The BSS (Honors) Program in Development Studies shall be of four years duration and divided into 8 (eight) semesters. Each semester shall be of 19 weeks, of which 15 weeks will be for class teaching, 1-week break for preparation, and 3 weeks for holding the semester final examination.

The program shall include the teaching of 32-course units for a total of 3200 marks, which will be translated into 128 credit hours. The total credit hours shall be evaluated on the basis of 3200 total marks, of which 3000 marks shall be for 30 taught course units, 2 taught courses for 200 marks (4 credit hours assigned to each course), 100 marks for field research/ project work/ internship, (4 credit hours) and 100 marks for a written and oral comprehensive examination with 4 credit hours assigned against it, in the 8th (eighth) semester. However, any particular department may opt for an additional full unit taught course in lieu of the field research monograph/ project work/ internship.

Here would be 100 marks for field research/project work/internship, and 100 marks for written and oral comprehensive examinations. Each full unit course shall be 100 marks and the half unit course shall be of 50 marks.

Since the credit hours are counted on the basis of lecture class /contact hours per week, the number of lecture classes/contact hours shall be determined according to the credits assigned to each course unit. For a 4-credit course unit, there shall be two lecture classes of 90 minutes each, and one 60 minutes discussion class/ tutorial class/ lab work/group presentation/ class test every week. For a 2 credit course unit, there shall be one lecture class of 60 minutes each, and one 60 minutes discussion class/ tutorial class/ lab work/ group presentation/ class test every week.