The announcement was made by JNU Vice-Chancellor S. K. Sopory after the University’s Academic Council cleared the introduction of the new courses.
Mr. Sopory said: “The University will be offering three new MA programmes from the next academic session. The courses will be MA in Art History and Visual Studies; MA in Film, Television and New Media Studies; and MA in Theatre and Performance Studies,” Mr. Sopory told PTI .
The JNU V-C said the proposal had come from the Board of Studies of the School of Arts and Aesthetics in July and the preamble as well as the courses to be taught and credit requirements for the three programmes have been worked out. JNU had recently proposed a course in Indian culture and yoga as well. There was a proposal to introduce three short-term courses in yoga, vedas and jatakas .
The proposal to introduce three short-term courses in these subjects had come against the backdrop of right-wing organisations, including the RSS, insisting on propagation of culture in educational campuses to restore India’s cultural identity,
The proposal was however rejected in the meeting of Academic Council, the highest decision making body in the varsity, earlier in November.
( With Inputs from PTI )
The new courses in film and television, art history and theatre will start from the next academic session