SWS programmes differ from the regular semester ones in terms of structure, approach and content. The key words that capture the spirit of SWS are experimental, variety and innovation. They explore emerging areas, provide space to test new ideas and methods, facilitate in situ experience, help understand critical sites and situations, and create opportunities to learn by making. The courses in SWS
are intense and are for a short and period of two to four weeks. Faculties’ help students understand the nature and orientation of the courses and enable them to make a well-informed choice. To achieve this, they explicitly state the objectives, mode of teaching or working, and learning outcomes of the courses up front. In the previous SWS, students have favoured sessions such as workshops, activities that are installation oriented and require travel, and opportunities that provide acquisition of specific skills. In coming years, this pallet would be expanded by offering more courses, that intellectually stimulates, involve multi-sensorial learning, focuses on specialized process and skill impartation. The Summer and Winter Schools are unique opportunities to expand horizon of learning, interact with a large group of enthusiastic and talented students, practitioners and academicians, and showcase CEPT academic initiatives. In years to come, the programmes would explore new avenues and grow in strength.
