Department of
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL WORK






Syllabus for
Bachelor of Arts (Psychology, Sociology, English)
Academic Year  (2023)

 
3 Semester - 2022 - Batch
Paper Code
Paper
Hours Per
Week
Credits
Marks
AEN321 ADDITIONAL ENGLISH 3 3 100
ENG321 ENGLISH-III 3 2 100
EST331 AMERICAN LITERATURES 5 4 100
FRN321 FRENCH 3 3 100
HIN321 HINDI 3 3 100
KAN321 KANNADA 3 03 50
PSY311 SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 2 2 50
PSY331 LIFE SPAN DEVELOPMENT 5 5 100
PSY351 PSYCHOLOGICAL STATISTICS AND EXPERIMENTS - I 2 2 100
SAN321 SANSKRIT 3 3 100
SOC331 CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES 5 5 100
TAM321 TAMIL 3 3 100
4 Semester - 2022 - Batch
Paper Code
Paper
Hours Per
Week
Credits
Marks
AEN421 ADDITIONAL ENGLISH 3 3 100
ENG421 ENGLISH-IV 3 2 100
EST431 INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY THEORY 5 4 100
FRN421 FRENCH 3 3 100
HIN421 HINDI 3 3 100
KAN421 KANNADA 3 03 50
PSY411 SERVICE LEARNING 2 2 50
PSY431 BASIC SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 5 5 100
PSY451 PSYCHOLOGICAL STATISTICS AND EXPERIMENTS - II 2 2 100
SAN421 SANSKRIT 3 3 100
SOC431 STUDY OF INDIAN SOCIETY 5 5 100
TAM421 TAMIL 3 3 100
5 Semester - 2021 - Batch
Paper Code
Paper
Hours Per
Week
Credits
Marks
EST531 POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES 4 04 100
EST532 INDIAN LITERATURES: THEMES AND CONCERNS 5 4 100
PSY531 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY 4 4 100
PSY541A SCHOOL AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 4 4 100
PSY541B SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY 4 4 100
PSY541C CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY 4 4 100
PSY541D INTRODUCTION OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY 4 4 100
PSY551 PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHODS AND ASSESSMENT-I 2 2 100
SOC531 METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH 4 4 100
SOC541A ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PROBLEMS 4 4 100
SOC541C SOCIAL ECOLOGY 4 4 100
SOC541D SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION 4 4 100
6 Semester - 2021 - Batch
Paper Code
Paper
Hours Per
Week
Credits
Marks
EST631 INTRODUCTION TO WORLD LITERATURES 5 4 100
EST631E ECOLOGICAL DISCOURSES AND PRACTICES 4 4 100
EST641A CULTURAL STUDIES 4 04 100
EST641B INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING 4 04 100
EST641C INTRODUCTION TO SHORT STORY 4 04 100
EST641D INTRODUCTION TO FILM STUDIES 4 04 100
EST641F REVISITING INDIAN EPICS 4 4 100
PSY631 INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 4 4 100
PSY641A POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY 4 4 100
PSY641B MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY 4 4 100
PSY641C ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE 4 4 100
PSY641D CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR 4 4 100
PSY641E INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY 4 4 100
PSY641F HEALTH AND WELLBEING 4 4 100
PSY641G COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 4 4 100
PSY651 PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHODS AND ASSESSMENT-II 2 2 100
PSY681 INTERNSHIP 6 2 50
SOC631 WOMEN AND SOCIETY 4 4 100
SOC641A STUDY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS 4 4 100
SOC641C SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT 4 4 100
SOC641D MEDIA AND SOCIETY 4 4 100
SOC641E CULTURAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION OF CONTEMPORARY KOREA 4 4 100

AEN321 - ADDITIONAL ENGLISH (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:100
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

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.

Learning Outcome

CO1: it will enable students to understand and analyse the nuances of cultures, ethnicities and other diversity around them and become sensitive towards them.

CO2 : They will be able to critique literature from a cultural, ethical, social and political perspectives

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

ENG321 - ENGLISH-III (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:100
Credits:2

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

 

Course Description

English is offered as a course for all the students in BA, BSc, BCom, and BBA F&A classes in the third and fourth semesters. The aim is to strengthen the communication skills, and particularly study skills of the learners further, through adequate practice and exposure to good examples of writing, thought, ideas and human values. In addition, they will be trained in study skills through tasks in academic genres such as message, letter, essay, data interpretation etc. It aims to not only equip learners with skills but also sensitize them towards issues that concern human life in today’s globalised context. The course content is selected to meet the requirements of the departmental goal of “empowering the individual to read oneself, the social context and the imagined”; institutional goal of ensuring “holistic development”; and the national goal of creating competent and valuable citizens. The primary objective of this course is to help learners develop appropriate employability skills and demonstrate suitable conduct with regards to communication skills. The units are organised in order to help the learners understand the academic and workplace demands and learn by practice.

 

Course Objectives     

 

 

·       To enable learners to develop reading comprehension for various purposes

 

·       To enable learners to develop writing skills for academic and professional needs

 

·       To enable learners to develop the ability to think critically and express logically

 

·       To enable learner to communicate in a socially and ethically acceptable manner

 

·       To enable learners, to read, write and speak with clarity, precision and accuracy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learning Outcome

CO1: Recognise the errors of usage and correct them. Recognize their own ability to improve their own competence in using the language

CO2: Read independently unfamiliar texts with comprehension. Read longer texts, compare, and evaluate them.

CO3: Understand the importance of writing in academic life. Write simple sentences without committing errors in spelling and grammar. Plan a piece of writing using drafting techniques.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

EST331 - AMERICAN LITERATURES (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:75
No of Lecture Hours/Week:5
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

  • 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

Learning Outcome

CO1: Identify different influences on American literature & Provide an account of European colonization of American

CO2: Demonstrate a familiarity with native America literature

CO3: Use American history to analyze different pieces of American literature

CO4: Trace the development of American literature through different eras

Unit-1
Teaching Hours:10
Beginnings to 1700
 

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
Text Books And Reference Books:

Text compiled for internal circulation

Essential Reading

  1. Roger Williams: from A Key into the Language of America
  2. Anne Bradstreet: from Contemplations
  3. Context: Cultures in Contact: Voices from Anglo-American’s “New” World (17C)]
  4. Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727)
  5. The journal of Madame Knight
  6. Context: Tradition and Change in Anglo-America
  7. Philip Freneau (1752-1832)
  8. The Indian Student or Force of Nature
  9. Washington Irving (1783-1859)
  10. From A History of New York
  11. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)
  12. From The Last of the Mohicans
  13. William Apess (1798-?)
  14. An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man
  15. Context: Indian Voices
  16. Herman Melville (1819-1891)
  17. TheParadise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids
  18. Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
  19. From Woman in the Nineteenth Century
  20. From American Literature; Its position in the present time, and prospects for the future
  21. Sojourner Truth (1797
  22. Address to the first Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association
  23. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
  24. The colored people in America
  25. Context: Literature and the “Woman Question”
  26. Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1808-1890)
  27. An account of the Gold Rush
  28. Context: Voices from the Southwest
  29. Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)
  30. The suttee
  31. Sherwood Anderson
  32. From Winesburg, Ohio
  33. John Dos Passos
  34. From U.S.A
  35. Elizabeth Bishop
  36. In the waiting room
  37. Tennessee Williams
  38. Portrait of a Madonna
  39. Sylvia Plath
  40. Lady Lazarus
  41. Robert Lowell
  42. Skunk hour
  43. Alice Walker
  44. The child who favoured daughter
  45. Adrienne Rich
  46. Upper Broadway
  47. Gary Snyder
  48. Sixth-month song in the foothills
  49. Vladimir Nabokov
  50. From Lolita
  51. Ralph Ellison
  52. From Invisible Man
  53. Thomas Pynchon
  54. Entropy
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

  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
Evaluation Pattern

Assessment Pattern

 

CIA (Weight)

ESE (Weight)

Individual or group work

20+20

50

                

Question Paper Pattern

Mid Semester Exam

 Module

Section A

10 marks

Section B

20 marks

Module I

1

1

Module II

1

 

Module III

1

 

Module IV

 

 

 End Semester Exam

 Module

Section A

15 marks

Section B

20 marks

 

Module I

1

 

 

Module II

1

1

 

Module III

1

1

 

Module IV

1

 

 

 

Section A – 15x4 = 60

Section B – 20x2 = 40

The prescribed texts could form the subject matter of CIA 1 as well as CIA 3.

 

In particular, the texts could be extended to meet CIA 3 requirements.  

FRN321 - FRENCH (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:100
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

French as second language for the Arts, Science and Commerce UG program

Learning Outcome

CO1: Ability to communicate with native speakers and make presentations on small topics

CO 2: Proficiency in literary analysis, appreciation and review of poems,play ,films and fables

CO3: Acquaintance of culture, civilization, social values and etiquettes, and gastronomical richness

CO 4: Ability to do formal and informal, oral and written communication.

CO 5: Overall knowledge on functional and communicative aspects and get through a2 level exams.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

Assessment Pattern

 

CIA (Weight)

ESE (Weight)

Individual or group work

20+20

50

                

Question Paper Pattern

Mid Semester Exam

 Module

Section A

10 marks

Section B

20 marks

Module I

1

1

Module II

1

 

Module III

1

 

Module IV

 

 

 End Semester Exam

 Module

Section A

15 marks

Section B

20 marks

 

Module I

1

 

 

Module II

1

1

 

Module III

1

1

 

Module IV

1

 

 

 

Section A – 15x4 = 60

Section B – 20x2 = 40

The prescribed texts could form the subject matter of CIA 1 as well as CIA 3.

 

In particular, the texts could be extended to meet CIA 3 requirements.  

HIN321 - HINDI (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:100
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

 

Course Description:

The detailed text book “Shambook” is a Khanda Kavya written by Jagdeesh Gupta. To improve the creative writing skills, Nibandh, Kahani and Kavitha lekhan are included.Bharathiya chitrakala is also a part of the syllabus to improve the knowledge aboutIndian paintings.

Course Objectives:

Students are exposed to different forms of poetry especially, Khanda Kavya. It will help them to understand the contemporary socio-political issues.By learning about the tradition of Indian painting and legendary painters of India , students get to know about the richness and culture  of the Indian paintings. Creative writing sharpens their thinking, analytical  and writing skills 

Learning Outcome

CO1: By the end of the course the student should be able to: ● CO1: Improve their writing skill in literary Hindi by doing asynchronous session assignments and CIAs. ● CO2: Improve their analytical skills through critical analysis of the poetry. ● CO3: Will be able to learn the different aspects of Official correspondence. ● CO4: To improve their basic research skills while doing the CIAs. By the end of the course the student should be able to: ● CO1: Improve their writing skill in literary Hindi by doing assignments and CIAs

CO2: Improve their analytical skills through critical analysis of the poetry.

CO3: To improve their basic research skills while doing the CIAs

CO4: To understand the contributions of painters to Indian painting.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

Assessment Pattern

 

CIA (Weight)

ESE (Weight)

Individual or group work

20+20

50

                

Question Paper Pattern

Mid Semester Exam

 Module

Section A

10 marks

Section B

20 marks

Module I

1

1

Module II

1

 

Module III

1

 

Module IV

 

 

 End Semester Exam

 Module

Section A

15 marks

Section B

20 marks

 

Module I

1

 

 

Module II

1

1

 

Module III

1

1

 

Module IV

1

 

 

 

Section A – 15x4 = 60

Section B – 20x2 = 40

The prescribed texts could form the subject matter of CIA 1 as well as CIA 3.

