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...between 'classical' and 'folk'. Further, India's shastric traditions also seem to percolate across regions and through levels of high and low culture...
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...M.Phil in Arts and Aesthetics Visual studies Rethinking Representation: Caste, Class, Gender & Race in Art Representing Culture: Art, Nations...
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...of credits 20 3rd Semester (Monsoon Semester) BT 202 Molecular Biology of Eukaryotic Systems 2 BT 214 Animal Cell Biotechnology 2 BT 208 Genetic Engineering...
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...members in the School of Biotechnology. The mission of our multi- and inter-disciplinary doctoral programme is to train outstanding students in basic and applied research...
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...an intensive training on the latest and the stand alone PCs and workstations, which, coupled with the best possible faculty, provides an ideal platform...
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...of Digital Computers Electives Programming Methodology Algorithm Analysis and Design Theory of Cot-nputation Artificial Intelligence Computer Graphics...
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Young at thirty years, as universities go, what has lent strength and energy to Jawaharlal Nehru University is the vision that ideas are a field for adventure, experimentation and unceasing quest and diversity of opinions its chief premise. In the early 1970s, when JNU opened its doors to teachers and students, frontier disciplines and new perspectives on old disciplines were brought to the Indian university system. The excellent teacher-student ratio at 1:10, a mode of instruction which encouraged students to explore their own creativity instead of reproducing received knowledge, and an exclusively internal evaluation were a new experiment on the Indian academic landscape; these have stood the test of time. The very Nehruvian objectives embedded in the founding of the University, national integration, social justice, secularism, the democratic way of life, international understanding and scientific approach to the problems of society had built into it constant and energetic endeavour to renew knowledge through self-questioning.
The once rugged terrain of the Aravali hill range, where the 1000 -acre campus is housed is now lush green. Parts of it host dense forests, sustaining a birdwatcher's paradise and some forms of wild life.
The JNU campus is a microcosm of the Indian nation, drawing students from every nook and corner of the country and from every group and stratum of society. To make sure that this is so, annual admission tests are simultaneously held at 37 centr