There will be eight core papers in journalism, covering a broad spectrum of areas of journalism. There are four skill enhancement courses related to writing and reporting. In addition there will be one elective in the fourth semester that will offer choice to students to specialize. It?s also mandatory for students to go for an internship at the end of the fourth semester in order to get a hands on experience. The theory papers will aim at making the students aware of the field, the practical and skill-based papers will go a long way in equipping them for the job. It is seen that a broad-based knowledge of the various subjects gives a journalist the perspective in understanding the issues and writing intelligently and in the proper context and right perspective for the lay readers.The Department of Media Studies is also going to utilize the knowledge and skills of experts from various fields in order to provide the students the very best. Similarly, there will be a concerted effort to tap the resources of experienced journalists, who shall bring in their knowledge and expertise. The journalism student will be expected to bring out lab journals regularly, and in the fourth semester be responsible to bring out a newspaper, web-based publication and a television news bulletin.

Continuous assessments would be carried out for all courses. Considering the learning requirements of the students, a variety of evaluation practices will be put to use. Assessments like regular written exams, viva voce, online submissions, demonstration-based assessments, etc. would be used.  

The Additional English course is offered as a second language course and seeks to introduce the students to the nuances of English literature in its varied forms and genres. The students who choose Additional English are generally proficient in the English language. Hence, instead of focusing on introducing them to language, challenging texts in terms of ideas, form, and technique are chosen. Additional English as a course is designed for students in place of a regional language. Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), foreign nationals and students who have not taken Hindi, Kannada, Tamil or French at the Plus 2 or Class XII levels are eligible to choose Additional English. The course is taught for students from different streams, namely, BA, BSc, BCom, and BBA in the first year and for BA, BSc and BCom (Regular) in the second year.

The first year syllabus is an attempt by the Department of English, Christ University to recognize and bring together the polyphonic Indian and Indian sub-continental voices in English in English translation for the Additional English students of the first year. This effort aims to familiarize the students with regional literatures in translation, Indian Writing in English (IWE) and literatures from Pakistan, Nepal and Srilanka, thereby, enabling the students to learn more about Indian culture and ethos through writings from different regions of the country. We have tried to represent in some way or the other the corners of India and the Indian sub-continent in this microcosmic world of short stories, poems and essays

There is a prescribed text bookfor the first year students, compiled by the Department of English, Christ University and intended for private circulation.

The first semester has a variety of writing from India, Pakistan and Nepal. The various essays, short stories and poems deal with various socio-economic, cultural and political issues that are relevant to modern day India and the Indian sub-continent and will enable students to comprehend issues of identity-politics, caste, religion, class, and gender. All of the selections either in the manner of their writing, the themes they deal with or the ideologies that govern them are contemporary in relevance and sensibility, whether written by contemporary writers or earlier writers. An important addition to this syllabus is the preponderance of North-Eastern writing which was hitherto not well represented. Excerpts from interviews, autobiographical writings, sports and city narratives are added to this section to introduce students to the varied genres of literature.

The objectives of this course are

to expose students to the rich literary and cultural diversity of  Indian literatures

to sensitise students on the social, political, historical and cultural ethos that has shaped the nation- INDIA

to enable to grasp and appreciate the variety and abundance of Indian writing, of which this compilation is just a passing glance

to learn and appreciate India through association of ideas in the texts and the external contexts (BhashaUtsav will be an intrinsic help in this endeavour)

The students will become

sensitive to cultural, social, religious and ethnic diversities and help them engage with their peers and all around them in a more understanding and ‘educated’ manner.

it will also enable them through the activities conducted to become more proactive citizens/participants in society.

aware of the dynamics of gender, identity, communalism and politics of this vast nation through its literature.

1.      Keki N Daruwala     “Migrations”

2.      Kamala Das            “Forest Fire”

3.      Agha Shahid Ali      “Snow on the Desert”

4.      Eunice D Souza       “Marriages are Made”

1.      Rabindranath Tagore    “Babus of Nayanjore”

2.      Ruskin Bond  “He said it with Arsenic”

3.      Bhisham Sahni       “The Boss Came to Dinner”

4.      N. Kunjamohan Singh    “The Taste of Hilsa”

5.      Mohan Thakuri                “Post Script”

1.      Mahatma Gandhi       “What is True Civilization?” (Excerpts from Hind Swaraj)

2.      Ela Bhatt                    “Organising for Change”

3.      Sitakant Mahapatra     “Beyond the Ego: New Values for a Global Neighborhood

4.      B R Ambedkar             “Waiting for A Visa”

The text book copy "Reading Diversity"

CIA 2: Mid-semester written exam for 50 marks

CIA 3: Collage, tableaus, skits, talk shows, documentaries, Quizzes or any proactive            creative assignments that might help students engage with India as a cultural space. This is to be done keeping in mind the objectives and learning outcomes of the course.

Question Paper Pattern

Mid Semester Exam: 2 hrs

Section A: 4x5= 20

Section B: 2x15=30

Total                  50

End Semester Exam: 2 hrs

Section A: 4 x 5 = 20

Section B: 2 x 15= 30

Total                   50

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)

Successful completion of the course will equip the participants in the following ways:

•       Awareness of different approaches to knowledge, critical and creative bent of mind that leads to content-based investigation. 

•       Working knowledge of different purposes of writing, especially persuasive (argumentative), analytical, and informative writings paving the way for research-based reading and writing.

•       Application of functional grammar and mechanics that enhance conceptual clarity, communicative style and style of writing

•       Hands on experience in research culture which is discipline specific in nature

•       Experiential learning through participatory learning and service learning

•       Awareness of problem-based learning and need-based learning

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

•       Expanding vocabulary, spelling nuances, refreshing grammar, avoiding common errors and pitfalls, learning sentence structures, and use of punctuation (mechanics).

•       Use of dictionary

•       Use of Word document tools

•       Use of Library resources

•       Concept mapping- mind mapping

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

•       Previewing

•       Reading for Main Ideas

•       Using Contexts for Vocabulary

•       Skimming/Scanning for Details

•       Making Inferences

•       Restating

•       Phrasing

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

•       Understanding the text

•       Critical thinking

•       Mnemonics

o   Introduction to the need for mnemonics?

o   Memory organisation through pegging practices

o    Word, acronym, models, note cards, images, etc

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 (weightage) = 50 marks

ESE (weight) = 50 marks

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

Internal Assessment Breakup:

CIA I -10 Marks

CIA II- 25 Marks

CIA III- 10 Marks

Attendance- 5 Marks

End Sem- 50 Marks Portfolio Submission

Course Description:

This course will serve as an introductory course for British Literature. The course will locate the texts in their respective socio-political and historical contexts. The selection aims to introduce different genres of British literature.