 

In particular, the texts could be extended to meet CIA 3 requirements.  

KAN321 - KANNADA (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:50
Credits:03

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course Description: Language Kannada is offered to students of third Semester BA/B.Sc as Second language for fifty marks. Students of this semester will study an anthology of Modern Kannada Poetry and an Autobiography of Laxman Gaikwad. This course prepares the students to understand the new era. At the dawn of the twentieth century, B.M. Srikantiah, regarded as the “Father of modern Kannada Literature”, called for a new era of writing original works in modern Kannada while moving away from archaic Kannada forms. Students will study modern Kannada poetry from B.M.Sri to Dalit poet Dr. Siddalingiah. An anthology of modern poetry is selected to understand the beauty of modern Kannada poets through their writings. Uchalya is an autobiographical novel that carries the memories of Laxman Gaikwad right from his childhood till he became an adult. Laxman Gaikwad took birth in a criminal tribe of India belonging to Orissa/ Maharastra. The original text is translated to Kannada by Chandrakantha Pokale.

 

Course Objectives:

Understand and appreciate poetry as a literary art form.

Analyse the various elements of Poetry, such as diction, tone, form, genre, imagery, symbolism, theme, etc.

Appreciates to  learn the elements of autobiography.

Learning Outcome

CO 1: Able to define autobiography

CO2: Outline a personal autobiography

CO3: Delineate different types of autobiography

CO 4: Proficiency in communication skills

CO5 : Understand the principles of translation

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

Assessment Pattern

 

CIA (Weight)

ESE (Weight)

Individual or group work

20+20

50

                

Question Paper Pattern

Mid Semester Exam

 Module

Section A

10 marks

Section B

20 marks

Module I

1

1

Module II

1

 

Module III

1

 

Module IV

 

 

 End Semester Exam

 Module

Section A

15 marks

Section B

20 marks

 

Module I

1

 

 

Module II

1

1

 

Module III

1

1

 

Module IV

1

 

 

 

Section A – 15x4 = 60

Section B – 20x2 = 40

The prescribed texts could form the subject matter of CIA 1 as well as CIA 3.

 

In particular, the texts could be extended to meet CIA 3 requirements.  

PSY311 - SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:30
No of Lecture Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:50
Credits:2

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course description: Social entrepreneurship is the use of entrepreneurial principles to solve endearing social problems or create sustainable social value. It is the creation of viable educational pedagogies, socioeconomic structures, relations and collaborations between institutions and organizations, and practices that produce social benefits. For this course, students would be taught principles and concepts in social entrepreneurship and innovation, situated within the context of real social and community issues in India.  The course content is hoped to empower students on competencies of entrepreneurship, community project planning and management. Students are expected to come up with innovative social interventions and engagements targeting specific social problems and in collaboration with service organizations. This course would lay the foundation for students to do service-learning projects in the coming semester.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Understand the concept of social entrepreneurship and different forms of social enterprise organisations

CO2: Identify, plan and develop social enterprise project to address a given social problem

CO3: Appreciate the need and value of generating social change

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

Assessment Pattern

 

CIA (Weight)

ESE (Weight)

Individual or group work

20+20

50

                

Question Paper Pattern

Mid Semester Exam

 Module

Section A

10 marks

Section B

20 marks

Module I

1

1

Module II

1

 

Module III

1

 

Module IV

 

 

 End Semester Exam

 Module

Section A

15 marks

Section B

20 marks

 

Module I

1

 

 

Module II

1

1

 

Module III

1

1

 

Module IV

1

 

 

 

Section A – 15x4 = 60

Section B – 20x2 = 40

The prescribed texts could form the subject matter of CIA 1 as well as CIA 3.

 

In particular, the texts could be extended to meet CIA 3 requirements.  

PSY331 - LIFE SPAN DEVELOPMENT (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:75
No of Lecture Hours/Week:5
Max Marks:100
Credits:5

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This course has been conceptualized in order to provide a general introduction to various developmental concepts across the different stages of the lifespan, with the nature versus nurture debate as a concurrent theme. The course is described through three perspectives: physical, cognitive, and psychosocial. Emphasis will be on the major transitions from fetal development through death in the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional domains. Research methods in developmental psychology are addressed explicitly and are also addressed alongside each major research study and theory discussed. This course includes discussion on the influences of cultural issues and technological advancements. This course addresses classic developmental theories and research as well as provides an overview of current developmental topics across the lifespan.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Define basic concepts, issues, debates and theories in the field of developmental psychology.

CO2: Explain human development as progressing through different stages and domains.

CO3: Identify the role of family, peers and community in influencing development at different stages

CO4: Explain scientific research methods used to study human development.

Unit-1
Teaching Hours:15
Introduction
 

Importance of Life-span Development; Historical Perspective; Characteristics of Life-span Development; Nature of Development; Overview of Theories of Development: Freud, Erikson, Piaget, Vygotsky, Information processing, Behavioural, Socio-Cognitive, Ethological and Ecological theories; Major Issues and Debates in Developmental Psychology; Studying Development - Sequential, Cross-sectional and Longitudinal approaches.          

Text Books And Reference Books:

Santrock, J. W. (2018). A Topical Approach to Life-span Development (9th Ed.). McGraw-Hill Education.
Berk, L. C. (2008). Child Development. Prentice Hall of India (Pvt) Ltd.

Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

 Papalia, D. E. (2004). Human Development (9th Ed.). Tata McGraw Hill.

Evaluation Pattern

CIA (Continuous Internal Assesment) - Total Marks - 50    

  • CIA I   – Activity-based Individual Assignment  - 10 Marks    
  • CIA II  – Mid Semester Examination- Case/Scenario-based Questions- 25 Marks; Department Level                  
  • CIA III – Individual Assignment                        - 10 Marks
  • Attendance                                     = 5 Marks 

ESE (End Semester Examination) : Total Marks - 50, 02 Hours

Question paper pattern

  • Section A (Short Answers)                 2 Marks x 5Qs = 10 Marks
  • Section B (Essay Type)                      10 Marks x 3Qs = 30 Marks
  • Section C (Compulsory: Case Study)  10Marks x 1Qs = 10 Marks

PSY351 - PSYCHOLOGICAL STATISTICS AND EXPERIMENTS - I (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:30
No of Lecture Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:100
Credits:2

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

The coursework aims to provide undergraduate psychology students knowledge and hands-on practice of experimental psychology and statistics. The course imparts training in classic as well as contemporary experiments in the field of Psychology. Students will conduct experiments in the field of Psychology from the domains of learning and cognition. In the process they will be provided an understanding of central concepts in the field such as designing an experiment, variables, hypothesis etc. This course is planned to provide a framework for the development of assessment practices. Attention will be given to issues of identifying and selecting test instruments, conducting the assessment process in an ethical and considerate manner, interpreting norm referenced and criterion referenced test scores and writing APA style reports. The course introduces students to computer assisted experiments. The course would help students to evaluate, modify and develop psychological experiments. Statistical techniques covered will include descriptive statistics including concept of normality, measures of central tendency and dispersion, and pie charts and graphs, as well as use of a common statistical program (SPSS) to analyze data. Laboratory periods stress the techniques of data analysis using computers.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Understand the basic principles of experimental psychology.

CO2: Conduct, Score, Interpret and Report psychological experiments following ethical protocols and APA guidelines.

CO3: Analyze experimental data with the knowledge of basic statistical techniques and software packages like SPSS, MS-Excel or JAMOVI.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA (Continuous Internal Assesment) - Total Marks - 50    

  • CIA I   – Activity-based Individual Assignment  - 10 Marks    
  • CIA II  – Mid Semester Examination- Case/Scenario-based Questions- 25 Marks; Department Level                  
  • CIA III – Individual Assignment                        - 10 Marks
  • Attendance                                     = 5 Marks 

ESE (End Semester Examination) : Total Marks - 50, 02 Hours

Question paper pattern

  • Section A (Short Answers)                 2 Marks x 5Qs = 10 Marks
  • Section B (Essay Type)                      10 Marks x 3Qs = 30 Marks
  • Section C (Compulsory: Case Study)  10Marks x 1Qs = 10 Marks

SAN321 - SANSKRIT (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:100
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Sundara Kanda is the only chapter of the Ramayana in which the hero is not Rama, but rather Hanuman. The work depicts the adventures of Hanuman and his selflessness, strength, and devotion to Rama are emphasized in the text. Bhoja only wrote 5 kāṇdas (up to the Sundarakāṇda), and there is a story about this: that he was inspired to write this work the night before a battle, that as he finished the Sundarakāṇda it was time to go, and that he announced that the Yuddhakāṇda would be enacted in the battlefield against the invader, but sadly he never returned. Others have composed a Yuddhakāṇda to complete the work.

The main objective of the students is to understand the champu Kavyas based on the sam.  

The Origin and development of the Champu.

Learning Outcome

CO1: To analyse the content of the text in detail with examples

CO2: To Deliberate the classification and characters of the epic

CO3: To understand the delight of the text.

CO4: To demonstrate an increased ability to read and understand Sanskrit texts

CO5: To understand the prefixes and suffixes and changing the sentences in grammar.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA (Continuous Internal Assesment) - Total Marks - 50    

  • CIA I   – Activity-based Individual Assignment  - 10 Marks    
  • CIA II  – Mid Semester Examination- Case/Scenario-based Questions- 25 Marks; Department Level                  
  • CIA III – Individual Assignment                        - 10 Marks
  • Attendance                                     = 5 Marks 

ESE (End Semester Examination) : Total Marks - 50, 02 Hours

Question paper pattern

  • Section A (Short Answers)                 2 Marks x 5Qs = 10 Marks
  • Section B (Essay Type)                      10 Marks x 3Qs = 30 Marks
  • Section C (Compulsory: Case Study)  10Marks x 1Qs = 10 Marks

SOC331 - CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:75
No of Lecture Hours/Week:5
Max Marks:100
Credits:5

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course Description

This course introduces students to (a) the meaning, nature, scope, types and relevance of sociological theories in understanding the society (b) the social and intellectual context in which Sociology emerged as a discipline, and (b) the works of forefathers viz., Comte, Spencer, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim, and highlighting the centrality of their theoretical and methodological contributions in the consequent development of Sociology as a discipline. It is intended to provide solid foundation on these classical thinkers, as this is the foundation on which the entire Sociological theory is constructed. 

Course Objectives:  

  • This course is designed to acquaint students with the thought of the founders of sociology
  • It offers a historical background within which sociological theories have emerged
  • It helps to develop critical thoughts and assessment of sociological theory 

Learning Outcome

CO1: Discuss the context in which Sociology as a discipline and sociological theories emerged.

CO2: Analyze the significance of sociological theories in everyday life

CO3: To apply sociological theories to analyze social realities

Unit-1
Teaching Hours:10
Introduction to Sociological Theories
 

 

  1. Sociological Theory: Meaning, Characteristics and Functions
  2. Types: Grand Theory – Micro, Macro Theories and Middle Range Theories
Text Books And Reference Books:

Abraham, F.A. (1982). Modern Sociological Theory. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Allan, K. (3rded.). (2012). Explorations in Classical Sociological Theory: Seeing the Social World. California: Sage Publications. 

