Introduction, genesis & evolution of marketing in society, Importance and Scope of Marketing, Elements of Marketing – Need, Want, Demand, Desire, Marketing Philosophies, Mccarthy’s 4P classification, Lauterborn’s 4C’s classification & 4A’s Framework of rural marketing, Product service continuum.

Basics of Marketing Environment, Factors Affecting Marketing Environment, Environmental analysis – SWOT & PESTLE, Marketing Environment in India, Legal & regulatory framework in India, Marketing Mix (Four Ps of Marketing).

Market Segmentation, Basis of segmentation & its types - Demographic, Geographic, Psychographic and behavioral Segmentation etc, Targeting- Five Patterns of Target Market Selection, Positioning-Concept of Positioning, Perceptual Mapping.

Product Life Cycle concept, marketing implications of PLC stages, corresponding strategies, dealing with competition, Perceptual Mapping, Consumer Behaviour – Rational V/s Emotional, Consumer proposition & acquisition process, buying motives, its types, Consumer Behaviour process

Nature, Meaning and Significance of Sales Management and Personal selling; Evolution of Sales Management, Role of Selling in Marketing, Characteristics of a successful Salesman; Types of Selling, Selling Functions, Sales Funnel; Process of Effective Selling: Sales strategies; Prospecting: Meaning, process & methods; Ways to approach a customer

Sales presentation; Handling objections; Closing a sale; Current issues in sales management; Case lets and applications, Meaning of Sales Force Management; Determining the sales force and size of the sales force, Introduction to: Sales organization concepts; Sales territories

1. Kotler, P., & Keller, K. (2015). Marketing management 15th edition. Prentice Hall.
2. Kotler, P. (2013). Marketing management: A south Asian perspective.  13^th edition, Pearson Education India.
3. Panda, T. K., & Sahadev, S. (2^nd Edition, 2011). Sales and distribution management. Oxford Publication.
4. Spiro, R. L., Rich, G. A., & Stanton, W. J. (12^th Edition, 2008). Management of a sales force. McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

1. Ramaswami, S., Namakumari. S,(2013) marketing management–Global Perspective Indian Context, Macmillan Publishers India Ltd, 5th Edition
2. Rajan Saxena, Marketing Management, (2009) 4th edition, Tata McGraw-Hill Education
3. Etzel M.J., Walker B.J. and Stanton William J - Marketing concept & Cases special Indian 14^th Edition Tata Mc Graw Hill.
4. Czinkota, Kotabe, Marketing Management, II edition, Thomson Publications.
5. Still, R. R., Cundiff, E. W., & Govoni, N. A. (1988). Sales management: decisions, strategies, and    cases, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
6. Coughlan, A. T., Anderson, E., Stern, L. W., & Adel, I. (2006). El-Ansary. Marketing Channels. Prentice-Hall.
7. Jobber, D., & Lancaster, G. (2007). Selling and sales management. Painos. Harlow: Pearson Education.
8. Cron, Decarlo T. E. (2016). Sales Management concepts and cases: Wiley India
9. Pingali Venugopal (2008). Sales and Distribution Management, Sage Publication 

CIA 2: 20 MARKS ( LATER CONVERTED TO 10 MARKS)

CIA 3: 50 MARKS ( LATER CONVERTED TO 25 MARKS)

Attendance 5 marks 

Total 50 marks 

The success of organizations are predominantly determined by the effectiveness of it people resources. To succeed in this global competition, it is imperative for the organizations to build hig performing teams. The core of building high performing teams is to understand team dynamics and build collaboration within teams, between teams and work as a team of teams. The course will enable the students to understand the nuances of team dynamics, experience the power of synergy working as a team and collaborate effectively for the benefit of personal, organizational and societal growth.

The course aims: 

●        To facilitate better understanding of group and phases of group development

●        To provide a deeper understanding of team dynamics and qualities of being a good team player

●        Resolve team conflicts and build synergy

●        Build trust, offer constructive feedback, coach and mentor others

To inculcate the spirit of working as a team

Concept of Groups, why people join groups, Phases of Group Development, Group Cohesiveness, Group Think, Group Decision Making, Techniques.

Concept of Team, Significance of working as Team, Difference between Work Groups and Work Teams, Types of Teams, Team Effectiveness, Qualities of a good Team Player, Self-Managed Teams.

Concept of Team Building, Barriers to Team Building, Resolving Team Conflicts, Achieving Synergy through team work.

Building Trust and Credibility, Constructive Feedback, Coaching and Mentoring.

Bonding, Team Building, Trust Building, Team Competitive Games, Group Dynamics, Identifying High Performing Teams and Achieving Team Effectiveness.

Higher Education

 Leadership: Enhancing the lessons of experience by Hughes, R.L., Ginnett, R.C., & Curphy, G.J. (2019), 9th Edition, McGraw Hill Education, Chennai, India.

●       https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/2020/09/16/14-characteristics-of-high-performing-teams/?sh=4708d51316c6

https://hbr.org/2021/10/5-things-high-performing-teams-do-differently

CIA 2- 10 MARKS

CIA3- 25 MARKS

ATTENDANCE- 5 MARKS

Human Resource is considered as a valuable resource in every organization. The world class companies compete among themselves to attract the best talent across the globe.  They view talent as competitive differentiator and one where the acquisition, engagement, development and retention of talent is considered as a strategic priority of business.  This course exposes the students to methods and practices to acquire, engage and develop talent, focus on development of strategic leaders within an organization and also deals with how talent and knowledge can be managed effectively for the development of the organization

Meaning and concept of talent management, need and scope for talent management, Talent vs Knowledge, Talent management models: Process and Integrated model, Talent management initiatives, Techniques for potential appraisal, Talent management grid, Benefits of talent management.

Building blocks for talent management strategy, Developing and implementing Effective Talent Management System, Measuring the effectiveness of talent management, creating talent management system for organizational excellence.

Competency Mapping- Meaning, Importance and Steps in competency mapping, Competency model, Role of leaders and HR in talent management, Talent Management Approaches, Mapping Business Strategies and Talent Management Strategies, Achieving competitive advantage, Best practices in talent management- Case studies

Introduction to knowledge management, types of knowledge, Benefits of Knowledge Management, Integrating talent management and knowledge management, Role of Information technology in talent and knowledge management.

Introduction, Use of Technology in Talent Management, Use of AI in Talent Management, Talent Management using Design Thinking

Experiential Learning Activity: Identifying any one organization in the manufacturing or service sector- Interacting, observing and conducting interviews with their senior HR leaders to understand how they manage and retain talent in their organizations.  

●       Mohapatra.M & Dhir.S (2022); Talent Management-A contemporary perspective (2022), Sage Publications

●       Marshal Gold Smith and Louis Carter (2018): Best practices in talent management, A Publication of the practice institute, Pfeiffer, A Wiley Imprint.

●       Atheer Abdullah Mohammed (2019), Integrating Talent and Knowledge Management: Theory and practice, Lamber Publishing co.,

●       Cappeli Peter: Talent on Demand –Managing Talent in an age of uncertainty, Harvard Business press.

Sphr Doris Sims, Sphr Matthew Gay(2007),Building Tomorrow’s Talent : A Practitioner’s Guide to Talent Management and Succession Planning, Author House

Entrepreneurship is not just about start-ups: it is a topic that is rapidly growing in importance in government policy and in the behaviour of established firms. The course provides students with an understanding of the role and personality of the entrepreneur, and a range of skills aimed at successful planning of entrepreneurial ventures. Material covered includes fostering creativity and open-mindedness, knowledge acquisition and management, innovation systems, screening and evaluating new venture concepts, market evaluation and developing a marketing plan, legal Issues Including intellectual property, preparation of venture budgets, and raising finance. The major piece of assessment is the writing of a comprehensive business plan for a new venture.

Evolution, Characteristics, Nature of Entrepreneurship, Types, Functions of Entrepreneur, Distinction between an Entrepreneur and a Manager, Concept, Growth of Entrepreneurship in India, Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Development, Emerging trends of contemporary entrepreneurship – Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Globalisation, changing demands, unemployment, changing demographics, Institutional support, ease of entry in the informal sector

Steps in the Entrepreneurial Process: Generating Ideas, Opportunity Identification, Business concepts, Businessconcepts,Resources(Financial,PhysicalandHuman), Implementing and managing the venture, Harvesting the venture, Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, Agile thinking and Lean thinking Blue Ocean Strategy, Role and relevance of mentors, Incubation cell, Methods of brainstorming ideas.

Creativity, Principles of creativity, Source of New Idea, Ideas into Opportunities. CreativeProblemSolving:Heuristics,Brainstorming,Synectics, ValueAnalysisInnovationandEntrepreneurship: Profits and Innovation, Principles of Innovation, Disruptive, Incrementaland Open innovations, Nurturing and Managing Innovation, Globalization, Concept andModelsofInnovation, MethodsofprotectingInnovationandcreativity,SignificanceofIntellectualPropertyRights,Patents & Copy right, Business Model Canvas, and Lean Management. 

EssentialsofBusinessOwnership:Typesofventures,RiskandBenefits,LegalandRegulatoryFramework,EthicsandSocialResponsibility,MarketResearch(ventureopportunityscreening), Feasibility Analysis, Introduction to the Business Plan, Developing the BusinessModel for starting a new venture, E-Commerce and Growing the Venture: The Internet andits impact on venture development

Approaches to E-Commerce, Strategies for E-CommerceSuccess,The nature of international entrepreneurship and their importance

Different sources of financing for start-ups, stages of financing involve in start-ups, advantages and disadvantages of the different sources of financing, Mezzanine finance, Specific financial assistance from government and financial institutions to promote entrepreneurship, Venture Valuation Methods

CIA I (b) Video Content Creation

CIA II Case Study Analysis

CIA III (a) Multiple Choice Questions(MCQ)

CIA III (b) Business Plan Creation + VIVA

CIA I (a): Week 1 & 2: MCQ (5 Marks)

Google Form/Google Classroom based Quiz consisting of MCQs to test the basic concepts relating to Unit 1 and 2. The date of examination is on or before 05-08-2023.  This would be an individual assessment with a set of 10 questions, 5 each from unit 1 and 2.  The details of this assignment, and the penalties for not attending shall be posted in the Google Classroom.

