The four years undergraduate programme (FYUGP) implemented by the University of North Bengal under the framework of the “National Education Policy, 2020” prescribed by the UGC. As one of the Department (Department of Philosophy) under the NBU, we also adopted four-year student-centric UG, Philosophy Course in our College.
Major Courses:
The Department of Philosophy, University B.T. & Evening College, Coochbehar, offers student
an well designed, systematic and advanced core Philosophical semester-wise mandatory Courses.
Mainly, these Courses are: (i) Indian Philosophy (Bharatiya Darsana), (ii) Western Philosophy
(Paschattya Darsana), (iii) Indian Logic (Bharatiya Tarkasastra), (iv) Western Logic
(Paschattya Tarkasastra), (v) Ethics – Indian and Western. The Major course of Philosophy
can be treated as core Philosophical studies which are the main pillars of the Philosophy-palace
and the other philosophical courses like Socio-Political philosophy, Philosophy of Religion,
Linguistic-philosophy, Philosophy of Logic, Theory of Aesthetic and Practical or Applied Ethics
etc. are its building blocks.
Minor Courses:
The Minor courses of Philosophy provide functional, practical and applied knowledge of philosophy
which enriched human value system. It enables students from other disciplines to gain value
educations that make a man as the good citizen in a particular country. The Minor Philosophy
course is the philosophical mirror to the student of other discipline, which supports
interdisciplinary learning to them.
Skill Enhancement Course (SEC):
The SEC papers in subject Philosophy tries to enhance the Value-Education among the
students of ‘Other Discipline’ through ‘Practical-Ethics’, ‘Yoga Education’,
and ‘Logic’.
Inter Disciplinary Course (IDC):
IDC introduces one of the important branches of Philosophy that is called “Yoga-System” to student
of diverse disciplines. It highlights connections between Philosophy and Physical-Mental health
of human beings through the Yoga Asana and Meditations. The IDC paper of Philosophy helps us to
control mental anxiety, anger management, Control Emotions and to body constructions by Pranayam
and Asana etc.
The Department of Philosophy provides so many individualistic and group wise academic activities other than classroom teachings among its student to reach them toward perfections.
Departmental Seminars: The department of Philosophy regularly organizes the departmental seminars among the students semester-wise, where student delivered their seminar and the entire departmental teachers act as the judges. Sometime, the department organized ‘National Level Seminar’ and ‘Periodic-Lectures’ through the eminent speakers from different Indian University under the sponsorship like “Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR)”. We organized a National Level Seminar sponsored by ICPR, in 2023 and a Periodic-Lecture sponsored by ICPR in 2026.
Cultural Activities: The department upholds the cultural activities to its student who deserved the ability and capacity in the field of Singing, Dance, Drama, Drawing, Sports and hosting any events.
Wall Magazine: The Department of Philosophy monthly publishes a wall magazine where student writes poem, prose, story etc. After peer review those writings of student through the experts they selected and the department arranges to publish their writings.