Bottomore, T, & Nisbet. A History of Sociological Analysis. London: Heinemann, 

Collins, R. (1997). Theoretical Sociology. Jaipur: Rawat.

Giddens, A.  (1971). Capitalism and Modern Sociological Theory: An Analysis of Marx, Durkheim, and Max Weber. Cambridge: Oxford University Press.

Mills, C. W. (2000).The Sociological Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press.

Nisbet, R.A. (1976). The Sociological Tradition. London: Heinemann.

Ritzer, G. (2011). Sociological Theory. New Delhi: McGraw Hill.

Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

Skidmore, W. (1975). Theoretical Thinking in Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Stones, R. (1998). Key Sociological Thinkers. London: Macmillan.

Turner, J H. (1987). The Structure of Sociological Theory. Jaipur: Rawat.

Zeitlin, I.M. (1996). Rethinking Sociology: A Critique of Contemporary Theory. Delhi: Sage.

Evaluation Pattern

Students wil be evaluated through Continuous Internal Assessment and End Semester Exam.

 

CIA pattern

CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks for a five-credit paper. The distribution is as follows 

CIA I - CIA I carries 10 marks and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.   

CIA II - Mid semester Examination conducted for a total weightage of 25 marks

CIA III - CIA III also carries 10 marks and involves the adoption of any one or two of the above said methods. 

Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

  

ESE pattern

Section 1 5 x 6 = 30 

This section will have a total of six questions with a mix of compulsory and internal choice to be answered. Each question carries FIVE marks and hence a total of 50 Marks. This section will have smaller essay questions, with a little of analyses and concepts. 

Section II 10 x 4 = 40 

This section will have a total of four questions with a mix of compulsory and internal choice to be asnwered. Each question carries TEN marks and hence a total of 40 Marks. 

Section III 15 x 2 = 30 

This section will have a total of two questions with one compulsory and one internal choiceto be answered. Each question carries FIFTEEN marks and hence a total of 30 Marks. 

TAM321 - TAMIL (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:100
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Araillakiyam, bakthi illakiyam, ikala illakiyamn the major allakiyams.The influence myths and puranas are delineated through the good deeds for a better lifestyle.The  Cultural Studies part will have an overview of Indian painting both traditional and modern with special reference to mythology and literature

India 2020- Abdul Kalam

 

 

Learning Outcome

CO1: Recall and categorize the concepts of literature.

CO2: Understand the true essence of the texts, and inculcate them in their daily lives.

CO3: Recognize and apply the moral values and ethics in their learning.

CO4: Comprehend the concepts in literature and appreciate the literary text.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

Students wil be evaluated through Continuous Internal Assessment and End Semester Exam.

 

CIA pattern

CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks for a five-credit paper. The distribution is as follows 

CIA I - CIA I carries 10 marks and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.   

CIA II - Mid semester Examination conducted for a total weightage of 25 marks

CIA III - CIA III also carries 10 marks and involves the adoption of any one or two of the above said methods. 

Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

  

ESE pattern

Section 1 5 x 6 = 30 

This section will have a total of six questions with a mix of compulsory and internal choice to be answered. Each question carries FIVE marks and hence a total of 50 Marks. This section will have smaller essay questions, with a little of analyses and concepts. 

Section II 10 x 4 = 40 

This section will have a total of four questions with a mix of compulsory and internal choice to be asnwered. Each question carries TEN marks and hence a total of 40 Marks. 

Section III 15 x 2 = 30 

This section will have a total of two questions with one compulsory and one internal choiceto be answered. Each question carries FIFTEEN marks and hence a total of 30 Marks. 

AEN421 - ADDITIONAL ENGLISH (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:100
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

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

The course objectives are

·         to introduce the 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 enable them to grasp and appreciate the variety and abundance of subaltern writing, of which this compilation is just a glimpse 

·         to actively engage with the world as a cultural and social space (to be facilitated through proactive CIAs which help students to interact and engage with the realities they face everyday and have come across in these texts)

·         to learn and appreciate India and its place in the world through association of ideas in the texts and the external contexts

 

·         to reiterate the study skills and communication skills they developed in the previous year and extend it.  

Learning Outcome

CO1 : CO1: To understand the socio- political concerns in various literatures through short stories, poems and essays

CO2: CO2: To critically read and articulate the non- canonised literatures

CO3: CO3: To analyse and apply these textual themes in a multi- cultural, global and professional space

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

Students wil be evaluated through Continuous Internal Assessment and End Semester Exam.

 

CIA pattern

CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks for a five-credit paper. The distribution is as follows 

CIA I - CIA I carries 10 marks and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.   

CIA II - Mid semester Examination conducted for a total weightage of 25 marks

CIA III - CIA III also carries 10 marks and involves the adoption of any one or two of the above said methods. 

Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

  

ESE pattern

Section 1 5 x 6 = 30 

This section will have a total of six questions with a mix of compulsory and internal choice to be answered. Each question carries FIVE marks and hence a total of 50 Marks. This section will have smaller essay questions, with a little of analyses and concepts. 

Section II 10 x 4 = 40 

This section will have a total of four questions with a mix of compulsory and internal choice to be asnwered. Each question carries TEN marks and hence a total of 40 Marks. 

Section III 15 x 2 = 30 

This section will have a total of two questions with one compulsory and one internal choiceto be answered. Each question carries FIFTEEN marks and hence a total of 30 Marks. 

ENG421 - ENGLISH-IV (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:100
Credits:2

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

 

This syllabus is meant to cater to all the three streams- B.A., B.Sc.and B.Com therefore the selection of units, has been done keeping in mind the general needs of students from these different backgrounds. Topics of universal concern, appeal and relevance have been included to sustain the interests of all students.

 

The selection of topics also progresses in complexity with each semester, enabling the students to gradually progress into more serious and sustained patterns of reading and become increasingly perceptive and conscious of their own selves and the world they see around them.In a nutshell we aim to bring out a text that will empower the holistic development of every student. 

 

 

 

In addition, the selection of topicsis also heavily based on skill sets identified to be taught. Topics are carefully chosen to integrate appropriate language and communication skills among students. The specific focus of these two semesters is to build employability skills among them and to this effect, we have career advancement skills and employability skills based units. The learners will be exposed to various skill sets required to be able to handle various requirements both in their academic and workplaces.

 

 

Course Objectives:   

 

·       To enable learners to develop reading comprehension for various purposes

 

·       To enable learners to develop writing skills for academic and professional needs

 

·       To enable learners to develop the ability to think critically and express logically

 

·       To enable learner to communicate in a socially and ethically acceptable manner

 

·       To enable learners, to read, write and speak with clarity, precision and accuracy

 

 

Learning Outcome

CO1: Ability to judge audience requirements in oral and written communication and communicate accordingly.

CO2: Ability to use specific styles in communication and understand workplace structures and requirements to communicate

CO3: Lead and participate in seminars and group discussions more effectively and with increased confidence.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

Students wil be evaluated through Continuous Internal Assessment and End Semester Exam.

 

CIA pattern

CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks for a five-credit paper. The distribution is as follows 

CIA I - CIA I carries 10 marks and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.   

CIA II - Mid semester Examination conducted for a total weightage of 25 marks

CIA III - CIA III also carries 10 marks and involves the adoption of any one or two of the above said methods. 

Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

  

ESE pattern

Section 1 5 x 6 = 30 

This section will have a total of six questions with a mix of compulsory and internal choice to be answered. Each question carries FIVE marks and hence a total of 50 Marks. This section will have smaller essay questions, with a little of analyses and concepts. 

Section II 10 x 4 = 40 

This section will have a total of four questions with a mix of compulsory and internal choice to be asnwered. Each question carries TEN marks and hence a total of 40 Marks. 

Section III 15 x 2 = 30 

This section will have a total of two questions with one compulsory and one internal choiceto be answered. Each question carries FIFTEEN marks and hence a total of 30 Marks. 

EST431 - INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY THEORY (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:75
No of Lecture Hours/Week:5
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This course aims to introduce the students to concepts, concerns, critical debates in theorising literary texts and expose them to the applicability of these theoretical frameworks. It will enable students to critically perceive and engage with the production of meanings, significations and negotiations. This paper  will act as a bridge to Cultural Studies; Popular Culture; Indian Literatures; Postcolonial Studies; Ecological Studies and other studies that will be introduced in the final year and English Honours.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Display familiarity with basic theories in literature

CO2: Apply theories as frameworks to analyze literary and other texts

CO3: Debate on the feasibility of theory in application to lived reality

CO4: Demonstrate an understanding of the arguments and limitations of different theoretical perspectives

CO5: Argue for their takes on several theoretical positions with justification

Unit-1
Teaching Hours:10
Introducing Theory: Literature and the Need for Criticism and Theory
 

I.1 What is Literature?

I.2 What is Literary Criticism; Literary/Critical Theory?

1.3 Literary Criticism/Theory: Key Ideas: Plato to Leavis 

(An Overview of the development of theory)

Text Books And Reference Books:

  1. Peter Barry: Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory.
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

  1. Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 8th ed. New York: Wardworth, 2005.
  2. Ahmand, Aijaz. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. Rpt. New Delhi: OUP, 2006.
  3. Culler, Jonathan. The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, literature, deconstruction. London/New York: Routledge, 2001. Print.
  4. Devy, G.N., ed. Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation. Rpt. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2007. Print.
  5. Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008
  6. ---. The Function of Criticism. London: Verso, 2005. Print.
  7. Gurrin, Wilfred L, et al. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. 5th ed.New York: OUP, 2005. Print.
  8. Habib, M.A.R., ed. A History of Literary Criticism and Theory: From Plato to the Present. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Print.
  9. John, Eileen and Dominic McIver Lopes, eds. Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Print.
  10. John, Eileen and Dominic McIver Lopes. Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
  11. Kapoor, Kapil. Literary Theory: Indian Conceptual Framework. New Delhi: Affiliated East-West Press, 1998. Print.
  12. Klages, Mary. Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Continuum, 2006
  13. Leitch, Vincent B., ed. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York:Norton, 2001. Print.
  14. Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh. Modern Literary Theory. 4th ed. London: Hodder Arnold, 2001. Print.
  15. Rivkin, Julie, Michael Ryan, eds. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Rev ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. Print.
  16. Rooney, Ellen ed. Feminist Literary Theory. Cambridge: CUP, 2006. Print.
  17. Waugh, Patricia. Literary Theory and Criticism: An Oxford Guide. Oxford: OUP, 2006. Print
Evaluation Pattern

CIA II: Mid Semester 

Section A: Any 3 questions out of 5. (3x10=30) (Conceptual Questions)

Section B: 1x 20=20. Application question. Compulsory no choice.

Total = 50.

 

CIA I: A class test (open book or otherwise on concepts and application) for 20 marks

CIA III: Any creative test that is application based for 20 marks.

 

End Semester Pattern

Section A: 5x10 =50 (Answer any 5 out of 7) Conceptual Questions alone

Section B: 2x25 = 50 (Answer any 2 out of 3) Application based

 

Total 100

FRN421 - FRENCH (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:100
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

French as a second language in the UG program. The method Génération A2 consists of a student's book and an activity book, both included in the digital manual. It consists of 6 units preceded by an initial section of 'Welcome'. Continuing from where A1 left, it aims to enhance learning skills further. The structure of each unit marks a real learning journey into different aspects of the French language and culture.

 

Course Objectives

·       To develop linguistic competencies and sharpen oral and written communicative skills further

·       To enhance awareness of different aspects of francophone civilization.

