Program Description

One-Year Master of Social Sciences (MSS) Program

1. Admission : Only the successful students of the BSS (Hon’s) program shall be eligible to get admitted into the MSS Degree Program within next two academic years.
2.2 Medium of Instruction: English
2.3 The Program
2.3a A one-year MSS degree program shall be of 32 credits and divided into 2 semesters.
Each semester shall be of 19 weeks, of which
• 15 weeks for class teaching
• 1 week break for preparation, and
• 3 weeks for holding the semester final examinations.
2.3b The program shall include teaching of 8 course units for a total of 800 marks, which
shall be translated into 32 credit hours.
2.3c The total credit hours shall be evaluated on the basis of 800 total marks.
2.3d Each full unit course shall be of 100 marks: 50 marks for final examination and 50
marks for class attendance, class test, mid-term, and assignment.
2.3e Number of lecture classes/contact hours per week shall be determined on the basis
of the credit hours assigned to each course.
For a 4 credit course unit, there shall be two lecture classes of 90 minutes each, and one 60 minutes’ discussion/group presentation every week.

2.3f In the course structure for the one-year MSS degree program with credit hours
assigned to the courses in each semester, there shall be:

A total of 800 marks for 8 full unit courses.

4 courses with 100 marks each, resulting in 16 (sixteen) earned credits per semester, i.e., there shall be 4 courses with 4 credits assigned to each

course.

The distribution of course units, makes and credit build up for the MSS Degree Program for 800 marks for 8 courses with varying credit hours per course shall be as follow.