Available courses

Acquire an understanding of the social determinants of health, illness, medicine and health seeking behaviour.

Acquire awareness of significant health policies and models at state, national and international levels

The "Herb at Home to Heal" online course is a comprehensive and engaging program designed to spread awareness about the incredible healing properties of medicinal plants. This course aims to empower participants with the knowledge and skills needed to incorporate herbal remedies into their daily lives, promoting natural healing and overall well-being.

Course Objectives:

1. Introduce Medicinal Plants: Students will be introduced to a diverse range of medicinal plants, exploring their origins, properties, and traditional uses in various cultures.

2. Understanding Herbal Medicine: Participants will gain an understanding of the principles and practices of herbal medicine, including how to identify, harvest, and process medicinal plants.

3. Common Ailments and Herbal Remedies: The course will cover a wide array of common health issues and the corresponding herbal remedies that can be used to address them effectively.

4.Creating Herbal Products: Students will learn how to create a variety of herbal products, such as teas, tinctures, salves, and essential oils, to harness the healing potential of medicinal plants.

5. Herbal Gardening: The course will provide insights into setting up and maintaining an herb garden at home, ensuring a steady supply of fresh and potent herbs for personal use.

6. Safety and Precautions: Safety is a priority when working with medicinal plants. Participants will learn about potential interactions, contraindications, and dosage guidelines to ensure responsible herbal usage.

7. Integrating Herbs into Daily Life: Students will discover ways to incorporate herbal remedies into their daily routines, promoting preventive health and a holistic lifestyle.


This course focuses on the relationship between brain and Behaviour and neurons and Behaviour.


Research methodology discusses and explains the data collection and analysis methods you used in your research.

Abstract Algebra helps students to demonstrate insight into abstract algebra with focus on axiomatic theories. Apply algebraic ways of thinking. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of fundamental concepts including groups, subgroups, normal subgroups, homomorphisms and isomorphism. Explain knowledge and understanding of rings, fields and their properties. Interpret fundamental results and solve algebraic problems using appropriate techniques

Module 1 consist of the separation axioms and compactness properties. In module 2, we study the product topology and related concepts. In module 3, the course has Urysohn’s metrization theorem . In module 4, the course analyze convergence of nets and homotopy of paths.

Module 3 comprises of congruences and related concepts. In module 4, we study the characteristics of primitive roots, definition of partition function and discuss the properties of the same.

To encourage students to do research, investigate how and why things happen, and make their own decisions about complex environmental issues by developing and enhancing critical and creative thinking skills. It helps to foster a new generation of informed consumers, workers, as well as policy or decision makers. 

Testing of Hypothesis plays a vital role in applied statistics. This paper purposefully implemented to this course to make the student understand the concepts of testing of hypothesis and to develop appropriate tests for testing certain Statistical hypotheses.

To impart basic knowledge and skills to the students in applied Multivariate Analysis and their applications in Statistics and also bring the confidence to handle real problems on the spot.

By the end of the course the students will be able to conduct experiment by using appropriate design, to test related hypotheses and estimate the parameters and to compare different designs and will be capable to use the Analysis Covariance technique for data analysis

Time series analysis is one of the important and relevant topic in the field of data mining and analysis. By the end of this course the student will be able to analyze time series data and identify and interpret various types of behavior of the time series.

To make students to know about the various prints and their terminologies and to help the students develop their own designs.

Part of fifth semester curriculum

Understanding World History paper enables the students to get a clear picture of the Ancient world, Transition into middle ages, Age of Revolutions, European Politics and Transition to Contemporary World.

The importance of environmental science and environmental studies

The course provide an eye for appreciation of art 

Course Outcome

CO1: Identify the skills necessary in every aspect of catering management, where a dietician is directly involved

CO2: Measure the amount of knowledge on software programming

CO3: Review administrative aspects of hospital management

CO4: Describe efficient management of hospital, being a part of medical team.


It will help the students to understand the importance of nutrition and about various nutrients and its sources and defiency disorders. It will help tp prepare a menu plan and various therapeutic diets.

Will include the basics of biochemistry 

This course help students to acquire knowledge about the  procedures and patient care that is given in the hospitals.

The course seeks to introduce students to the major concepts of environmentalism, conservation, intellectual property rights and human rights.

This course aims to acquaint the students with the objectives and components of taxonomy. It explains the systems of classification of angiosperms especially Bentham and Hooker’s system of classification. It also helps students to identify the common angiosperm species of Kerala and learn herbarium techniques.

