Minor/Micro
Micro-Credits
Micro-Credit courses are one credit courses having duration of 3‐14 days offered during the semester or during evening or free slots available during weekdays or even weekends that are not declared holidays in some special cases when students are available.
The subject will be counted for total credit requirement for completion of degree in special cases subject to recommendation of the Head and approval of concerned Academic Dean with due reasons recorded.
The subject and grade will be mentioned in transcript / grade card and will be used to compute CGPA for additional subjects and will be shown as ACGPA. Failures will be marked by F grade. There will be no supplementary examination for such subjects. In the case of failure in the micro-credit subject, the student should repeat the micro-credit subject if offered in the next offered semester. The student is permitted to take alternate micro-credit subject if the subject is not offered in the next semester. (Senate Item 321.A.I.C.1).
Grade revision for Micro-Credit Courses is not permitted. (Senate Item 333.C.I.C.1).
However, in case the micro-credit is accepted as a subject contributing to the curricular requirement, it will be accounted for in the CGPA calculations.
A student is normally not expected to take more than 2 such courses in a semester. The subject may also be a part of minor and micro‐specialization.
The students can register for Micro-credit subjects with EAA as backlog (Senate Item 322.H.I.C.6).
Minor in a Discipline
A department would offer a MINOR in a discipline in which it offers a major. The department would enlist a set of subjects from its curriculum and prescribe a requirement for minor taking six subjects or more (18-24 contact-hours plus 3-9 hours of laboratory) from this set. The subjects would be a combination of mostly core and some electives.
Students aspiring for a Minor in a discipline must register for the same in the beginning of the 5th semester. Only those students, who have a CGPA of 7.5 or above, without any Backlog, will be permitted to register for a Minor. An SGPA or CGPA in excess of 8.0 has to be maintained in the subsequent semesters without any Backlog in order to keep the Minor registration active. Should both the SGPA and CGPA fall below 8.0 at any point after registering for the minor; the Minor registration will cease to be active.
A student registered for Minor in a discipline must register and pass in all subjects that constitute the requirement for a minor and score a minimum grade point average of 6.00 to be awarded a Minor in that discipline.
A student may cover these six subjects as either a depth subject, elective subject or a breadth subject or as additional credits. However, he/she has to take at least three subjects as additional credits to earn a minor.
Students enrolled in Dual Degree, Integrated M.Sc. and B.Arch. (Hons.) are permitted to pursue minor in other discipline up to their 10th Semester, while the students of B.Tech.(Hons.) should complete the minor requirements by 8th semester.
The students can register for Minor with EAA as backlog (Senate Item 322.H.I.C.6).
Micro – Specialization
The Institute offers Micro-Specializations to UG students. The salient features are as follows:
Each Micro-Specialization has a defined structure in terms of three sequential components:
Component-I – One Foundation Course (2-4 credits) that constitutes a Mandatory Requirement and also a Pre-Requisite for subsequent Components.
Component-II- One/Two subjects (3-4 credits each) from a Specified list of subjects.
Component-III- Project/Design/Term Paper (4 credits) OR one subject (4 credits) from a Specified list.
A Student would be required to complete 3-4 subjects (10-14 credits) from the specified list in order to earn a Micro-Specialization.
The subjects can be taken through the Breadth/Open Elective component of the curriculum or as Additional Subjects. If specified in the Micro-Specialization curriculum, the subject can also be taken as Micro-Credit/s.
A student has to register for a Micro-Specialization. The Registration can be done in the beginning of any Semester beyond first year.
In order to register for a Micro-Specialization the student must have completed all curricular requirements upto the previous semester and have a CGPA ≥ 7.0. Thereafter the student must maintain a CGPA or SGPA ≥ 7.5 without any Backlog in the subsequent semesters to keep the Micro-Specialization registration active.
GPA for the subjects contributing to the Micro-Specialization will be separately calculated. A minimum GPA of 6.00 is essential to earn the Micro-Specialization.
The students can register for Micro-Specialization subjects with EAA as backlog (Senate Item 322.H.I.C.6).