new delhi even as delhi university announced the admission schedule for its undergraduates programmes starting june 5 there were protests from different quarters even the science teachers who had till now kept mum expressed their dissatisfaction with the dilution of the course content if a physics student of delhi university decides to exit in 201516 under the fouryearundergraduate format he would have done just one paper on thermal physics and another on mechanics in discipline 2 an honours student would have completed just eight papers of discipline 1 which are limited to the basics and zoology students would have learnt nothing about environmental management or reproductive biology and entomology even after completing all the four years in the first such document about the honours course zoologist raama sinha of sri venkateswara college said we have been gagged right in the midst of our practical exams and forced to cough up a syllabus which is a pathetic package indeed as a zoologist i am ashamed to be a part of this framework on offer to our future students wherein my conscience will play no participatory role in teaching teachers from other departments like physics are also pointing out the pedagogical issues given the time they would have liked to design the syllabi differently to do justice to those opting for the different exit options sinha in her critique future shock fouryearundergraduate programme or future of youth under peril said many of the discipline 1 course papers are watered down versions of the former annual courses it may come as a shock to know that the internal contents of many are only one third of their former versions what with only 35 periods available now as compared to 96 periods for the same paper title in the annual mode teachers are also unhappy with the physics syllabus a student has the option to exit after two years but according to the structure one has to teach all the students the same curriculum assuming they will continue for four years the administration claims students can do msc in the subject of discipline 2 but this is possible only after four years by completing six papers whereas bsc programme students can now do msc after three years said abha d habib who teaches physics at miranda house