Anyone wishing to enrol in any undergraduate course at Aligarh Muslim University, be it Science, Humanities or Arts, will now have to be prepared to also learn Urdu. The university has made Urdu a compulsory subject for all its undergraduate courses, with credits that will be included while awarding the degree and a minimum attendance requirement of 75 per cent.
“Earlier, students had the option of studying Urdu with marks not being counted for the final degree and no minimum attendance requirement. This resulted in students not taking the subject seriously, so much so that the Head of the Urdu Department wrote to the chairman of the Academic Council expressing his distress. He put the matter of making Urdu compulsory before the Academic Council, which approved it,” said AMU spokesperson Rahat Abrar. The new provision will become effective from this academic year onwards and the students from the B.A., B.Sc. and B. Com. course will have three choices before them depending on their familiarity with the language.
“The ‘Elementary Urdu–A’ course will be for students who have studied the language at the Senior Secondary School or Intermediate level; the ‘Elementary Urdu–B’ course for students who have not studied Urdu at any level and for students belonging to the States adjoining Uttar Pradesh; while a ‘Non-Mother Tongue Urdu’ is for foreign students and for those from distant States of the country as defined in Table VI of the AMU Guide to Admission 2013-2014,” added Dr. Abrar.
The marks of the compulsory Urdu subject in the first year will be included while calculating the students’ aggregate marks. A minimum of 17 out of 50 is required to pass the subject and the students will have to clear the course by the second year to even be eligible for the degree.
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