CIA I (b) Preparing a video interview of an Entrepreneur (Individual Assignment) 10 marks

Every student shall identify an entrepreneur and prepare a 15 minutes video interview on them.  Orientation about the video preparation shall be given by the respective faculty in the first week of the semester itself. Later a Google spreadsheet of students list shall be sent to the students.  Within a week the students need to enter the name of the entrepreneurs identified so as to avoid repetition in their selections and start preparing the interview. Once the entrepreneur is finalized, an orientation about plagiarism policies shall be given by the faculty.  The last date of the video submission is 10-08-2023, before 06:00 PM.  Inability to submit the video on or before the due date should be priorly intimated to the faculty.  Any delay in submission without prior consent or approval shall lead to a penalty of marking the student ZERO in this component. 

The video shall be assessed based on the following rubrics. Report submitted will be valued for 10 marks.

More details of the report:

1. The video should include genesis, growth, management contributions, challenges, how they overcome, achievements, major entrepreneurship inferences.
2. References and sources should be mentioned as per APA 6^th Edition, towards the end of the video.
3. The video interview should be a minimum of 15 minutes.
4. Last date for submission 10^th August 2023, late submission within two days of the scheduled date, will carry a penalty deduction of two marks. 

CIA II - Case Study (15 marks)

Group of not more than six members in a team will be formed randomly in the class based on the subject teacher’s discretion. Each group shall gather content and solve the assigned case study and submit a written report of the same. Report shall include the introduction to the case, highlights and objectives, conceptual definitions, detailed analysis, findings and suggestion, conclusion.  Groups are free to use all authentic sources to gather information. Once the case study is finalized, an orientation about case analysis, report writing, and plagiarism policies shall be given by the faculty.  The last date of the case analysis report submission is 30-09-2022, before 06:00 PM.  The report can be supported with article reviews, statistical facts and examples and book references.

More Details of the Report:

1.      Case Study has to be based on growth of Entrepreneurship in India or Emerging trends of contemporary entrepreneurship.

2. References as per APA 6^th Edition, and Appendix.
3. Detailed analysis of the problem and alternatives available should form part of the report.
4. The written report should be a minimum of 6 pages.
5. Last date for submission 30^th September, 2023, late submission within two days of the scheduled date, will carry a penalty deduction of two marks. 

CIA III (a): Week 15 & 16: MCQ (5 Marks)

Google Form/Google Classroom based Quiz consisting of MCQs to test the basic concepts relating to Unit 1 and 2. The date of examination is on or before 02-11-2023.  This would be an individual assessment with a set of 10 questions, 5 each from Units 1 and 2.  The details of this assignment, and the penalties for not attending shall be posted in the Google Classroom.

CIA III (b) Business Plan and viva-voce (10 marks)

The same group allotted for Case Study report shall continue. Once the idea for the business plan is finalized, an orientation about various components of the business plan, report writing, and plagiarism policies shall be given by the faculty. However, every student shall contribute in the construction of a creative and technical business plan in detail consisting details from idea to implementation stage. The report will be valued for 10 marks by a panel of three external reviewers. The assessment criteria shall be discussed and finalized before the final submission and in consonance with the inputs and suggestions of the reviewers identified.  This criterion shall also be presented and discussed with the students prior to the final submission.  Though this is a group assignment, the assessment of the contribution of each student would be done individually.

More Details of the Report:

§  The report shall include details on value proposition, business and revenue model, sustainability

§  The written report should be a minimum of 10 pages.

§  References as per APA 6^th Edition, and Appendix.

Last date for submission 5^th November 2023, late submission within two days of the scheduled date, will carry a penalty deduction of two mark 

The course aims at enhancing their financial skills as well as training the students to be financial educators with family and friends. There is a need for students to effectively plan and monitor their spending. The course aims at effectively training students and equipping them with the knowledge and tools to manage their finances and also teach others the same.

Introduction, Evolution, Meaning and importance of -  Income, Expenses, Savings, Budget, Money, Currency, Bank account, savings investment, JAM-balance sheet – purpose features, format – Technology in finance – FinTech, TechFin, Regtech, sandox, Mobile-based Banking – post offices – Savings vs investments – Power of Compounding – risk and Return-Time Value of Money- Simple Interest-Compound Interest-

Introduction to Financial Planning - Analysing the resources of the person - Concepts in Financial Planning:The time value of money, Diversification - 'spreading risk', Investment Timing - Financial Products for Savers: Financial Products options for savers, personal budget – family budget – financial planning procedure.

Introduction and evolution of Banking – Banking in India – RBI – Role of RBI in India– Savings and Deposits – Deposits, Accounts, KYC,e/v KYC Types of Deposits - Saving Bank Accounts, Fixed Deposit Accounts, Recurring Deposit Account, Special Term Deposit Schemes, Loans and Types of loan advanced by Banks and Other secondary functions of Bank – PAN, NSDL: PAN, Meaning of Cheque and types of cheques – CTS_MICR-IFSC – e- Banking – ATM, Debit, Credit, Smart Card, UPI, e-Wallets, Payment Banks-NPCI: Products and role in regulating the online payments, CIBIL – Banking complaints and Banking Ombudsman. Mutual Funds_ Types of Mutual Funds-NAV. Digital Currency-Bitcoin- NFO

Post Office Savings Account(SB)​​​​​, National Savings Recurring Deposit Account (RD)​​, ​National Savings Time Deposit Account (TD), National Savings Monthly Income Account (MIS), Senior Citizens Savings Scheme Account (SCSS)​, Public Provident Fund Account (PPF)​, Sukanya Samriddhi Account (SSA)​, National Savings Certificates (VIIIth Issue) (NSC), Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP), PM CARES for Children Scheme, 2021, Interest rates (New)​, How to avail services, Schedule of Fee – IPBS – KYC. Employees Provident Fund (EPF) - Public Provident Fund (PPF), Superannuation Fund, Gratuity, Other Pension Plan, and Post-retire Counselling-National Pension Scheme(NPS)

Life Insurance Policies: Life Insurance, Term Life Insurance, Pension Policies, ULIP, Health Insurance, Endowment Policies, Property Insurance: Policies offered by various general insurance companies. Post office life Insurance Schemes: Postal Life Insurance and Rural Postal Life Insurance (PLI/RPLI). Housing Loans: Institutions providing housing loans, loans under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Rural and Urban-Atal Pension Yojana (APS),

1. Mittra, S., Rai, S. K., Sahu, A. P., & Starn, H. J. (2015). Financial Planning. New Delhi: Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd.
2. https://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/content/pdfs/GUIDE310113_F.pdf

CIA2  25 marks 

ESE  50 marks 

This course provides the knowledge base for understanding the workings of Excel. The primary objective of the course is to familiarize the students with the basics of Microsoft excel. The course introduces the students to financial analysis. Further, the course also deals with the practical application of Microsoft Excel in day-to-day business activities. As a prerequisite, the students should have basic knowledge of computers and MS Office.

Understanding the concept of a spreadsheet - Identifying the components of a spreadsheet

Navigating the Excel interface – Comparison of various version of Microsoft excel - Creating a new spreadsheet- Entering data into cells - Formatting data (fonts, colors, borders) - Adjusting column width and row height - Merging and splitting cells - Basic Excel functions: Structure of an excel function, functions such as SUM (), MIN (), MAX (), AVERAGE (), COUNT (), AUTOSUM, AUTOFILL. Working with an Excel List: Understanding Excel List Structure, Sorting a List Using Single Level Sort, Sorting a List Using Multi-Level Sorts, Using Custom Sorts in an Excel List, Filter an Excel List Using the AutoFilter, Creating Subtotals in a List, Format a List as a Table, Using Conditional Formatting to Find Duplicates, Removing Duplicates.

Excel Data Validation: Understanding the Need for Data Validation, Creating a Validation. List, Adding a Custom Validation Error, Dynamic Formulas by Using Validation Techniques – Protecting range, formula, entire workbook – inserting header and footer

Understanding Excel PivotTables, Creating an Excel PivotTable, Modifying Excel PivotTable Calculations, Grouping PivotTable Data, Formatting PivotTable Data, Drilling Down into PivotTable Data, Creating Pivot Charts, Filtering PivotTable Data, Filtering with the Slicer Tool

Conditional Functions: Working with Excel Name Ranges, Using Excel's IF () Function, Nesting Functions, Using Excel's COUNTIF () Function, Using Excel's SUMIF () Function, Using Excel's IFERROR () Function. Working with Large Sets of Excel Data: Using the Freeze Panes Tool, Grouping Data (Columns and/or Rows), Consolidating Data from Multiple Worksheets. Printing of excel worksheet – alignment, printing of selection, range, entire workbook – mail merge using excel

Excel's Lookup Functions: Using Excel's VLOOKUP() Function, Using Excel's HLOOKUP() Function, Using Excel's INDEX() and MATCH() Functions. Excel's Text-Based Functions: Using Excel's functions such as LEFT(), RIGHT() and MID(), LEN(), SEARCH(), CONCATENATE(). Time value of money - present value of money - capital budgeting, Net present value, Internal rate of return. Statistical function - Introduction to macros. Creation of simple macro functions

Excel 2010 Formulas, by Wiley Publishing, 2010 Edition.

This course covers the programming paradigms associated with Python. It provides a comprehensive understanding of Python data types, functions and modules with a focus on modular programming.

INTRODUCING PYTHON

Introduction, Python Fundamentals, Features of Python, Components of a Python Program, Understanding the interpreter.

Python basics:

Identifiers, Basic Types, Operators, Precedence and Associativity, Decision Control Structures, Looping Structures, Console input, output.

Practical Exercises:

1.Implement Basic data types, Control structures and operators.

2.Exercise on console input and output.

PYTHON DATA TYPES

Strings,Lists:Accessingelements,Basic List operations, Built-in methods

Tuples: working with elements, Basic Tuple operation, Tuple methods and Type of Tuples 

Sets: Definition, Set Elements, Built-in methods, basic set operations, Mathematical Set operation, Variety of Sets.

Dictionaries: Defining a dictionary, accessing elements, basic operations, methods.

COMPREHENSIONS and FUNCTIONS

 Comprehensions:ListComprehensions, Set Comprehension, Dictionary Comprehension.

Functions: Defining a function, Types of arguments, unpacking arguments.

Recursive functions.Main module, built-in, custommodules, importing a module.

Practical Exercises:

    1. Implement Tuples

    2. Implement Dictionary

    3. Implement Set

    4.ImplementList, Set and Dictionary Comprehensions

    5.Implement Recursive function

NUMPY 

Introduction to NumPy, Aggregations Computation on Arrays, Comparisons, Sorting Arrays.

PANDAS

Introduction to Pandas: Data indexing and Selection, Operating on Data, Handling Missing Data.

[1]Martin Brown, Python:The Complete Reference,     McGraw Hill Publications,4th Edition March 2018.

[2]Yashavant Kanetkar,Aditya Kanetkar, Let Us Python, BPB Publications ,4th Edition 2022.

