The Department of Sanskrit, Bharati College offers following courses:
B.A. Honours in Sanskrit and B.A. Program in Sanskrit.
The department also offers Generic Elective courses to the students of other departments which are of interdisciplinary nature and intend to enrich students in an additional field of study. They include, Indian Culture and Social Issues; Individual, Family and Community in Indian Social Thought; Fundamentals of Indian Philosophy; and Basic Principles of Indian Medicine System (Ayurveda). The department also offers Sanskrit as MIL for all undergraduate students.
The discipline of Sanskrit is highly diversified. The focus of the curriculum is mainly on: Literature (classical and modern), Paninian Grammar, Indian Philosophy, Indian Culture, Indian Logic and Science of Debate, Sanskrit Linguistics, Vedic Literature, Aesthetics, Theatre and Poetics, Dharmashastra, Epigraphy and Paleography, Ancient Indian Polity, Computational Sanskrit, Personality Development and Script Writing. We attempt to enable students to appreciate different forms and genres of literature and to become aware of the rich intellectual traditions of India.
Sanskrit is offered in different forms as an Honours course where students read at least twenty papers in Sanskrit; as a Programme course where students study lesser number of papers in Sanskrit and as a Generic Elective subject for students from other disciplines. The Sanskrit Honours and Programme syllabus has a two pronged objectives – to introduce students to a variety of traditional disciplines in Sanskrit studies and to strengthen their knowledge of the language.
The programme specific outcomes for B.A. (Hons) Sanskrit students include the following:
The programme specific outcomes for B.A. (Program) Sanskrit students include the following:
This programme will help students acquire the following skills: