Programme means the entire course of study and examinations for the award of a degree. Duration of an undergraduate programme is six semesters distributed in a period of 3 years. An academic week is a unit of five working days in which distribution of work is organized from Monday to Friday with five contact periods of one hour duration on each day. A sequence of 18 such weeks (16 instructional weeks and two weeks for examination) constitutes a semester Course means a segment of subject matter to be covered in a semester. The undergraduate programme includes 5 types of courses, viz., common courses, core courses, complementary courses, open course and audit course. Common courses include English and additional language courses. Every undergraduate student shall undergo 10 common courses [6 English courses and 4 additional language courses] for completing the programme. Core courses comprise compulsory course in a subject related to a particular degree programme offered by the parent department. There are 18 core courses including a project work. Complementary courses cover two disciplines that are related to the core subject and are distributed in the first four semesters. There shall be one open course in the 5th semester. Students can opt one open course of their choice offered by any department in the institution other than their parent department.