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As a part of curriculum upgradations, the UG syllabus in modified. Besides languages
and core subjects of study, the following are the details proposed for Foundation / Skill
enhancement Courses to be offered at UG level from 2015-16. The Syllabus of
Foundation Course Communication Skills and Soft Skills is given separately.
1. Foundation Courses:
I. Semester : Human Values and Professional Ethics (Syllabus appended)
II.Semester : Environment Studies
III.Semester: Citizenship Education
FOUNDATION COURSE
I. HUMAN VALUES AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Reference Books :
1. A.N.Tripaty, Human Values, New Age International Publishers, 2003
2. Bajpai.B.L., Indian Ethos and Modern Management, New Royal Book
Co., Lucknow, Reprinted, 2004
3. Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics
4. Corliss Lamont, Philosophy of Humanism
5. Gaur.R.R., Sangal.R, Bagaria.G.P., A Foundation Course in Value
Education, Excel Books, 2009
6. Gaur.R.R., Sangal.R, Bagaria.G.P., Teachers Manual, Excel Books, 2009
7. I.C.Sharma, Ethical Philosophy of India, Nagin & Co., Julundhar
8. Mortimer.J.Adler, What Man has Made of Man
9. R.Subramanian, Professional Ethics, Oxford University Press
10.
Text Book for Intermediate Ethics and Human Values, Board of
Intermediate Education & Telugu Academy, Hyderabad
11.
William Lilly, Introduction to Ethics, Allied Publishers
FOUNDATION COURSE
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Concept of an ecosystem
Structure and function of an ecosystem
Producers, consumers and decomposers
Energy flow in the ecosystem
Ecological succession
Food chains, food webs and ecological pyramids
Introduction, types, characteristic features, structure and function of
the following ecosystem:- Forest ecosystem, Grassland ecosystem,
Desert ecosystem, Aquatic ecosystems (ponds, streams, lakes, rivers,
oceans, estuaries)
Introduction Definition genetic, species and ecosystem diversity
Biogeographically classification of India
Value of biodiversity: Consumptive use, productive use, social, ethical
aesthetic and option values
Biodiversity at global, National and local levels
India as a mega diversity nation
Hot-spots of biodiversity
Threats to biodiversity habits loss, poaching of wildlife, man wildlife
conflicts
Endangered and endemic species of India
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FOUNDATION COURSE
III CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION
BOOKS SUGGESTED
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SEMESTER - 1
COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND SOFT SKILLS-1(CSS 01)
Duration: A minimum of 50 Hours (including practice)
Examination: 45-minute Mid-Exam at the end of 07 weeks for 25 marks and another at
the end 14 weeks. The average of the two mid exams be taken for 25 marks as Internal
Two-and-a-half-hour End-Exam for a maximum of 75 marks
COURSE CONTENT
Unit I: Pronunciation-1 (10 Hours)
1. The Sounds of English: Vowels
2. The Sounds of English: Consonants
3. Common Pronunciation Problems for Indian Learners of English
Unit II: Pronunciation-2 (06 Hours)
1. The Syllable
2. Word Accent
3. Accent and Rhythm in Connected Speech
4. Intonation
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SEMESTER - 3
COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND SOFT SKILLS-2 (CSS 02)
Duration: A minimum of 50 Hours (including practice)
Examination: As mentioned above
COURSE CONTENT
1. Conversation Skills
2. Presentation Skills
3. Interview Skills
4. Public Speaking
Unit III: Writing Skills-1 (08 Hours)
1. Spelling
2. Punctuation
3. Information Transfer
o Tables
o Bar Charts
o Line Graphs
o Pie Charts
o Flow Charts
o Tree Diagram
o Maps
4. Note-Making
o Note-making methods
o Finding key points
o Finding relevant points
o Effective note-making
SEMESTER - 4
COMMUNICATION SKILLS AND SOFT SKILLS-3(CSS 03)
ACADEMIC WRITING
Duration: A minimum of 50 Hours (including practice)
Examination: As mentioned above
Course Description
The course is designed to enable undergraduate learners to cope with academic tasks to
be carried out in English across the curriculum. The course proceeds from organizing
paragraphs to writing essays. It intends to equip learners with the skills of paraphrasing
and summarizing. It also aims at making them understand and produce written texts in
English for different functions in academic settings. Since most of the students at the UG
level are expected to write assignments and essays, the course also aims at developing
English language skills for writing essays.
