All the candidates having required qualifications are admitted.
Duration:
Two Years
Medium of Instruction:
Course material is in Urdu. However a student may opt English for assignments and examination.
Teaching Methodology:
Distance learning system with correspondence and tutorial support where applicable
AIOU Credits Required:
Eight credits
Course Required:
There are four groups of B.A. level. Library and Information Sciences is one of four groups. For this group, a student has to pass six full credit compulsory courses and two full credit or equal optional courses.
Compulsory Courses: 416-Islamic Studies (Half) 417-Pakistan Studies(Half) 418-Ethics (For Non-Muslim students only) In lieu of 416(Half) 422*-Organizing Library Resources(Full) 423*-Library Services(Full) 435-Functional English(Full) 466-History of Libraries with Reference to Pakistan(Full) 467-Classification and Cataloguing(Full)
* 422 and 423 are pre-requisite courses for 466 and 467 respectively.
Elective Courses:
(any two full credits or equal) 404-Urdu(Full) 419-Education(Full) 427-Pakistani Adab-I(Half) 431-Reporting(Half) 451-Public Relations(Half) 452-Mass Communication(Half) 455-Book Editing(Half) 461-Advertising(Half)
** Course material is in Urdu. However a student may opt English for assignments and examination.
