CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT CELL

About CDC:

The KMG College of Arts and Science being an autonomy of Higher Education from the academic year of 2024 – 2025, we initiated Curriculum Development Cell (CDC) for the regular monitoring of the curriculum and syllabus. CDC is essential for an autonomous college to design and implementation of curriculum. It is the key factor for the formal education process and take initiatives in restructuring the curriculum based on the UGC norms and TANSCHE guidelines. It also accomplishing the vision of the institution into the learning community with multidisciplinary and multitasking skills. CDC functioning as a backbone in the continuous process of designing the curriculum and developing the course to provide an updated education to the students.

The Curriculum Development Cell is functioning effectively in K.M.G College of Arts and Science (Autonomous) under the guidance of the Principal as the Chairperson. In the Curriculum Development cell, in addition to chairperson four coordinators and 15 members representing the disciplines of arts and science, commerce and management.

Any reputation educational Institutions measure based on the quality of the graduating students and their output to the society. Therefore, the quality of students is predominately depended the curriculum and learning methodology of an institution. Hence curriculum has vital role in college reputation, which should monitor by a separate cell, so that there is a need for Curriculum Development Cell (CDC). The primary function of CDC is to prepare curriculum framework and design. The structure curriculum should reach the recent advance development in industry and educational scenario.

The manual of Curriculum Development Cell is a structured document that delineates the vision and mission of the institution besides with the teaching learning experiences and assessments of educational programme. In fact, it is a guide to curriculum development and assist in planning and implementing high quality instructional programme. Curriculum Development Cell is playing a vital role in the curriculum designing that involves the formulation of general course scheme and scheme of examinations for all UG, PG and Diploma courses along with the operational guidelines and also in the formulation of teaching and evaluation strategies.

Vision of the Club:

To design and develop academic programmes to provide quality education through appropriate teaching-learning method and educate the rural students to stand their own independent and responsible citizens.

Mission of the Club:

• To design the academic Programmes and Courses to provide quality education.
• To ensure the entrepreneurial and research skills in the Curriculum.
• To restructured and develop the Curriculum for sustain novelty and innovation.
• To streamline appropriate teaching, learning and evaluation process.
• To introduce new Programmes based on new emerging areas.

Objectives of the Club:

• To review and design curriculum syllabi for various programmes as per the quality policies and guidelines of the Thiruvalluvar University, TANSCHE, UGC, NAAC and other governing accreditation agencies.
• To develop advancement and sustain an ambience of novelty and innovation in curriculum.
• To promote improving quality, creativity and innovation in teaching learning methodology.
• To implement Learning Outcome Based Curriculum Framework (LOCF) effectively.
• To create a base for establishing a synergy between teaching, learning and evaluation process.
• To initiate new innovative programmes and design the curriculum based on job opportunities in the National and International arena.
• To inculcate value based education and women empowerment studies.
• To organize programmes for develop faculty skills and upgrade their knowledge in innovative teaching strategies to meet students in the emerging social challenges in backward areas.

QUALITY POLICY:

• Implement Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) with Outcome Based Education (OBE) mode effectively to cater the needs of students.
• Organize training programmes that emphasizes Competency and Outcome Based Education principles.
• Strengthen the digitalizing teaching and learning practices for global competencies.
• Design the curriculum with value based education and promote women empowerment.
• Ensuring the industry-academia interface and service are designed and implemented in the various programmes curriculum to meet requirements of stakeholders.
• Continuously evaluating the quality of teaching- learning, co-curricular and extracurricular activities to improve the learning experience by ensuring the utilization of learning resources.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To collect feedback from different stakeholders to discover the opportunities and upgrade the new programmes curriculum and syllabi, which enhance the skills of students to compete international corporate environment.
• To designing the curriculum, regulations and guidelines for all programmes with the basis of Thiruvalluvar University and TANSCHE.
• To drafting the regulations for conduction of internal assessments and end semester examinations with the collaboration of the Controller of Examinations.
• To furnishing UGC guidelines to the BOS Chairmen regarding academic regulations.
• To organize academic - industry meet for identification of knowledge and skill required for employability in private and public sectors.

CDC FUNCTIONS:

Curriculum Development Cell have few primary functions, such as develop institution goals which reflect the vision and mission, based on the goals form programme outcomes and programme specific outcomes, with the reflection of programme outcome design the course and course outcomes. These courses should get approval in concern board of studies followed by academic council. Finally, the course implemented in the curriculum and collect the feedback from different stakeholders. Based on stakeholders feedbacks, recent advanced development and market demand reconstruct the curriculum with necessary modifications.

Composition:

The CDC shall consist of the following members:

CURRICULUM DESIGN AND APPROVAL PROCESS:

CDC design the programme outcomes and curriculum with the reflection of institution vision and mission. The curriculum passed in the board of studies after the approval it has been subjected in academic council for approval to implementation. CDC collect the feedbacks from different stakeholders based on the feedback, exit survey and academic audit the curriculum restructured to fulfill the requirement of job opportunities in the global environment.

REGULATIONS AND SCHEMES: