176 and
about 20% of 198 (in case of 4 year UG and its Honours programme).
For UG (3-Years) as per CBCS
1. Core Courses: To include English-1 of 4 credit units and English -2 of 4 credits units
including Communicative English. Core Courses to also include the other languages
Hindi/ Sanskrit/ Kannada/ Addl. English (for those who did not opt for Indian language
in 10+2) – 2 courses of 4 credit units each under core courses.
2. Discipline Specific Electives: To include all projects under project centric learning and
other projects. The projects in the first year (in semester 1 and 2) will also include
alongside a compulsory course on “Fundamentals of Innovation and venture
development entrepreneurship” and therefore, these two will have 3 credit units each.
This course will be delivered through i4 Centre @ JAIN/ LinkedIn modules/ both. Course
details are given in Annexure-A at the end. In subsequent semesters these projects will
have 2 credit units each. The programmes having a course on “Entrepreneurship”
under this or any other such title, will now not be required and should be removed
from courses matrices.
3. Generic Electives (GE): Open elective – 4 courses of 3 credit units each from semester
3-6 i.e., total 12 Credit units
4. AECC: To include Environmental Studies of 4 credit units and Constitutional Values of 3
Credit – total 7 credit units

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5. SEC: To include Mind Management & Human Values (including assessment of learnings
through ECAs and CCAs) – 3 credit units in semester 1 and 2 each and 2 credit units
each from semester 3 – 5 i.e., total 3X2 + 2X3 = 12 credit units
6. Total credit units under 4, 5 and 6 above are 12+7+12 = 31 which is 21% of 148 and
about 20% of 162.
For PG Programmes:
1. Core Courses (Hard) – Compulsory with approximately 40% weightage
2. Core Courses (Soft) – Electives with approximately 35% weightage
3. Projects – 16 credit units and Internships/ dissertations – Minimum 15% weightage and
these will synthesize the learnings from Hard and Soft courses mentioned above.
4. All projects under project centric learning along with other projects will be under this
category. The projects in the first year (in semester 1 and 2) will include a compulsory
course (alongside) on “Fundamentals of Innovation and venture development
entrepreneurship” and therefore, these two will have 3 credit units each. This course
will be delivered through i4 Centre @ JAIN/ LinkedIn modules/ both. Course details are
given in Annexure-A at the end. In subsequent semesters these projects will have 2
credit units each. The programmes having a course on “Entrepreneurship” under this or
any other such title, will now not be required and should be removed from courses
matrices.
5. Open Electives – from other disciplines having – 9 credit units (3X3) with approximately
10% weightage.
IV. Important Points for Annual Academic Calendar:
1. Each semester to be of 16 weeks (minimum of 90 working days) and additional 2 weeks
for examinations per semester
2. Winter Break of one week (December 25 – January 1 next year)
3. Orientation and bridge course – 3 weeks as recommended by the UGC
4. Miscellaneous including spill-over, if any, of examinations – 2 weeks
5. There should be a summer term of 10 weeks which can be divided in two parts.
Summer-1 and Summer-2 each of 5 weeks with 4 weeks of classes and one week of
examinations during each.
6. Summer-1 will have classes and examinations for odd semester backlogs and summer-2
will have classes and examinations of even semester backlogs.
7. Summer terms will be utilized for clearing the backlogs (up to 3 courses maximum in
each term), caused either due to a student being debarred from End Semester
Examinations or having appeared but failed. These summer terms can also be utilised
by students for improving the Continuous Assessment marks. The classes conducted
during these terms will attract payment of prescribed tuition fees per course (or per
credit) and re-examination fees.
8. Those who appeared in examinations and failed, can take only re-examination during
these terms and they will pay only the prescribed re-examination fees.
9. Summer terms 1 and 2 can be counted towards total working days in an academic year.
10. Either summer-1 or summer 2 can be utilized for vacation/ leave for faculty members.
11. These 10 weeks can also be utilized for summer internship, wherever required as per
course or programme matrices.
12. The summer terms can also be utilized for additional credit units to be earned by the
students, when we offer it as part of Academic Bank of Credits.