[2]Zhang.Y      ,An      Introduction     to         Pythonand      Computer            Programming,Springer Publications,2015

The course –Market and Economy – covers the pertinent themes in both Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. It aims at providing a systematic introduction to mainstream approaches to the study of economics and enable students to understand the basic concepts of economic development.

Ten Principles of Economics, Market, People and Economy: How people make decisions, how people interact and how the economy as a whole works State and Economy, Models and Theories in Economics: Role of Assumptions and Economic Models, Wants and Resources, Problem of Choice, Production Possibility Frontier, Opportunity Costs

Law of demand, Reasons for the downward slope of the demand curve, Exceptions to the law; Changes in demand; Elasticity of Demand; Degrees of price elasticity with diagrams; Factors determining price elasticity, methods of measurement. Income elasticity demand; Cross elasticity demand, Laws of supply, Changes in supply- Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of the Markets: Consumer’s surplus (Marshall), Producer surplus and Market efficiency- Externalities and Market inefficiency; Market Equilibrium; Public goods and common resources.

The consumption decision - budget constraint, consumption and income/price changes, demand for all other goods and price changes; description of preferences (representing preferences with indifference curves); properties of indifference curves; consumer‘s optimum choice; income and substitution effects; labour supply and savings decision - choice between leisure and consumption.

2.     Mankiw, N. G.  (2017). Principles of Microeconomics (8^th ed.). MA: Cengage Learning.

3.     Ahuja, H.L. (2016). Principles of Microeconomics. New Delhi: S. Chand

2.     Mankiw, N. G. (2011). Economics: Principles and Applications (10th ed.). MA: Cengage Learning.

Academic Skills are a blend of theoretical ability to recognize the nuances of language aspects and hands-on training to exercise the acquired knowledge in reasoning, reading and writing. Academic Skills focus on developing research skills through careful reading and critical writing that are considered foundational and crucial in textual scholarship and knowledge production. The participants of this course will determine their areas of interest in conceptualizing their seminal work and constructing a reasoned argument. This course prompts the participants to take their learning-receptive skills and productive skills in a purpose-driven and practice-oriented mode on a contextual basis.

The course deals with receptive skills (reading) and productive skills (writing). In fact listening and speaking skills are not directly involved but act as a higher cognitive process. This course facilitates the participants with varied practices, tasks, exemplars, sample papers to practice with context-driven reading material. It runs for one full academic year with specific learning outcomes which are two-fold – conceptual grasp and textual application. The whole course and its structure involve Bloom’s taxonomy of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation and synthesis.

Objectives

To enable the learner

•       acquire higher order receptive and productive skills

•       develop reading skills at the higher education level

•       be aware of functional grammar to improve research writing skills

•       grasp and apply the mechanics in academic writing skills

•       use study skills for research-based knowledge dissemination (writing a paper or presentation)

To enable learners to fine tune their expressions through better choice of words and sentence structures with clarity of idea.

Introduction to the course Developing Academic Skills

Vocabulary nuances (verb and noun forms)

Subject-verb agreement

Literary devices

Figures of speech

Concept mapping

To enable students to develop appropriate reading comprehension skills through nuanced understanding of reading techniques.

Previewing

Reading for Main Ideas

Active and Passive reading

Skimming/Scanning for Details

To enable students to use basic study skills to organize knowledge received and to streamline their ideas into appropriate academic discourse.

Annotation

Outlining

Summarising

Paraphrasing

to enable students to understand and appreciate different kinds of literature and express their understanding in the form of short paragraphs or essays

Approaches to LS

Features of LS

Importance of LS at university level education

Practical sessions

To enable students to listen to lectures and take notes and organize these to discuss or write about concepts or show application of knowledge

Note taking types

Note making

Introduction to Mnemonics

Types of mnemonics

To enable students to develop the art of critical reading through close reading formulas

Finding oppositions

Critical Appreciation

Developing an argument

Set of hours for application

Exemplars

(Self Study Learning, Portfolio Building, teaching on Formative and Summative assessment mode, Problem Based Learning modules and project Submission)

1.      Langan, J. (1995). English Skills With Reading (3^rd Ed.). McGraw Hill. New York.

2.      Osmond, A. (2013). Academic Writing and Grammar for Students. Sage. Los Angeles.

3.      Robitaille, J. and Connelly, R. (2002).  Writer’s Resource: From Paragraph to Essay. Thomson Heinle. Australia.

Please note that the teacher in charge will also be bringing in authentic material to the class apart from the books mentioned in the reference.

CIA I – 20 MARKS- Tasks done in the portfolio based on Unit I

CIA II- 50 Marks- Tasks done in the portfolio based on Unit I and II

CIA III- 20 Marks- Tasks done in the portfolio based on Unit III

ESE Portfolio Submission

Course Description: This course offers an understanding to literary movements and genres. The focus is on form, structure and terminologies in literature. It enables students to interpret and critique texts and to understand that literature is representational. This course also examines texts in their socio-political context to engage with the historical context and cultural production of literature.

Course Objectives: This course aims to 

1.    offer a comprehensive understanding of the text and the contexts. 

2.     develop analytical and critical reading strategies

3.     enhance students to understand texts from multiple perspectives.

4.     develop analytical writing skills and to understand methods of interpretation

5.     acquire a literary vocabulary to read and write academic essays

Evolution from myths and folk tales

Ovid Metamorphoses (Book I excerpts)

Caedmon’s Hymn (Excerpts)

Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to Canterbury Tales (excerpts)

Thomas Malory - Morte Darthur (excerpts)

The Revival of Learning and Bible Translations

Johannes Gutenberg and the Print Culture

William Caxton and the English Press

Mystery, miracle and morality plays (festival of Corpus Christi)

Emergence of tragedies and comedies – from translations to English plays

Thomas More- Utopia (excerpts)

Francis Bacon - Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral (excerpts)

William Shakespeare – King Lear

Voltaire’s - Letters on the English (excerpts)

Rousseau – Discourse on Inequality (excerpts)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man (excerpts)

Preface to Lyrical Ballads (excerpts)

Maria Edgeworth -  Letters for Literary Ladies (excerpts)

Shelley – To Skylark

R W Emerson – Self- reliance

Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlett Letter

William Faulkner - The Sound and The Fury

Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own

T.S Eliot – Ash Wednesday

Caedmon’s Hymn (Excerpts)

Geoffrey Chaucer – Prologue to Canterbury Tales (excerpts)

Thomas Malory - Morte Darthur (excerpts)

Thomas More- Utopia (excerpts)

Francis Bacon - Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral (excerpts)

William Shakespeare – King Lear

Voltaire’s - Letters on the English (excerpts)

Rousseau – Discourse on Inequality (excerpts)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man (excerpts)

Preface to Lyrical Ballads (excerpts)

Maria Edgeworth -  Letters for Literary Ladies (excerpts)

Shelley – To Skylark

R W Emerson – Self- reliance

Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlett Letter

William Faulkner - The Sound and The Fury

Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own

T.S Eliot – Ash Wednesday

The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, 4th edition (1999)

The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 5th edition

An Outline History of English Literature, William Henry Hudson (1999)

CIA I - 20 Marks 

1. A class test based on the text

2. Essay on concepts and its application

3. A book/film/media review

CIA III - 20 Marks, the students can be asked

1. To prepare group presentations on topics relevant to the units

2. To put up an exhibition/display of

MSE - 50 Marks - Centralized Exam

(5 out of 7) x 10=50 Marks

ESE - 50 Marks - Centralized Exam

(5 out of 7) x 10=50 Marks 

This is an introductory course to understanding the emergence and development of crime fiction as a literary genre. Once considered as popular literature insignificant to the canon, crime fiction exists as a genre that is relevant to the current times, especially to understand the society in which we live in today. This course will engage discussions on the concepts of crime and justice, and enable students to identify how crime impacts individuals and communities. Certain discourses will include socio-cultural understanding of crime and punishment, role of detectives and police officers and their interactions with civilians, and how gender, race, class, religion play a role in these narratives. Through this course, students will critically analyse textual works in the form of short stories, chapters, essays, novels, along with visual sources such as documentaries, films, television and web series and animated works.

Course Objectives

The objective of this course is to:

●      Sensitise students to the real-world scenario of conflict and violence and its consequence thereof.

●      Introduce crime fiction and its sub-genres

●      Study the impact of crime on literature and society.

●      Explore different forms of crime fiction from across the globe.

●      Identify works of crime fiction that are yet unexplored such as regional works with linguistic variabilities.

This unit will focus on understanding how we define crime. It will look into various instances of crimes such as homicide, war crimes, white collar crime, physical assault, terrorism and so on, across societies in history. The unit will include how punishment and torture were used as tools to persuade the masses to follow law and order. Prison systems based on the panopticon will also be considered. This unit aims at understanding the society around us and how incidences of crime shapes our lives today.

Topics for Discussion:

●      Crime

○      War Crimes (Jews genocide, Russia Ukraine War, Kashmiri Pundit genocide)

○      Homicide (Jack the Ripper murder case)

○      Rape and assault (December 16th; Partition narratives)

○      White Collar crimes (Frank Abagnale Jr, Harshad Mehta)

○      Terrorism (9/11, 26/11)

●      Punishment

○      Torture Instruments

○      Prisons (Panopticon: Cellular Jail)

Readings:

●      Beccaria, C. (1764). An essay on crime and punishments. The Portable Enlightenment Reader, 525-532. Ed. Isaac Kramnick. USA: Penguin Books, 1995. Print.

●      Bentham, J. (1789). Cases unmeet for punishment. The Portable Enlightenment Reader, 541-546. Ed. Isaac Kramnick. USA: Penguin Books, 1995. Print.

Suggested Reading

●      Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and ideological state apparatuses (notes towards an investigation) (1970)." Cultural theory: an Anthology (2010): 204-222.

●      Foucault, Michel. “Discipline and Punish”.  Readings in the Theory of Religion. Routledge, 2016. 549-566.

●      Dostoevsky.  Crime and Punishment.

This unit will focus on the emergence of crime fiction from mystery stories, riddles and puzzles. It will explore how crime fiction has developed over a period of time into different sub-genres.

Topics for Discussion:

●      Definition of crime fiction

●      Sub-genres of crime fiction

●      Rules of writing crime fiction

Readings:

●      Todorov, Tzvetan. “The Typology of Detective Fiction”. Poetics of Prose. 1966.

●      Edgar Allan Poe. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”. 1841.

●      Arthur Conan Doyle. “A Scandal in Bohemia”. 1891.

