Global Immersion and Floating Credits Programme

Each year select students from the undergraduate institutes of the Symbiosis International (Deemed University) go abroad on Exchange Programs. These students enroll for an educational program at a partner institute (planned and managed through Symbiosis Centre for International Education (SCIE) and study a set of courses for which credits are transferred back to their institute. In 2010, a Credit Equivalent Policy was put in place at SIU. Equivalence was brought to credits which were completed at Universities abroad and they were brought at par to SIU. These exchange programs are within the ambit of SIU’s Global Immersion Program. Students may travel abroad for an entire semester or less, even a summer course, and on their return, will present transcripts to their institute and SIU. The institute and SIU shall decide the equivalence of the program and the credits to be made available to the student before the student embarks on the GIP.

UG students will also be offered other value added learning experiences. These will fall within the ambit of the Floating Credits. These experiences will satisfy SIU’s goals of ensuring that all SIU students are exposed to critical components which contribute to their overall development as humane and sensitive citizens of India. This exposure would help inculcate good morals, ethics, civic sense and also enrich the total personality of each SIU student. In order to offer students, the opportunity to expand their horizons and integrate diverse fields of knowledge.

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Service Learning:
Volunteer work / community work which may encourage lifelong civic engagement. SID students typically engage with NGOs and other community service organizations to offer design services according to their needs.
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Skill Development:
Offer students an opportunity to learn and apply skills and abilities that require an understanding of multi-disciplinary issues and concepts. Provide them the satisfaction of having worked individually and in teams; think, read, write and speak logically and coherently.
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Inter-Institute Course:
Courses (outside the curriculum) from sister institutes on the same campus which are integrated into the timetable seamlessly. These courses are a unique feature of our academic programmes wherein a student of SID can choose courses offered by other UG institute of SIU like the Symbiosis Center for Media and Communication, Symbiosis Center for Management Studies, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis School of Photography and Visual Arts etc.
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Soft Skills:
Various crucial soft skills like communication, collaboration & team work, problem solving, time management and adaptability, networking and emotional intelligence are covered under soft skills. This course is offered as an extension to the Portfolio Making module so that students may be prepared with the relevant people skills to join the industry through internships and industry based design projects.
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