Course Objectives

• To introduce  students to the socio-political, religious, cultural, and linguistic aspects of the UK through English literary texts
• To help students understand texts as products of a historical, political and cultural processes
• To enable students to identify different forms, genres and subgenres in literature
• To sensitize students to human values through an exposure to socio-historical concerns of subjectivity, identity, community and nationhood.
• To sharpen critical appreciation and analytical writing skills through an introduction to models of literary criticism

Emergence of English language, History of England from 42 BC to Norman Conquest- salient features

 Impact of Norman rule on English social structure, English language in the medieval period,mystery, morality plays and miracle plays, feudalism 

Protestantism, Bible translation, religious literature, humanism, English Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo Styles

Metaphysical Poetry, Epic conventions, Mock epic, Puritanism, Restoration, Rise of the novel, the English novel in the eighteenth century, Gunpowder plot, Oliver Cromwell,

Dissolving the parliament, Periodical essays, empiricism, Influence of French culture through restoration, the enlightenment 

William Shakespeare:          

Sonnet 116

‘O that this too solid flesh would melt” Soliloquy by Hamlet in Hamlet Act 1 Scene 2

‘To Be or Not To Be’ Soliloquy by Hamlet in Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1

Francis Bacon: “Of Truth”

John Donne: “Canonization”

John Milton: Excerpt from Satan’s speech in Book 1, Paradise Lost

John Dryden:  First three stanzas of “Mac Flecknoe”

Alexander Pope: Belinda’s Boudoir from The Rape of the Lock

Addison and Steele: “Character of Will Wimble”

Oliver Goldsmith: “Beau Tibbs”

Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer / Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus 

William Wordsworth: “Lines Written in Early Spring”

S.T. Coleridge: “Christabel”

Shelley: “Ode to the Westwind”

Keats: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”

Charles Lamb: “Dream Children”

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy. Eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. 4^th Ed. New York: WW Norton, 1996. Print

Gordden, Malcom, and Michael Lapidge. The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature. Rpt Cambridge: CUP, 2006. Print.

Gupta, Ambika Sen. Selected College Poems. Rpt. Hyderabad: Orient Longman,   1999.

Herman, Daniel. The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. Cambridge: CUP, 2007. Print.

John, Eileen, and Dominic McIver Lopes. Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Print

Maxwell, Richard, and Katie Trumpener. The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period. Cambridge: CUP, 2008. Print

Sampson, George.The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, 3^rd Ed. Cambridge: CUP, 2005. Print

Ramarao, Vimala. Ed.Explorations. Vol I. Bangalore: Prasaranga, Bangalore University, 2004. Print

Shingle, Michael. Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe. New York: WW Norton, 1994. Print

1. group presentations on topics relevant to British literature/Art and literary movements
2. an exhibition/display based on different eras, movements and literary and non-literary genres

CIA III will be a moddle test on the Novel

These are suggested examples of CIAs. However, during the course of teaching, there could be other suggestions, and CIAs could be slightly modified based on class dynamics and calibre of students.

Selected Texts chosen to be taught may be revised / used as extended reading which may be tested in CIA 1, 2 or 3. Example : only 1 soliloquy may be taught.

Mid Semester Examination CIA II: 2 Hours

Section A: Short Notes – 5x3 marks= 15 (5 questions out of 7)

Section B: Essay Questions – 2x10 marks = 20 (2 questions out of 3)

Section C: Long Essay Questions – 1x15 marks = 15 (1 question out of 2)

Total: 50 Marks

End Semester Examination: 3 Hours

Section A: Short Notes – 10x3 marks = 30 (10 questions out of 12)

Section B: Essay Questions – 4x10 marks = 40 (4 questions out of 6)

Section C: Long Essay Questions – 2x15 marks = 30 (2 questions out of 4)

Total: 100 Marks

French as second language for the UG program

1.      First and Last Names of French Families

2.      Few French and International personalities

1.      Greetings- Usage of “tu” and “Vous”

2.      Telephone Numbers in France 

3.      Some cultural / festive events in Paris- The Francophone

1.      Pontoise and Ile de France- The City

2.      Annecy- Youth hostel and accommodation

3.      The wording of address in France- postal codes and departments

2.      Krishnan, Chitra. De Bouche à Oreille. New Delhi : Langers International Pvt Ltd., 2009

2. French websites like Bonjour de France, Fluent U French, Learn French Lab, Point du FLE etc.

The detailed text book “Samakaleen Hindi Kavitha” edited by Dr.N Mohanan is an anthology of contemporary Hindi Poems written by representative poets of Hindi Literature. From the medieval poetry ' Kabir Ke Dohe and Sur ke pad 'is also included.  The poets reflect on the social, cultural and political issues which are prevalent in our society since the medieval period. Hindusthani sangeeth-parampara eva kalakar is one of the module. Since translation is a significant area in language and literature, emphasis is being given on it in the syllabus.Bharath ki pramukh sanskruthik kalayein  Yakshagana,Kathakali,Ram Leela,Krishna Leela etc. included in the syllabus to enrich cultural values among students.

Course Objectves:

• to impart the knowledge of poetics
• to acquire translation skills
• to expose students to veriety of texts to interact with them
• to help students develop a taste to appreciate works of literature through the organisation of language
• to help students understand the relationship between the world around them and the text
• to improve their oral and written skills
• to expose them to the world of music

Students will be exposed to the world of poetry and Music. Through translation and cultural studies, students can understand different languages, literature and culture. Grammar portions will help the students to develop their language proficiency.

’  Samakaleen Hindi Kavitha (Collection ofcontemporary Poems)  Edited By: Mahendra Kulashreshta Rajpal and Son’s, New Delhi

Level of knowledge: Analytical

Translation-Practice                English to Hindi and vice- versa.

Ramleela,Krishnaleela,Yakshagaana,kathakali.

1. 'Samakaleen Hindi Kavitha’ (Collection of Poems) Edited By: Dr.N Mohanan,  Rajpal and Son’s,New Delhi.

1. A Hand Book of Translation Studies         By: Das Bijay Kumar.               

2. Saral Subodh Hindi Vyakaran,                 By: Motilal Chaturvedi. Vinod pustak mandir, Agra-2

3. Anuvad Evam Sanchar –                         Dr Pooranchand Tantan, Rajpal and Son’s, Kashmiri

4. Anuvad Vignan                                       By: Bholanath Tiwar

5. Anuvad Kala                                           By: N.E Vishwanath Iyer.

CIA-2(Mid semester examination)-50 marks

CIA-3(Digital learning-article creation in Hindi Wikipedia)-20 marks

End sem examination-50 marks

Writing is a fundamental skill for a student of Journalism. This course is meant for those journalism students who have a reasonable command over their writing in English, and need guidance and support for a reflective and journalism-specific writing process.  The course is designed to address the cognitive aspects of writing, matching to different journalistic demands.

• Reflect on the purpose of writing
• Follow the prewriting process
• Ability to identify right and rich sources
• Organise Ideas
• Write grammatically correct articles
• Employ apt leads and headlines for the right context
• Deploy apt headlines
• Avoid legal and grammatical pitfalls in writing
• Choose and deploy the type of writing that matches different journalistic contexts

Understanding Writing; Distinguishing Journalistic Writing from other forms of Writing;

Understanding Context and Audience; The Prewriting Process: Source Identification, Search Engine Optimisation, Diversifying sources, Eliminating Irrelevant and Misleading Sources, identifying key points, choosing style, organising ideas

Ensuring Grammatical Precision: Punctuation, Preposition, Tenses, Correctness of Usage,

Factual Accuracy; Fairness; Clarity; Right Attribution

1.     Hamp-Lyons, Liz, and Ben Heasley (2006). Study Writing: A Course in Writing Skills for Academic Purposes. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. Print.

2.     Knight, Robert M.(2010). Journalistic Writing: Building the Skills, Honing the Craft. Portland, Or.: Marion Street. Print.

