Curriculum Development & Implementation @ St.Ann’s
Curriculum design at St.Ann’s is always a purposeful &perpetual process embedding need based innovations & improvements in the system to make learning an enriching experience. Keeping in mind the demands of the society, St.Ann’s prioritises Core competency, Inter disciplinary knowledge, Professional, Communication & Employable skills as curricular attributes and design the curriculum to meet it’s vision –Academic excellence, skill enhancement and value enrichment to help the girl student embark on life’s journey as an empowered woman.
The institution adopts Outcome based approach and the curriculum is geared to match the goals aspiring from local, regional to National and Global relevance.Program outcomes have been designed to be in alignment with industry demands. Program and course outcomes have been developed to reflect future needs of society and meet needs of local and global population. Curriculum has been designed to create a skilled work force that meets local and global need of the industry.
Curriculum development processes whetted on a continual basis on following lines regularly
- Review of Stakeholders’ suggestions
- Revision of curricular contents/methodologyafter due diligence
- Update aligned with Cos/Pos/PSOs
Faculty play a major roles in assessing curriculum by inviting the necessary inputs in from all the stakeholders, collaborating with IT and other industries understandand identify the pertinent components towards reform initiatives to guarantee diversified education.
Highlights
- Academic excellence through Choice based courses under core and non-core courses
- Women Empowerment instilling leadership qualitiesthrough various inter and intra collegiate activities at state & national levelstowards the quest for nation building
- Fostering global competency by integrating industry exposure and experiential learning at possible levels
- Academic enrichment by integrating value addition through
- Courses on Gender, human values and Professional ethics& Indian Knowledge system
- Training and course towards Skill and entrepreneur development
- Research, field project and hands-on training
- ICT Integration to modernize the education system
- Holistic education by integrating healthy practices under Co-curricular activities awakening social consciousness in the young learners
Main features
- Outcome based curriculum
- Choice Based Credit system
- Courses to focus at Cross cutting issues
- Exposure to industry through field project, internships
- Skill enhancement through SOC/COC courses
- Inter disciplinary knowledge through IDC
- Sensitization towards environment/Society/People around through CCA
- Awareness and training on health and fitness through Physical education/Yoga/
- Personality development through inter collegiate/intra collegiate cultural/literary and academic competitions
- Comprehensive mastery of e-learning & online learning technologies to reinforce learning
- Start-up/entrepreneur development through IIC activities
Implementation of Outcome Based Education has allowed St. Ann’s to critically analyse all course offerings with respect to various graduate attributes and cognitive levels. Although the college is governed by the academic policies of its parent University i.e. Osmania University, autonomous status allows for ample redesign of existing course content and introduction of new Programs/ Courses with necessary approvals.
New programs and courses have been initiated to cater to evolving Global needs in domains like Data Analytics, Dietetics etc. Skill enhancement courses are being offered by all departments to equip students with hands on skills and cater to local industry needs. Courses like Medical coding, Python, Journalism and Anchoring arc fulfilling regional employment needs.
The Institutional Curriculumis observed to be fostering ovation and promoted diversity and inclusivity,under 37 Programmes catering to local/regional/national and global needs benefiting 3500 plus students per batch.