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If you think B Com Hons and BA English is done to death, how about graduating in pest control?

If you thought nothing could get drearier than straightjacketed studies at Delhi University, we have good news.
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The capital's largest campus now has on its menu some cool, quirky courses, like Occupational Therapy, Materials Management and even Pest Control.
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"These courses are not in high demand yet, only because there isn't enough awareness.
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It pays to know more about them, because they're highly relevant in the current context," says Dhani Ram, assistant professor and member of Delhi University Academic Council.
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So while you wrack your brains over the offbeat track you'd like to take, we give you a lowdown on some new, never-before subjects to opt for.u00a0

BA (Small & Medium Enterprises)
College: College of Vocational Studies
What you specialise in: The purpose of this paper is to prepare a ground where students view entrepreneurship in a new light. In particular, the paper seeks to build the necessary competencies and motivation for a career in entrepreneurship and corporate leading. Basic skills in operations, finance, marketing and human resource management are imparted.

BSc (Hons) Occupational Therapy
College: Pt Deen Dayal Institute
What you specialise in: It incorporates training methods in purposeful ways to enable people with limitations or impairments to participate in everyday life. Occupational Therapists work with individuals, families, groups and populations to facilitate health and well-being through engagement or re-engagement in occupation. Trainees learn to enhance an individual's ability to participate, by modifying the environment, or by adapting the activity to better support participation.

BA (Materials Management)
College: College of Vocational Studies
What you specialise in: The course helps students gain a better theoretical and practical understanding of planning, organising, and controlling activities concerned with the flow of materials into an organisation.

Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Hons) Food Tech
Colleges: Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences
Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Science for Women
What you specialise in: It is the application of food science to the selection, preservation, processing, packaging, distribution, and use of safe, nutritious, and wholesome food. Food scientists and food technologists study the physical, microbiological, and chemical makeup of food. Educational tours and industrial training are an important part of this course, which enables the students to integrate their theoretical knowledge with professional skills.

BSc (Agro-Chemical and Pest Control)
College: Swami Shraddhanand College
What you specialise in: Environmentally and economically viable agriculture requires a variety of cultivation practices and pest management options, as no one system is flawless. This course educates the students about the ways to protect the crops from pests and diseases, and thus, increases the yield. If agriculture has always fascinated you and your hometown happens to be field-dominated, you might wanna go in for this one.

Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Hons) Instrumentation
College: Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences
Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Science for Women
What you specialise in: Students will receive both theoretical as well as practical knowledge of sophisticated instruments used in biomedical, nuclear, analytical and pharmaceutical fields, making you an expert machine man. This course also finds application in clinical laboratories. The curriculum includes industrial exposure of the students through summer training, project work and various seminars.