Student also gets basic knowledge in the core areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Computers and Science & Technology as there are some compulsory foundation courses. As there is a minimum component of application-oriented courses, student is exposed to vocational/professional expertise. Students have the opportunity to develop skills in computers by selecting computer courses. Besides elective course in commerce there is flexibility to choose courses from a wide range of other disciplines. Teaching is done through an innovative multi-media.
IGNOU BCom Eligibility
Students without a formal qualification of 10+2 or its equivalent can also seek admission. A student of another University can seek admission to this programme on the basis of credits obtained by him/her from that University. A student, thus admitted need not write IGNOU examination for such courses which are found equivalent to ours.
Programme Structure
The University follows credit system for its Bachelor's Degree Programme. Each credit amounts to 30 hours of study comprising all learning activities. To successfully complete the B.Com. programme, one has to earn 96 credits over a period of 3 to 8 years depending on your convenience. However, student will not be allowed to earn more than 32 credits in a year.
IGNOU BCom has three major components
| Components | Credits | |
|---|---|---|
| Foundational courses | 24 credits | 24 credits |
| Elective Courses | 64 credits OR |
56 credits |
| Application-Oriented Courses | 8 credits | 16 credits |
| Total | 96 credits | 96 credits |
Foundation Courses :
Foundation courses are compulsory for all students. One has to earn 24 credits of foundation courses.
| Course Code | Title of the Course | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| FHS-1 | Foundation Course in Humanities and Social Sciences | 8 |
| FST-1 | Foundation Course in Science and Technology | 8 |
| FEG-1 | Foundation Course in English-1 | 4 |
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| FHD-2 | Foundation Course in Hindi | 4 |
| FEG-2 or FHD-1 or any one Modern Indian Languages
viz., Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. |
4 | |
IGNOU BCom Elective Courses:
These are basically discipline oriented courses. Under this category, one has to earn 56 to 64 credits. For B.Com. students it is compulsory to earn 48 credits from elective courses in commerce, which are given below:
| Course Code | Title of the Course | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ECO-01 | Business Organisation | 4 |
| ECO-02 | Accountancy-I | 4 |
| ECO-03 | Management Theory | 4 |
| ECO-05 | Mercantile Law | 4 |
| ECO-06 | Economic Theory | 4 |
| ECO-07 | Elements of Statistics | 4 |
| ECO-08 | Company Law | 4 |
| ECO-09 | Money, Banking and Financial Institutions | 4 |
| ECO-10 | Elements of Costing | 4 |
| ECO-11 | Elements of Income-Tax | 4 |
| ECO-12 | Elements of Audition | 4 |
| ECO-13 | Business Environment | 4 |
| ECO-14 | Accountancy II | 4 |
To complete 56 or 64 credits in elective courses, student has to select 8 or 16 credits from the elective courses in other disciplines such as Computers English, Hindi, Economics, Public Administration, Political Science, History, Sociology, Rural Development and Mathematics.
IGNOU BCom Application Oriented Courses:
Student has to complete 8 or 16 credits from the following application oriented courses.
| Course Code | Title of the Course | Credits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMK-1* | Marketing | 4 | |
| AED-1* | Export Procedure and Documentation | 4 | |
| AOM-1* | Office Organisation and Management | 4 | |
| ASP-1* | Secretarial Practice | 4 | |
| ATR-1 | Translation | 8 (4 English + 4 Hindi) | |
| AFW(E) | Feature Writing | 4 | |
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| AFW(H)-1 | Feature Lekhan | 4 | |
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| AFW(H)-1 | Feature Lekhan | 4 | |
| AWR(H)-1 | Radio Lekhan | 4 | |
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| AWR(E)-1 | Writing for Ratio | 4 | |
| AHE-1 | Human Environment (Theory 6 Cr. Project Report 2 Cr.) |
8 | |
| ACC-1 | Organising Childcare Services | 8 | |
| ANC-1 | Nutrition for Community | 8 | |
| AMT-1 | Teaching of Primary School Mathematics | 8 | |
| ACS-1 | Consumer Studies | 8 | |
| CTE-3 | Teaching Strategies (English) | 4 | To be taken together |
| CTE-4 | Teaching English - Elementary School | 4 | |
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| CTE-5 | Teaching English - Secondary School | 4 | |