1.     http://bighow.com/journalism

2.     http://www.timharrower.com

3.     http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/journalism/article/art20130702112133610

CIA I: Objective test on grammatical skills

CIA II: Portfolio Submission (Covering assignments till unit III)

CIA III:  Writing same story for different journalistic platforms

End Semester: Portfolio Submission (Covering all units)

An introductory paper that gives a broad overview of journalism. The course provides a clear but brief insight into the domain of journalism. 

The paper is aimed at introducing the student to the historical growth of journalism and its evolution over a period of time. Basically the student understands what his/her role would be if he/she were to be a part of journalism. 

The Student will know the causative factors for the changes that have taken place in journalism & the impact of the same both in India and other countries

A brief history of journalism before printing, The advent of printing, its Implications. 

Renaissance, reformation, scientific revolution

History of journalism in the west and its forms.

Press and National Movement

Role of B.G. Tilak, Gandhi, Aurobindo, T.S Ramachandra Rao and Subramanya Bharathi as journalists

Indian language press, Emergency and censorship

Press laws, Pre-independence and Post-independence.

 Functions, principles and scope of journalism – role of press in democracy – Theories of press - Constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech and expression and restrictions.  Media Theories.

2.  Mehta, D.S. (1982). Mass Communication and Journalism in India. Allied Publications, New Delhi.

3.  Parthasarthy, Rangaswami. (1989). Journalism in India. Sterling Publications Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.

2. MacBride, Sean (Ed). (1982). Many Voices, One World. Oxford &IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi.                                                                                                                               

3. Siebert, Peterson and Schramm. (1978). Four Theories of the Press. University of Illinois Press, USA.

CIA2: Exams-centralised (25)

CIA3: Group Presentation (10) Coordinated by Joel Jacob

End-semester exam: Exams-centralised (50)

Attendance: (5)

Course Description

Select Old Kannada, Medieval Kannada and Modern Kannada Literatures are  introduced for I Semester BA/ BSc. courses in the syllabus. This will enrich the  Language and Communication  skills, Critical and analytical thinking of the students. this will help them to enhance their social sensitivity.  

Course Objectives

• To expose learners to variety of texts to interact with them
• To help learners develop a taste to appreciate works of Literature through the organization of Language
• To help learners understand the relationship between the world around them and the text
• To help lerarners to improve their oral and written skills for their respective career goals
• To help improve their communiction skills for larger academic purposes and vocational purposes

•  Develop an analytical and critical bent of mind to compare and analize the various literature they read and discuss  in class
  
• Develop a more humane and service orented aproach to all forms of life around them
• Ability to communicate effectively in speech and in writing
• Ability to use better language to communicate effectively

1. Poetry (Old Kannada literature)

1 Pampa-Bharata Bahubali Prasamga

2. Janna- Chitramapatre Ramate Naari

3. Raghavanka- Purada Punyam Purusha Roopinde Pogutide

2. Vachanas & Keerthanas (Medieval Kannada Literature)

          1. Devaradasimayya 2. Basavanna 3. Akkamahadevei

          4. Allamaprabhu 5. Urilingapeddi 6. Purandara Dasa

          7. Kanakadasa 8. Vadiraja  

  3. Modern Kannada Poetry

        1. B.M.Shree- Kaarihrggadeya Magalu

        2.  Bendre- Hakki Haarutide Nodidira

        3. Gopala Krishna Adiga- Neharu Nivruttaraguvudill

        4. G.S Shivarudrappa – Mumbai Jaataka

        5. T Yellappa- Avaru Mattu Naavu

       6. Muktayakka- Mooru Mukhagalu

1. Ramana Savaari Santege Hodaddu- K Sadashiva

       2. Chappaligalu- Sara Abubakkar

       3. Aeroplane mattu Chitte- K.P. Poornachandra Tejaswi

       4. Gilikathe: Ravindranatha Tagore (Translated by   S.G. Kulakarni)

     1.  A- H, L-l, N-n, Hrasva- Deerga, Ottakshara, Joining of words

     2. Report Writing

     3. Folk Art forms of Karnataka

       1. Adipurana- Pampa

       2. Yashodhara Charite- Janna

       3. Harishchandra Kavya- Raghavanka

       4. Shree Sahitya- B M Shreekantaiah

2. Vachana Chandrike- L Basavaraju

3. Purandara Sahitya Darshana- S K Ramachandra Rao

CIA-1 Digital Learning - Wikipedia- 20 Marks

CIA-2 Mid Semsester Examination- 50 Marks

CIA-3 Digitization of Kannada Books - 20 Marks

End Semester Examination- 50 Marks

This course is an introduction to the study of basic psychological processes offered to the first-semester undergraduate students of psychology. It is an introductory paper that gives an understanding about the field of psychology, scope, and the multiple perspectives and disciplines that provide a holistic picture of human behaviour. Students will learn the key concepts, classic examples, and modern and practical applications of fundamental psychological theories, methods, and tools. Emphasis is on the basic psychological processes of personality, learning, consciousness, motivation and emotion. This course allows them to learn the basics and demonstrate the skills that a student needs to move on to the more specific and in-depth psychology courses that follow. This course will help the learner to learn about

• The world of Psychology with a brief historical sketch of the science of psychology, multiple perspectives and recent trends in the field.
• The fundamental processes underlying human behaviour such as learning, motivation, emotion, personality and states of consciousness
• Ethics in studying human behaviour and using them in academic assignments. Students will have an opportunity to develop skills such as writing, making presentations and using technology for academic purposes and teamwork.

• Explain psychological concepts, including fundamental concepts, principles, theoretical perspectives, overarching themes, and arguments from across a range of psychology content domains like learning, personality, motivation, emotion and consciousness to various situations and contexts.
• Critically evaluate the different schools of thought in psychology
•  Analyse methods of scientific inquiry, evidence-based thinking, and critical thinking skills to psychological phenomena and examples of psychological science
• Write assignments and make presentations demonstrating basic knowledge of APA (American Psychological Association) style.

In this unit, we will examine the history of Western psychological theorizing from its beginnings in ancient Greece, through to the schools and perspectives of psychology including Structuralism, Functionalism, Psychodynamic, Biological, Behavioristic, Gestalt, Cognitive, Cross-cultural, Humanistic and Evolutionary. The aim is both 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 gain a better appreciation of the social, cultural, and, above all, psychological influences on the theorizing of psychologists. Students will be able to define psychology and understand what psychologists do and identify the major fields of study and theoretical perspectives within psychology and know their similarities and differences. In the end, students will gain a better appreciation of why contemporary psychology takes the shape it does.

2. Describe the evolution of psychology and the major pioneers in the field
3. Identify the various approaches, fields, and subfields of psychology along with their major concepts and important figures
4. Describe the value of psychology and possible careers paths for those who study psychology

This unit introduces students to the principles of learning and how those principles can be used to modify human behaviour. Explain the behavioural perspective of psychology and relate classical and operant conditioning concepts to student-generated scenarios. The course emphasises the application of learning theories and principles. Topics include reinforcement, extinction, punishment, schedules of reinforcement, stimulus discrimination, prompting and fading, stimulus-response chaining, generalisation, modelling, rule-governed behaviour, problem-solving, latent learning, observational learning, insight learning, concept learning, general case instruction, and stimulus equivalence. 

