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E(Electrical)-unified curricula 2012 Required Course Catalog Description:

HU 109 Communication Skills

Credit Hours: 2-0.

Listening Skill, Speaking Skill, reading Skill and Writing Skill . Prerequisite: Nil Co-requisite: Text Books: Reference Books: Nil Nil 1. College Writing Skills by John Langan 2. Read Better, Write Better-Readers Digest Compilation 3. Mastering Communication by Nicky Stanton 4. Business Communication by Mary Ellen Guffey, 5. Principles and Types of Speech Communication (Twelfth Edition) by Bruce E. Gronbeck, Raymie E. McKerrow and others 6. CommunicationMaking Connection by William J Seiler & Melissa L Beall

Course Objectives: This course covers different aspects of communication skills. Specific objectives are to help student learn: 1. 2. 3. realize that effective communication is a skill which can be improved with training and practice the barriers to effective communication and the way to overcome them to practice their public speaking and positive feedback and techniques to polish the same.

Course Outcomes: After completion of this course students should be able to: 1. 2. 3. Understand the importance and requirement of communication skills in life Speak more effectively in front of public Read more effectively employing the techniques of skimming, scanning and SQ3R Topics: 1. 2. 3. 4. Introduction, Process, objectives. Importance of English as means of communication. Verbal and non-verbal communication Barriers to effective communication Introduction to phonetics Importance of listening. Barriers to effective listening. Strategies for effective listening. Practice test Importance of public speaking. Stage Fright. (Definition, Causes and Remedies. Positive Workplace Communication Skill application: Group discussions , Short individual speeches by students, Role plays, Formal presentations by students Effective Reading. Identifying barriers to effective reading. Introduction to skimming, scanning, fast reading, SQ3R Requirement of writing skill for Engineers. Effective Technical writing. Writing Process. Accurate Use of Punctuation Marks Basic writing errors: Fragments, Run-on sentences, Faulty parallelism , Problems with modifiers, Problems in subject-verb agreement, Close reading followed by practical exercise Week 1,2 3 4,5 6-12

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13 14,15

Evaluation Methods: Quizzes, assignments (three oral assignments i.e. presentations, speeches, role plays etc and one written), two class tests , and one final exam. . Quiz Assignment Tests Final 10% 10% 30% 50%

HU109 Communication Skills

PN Engineering College