 


This course finds, identifies and describes various methodologies of scientific research and statistics. The context is to study of stages of researches to solve a biological problem and also to study various tools and techniques for research and data analysis. It also equip the students to conduct independent research and prepare research reports.


Ecology is the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.

To understand some basic concepts of research and its methodologies 

To identify appropriate research topics 

Select and define appropriate research problem and parameters 

Prepare a project proposal (to undertake a project) 

Organize and conduct research (advanced project) in a more appropriate manner 

Teresian Karshakasree Challenge is a non credit course organized by the Bhoomitra Sena Club of St Teresa's College to encourage the students do organic farming. The Challenge is conducted in collaboration with the Haritha Keralam Mission of the Government of KeralaTeresian Karshakasree Challenge for II DC Students will kick off from July 2021. There are prizes for best-performing students as well as departments.

The Teresian Karshakasree Challenge is an attempt to engage youngsters in the task of restoring and enriching our degraded ecosystems – both rural and urban – by focusing on organic homestead cultivation. This course on Moodle provides various resources which will help young student farmers.

                         Think Green-Think Sustainable Agriculture! Together we can!!

                             


Practice Organic Farming




This course describes the significance of microbes in food, industries, agriculture and environment . It also describes the structure, reproduction and life cycle of bacteria and viruses. 

This course   examines the core concepts in plant water relations , absorption of minerals, photo synthesis, respiration, nitrogen metabolism, stress physiology  sensory photobiology and plant growth regulators .  It goes on to  explore    the structure and metabolism involving   carbohydrates ,  proteins, enzymes , lipids , nucleotide  and secondary metabolites. The context is to introduce the learner from fundamentals of biochemical processes related to plant life to recent advances in related areas.


The course introduces the students to value based learning experiences. 

Our values are important because they help us to grow and develop. They help us to create the future we want to experience.Value education is the process by which people give moral values to each other. Explicit values education is associated with those different pedagogies, methods or programmes that teachers or educators use in order to create learning experiences for students when it comes to value questions.

Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations

Individual project.

The project topic shall be chosen from areas of current day interest using latest packages / 

languages running on appropriate platforms, so that the student can be trained to meet the 

requirements of the Industry. A project report should be submitted in hard bound complete in all 

aspects. For internal evaluation, the progress of the student shall be systematically assessed 

through various stages of evaluation at periodic intervals.

UNDERSTANDING THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK IN SOCIOLOGY

COURSE OUTCOME:

  • Identify various types of multivariate statistics.
  • Apply multivariate techniques to data.
  • Analyse, interpret and report the results from the analysis.
  • Design and analyse the data using multiple regression, multiple discriminant analysis and predict the results.


OB plays a pivotal role in the success and failure of an organisation. It shows the manner in which a particular organisation beahve and treat each other as team members. The study of OB focuses on the basics of employee behaviour in organisations. It also analyses the managerial skills which are applied to evaluate an individual and group's behaviour.

Open Access Resources 

  • Open Access refers to resources that are freely available for viewing and/or use. Open Access is not the same as Public Domain, and most Open Access creators do retain their copyrights.
  • Open Access is part of a continuum ranging from completely closed, subscription/purchase only access to completely open, no barrier publishing. Open Access is not related to the quality of materials or the peer-review/non-peer-review status of the publications.

Basis of Library Services 

E-Resources 

Reference Management Tools

Genetics deals with the transfer of biological information from parent to off spring and thus from generation to generation. It also deals with the physical and chemical nature  of the information itself. Although genetics is a modern science it has grown very rapidly in the recent years and its branches now extends to all fields of biology. 

This course intends to help students understand the concepts from the very basic level to the most recent advancements in the field by uploading subject relevant videos, research articles, power points presentations and animations. The students will also get benefited from this course as a significant portion of this course is a part of  JRF-NET examination syllabus in life sciences.

The course gives an insight into the evolution of the English language, tracing its development right from its roots. We do a detail study on the Old English period, Middle English and Modern English period, not to be confused with the periods of English Literature. The study divulges in detail to the various influences on the English language that finally resulted in the modern English we use now. The Course also briefly touches on the various periods of literature and significant literary productions of the period too.

Gives an overview on how to make business and commerce better through proper management of finance. It covers areas of long term financing decisions and also the mechanics of computing cost of capital.