Suggested Readings:

●      SS Van Dine’s “Twenty Rules of Writing Detective Stories” (1928)

●      Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex

●      Select folk tales of Charles Perrault and Grimm Brothers.

●      Arthur Conan Doyle “The Red Headed League”. 1891. ​The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes​. Project Gutenberg, EBook, 2002. 18-33

●      Scaggs, John. Crime Fiction: A New Critical Idiom. Oxon: Routledge, 2005

●      Wilder, Ursula M. “Odysseus, the Archetypal Spy”. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 2021, pp. 1–17. DOI: 10.1080/08850607.2020.1847517.

●      Auden, W. H. “The Guilty Vicarage: Notes on the Detective Story, by an Addict”. Harper’s Magazine. May 1948 issue. Web. https://harpers.org/archive/1948/05/the-guiltyvicarage/

●      Kayman, Martin A. “The Short Story from Poe to Chesterton”. The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Ed. Martin Priestman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 41–58.

●      Seed, David. “Spy Fiction”. The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Ed. Martin Priestman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 115–134.

From short stories to the novel form, crime fiction has become more elaborate in terms of how it reflects the society and culture of its setting. This unit delves into the emergence of the police officers in crime fiction narrative as a public figure as opposed to the private detective. Concepts of policing system and jurisprudence will be discussed here along with social issues related to race, gender, class as reflected in the texts.

Reading:

●      Keigo Higashino. Malice. 1996.

Suggested Readings

●      Rendell, Ruth. Simisola. New York: Kingsmarkham Enterprises Ltd, Dell Publishing, 1995.

●      Dove, George N. The Police Procedural. Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1982.

●      James, P.D. “The Art of the Detective Novel”. Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, vol. 133, no. 5349, 1985, pp. 637–649. Web. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41374015

●      ---, Talking About Detective Fiction. New York: Vintage Books, 2009.

●      ---, “P.D. James: ‘Some People Find Conventions Liberating’”. Interview by Sarah Crown. YouTube, uploaded by The Guardian, 6 August 2010. Web. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAECcqmDTaM

●      Knight, Stephen. Crime Fiction, 1800-2000: Detection, Death, Diversity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

●      Effron, Malcah. “Fictional Murders in Real “Mean Streets”: Detective Narratives and Authentic Urban Geographies”. Journal of Narrative Theory, vol. 39, no. 3, 2009, pp. 330–346. JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41427212.

●      Porter, Dennis. “The Private Eye”. The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Ed. Martin Priestman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 95–114.

●      Kadonaga, Lisa. “Strange Countries and Secret Worlds in Ruth Rendell’s Crime Novels”. Geographical Review, vol. 88, no. 3, 1998, pp. 413–428. Web. http://www.jstor.org/stable/216017.

●      Erdmann, Eva. “Nationality International: Detective Fiction in the Late Twentieth Century”. Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction. Eds. Marieke Krajenbrink and Kate M. Quinn. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009, pp. 11–26.

●      Mills, Rebecca. “Victims”. The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction. Eds. Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King and Andrew Pepper. London and New York: Routledge, 2020, pp. 149–158

●      Close, Glen S. Female Corpses in Crime Fiction: A Transatlantic Perspective. USA: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99013-2.

●      Lloyd, Joanne Reardon. “Talking to the Dead – The Voice of the Victim in Crime Fiction”. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, vol. 11, no. 1, 2014, pp. 100–108. DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2013.871295.

Crime Fiction has transcended space in terms of geographies and become a global literature, but has also grown beyond the textual space to the digital. Many of them include adaptations of novels. The genre is gaining popularity in the form of films, television and web series and is widely watched on OTT platforms today.

Content:

●      Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window

●      Animated Series: Tantei Gauken Kyu (select episodes)

●      Web series: Paatal Lok (select episodes)

Suggested Content

●      Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs (1991)

●      Steven Spielberg’s Catch me if you can (2002)

●      The Pink Panther series

●      David Fincher’s The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo (2011) (Adaptation of Steig Larsson)

●      Abrid Shine’s Action Hero Biju (2016)

●      Byomkesh Bakshi series

●      The Godfather Trilogy

●      Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990)

Suggested Reading

●      Unur, Ayşegül Kesirli. “Representing Female Detectives in Turkish Police Procedurals”. Television in Turkey: Local Production, Transnational Expansion and Political Aspirations. Eds. Yeşim Kaptan and Ece Algan. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 125–148. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-4601-8_7

●      Berglund, Karl. “With a Global Market in Mind: Agents, Authors, and the Dissemination of Contemporary Swedish Crime Fiction.” In Crime Fiction as World Literature, edited by Louise Nilsson, David Damrosch, and Theo D’haen. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.

●      Boltanski, Luc. Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies. Translated by Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Polity, 2014.

●      Charlotte Beyer. ““Death of the Author”: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Police Procedurals”. Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions. Ed. Vivien Miller and Helen Oakley. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 141–159. DOI: 10.1057/978117016768.

●      Farish, Matthew. “Cities in Shade: Urban Geography and the Uses of Noir”. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol 23, 2005, pp. 95–118. DOI: 10.1068/d185

●      Schmid, David. “From the Locked Room to the Globe: Space in Crime Fiction”. Cross Cultural Connections in Crime Fiction. Eds. Miller V and Oakley H. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 7–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137016768_2

●      Beccaria, C. (1764). An essay on crime and punishments. The Portable Enlightenment Reader, 525-532. Ed. Isaac Kramnick. USA: Penguin Books, 1995. Print.

●      Bentham, J. (1789). Cases unmeet for punishment. The Portable Enlightenment Reader, 541-546. Ed. Isaac Kramnick. USA: Penguin Books, 1995. Print.

●      Todorov, Tzvetan. “The Typology of Detective Fiction”. Poetics of Prose. 1966.

●      Edgar Allan Poe. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”. 1841.

●      Arthur Conan Doyle. “A Scandal in Bohemia”. 1891.

●      Keigo Higashino. Malice. 1996.

●      Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window

●      Animated Series: Tantei Gauken Kyu (select episodes)

●      Web series: Paatal Lok (select episodes)

●      Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and ideological state apparatuses (notes towards an investigation) (1970)." Cultural theory: an Anthology (2010): 204-222.

●      Foucault, Michel. “Discipline and Punish”.  Readings in the Theory of Religion. Routledge, 2016. 549-566.

●      Dostoevsky.  Crime and Punishment.

●      SS Van Dine’s “Twenty Rules of Writing Detective Stories” (1928)

●      Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex

●      Select folk tales of Charles Perrault and Grimm Brothers.

●      Arthur Conan Doyle “The Red Headed League”. 1891. ​The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes​. Project Gutenberg, EBook, 2002. 18-33

●      Scaggs, John. Crime Fiction: A New Critical Idiom. Oxon: Routledge, 2005

●      Wilder, Ursula M. “Odysseus, the Archetypal Spy”. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 2021, pp. 1–17. DOI: 10.1080/08850607.2020.1847517.

●      Auden, W. H. “The Guilty Vicarage: Notes on the Detective Story, by an Addict”. Harper’s Magazine. May 1948 issue. Web. https://harpers.org/archive/1948/05/the-guiltyvicarage/

●      Kayman, Martin A. “The Short Story from Poe to Chesterton”. The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Ed. Martin Priestman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 41–58.

●      Seed, David. “Spy Fiction”. The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Ed. Martin Priestman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 115–134.

●      Rendell, Ruth. Simisola. New York: Kingsmarkham Enterprises Ltd, Dell Publishing, 1995.

●      Dove, George N. The Police Procedural. Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1982.

●      James, P.D. “The Art of the Detective Novel”. Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, vol. 133, no. 5349, 1985, pp. 637–649. Web. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41374015

●      ---, Talking About Detective Fiction. New York: Vintage Books, 2009.

●      ---, “P.D. James: ‘Some People Find Conventions Liberating’”. Interview by Sarah Crown. YouTube, uploaded by The Guardian, 6 August 2010. Web. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAECcqmDTaM

●      Knight, Stephen. Crime Fiction, 1800-2000: Detection, Death, Diversity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

●      Effron, Malcah. “Fictional Murders in Real “Mean Streets”: Detective Narratives and Authentic Urban Geographies”. Journal of Narrative Theory, vol. 39, no. 3, 2009, pp. 330–346. JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41427212.

●      Porter, Dennis. “The Private Eye”. The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction. Ed. Martin Priestman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 95–114.

●      Kadonaga, Lisa. “Strange Countries and Secret Worlds in Ruth Rendell’s Crime Novels”. Geographical Review, vol. 88, no. 3, 1998, pp. 413–428. Web. http://www.jstor.org/stable/216017.

●      Erdmann, Eva. “Nationality International: Detective Fiction in the Late Twentieth Century”. Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction. Eds. Marieke Krajenbrink and Kate M. Quinn. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009, pp. 11–26.

●      Mills, Rebecca. “Victims”. The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction. Eds. Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King and Andrew Pepper. London and New York: Routledge, 2020, pp. 149–158

●      Close, Glen S. Female Corpses in Crime Fiction: A Transatlantic Perspective. USA: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99013-2.

●      Lloyd, Joanne Reardon. “Talking to the Dead – The Voice of the Victim in Crime Fiction”. New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, vol. 11, no. 1, 2014, pp. 100–108. DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2013.871295.

●      Unur, Ayşegül Kesirli. “Representing Female Detectives in Turkish Police Procedurals”. Television in Turkey: Local Production, Transnational Expansion and Political Aspirations. Eds. Yeşim Kaptan and Ece Algan. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp. 125–148. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-4601-8_7

●      Berglund, Karl. “With a Global Market in Mind: Agents, Authors, and the Dissemination of Contemporary Swedish Crime Fiction.” In Crime Fiction as World Literature, edited by Louise Nilsson, David Damrosch, and Theo D’haen. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.

●      Boltanski, Luc. Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies. Translated by Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Polity, 2014.

●      Charlotte Beyer. ““Death of the Author”: Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö’s Police Procedurals”. Cross-Cultural Connections in Crime Fictions. Ed. Vivien Miller and Helen Oakley. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 141–159. DOI: 10.1057/978117016768.

●      Farish, Matthew. “Cities in Shade: Urban Geography and the Uses of Noir”. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, vol 23, 2005, pp. 95–118. DOI: 10.1068/d185

●      Schmid, David. “From the Locked Room to the Globe: Space in Crime Fiction”. Cross Cultural Connections in Crime Fiction. Eds. Miller V and Oakley H. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 7–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137016768_2

CIA 1: Assignment (20 marks)

CIA 2: Presentation (20 marks)

CIA 3: Term Paper Submission (50 marks)

Course Description

Functional Hindi course under the Multidisciplinary courses is offered to the students of the undergraduate programmes to introduce the students to the basics and the functional forms of the Hindi language. The course will focus on improving the oral and writing skills of the students.

