Syllabus for
BBA (Strategy and Business Analytics/Honours/Honours with Research)
Academic Year  (2023)

Course Description: The course focus on developing an understanding about managing human behaviour at the workplace for achieving organizational effectiveness. The course has been designed to provide valuable insights into the functions of modern-day managers. It involves tracing the historical evolution of management thoughts, exploring the concepts, principles and behavioural processes of management. The course provides an overview of human behaviours at individual, group and organization level.

Course Objectives: 

•To explain the basic concepts, principles and theories of management

•To examine the broad essential functions of a manager

•To identify the challenges posed by of globalization, diversity and ethics on today’s manager

•To analyse the individual’s personality, learning, attitudes and perceptions and its impact on their work behaviour

•To compare and contrast motivation and leadership styles of managers

•To assess the dynamics of group behaviours and its influence on group effectiveness

Course Description: This course intends to introduce basic accounting principles and practices. It also deals with subsidiary books maintained in business organizations. The students will have knowledge about the fundamental accounting processes such as journalizing, ledger posting, preparation of trial balance and final accounts in sole trading business. It also deals with providing an overview of accounting standards and IFRS. This course will be useful for all those who are desirous of having an understanding and application of financial dynamics of the business and become successful financial managers/entrepreneurs.

Course Objective:

●      To provide an understanding of application of various principles and practice of Accounting.

●      To demonstrate the knowledge on the process of accounting cycle and basic steps involved in Accounting.

●      To extend the knowledge of systematic maintenance of books of accounts to real life business.

●      To interpret Annual Financial statements of Sole proprietorship form of business.

• To outline the need for Accounting standards and IFRS.

An ever-changing Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Ecological and Legal (PESTEL) environment, coupled with the Volatility, Uncertainty, and Complexity Ambiguity (VUCA) world in that businesses operate, demands companies to be agile. This course gives an insight into corporate strategy enabling firms to survive the dynamism. The course dwells on the art and science behind crafting strategies. It allows for reflecting on the ethical and social sensitivity perspectives that drive businesses to pursue specific strategies.

Objectives:

·      To explain the concepts of Strategic Management in the given context 

·      To Identify and assess the internal and external environment to understand the problems businesses face.

·      To infer an appropriate strategy to solve a business problem.

·      To espouse a sense of social responsibility while strategizing

·      To instil a sense of ethical sensitivity while strategizing

Course Description: This course on interpersonal communication attempts to expose students to the intricacies of interpersonal communication such as self, self-esteem, listening, perception, culture and intercultural, verbal and nonverbal, interpersonal relationship, conflict management and team skills.The course further describesthe applications of interpersonal communication in the work place and in an individual’s personal life. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

English is a global language for business. Fluency and clarity are critical skills for business communication. This course is designed for students of Business Studies to build business contexts using the English language. The course introduces students to reading and understanding the significance of Business English. It also teaches the basics of written and oral communication along with the knowledge of English grammar and syntax and their application in day-to-day communicative needs

The course aims to:

Familiarise the students with the importance of intercultural communication to meet global needs.

Develop linguistic and communicative skills for academic advancement and employment opportunities in national and global markets.

Enhance students' skills to be effective communicators in the digitally interconnected world.

Make students understand the significance of professional ethics in business correspondence.

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.

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.

This course explores the intricate relationship between media and social movements, examining how media platforms and technologies have shaped the formation, mobilization, and impact of contemporary social movements. Through an interdisciplinary lens, students will analyze the role of media in fostering collective action, amplifying marginalized voices, and challenging power structures. They will critically examine various forms of media, including traditional news outlets, social media platforms, and alternative media, and investigate their influence on activism, protest, and social change. Drawing on case studies from around the world, students will gain insights into the complexities of media representation, framing, and manipulation, as well as strategies employed by social movements to harness media for their causes. By the end of the course, students will develop a nuanced understanding of the dynamic interplay between media and social movements in the contemporary global context.

