PhD Course Overview
The Ph.D. programme of BITS requires a candidate to register in certain category of courses. These courses and their objectives are specified below :

I. Teaching Practices / Practice Lecture Series

  Course Code

 Course Name

Units

BITS C791T Teaching practice I 1
BITS C792T Teaching practice II 1
The above two separate and independent courses, to be taken one at a time , are designed and operated to provide cumulative experience for Ph.D. student in the practice of teaching.
  Course Code

 Course Name

Units

BITS E793T Practice Lecture series I 1
BITS E794T Practice Lecture series II 1

These two courses are in lieu of the two courses Viz. Teaching Practice I and II respectively, and are to be taken one at a time. These are designed and operated to provide cumulative experience for a Ph.D. student in the practice of teaching in his/her own professional setting where it is not feasible to operate the teaching practice courses. The student will deliver a predetermined series of technical talks before a professional audience as approved by Dean R&C.


II. PhD. Seminar / Independent Study

 BITS C797T  Ph.D. Seminar (min) 2

While the total minimum number of units is 2,registration is done for one unit in each semester /term until the submission of the thesis.


BITS C790T Independent Study (min) 2

A student may be asked to register in this course in lieu of BITS C797T by the Dean, Research & Consultancy if situation so warrants. While the total number of units 2, registration is done for 1 unit in each semester / term until the submission of the Thesis.

III. PhD. Thesis

BITS C799T Ph.D. Thesis (min) 40

While the total minimum units assigned to this course are 40, the distribution of the units between different semester /terms would be determined by the Dean, Research & consultancy. This section contains the course handouts of the above Ph.D. courses.