·       To enrich the learner’s vocabulary

·       To enable learners to engage in and discuss simple topics with ease

 

Learning Outcome

CO1: To familiarize students with the French culture and traditions.

CO 2: To equip students with correct grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

CO3: To enhance communicative skills.

CO 4: To make them well versed in all the four language skills.

CO5: To make them ready for A2 level Exams.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA II: Mid Semester 

Section A: Any 3 questions out of 5. (3x10=30) (Conceptual Questions)

Section B: 1x 20=20. Application question. Compulsory no choice.

Total = 50.

 

CIA I: A class test (open book or otherwise on concepts and application) for 20 marks

CIA III: Any creative test that is application based for 20 marks.

 

End Semester Pattern

Section A: 5x10 =50 (Answer any 5 out of 7) Conceptual Questions alone

Section B: 2x25 = 50 (Answer any 2 out of 3) Application based

 

Total 100

HIN421 - HINDI (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:100
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course Description:

The detailed text-book "Ashad ka ek din” is a drama by Mohan Rakeshi, one of the eminent writers of modern Hindi Literature. Hindi journalismis is one of the major unit of this semester. Phrases, idioms, technical and scientific terminology are included in this semester to improve the literary skills.

Course Objectives:

Through the prescribed play and the theatre performance, students can go through the process of experiential learning. Study of Mass media enables them to get practical training. Phrases, idioms, technical and scientific terminology sharpen the language skills of the students.  

 

Learning Outcome

CO1 : Understand the nuances of Hindi theatre.

CO2: Create awareness of the social issues.

CO3: Improve the skill of critical analysis.

CO4: Develop the writing skills for media.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA II: Mid Semester 

Section A: Any 3 questions out of 5. (3x10=30) (Conceptual Questions)

Section B: 1x 20=20. Application question. Compulsory no choice.

Total = 50.

 

CIA I: A class test (open book or otherwise on concepts and application) for 20 marks

CIA III: Any creative test that is application based for 20 marks.

 

End Semester Pattern

Section A: 5x10 =50 (Answer any 5 out of 7) Conceptual Questions alone

Section B: 2x25 = 50 (Answer any 2 out of 3) Application based

 

Total 100

KAN421 - KANNADA (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:50
Credits:03

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

The course introduces the rich Kannada language and helps students to read and write the Regional language effectively. The prescribed text ‘Kalagnani Kanaka’ (Kanaka, the visionary) is all about 15th century poet, saint and philosopher of the Haridasa Bhakti tradition. “Kanaka’s writings touch on all aspects of truth and social reality’ said K.R. Nagaraj, literary critic and the author of the Kalagnani Kanaka play. “Kanaka’s poetry is dense with rhyme, rhythm, meter and rich descriptions. He upholds social justice while addressing the issues of the time-caste and class differentiation and gender oppression, for example. Contrary to popular belief, he never confined himself to any one philosophical tradition- Advaita, Dwaita or Vishistadwaitha” ‘Kannadada Moovattu Kathegalu’ is another prescribed text. Through this text the students are exposed to the writings of Koradkal Sreenivasa Rao, K. P. Poornachandra Tejaswi, Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, G. P. Basavaraj and others. Short stories help students in harnessing creative writing skills.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Reflects the tradition of old & the new

CO2: Helps to create dialogue writing

CO3: Identify key points in stories

CO4: Understand the ideologies during British rule

CO5: Expose to Dasa Sahitya movement

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA II: Mid Semester 

Section A: Any 3 questions out of 5. (3x10=30) (Conceptual Questions)

Section B: 1x 20=20. Application question. Compulsory no choice.

Total = 50.

 

CIA I: A class test (open book or otherwise on concepts and application) for 20 marks

CIA III: Any creative test that is application based for 20 marks.

 

End Semester Pattern

Section A: 5x10 =50 (Answer any 5 out of 7) Conceptual Questions alone

Section B: 2x25 = 50 (Answer any 2 out of 3) Application based

 

Total 100

PSY411 - SERVICE LEARNING (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:30
No of Lecture Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:50
Credits:2

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This course is offering to fourth-semester undergraduate students.  Service-learning is a learning process and teaching method, incorporating the relationship between the student, community, and the classroom. It not only helps students to observe, analyze and understand the community but also it allows the student to identify himself/ herself in the community. It encompasses both the benefits to the community and the student, creating one learning experience. Service-learning gives the first-hand opportunity for a student to utilize his/ her academic knowledge and skills. At the same time, the community gets service-volunteers to strengthen its disadvantaged groups. Students in the program work towards positive sustainable change in the community while enhancing his/her own education. 

Learning Outcome

CO1: Apply disciplinary knowledge and skills to become effective and contributing members of society.

CO2: Understand the importance and responsibility of serving and being actively engaged in community activities.

CO3: Demonstrate personal and social skills needed for effective community engagement.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA II: Mid Semester 

Section A: Any 3 questions out of 5. (3x10=30) (Conceptual Questions)

Section B: 1x 20=20. Application question. Compulsory no choice.

Total = 50.

 

CIA I: A class test (open book or otherwise on concepts and application) for 20 marks

CIA III: Any creative test that is application based for 20 marks.

 

End Semester Pattern

Section A: 5x10 =50 (Answer any 5 out of 7) Conceptual Questions alone

Section B: 2x25 = 50 (Answer any 2 out of 3) Application based

 

Total 100

PSY431 - BASIC SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:75
No of Lecture Hours/Week:5
Max Marks:100
Credits:5

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This course has been conceptualized in order to understand the historical and scientific origin as well as the development of the field in the western and Indian context. The course will help the student understand the development of the self and the dynamics of interpersonal attraction, prosocial behaviour, aggression, prejudice, group processes and attitude formation and change in a social context.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Chart the linear progression of the development of social psychology as a discipline

CO2: Critique research methods employed in developing concepts and theoretical models

CO3: Apply the concepts to understand social situations and monitor their own behaviour accordingly.

Unit-1
Teaching Hours:11
Introduction
 

What is Social Psychology? Brief History of Social Psychology, Social Psychology in India, Recent advances in Social Psychology: Role of Emotions, Social Neuroscience, Implicit (non-conscious) processes, Multicultural perspective. Role of Theory in social psychology; Methods of Social Psychology: Systematic Observation, Survey, Experimental Method, Qualitative research: Interviewing, Participant observation, Diaries, Focus groups, Discourse analysis, Archival research.

Text Books And Reference Books:

Baron, R.A & Branscombe, N.R (2012). Social Psychology, (13th Ed). Pearson education.

Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

Brehm, S.S. & Kassin, SN. (1996). Social Psychology, (3rd ed.). Houghton Mifflin Company.

Crisp, R.J. & Turner, R.N. (2007). Essential Social Psychology. Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Misra, G. & Dalal, A.K. (2001). Social Psychology in India: Evolution and Emerging trends. (in Eds) Ajit. K. Dalal and Girishwar Misra. New Directions in Indian Psychology, Volume I: Social Psychology. Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd.

Myers, D.G (2002) Social Psychology, (7th International Ed). McGraw Hill Companies.

Taylor ,S .E, Peplau, L.A & Sears, D.O. (2006) Social Psychology, (12th Ed). Pearson Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd.

Evaluation Pattern

CIA       CIA (Continuous Internal Assessment)-Total Marks- 50 

CIA-1: Activity-based Individual Assignment- 10 Marks 
CIA-2: Mid sem Exam-Case/Scenario-based Question- 25 Marks; Department level 
CIA-3: Individual Assignment- 10 Marks 
Attendance- 5 Marks 

ESE Pattern      ESE (End Semester Examination) Total Marks- 50 , 02 HOURS

Question paper pattern
Section A- (Short Answers) 02 marks x5Qs =10 Marks
Section B- (Essay Type) 10 marks x 3Qs = 30 Marks
Section C-(Compulsory: Case Study) 10 marks x 1Q =10 Marks

PSY451 - PSYCHOLOGICAL STATISTICS AND EXPERIMENTS - II (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:30
No of Lecture Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:100
Credits:2

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This course is the next phase of Psychological experiments and statistics-1 completed in the third semester. Students will examine the connection between experimental psychology and society. Much of the course will involve students considering directly how to create/develop lab and field experiments. Other portions of this course are directed at developing skills in data analysis, including the use of the statistical software package SPSS (all students are expected to have had previous exposure to SPSS or comparable statistical software in semester three). Students will perform experiments and analyze data from these experiments both individually and as part of a group. Students will also learn how to disseminate the results of their experiments orally and in the form of an APA-format report. 

Learning Outcome

CO1: Generate hypotheses and identify ways to test these hypotheses for a given problem

CO2: Conduct, interpret and report psychological experiments following ethical protocols and APA format

CO3: Analyze experimental data with the knowledge of statistical techniques and software packages like SPSS, MS-Excel or JAMOVI

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA       CIA (Continuous Internal Assessment)-Total Marks- 50 

CIA-1: Activity-based Individual Assignment- 10 Marks 
CIA-2: Mid sem Exam-Case/Scenario-based Question- 25 Marks; Department level 
CIA-3: Individual Assignment- 10 Marks 
Attendance- 5 Marks 

ESE Pattern      ESE (End Semester Examination) Total Marks- 50 , 02 HOURS

Question paper pattern
Section A- (Short Answers) 02 marks x5Qs =10 Marks
Section B- (Essay Type) 10 marks x 3Qs = 30 Marks
Section C-(Compulsory: Case Study) 10 marks x 1Q =10 Marks

SAN421 - SANSKRIT (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:100
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Avimarakam by Bhasa is the drama  prescribed as a text and approved in the B.O.S.  It is sociological drama which explains about the society.  . This drama is an imaginary composition of Bhasa . The concept and drama skills expresses the beauty of the style of the author Bhasa.  He creates the characters and the incidents are naturally created. Grammar will also be studied.

Learning Outcome

CO1: To Understand the style and development of the play

CO2: To learn the linguistic skills of the drama.

CO3: To Deliberate the classification and characteristics of the play

CO4: To Understand the features of play

CO5: To understand the basic structural nuances of Panini?s grammar

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA       CIA (Continuous Internal Assessment)-Total Marks- 50 

CIA-1: Activity-based Individual Assignment- 10 Marks 
CIA-2: Mid sem Exam-Case/Scenario-based Question- 25 Marks; Department level 
CIA-3: Individual Assignment- 10 Marks 
Attendance- 5 Marks 

ESE Pattern      ESE (End Semester Examination) Total Marks- 50 , 02 HOURS

Question paper pattern
Section A- (Short Answers) 02 marks x5Qs =10 Marks
Section B- (Essay Type) 10 marks x 3Qs = 30 Marks
Section C-(Compulsory: Case Study) 10 marks x 1Q =10 Marks

SOC431 - STUDY OF INDIAN SOCIETY (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:75
No of Lecture Hours/Week:5
Max Marks:100
Credits:5

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This course focuses on the Development of Sociology in India, its relationship to Anthropology, Orientalism, Indology, Postmodernism, Subaltern studies and a number of approaches that emerged in Indian Sociology discourse. The course introduces students to the theoretical foundations of empirical, structural, Marxist and subaltern approaches to the study of Indian society. Along with these theoretical foundations, this paper introduces a number of seminal works in each of these areas. The course objective is 

  • To familiarise the students regarding the emergence and growth of Sociology and Anthropology in India.
  • To make the students appreciate the contributions of the pioneers in the study of Indian Society.
  • To introduce studies on Indian social  institutions, social structure, social dynamics related to caste, class village and tribe. 

