4 a) Course Work: All scholars, including in-service one, shall have to do a ‘Course Work’ which will be treated as a prerequisite for the M.Phil./Ph.D. programme for which they shall have to meet the minimum requirement of 75% attendance during the Course Work offered by the Department/Centre/Faculty concerned and will be required to complete the course work within the prescribed duration of one semester, as the case may be. However, such a scholar with M.Phil. programme of at least three semester duration, will be exempted from Course Work while pursuing Ph.D. programme, fulfilling conditions laid down in the Ordinance.

The course work shall be of 16 credits, which may consist of the following:

(i) A specially designed course of one semester duration offered by the Department/Centre/Faculty concerned, which should include four courses of four credit each. One of these shall be a course on research methodology, which may include quantitative/qualitative methods and computer application and other three courses shall be on subject-specific advanced level.

(ii) One of the four course can be a term paper with a seminar component, all to be evaluated by RAC. The details and the modalities of (i) and (ii) above, for each scholar, shall be decided by the concerned BoS/CoS.

Courses Offered:

• Introduction to Arab Studies

• Research Methedology

• Seminar component

• History of Islam and Islamic Civilization