About Sanskrit Department
The department of Sanskrit in GC JUKHALA was established in 2007.
Aims of bachelor’s degree program in Sanskrit
The undergraduate program aims at the following objects –
1) Introduction to Contents of Sanskrit:Offering learning opportunities to orient the students towards the scientific and humanistic study of the Sanskrit language.
2) Conversational Sanskrit: Creating a language environment for students to acquire the language skills assessed by their conversation and usage of the language.
3) Personality Development: Help shaping cognitive, affective and behavioural abilities of students for building responsible academic professionals and researchers.
4) Social relevance:Infusing the notion of Seva (service) in the students to be able to take part in social transformation.
5) Contextualization of Ancient Wisdom: knowing the application of ancient Indian wisdom in contemporary problem solving situations.
6) Best of the Past:Imparting knowledge of basic living and concepts from ancient literature which is timeless and still applicable to the society.
7) Life Skills: Facilitating acquisition of basic skills in major areas of application e.g. leadership, communication, research aptitude, behaviouralmodification etc.
8) Inculcation of Ethics and Moral Values: Developing a strong sense of ethical and moral aptness in general and in the context of learning and its assessment in particular.
a) Intellectual Capacity Building:Helping student’s master the basic analytical & critical thinking and communicative competencies.
b) Multi-cultural living: Developing respect for social diversity and increasing social and cultural relevance learning.
9) Indigenous life style: Imparting knowledge of Indian calendar, cultural events, food culture, life style etc for practicing a more indigenous lifestyle.
10) ICT for Sanskrit: Introducing ICT tools for learning and educating Sanskrit to other aspirants.
