India, Dec. 24 -- The Delhi University standing committee on academic matters has discussed additional elective courses proposed for the second semester of the two-year postgraduate programme in the Economics and History departments and sought revision after objections were raised to the syllabus of an elective titled Economics and Gender, an official statement said.
In the meeting held on Monday, the members objected that Economics and Gender included themes such as intimate partner violence, domestic violence, workplace violence and crimes against women, which did not correspond with economics and that few elective courses were not structured chronologically, it said.
The members also argued that these topics did not correlate with Econ...