Government Arts College for Men - Krishnagiri

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

                                                 Dr. S. M. Krishnan, M.Com., M.Phil., M.Ed., MBA., DCA., D.T.S., Ph.D.  -  Head of the Department

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1.     Name of the Department                 : COMMERCE

Year of establishment                     :  2005

2.     Names of Programmes / Courses offered  (UG, PG, M.Phil., Ph.D., Integrated Masters, Integrated Ph.D., etc.)

UG  : B.Com. Commerce

3.     Annual/ semester/ choice based credit system : Choice Based Credit System (Semester)

4.     Participation of the department in the courses offered by other departments. :  BBA

5.     Faculty profile with name, qualification, designation, specialization (D.Sc/D.Litt./ Ph.D/M.Phil, etc.,)

6.     Percentage of class taken by temporary faculty – programme – wise information :  UG – 78%

7.     Programme – wise Student Teacher Ratio :  35 : 1

8.     Number of academic support staff (technical) and administrative staff : (sanctioned and filled) :  Nil

9.     Number of faculty with ongoing projects from a) National b) International funding agencies and c) Total grants received . Mentioned names of funding agencies and grants received project – wise.

Nil

10.  Departmental projects funded by DST – FIST ; ICSSR etc; total grants received  :  Nil

11.  Research facility / Centre with

   State recognition                      : Nil

   National recognition                  : Nil    

                      International recognition             : Nil

12.  Publications:

No of papers published in peer reviewed journals (national / international) National Level                                                             15

International Level                                          16

Monographs                                                 : NIL

Chapter (s) in Books                                      01

Editing Books                                               05

Books with ISBN numbers with details of publishers: NIL

Number listed in international Database (for e.g. Web of Science, Scopus, Humanities International complete,

Dare Database - International Social Sciences Directory, EBSCO host, etc.)     :  NIL

Citation Index – range / average                     : NIL

SNIP                                                           : NIL

SJR                                                            : NIL

Impact factor – range / average                      : NIL

h-index                                                        : NIL

13.  Details of patents and income generated : Nil

14.  Areas of consultancy and income generated : Nil

15.  Faculty recharging strategies  

            Orientation courses      Refresher courses

Quality Improvement Programmes Seminar, Conferences, Workshops etc. Referring Books and using Internet.

16.  Students projects : Nil

17.  Award / recognitions received at the national and international level by :  Nil

18.  Seminars / Conference / Workshops organized and source of funding (national/ international) with details of outstanding participants, if any.  :  Nil

19.  Student profile course – Wise :

20.  Diversity of Students

21.  How many students have cleared civil services, Defense services, NET, SLET, GATE and any other competitive examinations?

Nil

22.  Students Progression

23.  Diversity of staff

24.  Number of faculty who were awarded Ph.D., and D.Litt. during the assessment period.

Nil

25.  Percentage details about infrastructural facilities

a)        Library                                                              : Available - 803

b)        Internet facilities for staff and students                 : Available

c)        Total number of class rooms                                3

d)        Class rooms with ICT facilities                            : Nil

e)        Student’s laboratories                                        : Nil

f)         Research laboratories                                         : Nil

26.  Number of students of the department getting financial assistance from the college All eligible students from the respective BC/MBC/DNC/SC/ST category are getting financial assistants from the college in the form of Scholarship provided by the

Government of Tamil Nadu.

27.  Was any need assessment exercise undertaken before the development of new program(s)?

      If so, give the methodology.

Nil

28.  List the distinguished alumni of the department (maximum 10)

Manju .S                        T.C.S ,Hosur

Jabir.A                           Approach corporate, Hosur

 Donbosco            Dharmapuri, Hosur

Silambarasan                 Approach corporate

Donbosco,Dharmapuri  Mr.Mahseh Revanna   TATA, Chennai

29.  Give details of student enrichment programmes (special lectures / workshops / seminars) with external exports.

The department offers self-employment oriented programmes like EDP.

Regular guest lecturers and workshops are organized to develop the extra knowledge in the subjects.

Employment status of outgoing students is monitored. From the observation, it has been learnt that many are comfortably placed in various employments.

Visits to various industries are also arranged to get practical exposure in the subject related areas.

30.  List the teaching methods adopted by the faculty for different programmes.

Ø  Lecture Method

Ø  Chalk and Talk Method

Ø  Group Discussion

Ø  Power point presentations

Ø  Case study

31.  How does the department ensure that programme objectives are constantly met and learning outcomes monitored?

In order to ensure the fulfilment of the objectives of the programme, the departments introduce applications oriented subjects. It widens the scope of the programme. The syllabus is also updated to meet the demand of the society. In order to assess the utility of the programme / learning outcomes, the status of the alumni and the benefit of the society from the programme are constantly monitored.

32.  Highlight the participation of students and faculty in extension activities. Student’s participation:

Students participation:

NSS, YRC, RRC, Rotaract club, Consumer forum, Fine Arts club, Sport and Games.

33.  Give details of “beyond syllabus scholarly activities” of the department.

Nil

34.  State whether the programme / department is accredited / graded by other agencies.

Nil

35.  Detail any five strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) of the Department:

Strengths

·         All the regular staff members are possessing doctorate in commerce. All our Guest lecturers are doing Ph.D

·         Most of our staff members attended various seminars, Conferences and Workshops organized at international, national and state level.

·         Well experienced faculty members

·         New technological development in teaching like LCD is used

·         One of our department faculties is the coordinator for the ED cell.

Weakness

·         Lack of staff members in the department

·         Most of the students are from most backward area. So, the communication skill of the students is very low.

·         Need additional class rooms for PG and research programmes.

Opportunities

·         Possibility of getting fund from the government and government agencies to develop the department

·         Lab based courses like tally to make easy employable opportunities to the students

·         Create a prosperous, peace and love

Challenges

·         Challenges to improve the communication skill and general knowledge

·         Within next NAAC proposed to conduct not less than 20 seminars and workshops in the department

·         Successful steps have been taken to have major and minor projects containing the process of local.

·         Our challenge is to achieve 100% pass percentage and more than 50% of the students should achieve distinction.

36.  Future plans of the department.

·         Introducing M.Com and research programmes

·         Going to organize more workshops and seminars

·         Organize skill Development Programmes

·         Develop the support from the alumni for the development of the department

·         Develop the support from the alumni for the development of the department