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“It is only through practice that one gets to understand the importance theoretical concepts lying at the base of any discipline,” says Ms.Gurmeet Sodhi,Assistant Professor,BBA department,Vasant Kunj-II.

Hands on experience

The BBA department of has always firmly believed that there is indeed no substitute for experience.

The theory taught in the classes must, therefore, be blended most skilfully with practice. For it is only through practice that one gets to understand the importance theoretical concepts lying at the base of any discipline. So, while learning the theory is important, it is equally important to learn its application. The curriculum of #BBA, therefore, includes various #practical projects that takes the students into the field to have that unique hands-on-experience which is indispensable for a person’s professional growth.

Project Monitoring and evaluation

After learning the basics of #management in semesters 1 & 2, the students start with their practical projects/#internship from 3rd to the 6th semester while attending the theory classes during the week days. Every project undertaken by the students is closely monitored by a faculty member designated for the job. Internal mentors, as they are technically called, guide and mentor the students throughout the duration of the project. The students, on their part, are required to give their mentors weekly updates on the progress of their work. These projects are then evaluated on the basis of predetermined criteria and students also appear for a viva during the End Term exams.

While the practical projects in sem-3 and 4 make the students go into the field over the weekend and after their classes ,during the day, in the college are over, the internship at the end of the 4th semester requires them to work in an organization for a period of two months. This first-hand experience of a workplace brings them close to learning about the importance of results and deadlines. It is , in-fact, during this time, that they develop a professional temperament and learn about the expectations of the corporate world. The importance of internship can be best understood by those who receive job offers from the companies where they have worked for two months. Many students of #JIMS-Vasant Kunj-II also receive, every year,  appreciation letters from the companies where they work. The internships bring about a visible change in the personalities of the students and they can now better relate with the management papers being taught in the classes. The internship ends with the student making a project, giving a presentation and  a viva at the end of sem-5. Once again, the internship is monitored, on weekly basis, by internal and this time, also by external mentors, i.e., mentors from the company. Weekly diaries and evaluation forms are filled by the external mentors on a regular basis. The internship program finishes with students receiving certificates of completion from the concerned organizations. The presentation and viva are conducted at the end of semester-5. The internship program is organized in the months of June and July after the sem-4 end-term exams are over. https://www.jimssouthdelhi.com/summer-internship.html. The students appear for interviews in well-organized interview drives organized by the #placement cell of the college. Offer letters are issued to students successfully clearing the interviews.

Exposure to research

Having finished with the internship viva in semester-5, the students are now assigned a research based project in sem-6 which they have to undertake while attending the scheduled classes over the week. The aim of this project is to make them understand the significance of #research based learning. The internal mentors assist them in identifying a research problem in a given company and the students then get to put in practice the research methodology learnt in the class. Learning derived out of this project is that it is data collected from a real time environment alone makes for sound decisions and that objectivity and logic are more important than emotion and intuition in coming to any conclusion.

Conclusion

With so much and more in the professional toolkit of the students, they turn into confident professionals ready to embark on the professional journey. This professional journey is again not a long way off; it is in the 6th semester itself that the college organizes placement drives for #final placements and the students get to implement all the skills learnt in the real work environment.

This is how a balance between theory and practice is realised by the BBA department of #JIMS-Vasant Kunj-II. https://www.jimssouthdelhi.com/bba-placement.html.

Gurmeet Sodhi

Assistant Professor-BBA