About the Department
| 1. | Name of the department: | ZOOLOGY |
| 2. | Year of Establishment: | Intermediate: 1925 B.Sc. Honours :1973 M.Sc.:2009 |
| 3. | Names of Programmes/ Courses offered: (UG, PG, MPhil, PhD, Integrated Masters, Integrated PhD etc. | B.SC in ZOOLOGY HONOURS B.SC in ZOOLOGY GENERAL M.SC in ZOOLOGY CBCC in ZOOLOGY for M.Sc. Environmental Science |
| 4. | Names of Interdisciplinary courses and the departments/ units involved | At the UG level: Zoology generic in IFF (Major), Botany (H), Biochemistry (H), Microbiology (H) and Environmental Science (H) & B.Sc General Stream students At PG level, CBCC in Zoology for the students of M.Sc. in Environmental Science under University of Calcutta. |
| 5. | Annual/ semester/ choice based credit system (programme wise) | Semester System as per the University of Calcutta Curriculum |
| 6. | Certificate course | Apiculture and Sericulture (Implementation year: 2022) |
| 7. | Library Facility | Seminar Library consisting of 464 books for B.Sc Course 105 books are currently available in the Library facility of the Centenary Building for M.Sc. Course They can also access the subscribed Journals through NLIST consortium under Inflibnet. |
| 8. | Laboratory Facility | The Department has three well-equipped laboratories and also has access to the WB DST-sponsored BOOST laboratory. Few of the instruments are enlisted below; |