Course Objectives
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Defining
Describing
Comparing and contrasting
Explaining causes and effects
Classifying
Evaluating the arguments
Unit IV: Understanding essay titles and planning essays (08 Hours)
The planning process
Analyzing essay titles
Brainstorming
Essay length
Outlines
Unit V: Writing essays (10 Hours)
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Types of essays
Writing introductions to essays
o Universe, Galaxy, and Star
o Writing thesis statements and overviews
Developing ideas in essays
Writing conclusions to essays
Essay specific vocabulary and Transitional words for achieving
cohesion in essays
Sources
Bailey, S. (2011) Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students. London:
Routledge
Jordan, R. (1999) Academic Writing Course. London: Longman
Oshima, A. and Hogue, A. (2006) Writing Academic English. Harlow: Pearson
Longman
b) ICT Skills
II Semester : ICT-1 : Information & Communication Technology-1
IV Semester : ICT-2: Information & Communication Technology-2
10 Hours
Memory Devices Software, Hardware, Firmware and People ware Definition and
Types of Operating System Functions of an Operating System MS-DOS MSWindows Desktop, Computer, Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, Recycle Bin, Task
Bar Control Pane
Unit-II : MS-Word
10 Hours
10 Hours
10
Hours
Overview of Excel features Creating a new worksheet, Selecting cells, Entering and editing
Text, Numbers, Formulae, Referencing cells Inserting Rows/Columns Changing column
widths and row heights, auto format, changing font sizes, colors, shading and attributes
Data Sorting and Filters Functions Functions requiring Add-ins, Functions by category
Creating different types of Charts Instant charts with the Chart wizard Printing,
Deleting charts
Unit-V : MS-Access
10 Hours
Overview of MS-Access Creating a Simple Database and Tables The Access Table Wizard
Creating Database Tables without the wizard Field Names, Data Types and Properties
12
Entering and Editing Data: Adding Records, Finding, Sorting and Displaying Data: Queries
and Dynasets Creating and using select Queries Relational Databases: Types of
Relationships, Creating and Deleting Relationships Printing Reports: Simple table, Form
and Database printing
Reference Books :
1. Fundamentals of Computers by V.Raja Raman, Publishers : PHI
2. Fundamentals of Computers by Reema Thareja, Publishers : Oxford University Press,
India
3. Microsoft Office 2010 Bible by John Walkenbach, Herb Tyson, Michael R.Groh and
Faithe Wempen, Publishers : Wiley
10 Hours
Networking Concepts, Data Communication Types of Networking, Internet and its Services,
Internet Addressing Internet Applications Computer Viruses and its types Browser
Types of Browsers Using Internet Explorer, Standard Internet Explorer Buttons, Entering
a Web Site Address, Searching the Internet Introduction to Social Networking: twitter,
tumblr, Linkedin, facebook, flickr, skype, yelp, vimeo, yahoo!, google+, youtube,
WhatsApp, etc.
Unit-II : E-mail & WWW
10 Hours
10 Hours
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Basic HTML Web Terminology Structure of a HTML Document HTML, Head and Body
tags Semantic and Syntactic Tags HR, Heading, Font, Image and Anchor Tags
Different types of Lists using tags Table Tags, Image formats Creation of simple HTML
Documents - Advanced HTML Frames and its usage
Unit-IV : Dreamweaver
10 Hours
10 Hours
14
C) 4th Semester
EDPs,
Women
entrepreneurship,
Rural
entrepreneurship,
Tourism
entrepreneurship, Agri-preneurship.
Unit-II: Entrepreneurial motivation and competencies:
Meaning of entrepreneurial motivation, theories, factors, achievement motivation, meaning
of entrepreneurial competency, major entrepreneurial competencies.
Unit-III: Micro and small enterprises:
Definition of Micro and Small Enterprises, Characteristics, Scope of Micro and Small
Enterprises, Role of Micro and Small Enterprises in economic development, Problems of
Micro and Small Enterprises, Locational factors, types of ownership organisations, steps
for starting Micro and Small Enterprises.
Unit- IV: Institutional support to Micro and Small Enterprises:
Need for institutional support, Institutional support to small enterprises, national small
industries corporation Ltd. (NSIC), Small industries development organisation (SIDO),
Small scale industries board(SSIB), State small industries development corporation (SSID),
Micro small Medium Enterprises (MSME), District Industries Centre (DICs)
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Index
Section-1 Arithmetic
Topic
Unit-I
Sl.No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
1.1 BODMAS
1.2 Fractions and Decimals -1
1.2 Fractions and Decimals -2
1.3 Algebraic Formulae
1.4 Divisibility Rules
1.5 LCM & HCF-1
1.5 LCM & HCF-2
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
2.4 Partnership-1
2.4 Partnership-2
15
16
17
18
Page
3
5
8
10
13
16
Unit-2
22
26
30
35
38-45
Unit-3
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
4.1 Averages
4.2 Problems on Ages-1
4.2 Problems on Ages-2
27
28
47-51
52-56
Unit-4
58-62
Unit-5
17
64-66
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
Unit-6
6.1 Permutations and Combinations-1
6.1 Permutations and Combinations-2
6.1 Permutations and Combinations-3
Test-2
6.2 Probability-1
6.2 Probability-2
38
39
40
7.1 Areas
7.2 Volumes
Surface Areas
67-69
70-71
73-75
76-82
Unit-7
84-87
Secction-2 Reasoning
i) Verbal Reasoning
Unit 8
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
Unit 10
10.1 Problems solving Techniques and Logical Reasoning
10.2 Ranking and Time Sequence Test-1
Test-4
10.2 Ranking and Time Sequence Test-2
10.3 Mathematical Operations
10.3 Mathematical Operations
90-94
95-98
99-101
Unit-9
103-110
111-121
122-126
128-129
130-136
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60
61
62
11.1 Clocks
11.2 Calendars
137-139
Unit 11
141-143
144-147
12.1 Series-1
12.1 Series-2
12.2 Mirror Images and Water Images
12.3 Incomplete Figure Patterns
12.4 Figure matrix
12.5 Logical VennDiagrams-1
12.5 Logical VennDiagrams-2
Test-5
149-188
189-200
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