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Botany Departments

Programme
Program and Courses

Department of Botany, Kalyani Mahavidyalaya offers both Botany Honours & General Course (only for students with Physiology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology & Biotechnology honours).
After successful completion of the three-year B.Sc. (Honours) degree program in Botany, students should be able to achieve the following objectives/ outcomes:

Program Specific Outcomes (PSO):

Knowledge Outcomes

Acquiring fundamental knowledge in Botany, including basic concepts and principles in different techniques and experimental methods, is the outcome for the students. Graduates are able to apply the acquired concepts and principles to study different branches of Botany in their future career. When a student aspires for post graduate studies, he or she can make use all the applications—field or laboratory—which he or she has gained knowledge of.

Skills Outcomes

Students acquire the following professional skills to deal with problems and situations at the undergraduate level: (1) identifying the key factors and applying appropriate principles and assumptions in solving overall problems; (2) applying appropriate analytical and approximation methods; (3) applying general experimental and measurement skills with prescribed procedures; (4) analysing experimental data and their level of uncertainty, and relating the experimental results with theoretical expectations; (6) acquiring knowledge effectively by self-study and work independently; (7) working effectively in a team; and (8) presenting information in a clear, concise and logical manner; (9) understanding own environment through Botany and utilizing Natural Resources rationally.

Attitude/Value Outcomes

Students develop some positive attitudes and values, including the following: (1) appreciation of principles and theories, and the beauties of nature through Botany; (2) awareness of the impact of diversity of plants in social, economical and environmental issues; (3) willingness to take up responsibility in field study and work; (4) confidence in his/her capabilities.

Course Outcomes (PSO):

Course-I: Students gain knowledge about the vast diversity of microbes and lower groups of organisms; their practical applications and their economic and environmental use for the sustainability of mankind and its resources.

Course-II: They soak themselves with the knowledge of diversity of higher groups of plants; their distribution, development, their uses in the society, etc. They also learn to master the art of field study in a team.

Course-III: Students acquire the knowledge of genetic and molecular basis of existence of all the organisms he/she studied in the previous courses and make use of them practically. They also learn the physiology behind their sustenance and their use as natural and ecological resources in the biosphere.

HONOURS COURSE 

                                                                          PART-I
Paper-IBiology & Diversity of Algae, Fungi and Bryophyta 
Paper-IIMicrobiology and Applied Microbiology ; Lichen and Plant Pathology 
Paper- IIIPractical 
                                                                       PART-II
Paper- IVBiology and diversity of Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms; Paleobotany & Palynology
Paper- VSystematic of Angiosperms and Morphology & Embryology 
Paper-VIPractical 
                                                                       PART-III
Paper- VIIPlant Physiology and Plant Biochemistry 
 
Paper- VIIIGenetics, Molecular Genetics and Plant Biotechnology 
Paper-IXAnatomy Plant Breeding & Biometry, Ecology & Environmental Botany and Natural Resources and their utilization 
Paper-XPractical 
Paper-XIPractical 

        GENERAL COURSE     

                                                                                  PART-I
Paper-IGroup A : Diversity of Microbes and Cryptogams
Group B : Morphology, Diversity of seed plants and Ecology
                                                                               Part-II
Paper- IIGroup A : Cytogeneties and Molecular Genetics 
Group B : Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 
Group C : Development and Reproduction in flowering plants 
Paper- IIIPractical

Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) will be introduced from the session 2018-2019.