B.A. hons HISTORY in LSR

I have always had a keen interest in history, so I also wanted to pursue it in my graduation and I was able to do it. the curriculum covers vast amount of topics as we have 3 core papers per semester, which then increases to 4 in the 3rd year. there are papers covering indian history, European history and a particular country per semester- like,USA, china, japan, etc. an option for gender studies paper is also given in the 3rd year. i liked the course dynamic and therefore felt it would be interesting for me to study. for my future pursuits I feel the course covers a great deal of topics and helps me understand better as we also study a lot of historians and scholars apart from the just historical facts. But there are always improvements which I feel can be taken up, like including more practical and immersive teaching methods as just reading about history often make the course dull and uninteresting, though the professors keep providing us with valuable insights and material to study from. One has internals throughout the semester, which becomes even more hectic during the last month before the end sems as a lot of deadlines comes up, but if possible one should aim to do their internals as soon as one can and not delay as it helps prevent multiple deadlines before the exams. the difficulty levels vary from exams to exams in the internals; some assignments are more research-based based and professors expect you to do them on very academic level using research papers and official websites, unlike school, so it requires a good amount of reading and research.

In the first year during admission, a BA Arts student has to pay somewhere between 19000-20000. In the following years, the fees reduces to 17000 per year, which includes all the required fees excluding exam fee which students pay semester-wise, depending on the courses they have opted for. for most of the ba arts students the amount is the same. there are a few scholarships they the delhi university rolls out yearly and there are additions and reductions every year. one can know about these better through the delhi university website.

LSR has two main annual fests - 1] Noor, during before Diwali break and 2] tarang, the main cultural fest which lasts for 3 days happens in march. then their are department fests which happen between February and April of each year and their are also some fests of different societies which involve cross college competitions. department fests include lots of seminars and discussions with eminent scholars of those fields and includes a lot of student interactive sessions. lsr has two floors of library- one is the ground floor library and the other is just above it the resource room. both of these have hundreds of books from various different subjects and lsr also has online library option which gives added access to books and one can borrow 5 books at a time from the library. the library also has vast variety of the important journals, magazines and newspapers. the classrooms are basic as the college has both the old infrastructure and some recent build buildings. the labs have acs but not the normal classrooms.

My 1st preference was HISTORY honours. In LSR and I was able to get into my desired course and college due to my good cuet marks, which were 788/800 inthe general category. i only applied to du and lsr was my 1st preference from the starting for a few reasons- I have always heard great reviews about the college form some school seniors and teachers aswell as online, and my father initially introduce my to lsr back in middle school and I personally liked its environment compared to other du colleges and it was a girls college which for me was more comfortable as I have been in a girls school all my school life. as I mentioned I applied only for DU especially lsr and I got admitted to it, making it my top choice and the reason why I have explained in detail above. I didn't apply to other colleges, therefore no rejections. so for admission in lsr one needs to give the CUET entrance exam after they clear their 12th exams. the current criteria for ba hons history in du is 3 papers one given in their boards + 1 language exam. after the exam one needs to fill in their preference list on the csas portal and rank all the courses they want to be eligible for from the courses which is provided to the student on there portal.then based on you marks you get allotted one of the preferences and you can challenge for updates in the further lists.

in the history department, there are 2 sections per year and around 50-60 students per class. sometimes a single professor teaches the entire paper including the lectures and tute classes, but there are also cases where a single paper is divided between 2-3 professors, so the student to teacher ratio is alright. majority of the faculties are very approachable and tries their best to help out students in case of queries, though it differs from professor to professor. i personally love the history department professors,

as lsr is faraway from the main Delhi University campus, the college is not adjacent to other du colleges and is tucked away in the locality of gk 1, south Delhi. but their are a few du colleges in 10-15 minute distance form the college. their are markets around the college where you can find the lsr students hangout in their free time. other than that hostel is only for the 1st years and starting 2nd year students have to move out into accommodation outside college and only few students get to live in the hostel even in the 1st year due to limited capacity. thought the hostel has been shut for the past 2 years due to renovation work. college is open from 6 am to 7pm everyday except sundays. classes start from 8:45 and the last class ends at 5:30 and the library opens at the same time and closes at 4:30 though the resource room is opened till a later time. their are multiple markets around the colleges and other places are easily accesssible.