Laboratory Demonstration: Trial and Error learning, Habit Interference, Maze Learning 

This unit is an introduction to the psychological study of human personality, broadly speaking and more specifically in terms of how we may understand individual differences in personality and the personalities of individual persons. Personality psychologists use empirical methods of behavioural and clinical science to understand people in biological, social, and cultural contexts. Students will learn the strengths and weaknesses of the major personality theories, as well as how to assess, research and apply these theories. As much as possible, application to real-life situations will be discussed.

1. Identify the various perspectives that are common in the area of personality psychology and critically evaluate each in terms of its explanatory and predictive power.
2. Theories and perspectives of personality development: psychoanalytic, humanistic, trait, and social-cognitive.
3. Understand classic and current empirical measurement tools and approaches to investigation for personality assessment in psychological and clinical science
4. To develop an understanding of the concept of individual differences with the goal to promote self-reflection and understanding of self and others.

 Laboratory Demonstration: Sentence completion test, NEO-PI, Type A/B

Gazzaniga, Heatherton, Halpern (2015). Psychological Science, 5th Edition, Norton.

Feldman.S.R.(2009).Essentials of understanding psychology ( 7th Ed.) New Delhi : Tata Mc Graw Hill.

Baron, R.A and Misra, G. (2014). Psychology (Indian Subcontinent Edition).Pearson Education Ltd.

 CIA I –Written Assignment /Individual Assignment  - Total Marks 20     

 CIA II – Mid Semester Examination                        - Total marks 50                          

 CIA III –Activity-based Assignment                        - Total marks 20

  CIA I + II + III                                                      = 90 /100 = 45/50 

  Attendance                                                            = 5 marks 

 Total                                                                      = 100 = 50 

End Semester Examination : Total Marks=100=50

Question paper pattern

 Section A        Brief, concepts, definitions, applications               2 marks x 10 = 20

 Section B         Short Answers: Conceptual/Application                5 marks x 4   = 20

 Section C        Essay Type: Descriptive/Conceptual                       15 marks x 3 = 45

 Section D        Compulsory: Case Study (Application)                    15 X 1           = 15

The I semeste B.A/B.Sc students are prescribed wih the text " Ruthusamharam"

Strotra shithya 

The students will have exposure for the  style of poetry. Ruthusamhara is the work based on the nature which makes the students to understand about changes in nature

poery Buddhacharitham III canto, up to 52 stanzas.

Level of Knowledge: Conceptual/ descriptive/ Analytical.

Ruthusamharam

Strotra sahithya 

Grammar

Grammer- Sandhis and lakaras                                                          

 Level of Knowledge:  Analytical /Conceptual

language component.

Translation from Sanskrit to english                                                     

Level of Knowledge:  Analytical/. Conceptual

Composition to write in Sanskrit                                                              

Level of Knowledge:  Analytical/. Conceptual

Comprehension in Sanskrit                                                                     

Level of Knowledge:  Analytical/. Conceptual

Ruthusamharam

 Strotra sahitya : Madhurashtaka and Geeta govinda                                    

                            M.S. Subbalakshmi , Balamurali Krishna 

2) Ruthusamharam- Dr. K . Narayanabhatta

3) sanskrit grammar Translation from English to Sanskrit by M.R.Kale

4) Sanskrt Grammar Kannada version by Hegde. 

CIA 2 Midsemester examination   Evaluated for 50 marks

CIA 3  Wikipedia assignment   Evaluated for 20 marks

          End semester   Evaluated for 50 marks

Poems of Bharatiyar and Bharatidasan and poems by women poets with feminine sensibilities  will initiate the students into the modern period with all its complexities. The short stories by Ambai offers a matured vision of life through a varied characters and situatins. A new concept, Cultural Studies, will take the students beyond prescribed syllabus to include music, theatre, painting and films out of whcih the art form of music is taken up for the first semester.

To make the students experience the impact made by Bharathiyar and Bharathidasan during the 20^th century and to bring them to the realities of 21^st century. They will also learn, on their own, about the nuances of music and a unique aesthetic experience it offers 

Poems of Bharathiyar, Bharathidasan and women poets

2  Grammar as reflected in the poems

Prose including reference to contemporary literary issues

Malliga, R et al (ed).Thamilppathirattu I.Bangalore: Prasaranga,2011

     ‘Oru Karuppuchilanthiyudan Or Iravu’ by Ambai,

      published by Kalachuvadu Publications, Nagercoil, 2014

 Varadarajan, Mu.  Thamil Ilakkia Varalaru . New Delhi:Sahitya Akademi, 2008

 Sivathambi, Ka.Thamil Sirukathaiyin Thorramum Valarchiyum.Coimbatore: NCBH, 2009

 Ragunathan,C.Bharathi: Kalamum Karuthum, Chennai:NCBH, 1971

Ramakrishnan S 100 Sirantha Sirukathaigal, Chennai: Discovery Books, 2013

The second semester has a variety of writing from India, Pakistan and Srilanka. The various essays, short stories and poems deal with various socio-economic, cultural and political issues that are relevant to modern day India and the Indian sub-continent and will enable students to comprehend issues of identity-politics, caste, religion, class, and gender. All of the selections either in the manner of their writing, the themes they deal with or the ideologies that govern them are contemporary in relevance and sensibility, whether written by contemporary writers or earlier writers. Excerpts from interviews, autobiographical writings, sports and city narratives are added to this section to introduce students to the varied genres of literature.

The objectives of this course are

to expose students to the rich literary and cultural diversity of  Indian literatures

to sensitise students on the social, political, historical and cultural ethos that has shaped the nation- INDIA

to enable to grasp and appreciate the variety and abundance of Indian writing, of which this compilation is just a passing glance

to learn and appreciate India through association of ideas in the texts and the external contexts (BhashaUtsav will be an intrinsic help in this endeavour)

more aware culturally, ethically, socially and politically as citizens

the course will sensitize students towards cultural, social, religious and ethnic diversities and help them engage with their peers and all around them in a more understanding and ‘educated’ manner.

it will also enable them through the activities conducted to become more proactive citizens/participants in society.

aware of the dynamics of gender, identity, communalism and politics of this vast nation through its literature.

1.      Jayanta Mahapatra    “Grandfather”

2.      Meena Alexander    “Rites of Sense”

3.      K.Satchidanandan      “Cactus”

4.      Jean Arasanayagam   “Nallur”

1.      Temsula Ao             “The Journey”

2.      A. K Ramanujan       “Annaya’s Anthropology”

3.      Sundara Ramswamy   “Waves”

4.      Ashfaq Ahmed            “Mohsin Mohalla”

5.      T.S Pillai                      “In the Floods”

1.      Salman Rushdie        “Gandhi Now”

2.      Amartya Sen             “Sharing the World”

3.      Suketu Mehta            “Country of the No”

4.      Rahul Bhattacharya     “Pundits From Pakistan” (An Excerpt)

CIA 1: Classroom assignment/test for 20 marks keeping in tune with the course objectives and learning outcomes.

CIA 2: Mid-semester written exam for 50 marks

CIA 3: Collage, tableaus, skits, talk shows, documentaries, Quizzes or any proactive            creative assignments that might help students engage with India as a cultural space. This is to be done keeping in tune with the course objectives and learning outcomes.

