Delhi University’s Four Year Undergraduate Program has faced a lot of flak with the two major concerns being ; it would take longer to get the UG degree(4 years instead of 3) and it will allegedly impact the job prospects negatively.
The FYUP aims to revamp the Bachelor level education by providing the students an opportunity to select different major and minor( max 2) subjects in addition to some basic foundation courses like Language, Literature, Creativity, Philosophy, Psychology, Socio-Economic Diversity and so on which will be same for every student.
That means you could major in Economics, minor in Philosophy and Music and have studied Maths, IT, Entrepreneurship, Literature, History etc in course of your UG degree. Or major in Biology and minor in Literature and Maths. Or major in Physics and minor in Business Studies and IT.
I, for one, would give anything to have this kind of opportunity. I would have loved to be able to study so much of what interested me. I would have liked to take different classes rather than only one kind.
Job prospects are only one side of the coin when it comes to education because learning and knowledge is the other and the equally important one. The primary aim of life should not be limited to financial self-sufficiency but include an overall individual growth.
We are all running a rat race of sorts where everyone just wants to be the first one to finish the race. We have all mapped out a life plan that is almost identical for most of us and even the slightest diversion from that plan strikes terror in our hearts. It is not the materialistic pursuit that is the problem, it is the obsession with the plan that is. It is that yearning for ever elusive synchronicity of perfection in professional and personal life that is the problem because it prohibits us from exploring our own selves.