An introduction to Advanced Child Development
The particular topic chosen is Executive Function: An Overview
Components of Executive Function:
•Self Regulation
•Inhibition
•Working Memory
•Cognitive Flexibility
•Goal Selection
•Planning and Organisation

The course (BRM) intends to give students insights into different forms of research and their relevance and application so that they know how to constantly design and execute intelligent and innovative research studies that unearth underlying market research problems.


A brief introduction to the topic vector spaces 

Indian Economy  EC4B06B18 BA S4 (2018 Admission)

Aromatic Compounds
Aromatic compounds, also known as arenes or aromatics, are chemical compounds that contain conjugated planar ring systems with delocalized pi electron clouds instead of discrete alternating single and double bonds. Typical aromatic compounds are benzene and toluene. They should satisfy Hückel's rule.
The Huckel aromaticity rules are:
  • Molecule is cyclic.
  • Have one p orbial per atom of the ring.
  • Be planar, in an sp2 hybridized orbital, over every atom of the ring.
  • Have a closed loop of 4n+2 pi-bond electrons, where n is equal to any integer (0,1,2,3,…)


The course enables the students to evaluate the cultural aspects in a social setting. It gives a brief outline about the theoretical perspectives in sociology and also helps the students to understand various cultural process in society

Aim of the Course:
This course facilitate the basic knowledge about social science research in an objective and analytical way and to solve various socio-economic issues using quantitative and qualitative techniques. 



Here we are introducing the Indian classical Dance forms of North India and Pre- forms of North indian Classical Dance forms. We are also discussing the Ritual Practices and folk forms of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. As a last part we are giving a detailed Study of the Characteristics of Nayika and Nayika Bheda and its Subdivisions.

This course seeks to introduce students to the science of linguistics and give them an overview of the basic concepts of linguistics and linguistic analysis

This course provides an analysis of the major civilizations of the ancient world and their contribution towards human progress.

Nanomaterials are cornerstones of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Nanostructure science and technology is a broad and interdisciplinary area of research and development activity that has been growing explosively worldwide in the past few years. It has the potential for revolutionizing the ways in which materials and products are created and the range and nature of functionalities that can be accessed. It is already having a significant commercial impact, which will assuredly increase in the future.

This module deals with the synthesis, properties and application of different types of nanomaterials

To introduce topics like leadership, motivation, power, conflict etc in organizations and to learn strategies to managing organizations more effectively

Course comprises with DBMS,DW,DM,BI concepts

To understand cognitive processes and understand its application. 

This course provides a solid foundation for object-oriented programming using the c++ programming language.The major emphasis of this course is on the most effective use of the advanced language features,fundamental design of object-oriented design and programming are also introduced.

Detail study on the science of language, its elements, its evolution, speech mechanisms,  and various schools of grammar that contributed to the growth and development of language.

The aim of this course is to give learners an understanding of the concepts and issues related to databases and database design as well as the practical skills to translate that understanding into the design and creation of complex databases.


An introduction to the world of colours, its significance in the world of textiles, fashion design and Interior design and Furnishings.Understanding the personality of each colour, colour theories, colour  charachteristics.

The course equip the students doing Post Graduate degree in Resource Management and Interior Designing in elements and principles of designing, space management, etc

There are two types of probability distributions- discrete probability distributions and continuous distributions.

Community Health is a very important aspect for making the people's health better. As a Community Health Nurse, you should know the factors, that contributes to community health and different health care delivery services that is available in India. Through this course, you will obtain the basics of it.

Objectives:

1) To learn about the basic nursing practice in hospitals and patients.

2) To learn about the recording of vital signs

3) To learn the routine care and comfort given to the patients in hospitals and home.

4) To adopt the correct method of first aid management.

Course Outcome 
  • Discuss the general structure and function of various organ and organ system 
  • Analyse the basic organ system mechanisms of the body

This course will help the learner to get in-depth knowledge about the basic nursing practice skills that is needed in the provision of patient care in hospitals.

This is the first basics Bharathanatyam practical .Basic steps in 3 kaalsm{speed}.This paper includes Basic exercises and stretches for body,neck,eyes and head,

Rasa is about human state of mind .Its about what the mind feels and the expression of the feeling thereafter.

Javali is one among the Bharathanatyam recital. It give more importance in Abhinaya. It is almost set into Madhyama Kalam.

Thillana is one among the Bharathanatyam recital. It is designed by korvais and a small part of Sahityam. Korvais are set with adavus.