Question Paper Pattern        

Mid Semester Exam: 2 Hrs

Section A: 4x5= 20

Section B: 2x15=30

Total                  50

End Semester Exam: 2 hrs

Section A: 5 x 5 = 25

Section B: 5 x 15= 75

Total                   100

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)

Successful completion of the course will equip the participants in the following ways:

•       Different approaches to knowledge, critical and creative bent of mind, that leads to content-based investigation 

•       Working knowledge of the different purposes of writing: persuasive (argumentative), analytical, and informative writings, paving  the way for research-based reading and writing

•       Awareness of academic presentation with conceptual clarity and leading to informed stances in writing

•       Presentation of one’s academic writing

•       Reciprocity and Reflective skills, propelling the participants to realise the value of participatory learning and service learning

•       Integration of problem-based learning and need-based learning

•        

•       Cohesion

•       Clarity

•       Logical Order

•       Consistency

•       Unity

•       Conciseness

•       Completeness

●Anchoring the context

●Building Thesis

●Taking a position

●Organizing ideas

●Developing Paragraphs

Essay Organization

●The Basics: What does a good essay need? Basic steps in writing an essay

●Characteristics/ Features

●Types

●Research

●Formal and Informal Essays

●Focus on the writing stages

•       Time management

•       Organisation of study material

•       Organisation of research writing works

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.

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.

The participants will take part in Formative Assessment mode. It aims at the learners’ teaching-learning process. A series of mini feedback driven practices and tasks plays a crucial role to measure their grasp of content, its application and performance. Maintaining Portfolio, Mini Project Submission, Self-paced or Time based Skill Specific Online Courses, Conceptual Presentation on Certain Areas of Interest

So the evaluation would include portfolio submissions for all the three CIAs and the End Semester

Course Description:

This course will build on the previous course and continue the objectives of the previous course. The completion of this course should provide sufficientground to introduce literary theory in their fourth semester and postcolonial studies in the later semesters.

Course Objectives

• To introduce  students to the socio-political, religious, cultural, and linguistic aspects of the UK through English literary texts
• To help students understand texts as products of a historical, political and cultural processes
• To enable students to identify different forms, genres and subgenres in literature
• To sensitize students to human values through an exposure to socio-historical concerns of subjectivity, identity, community and nationhood.
• To sharpen critical appreciation and analytical writing skills through an introduction to models of literary criticism

Darwin and the publication of Origin of Species, Victorian morality, utilitarianism, working class struggles, realism, naturalism, neorealism, Marxism 

Modernism, The World Wars, The Boer war, Russian revolution, Surrealism, Cubism, Expressionism

British Beat Generation, Performance Poetry, Postmodernism, Diaspora, Multiculturalism, Hybridity

Robert Browning: “Porphyria’s Lover”

Gerald Manley Hopkins: “TheWindhover”

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations/David Copperfield/Tale of Two Cities

Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion

W B Yeats: “Easter 1916”

T.S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

James Joyce: “The Dead”

Katherine Mansfield: “A Cup of Tea”

 Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party

Adrien Mitchell: “The Question”

Ted Hughes: “Hawk Roosting”

Benjamin Zephaniah: “Dis Poetry”

Neil Gaiman: Coraline

Corcoran, Neil. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-CenturyEnglish Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2007. Print

Davis, Alex, and Lee M Jenkins. The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2007. Print

Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy. Eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. 4^th Ed. New York: WW Norton, 1996. Print

Gupta, Ambika Sen. Selected College Poems. Rpt. Hyderabad: Orient Longman,1999. Print

The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. Cambridge: CUP, 2007.Print.

John, Eileen, and Dominic McIver Lopes. Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Print

Kaplan, Fred, and Monod, Sylvere. Hard Times. New York: WW Norton, 2002. Print

Sampson, George. The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, 3rd Ed. Cambridge: CUP, 2005. Print

 Ramarao, Vimala,. Ed. Explorations. Vol II. Bangalore: Prasaranga, Bangalore. Print

1. A class test / presentation / exhibition/ performance based on the texts prescribed

CIA III

       1. A moodle test on the play / short stories/ age

These are a few suggested CIAs. However, during the course of teaching, there could be other suggestions, and CIAs could be slightly modified based on class dynamics and calibre of students.

Selected Texts chosen to be taught may be revised / used as extended reading which may be tested in CIA 1, 2 or 3.

Mid Semester Examination CIA II: 2 hrs

Section A: Short Notes – 5x3 marks= 15 (5 questions out of 7)

Section B: Essay Questions – 2x10 marks = 20 (2 questions out of 3)

Section C: Long Essay Questions – 1x15 marks = 15 (1 question out of 2)

Total: 50 Marks

End Semester Examination Pattern

Section A: Short Notes – 10x3 marks = 30 (10 questions out of12)

Section B: Essay Questions – 4x10 marks = 40 (4 questions out of 6)

Section C: Long Essay Questions – 2x15 marks = 30 (2 questions out of 4)

Total: 100 Marks

Notes:

1. For all texts Norton Editions are to be treated as the official prescribed editions.
2. For critical material The Cambridge Companion Series of CUP, Case Book Series of Macmillan and Palgrave, and Norton series of WW Norton are officially prescribed.

French as second language for the UG program

1.      Festivals and rituals in France

2.      Telephone conversations- Social network- Guide and Forum of Travel

3.      People magazines and the life of celebrities.

1.      Montreal- the seasons, the weather

2.      Overseas France and the Reunion

3.      Brussels, European capital

1.      National health nutrition program and the week of taste – the typical meal and food habits in France

2.      The great designers and the high fashion- Fashion and personal Image

3.      Online shopping – Gift occasions

2.      French websites like Bonjour de France, Fluent U French, Learn French Lab, Point du FLE etc.

2.      Krishnan, Chitra. De Bouche à Oreille. New Delhi : Langers International Pvt Ltd., 2009

The text book ”Samakaleen Kahaniyam is a story collection edited by Dr.Vanaja  Published by Rajpal and sons, New Delhi.  In this semester Film appreciation is also included along with Conversation Writing.

Students are exposed to the world of Hindi fiction particularly short stories. Film appreciation helps them to improve their writing and analytical skills and know more about the thematic and technical aspects of Cinema. Conversation writing will enhance their Oral,written as wellas the communication skills..

The text book “  Samakaleen Kahaniyam    ” is a story collection edited by Dr. Vanaja from contemporary writers of Hindi Literature.

• Theesari Kasam, English-Vinglish,bagban and Ankur.                                           ,
• Bharathiya cenema ke vikhyath kalakar,
• Satyajit Roy,Girish Kasaravalli,Dadasaheb Phalke,Shyam Benegal and Adoor Gopalakrishnan.
• Movie review.                                             

Level of knowledge: Conceptual

At least 10 exchanges each on the given context.                                                                                                                                                                               

Level of knowledge: Basic

Story Collection‘Samakaleen kahaniyam’ (Full Text) Edited By: Dr. Vanaja Published By: Rajpal and Sons Kashmiri Gate, New Delhi-6.

Level of knowledge: Analytical

CIA-2(Mid semester examination(

CIA-3(Digital learning-Wikipedia)

End semester examination

This paper is introduced to give students, who intend to pursue a career in journalism, an insight into the various aspects that are dealt with in daily journalism. Without an understanding of Politics, Economics and Society, journalism would be shallow to say the least.

