India, March 14 -- Delhi University's Anthropology Department is preparing to propose a new discipline-specific elective on 'Linguistic Anthropology' for the second year of the master's programme under the postgraduate curriculum framework, 2024.

Titled 'M.Sc. Linguistic Anthropology', the paper is expected to carry four credits and will be laid before the Standing Committee for Academic Affairs at their next meeting. Once approved by the committee, the proposal will be forwarded to the Academic Council and then the Executive Council before being included in the syllabus.

Dannarapu Venkata Prasad, professor at the Department of Anthropology, said, "We hope to introduce the paper as an elective for now and then later as a core paper."

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