Learning Outcome

CO1: To explain the growth of Sociology as an academic discipline in India and the research areas.

CO2: To be able to articulate the major perspectives to understand Indian society and the contributions of scholars in this regard.

CO3: To evaluate the various aspects of Indian society using different theoretical perspectives.

CO4: To explain the Indological and empirical studies on caste, village and tribe.

Unit-1
Teaching Hours:15
Introduction to Indian Society
 

1.      Pluralistic Composition of Indian Society

2.      Colonialism and emergence of Anthropology and Sociology

Text Books And Reference Books:

Beteille, A. (2002). Sociology: Essays on Approaches and Method. New Delhi: OUP.

Cohn, S B. (1987). An Anthropologist among the Historians and other Essays. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Das, V.(ed.). (2003). The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 

Deshpande, S. (2003). Contemporary India A Sociological View. Viking Publishers: New Delhi.

Dhanagare D N. (1993).Themes and Perspectives in Indian Sociology; Jaipur: Rawat publications.

Doshi, S.L. (1997). Emerging Tribal Image. Delhi: Rawat Publications.

Dube, S. C. (1995). Indian Society. New Delhi : NBT

Dumont, L. (1970). Homo Hierarchicus : The Caste System and its Implications. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Gupta, D. (ed). (1991). Social Stratification, New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Ludden, David. (2001). Readings in Subaltern Studies; Critical History, Contested Meanings and the Globalisation of South Asia, New Delhi: Permanent Black Publications.

Madan ,T.N. (1992 ).  Pathways. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Madan, V.( 2003). Village in India. Delhi:OUP.

Singh Y. (1986). Indian Sociology. Delhi: Visthar Publications.

Srinivas, M.N. (1960). India’s Village. Bombay: Asian Publishing House.

Srinivas, M.N. (1977). Remembered Village .New Delhi: OUP.

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

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

Xaxa, Virginius. (1999). Transformation of Tribes in India.

Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

Behura, N K.& Nilakantha Panigrahi. (2006). Tribals and the Indian Constitution. Dellhi: Rawat Publication.

Srinivas, M.N. (1962). Caste in Modern India and Other Essays, Bombay: Asia Publishing House.

Srivastava, V K. (ed.). (2013). Tribes in India: Concepts, Institutions and Practices. New Delhi: Serials Publications.

Verma, R.C. (1995). Indian Tribes through the Ages. Delhi: Government of India Publication.

Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 10 marks (20 marks reduced to 10) assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 25 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 question out of 2 options given. It carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 10 marks (20 marks reduced to 10 marks) and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

TAM421 - TAMIL (2022 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:45
No of Lecture Hours/Week:3
Max Marks:100
Credits:3

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

A new concept, cultural studies, will take the students beyond prescribed syllabus to include music, theatre, painting, and films out of which the art form of music is taken up for the first semester.  Aram poetry- Ara nericharam specifies life discipline and standards, which would pave a successful life for the students. 

Bhakthi ilakiya- them bhavani, cheerapuranam, thirumandiram is inclined towards ritual practices. Kaapiyam with its historical values provides an understanding about life in a mature way.



Learning Outcome

CO1: Recall and categorize the concepts of literature.

CO2: Understand the true essence of the texts, and inculcate them in their daily lives.

CO3: Recognize and apply the moral values and ethics in their learning.

CO4: Comprehend the concepts in literature and appreciate the literary text.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 10 marks (20 marks reduced to 10) assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 25 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 question out of 2 options given. It carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 10 marks (20 marks reduced to 10 marks) and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

EST531 - POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:04

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Objectives:

·         To introduce students to few key terms of colonialism and postcolonialism

·         To enable close reading of texts in their socio/political/cultural contexts, specifically colonisation

·         To make students use critical vocabulary of the critical framework while discussing and writing

Learning Outcome

CO1: To make learners sensitive to the historical factors of colonization

CO2: Basic knowledge and application of key terms in Postcolonial Literature and Theory

CO3: To enhance student ability to engage with social/cultural, political debates with historical consciousness

CO4: Interdisciplinary scope for application of postcolonial frameworks to contemporary local and global concerns such as cultural hybridity, ecological consciousness and trans-national concerns of identity

Unit-1
Teaching Hours:20
Terms of Postcolonialism
 

Terms chosen will introduce the key issues of colonialism and postcolonial literatures as a foundation to the rest of the paper. The reference text is Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, will offer focus to the discussions.

·         Centre/margin

·         Colonialism/imperialism

·         Decolonisation

·         Mimicry/hybridity

·         Post-colonialism/postcolonialism 

Savage/civilised

Text Books And Reference Books:

Course pack compiled by the Dept of English, Christ University, for private circulation

Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

Adam, Ian. "Oracy and Literacy: A Postcolonial Dilemma?" The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 31.1 (1996): 97-109.

Ashcroft, William D., Gareth Griffith, and Helen Tiffin, eds. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge, 1989.

_____. Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies. London: Routledge, 1998.

_____. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1995.

Brydon, Diana. "The Myths That Write Us: Decolonising the Mind." Commonwealth 10.1 (1987): 1-14.

_____. "Re-writing The Tempest." World Literature Written in English. 23.1 (1984): 75-88.

Brydon, Diana, and Helen Tiffin, eds. Decolonising Fictions. Sydney, Austral.: Dangaroo P, 1993.

Chambers, Lain, and Lidia Curti, eds. The Post-Colonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons. London: Routledge, 1996.

Said, Edward. Beginnings: Intention and Method. New York: Basic Books, 1975

_____. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

_____. Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature. Derry, Ireland: Field Day, 1988.

_____. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.

_____. "Representing the Colonized: Anthropology's Interlocutors." Critical Inquiry 15.2 (1989): 205-25

_____. Representations of the Intellectual. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

_____. The World, the Text, and the Critic. London: Faber and Faber, 1984.

Viswanathan, Gauri. Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India. New York: Columbia UP, 1989

 

Evaluation Pattern

Since CIA I insists on individual testing, there could be three ways of testing the students

  1. A class test based on the text
  2. A movie review
  3. A book review           

 

For CIA III, the students can be asked

  1. To prepare group presentations on topics relevant to postcolonial literature
  2. To put up an exhibition/display of the literature/paintings/other art productions of the formerly colonized countries.

 

These are a few ideas, however, during the course of teaching, there could be other suggestions, and CIA’s could be slightly modified.

Mid Semester Exam Question Paper Pattern (50 Marks)

 

Number of

Answers

Marks

Total

Short Notes

4

5

20

Essay Questions

3

10

30

Total

7

 

50

 

End Semester Exam Question Paper Pattern (100 Marks)

 

Number of

Answers

Marks

Total

Short Notes

5

8

40

Descriptive/long questions

4

15

60

Total

9

 

100

EST532 - INDIAN LITERATURES: THEMES AND CONCERNS (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:75
No of Lecture Hours/Week:5
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This paper introduces students to key themes and concerns in Indian Literatures. This is a survey course that serves as an introduction to main issues and concepts in Indian Literatures. The paper is a mix of traditional as well as contemporary literatures written both in English as well as other regional languages translated into English.

 

Objectives

 

  • To understand the complexities of cultural, economic, political and social forces and their impact on the production of literatures in India of different classes and backgrounds
  • To understand the religious, caste, gender, colonial, national constructs in India through its literatures and thereby develop sensitivity and add to the core value of love for fellow beings
  • To become aware of methods interpreting literary texts in the contemporary context  

Learning Outcome

·       Students will be able to understand the religious, caste, gender, colonial, national constructs in India

Students will be comprehend the complexities of cultural, economic, political and social forces and their impact on the production of literatures in India of different classes and backgrounds

 

 

Unit-1
Teaching Hours:20
Essays
 

This module will introduce students to the category of Indian Literatures, its survey of different aspects of the body of writing as well as a critical understanding of the knowledge systems indigenous to India. 

Text Books And Reference Books:

Unit I: Essays                                                                                                20 Hrs

This module will introduce students to the category of Indian Literatures, its survey of different aspects of the body of writing as well as a critical understanding of the knowledge systems indigenous to India.

 

  • P P Raveendran: “Genealogies of Indian Literatures”, Economic and Political Weekly (June 24, 2006)
  • Amitav Ghosh: “Ghost of Mrs Gandhi”
  • Excerts from Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen

 

Unit II: Poetry                                                                                               15 Hrs

This module surveys select poetry from contemporary India. It surveys cities, people and ideas like faith and non-violence located within the Indian context.

  • K Satchidanandan “A Man with a Door”
  • Mirza Ghalib “Be Merciful and Send for Me”
  • Bonsai God by Temsula Ao
  • Basavanna Vachana “Cripple me, father”/ Akkamahadevi’s “Akka Kelavva”
  • Sangam Poetry Ilam Peruvatuti “This World Lives Because”

·         Rukmini Bhaiyya Nayar "Gender Role"  

·         Jayanta Mahapatra"Hunger"

 

Unit III: Play                                                                                                  13 Hrs

This module introduces students to caste and its underpinnings through a translated Dalit Drama by Vinodini. It will also introduce the Subaltern as a conceptual category and interrogate questions of caste within gender, class and other hierarchic strcutures.                                                                                                  

Daaham (Thirst) – Vinodini

 

Unit IV: Short stories                                                                                     12 Hrs

This selection of short stories introduces students to a variety of readings about the nation, partition, women and their social roles as well as resistance to established traditions.

 

Pudumaipitthan “Deliverance from Curse’’

Ambai: “A Kitchen in the Corner of a House”

Saadat Hasan Manto: “Dog of Tithwal”

A K Ramanujan's Annayya's Anthropology

 

Urvashi Butalia: “Blood” 

 

 

Unit V: Novel and Graphic Novel                                                                15 Hrs

This section introduces the novel form or the graphic novel as appropriated in the Indian context. The module will aim to familiazrize students to Indian writing in English and bring forth important questions with regard to English and India apart from discussing the thematic concerns in the text. Any one of the novels may be taken to class. Understanding ‘India’ in the contemporary context through the form of the novel will be the focus of this module. A thematic reading of the novel will also be done in class. (One of the two novels could be considered).

 

  • Arundati Roy, The God of Small Things

or

  • Chetan Bhagat: Five Point Someone
  • Sarnath Banerjee Corridor
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

Chakrovorty - Spivak, Gayatri. The politics of Translation  Tutun Mukherjee, Lawrence Venuti. (ed). Translation Studies Reader. London/New York; Routeldge, 2003.

Studies in Culture and Translation. Vol. 2 ‘Translating Caste’Basu, Tapan. Katha, 2002. New Delhi.

Das, Kamala. The Sandal Trees and Other Stories. Disha Books. 1995, New Delhi.

Fresh Fictions, Folk Tales, Plays and Novellas from the North East. Katha. New    Delhi, 2005

Indian Short Stories. 1900-2000. Ramakrishnan, E.V. (ed). Sahithya Academy New Delhi, 2003.

Indian Literature, Sahithya Academy, bi-monthly journal. Vol.167, New Delhi, 1995.

Indian Literature, Sahithya Academy, bi-monthly journal. Vol .168, New Delhi, 1995.

Indian Literature, Sahithya Academy, bi-monthly journal. Vol.169, New Delhi, 1995.

