Lucknow, UTTAR PRADESH :

Lucknow :

The Urdu department of Lucknow University (LU) will be introducing a two years masters degree in Awadh culture from the coming session. The course will incorporate everything synonymous with Awadh in its course structure.

Announced by vice chancellor (VC), SB Nimse during the International Urdu Conference organised by the university’s Urdu department and Maulana Azad Institute of Humanities, Science and Technology, Mahmudabad, the degree will accommodate 130 students in one batch. A language lab has also been set up in the department, he said.

“The course will be all about Awadh. Its festival, its Muharram, its Angarkha, topi and sherwani to Awadhi poets and writers, its architecture and places of worship, everything Awadh,” added head of the department, Abbas Raza Nayyar.

“We further plan to bifurcate these 130 seats into three more disciplines including Urdu literature, linguistic and also an MA in Mass Communication for which the language lab is set,” he added.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Lucknow / by Ashish Tripathi & Yusra Husain / TNN / May 03rd, 2016