Department of Life Sciences VGU

Students taking admission to this program of B.Sc. are expected to get equipped with following outcomes:

PO1: The graduates will become successful professionals by demonstrating logical and analytical thinking abilities.

PO2: The graduates will work and communicate effectively in inter-disciplinary environment, either independently or in a team, and demonstrate leadership qualities.

PO3: The graduates will engage in life-long learning and professional development through self-study, continuing education or professional and doctoral level studies.

PO4: To impart students a broad outline of the methodology of science and will learn the important analytical and instrumental tools used for practicing science.

PO5: Acquire knowledge and understanding of essential facts, concepts, principles and theories relating to the subject areas identified.

PO6: Develop skills to evaluate, analyze and interpret the chemical information and data.

PO7: Solve problems competently by identifying the essential parts of a problem and formulating a strategy for solving the problem.

PO8: Think creatively (divergently and convergent) to propose novel ideas in explaining facts and figures or providing new solution to the problems.

PO9: To develop student skill in critical thinking and analytical reasoning.

PO10: To prepare the students to pursue higher studies and to develop sustainable innovative solutions for the nation.

PSO11: Create, select and apply appropriate analytical techniques, resources and modern technology in plant sciences & in multidisciplinary environment.

PSO12: Prepare students for prominent career in industry, research, teaching and for further academic study.

PSO13: Student will be able to Acquaint students about Microbes, Plant diversity, Ecology, Plant Genetics, Economic Botany & other branches of Plant Sciences. Students are also familiarized with the use of bioinformatics tools and databases and in the application of statistics to biological data.

Students taking admission to this program of M.Sc. are expected to get equipped with following outcomes:

PO 1: Aims to equip students with recent advances in Zoology

PO 2: Students will gain Skills in practical work, experiments, use of biological tool and techniques

PO 3: Students would be exposed to cutting-edge technologies that are currently used in the field of zoology, their evolution and interactions with other organisms and with the ecosystem.

PO 4: Students would also become aware about the social and environmental significance of animals.

PO 5: Understand the complex evolutionary processes and behavior of animals

PO 6: Gain understanding of how invertebrate and vertebrate animals work and how these animal biology is influenced by the different environments of their niches.

PO 7: Student will be able to evaluate usefulness of immunology in different pharmaceutical industries.

PO 8: Students would also become aware about environment & importance of its conservation.

PO 9: Student will be able to correlates the physiological processes of animals and relationship of organ system

PO 10: Student will be able to understand development of animals at molecular level.

PO 11: Students will be able to understand Zoology, such as Aquaculture, Reproductive health, Behavior and Biological time keeping, Cancer Biology, Microbiome and their roles in health and diseases, Bioremediation of pollutants and pesticides, etc.

PO 12: Student will be able to understand applications of emerging tools and technologies in animal sciences

PSO 13: A student after successfully completing M.Sc. in Zoology Programme would sufficiently be skilled and empowered to solve the problems in the realms of Zoology and its allied areas. They would have plethora of job opportunities in the education, environment, agriculture-based, and health related sectors

PSO14: Students can enter into research in the contemporary areas of Zoological/Biological Sciences.

PSO 15: The broad skills and the deeper knowledge in the field would make them highly successful and excellent researcher in advanced areas of research in the Biological sciences.

Students taking admission to this program of M.Sc. are expected to get equipped with following outcomes:

PO1: Students will gain Skills in practical work, experiments, use of biological tool and techniques

PO2: Students would be trained in all areas of plant biology.

PO3: Students would be exposed to cutting-edge technologies that are currently used in the study of plant life forms, their evolution and interactions with other organisms and with the ecosystem.

PO4: Students would also become aware about the social and environmental significance of plants and their relevance to the national economy

PO5: Students would also know economic importance of plants.

PO6:Able to know the relationship between plants and environment

PO7: Students would also become familiar about taxonomic classification

PO8: Students would also become aware about natural resources and environmental & importance of its conservation.

PO9: Student will be able to understand diversification and domestication of plants

PO10: Student will be able to understand development of plants at molecular level.

PO11: Student will be able to understand physiological processes in plants

PO12: Student will be able to understand applications of emerging tools and technologies in plant sciences

PSO13: A student completing the course is able to understand different specializations of Botany such as systematic, evolution, ecology, developmental biology, physiology, biochemistry, plant interactions with microbes and insects, morphology, anatomy, reproduction, genetics and molecular biology of various life-forms.

PSO14: Student will be able to understand analytical techniques of plant biology, use of plants as industrial resources or as human livelihood support system and is well versed with the use of transgenic technologies for basic and applied research in plants

PSO15: Student will be able to Identify various life forms of plants, design and execute experiments related to basic studies on evolution, ecology, developmental biology, physiology, biochemistry, plant interactions with microbes and insects, morphology, anatomy, reproduction, genetics, microbiology, molecular biology, recombinant DNA technology, proteomics and transgenic technology. Students are also familiarized with the use of bioinformatics tools and databases and in the application of statistics to biological data.