Human Value & Professional Ethics
Patna College is an epitome of education in the eastern part of the country. Its curriculum is especially designed to come serve the students socially, culturally and professionally. From the time immemorial it has been working as a centre for minimizing the disparities caused due to prolonged existence & following of ill-norms of the society relating to gender biasness & sensitizing the people towards environmental sustainability and transmitting the values, ethics in moulding the young minds towards being responsible citizens in nation building. Some of the programmes are BBA, BCA, BMC and even in regular courses like Philosophy, Economics, Sociology, English and Hindi topics mentioned above have been taught in raising consciousness in a positive manner. Besides these particular programmes, syllabus revision has been undertaken from time to time to integrate value added courses across different programmes offered by the University.
In the new CBCS Syllabus introduced in 2018 the ability Enhancement Compulsory Courses (AECC) includes the subjects of gender sensitization, environmental sustainability, human values and professional ethics. However, a part from their specific interventions by the University, these areas also occur as topics in different courses of different programmes. The Courses on human values and professional ethics, gender sensitivity, environmental studies are embedded in the curricula of all UG Programmes also.
Many programmes of Humanities and Social Sciences have courses comprising
environment, gender, human values and ethics like BA (Philosophy) have courses on human rights &
feminism; Gandhian Thought, Vivekanand, Socrates, Applied Ethics, Logical and Political Philosophy.
BA (English) has major focus on feminism as a part of syllabus too, Apart from it has Eco criticism &
Dalit study ect.
Apart from its presence in these areas, these topics also from an important part of the syllabus in different courses and different programmes as well. Mainly, these topics are embedded in the curricula of all UG programmes.
Moreover, a separate Gender Sensitization Cell has been constituted at the college level to deal with the gender related issues, soughting out problems, provide justice and instilling gender equity among the students.
In the second and third year syllabus of the students belonging to economics dept. at UG level, a large chunk of the syllabus covers the topics of environmental study and its sustainability, conservation and preservation through market mechanism.
Special lectures, conferences and seminars are held frequently for better culture enhancement, spreading the feeling of brotherhood, market for different caste & religion, opposite genders, trans-genders for a good formation of society enhance each and every stakeholder learns to live in harmony and contribute the nation in the best way possible.