Politics: Parliamentary Democracy - Merits and de merits, A case for Presidential system?, Issues - language, religion, caste, regionalism and corruption. Elections and State funding of elections. Debate on Nationalism and secularism.

Economics: Basic concepts - GDP, GNP, HDI, Inflation, Deflation, Hyperinflation, BoP and BoT. Introduction to ideologies - Liberalism, Socialism, Marxism Gandhism. Nehruvian socialism and five year plans, state of economy before and after 1991. Concept of Development and models of development. Development at what cost?

Indian Society:  Colonialism, caste system, multicultural and multilingual, urban-rural divide, illiteracy, gender inequality. Modernization- problems in modern families, joint family to nucleus family, westernization, changing morals, question of Indian culture.  

2. Srinivas, M.N. Collected Essays (2002). Oxford University Press: New Delhi.

3. Lahiri, Chandi. Since Freedom (1994). New Central Book Agency: New Delhi,

4.  Dutta, V. P. (2005) India’s Foreign Policy in a Changing World. Vikas: New Delhi,

5. Guha, Ramachandra.(2010)Makers of modern India . Penguin Books India

6. Guha, Ramachandra.( 2007) India after Gandhi. Picador, India

7.  Palmer, Norman D; Perkins, Howard C (2002).International RelationsDelhi A.I.T.B.S. Publishers

2. Frontline, Seminar

3. The Hindu, Indian Express

4. Scroll.in, the wire.in

CIA 2 - Mid Semester - 50 Marks

CIA 3 - 20 Marks

ESE - 100 Marks

Course Description: An insight into the process of reporting as well as editing that is core to the journalist’s skills.

Course Objectives: Reporting is, of course, a core paper for the journalism students. Here there is an attempt to introduce the students to the various aspects of reporting. From understanding how news is constructed, to how to report various news stories, the paper gives an overview of the subject. Editing is also part of this paper that goes along with Reporting. Editing deals with how the news flows in the newspaper organization, what changes are done to it and finally how the various elements, including news and photos are presented in a pleasing manner through page design.

Students will imbibe the skill to report events/incidents and be able to edit articles and news stories, befitting the medium.

 Reporter- functions, attributes, and responsibilities, qualifications and traits of a reporter. functional differences of a reporter(Special correspondents, foreign correspondents, columnists, freelancers and stringers) - Types of reporting. Reporting for newspapers and magazines- News agencies (Indian and Foreign)

 Structure of news report - asking and answering the 5Ws and 1 H; lead; body of the story; background and quotes; inverted pyramid structure; chronology - Identifying news sources and  Importance of attribution - Beats: crime, health local bodies, assembly, political  parties - Interview and the art of interviewing.

 Meaning and purpose, functional differences of editors. News flow and copy editing, rewriting stories - style sheet: Guidelines for editing, importance of headline, typography, style and language - Opinion and editorial writing. Readability tests.

1. Prasad, Baba M. (1991). Reporting- Principles & Practice. Wordmakers, Bangalore.

2. Stephens, Mitchell & Gerald Lanson. (1986). Writing & Reporting the News. Harcourt Bruce Jovanovich College Publications, USA.

3. Mencher, Melvin. (1977). News Reporting & Writing. W.C.Brown Co. Publications, USA.

1. Parthasarthy, Rangaswami. (1996). Here is the News! Reporting for the Media. Sterling Publishing Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.

2. Westley, Bruce (1980). News Editing (3rd Edition). IBH Publications, New Delhi.

3. Garst, Robert & Theodore Bernstein (1982). Headlines and Deadlines (4th Edition). Columbia University Press, New York, USA.

4. Baskette, Sissors & Brooks (1992). The Art of Editing (5th Edition). Macmillan Publishing Co. New York.

5. French, Christopher (Ed) (1987). The AP Style Book & Libel Manual. Addison-Wesley Publication Co, Inc, USA.

CIA1: Written assignment (10)

CIA2: Mid-sem exam: centralized (25)

CIA3: Presentation/Project (10)

End-semester exam: centralized (50)

Attendance: (5)

Course Description  : The course is taught in the Second Semester for BA/B.Sc. students. The selected Essays  of  Nagesh Hegade G.Sham Paramashivaiah Ashish Nandi and Yeshwanth Donge are prescribed in the semester.The syllabus will extend the concerns of  Environment, Current Marketing trend,  Folk belifes and  social justice.  students will be introduced to the basic concepts of theatre arts.  Students will use various creative drama techniques to build confidence and trust, stimulate imagination, movement, and role-play.  Through theatre games and activities students will learn to lose inhibitions and will gain trust in themselves as well as others in their groups.

Course Objective: Students in Drama and Theatre Arts will acquire and develop various fundamental performance and production skills sufficient to prepare them for employment or graduate study in the theatre and  students will learn to deliver audience-appropriate theatrical presentations.

: Amrapali- Dr. Prabhushankara.

1.     

1.      Pashimaghattagala Patana- Nagesh Hegde

2.      Janapada Kathe- G.S. Paramashiviah

3.      Coco cola – Ashish Nandi

4.      Online Marukatteya Kasta sukha – Yashvanth Donge

1. Essay Writing
2. Conversation Writing
3. Report Writing
4. Letter Writing

1.      Drama: Amrapali- Dr. Prabhushankara

Publishers: DVK Murthy

Krishnamurthy puram

Mysore -04

• Samagra Kannada Sahitya Charithre, Prasaranga, Bangalore University.
• Adhunika Kannada Nataka- K. Marulasiddappa  

CIA-1 Digital Learning - Wikipedia - 20 Marks

CIA-2 Mid Semsester Examination- 50 Marks

CIA-3 Digitization of Kannada Novels - 20 Marks

End Semester Examination- 50 Marks

This course is conceptualised to help students understand basic biological and cognitive processes as they affect the individual. The course introduces students about different cognitive concepts such as perception, memory, attention, intelligence, language and thought in the various manifestations of the study of mind and behaviour. It introduces the basic framework on how psychologists scientifically study and understand the human brain and cognitive process through various quantitative and qualitative methods of inquiry. The course also takes through the various applications on how human mind works in different situations and in our everyday life such as the applications of human memory in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and modern machines. Students will have the opportunity to examine these concepts from multiple psychological perspectives and to reflect upon the applicability of these concepts. This course will help the learner learn about

1. How people perceive, learn, represent, remember and use information.
2. To develop an understanding of the influence of behaviour, cognition, and the environment on bodily system and behaviour.
3. To appreciate the use of various models, theories and methods in understanding biological and cognitive processes.

1. Define the basic biological and the cognitive process that influence behaviour
2. Explain how the influence of behaviour, cognition, and the environment affects bodily system and behaviour.
3. Compare and contrast various models, theories and methods in understanding biological and cognitive processes.
4. Apply these concepts to explain everyday life events and situation.

Explain the biological perspective of psychology as it applies to the role of the nervous system and endocrine system in regard to behaviour and mental processes. Identify and describe the important structures of these systems. It is an introductory survey of the relationship between human behaviour and brain function.

1. The interaction between biological factors and experience
2. Methods and issues related to biological advances
3. To develop an understanding of the influence of behaviour, cognition, and the environment on bodily system.
4. To develop an appreciation of the neurobiological basis of psychological function and dysfunction.