Slokam is performed as an innvocatory piece or the concluded piece in a Bharathanatyam Recital. Slokam is designed with hastas and abhinaya with less footwroks. Jatiswaram isa nritta sequence designed with korvais and adavus. Jatiswaram is designed with mei adavu and korvais.

This paper deals with the folk and ritual art form of  India. In this paper there are  folk forms of South, East, North and west. Also about the formations, costumes and the musical aspects of the folk dances.

Padam is a recital form of Bharathanatyam repertoire.This is giving more important to abhinaya.and its nayikapradhana form of dance.

Javali is one among the Bharathanatyam Repertoire. Javali is designed in madhyama Kalam. Javali have equal importance in Abhnaya and footworks. Javali is designed mostlt in colloquial language.

Detailed study of North and south Indian classical and folk dance forms and its pre - forms. Study of the characteristics of Nayika Nayaka and its sub divisions in dance. 

Slokam is a piece in Bharathanatyam recital which almost done for the praising of deity. Slokam have less footworks. Alarippu is the innovactory piece in Bharathanatyam Recital.  Alarippu is a nritta sequence in Bharathanatyam recital.

Padam is one among the piece in Bharathanatyam Recital. it give more imporatance to abhinaya than the footwork. The padam is a piece in which the hero or herione explore the emotions which develops a particular theme through Abhinsys.

The course is designed to acquire knowledge about the aesthetics of Bharathanatyam. This Course deals with the aestheticians who had done a lot of contributionin the field of dance. It also deals with the rasa and its components like vibhava, sanchari bhava, sthayi bhava and vyabhichari Bhava.

This is the practical paper contains the full format of Bharathanatyam katcheri .

This course is designed to acquire knowledge in the last session of Bharathanatyam recital.

This course is to acquire knowledge of different forms of padams and compositions.

This is the course to perceive knowledge in different forms of dance also concentrating on folk forms of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Basic adavus of Bharathanatyam consist of 14 basic adavus or steps that should be learnt by a primary student of dance. mostly these adavus are set in a sollukettu. And also these adavus are set into Adi talam and rupaka Talam. Also these adavus done in different jaatis and gatis. 

Learning of all basics related to the course Bharathnatyam

This theory paper is  about the introduction of the basics of Bharathanatyam and Carnatic Music. And deals with the pre-form of south indian classical dance forms.It also discuss the first chapter of Natyasasthram and the text AbhinayaDarpanam. 


Mohiniyattam is a uniquely graceful classical dance form which has its origins in Kerala. Mohiniyattam is synonymous with "lasya" or grace and the movements of the dancer remain rooted in this stance. "Adavus" are the basic steps which form the nritta element of any dance form. The "adavus" of Mohiniyattam are a combination of chuvadu or footwork, mudras or hand gestures and charis, movement of the body as a whole and manadalas which are postures.

Adavus are the basic dance steps in Bharathanatyam. The technique of any classical dance rests on the sturdy base of the adavus. An Adavu is defined as "The basic rhythmic unit of dance within a specific tempo and time structure that involves composite movements pertaining to Nritta". The Adavu system is a sound and logical ground upon which the pedagogy of  Indian Dance is based are classified into  14 groups in Bharathanatyam.

Sabdam is the third item in a reptoire .in this item abhinaya is learnt by a dancer for the very first time Nritta and Nrithya comes one after the other here.

It  talks briefly about the relationship between the Bharathanatyam and Environment. It consist about the importance and features of ritual arts. Also it describe the human rights in detail.

Swarajathi is a dance piece of Bharathanatyam Recital. It is a variety composition which almost have the structure of Varnam. The addition of Mukthayi Jathi and charanam Jathi make the swarajathi different from Varnam.

Ashtapadi is an abhinaya sequence in the bharathanatyam recital. It deals with the love story of Krishna and Radha. Ashtapadi is a Sanskrit hymn which is composed by the poet Jayadeva.

Jathiswaram is the second item in a mohiniyattam recital. This item give importance to adavus. This jathiswaram is set to Chenjurutti raga and adhi thala.

Second item in a mohiniyattam recital.An item item which give importance to adavus of mohiniyattam.This item is set to chenjurutti raga and aadhi thala.

Varnam is the third item in mohiniyattam recital.This item gives importance to both abhinaya and adavu. A dancer can exhibit her skills in both abhinaya and adavu.The varnam is structured as pallavi anupallavi, chitta swaram,  chittaswara sahithyam, charanam and its sahithya.