Course Objectives:

• To develop linguistic competencies and sharpen oral and written communicative skills
• To enable the students to learn the language for day-to-day communication.
• To enrich the learner’s vocabulary
• To enable learners to engage in and discuss simple topics with ease

• Alphabets,
• Parts of speech,
• Numbers,
• Gender,
• Tense,
• Cases,
• Vocabulary

Oral Traditions of Hindi, History of Hindi Language, Devanagari Script, Hindi as National and Official Language, Link Language, Dialects of Hindi

Translation - Concept and processes, Types of translation Qualities required for a Translator, Issues, and challenges in Translation, and translation practice.

Communicative Hindi- Public speaking in Hindi, day-to-day communication, voice-over, Micro presentation.

Hindi typing software and tools, E-Learning, Wikipedia writing in Hindi, Hindi and social Media, Hindi on cyber space, Employability

Business Correspondence in Hindi - Bank, Insurance, Multimedia, Advertisement, Technical terminology used in Business,

Entertainment Industry- Cinema, Web Series, Documentary making in Hindi

The evaluation will be based on continuous internal assessments, which include written and oral

tests.

CIA 1: Written test to assess the writing skills- 10 marks (conducted out of 20)

CIA 2: Micro presentation in Hindi - 10 marks (conducted out of 20)

CIA 3: Translation and viva-voce - 25 marks (conducted out of 50 ) 

Attendance 5 marks (system calculate out of 10)

Total 50 Marks

The present decline in environmental quality calls for a stricter enforcement of laws relating to protection of environment. The objective of this course is to give an insight into various legislations that has been enacted in our country for protection of environment and also to create awareness among the citizens of the country about the duties cast on them under various legislations in relation to protection of environment.

Course Objectives:

• To impart an in-depth knowledge of environmental legislations to students from diverse backgrounds.
• To interpret, analyse and make a critique of the legislations and Case laws relating to environment
• To provide a brief understanding of various developments that has taken place at international level to check various environmental harms.

INTRODUCTION

INDIAN CONSTITUTION AND ENVIRONMENT

JUDICIAL REMEDIES AND PROCEDURES AVAILABLE FOR ABATEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

ENVIRONMENT (PROTECTION) ACT, 1986

ENVIRONMENT (PROTECTION) ACT, 1986

WATER (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION) ACT 1974

FORESTS AND CONSERVATION LAWS

 WILD LIFE PROTECTION AND THE LAW

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS FOR PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

MCQ exam: 50 Marks

This course, thus, has been specifically designed for the non-law people. It aims to address the linkages between the corporate and the human rights in the form of CSR. It critically analyses one significant question – whether the issues of human rights should be addressed by the corporate sector mandatorily or voluntarily, in different social contexts? The strengths and weaknesses of the CSR initiatives in India and other countries are analysed. Also, the international commitments, with special reference to the role of United Nations are seen.

Course Objectives: Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR, as it is popularly referred to, is a combination of ethical, philanthropic, legal and economic responsibilities of a corporate organization towards the social transformation by addressing the social issues in collaboration with Government and NGOs. The corporate entities are more into profit making business and in this race, they often forget that their activities are causing harm to and not protecting the environment as well as human rights of the people.

Meaning and origin of CSR; Meaning of human rights; Linkage between human rights and CSR

CSR by companies in India affecting human rights; CSR and the provisions of the Companies Bill, 2012; CSR by companies in other countries affecting human rights

United Nations commitments on CSR relating to human rights; other international commitments on CSR affecting human rights

Strengths and weakness of CSR in terms of promotion of human rights in India as well as globally

Suggestions to improve upon the weaknesses of the CSR for the protection of human rights

"Business and Human Rights: From Principles to Practice"-  Dorothée Baumann-Pauly and Justine Nolan, 1st edition, Routledge publication

"Corporate Social Responsibility: An Ethical Approach"- Mark S. Schwartz, 1st edition, Broadview Press

"The Responsibility to Protect: Human Rights and the New Global Moral Compact" by Ramesh Thakur and William Maley.

CIA 1 - 25 marks. 

CIA 2   - 25 Marks 

CIA 3 -  50 marks.

Students must bring their own sheets, stapler and necessary stationery with them on the date of the exam.

Popularly known as ‘Father of the Nation,’ Mahatma Gandhi was the leading figure of

India’s freedom movement. It was his mass-based mobilization and campaign marked by the

method of non-violence and Satyagraha which changed the course of the movement. His

guiding method and principles continue to fascinate and inspire many both in India and

around the world. Gandhi elevated pacifism to an empowering political force, which inspired

world leaders like Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Walesa, etc. His views – although

developed in the context of a struggle in South Africa and India many years ago – Gandhi's

ideology has influenced myriad spheres of human experience: politics, economics, education,

nation-building etc. The course seeks to introduce to the students the ideas and thought of

Gandhi and why the interest on him has only increased.

Course Objectives

 The course is designed to acquaint the students with the life and works of Mahatma

Gandhi and also to make them understand how M.K. Gandhi transformed from a

lawyer to a Mahatma?

 To introduce the political thought of Mahatma Gandhi and his non-violent protest.

 The significance and Relevance of Gandhian values in the contemporary world.

Introducing Gandhi

Formative Years

Indian Influences: Epics, Narratives, Gita, Raichand Bhai, Folklore

Western Influences: Ruskin, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Quakers

Gandhi in South Africa

Return of Gandhi

Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movement

Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930.

Communal Award and Poona Pact

Constructive Programme

Gandhi and the Quit India Movement

Partition of India

Moderates, Extremists and Revolutionaries

Religious Nationalists

Tagore, Nehru and Ambedkar

Gandhi and the Left

Publications, 2017. (Chapter X- What do the Untouchables say? Beware of Gandhi!).

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi, ed. "The mahatma and the poet: Letters and debates between

Gandhi and Tagore, 1915-1941." National Book Trust.

Gandhi, M.K, Hind Swaraj (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House), 1999.

Gandhi, M.K. An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Ahmedabad:

Navajivan Publishing House), 2001.

Gandhi, M.K. Hind Swaraj and other Writings, edited by Anthony J. Parel. Cambridge

University Press, 1997.

Gandhi, M.K. Satyagraha in South Africa (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House), 1992.

Gandhi. M.K. ‘Letter to Adolf Hitler’, December 24,

1940.https://www.mkgandhi.org/letters/hitler_ltr1.htm.

to Gandhi, edited by Judith M. Brown and Anthony Parel. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Pp. 51-70.

Dalton, Denis. “Satyagraha Meets Swaraj: The Development of Gandhi’s Ideas, 1896-1917,”

in Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Power in Action. Columbia University Press, 2012. pp. 12-

29.

Guha, Ramachandra. Gandhi before India. Penguin UK, 2013.

Guha, Ramachandra. Gandhi: The years that changed the world, 1914-1948. Vintage, 2018.

Guha, Ramachandra. Patriots and partisans. Penguin UK, 2016.

Mukherjee, Bipan Chandra Mridula and Others, India’s Struggle for Independence 1859-

1947 (New Delhi: Viking), 1998.

Parekh, Bhikhu. Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 1997. (Chapter

1- Life and Work, pp. 1-24).

This course has been conceptualized in order to introduce the students to the study of international relations. It introduces students to major theoretical approaches to understand international politics and diplomacy.

 To introduce the students to:

●       The nature, scope and importance of International Relations/Politics

●       The basic concepts of International Relations such as Sovereignty, Security, balance of Power etc.

●       The contemporary global issues

International Relations: Meaning, nature and scope of international relations;

Key Concepts of International Relations: Sovereignty (territorial sovereignty), Balance of Power, National Power, Security and Globalization.

Theories of International Relations: Realism (Classical Realism and Neo-Realism), Liberalism (Neoliberalism), Constructivism.

First World War, Second World War: Causes and Consequences, dynamics of strategic interaction between the great powers including the alliances, Inter war period (multipolarity), the Cold War (bipolarity) and the post-Cold War period (unipolarity).

Power shifts in the post-Cold War international system, Great Powers: traditional and non-traditional security threats, Emergence of new powers (rise of China and India as a challenge to the west).

Environmental Issues, Terrorism, Human Security, Migration.

Goldstein, Joshua S, and Jon C. Pevehouse. (2012) International Relations. Boston: Pearson Longman.

Basu, Rumki. (2010) International Politics: Concepts, Theories and Issues. New Delhi: SAGE Publications.

H. Andrew, Ben Whitham (2011) Global Politics, Bloomsbury.

Ghai, K.K. (2005). International Relations: Theory and Practice of International Politics. New Delhi: Kalyani.

Carter, N. (2007) The Politics of Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 13-81.

Waltz, K. (1979). Theory of International Politics. Illinois: Waveland Press (reissued 2010).

Morgenthau, Hans J. (1948) Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. New York: A.A. Knopf.

This first-semester course introduces undergraduate psychology majors to the scientific study of human nature. The student would be able to understand how psychologists ask questions from several different perspectives. Students will learn about the various scientific methods psychologists use to study behaviour and become acquainted with many of psychology's important findings and theoretical approaches. Further, students will be able to appreciate the shape that contemporary psychology has taken. The aim is to build a familiarity with psychology’s intellectual origins and to foster an awareness of its many false steps, dead-ends, and alternative pathways to appreciating the social, cultural, and psychological influences on theorising in psychology. The course will equip the student with knowledge and scope for careers in psychology and develop an understanding of the professional skills required for such a career. Students will have learned to think critically about psychological evidence through journal clubs and class discussions embedded in the course.

Definition, Goals, Principles of psychology. Psychology as a science: Objectivity versus subjectivity. mind-body connection; Why study behaviour; Thinking like a psychologist about psychological information; Myths and misconceptions about psychology

Roots of psychology: Schools and perspectives of psychology, including Structuralism, Functionalism, Psychodynamic, Biological, Behaviouristic, Gestalt, Cognitive, Humanistic, Cross-cultural and Evolutionary. Eastern philosophies broader perspectives– Confucius and Taoism, Indian - Buddhism, (special comparing Eastern and Western principles in major concepts like consciousness and meditation). Psychology in modern India (Indigenous nature) 

Why study psychology? what is the scope Describe the value of psychology and possible career paths for those who study psychology? Specific focus on opportunities after BA; Allied professionals -social work, public health Broad focus on professional skills (especially as a practitioner and researcher) essential to be a psychologist and discuss the temper required to pursue psychology as a career. What can students do at BA to pursue a career in psychology? Multicultural and ethical issues; professional responsibility- Personal and professional roles.