Journal of Literature and Aesthetics. Vol.7, Numbers1 & 2 Jan- Dec.2007.Kollam, 2008.

Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy, New Delhi: O.U.P. 1989.

Short Fiction from South India, Krishna Swami, Subasree. Sreelatha.K (ed), New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Stuart Blackburn and Vasudha Dalmia (ed). India’s Literary History. Essays on the Nineteenth Century. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2008.

Tendulkar, Vijay. Five Plays. Bombay: 1992.OUP. 2007, New Delhi.

 

Tamil Poetry Today, K.S. Subramanian (ed). International Institute for Tamil Studies, Chennai 2007. 

Evaluation Pattern

CIA II

  • Comparative Study of the issues of any one prescribed piece with another one piece from any Indian language
  • Written assignment on any of the typical Indian issues discussed as part of the syllabus.        

CIA III

  • could be a Translation Assignment of any contemporary literary work

(Poems or Short Stories).

 

  • written assignment on any prescribed piece bringing out the problems of translation
  • If the students do not know how to read a regional language, they can listen to a story/poem from the oral tradition and translate that.
  • Some students might not have the linguistic competence to translate then, they can learn a folk art form/gather some folk, oral narratives, recipes, sports and analyze them.

PSY531 - ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

The abnormal psychology course aims to sensitize the students about the existence of abnormal behaviour in order to develop greater social responsibility. The course coupled with the social psychology course of the previous semester and other courses from sociology, specifically with regard to social problems, would create a holistic understanding of the individual and their society. Further, the course would enable the student to develop a cultural understanding of abnormal behaviour within the Indian context and specifically to Bangalore. In Bangalore, there is a noticeable increase in the mental health issues faced by the population and the need for mental health practitioners who understand the difference between abnormal behaviour and distressing behaviour is a major requirement and the course would be the first step towards that direction. This course has been conceptualized in order to help the students develop an understanding of the historical development of the study of abnormal behaviour.  The specific course aim is to create an understanding of the criteria and perspectives in abnormal behaviour, common classification systems, and range of disorders including anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, somatic symptom disorders generally observed at childhood and adolescence, and personality disorders. 

Learning Outcome

CO1: Differentiate between the different types of abnormal behavior

CO2: Discern clinically diagnosable psychopathology from deviant behavior

CO3: Identify the causes of abnormal behavior

CO4: Chart out the chronological progression of the changes in the classification and nomenclature of abnormal behavior

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA II

  • Comparative Study of the issues of any one prescribed piece with another one piece from any Indian language
  • Written assignment on any of the typical Indian issues discussed as part of the syllabus.        

CIA III

  • could be a Translation Assignment of any contemporary literary work

(Poems or Short Stories).

 

  • written assignment on any prescribed piece bringing out the problems of translation
  • If the students do not know how to read a regional language, they can listen to a story/poem from the oral tradition and translate that.
  • Some students might not have the linguistic competence to translate then, they can learn a folk art form/gather some folk, oral narratives, recipes, sports and analyze them.

PSY541A - SCHOOL AND EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This introductory course is designed for final year Psychology students to explore the field of School and Educational Psychology and related career options such as school counselling, career guidance, and teaching, should they choose to specialize further after their graduation. The course will build on previously learned knowledge in Psychology such as various schools of thought in Psychology, and basic theories of learning, development, and motivation with the goal of exposing students to different areas of specialization within the field of educational psychology.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Explain the meaning, scope, current trends and theories in educational psychology.

CO2: Evaluate different teaching-learning, assessment, and classroom management practices employed in schools and higher education.

CO3: Apply the knowledge of psychology to understand and respond to the diverse needs of learners.

CO4: Evaluate various approaches to career education and guidance.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA II

  • Comparative Study of the issues of any one prescribed piece with another one piece from any Indian language
  • Written assignment on any of the typical Indian issues discussed as part of the syllabus.        

CIA III

  • could be a Translation Assignment of any contemporary literary work

(Poems or Short Stories).

 

  • written assignment on any prescribed piece bringing out the problems of translation
  • If the students do not know how to read a regional language, they can listen to a story/poem from the oral tradition and translate that.
  • Some students might not have the linguistic competence to translate then, they can learn a folk art form/gather some folk, oral narratives, recipes, sports and analyze them.

PSY541B - SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This course is provided in the fifth semester for students from the psychology triple major combinations (JPENG, PSENG, PSECO, CEP) at CHRIST (Deemed to be University). The course aims at introducing learners to the basic concepts of sports psychology, the scope of sports psychology and various issues the sports persons experience (gender, culture, etc.), and the application of psychological principles in the sports setting. The course also introduces the students to various factors influencing performance and performance enhancement techniques. The students should thoroughly understand the basic psychological process as a prerequisite since this programme mainly focuses on applying those principles in sports.

Course Objectives

o  To introduce learners to sports psychology's origin, scope and perspectives.

o  To enhance learners’ knowledge concerning gender and culture in sports.

o  To equip the learners to differentiate between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation  

o  To impart ways to enhance individual and team performance using mental training.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Describe the nature and evolution of sports psychology.

CO2: Distinguish between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and how mental training can be used for performance.

CO3: Design a comprehensive goal-setting program for individuals and teams.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA II

  • Comparative Study of the issues of any one prescribed piece with another one piece from any Indian language
  • Written assignment on any of the typical Indian issues discussed as part of the syllabus.        

CIA III

  • could be a Translation Assignment of any contemporary literary work

(Poems or Short Stories).

 

  • written assignment on any prescribed piece bringing out the problems of translation
  • If the students do not know how to read a regional language, they can listen to a story/poem from the oral tradition and translate that.
  • Some students might not have the linguistic competence to translate then, they can learn a folk art form/gather some folk, oral narratives, recipes, sports and analyze them.

PSY541C - CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course description: This course has been conceptualized in order to provide a comprehensive introduction to general theories and methods related to cultural psychology. The course will focus on specific topics that bridge cultural psychology and identity, including group and identity formation, and multiculturalism. Special emphasis will be placed on critically examining how cultural norms influence the way individuals think, feel, and behave. 

Learning Outcome

CO1: Explain fundamental concepts, theories, and methods in cultural psychology.

CO2: Explain theoretical perspectives on what culture is and how it may influence the ?self? of the individual and various psychological processes.

CO3: Analyze social and ethnic diversities and experiences through the lens of culture.

CO4: Apply knowledge of cultural psychology to real-world contexts

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA II

  • Comparative Study of the issues of any one prescribed piece with another one piece from any Indian language
  • Written assignment on any of the typical Indian issues discussed as part of the syllabus.        

CIA III

  • could be a Translation Assignment of any contemporary literary work

(Poems or Short Stories).

 

  • written assignment on any prescribed piece bringing out the problems of translation
  • If the students do not know how to read a regional language, they can listen to a story/poem from the oral tradition and translate that.
  • Some students might not have the linguistic competence to translate then, they can learn a folk art form/gather some folk, oral narratives, recipes, sports and analyze them.

PSY541D - INTRODUCTION OF NEUROPSYCHOLOGY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

 This undergraduate course will be a comprehensive introduction to human neuropsychology structured to provide students with a basic understanding of the relationship between brain and behaviour. Topics covered will include foundations of neuropsychology, the structure of the nervous system, functional specialization of the brain, cognitive functions, and assessments of brain disorders.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Understand the basic terminology and clinic-neuropsychological concepts

CO2: Recognize the organization of the nervous system through a systematic review of researches carried out

CO3: Identify the structure of brain systems and associated cognitive functions

CO4: Integrate principles towards the understanding of brain disorders through reviewing disease models.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA II

  • Comparative Study of the issues of any one prescribed piece with another one piece from any Indian language
  • Written assignment on any of the typical Indian issues discussed as part of the syllabus.        

CIA III

  • could be a Translation Assignment of any contemporary literary work

(Poems or Short Stories).

 

  • written assignment on any prescribed piece bringing out the problems of translation
  • If the students do not know how to read a regional language, they can listen to a story/poem from the oral tradition and translate that.
  • Some students might not have the linguistic competence to translate then, they can learn a folk art form/gather some folk, oral narratives, recipes, sports and analyze them.

PSY551 - PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHODS AND ASSESSMENT-I (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:30
No of Lecture Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:100
Credits:2

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This course has been conceptualized to capstone experience for psychology undergraduates, in which students identify a research topic, conduct comprehensive literature reviews, and then develop a substantial written small empirical research project. The paper aims to help students collaborate and complete psychological research projects with their peers. This course is planned to also provide a framework for the development of assessment practices. Attention will be given to issues of identifying and selecting test instruments, conducting the assessment process in an ethical and considerate manner, interpreting norm references and criterion-referenced test scores and writing APA formatted reports. The program is designed to enable students to complete a group research project under the supervision of a faculty. The students would develop and defend the research proposal in the semester.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Apply the knowledge of basic research and literature review methods in psychology to develop a research idea and proposal

CO2: Develop, present, and defend a research proposal following APA and ethical guidelines

CO3: Administer psychological scales to a subject, make interpretations and draw conclusions based on the norms given in the manual

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

CIA II

  • Comparative Study of the issues of any one prescribed piece with another one piece from any Indian language
  • Written assignment on any of the typical Indian issues discussed as part of the syllabus.        

CIA III

  • could be a Translation Assignment of any contemporary literary work

(Poems or Short Stories).

 

  • written assignment on any prescribed piece bringing out the problems of translation
  • If the students do not know how to read a regional language, they can listen to a story/poem from the oral tradition and translate that.
  • Some students might not have the linguistic competence to translate then, they can learn a folk art form/gather some folk, oral narratives, recipes, sports and analyze them.

SOC531 - METHODS OF SOCIAL RESEARCH (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This paper seeks to train students to conceptualize and carry out social research. It introduces students to the various stages of research, equipping them with the necessary skills to collect data, analyze data and present the findings in a report. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques are covered.

Course Objectives: 

This course provides philosophical underpinnings of the social research and familiarizes the students with methodological tools, explaining quantitative and qualitative methods, which will help them to undertake empirical research independently.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Discuss the philosophical basis of research methodology

CO2: Examine the logic of research design

CO3: Undertake data analysis

CO4: Explore the current methodological debates

CO5: Analyse contemporary issues in qualitative and quantitative research

CO6: Conceptualize, design and carry out a research project on their own

Unit-1
Teaching Hours:15
Social Research : An Introduction
 

  1. Social Research : Meaning and Characteristics
  2. Human inquiry and science
  3. Paradigms, theory and social research
  4. Ethical issues in Social Research
  5. Types of Social Research – Qualitative and Quantitative
Text Books And Reference Books:

Babbie,Earl. (2002). The Basics of Social Research. London: Wadsworth Publications.

Bryman, Alan. (2007). Social Research Method, Oxford University Press.

Caragan, Leonard. (2007).Doing Social Research Rawat Publication.

Chhapekar Rati. (2004). A text book of Social Research, Dominant Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi.

Gerring John. (2001). Social Scientific Methodology, Cambridge University Press.

Giuseppe Larossic. (2006). The Power Of Survey Design, World Bank, Washington DC.

Henn Matt, Mark Weinstein and Nick Foard. 2006. A short introduction of social Research. New Delhi: Sage Publication.

Kothari, C.R. (1990).  Research Methodology. New Delhi: Vishwa Prakashan.

Kumar Ranjit. (2005). Research Methodology A step by step guide for Business, Pearson Education.

Mangaleswaran, R. (2011). Paradigm in Social Research. New Delhi: A New Horizon, Authors press,.

