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COURSES AND CAREER OPTIONS FOR THE

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CAREER OPTIONS AFTER 12TH ARTS/ HUMANITIES


Variety of creative courses are awaiting Arts/ Humanities students after
their 12th grade. Bachelor degree in any of the arts subjects is the best
option for those interested in higher studies. Bachelor courses are available
in the fields of advertising , fine arts, journalism , mass communication , media
studies, business management, performing arts, travel and tourism , hotel
management and much more. These courses have heavy demand and are
extremely beneficial for students who are willing to take this as a
profession.
Enthusiastic students can take up courses in fashion technology , jewelry
design , aviation , radio
jockey ,
packaging
or
industrial
design. Those
interested in foreign languages can study languages of their interest like

French, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese or Chinese for opting an


interpreters job in the consulates and embassies.
After graduation, candidates can prepare for Civil Service Examination . Those
with a flair for writing, can take up content writing as a career option.
Ample short duration vocational courses are available in fields of
computers, hospitality management, business administration etc. which
rewards a promising career with great salary and job satisfaction.

Career chart for +2 Arts/ Humanities


10+2 Arts

Diploma Programs
(Duration : 6 months - 2
years)

Diploma

in

Education

B.A (Bachelor of
Arts)

Diploma

in

Foreign Language

Professional Programs
(Duration : 3 years &
above)

Degree Programs
(Duration : 3 to 5 years)

Diploma in Travel
& Tourism

BBA

BBM

Bachelor

of

Library Science

Diploma in Hotel
Management

Bachelor

of

Social Work

Diploma

in

Air

Hostess & Flight


Steward

Diploma

in

Diploma in Event
Management

of

Journalism
BFA (Bachelor of
Fine Arts)

Interior Designing

Bachelor

LLB (Bachelor of
Law)

CS Program

CA Program

ICWA Program

Teachers Training
(TTC)

BBA- LLB

B.Des

LIC/

Insurence

Agents

Call Centers

NDA (Army Wing)

What are the higher studies options for a


humanities student?
You are at a tuning point in life. The choice you make now will affect entire
life. For a plus two student of Humanity there are many higher education
options are available. Choosing a particular course depends on what you
want to become ultimately. Suggesting a few here:

1. You can Join 5 year Law Course and become a lawyer. Though you find
many lawyers there is still place for those who excel in their studies. ( A
cousin of mine completed last year from top collage in Delhi, she is now
employed by leading firm in Bangalore )

2. You can become teacher. The study stream choice depends on whether
you want to be a primary, high school or higher education teacher. For
primary you can do D.Ed, for high school BA, B.Ed., and for higher education
you require a Master degree minimum.

3. You can do a degree and post graduation in Journalism and be a


journalist. Decide on whether to be print, or TV journalist and do research
before you join college.

4. You can chose to study economics (Graduation and post Graduation and
further) and become an economist.

5. Join art college to become artist, or become writer be studying language


and any other subject.

There are scores of option available. Whatever you choose, make sure you
do full research on the path you chose. Visit different colleges and check
what courses they offer. Ask for the previous year campus placement
records and what was the avg salary offered. That should give you a fair
idea about the course and job opportunities for that course.

All the very best.

Author: Shubham
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27 May 2015

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Doing class+2 with humanities group gives you wide range options of higher
study.
You can Bachelor degree in arts and there is also the option of doing
honours in any of arts subject. After bachelor degree you can pursue LLB for
becoming lawyer, or you could do BEd for becoming a teacher.
Other options after bachelor degree in arts is that you can do masters in
arts or any post graduate diploma.

Other options include that you can pursue any of the following courses like
BCA,BCom, BJMC, BBA,Bsc Home science etc that can pursued by any
stream student after class +2.
After bachelor you can also opt for MBA.

Being an arts student you can get training any of arts techniques like dance,
music, painting etc.