Methods – use of scientific methods in psychology; scientific temper. How to review literature- discuss current issues and trends- Mental health literacy, psychological literacy, Current trends in Psychology, and issues discussed in CO 1,2 or 3

Writing and communicating using APA standards -Critically reviewing academic texts (books, journal articles etc.). APA style of writing Basic APA formatting for articles, APA referencing style, Academic writing skills.  

Weiten, W. (2014). Psychology: Themes and Variations (Briefer Version, 9th edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning. 

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th Ed.).https://doi.org/10. 1037/0000165-000

Dalal, A. K., & Misra, G. (2010). The core and context of Indian psychology. Psychology and developing societies, 22(1), 121-155.

Brennan, J.F. (2003). History and systems of psychology (6thEdn.).New Delhi: Pearson Education Inc.

Hergenhahn, B.R. & Henley, T. (2013). An Introduction to the History of Psychology. Belmont, CA: Cengage Learning.

Hockenbury, D. H. & Hockenbury, S. E. (2011). Discovering Psychology (5th edition). Worth Publishers 

 Showman, A., Cat, L. A., Cook, J., Holloway, N., & Wittman, T. (2013). Five essential skills for every undergraduate researcher. Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 33(3), 16+. https://link.gale.com/a pps/doc/A324399343/ AONE?u=monash&sid =googleScholar&xid= a3697d9b

CIA 1 & 3 will be individual assignments

CIA2- will be a mid-semester exam- with case study-based questions

End Semester Pattern- 2 hrs- 50 Marks

Section A (Very Short Answer). 2 Marks X 5Qs= 10 Marks

Section B (Short answers). 5 Marks X 2Qs= 10 Marks

Section C (Essay questions). 10 Marks X 2Qs= 20 Marks

Section D (Case study). 10 Marks x 1Q= 10 Marks

This paper is offered to undergraduate students as a skill-enhancement course. Basically, the course follows the WHO life skills model. Where life skills education is well developed and practised, it enhances the well-being of young minds and promotes a positive outlook and healthy behaviour. The life skills model facilitates the overall development of the individual, and this course will help the learner to translate knowledge, attitude, skills, and values into action. Hence the course adopts an experiential learning pedagogy providing students with an opportunity for personal development.

Definition and Importance of life skills, life skills approach and Life skill education, Core life skills according to WHO - Personal/social Skills, Cognitive skills and Coping skills, quality education and life skills; Life skills for self and others 

Interpersonal Skills and Conflict Resolution, multicultural awarenessSWOC analysis, Johari window, -Discuss issuesBehave responsibly and which leads to healthy living; Promote risk-free behaviour. Effective communication and listening skills, Emotional Intelligence, Conflict resolution strategies, and Teamwork. Life Skills for self-development- Improve self-perception through building self-confidence, self-esteem and self-worth Stress management and strategies, mindfulness and relaxation technique

WHO (1999). Partners in Life Skills Education: Conclusions from a United Nations Inter-Agency Meeting, WHO, Geneva.

CIA 3- Department level -submission, viva/presentation - Total 50 marks

This course is designed to address the changing ideas of the conceptualisation of youth in contemporary times in relation to popular culture. It explores the question of the formation of youth identity in popular culture and the debates challenging the dominant idea of youth identity in popular culture through the lens of gender, caste, class and minorities. The course takes up the case study of social media as the particular site mediating popular culture to explore these questions of youth identity formation as usage of social media by young people is increasing, especially in countries like India which has one of the highest populations of youth in the world. Popular culture and media are intertwined and social media has emerged as a phenomenon of popular culture which shapes youth identity either by mobilising youth in a powerful way in favour of dominant socio-political norms or social movements which challenge the dominant socio-political trends. In recent times, the participation of youth in electoral politics through social media has multiplied phenomenally in India shaping the nature of engagement of youth with popular culture. The conceptualisation of youth as a democratic dividend has implications for defining the relationship between youth and social media in relation to popular culture. Similarly, conceptualisation of youth as a subculture is constitutive of the relationship between youth and media. Thus, the case study of social media will be linking the theoretical conceptualisations with the empirical phenomena.

 1.1 Youth as a Cultural Category

1.2 Youth as Demographic Dividend

1.3 Youth as Democratic Dividend

1.4 Youth as Subculture

2.1 Caste: Dalit Youth and Popular Culture

2.2 Class: Rethinking the Youth from Class Perspective

2.3 Gender: Addressing the Gendered Idea of Youth and Popular Culture

3.1 Social Media, Youth and and Dominant Socio-Political Norms

3.2 Social Media, Youth and Social Movements

·         Mead, M. (1928). Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for West.

·         Chandrasekhar, C. P., J. Ghosh, & A. Roychowdhury. (2006). The 'Demographic Dividend' and Young India's Economic Future’, Economic and Political Weekly, 41 (49), 5055-5064.

·         James, K. S. (2008). Glorifying Malthus: Current Debate on 'Demographic Dividend' in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 43(25). 63-69.

·         National Population Policy of India 2000.

·         Hall, Stuart and Tony Jefferson (1976), (Ed.), Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain. Routledge: London & New York. pp. 9-79.

·         Hebdige D. (1979). Subculture: the Meaning of Style. London: Methuen. pp.1-22. McRobbie, Angela (1991). Settling Accounts with Subculture: A Feminist Critique. Feminism and Youth Culture, 16-34.

·         Wyn, Johanna and White, Rob. (1997). Rethinking Youth, Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd.

·         Stephen, Cynthia. (2022). ‘Popular Culture and Caste: The Three Indias’, Economic and Political Weekly. Volume 57, Issue 9.

·         Kumar, Vijay. (2020). ‘5 Dalit Artists Challenging Casteism Through Music, Films and Literature’, Feminism in India.com (https://feminisminindia.com/2020/04/15/dalit-artists-challenging-casteism-music-films-literatur e/)

·         Kumar, Nitish. (2021). Social Media, Dalits and Politics of Presence: An Anlalysis of the Presence of Dalit Voices in the Indian Media. Social and Political Research Foundation. (https://sprf.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SPRF-2021_Dalit-Media_Final.pdf)

·         Mukhopadhyay, S and Mazumdar, S. (2020). ‘Echoing Global Marginalised Voices: A Study of Rap Music in India’, Heritage Times. (https://www.heritagetimes.in/echoing-global-marginalised-voices-a-study-of-rap-music-in-india )

·         Samos, Sumeet. (2021). ‘Dalit Rap is India’s New Musical Vanguard’, Music Opinion. (https://www.frieze.com/article/dalit-rap-indias-new-musical-vanguard)

·          Ingole, Prashant. (2019). ‘Ambedkarite Protest Music and the Making of a “Counter Public”: An Overview’, Indian Cultural Forum. (https://indianculturalforum.in/2019/10/11/ambedkarite-protest-music-and-the-making-of-a-coun ter-public/)

·         Banaji, Shakuntala. (2014). ‘A Tale of Three Worlds: Young People, Media and Class in India’, LSE Research Online, http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/57563/1/__lse.ac.uk_storage_LIBRARY_Secondary_libfile_shared_repository_Content_Banaji%2C%20S_Tale%20of%20three%20worlds_Banaji%20_Tale%20of%203 %20worlds_2014.pdf

·         Cohen, P. (1972). Rethinking the Youth Question: Education, Labour and Cultural Studies. Capital & Class, 23(3), 171-173.

·         Gooptu, Nandini (ed.). 2013. Enterprise Culture in Neoliberal India: Studies in Youth, Class, Work and Media. Routledge.

·         Lukose, Ritty (2005). Consuming Globalization: Youth and Gender in Kerala, India. Journal of Social History. 38 (4), 915-935.

·         O’Connor, Laura. (2020). ‘Digital Activism and The Increased Role of Dalit Activism in Intersectional Feminism in India’, The Undergraduate Journal of Politics, Policy and Society (UJPPS), Vol. 3, No.1. (https://www.ujpps.com/index.php/ujpps/article/view/99)

·          Kujat, Christopher Norman. (2016). ‘Can the Subaltern Tweet?: A Netnography of India’s Subaltern Voices Entering the Public via Social Media’, http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1483945/FULLTEXT01.pdf

·         Udupa, Sahana. (2017). ‘Gaali Cultures: The politics of abusive exchange on social media’, New Media & Society 20(4): 1506-1522.

·         Jamil, Ghazala. (2022). ‘Tech-mediated Misogyny and Communal Vitriol’, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 57, Issue 3.

·         Kumar, Rajesh and Thapa, Devam. (2014). ‘Social media as a catalyst for civil society movements in India: A study in Dehradun city’, New Media & Society. Volume: 17 issue: 8, page(s): 1299-1316.

·         Sonkar, Madhulika; Soorma, Ishita and Akanksha, Sreshtha. (2020). ‘Social Media and the Mobilization of Collective Action on Sexual Violence against Women: A Case Study of the ‘#MeToo’ Movement in India’, Vantage: Journal of Thematic Analysis, Volume 1, Issue 1. (http://maitreyi.ac.in/Datafiles/cms/2021/vantage%202021%20new/7.%20MeToo%20paper.pdf)

·         Mead, M. (1928). Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for West.

·         Chandrasekhar, C. P., J. Ghosh, & A. Roychowdhury. (2006). The 'Demographic Dividend' and Young India's Economic Future’, Economic and Political Weekly, 41 (49), 5055-5064.

·         James, K. S. (2008). Glorifying Malthus: Current Debate on 'Demographic Dividend' in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 43(25). 63-69.

·         National Population Policy of India 2000.

·         Hall, Stuart and Tony Jefferson (1976), (Ed.), Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain. Routledge: London & New York. pp. 9-79.

·         Hebdige D. (1979). Subculture: the Meaning of Style. London: Methuen. pp.1-22. McRobbie, Angela (1991). Settling Accounts with Subculture: A Feminist Critique. Feminism and Youth Culture, 16-34.

·         Wyn, Johanna and White, Rob. (1997). Rethinking Youth, Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd.

·         Stephen, Cynthia. (2022). ‘Popular Culture and Caste: The Three Indias’, Economic and Political Weekly. Volume 57, Issue 9.

