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Course Name Life Skills II
Course Code 23LSK211
Program Agriculture Sciences
Semester 5
Credits 2
Campus Coimbatore

Syllabus

Soft Skills

Professional Grooming and Practices: Basics of corporate culture, key pillars of business etiquette – online and offline: socially acceptable ways of behavior, body language, personal hygiene, professional attire and cultural adaptability and managing diversity. Handling pressure, multi-tasking. Being enterprising. Adapting to corporate life: Emotional Management &#40 EQ&#41, Adversity Management, Health consciousness. People skills, Critical Thinking and Problem solving.

Group Discussions: Advantages of group discussions, Types of group discussion and Roles played in a group discussion. Personality traits evaluated in a group discussion. Initiation techniques and maintaining the flow of the discussion, how to perform well in a group discussion. Summarization/conclusion.

Aptitude

Logarithms, Inequalities and Modulus: Basics

Sequence and Series: Basics, AP, GP, HP, and Special Series.

Time and Work: Basics, Pipes & Cistern, and Work Equivalence.

Time, Speed and Distance: Basics, Average Speed, Relative Speed, Boats & Streams, Races and Circular tracks.

Logical Reasoning II: Arrangements, Sequencing, Scheduling, Venn Diagram, Network Diagrams, Binary Logic, and Logical Connectives, Clocks, Calendars, Cubes, Non-Verbal reasoning and Symbol based reasoning.

Verbal Skills

Vocabulary: Help students understand the usage of words in different contexts.

Grammar &#40 Medium Level&#41: Train Students to comprehend the nuances of Grammar and empower them to spot errors in sentences and correct them.

Reading Comprehension &#40 Basics &#41: Introduce students to smart reading techniques and help them understand different tones in comprehension passages.

Reasoning: Enable students to connect words, phrases and sentences logically.

Oral Communication Skills: Aid students in using the gift of the gab to interpret images, do a video synthesis, try a song interpretation or elaborate on a literary quote.

Objectives and Outcomes

Pre-requisite: Willingness to learn, communication skills, basic English language skills, knowledge of high school level mathematics.

 Course Objective: To help students understand the corporate culture and assist them in improving their group discussion skills, communication skills, listening skills and problem- solving skills. 

Course Outcomes

CO1: Soft Skills – To improve the inter-personal skills, professional etiquette and leadership skills, vital for arriving at win-win situations in Group Discussions and other team activities.

CO2: Soft Skills – To develop the ability to create better impact in a Group Discussions through examination, participation, perspective-sharing, ideation, listening, brainstorming and consensus.

CO3: Aptitude – To interpret, critically analyze and solve questions in arithmetic and algebra by employing the most suitable methods.

CO4: Aptitude – To analyze, understand and apply suitable methods to solve questions on logical reasoning.

CO5: Verbal – To be able to use vocabulary in the right context and to be competent in spotting grammatical errors and correcting them.

CO6: Verbal – To be able to logically connect words, phrases, sentences and thereby communicate their perspectives/ideas convincingly.

Skills: Communication, etiquette and grooming, inter-personal skills, listening skills, convincing skills, problem-solving skill.

 

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Evaluation Pattern

Assessment

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External

Continuous Assessment &#40 CA&#41* – Soft Skills

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Continuous Assessment &#40 CA&#41* – Aptitude

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Continuous Assessment &#40 CA&#41* – Verbal

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*CA – Can be presentations, speaking activities and tests.

 

Text Books / References

  1. J., &#40 1.986&#41, “Effective Team Building: How to make a winning team”, London, U.K: Pan Books.
  2. S., &#40 2006&#41 “Corporate Soft Skills”, New Delhi, India: Rupa & Co.
  3. The Hard Truth about Soft Skills, by Amazone
  4. Verbal Skills Activity Book, CIR, AVVP
  5. Nova’s GRE Prep Course, Jeff Kolby, Scott Thornburg & Kathleen Pierce
  6. The BBC and British Council online resources
  7. Owl Purdue University online teaching resources
  8. thegrammarbook.com online teaching resources
  9. englishpage.com online teaching resources and other useful websites
  10. Student Workbook: Quantitative Aptitude & Reasoning, Corporate & Industry Relations, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
  11. Quantitative Aptitude for All Competitive Examinations, Abhijit
  12. How to Prepare for Quantitative Aptitude for the CAT, Arun
  13. How to Prepare for Data Interpretation for the CAT, Arun
  14. How to Prepare for Logical Reasoning for the CAT, Arun
  15. Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations, R S
  16. A Modern Approach to Logical Reasoning, R S
  17. A Modern Approach to Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning, R S

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