The Right Choice | BA Honours Versus BA Programme? Experts explain | Education News,The Indian Express
BA Honours is perceived to be more "rigorous". So what explains the sudden spike in BA Programme's popularity?
(‘The Right Choice’ is a series by The Indian Express that addresses common questions, misconceptions, and doubts surrounding undergraduate admissions. You can read the stories here.)
It’s a choice that plagues lakhs of undergraduate applicants every year — BA Honours or BA Programme.
BA programme is seen to be generic, while BA (Honours) is more “rigorous”. But is this perception misplaced? And is one better than the other?
According to Chandrachur Singh, Associate Professor of Political Science at the Hindu College affiliated with Delhi University (DU), who teaches both Honours and BA programme students, the difference between the two arts programmes is “largely structural”.
“While the honours programme is more specialised and focuses on a particular subject (eg: BA Honours History or BA Honours Political Science), the multidisciplinary one (BA Programme) is in which they will have more general knowledge from two or three subjects. The quality is essentially the same because the teachers who teach a subject for both programmes come from the same department. The pedagogy and syllabus for the subject is also framed by the specific department,” he told The Indian Express.
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