·         Kumar, Vijay. (2020). ‘5 Dalit Artists Challenging Casteism Through Music, Films and Literature’, Feminism in India.com (https://feminisminindia.com/2020/04/15/dalit-artists-challenging-casteism-music-films-literatur e/)

·         Kumar, Nitish. (2021). Social Media, Dalits and Politics of Presence: An Anlalysis of the Presence of Dalit Voices in the Indian Media. Social and Political Research Foundation. (https://sprf.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SPRF-2021_Dalit-Media_Final.pdf)

·         Mukhopadhyay, S and Mazumdar, S. (2020). ‘Echoing Global Marginalised Voices: A Study of Rap Music in India’, Heritage Times. (https://www.heritagetimes.in/echoing-global-marginalised-voices-a-study-of-rap-music-in-india )

·         Samos, Sumeet. (2021). ‘Dalit Rap is India’s New Musical Vanguard’, Music Opinion. (https://www.frieze.com/article/dalit-rap-indias-new-musical-vanguard)

·          Ingole, Prashant. (2019). ‘Ambedkarite Protest Music and the Making of a “Counter Public”: An Overview’, Indian Cultural Forum. (https://indianculturalforum.in/2019/10/11/ambedkarite-protest-music-and-the-making-of-a-coun ter-public/)

·         Banaji, Shakuntala. (2014). ‘A Tale of Three Worlds: Young People, Media and Class in India’, LSE Research Online, http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/57563/1/__lse.ac.uk_storage_LIBRARY_Secondary_libfile_shared_repository_Content_Banaji%2C%20S_Tale%20of%20three%20worlds_Banaji%20_Tale%20of%203 %20worlds_2014.pdf

·         Cohen, P. (1972). Rethinking the Youth Question: Education, Labour and Cultural Studies. Capital & Class, 23(3), 171-173.

·         Gooptu, Nandini (ed.). 2013. Enterprise Culture in Neoliberal India: Studies in Youth, Class, Work and Media. Routledge.

·         Lukose, Ritty (2005). Consuming Globalization: Youth and Gender in Kerala, India. Journal of Social History. 38 (4), 915-935.

·         O’Connor, Laura. (2020). ‘Digital Activism and The Increased Role of Dalit Activism in Intersectional Feminism in India’, The Undergraduate Journal of Politics, Policy and Society (UJPPS), Vol. 3, No.1. (https://www.ujpps.com/index.php/ujpps/article/view/99)

·          Kujat, Christopher Norman. (2016). ‘Can the Subaltern Tweet?: A Netnography of India’s Subaltern Voices Entering the Public via Social Media’, http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1483945/FULLTEXT01.pdf

·         Udupa, Sahana. (2017). ‘Gaali Cultures: The politics of abusive exchange on social media’, New Media & Society 20(4): 1506-1522.

·         Jamil, Ghazala. (2022). ‘Tech-mediated Misogyny and Communal Vitriol’, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 57, Issue 3.

·         Kumar, Rajesh and Thapa, Devam. (2014). ‘Social media as a catalyst for civil society movements in India: A study in Dehradun city’, New Media & Society. Volume: 17 issue: 8, page(s): 1299-1316.

·         Sonkar, Madhulika; Soorma, Ishita and Akanksha, Sreshtha. (2020). ‘Social Media and the Mobilization of Collective Action on Sexual Violence against Women: A Case Study of the ‘#MeToo’ Movement in India’, Vantage: Journal of Thematic Analysis, Volume 1, Issue 1. (http://maitreyi.ac.in/Datafiles/cms/2021/vantage%202021%20new/7.%20MeToo%20paper.pdf)

This course is designed to introduce students to urban transformations mediated through digital technology. The paper specifically explores the urban transformations in the economic and cultural sphere. In the economic sphere, the paper addresses the changing forms of work and labour, thereby the political economy of the digital technology mediated urban transformations will be explored. In the cultural sphere, the paper will introduce students to the changing nature of social relations induced by the technological advancements in cities. 

- Relationship between Labour and Capital  

- Changing Forms for Work and Labour 

- Changing Forms of Unionisation in Gig Economy 

- Consumption Patterns and Lifestyles 

- Changing patterns of Mobility 

- Changing patterns of Identity 

- App based Transportation

- Labour Code 

1. Athique, Adrian & Parthsarathi, Vidbodh (Eds.). (2020). Platform  Capitalism  in India. Palgrave Macmillan

2. Fuchs, Christian. (2014). Digital Labour and Karl Marx. Routledge. 

3. Harvey, David. (1985). The Urbanization of Capital. Johns Hopkins University Press.

4. Mosco, Vincent. (2019). The Smart City in a Digital World. Emerald Publishing Limited.

5. Mukherjee, Rahul and Nizaruddin, Fathima. (2022). ‘Digital Platforms in Contemporary India: The Transformation of Quotidian Life Worlds’, Asiascape: Digital Asia, 9, page 5-18. 

6. Standing. Guy. (2011). The Precariat. Bloomsbury Academic. 

7. Woodcock, Jamie. (2021). The Fight Against Platform Capitalism: An Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy. University of Westminster Press. 

8. Zuboff, Shoshana (2019). The  Age  of  Surveillance  Capitalism:  The  Fight  for  a  Human  Future at the New Frontier of Power. Public Affairs.

2. Ganapathy, Venkatesh. (2017). Urban Mobility in the Era of Sharing Economy: An Empirical Study of Smartphone App Based Ridesourcing Services. Journal of Global Economy, Vol.13, No.4. 

3. Hodson, Mike et. al. (Eds.). (2020). Urban Platforms and the Future City: Transformations in Infrastructure, Governance, Knowledge and Everyday Life. Routledge

4. Ilavarasan, Vigneswara et.al. ‘Sharing economy platforms as enablers of urban transport in the global south: Case of digital taxi aggregators in New Delhi, India’, In Urban Transport in the Sharing Economy Era Collaborative Cities. CIPPEC. 

5. M.G, Deepika and M. Madhusoodhan. (2022). ‘Labour Laws for Gig Workers in the Context of Labour Law Reforms’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.57, No.30. 

6. ‘Protecting Workers in the Digital Platform Economy: Investigating Ola and Uber Drivers' Occupational Health and Safety.’ (2020). Report prepared by Indian Federation of App-based Transport workers (IFAT) in collaboration with the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), New Delhi Office. 

7. Punathambekar, Aswin & Mohan, Sriram (Eds.). (2019). Global  Digital  Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia.  University of Michigan Press. 

8. Rao, Ursula & Nair, Vijayanka (2019), ‘Aadhaar: Governing with Biometrics’. Journal of South Asian Studies, , 42(3), 469–481.

9. Sundaram, Ravi (2020), ‘Hindu Nationalism’s Crisis Machine’. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 10(3), 734–741.

10. Tarnoff, Ben. (2022). Internet for the People; The Fight for our Digital Future. New York: Verso.

11. Zuboff, Shoshana (2019). The  Age  of  Surveillance  Capitalism:  The  Fight  for  a  Human  Future at the New Frontier of Power. Public Affairs.

CIA 2 - 20 Marks (converted out of 10)

CIA 3 - 50 Marks (converted out of 25)

Attendance  - 10 (converted out of 5) 

This course is designed to build the logical thinking ability and to provide hands-on experience in solving statistical models using MS Excel with Problem based learning. To explore and visualize data using excel formulas and data analysis tool pack.

Introduction: File types - Spreadsheet structure - Menu bar - Quick access toolbar - Mini toolbar - Excel options - Formatting: Format painter - Font - Alignment - Number - Styles - Cells, Clear - Page layout - Symbols - Equation - Editing - Link - Filter - Charts - Formula Auditing - Overview of Excel tables and properties - Collecting sample data and arranging in definite format in Excel tables.

Importing data from different sources - text file - web page and XML file - Exporting data in different formats - text - csv - image -pdf etc - Creating database with the imported data - Data tools: text to column - identifying and removing duplicates - using format cell options - Application of functions - Concatenate - Upper - Lower - Trim - Repeat - Proper - Clean - Substitute - Convert - Left - Right - Mid - Len - Find - Exact - Replace - Text join - Value - Fixed etc.

Data analysis tool pack: measures of central tendency - dispersion - skewness - kurtosis - partition values - graphical and diagrammatic representation of data: histogram - bar diagram - charts - line graphs - Ogive - covariance - correlation - linear regression.

 2. Greg Harvey, Excel 2019 All-in-One For Dummies,for Dummies,US, 2018. 

The course aims at imparting knowledge on Marketing Management from the perspective of Marketing Communications.Great marketing strategies can be powerful. Every year companies spend approximately $200 billion promoting their products and services – and that’s just in the United States alone! Explore how marketing campaigns, ads, and commercials are brought to life which will lead the exploration of various aspects of Advertising and sales promotion techniques which includes its objectives, classification, creative aspect and functions. This course introduces students to the concepts and processes of marketing and takes them deeper into the world of marketing.

Course Objectives: This course intends

●        Describe the history of the advertising industry and its relation to today’s marketplace.
●        List the roles and responsibilities of various advertising, marketing, and promotions professionals.
       Develop students’ understanding and skill in development of communication strategy of a firm, particularly with advertising and sales promotions.

Meaning, elements, structure, and role of marketing communications. Theories of marketing communication: hierarchy of effects of communication, information processing theories, Marketing Communication Process,communication and attitude formation and change. Key communication terminologies. Miscommunication issues.

Marketing communication mix. Integrated marketing communication. Formulation of marketing communication strategy. Marketing communication barriers. Communication budgeting issues and methods. Promotion campaign planning and management.

Meaning, elements,Functions, objectives and role of advertising. Evolution of advertising. Types of advertising. Social, ethical and legal issues of advertising.Role of Advertising in 21^st Century.

Creative process and methods. Visualization process and visualizer qualities. Message design: message theme, models, considerations. Message strategies: cognitive, affective, conative, and brand strategies. Advertising appeals. Essentials of a good appeal. Execution frameworks. Use of color in advertising.

Print advertising media: types of media and media choice. Copywriting for print media: types of ad copies. Ad copy objectives and requisites of a good copy. Print copy development process. Print copy elements: choice of headline, sub-heads, body copy, slogan and signature. Layout: functions, qualities of a good layout, layout principles.Television advertising:  nature, pros and cons. TVC development: script writing, story board, air-time buying and other considerations. Radio advertising: nature, pros and cons. Producing radio advertisements. Emerging advertisements: internet advertising and ambient advertising. Product placement strategies.

Scope and role of sales promotions. Reasons for the increased use of sales promotions. Consumer-oriented sales promotion methods: objectives and tools of consumer promotions. Trade-oriented sales promotions: objectives,tools and techniques to boost sales.

