Add-on Courses

Department of English

 B.A. ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE  IN SPOKEN ENGLISH

Course Duration: 3 months

No. of instructional hours: 1 per week (Total: 10 hrs)

Instructors: Ms. Jolly Malayam & Ms. Shyja S. Rajan

AIM

1. To help the students attain high level proficiency in the Language Skill of Speaking.
2. To enhance their career prospects and employability by equipping them to confidently take up job interviews.
3. To help them develop their personality by fine tuning their communication and presentation skills.

OBJECTIVES

On completion of the course, the students should be able to:

1.  Speak flawlessly in R.P.
2.  Engage in all kinds of communication activities: – informal, academic
3. Widen their job hunt prospectives
4. Face interviews confidently.

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1

Listening and Speaking:

 Varieties of Modern English – British, American, Indian Basic Sounds – Deviations in American and Other Varieties – Syllable Structure – Stress – Word – Stress And Sentence Stress – Intonation.

Verbal Communication: Conversation – Basic Techniques – How To Begin, Interrupt, Hesitate And End – How To Express Time, Age, Feelings And Emotions – How To Respond – Using Language In Various Contexts/Situations- Talking About Oneself, Others- Describing Persons, Places, Incidents, Events And Objects – Attending An Interview – Addressing An Audience — Using Audio-Visual Aids-Making Short Speeches-Compering – Group Discussion. Non-verbal Communication: Body Language: Postures – Orientation – Eye Contact – Facial

Expression – Dress – Posture – Self Concept – Self Image – Self-Esteem – Attitudes- Values and Perception.

Module 2

 Practical Sessions

Micro Teaching – Role Play – Group Discussion – Debate – Mock Interview – Interviewing the College Chairperson-On Phone with my Favourite Radio Jockey formal or business related & On completion of the course, the students should be able to:

1. Speak flawlessly in R.P.
2. Engage in all kinds of communication activities:

Post Graduate Department of Mathematics

Post Graduate Department of Mathematics organized a three month short-term course of Accounting (Tally with GST) offered by KERALA STATE RUTRONIX ON 2018-2019. 25 students from various departments of our college participated in the course. The

Following are the objectives of the program.

1. This program gives you the learning of essential accounting ideas and standards.
2. This course helps in understanding the significance and utilization of job arrange preparing and job costing.
3. The Goods & Services Tax (GST) has been implemented in India since 1st July 2017. Since then, the GST Council has been working to simplify the rules to make it easier for businesses. This makes the course Tally with GST more relevant.

                Department of Economics

Certificate course in budget and finance

 Course Code: CBF1

Duration:10 hours

 This course will introduce the participants to the function and process of operational budgeting. The role of operational budgeting in organizational planning and control will be reviewed. Course topics will include: budget preparation, resource allocation/strategic planning, compliance, variances, audits, and cost containment. Course participants will study key differences in corporate, nonprofit, and government budgeting methodologies

Objectives:

• Interpret financial information
• Analyze financial statements
• Determine costs and benefits of business decisions
• Develop operational budgets
• Apply cost management techniques
• Organize risk and return considerations in capital budgeting

SYLLABUS:

 Module 1

Budget-Types-Examples-Cash Flow & Related Issues- short-term cash flow, long-term cash flow-Business Budget

Module 2

Business Savings and Cost Cutting- various areas of savings and cost cutting to explore in a company-Payroll Budgeting-Trends

Module 3

Risk-Types-Return-Capital Budgetings

References:

T.N Hajela-Public Economics,Ave Book Pvt.Ltd.

K.K.Dewet-Modern Economic Theory

Mithani D.M :Modern Public Finance

Jha R:Modern Public Finance

Department of Botany

CERTIFICATE COURSE IN HORTICULTURE

Objectives of the Programme

 To inculcate knowledge about Science in human life.

1. To make scientific attitude to think and act based on scientific theories.
2. To develop skills to use scientific facts, theories in human life
3. To understand scientific terms, facts, concepts, facts, phenomenon related to Horticulture
4. To make the students aware of natural and artificial propagations..
5. To provide practical experience to the students about application of Horticulture
6. The students are expected to acquire knowledge about new innovation inHorticulture
7. To supplement the students with the latest developments in Horticulture

Course Eligibility: Any Under Graduate student who is attending CBCSS course in regular stream

under University of Kerala.

MODULE I:  5 Hours

1. Introduction.
2. Divisions of horticulture.
3. Importance and scope of horticulture.
4. Types of pots and containers
5. Potting mixture and potting media – soil, sand, peat, sphagnum moss, vermiculite.

MODULE II: 15 Hour

1. Propagation methods – Cuttings, Layering (Air layering, Ground layering) Budding (T- budding and Patch budding) Grafting (Approach grafting, Bridge grafting, whip and tongue grafting.
2. Garden tools and implements.
3. Manures and fertilizers.
4. Chemical fertilizers – NPK.

MODULE III: 10 Hours

1. Components of Garden- Trees, shrubs and shrubberies, climbers and creepers Flower beds and borders, ornamental hedges, edges, paths, Carpet beds, topiary, trophy, rockery. Drives, roads, walks and
2. Indoor garden, Roof gardens.
3. Flower arrangement.

Post-Graduate and Research Department of Chemistry

CERTIFICATE COURSE IN “MOLECULAR MODELLING TECHNIQUES AND DRUG DESIGN”

                                                                      Course Code – CHE 2020                                                (32 hours)

Objectives

Through this course, the students will be able to

1. Apply computer-based calculations to determine the geometry, energies and properties of molecules.

2. Get hands-on experience in various insilico tools.

Syllabus

MODULE 1 Basics of cheminformatics (6 hours)

       Chemical-biological databases and data sources; (Pubchem & PDB) Chemical file formats ; (MOL, SDF, PDB formats), File format conversion using OPEN BABEL.

 MODULE 2 Software Training (8 hours)

   Chemistry related softwares – Structure drawing softwares, molecular modelling softwares,  Molecular visualization tools (Avogadro, Chemdraw, Pymol & Discovery Studio)                                                           

MODULE 3 Computer assisted drug design (8 hours)

        Drug Likeness Prediction – Properties of small molecules , structural features, ADME prediction, Bioavailability, Toxicity studies, Pharmacokinetics and  Pharmacodynamics of drugs (Swiss ADME &  PreADMET servers).

MODULE 4 Computational quantum chemistry (3 hours)

              Potential energy surface- stationary point, saddle point or transition state, local and global minima, Basis sets , Quantum mechanical computational methods-Ab initio methods, Semiempirical methods, DFT methods. Non-quantum mechanical computational methods.                

MODULE 5 Computational Chemistry Experiments (7 hours)

          Single point energy and vibrational frequency calculation of simple molecules, Calculation of energy of HOMO and LUMO of simple organic molecules, Ionisation enery and electron affinity calculations.