Nigel Gilbert (ed.). (2006). From Postgraduate to Social Scientist: A guide to key skills London: Sage Publication.

Taylor, Steven.J and Robert Bogdan. (1984). The Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods-the Search for Meanings, (Chap 1).  New York: Wiley.

Uwe Flick. (2007). Managing Quality in Qualitative Research, Sage Publication.

Vaus de. D.A. (2002). Surveys in Social Research. Australia:  Routledge Publications.

Yates, Simeon J. (2004). Doing Social Science Research. Sage Publication.

Young, Pauline. (1960). Scientific Social Survey and Research. Prentice Hall.

Essential Reading / Recommended Reading

Bailey, Kenneth D. (1978). Methods of Social Research.

Good, William and Hatt, Paul K. (1952). Methods in Social Research, New York: McGraw Hill.

Gulati Leela (2002). "Small is Beautiful: Case study as a Method in Social Science" in Patel, Bagchi, and Raj (ed.) Thinking Social Science in India. Essays in Honor of ALice Thorner. New Delhi: Sage Publications.

Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

SOC541A - ANALYSIS OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PROBLEMS (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course Description: This paper discusses various social issues which are of relevance for contemporary world. These issues surround the broad themes of population, health, development and different forms of Human Rights violations. In relation to population and health this paper would cover issues like aging, reproductive health, HIV AIDS, euthanasia, drug abuse, etc. In relation to development this paper would look into issues like urban land use, farmer’s suicide, displacement, climate change etc. This can help them in grasping the reality; contemplate on it, and come up with newer/better ways to deal with it.

Course Learning Objectives:

1.      To understand social problems in contemporary India in the context of Sociological theory, knowledge, concepts and perspectives

2.      To initiate social activism.

            3.      To work towards building a more sustainable and inclusive society

Learning Outcome

CO1: Identify and define a Social Problem

CO2: Explain how social problems interact and react with the larger society and how it affects individual life.

CO3: Demonstrate a socially sensitive approach while analyzing issues connected with marginalization, social exclusion etc

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

SOC541C - SOCIAL ECOLOGY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course Description:

 

 This course tries to introduce to the students the concept of ecology from a historical perspective and the integral relationship between man, community and environment. The course also tries to initiate discussions on the pertinent ecological issues, emerging concerns, environmental movements and the reactions to them.

 

Course Objectives:

 

This course will help the students to

·       To acquire basic knowledge and understanding of the importance of ecology.

·       To understand the various discourses and the pioneering works in this area

·       To familiarize with different environmental issues and levels of activism required for public policy.   

Learning Outcome

CO1: To describe the major concepts and theories related to ecology.

CO2: To explain the environmental history at the global and national level.

CO3: To explain and analyse various environmental issues

CO4: To evaluate strategies of managing environmental issues.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

SOC541D - SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course Description: Criticism is often rampant against our education system for reasons related to its quality, access, substance, its relevance in a changing/changed world and so on. Against this background the course is intended to allow the student to help understand the general sociological understandings of education and to proceed towards gaining a foundational knowledge of its problems against the larger context of globalization as well as in the specific context of India.

Course Objective:

1. To acquire basic knowledge and understanding of Sociology of education.

2. To have a foundational understanding of the problems confronted by educational systems in the Indian context.

3. To have a general understanding of the crisis of education in the era of globalization.

 4. To learn more about the critical role of intersectionalities like class, gender, caste etc., in educational institutions

Learning Outcome

CO1: Demonstrate an understanding of the philosophy of education

CO2: Explain the issues, challenges and prospects of education in the Indian context

CO3: Examine the significance of education in the formation of human personality

CO4: Evaluate alternative forms of education

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

EST631 - INTRODUCTION TO WORLD LITERATURES (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:75
No of Lecture Hours/Week:5
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course Description: This paper is informed by David Damrosch’s understanding that world literature is not a canon of Western master works but a mode of cross cultural reading. So the selection reflects similar themes of gender, race, being responsible citizen in oppressive conditions which the students have encountered in their earlier semester. While these themes have been discussed earlier in specific nationalistic contexts, this paper draws on that awareness and brings in comparative approach for analysis.

 

Objectives:

To introduce students to methods of studying literature and culture across national and linguistic boundaries

 

To understand the nature and function of literature from global perspective

Learning Outcome

CO1: Display a basic understanding of historical and cultural contexts of world literatures

CO2: To identify and respond to the ways in which literary texts from diverse cultures, time are interconnected

CO3: Compare and contrast significant similarities and differences between various literary forms, periods, histories in both western and non-western writings

CO4: Will demonstrate tools of literary analysis including appropriate literary terminology for writing analysis of the texts

CO5: Will be able to examine reading experiences, culture from multiple frames of references, specifically frames that define world literatures

CO6: To enhance textual appreciation and writing skills

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

EST631E - ECOLOGICAL DISCOURSES AND PRACTICES (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Description: This paper is conceptualised to address one of the pressing concerns of our times – Ecology. The paper gives an introduction to the various discourses that surround the ecological movements of the past and present and the ground work they have laid to avoid a perilous future. The paper also critically looks at certain cultural phenomenon like Anthropocentricism and emphasises the urgent need for Eco Activism and cultivation of an Ecological Self. Since the paper does not just aim at getting the students familiarised with theory, it also includes field visit as an integral part.

 

Objectives:

  • To help students understand the complex and various representations of nature in literature and other cultural artefacts
  • To explore an interdisciplinary engagement with Ecology and introduce ecological concerns to the student of English Studies
  • To examine diverse contexts and concerns in the field
  • To promote ecological consciousness
  • To acknowledge field work-based learning as an important academic practice

Learning Outcome

CO1: Analyse the different debates and discourses on ecology

CO2: Understand the role of us in responding to contemporary ecological crises

CO3: to develop a critical understanding of the nature, self and the urgent need to nurture an ecological self

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

EST641A - CULTURAL STUDIES (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:04

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

  • To provide the opportunity to develop and critically apply knowledge
  • To understand theoretical and critical debates and key historical developments in Cultural Studies

Learning Outcome

CO1: Create awareness of approaches to reading cultures and society

CO2: Demonstrate cross-cultural sensitivity

CO3: Understand of the contexts which influence the relationship between spatiality and cultural studies

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

EST641B - INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:04

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

  • To demonstrate a thorough grasp of the main phonological, lexical, syntactical, and other aspects of English, with particular reference to its roles as a means of communication.
  • Predict with reasonable accuracy the learning needs of any group of learners and to modify and update such a needs analysis in the light of observation and testing.
  • Write instructional objectives and prepare appropriate lesson plans.
  • Discuss intelligently lesson forms.
  • Monitor his or her effectiveness as a teacher of English to speakers of other languages.
  • Introduce and nurture familiarity with current methodology.
  • Foster awareness of language structures and ability to teach English language skills (grammar, speaking, listening, reading, writing and pronunciation) .
  • Explore a variety of textbooks and teaching materials; determine how to best utilize these within a curricular framework.
  • Review and practice developing and using a variety of assessment instruments
  • Practice implementing new techniques and materials.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Ability to use theoretical knowledge of various schools of thoughts to understand principles of language learning and teaching

CO2: Ability to create lesson plans with clear outcomes and well defined strategies for teaching

CO3: Ability to develop tasks and activities for reading, writing, speaking, listening, grammar and vocabulary

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

EST641C - INTRODUCTION TO SHORT STORY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:04

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

 ·     Course Description: This paper introduces the short story as a non-literary and literary form. The paper also tries to trace the evolution of short story form and critically appreciate important practitioners of short story as a literary form across the world.

Objectives:

·       To understand short story as a non-literary and literary form

·       To read short stories in an analytical manner

·       To use critical vocabulary while discussing/writing about short stories

Learning Outcome

CO1: Recognize the different elements of short story and Write about short stories using the rhetoric of fiction

CO2: Course would help students to engage with the genre in a more holistic manner (In reading stories as literary and non-literary form)

CO3: Students would acquire basic prerequisites to do analysis of short stories academically

CO4: The course will ensure the use critical vocabulary in the process of analysis of stories

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

EST641D - INTRODUCTION TO FILM STUDIES (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:04

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This introductory course to Film Studies aims to:

·         Enable students to appreciate, understand and read films as audio-visual texts.

·         Help students learn the key concepts of cinema and analyze films in a better light

·         Equip students  to read and write critically about and on films

·         Initiate them to the diverse forms and types of cinemas

Learning Outcome

CO1: Closely read films as audio-visual texts to understand the language and grammar of cinema

CO2: Appreciate and analyze films using the concepts

CO3: Recognize and understand the processes of production and reception of films over the years

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

EST641F - REVISITING INDIAN EPICS (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

General Description: This paper will re-visit the two popular Indian epics – the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are not mere literary texts in India; no Indian reader reads them for the first time. As Prof Anantamurthy points out they function as languages and prompt new narratives in literary traditions.

The paper intends to read the critical discussions and creative re-presentations of the epics – The Mahabharata and the Ramayana. The essays will probe the posited meanings in the tellings of the epics. The other two modules will look at the creative interpretations, re-presentations of certain episodes, marginal characters from the epics.

As we read, discuss the re-visited tellings of the epics, we would need a specific telling to refer to. C Rajagopalachari’s telling of the Mahabharata, The Epic and The Ramayana can be considered as a reference point. Pertinent episodes can be read or discussed in class or if time permits the entire narrative can be read/discussed in class.      

 

Objective

  1. To study the two Indian epics and literary works based on them
  2. To understand the process of re-visioning a text
  3. To understand the contexts that prompts the re-visioning of an epic

Learning Outcome

CO1: To study the two Indian epics and literary works based on them

CO2: To understand the process of re-visioning a text

CO3: To understand the contexts that prompts the re-visioning of an epic

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

PSY631 - INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course description: This course has been conceptualized to provide the learners with an overview of I/O Psychology by describing the various individual, group, and organizational processes/behaviour at work. This paper also intends at enhancing the understanding of the learner about the world of work and related concerns. The areas covered in the paper include recruitment, employee selection, training and development, performance appraisal, motivation, leadership, organizational communication, group behaviour, and culture. The paper will provide a scientific basis of human behaviour at work which will build a sound background towards the application of the learning acquired.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Identify the relevance of I/O Psychology at the workplace

CO2: Apply the understanding of theories and research findings in individual and group behaviour at work

CO3: Differentiate the processes involved in human resource planning and development

CO4: Evaluate the role of culture and effectiveness of communication in various organizational processes

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

PSY641A - POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This course introduces undergraduate students a strength-based approach in understanding human behaviour. Each unit is designed with personal mini-experiments which have personal implications. The course brings in an understanding about the basic principles of Positive Psychology. The significance of this course lies in orienting the students in applying these principles for self-regulation and personal goal setting. 

Learning Outcome

CO1: Explain basic assumptions, principles and concepts of positive psychology

CO2: Critically evaluate positive psychology theory and research

CO3: Apply positive psychology principles in a range of environments to increase individual and collective wellbeing

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

PSY641B - MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course description: Media psychology is the application of psychological theory and research to the analysis of media and technology use, development and impact. The idea is that it will spark an interest where the student might want to continue future exploration in both the fields, Media and Psychology. The main purpose of this course is to provide students with an overview of the ways in which the media—primarily electronic media-affect the viewer psychologically. A second purpose is to examine how the science of psychology is presented in the media. An examination will be made of several psychological theories that help to explain media effects. A particular emphasis will be placed upon the following media psychology-related topics: Aggression, advertising, news, portrayals of minorities, emotion, and health behaviours. 