Alarippu is the first recital item in Bharathanatyam.Shabdam is the starting abhinaya piece of Bharathanatyam recital.

An earliest epic  written by Ilango Adigal in Tamil which is a tragic love story of an ordinary couple Kannaki and her husband Kovalan.

Padam is a dance form based on abhinaya ,which brings out the relationship of naayaka -naayaki (hero and heroine) as

well as thozhi or friiend,explainig the joy,sorrow and other feelings of love.

Sabdam is the piece in a 'margam' where a dancer gives a lyrical expresssion for the first time.The movements in these bharathnatyam compositions maybe either leisurely or vigorous.Sabdam is mostly seeen in praise of gods .

Tillana is a rythmic piece which is performed towards the end of a dance recital. A tillana uses tala like phrases in the pallavi ,anupallavi and lyrics in the charanam portion .Here the tillana is based on raaga Dhanaashree  and tala adi ,and is famous Swathi Tirunal Krithi.

Padam is a piece of love poetry in indian literature used as a Abhinaya piece in bharathnatyam concert. Padam has  pallavi ,anupallavi and charanam , with few sangatis to bring out the swaroopam of the raaga.

Thillana or is a rhythmic piece in Carnatic music that is generally performed at the end of a concert and widely used in classical indian dance performances

Swarajati is a form in Carnatic music, which is helpful before learning a varnam. It has pallavi, sometimes an anupallavi, and at least one charanam

The essential aspect of Bharatnatyam lies in the coordination between the Nattuvanar and Bharatanatyam dancer. It plays the most important role in Bharatnatyam

The topic Bharathanatyam literature discuss about the Music composers who all enrich the art form Bharathanatyam. A detailed study on the Biographies of Music composers of the art form Bharathanatyam. This section also goes through the variety of literature that are used to compose dance pieces in Bharathanatyam. The section make the student to understand the revival of Bharathanatyam from the art form Sadir.

Bharatnatyam can be considered as the successor of the ancient Tamil dance style known as Koothu. ... The term Devadasi Attam is believed to have evolved from Thevar Adichi –Attam, meaning the dance of the dasis of Devas or Lords. It was during the Mahratta rule that the Devadasi Attam came to be known as Sadir or nautch.

A Tillana or thillana is a rhythmic piece in Carnatic music that is generally performed at the end of a concert and widely used in classical indian dance performances. A Tillana uses tala-like phrases in the pallavi and anupallavi, and lyrics in the charanam. Some have theorized that it is based on the Hindustani tarana.

Jatiswaram is a nritta sequence in the Bharathanatyam recital. Jatiswaram is a dance piece, which is designed by the combination of Jathis and Swaras. Jathiswaram doesn't have a Abhinaya Sequence. The dance piece doesn't have Sahiya Sequence.

Ashtapadis or Ashtapadi refers to the Sanskrit hymns of the Gita Govinda, composed by Jayadeva in the 12th Century. The ashtapadis, which describe the beauty of Lord Krishna and the love between Krishna and the gopis, are considered a masterpiece in esoteric spirituality and the theme of 'Divine romance'. The literal meaning of ashtapathi, 'eight-steps', refers to the fact that each hymn is made of eight couplets (eight sets of two lines). It is also the source of the word ashtāpada, an Indian board game, the forerunner of chess. Although the original tunes of the ashtapadis were lost in history, they remain popular and are widely sung in a variety of tunes, and used in classical dance performances, across India


Javali is an abhinaya sequence of Bharathanatyam recital. This is a dance piece mostly done in fast tempo. Javali will be portraying a character in it. Nritta part will be less in Javali than the abhinaya sequences. 

Basic practical knowledge for beginners.Including mudras and any two dance piece of Bharathanatyam recital.

Thillana is consider as the closing piece of a Bharathanatyam Recital. The thillana consists of Korvais and Sahithya. As a dance piece it mostly consists of Nritta sequence. At the end it will be concluding by praising a deity. The Korvais in thillana are mostly designed by five different Jathis. The Korvais will be concluded with a theerumanam.

The course gives an introduction to the Origin of Drama, Poorvaragavidhi, Thandavalakshana and Rasavikalpa.

The course introduces the students to short stories and poems

Students will learn about the history of films, different genres as well as the language of films

The course introduces the students to the broadcast media of mass communication for effective exchange of ideas and information.

Delineate the principles and concepts of newspaper management. Explore the process involved in media production. Trace the evolution of printing in India and Kerala.