Laboratory Demonstration: Biofeedback/ EEG/ Eye tracking

An introduction to the study of the human senses and perceptual processes. We will trace what happens to the physical stimulus as our sensory systems analyze it to produce complicated perceptions of the world around us. We will explore the fact that many complex perceptual phenomena draw upon explanations at the physiological, psychological, and cognitive levels. Topics on sensory perception in non-human animals may also be covered. Data gathered from psychophysical research and studies of both humans, and other animals will be discussed. The unit will review the mechanisms and principles of operation of vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell.

1. Differentiate between sensation and perception
2. Explain the process of vision and how people see colour and depth
3. Explain the basics of hearing, taste, smell, touch, pain, and the vestibular sense
4. Define perception and give examples of gestalt principles and multimodal perception

 Laboratory Demonstration: Illusion experiment, Depth Perception, Colour Blindness test, Dexterity test 

The unit is designed to provide a comprehensive account of modern experimental and theoretical approaches to the study of human memory. The course integrates experimental findings with neuropsychological and neurophysiological data and illustrates how basic concepts can illuminate phenomena such as organic and functional amnesia, childhood memory, and everyday forgetting.

1. Describe and differentiate the various types of learning and memory and the brain regions that underlie these different processes.
2. Evaluate their understanding of course materials through tests and assignments
3. Discuss empirical research in the field of memory.
4. Evaluate their own learning and understand how to improve their learning and memory in different settings.

Laboratory Demonstration: Digit Span, Memory Drum

Gazzaniga, Heatherton, Halpern (2015). Psychological Science, 5th Edition, Norton.

Feldman.S.R.(2009).Essentials of understanding psychology ( 7th Ed.) New Delhi : Tata Mc Graw Hill.

Baron, R.A and Misra, G. (2014). Psychology (Indian Subcontinent Edition).Pearson Education Ltd.

 CIA I –Written Assignment /Individual Assignment  - Total Marks 20     

 CIA II – Mid Semester Examination                        - Total marks 50                          

 CIA III –Activity-based Assignment                        - Total marks 20

  CIA I + II + III                                                      = 90 /100 = 45/50 

  Attendance                                                            = 5 marks 

 Total                                                                      = 100 = 50 

End Semester Examination : Total Marks=100=50

Question paper pattern

 Section A        Brief, concepts, definitions, applications               2 marks x 10 = 20

 Section B         Short Answers: Conceptual/Application                5 marks x 4   = 20

 Section C        Essay Type: Descriptive/Conceptual                       15 marks x 3 = 45

 Section D        Compulsory: Case Study (Application)                    15 X 1           = 15

Origin and development of Prose to understand the different theories and original nature of Sanskrit literature.Mithralabha from Hithopadesha of Narayana panditha

To develop moral and ethics in the mind of the students

Origin and development of sanskrit prose and important literary works  

Appreciate the works in Sanskrit .  The study will have impact on the students.

  Origin and development of prose and Introduction to different prose forms     

   Level of knowledge: Basic/conceptual.

Mithralabha from Hitopadesha of Narayanapanditha

             Level of knowledge: Basic/conceptual/ Analytical

Samasa prakaranam grammatically recognize.      

    conceptual/ Analytical

Essential Reading :Mithralabha from Hithopadesha of Naraya Panditha

Visual Text : Shankaracharya

            Recommended Reading : -

1. "Mithralabha from Hitopadesha" of Narayana Panditha - Srivishwanathasharmana

2. Samskruta shityaparampare by Acharya Baladeva Upadyaya translated by Ramachandra shastri.

3. Sanskrit grammar by M.R. Kale.

4.Samskrutha sahithya parampare by Acharya baladeva upadyaya translatedby Ramachandra shastri.

5. Sanskrit grammar by M.R. Kale

CIA 2  Mid-semester examination   Evaluated for 50 marks

CIA 3  Wikipedia assignment     Evaluated for 20 marks

           End semester evaluated for 50 Marks

This paper has a few collections from the ‘Individual Poems’ of Avvaiyar and Kalamegam to show the students the ingenuity with the poets of the period mixing  intelligence with creativity. The unconventional and unorthodox views of life seen through theological eyes of Siddhas are included. It also introduces the power of oral tradition through a collection of interviews recorded and transcribed. These voices are from the marginalized communities which had no opportunity to voice out their pains and sorrows.. Students will be exposed to the art form of theatre through self experiece using internet resources like You Tube 

The way in which the Tamil society has engaged modernity through  aesthetic experience and social consciousness is the concern of this package.

Poems of Avvaiyar, Kalamegam and Siddhas

Grammar as reflected in the poems

Prose for Social consciousness/remembering the  past

Malliga, R et al (ed).Thamilppathirattu.Vol.I Bangalore: Prasaranga,2011

 'Vai mozhi varalaru’ Ed: Vi.Arasu and Ki. ParthibhaRaja,Thannanaane Publications, Chennai, 2001

Meenakshisundaram T P,  A History of Tamil Literature, Annamalainagar, Annamalai University, 1965

Varadarajan, Mu.  Thamil Illakkia Varalaru . New Delhi:Sahitya Akademi, 2008

Gopalakrishnan.S., Pathinen Siddhar Varalaru, Chennai: Mullai Pathippagam, 2012

Stephen,G (ed). Ayothidasar Sindhanaigal, Thirunelveli: St.Xavier’s College, 1999

Theodore, Baskaran, Thamil Cinema Or Arimugam. Chennai: Kilakku Pathippagam, 2012

Pavendan, Dhiravida Cinema, Chennai: Kayal Kavin Books, 2013

Course Description

This course is taught in the second year for students from different streams, namely BA, BSc

and BCom. If the first year syllabus is an attempt by the Department of English, Christ

University to recognize and bring together the polyphonic Indian voices in English and Indian

regional literatures in translation for the Additional English students of the first year, the

second year syllabus intends to take that project a little further and open up the engagement

of the students to texts from across the world. The syllabus - selection of texts will

concentrate on readings from South Asian, Latin American, Australian, Canadian, and Afro-

American. It will voice subaltern concerns of identity, gender, race, ethnicity and problems of

belongingness experienced by humanity all over the globe.

The syllabus will extend the concerns of nation and nationality and marginalization,

discussed within the Indian context to a more inclusive and wider global platform. We have

consciously kept out ‘mainstream’ writers and concentrated on the voices of the subalterns

from across the world. There is an implicit recognition in this project that though the aspects

of marginalization and the problems facing subalterns are present across cultures and

nations, the experiences, expressions and reflections are specific to each race and culture.

The course will address these nuances and specificities and enable our students to become

more aware and sensitive to life and reality around them. This will equip the students, who

are global citizens, to understand not just the Indian scenario, but also situate themselves

within the wider global contexts and understand the spaces they will move into and negotiate

in their future.

There is a prescribed text book Blends: Voices from Margins for the second year students,

compiled by the Department of English, Christ University and intended for private circulation.

Course Objectives

The course objectives are

 to enable students to look at different cultures through Literature

 to help students develop an understanding of subaltern realities and identity politics

 to inculcate literary sensibility/taste among students across disciplines

 to improve language skills –speaking, reading, writing and listening

 to equip the students with tools for developing lateral thinking

 to equip students with critical reading and thinking habits

 to reiterate the study skills and communication skills they developed in the previous

year and extend it.

 more culturally, ethically, socially and politically aware citizens of the world..

 it will enable students to become aware of the nuances of cultures, ethnicities and

other diversity around them and become sensitive towards them.