      5.Integrated Advertising, Promotion and Marketing Communications, Clow, Baack, Pearson

CIA II: 10 MARKS

CIA III: 25 MARKS

ATTENDANCE :   05 MARKS

Course Description

This course examines the investment and financial issues arising from personal wealth management activities. The course commences with an introduction to the financial planning industry and the regulatory framework. It then covers various topics required for constructing a comprehensive financial plan, including identifying client financial status and goals, asset allocation, securities trading, managed funds, superannuation, estate planning, and social security. This course focuses on understanding the nature, usage, and regulations of the advice of various financial products and legal instruments for developing personal wealth management plans.

Concepts, Role of Financial Planner, Personal Financial Planning Process, Ethical and professional consideration in financial planning – Code of ethics, Contract and Documentation, Client Data Collection, Client Data Analysis, Life Cycle Wealth Cycle - Risk Profiling and Asset Allocation - Systematic Approach to Investing - Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) - Systematic Withdrawal Plan (SWP) - Systematic Transfer Plan (STP), Legal aspects of Financial Planning.

Financial Planning to Wealth Management, Economic Cycles and Indicators - Lag Indicators - Co-incident Indicators - Lead Indicators, Interest Rate Views, Currency Exchange Rate, The Deficits -Revenue Deficit and Fiscal Deficit - Current Account Deficit

Role of Equity, Debts & Alternative Assets, Active and Passive Exposures, Returns from Passive Exposure to S&P CNX Nifty, Sector Exposure and Diversification, Deposits and Debt Securities, Credit Exposure and Debt Investments, Concentration Risk, Passive Investments in Debt, Alternative Assets Investment Routes, Alternative Assets returns from Gold, Real Estate, Role of Real Estate, Real Estate Investment Routes, Real Estate Indices – Assets & Liabilities, Nomination, Inheritance Law, Will & Trust, Risk Management through Insurance.

Asset allocation Decision, Equity portfolio strategies – Active Vs Passive Management strategies, Value Vs growth investing, Asset allocation Strategies – Tactical, Fixed & Flexible, , Asset Allocation Returns in Equity, Debt & Gold, Bond Portfolio Management Strategies – Passive – Buy and Hold, Indexing – Active – interest rate anticipation, Valuation analysis, Credit analysis, Yield spread analysis and Bond swaps – Core plus management strategy -Immunization strategies – Allocation to Speculation, Diversification in Perspective.  Taxation of investment products.

Introduction to Retirement Planning - Types of Retirement Plans – Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution plan, Superannuation and other retirement plans, Group Life and Health Insurance; Retirement planning and Strategies, Post Retirement Counseling, Retirement Income Streams Pension Sector Reforms

[Vision Books, 2012]

2. S. K. Bagchi (2009). Wealth Management. New Delhi. Jaico Publishing House.

3. Mark Diehl (2011). The Wealth Management Manual. New Delhi. Aventine Press.

4. Dun & Bradstreet (2009). Wealth Management, New Delhi. Tata McGraw Hills Publications.

5. Kapoor Jack R, Dlabay L R, Huges R J (2008). Personal Finance. New Delhi: Tata Mc-Graw Hills Publications

6. NCFM Wealth Management Module

CIA 2 - 10

CIA 3- 25

Attendance - 5

Course Description: The course covers topics such as income, expenditure, savings & investment avenues, borrowing, managing risk, budgeting, etc. Participants would also learn about various financial institutions and in what ways they can benefit from these institutions. The course helps participants to become aware of different products through which they can meet their financial needs and learn about the benefits of prudent financial behavior.

Course Objectives: Through the course, the instructor aims to

1. To provide the foundations for financial decision-making.

2. To list out various saving and investment alternatives available for a common man.

3. To give a detailed overview of stock markets and stock selection.

4. To orient the learners about mutual funds and the criteria for selection.

Need for Financial Literacy, Role of financial education in achieving financial well-being, Importance of Financial Planning, Key concepts of Personal Finance: Savings, Investment, Borrowing, Income and Expenses, Surplus/Deficit, Assets and Liabilities, Inflation, Time Value of Money, Active and Passive Income, Instant and Delayed Gratification, etc. Power of compounding and Rule of 72, Concept of Rupee Cost Averaging.

Define Financial Planning, Financial Planning Process, Steps involved in Financial Planning Process, SMART financial goals, and three pillars of investments. Concepts of risk and return, Budgeting and its importance in financial planning.

Types of bank accounts: Savings account, Current account, fixed deposits, recurring deposits. Various modes of transfer through banking channels: NEFT, RTGS, IMPS, UPI. Account opening process and importance of KYC norms. Do’s and don’ts while using digital payments. Credit cards and Debit cards. Role of Reserve Bank of India.

Investment avenues offered by Securities Markets, Primary Market and Secondary Market, Operational aspects of securities markets: placement of orders, contract note, pay-in, and pay-out, trading and settlement cycle. Various risks involved in investing in securities markets. Benefits of investing through Mutual Funds. Mutual Fund categorization and product labeling of mutual funds. Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) and its advantages. The role played by Commodity Derivatives markets in the hedging of commodity price risk. Products traded in Commodity Derivatives Exchanges and their usefulness to various stakeholders.

Role of Insurance as a risk management tool, various types of Insurance products and their key features. Regulatory role of IRDAI. Importance of Pension and its Role in providing financial security in old age. National Pension System (NPS).

Borrowing, Collateral and Equated Monthly Instalments (EMI). Documents required for obtaining Loans. Various loan products offered by Financial Institutions and their key features. 5Cs of Credit. Credit Information Organizations and Credit Score.

2. NSE Knowledge Hub, an AI-powered Learning Experience Platform for BFSI

3. NSE Academy Certification in Financial Markets (NCFM) Modules.

CIA 2 - 30 Marks

CIA 3 - 30 Marks

Class Participation - 10 Marks

The course provides an overview of Income-tax Law. The course intends to provide a basic understanding of various concepts under the taxation system in India. It familiarises students with the multiple heads of income, deductions under each head, deductions from gross total income and computation of Gross Total Income. The course provides basic knowledge on the calculation of the income of individuals and also gives an insight into the tax planning that arises to reduce tax liability.

Basic concepts: Assessment year, previous year, person, assessee, Income, charges on income, gross total income, capital and revenue receipts, and residential status.

Brief note /provisions on various heads/sources of Income-Income from Salary - Definition; Characteristics of Salary Income; Deduction from Gross Salary u/s 16 – Computation of income from salary. Income from House property - Computation of Income from Let-Out House Property, Income from Self Occupied House Property.

Business income, capital gains & income from other sources

Permissible deductions –under Chapter VI-A -Claim of Deductions under section 80 for Individual Assesses- 80C, 80D,80DD,80DDB, 80E, 80G

Computation of Tax liability for individuals – old and new regime, slab rates for different age groups, surcharge and cess rates.

Procedure for filing Tax Returns, types of returns, Requirement of PAN, form 16 and 16A, ITR -1 and ITR- 2

2. Dr.V.Rajesh Kumar and Dr.R.K.Sreekantha: Income Tax – I, Vittam Publications

3. Dr. Mehrotra and Dr. Goyal: Direct Taxes – Law and Practice, Sahitya Bhavan Publication

This course focuses on the importance of data visualization for business intelligence and decision making. The course provides a practical approach to assess and enhance the impact of visuals for the database/dataset and use  data visuals to convey distributions and relationships.To make students understand, how to compare and contrast performance measurement data using effective data visuals and also use construct effective data visuals to solve workplace problems.

Dashboard Basics: Introduction - What is Dashboard? - Uses of Dashboard - User Requirements - Assembling the Data - Worksheet Functions: Vloopup - Xlookup - Index and Match - Sum product Function - Tables. Pivot Table - Building the Table - Dashboard case studies.

Separating Data Layers - Working with External Data - Power Query vs Power Pivot - Text Files - Excel Files - Access Databases - SQL Server Database - Transforming Power in Query - Managing Columns and Rows - Transforming Columns.

Creating effective visualization - Driving Meaning with color - Focusing attention with Text - Non-Chart Visualization - Format - Date and Time Format - Icons - Sparklings.

Creating Infographics using shapes - Working with shapes - Framing with Data Shapes - Creating Charts with Shapes. Visualizing Performance Comparisons - Single Measurement.

Column Charts - Bullet Charts - XY charts - Bubble Charts - Dot Plot Charts - Pie Charts - Line Charts - Animated Charts - Chart Automation - Manipulating Chart Objects.

[2] Data Visualization in Excel: All Excel Charts and Graphs. United States: Packt Publishing, 2020 Academy, Start-Tech.

This course helps to understand the fundamental concepts, terminology and application of databases. This course gives knowledge of ER diagrams, Database normalization, relational databases and SQL commands.

Data- Database- Database management system- Characteristics of the  database  approach-  Role of Database administrators- Role of Database Designers- End Users- Advantages  of Using a DBMS and When not to use a DBMS-Database System Concepts and Architecture- Data Models- Categories of data models- Schemas- Instances- and  Database  states-  The  Three schema architecture- Data independence- DBMS Languages and Interfaces- Classification of Database Management Systems.

SQL data definition and data types- specifying constraints in SQL- SQL functions- Basic queries-Filtering data using where- Group by statements- DDL- DML- Retrieving data from multiple tables- Sub queries- Concept of a view in SQL.

Relational Algebra: Unary relational operations; Binary relational operations ; Examples of queries in relational algebra, Relational calculus: The Tuple relational calculus; The Domain relational calculus

Using  High   Level   Conceptual   Data   Models   for   Database   Design-    Example  Database applications-Entity types- Entity Sets-Attributes and Keys- Relationships- Relationship types- Roles and Structural constraints- Weak Entity Types- Drawing E- R Diagrams.

Functional dependencies and Normalization for Relational Databases-  Normalization  concepts- Normal forms-1NF- 2NF- 3NF- BCNF- 4NF-5NF.

This course introduces the learners to six important areas: Principles of Writing, Features of Writing, Essay Organization, Précis Writing, Academic Presentation and Research Writing. The course design gives more weightage to productive skills based on their rudimentary receptive skill acquisition occurred in semester one. The participants of this course will exercise their textual scholarship and translate their areas of interest into meaningful writing. This course directs the learners to produce basic academic presentations which should be career-oriented and of social relevance. Bloom’s taxonomy of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation and synthesis becomes the substructure of this course instruction.

Objectives

•       To acquire critical and creative thinking

•       To develop the taste for theory of knowledge

•       To be aware of professional and research driven presentation skills

•       To apply the mechanics in academic writing skills

•       To use research skills to take a position in writing (writing a paper or presentation)

Principles of Academic Writing

Features of Academic Writing

Anchoring the context

Building Thesis

Topic Sentences

Taking a position

Organising ideas