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

This course will develop an understanding of how advertising affects the human mind by giving unique and valuable insight from the industry. The course will help in studying the relationship between advertising and human mind and also apply this learning to advertising strategy, positioning, brand, and marketing communications that prepare students for the competitive world of advertising and marketing.

Course objectives

This course aims to

• Introduce psychological perspectives of advertisements in real life situations. 
• Orient students towards the various functions and roles of cognitive, affective and behavioral responses in the field of advertisement.
• Help students to identify and apply the various theories and principles of advertisement psychology in the field of marketing.

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.

Financial Management is an introductory core course that is offered with intent to equip the students with the basic knowledge of finance theory and its application to develop relevant financial strategies pertinent to profit-seeking organizations. The theme of financial management is structured around three decision making financial areas: Investment- long term as well as working capital, Financing and Dividend policy. This imbibes students with analytical and decision-making skills in managing finance through application of theoretical questions and practical problems.

Course Objectives: 

●      To understand the basics of finance function and the concepts of financial management

●      To apply the knowledge in taking finance decisions

●      To develop analytical skills to identify financial management problems and solve them.

●      To analyse the relationship among capital structure, cost of capital, dividend decisions, and value of the business.

To assess a firm’s requirement for long-term assets by applying capital budgeting techniques

Marketing a particularly stimulating subject for learners, since its practical application is visible every day. Old rules of marketing are no longer useful to those who want to influence these new consumer’s choices. This course will lead the exploration of the leading edge of this paradigm shift that is now underway. 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

• To explain fundamental concepts of marketing and their application to different markets.
• To give an understanding about marketing mix elements and strategies.
• To explain about consumers buying behavior.
• To critically examine and evaluate existing marketing strategies and tactics.
• To study the social responsibility and ethics of marketing.

This project is an opportunity to students understand social issues and challenges around their society. A short term association of students with NGO’s help them to learn other side reality of society which enable them to consider social issues in their future corporate decision makings. This project facilitate the students to effectively  utilizing their skills and competences to contribute the people, community and society

This course aims to deliver theoretical and practical exposure to Business Analytics and how it can be used to solve Analytical problems in Business. The course aims to provide the foundational concepts of Business Analytics and enable students to use those learnings and analytical models to analyse business decisions.

●      To relate the theoretical knowledge of business analytics with real-world data systems. 

●      To understand data management techniques to handle data for the decision-making process.

●      To analyse problems with the different tools and techniques for data-driven decisions

●      To appraise the different business analytics models to solve management problems

●   To design data-based solutions for different functional domains of business

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.

The course provides basic knowledge of investment alternatives available for individuals and outlines the functioning of primary and secondary markets. It also focuses on giving exposure to students on stock market trading and strategies.

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.

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.

Business perceives the world’s realities and formulates strategies to market products accordingly. This perception requires thought or thinking and an understanding of language to materialize business purposes.  The course comprises practicals such as responding to audio, visual and written prompts. The course contents are indicative of global trends in business communication as well as the significance of cross-cultural (national and regional ) communication strategies. 

This course aims to

1. Develop an organic sense of coherence between thought and writing.

2. Help students read, interpret and deploy different oral, written, and visual cues to effectively articulate, compose and create content for their professional requirements.

3. Equip the students with the cross-cutting issues of professional ethics and human values in business communication

Indian mythologies have fascinated and captured the imagination of the mankind in general and the Indians in particular since time immemorial.In the recent past, there have emerged a generation of writers, who have begun refurnishing and repackaging the same age-old stories and the same age-old characters in their own ingenious way and have achieved remarkable success to capture and retain the imagination of the present, increasingly rational and tech-savvy, generation. The popularity and commercial success of their works is unprecedented in the Indian publishing history of fiction in English. This course will explore this vast corpus of retelling of mythical tales that have been able to create and propagate a sort of popular culture by adding a new dimension to the mythologies or, as some people argue, puranas. The objective of this course is to examine how Indian English writers in the 21st century have incorporated mythological elements and themes into their literary works. Through close reading and analysis, students will explore how authors have reimagined and recontextualized mythological narratives, characters, and symbols to address contemporary social, political, and cultural issues.

