India, July 11 -- Undergraduate students of Delhi University (DU) pursuing BA, BSc and BCom Programme (P) courses will now have the option of pursuing additional discipline-specific electives (DSE) and a skill-based elective (SEC) in their fourth year to obtain an honours degree, according to the university.

To be sure, four-year UG students enrolled in Honours courses as well as Programme courses both have the option of pursuing research in their fourth year. However, only students pursuing Honours will get an "honours with research" degree, while students enrolled in Programme courses will get an "honours" degree, regardless of whether they take the research route or opt for the DSE and SEC.

The same was approved in an executive counc...