IGNOU B Com syllabus, IGNOU B Com syllabus course

Indira Gandhi National Open University offers 3 years degree programme in commerce called Bachelor of Commerce B. Com. Students who have qualified +2 or its equivalent can apply for enrollment in the programme. IGNOU provides full convenience to the students in terms of completion of course as per their choice, the duration of course is min for 3 years & max for 8 years.

Keeping in mind for overall development of the students B. Com course is designed as a wide range of other discipline. The structure of the programme is divided into three components: Foundational courses, Elective Courses & Application-Oriented Courses.
B. Com course structure: Indira Gandhi National Open University follows credit system for the evaluation purpose. 30 hours study comprises as a single credit. There are 96 credits requires to successfully qualify the course over a period of 3 years to 8 years depending on students convenience. In a year students are allowed to earn maximum 32 credits. The details of all three components for B.Com. Programme are as under:

1. Foundational courses 24 credits 24 credits
2. Elective Courses 64 credits Or 56 credits
3. Application-Oriented Courses 8 credits 16 credits
Total 96 credits 96 credits

B.Com. Foundation Courses: Foundation courses are compulsory for all students. One has to earn 24 credits of foundation courses.
FHS-1 Foundation Course in Humanities and Social Sciences (8 credits)
FST-1 Foundation Course in Science and Technology (8 credits)
FEG-1 Foundation Course in English-1 (4 credits)
or
FHD-2 Foundation Course in Hindi (4 credits)
and
FEG-2 or FHD-1 or any one Modern Indian Languages (4 credits) viz., Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

B.Com. Elective Courses: These are basically discipline oriented courses. Under this category, one has to earn 56 to 64 credits. For B.Com. Students it is compulsory to earn 48 credits from elective courses in commerce, which are given below:

ECO-01 Business Organisation (4 credits)
ECO-02 Accountancy-I (4 credits)
ECO-03 Management Theory (4 credits)
ECO-05 Mercantile Law (4 credits)
ECO-06 Economic Theory (4 credits)
ECO-07 Elements of Statistics (4 credits)
ECO-08 Company Law (4 credits)
ECO-09 Money, Banking and Financial Institutions (4 credits)
ECO-10 Elements of Costing (4 credits)
ECO-11 Elements of Income-Tax (4 credits)
ECO-12 Elements of Audition (4 credits)
ECO-13 Business Environment (4 credits)
ECO-14 Accountancy II (4 credits)

To complete 56 or 64 credits in elective courses, student has to select 8 or 16 credits from the elective courses in other disciplines such as Computers English, Hindi, Economics, Public Administration, Political Science, History, Sociology, Rural Development and Mathematics.

B.Com. Application Oriented Courses: Student has to complete 8 or 16 credits from the following application oriented courses.
AMK-1* Marketing (4 credits)
AED-1* Export Procedure and Documentation (4 credits)
AOM-1* Office Organisation and Management (4 credits)
ASP-1* Secretarial Practice (4 credits)
ATR-1 Translation (8 credits) (English 4 credits + Hindi 4 credits)
AFW(E)-1 Feature Writing (4 credits)
or
AFW(H)-1 Feature Lekhan (4 credits)
AWR(H)-1 Radio Lekhan (4 credits)
or
AWR(E)-1 Writing for Radio (4 credits)
AHE-1 Human Environment (Theory 6 Cr. Project Report 2 Cr.) (8 credits)
ACC-1 Organising Childcare Services (8 credits)
ANC-1 Nutrition for Community (8 credits)
AMT-1 Teaching of Primary School Mathematics (8 credits)
ACS-1 Consumer Studies (8 credits)
CTE-3 Teaching Strategies (English) (4 credits)
CTE-4 Teaching English - Elementary School (4 credits)
or
CTE-5 Teaching English - Secondary School (4 credits)

(*Commerce based Application Oriented Courses)