Introduce advertising and trace its evolution in the US and India. Display specialised knowledge of the structure of advertisements/ TV commercials and to understand the production process of ads in different media. Examine and interpret the structure and functions of an advertising agency.

Evolution of Literary Movements

  1. On completion of the course, the student should be able to discern the following:

    The distinction between mere appreciation of films and sustained ideological film analysis.

  2. The questions raised by Cultural Studies and Feminism(s) in their encounter with films.

  3. The issues raised by cinematic adaptations of literature.






The course helps the students understand the meaning of communication, the importance of it and the various types and forms of communication.

The course provides the students an overview of the meaning and importance of business communication and the various forms of types of it in an organisation.

To help students to understand the knowledge, skills and aptitude required to effectively manage an office environment. 

An anthology of Short stories ,Speeches ,Essays and Poems.

This paper deals with history of French Revolution .The literary movements all around the world such as Romanticism ,Feminism ,Dalit movement   and its influence on English literature is discussed.

Acquiring skills and the ability to communicate effectively within the tourism industry where English language skills are essential for success.  Developing verbal and written structural frameworks for real life interactions. Imbibing the specialized language skills required in the tourism and hospitality fields. Acquiring the necessary vocabulary, writing skills and communication practices when dealing with clients or colleagues. Contrasting types and characteristics of mass media. 

Life Writings, Essays, Speeches, Short Stories and Poems

The course offers knowledge on the various nuances of English to which detailed attention can be given so that clarity and effective communication is achieved. 

The course offers knowledge on the various nuances of the spoken and written English language to which detailed attention can be given so that clarity and effective communication is achieved. 

The course offers knowledge on the various nuances of the spoken and written English language to which detailed attention can be given so that clarity and effective communication is achieved.

The course aims at fine tuning the English Language. It improves reading ,writing ,speaking and listening of the students.

The course aims at reading through an array of poems  and short stories. 

The course aims at Fine Tuning the English Language .It improves the reading Writing , Reading,Speaking and Listening Skills of the Students. 

The course aims at fine tuning the English language in terms of reading, writing, listening and speaking.

The course aims at fine tuning the English language in terms of reading, writing, listening and speaking.

The course offers an a wide range of poems and short stories.

The course introduces students to the various aspects of the English language such as vocabulary, tenses, syntax etc. 

Common Course for I UG

The course seeks to provide students with the basics of English language with the intention of improving their communication skills.

Common course for first year students.

The course aims at fine tuning the English Language. It improves reading, writing listening and speaking skills of the students.

This course provides the students an overview of the purpose and functioning of TV

It will provide students with a working knowledge of professional journalism in newspaper and magazine reporting, writing, editing and layout

This course intends to introduce students to the basics of conversation and its analysis and usage in everyday communication.

This course helps the students to speak English with a high degree of confidence, accuracy and fluency. 

This course will replace the gulping down of literature with a revisiting process. This course mainly deals with poems.

This course will help to replace the gulping down of literature with a revisiting process. This course page mainly deals with the poem.

To Further enhance attitude towards communication through the English language. To enable students to have analytical, critical and communicative minds. To make students understand the formalities and nuances of written and oral format. 

A discussion on the methods and manners that are prevalent are are being found to express meaning by way of literature. Of the many ways, the modes used by fiction will be discussed in detail with the help of an array of instances of differences in such modes.

A course on performance texts that discusses the idea of the dramatisation of literary texts. Included are performance texts of a few renowned dramatists that reflects the social psyche prevalent in their times. Classroom discussions entail conversations on this very psyche.

The course is mandatory for first-year undergraduate students of Communicative English. The course means to effect classroom discussions and conversations on how to understand literature. It rejects the notion that literature is solely confined to letters on a page and further focuses on the stead that it has in a community. This necessitates a deep and profound understanding of literature and its criticism.

This course examines the evolution Indian media from pre-independence era. It also gives an understanding of various press commissions and committees in India.


This course examines the core concepts and vocabulary of fiction through writers chosen across cultures, across the globe. It goes on to explore why people read fiction, the anatomy of a novel and the short stories with emphasis on what lies behind the approaches and the ways in which the use of language can be exploited and challenged in different cultural settings. The context is to introduce the pedagogy of writing fiction, reading and enjoying the complexity and simplicity of an imaginative creation.


This course analyses the duties and responsibilities of a reporter and focuses on the changing styles of news writing.