The Avinashilingam University for Women will offer new courses from this academic year.

Speaking to presspersons here on Wednesday, Saroja Prabhakaran, Vice-Chancellor of the university, said that Master of Social Work (MSW) and M.Sc Counselling Psychology would be started in the 2008-2009 academic year.

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M.Sc Information Technology and Management, Executive MBA (e-learning) and P.P.Ed. Bachelor of Physical Education were also new courses that had already been introduced.

Post-Graduate Diploma courses in Chem Informatics and Multimedia Design were also courses that were recently introduced.

The university, along with The Institute of Environmental and Human Health, Texas Tech University, the U.S.A, would host the fifth edition of the international conference on “Advances in Textiles, Non-woven, and technical textiles 2008” in July.