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The Government College for Women in Thiruvananthapuram becomes the first and
only institution in Kerala to have a new B.A. Honours course in English Language
and Literature
One can draw many parallels between William Shakespeares drama Twelfth Night and the
ongoing prohibition debate in Kerala, says the lecturer, piquing the interest of undergraduate
students of the Government College for Women. The students have already done their
preparatory work on the 17th century comedy and immediately cotton on to what he is trying to
explain. Its essentially about feasting and sobriety and the eternal debate between the two,
which has lots of contemporary value, he says, opening the floor for a lively discussion on the
play, interwoven with insights on Keralas socio-cultural-political milieu, Shakespeares craft, the
Elizabethan age, British history, and the like.
This is a BA Honours English class at the college; a way of teaching, learning and
understanding English language and literature thats remarkably different from the usual, line by
line explanation and comprehension of poetry, prose and drama.
B.A. Honours degree programmes were re-introduced in the state in the last academic year, after
it was stopped in the late 1960s. Womens College in the city is the only college in the state that
currently offers one in English language and literature. B.A. Honours is equivalent to a general
B.A. degree in every sense of the term, except that content wise and merit wise they are vastly
different, says S. Sajeev Rose, course coordinator.
The course is aimed at nurturing the research aptitude of students and designed for those who
have an affinity for it and want to pursue higher education in it. Its an integrated programme,
where the syllabus is as tough as it is deep and the content is vast. It requires intensive and
analytical study, with emphasis on interactive classroom activity, lectures, discussions, seminars
and projects, explains Dr. Sajeev. It gives students an in-depth knowledge on the subject and is
pitched higher than general undergraduate courses. Only students with a minimum of 70 per
cent marks can apply for the course and it requires and demands a lot of extra reading and effort
on their part, adds P. Anitha Dhamayanthy, head of the Department of English of the college.
Indeed, just reading through the syllabus of the six-semester course, quickly turns into Greek and
Latin! For one, these undergraduates have to clear 30 papers on topics as different as British
Literature (1350 to 1600), Indian Renaissance, Dalit Literature, Kerala Culture and Literature
and Fundamentals of Theatre Studies and Performance, to name a few.
Secondly, from the word go, they are thrown into the literary deep end, in an attempt to get an
overall view of complex texts such as Marlows Edward II, Ben Johnsons Everyman and his
humour and John Milton's Areopagitica, and about Petrarchan tradition of sonnets, Jacobean
playwrights, the Indianness of Indian English literature.... The students attend six hours of class
a day thats one more than the rest of the campus. They dont have any complementary
subjects to learn but share a common communicative English paper with other honours students.

Currently there are 30 students per batch. Many of the students say that they signed up for the
honours degree, out of the love for the subject. It is very hard, especially for some of our
classmates who studied in the Malayalam medium. The sheer volume of reading material and
course work means that weve had to slog it out since day one, to the point of haunting libraries in
the city. But we are relishing the challenge, learning about literatures and cultures as different as
Russian and Kokborok, says sprightly Nekha Fathima, in between prepping for the upcoming
second semester exams.
The course is challenging for the teachers too. Assistant professor M.N. Parasuraman, who is
group tutor for the second semester students, says: It involves a lot of preparation for us too and
some topics need the expertise of experienced teachers. Also, some students are not able to cope
with the volume of work and we teachers sometimes have to turn counsellors too, he says.
All that said, the course is facing several teething issues such as a dearth of resource personnel
and funding constraints, not to mention flak from certain quarters, who dont believe in creating
an elite set of students within the system.
Not all of the books prescribed as reading material, is available. For example, The Rusted
Sword, the translation of Indira Goswamis Sahitya Akademi award-winning Assamese
novel, Mamore Dhora Toruwal, which is part of the second semester paper on contemporary
Indian literature and culture, is proving difficult to source. I even requested some of my fellow
academics in Assam to source it for me, but no luck so far. Often, students and teachers spend
money out of their own pockets to source the books. Thankfully, the State Planning Commission
has offered us a financial grant to source books that are not easily available, says Dr.
Parasuraman.
The students themselves are a bit worried, especially on what to do after graduation. If we join
for post-graduation, its like wasting two years because we would have already learnt a majority
of the topics in the present M.A. course. The only option, then, is to apply to central universities
or go abroad, says second semester student Bindhya M.
Roll Call
As envisaged by the State Planning Commission, BA (Hons) degrees in various subjects were reintroduced by the Higher Education Department in the state in September 2013, in four top
government colleges, as part of its efforts to enhance the quality of higher education and the
potential for employment. Maharajas College, Kochi [BA (Hons) Economics], Government
Victoria College, Palakkad [B Com. (Hons)] and Government Brennen College, Thalassery [BSc
(Hons) Mathematics] are the other colleges in the pilot programme.
Keywords: Government College for Women, B.A. Honours course, English Language and
Literature, BA Honours English

4 colleges to offer honours


courses are back in Kerala
KOZHIKODE: Honours degree courses are coming back to Kerala. Four
colleges - Women's College, Thiruvananthapuram, (BA Hons English),
Maharajas College, Ernakulam, (BA Hons Economics), Victoria College,
Palakkad, (BCom Hons) and Brennen College, Thalassery, (BSc. Hons
Mathematics) - will offer three-year programmes for 30 students each
starting this academic year.
The step aims to bolster quality of degree courses and increase
employability of graduates.
Unlike bachelor's programme, Honours will have an updated curriculum,
compulsory internship, industry linkages and Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) based teaching, but will not be equivalent
to the Master's degree as was the case in the past.
T P Sreenivasan, vice-chairman, Kerala State Higher Education Council,
said the Honours programme will have specialized syllabus. "Through the
introduction of this programme,
The varsities will be able to grant a higher quality degree than the general
bachelor's degreeThe students will be required to learn more and we
expect the Honours degree to have more value as well," he said.

Dr P K Velayudhan, additional director of collegiate education, said an open


merit candidate would require 70% score in higher secondary examinations
to be eligible for the programme.

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