TetsukoKuroyanagi: Tottochan: The Little Girl at the Window12

Liliana Heker : “The Stolen Party

 Higuchi Ichiyo: “Separate Ways”

 Denise Chavez: “The Sleep Walker”

 Luisa Valenzuela: “I’m your Horse in the Night”

Poetry 12 Hrs

 Silvio Curbelo: “Summer Storm”

 Nancy Morejon: “Black Woman”

 Ruben Dario: “To Roosevelt”

 Mina Asadi: “A Ring to me is a Bondage”

Diary of Anne Frank

Elie Wiesel "Night"

CIA 1: A written test for 20 marks. It can be an Open Book test, a classroom assignment, an

objective or descriptive test pertaining to the texts and ideas discussed in class.

CIA2: Mid-semester written exam for 50 works

CIA 3: This is to be a creative test/ project in small groups by students. They may do

Collages, tableaus, skits, talk shows, documentaries, Quizzes, presentations, debates,

charts or any other creative test for 20 marks. This test should allow the students to explore

their creativity and engage with the real world around them and marks can be allotted to

students depending on how much they are able to link the ideas and discussions in the texts

to the world around them.

Question Paper Pattern

Mid Semester Exam: 2 hrs

Section A: 4x5= 20

Section B: 2x15=30

Total 50

End Semester Exam: 3 hrs

Section A: 4 x 5 = 20

Section B: 2 x 15= 30

Total 50

Objectives

·         To enable learners to understand the basic nuances of communication

·         To enable learners to judge audience perception in communication

·         To enable learners to understand basic psychological aspects required in communication

·         To enable learners to write for various purposes of communication

·         To enable leaners to use appropriate means of oral communication

Successful completion of the course will equip the participants in the following ways:

·         ability to judge audience requirements in oral and written communication and communicate accordingly

·         ability to use specific styles in communication to be effective

·         ability to understand workplace structures and requirements to communicate

·         ability to handle difficulties and challenges in communication

Scope

Objectives

Methods (oral, written and non-verbal)

Barriers

Audience psychology

Perception, attitudes, beliefs, values, norms and experiences

Types (vertical, horizontal, diagonal and grapevine)

Importance of listening

Empathy and emotional intelligence

Gender

(A set of case studies must be used to enable learners to understand the above topics)

Meetings and minutes writing

Teleconference and conference

Negotiation

Telephone conversation

Impression management

Conflict management

Corporate governance

(To be taught using sample videos, case studies and sample practice in class)

Business communication

Job application and resumes

Testimonials

Notification and agenda

Memos

Circulars

Brochures and pamphlets

Tenders

Email writing

User manual

(To be taught using samples of the above mentioned categories and through case studies)

13. Communication Goals and Approaches – Ronald Adler

14. The Interpersonal Communication - Joseph A Devito

15. Business Networking: The Survival Guide - Will Kintish

16. The Definitive Book of Body Language - Barbara and Allan Pease

17. Active Listening 101: How to Turn Down Your Volume to Turn Up Your Communication Skills - Emilia Hardman

18.  Power Listening: Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All - Bernard T. Ferrari

19. Conflict 101 - Susan H. Shearouse

20. Shine: How to Survive and Thrive at Work - Chris Baréz-Brown

2. Technical Communication: Principles & practice   -Meenakshi Raman & Sangeetha Sharma.

3. Business Communication.     - Prakash Singh & Meenakshi Raman

4. Business Communication       - Jain V.K   & O.P.Biyani 

5. Essentials of business Communication –Mary Ellen Guffey.

6. Excellence in Business Communication – John Thill & Courtland.L.Bovee

7. Business Communication - Kitty .O.Locker & Stephen Kyo.

8. Successful Writing at work – Philip.C. Kolin

9. Business Communication for Success – Scott.Mc Lean.

10. Basic Business Communication   - Lesikar & Flatley

11.  Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman

12. Emotional Intelligence at Work - Dalip Singh

CIA (weight) = 50 marks

ESE (weight) = 50 marks

CIA 1= 20 marks (weightage 10%)

The assignment could be based on case study analysis or video analysis of a certain aspect in communication

CIA 2= 50 marks (weightage 25%)

The CIA 2 would be a submission assignment based on the topics covered. The teachers may choose one or more combinations of the communication aspects covered and provide a single topic or multiple sub-topics for the written submission.

CIA 3 =20 marks (weightage 10%)

This assignment can be an oral task to ensure the oral communication section is tested. The task maybe done in groups to check various aspects covered under the unit.

Attendance = 5%

ESE = 50 marks

Portfolio Submission

The learners are expected to file every class assignment and tasks done during the semester. The portfolio must have at least one assignment for every main topic covered under each unit.

• To introduce the students to the socio-political, religious and cultural aspects of America through literary texts
• To enable students to  read texts as products of  historical, political and cultural context
• To provide insights into different styles of writing over different centuries
• To encourage clear understanding of different genres and prosody/forms/literary devices.
• To enable learners to give their perspective on the texts prescribed
• To brainstorm learners to use their knowledge of History, Psychology, Sociology, etc to read literary works

Awareness of the production, dissemination and reception of literary material in America across different eras and the contemporary debates, tensions and trends they stimulate

Description: This unit will introduce American History and literature. An outline of important events would be briefed.

• The Navajo Creation Story
• John Smith- The New Land
• Anne Bradstreet – In Honour of that Highness

Description: This unit will move further into specific texts relevant to the century and sensitize learners in that direction. 

• Doctor Richard Shuckburgh- Yankee Doodle (popular version)
• Benjamin Franklin- Rules by which a Great Empire...
• Sarah Wentworth Morton- Stanzas to a Husband Recently United

Description: This unit will provide a variety in terms of different kinds of literature that the particular century has produced and provide contexts as and when required

• James Lowell- Stanzas on Freedom
• Washington Irving- Rip Van Winkle
• Emerson- I Become a Transparent Eyeball/Brahma
• Hawthorne- Young Goodman Brown
• Martin Luther King- I have a Dream (speech)
• Longfellow- My Lost youth
• Douglas- What the Black Man Wants
• Whitman- A noiseless Patient Spider
• Dickinson- I years had been from Home
• Harriet Beecher Stowe- Excerpts- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Kate Chopin- Lilacs

Text compiled for internal circulation

1. Abel, Darrel. American Literature, Volume 1: Colonial and Early National Writing, (ed)
2. Abel, Darrel. American Literature, Volume 2: Literature of the Atlantic Culture, (ed) Abel, Darrel.
3. Recent American Literature to 1930, (ed) Heiney and Downs Lenthiel H, Volume 3; Barron’s Educational Series
4. Recent American Literature After 1930, (ed) Heiney and Downs, Lenthiel H. Volume 4; Barron’s Educational Series
5. Literary History of The United States:  (ed) Spiller, Thorp, Johnson, Canby, Ludwig, Third Edition: Revised; Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
6. The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1, Second Edition; (ed) Lauter, Yarborough et al, Heath
7. The Harper American Literature, Compact Edition; (ed) McQuade, Atwan et al, Harper and Row

Question Paper Pattern

Mid Semester Exam