Learning Outcome

CO1: Identify the benefits of applying media psychology

CO2: Evaluate media, media contents, literacy and their psychological implications

CO3: Explain media applications in educational, entertainment, health services, commercial or public policy environments

CO4: Examine the implications of media sources, usage and processes on the cognitive, emotional, motivational, behavioural and social realms

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

PSY641C - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course description: This course has been conceptualized to help the learner understand the complex dynamics that underlie a human-machine interface, critically evaluate the design components and design an effective interface. This course helps introduce students to ways of thinking about how Artificial Intelligence will and has impacted humans, and how we can design interactive intelligent systems that are usable and beneficial to humans, and respect human values. 

Learning Outcome

CO1: Identify problems where artificial intelligence techniques are applicable

CO2: Apply selected basic AI techniques; judge applicability of more advanced techniques.

CO3: Critically evaluate existing interface designs and to improve them

CO4: Design user-centric interfaces keeping in mind cultural, environmental, and individual factors.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

PSY641D - CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course description: This course has been conceptualized in order to enable students to develop an appreciation for the influence consumer behaviour has on various marketing efforts.  Students apply psychological and social concepts to consumer decision making. Topics include the importance of consumer behaviour and research; internal influences such as motivation, personality, self-concept, learning, information processing, and attitude formation and change; external influences such as social class, reference groups and family, and consumer decision making.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Understand the concepts related to consumer behaviour and the factors that influence market segmentation

CO2: Understand the scope and current trends in consumer psychology

CO3: Evaluate the consumer decision-making process and choices using psychological theories and concepts

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

PSY641E - INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

The course is intended to develop a basic understanding among the students about criminal behaviour and to the field of Forensic Psychology.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Outline the basics of forensic psychology, crime and criminal behaviour through case analysis

CO2: Identify the role of a forensic psychologist in crime scene analysis, offender profiling, and eye witness testimony

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

PSY641F - HEALTH AND WELLBEING (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Health is defined as an optimal state of physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual wellbeing.  The same explanation applies to wellbeing. This course is designed for college students to understand the need for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.  We will explore personal health, health-related attitudes and beliefs, individual health behaviours and impact of drugs, alcohol, tobacco; diet, nutrition; infectious diseases, cancer, cardiovascular disease, personal care; exercise, consumer health; and several other topics related to maintaining a healthy lifestyle.  The course focuses on current research and the latest trends in health and wellbeing.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Understand the basic components and models of health and wellbeing

CO2: Explain the role of biological, physical, social, and psychological factors and their interconnectedness on health and wellbeing

CO3: Evaluate policies and interventions to enhance health and wellbeing

CO4: Apply the knowledge to manage and enhance personal health and well-being, and in a wide range of real life issues

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

PSY641G - COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

The course offers an introduction to the concepts and techniques of community psychology practice. The areas covered in this paper span across identifying community needs using community participation techniques and eliciting community participation and cooperation through the application of community-focused models and theories. The paper would lead the learner through the widening scope of community psychology in an Indian context. 

Learning Outcome

By the end of the course the learner will be able:

  1. Understand the relevance and practice of community psychology in different field settings.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge and skills related to community needs identification and working through the felt needs of the community.
  3. Design community based prevention or promotion strategies.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

PSY651 - PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHODS AND ASSESSMENT-II (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:30
No of Lecture Hours/Week:2
Max Marks:100
Credits:2

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course description: This course has been conceptualized in order to capstone experience for psychology undergraduates, in which students identify a research topic, conduct comprehensive literature reviews, and then develop a substantial written small empirical research project. The paper aims to help students collaborate and complete psychological research projects with their peers. The program is designed to enable students to complete a group research project under the supervision of a faculty. They are expected to conduct the research and submit the final research report. The Research report will be in the form of a professional journal article manuscript, though it is not required to submit it to a journal. Students are expected to do a presentation of the research findings as a poster or oral presentation at the undergraduate research conference.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Collect, Organise, analyze, and interpret data as per ethical guidelines

CO2: Write a research project manuscript, appropriate for submission to a professional journal in psychology or a related discipline

CO3: Present their research findings as scientific poster format in a coherent and concise manner.

CO4: Administer psychological scales to a subject, make interpretations and draw conclusions based on the norms given in the manual

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

PSY681 - INTERNSHIP (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:30
No of Lecture Hours/Week:6
Max Marks:50
Credits:2

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Students have to undertake an internship in any of their interested sectors during the semester break at the end of second or fourth-semester. Students will be attached to various agencies where they will be trained and supervised in acquiring skills competencies. They will also be mentored by the supervisor/class teacher at the department. Students have to periodically meet their supervisors and submit a report at the end of their practicum period. The format of the report and the type of cases to be presented will be decided by the Department.

Course Objectives:

To gain hands-on experience in various sub-fields of psychology

•To witness various ethical guidelines in practice

 

•To explore areas of interest in psychology

 

Learning Outcome

CO1: Appreciate and respect the ethical guidelines of organizations with which they work

CO2: Demonstrate skills to work in teams and develop an amicable relationship.

CO3: Effectively conceptualize the concerns demonstrated and apply psychological skills to evaluate the issues observed at the internship site.

CO4: Write reports and reflections based on the experiences and observations at the internship site.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

SOC631 - WOMEN AND SOCIETY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course Description:This paper intends to expose roots and structures of inequality that lead to marginalization, invisibility and exclusion of women. The paper aims to sensitize the students towards the broader social reality, their struggles and aspirations.  Hence this paper introduces the significant contributions on the feminist theories as well as the practice of feminism in India.

Course Objectives:

  • to familiarize students with the dynamics of women and women's studies and key related issues
  • to orient students towards major theoretical perspectives used to study women and society
  • to  help them understand the politics of gender in the real world
  • to critically analyse the deeper implications of the status of women and inequalities in society

Learning Outcome

CO1: Analyse issues related to women and gender in popular, public and interpersonal discourses

CO2: Explain theories and research application to women?s studies.

CO3: Examine feminism and its relevance especially from women?s perspective

CO4: Critique and analyze issues of social justice, empowerment and marginalization

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

SOC641A - STUDY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course Description: This paper tries to interpret social movements as an instrument of social transformation and at times as the product of social transformations. The paper would provide an elaborate account of different theoretical explanations on social movements. The paper then examines three prominent movements in India i.e. the dalit movement, Naxalite movements and environmental movements by examining the socio political and historical context of their emergence and the transformation that resulted.


Course Objective :

  • This course aims to inculcate students with sociological perspectives to study social movements. It provides an overview of conceptual and theoretical issues in the study of social movements.
  • This course also illustrates certain significant social movements in India, stretching from pre-colonial to contemporary period

Learning Outcome

CO1: Articulate the contexts in which social movements emerge.

CO2: Evaluate scholarly works on social movements in local and global contexts.

CO3: Demonstrate a socially sensitive approach in evaluating social movements and their relevance in policy making.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

SOC641C - SOCIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course Description: This paper tries to introduce students to problems of inequality in wealth and welfare from a global, comparative, and historical perspective. It also introduces the major perspectives to and issues in development. Specific issues would be taken to make the discussions context specific.

 

Course Objective:

        To acquire basic knowledge and understanding of the concepts of inequality, poverty and development

        To understand the various perspectives on development

        To engage in the emerging debates and issues related to development and change in society.

Learning Outcome

CO1: Explain the basic concepts related to development

CO2: Explain basic concepts related to poverty.

CO3: Discuss the emerging debates & issues around development using theoretical perspectives.

CO4: Discuss the processes of planned development in India.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

SOC641D - MEDIA AND SOCIETY (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

Course Description:

 The course is an attempt to introduce the dynamics of the interrelationship between media and society. The various cultural and ideological influences that operate on media and its dynamic role in producing social realities is introduced to the students. While a foundational understanding of media from a sociological perspective is the main intention, the course undertakes specific discussions of media with regard to its historical trajectories in the Indian context, its agency in initiating social change during and after colonialism and so on. Students are also introduced to the changing forms of media and the changing political economy and cultural role of media in the postmodern age.

 Course Objctives:

1. To inculcate a foundational understanding of media from a sociological perspective To have a foundational understanding of the problems confronted by educational systems in the Indian context.

2. To have a specific understanding of media in the Indian context.

3. To have a basic insight about the changing dynamics between media and society in the 21st century.

Learning Outcome

CO1: To discuss and critique different perspectives that help us understand media and its impact on Society

CO2: To critically analyse and review perspectives available about media

CO3: To reflect upon the changing forms of media and its influence

CO4: To inculcate the spirit of research to apply sociological imagination with respect to media

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks

SOC641E - CULTURAL AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION OF CONTEMPORARY KOREA (2021 Batch)
Total Teaching Hours for Semester:60
No of Lecture Hours/Week:4
Max Marks:100
Credits:4

Course Objectives/Course Description

 

This course explores the cultural, economic, political, and social changes of contemporary Korean society since 1945 from comparative, historical, and sociological perspectives. The course is divided into three parts. The first part of the course examines the relationships between state and society, democratization movement, growth of nongovernmental organizations, anti-Americanism, developmental state, chaebol groups, and labor movement. The second part focuses on an analysis of the demographic transition to extremely low fertility, aging, marriage, family, and multiculturalism. The third part takes a critical look at the current conditions of education system, folk beliefs, religious behaviors, Protestant churches, popular culture, and subcultural neighborhoods in Seoul. The primary aim of the course is to make students familiar with the historical paths that were evolved into the contemporary Korean society and to formulate critical, balanced, and comparative perspectives on the current issues of Korea.

The primary aim of the course is to make students familiar with the historical paths that were evolved into the contemporary Korean society and to formulate critical, balanced, and comparative perspectives on the current issues of Korea.

Learning Outcome

CO1: To acquire detailed knowledge and understanding of the history of Korea;

CO2: To be able to apply the major sociological theories and research methods in the analysis of cultural, demographic, economic, political, and social transformation of contemporary Korea;

CO3: To develop sensitivity to class, gender, generational, and regional inequality in Korea.

Text Books And Reference Books:
Essential Reading / Recommended Reading
Evaluation Pattern

·         Continuous Internal Assessment or CIA constitutes a total of 50 marks. The distribution is as follows:

§  CIA I is a 20 marks assignment and involves the adoption of any one or two of the following methods: written Assignment, Book/Article review, group presentations, symposium, group task, Individual seminars, Quiz, and class test.

§  CIA II is the 2 hour long 50 mark Mid semester Examination (50 marks reduced to 25 mark weightage) conducted during August/January 

The pattern for the exam is as follows:

Section A: Attempt any 3 questions out of the 5/6 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

Section C: This section has 1 compulsory question that carries 15 marks

§  CIA III carries 20 marks and is based on an assignment that is set for the course. 

§  Attendance - Attendance carries 5 marks 

·  End Semester Examination (ESE) is conducted at the end of the semester. This is a 3 hour long exam for a weightage of 50 marks

                      The pattern for the exam is given below:

Section A: Attempt any 6 questions out of the 9 options given. Each question carries 5 marks

Section B: Attempt any 4 questions out of the 6 options given. Each question carries 10 marks

 

Section C: Attempt any 2 questions out of the 3 options given. Each question carries 15 marks