 It is a solitary principle of industrial relations that a happy and content labourer is an indispensable asset for any employer. However, labourers have not received their due on account of historical wrongs, and in this era of a market economy, labourers do not seem to get the minimum standards of social security. As a result, industrial peace and harmony have remained a distant dream.

Hence, constant efforts are being made by the governments to ameliorate the working conditions of labour in order to ensure minimum welfare for the workers.

IPR have assumed increased significance in global trade. Over the last two decades IPR protection has expanded in an unprecedented pace resulting in economic growth. Understating IPR legal regime is vital for protecting innovation and creation. This course aims at providing basic working knowledge in the area of intellectual property and examines, analyzes and studies the remarkable subject of International Intellectual Property Law and how to enforce trademarks, patents and copyrights beyond national boundaries. Special emphasis will be placed on international standards for intellectual property and its implementation, application and practices in national jurisdictions. In addition the course covers the differences and similarities between the diverse national intellectual property systems.

Course Description

This hands-on course introduces students to the fundamentals of digital media production, providing them with the skills and knowledge needed to create compelling content in various digital formats. Through practical exercises and projects, students will learn the essentials of pre-production, production, and post-production processes in the digital media landscape. They will explore techniques for capturing and editing audio and video, designing graphics, and creating engaging multimedia content. The course will also examine the influence of digital media on society, including its impact on culture, communication, and storytelling. By the end of the course, students will be proficient in producing professional-quality digital media projects and will have a critical understanding of the broader implications of digital media production.

Course Objectives:
1. Design impactful stories using effective structures, engaging visuals, and multimedia elements, tailored to specific platforms and audiences.
2. Get hands-on experience with audio/video recording and editing software, graphic design principles, and popular digital media platforms to produce effective storytelling projects.
3. Evaluate digital storytelling projects, identify effective techniques, and analyze the broader impact of digital media on communication and society.
4. Utilize various storytelling methods, collaborate effectively in teams, and communicate creative vision through presentations and project critiques.
5. Apply digital media skills to various platforms and emerging technologies, adapting your approach to diverse audiences and storytelling goals.

Understanding close relationships is among the central goals of social psychology. Close relationships range from family ties to friendships to romantic and sexual relationships. Our main purpose will be on learning about the life cycle of adult intimate (i.e., romantic) relationships, ranging from stages of initial attraction and relationship initiation to growth and maintenance of the relationship, and in some cases, dissolution. Although other close relationships such as close friendships, family, and work relationships will also be addressed and integrated into the course, they will be of secondary importance. Class meetings will consist mainly of facilitated discussions and student-led presentations on topics such as the biological bases of attraction and love, commitment and interdependence, relationship cognition, attachment, communication, sexuality, relational interaction patterns, relationship satisfaction, and the social context of relationships (e.g., the influence of others) conflict, relationship dissolution, and relationship maintenance.

CO1: Understand the major concepts and models of interpersonal relationships.

CO2: Evaluate the different types of relationships and their impact on one's life.

CO3: Use strategies to enhance everyday life challenges and sustain effective relationships

This multidisciplinary course examines the concept of leadership and the psychological and social processes that characterize leadership. We will explore the qualities of effective leadership and the role of situational factors that make some forms of leadership more effective than others. We will explore paradox and complexity in discussions of leadership and will explore the dynamics of identity and power in the unfolding of leadership. In this course, students will not only learn about leadership in traditional ways, such as readings and discussion, but will explore their personal leadership style and plan their goals for personal leadership growth.

This course is designed to help students understand the relationship between artificial intelligence and society and what are the various social concerns regarding this relationship. The course will introduce students to the historical development of artificial intelligence and what are various social, economic and ethical concerns raised by the increasing use of artificial intelligence. Different sociological explanations of the relationship between artificial intelligence and society will be explored in the course.

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.