Course Objectives:
1. Evaluating the project tasks in terms of content, creativity, and designing.
2. Assessing the tasks through file preparations, quizzes, and group projects.
3. Organizing dialogue session with peer group on common themes through individual presentations and group discussions.
4. Create understanding of the non-verbal forms of communication and involving students in adapting the techniques of personality development.
Course Outcomes (COs):
Learning outcomes (at course level) |
Learning and teaching strategies |
Assessment Strategies |
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CO 254: Evaluating the project tasks in terms of content, creativity, and designing. CO 255: Assessing the tasks through file preparations, quizzes, and group projects. CO 256: Organizing dialogue session with peer group on common themes through individual presentations and group discussions. CO 257: Create understanding of the non-verbal forms of communication. CO 258: Involving students in adapting the techniques of personality development. |
Approach in teaching: Interactive Hours, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration
Learning activities for the students: Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Group tasks
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Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects |
Self-Analysis and Personal Grooming
Internal external motivation, Visual image, Grooming, business formals, business casuals, accessories, Indian women executives, Mental Models (Inversion, Entropy), SWOT Analysis and Johari Window.
Listening, Verbal and Non-verbal communication skills, Public Speaking
Asking the right questions, Voice modulations, listening habits, Building reading habit (Fiction and Non-Fiction). Extempore, Debate, JAM sessions.
Written communication, Assertiveness.
Formal letter writing, e-mail writing, Netiquette, using e-mail elements, How and when to say No
Group Discussion
Body language, Skills required, Importance, Types, Process of GD, Evaluation Criteria, Preparing for GD, Do’s and Don’ts of GD, FAQs.
Mock GD
Personal Interview
Answering the most common Interview questions, Body Language, Document filing, Be the autobiographer, Grooming, Mirroring, FAQs.
Mock PI
Seminar and Industry Expert session
Question answer and experience sharing session
1. David Riklan (2003), Self-Improvement the Top 101 Experts Who Help Us Improve Our Lives.
2. Bruce Patton, Douglas Stone, and Sheila Heen, Difficult Conversations
3. Dr. K. Alex (2009), Soft skills know yourself and know the world, Sultan Chand & Sons.
4. Kelly McGonigal (2011), The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It.
5. Mahadevan Ramesh and Gopalaswamy Ramesh (2010), The ACE of Soft Skills: Attitude, Communication and Etiquette for Success, Pearson publishers.