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V. Promotion of Students from Year to Year:
1. For promotion from year to year, all those students who have not been debarred from
taking examinations in any course during the year due to shortage of attendance or any
other reason may be allowed to register for the next year considering that they have
undergone the required courses and continuous assessment.
2. Those students who are debarred from taking the End Semester Examinations due to
shortage of attendance will be required to make-up the deficiency during the
immediately following summer-1 and summer-2 terms by repeating the courses.
3. Those students who are debarred from taking the End Semester Examinations due to
shortage of attendance and could not attend summer terms or failed in summer term
examinations, will still have remedy of clearing the backlogs through Guided Self-study
courses (GSSCs) as described under the next point.
It should be noted that the permission to register for the next semester is conditional and
subject to fulfilment of conditions for award of degree, as provided in relevant regulations
and guidelines. Also, the attendance norms for summer-1 and summer-2 will be as
applicable to normal semesters. The facility of classes and examinations during the summer
terms and GSSCs are with the aim of providing students opportunities for make-up of
deficiencies and incentivise active participation in classes.
In addition, this approach will motivate faculty members to make classes innovatively
engaging and interesting to attract students to participate. It is strongly recommended that
the courses in a programme should be such that basics/ fundamental concepts are not
compromised but they find application in subsequent courses. There should not be
excessive number of courses covering the basics/ fundamental concepts. Excessive number
of such courses may on one hand, create repetitions without any application and on the
other, consume too much of time creating disinterest and alienation among students.
VI. Make-Up through Guided Self-Study Courses (GSSCs)
1. Each School/ Department will prescribe “Guided Self Study Course (GSSC)” for the
course units in which the students failed or are detained due to shortage of attendance
and they did not attend summer terms or could not pass even in summer terms. The
faculty member assigned for the GSSC will prepare and issue a detailed teaching-
learning and evaluation plan (TLEP) for the course and send a copy to the HOD, Head of
the School and COE. Such students shall apply within one week of commencement of
the semester, at the end of which such examinations are scheduled to be held, along
with payment of prescribed fee for GSSC and re-examination. The GSSC will include
counselling/ class sessions for the students which may be scheduled on week-ends and
holidays, if felt necessary, during the same semester.
2. The School/ Departments may prescribe term papers and other assignments to be
completed as part of GSSC (for continuous assessment) and students will be evaluated
on the same as per assessment scheme prescribed in the TLEP. Faculty members should
ensure that the standard of evaluation and levels of course outcomes will be the same
as in case of main semester/ examinations.
3. The regularity in attending the counselling sessions and timely submission of
assignments etc. as per TLEP will determine whether a debarred or detained candidate
can be permitted to take the re-examination or not.

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4. Those students who do not apply and do not register for Guided Self Study Course will
not be permitted to take the re-examination. They may however, follow the same
procedure in the subsequent semester when such re-examinations are scheduled.
VII. Mind Management & Human Values (MMHV):
This is perhaps the most important and unique course for students of Undergraduate
programmes at JAIN Deemed-to-be University). It will be offered by Human Networking
Academy (HNA) at JAIN and its operationalization will be as follows:
1. First and second semesters will have MMHV-1 and MMHV-2 respectively of 3 credits
units each. The approved teaching-learning and evaluation plans (TLEPs) of these two
courses will also include/ integrate assessment of learnings through Extra Curricular
Activities (ECAs) and Co-curricular Activities (CCAs), as part of Continuous Assessment
(CA) of these two courses, as per the following Rubrics:
2. For third, fourth and fifth Semesters (for 3-year UG programme), MMHV-3, MMHV-4
and MMHV-5 will be offered respectively having 2 credit units each. The TLEP of each of
these courses will include one full-day inputs (to reinforce semester 1 and 2) through
impactful workshops/ panel discussions/ special lectures/ demonstrations/ poster
competitions and practice sessions and assessment of learnings through Extra Curricular
Activities (ECAs) and Co-curricular Activities (CCAs), as per the Rubrics given under point
1 above. In addition to the faculty members, inputs from faculty mentors will also be
sought through the rubrics.
3. In a 4-year UG programme, for third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Semesters, MMHV-
3, MMHV-4, MMHV-5, MMHV-6 and MMHV-7 will be offered respectively having 2
credit units each. The TLEP of each of these courses will include one full-day inputs (to
reinforce semester 1 and 2) through impactful workshops/ panel discussions/ special
lectures/ demonstrations/ poster competitions and practice sessions and assessment of
learnings through Extra Curricular Activities (ECAs) and Co-curricular Activities (CCAs), as
per the Rubrics given under point 1 above. In addition to the faculty members, inputs
from faculty mentors will also be sought through the rubrics.

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4. During the mandatory orientation programme, the students will be thoroughly briefed
about these courses and the assessment scheme throughout the programme.
5. Also, in the beginning of the programme, ideally during the student orientation itself), all
the faculty members of the University will be trained/ oriented towards supervision of
students during conduct of MMHV courses taking help of online classes for multiple
batches simultaneously across University. For example, the methods can be used for
practicing the breathing exercises with faculty member instructing from one place and
all faculty members supervising students in classes in their respective campuses.
6. Some modules/ topics of the MMHV courses can also be delivered through online
synchronous and Online A-synchronous modes as indicated in respective TLEPs.
MMHV courses will integrate all other courses/ modules offered with the objective of soft-
skill development among students in the process of man-making, emphasized in the Choice
Based Credit System (CBCS) of the UGC.
Conduct and assessment of MMHV courses, if implemented and practiced in a mission
mode by everyone in the University, will bring unparalleled benefits to students wherein
curiosity is not suppressed, inquisitiveness is encouraged, excitement and dynamism are
created, learning is expedited, intellectual debates, deliberations, creativity and innovation
become the routine, mutual respect, mindfulness and resourcefulness are inculcated but
everyone remains aware of limits of mannerism, civility and sensitivity towards every living
being, the community, the society, the nation and the environment.

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Annexure-A: