Subsections
[Cr:2, Lc:2, Tt:0, Lb:0]
- This course is designed to be an introductory program in reading,
writing, listening and speaking for undergraduate students. It aims at
improving the communication and comprehension skills of students who
come from a vernacular background or who are not well-versed in
science communication in English.
- Reading Module: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Novel), The
Flies by Jean Paul Sartre (Drama) Selected Poems by John Keats.
- Writing Module: Fundamentals of Grammar, Semantics, Syntax, Basics of
Public Communication.
- Speaking Module: Basics of Phonetics and Phonology. Some exercises
based on the above-topics. Activities such as Debate, Elocution and
Group Discussions, to help students to hone speech proficiency.
- Cinematic Appreciation: A module on movies as texts, which aims at
improving reading, writing and speaking skills.
- A documentary on the Holocaust, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, 9/11 or any such
event that interrogates basic ideas about humans, humans as social
beings, human behavior and human nature.
- A movie based on a fine sensory experience (such as Mohsen
Makhmalbaf's The Silence) where students can be sensitized toward
their own senses and which should ideally make them enjoy more of
aesthetics in their lives.
- A movie based on a biography of a genius whose life and achievements
are and achievements are important and relevant to other people.
- A movie based on India, its issues, its past or its wonderful
paradoxes.
- A. Roy, The God of small things, Random House (2008).
- J-P. Sartre, No Exit and three other plays, Vintage (1989).
- J. Keats, Selected poems, Penguin Classics (2007).
