Sunday, March 18, 2007

Tomorrows workshop cancelled

I had expressed my desire to have a workshop on the Writing skill paper and the classes we had. But, since you have practical exam on Tuesday, I do not wish that you come here and spend your precious time. Once you come, even for a short time, your entire day is wasted.
Please tell all your other classmates calling or smsing that tomorrow s proposed workshop is cancelled.

We will have the workshop in the beginning of the next academic year

All the best for your exams.

Saturday, March 17, 2007

FEP

Communicative English Paper IV

Introduction to Writing Skills

MINOR THESIS EVALUATION

Viva 10 + Thesis 15 = 25

Viva

Viva will try to understand the genuineness of the student work and the learning outcome by posing questions on

1. The research method

2. Analysis

3. Understanding of the conclusions drawn

Thesis

Thesis will be evaluated by Felix and Anil which will be then be ratified by the external examiners based on the viva and the re-examination of the thesis.

Thesis Evaluation criteria:

1. Content : Presentation Analysis of the research issue and conclusion

2. Understanding of research report format

3. Language: Grammar, spelling, punctuation, style

For clarification please contact Anil Pinto or Felix

Format for the Minor Thesis

I FEP Students

The Format for the Minor Thesis

Cover page (Same as title page)

Title page (Do not mention the page number)
Student, guide declaration
Acknowledgement
Content (Do not number)
List of Illustrations (if necessary)

Chapter I - Introduction
Chapter II – Objectives and Methodology ( also mention the limitations)
Chapter III – Analysis, Discussion
Chapter IV - Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendices( if necessary, like questionnaire model in the case of a survey)

Note

You may have a fifth chapter if the discussion requires more than one chapter.
Limitation in Chapter 2 refers to the limitation you would like to put for your research regarding the scope, area covering etc. This chapter can be one or two pages.
The entire report should be printed in black ink.
Photographs, graphs can be use, if necessary. But do not use them for the sake of using them
Print on one side of the paper
Justify (alignment) the complete text of the report
Do not use footnotes. Use only endnotes.
Use 1.5 spacing

Other instruction regarding the printing format of the report

Font size of the title: 22, do not make it bold

Font size of the name and reg. no : 16

Font size of the other matter on the title page :16

Font size of the “Acknowledgement” and “Title” 16 in Capital. Do not make it bold

Font size of the text 14

Line spacing 1.5

Text margins: left-hand side- 1.25 cm, top- 1, right-1, bottom-1

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that this minor thesis entitled (Title) ___________________________submitted to Department of Media Studies, Christ College, as part of the Writing Skills paper of Communicative English (vocational) Course, is a record of the original research work done by me under the guidance of (Name of the teacher-in-charge) _______________, Lecturer, Department of Media Studies, Christ College, Bangalore and that this work has not been submitted for any other award of degree, diploma or grants.

Countersigned

Anil Pinto Abhishek

Monday, March 12, 2007

As the Philosophy course concludes....

A big thank you to all of you for enthusiastically participating in the Philosophy course. I am sure the course has benefited you immensely.

Personally, it is an emotional moment for me. I have lost count of the various programes I have organised for my students in the past. But this was special in that it was neither fashionable to have philosophy course nor was it considered 'current', 'relevant', 'useful' by anyone I spoke to. Your response and support only encourages me to go ahead with the dreams that I dream. Thanks a million. I hope and earnestly request you that you take what you have picked up/learnt ahead in your own little ways.

I thank Sundar for being so flexible and approachable. It's rare that a person of his caliber is also so approachable. I wish that many more youngsters across Bangalore benefit from him.

I must thank Fr Principal and Fr Vaghese for their support. They have gone beyond the institutional constraints to have this course. For those of you who are not aware, this is the only certificate course happening outside the regular certificate programmes. In that way it is a special concession offered by the college.

Can't forget Padmakumar and Solomon who have been always there to manage the arrangements so that I could attend my law classes or some seminar/workshop somewhere. I owe a special debt of gratitude to them. I also appreciate their eagerness to learn new things and pray this spirit spreads among other staff as well.

Thanks to ever-encouraging Kennedy, my HOD, for permitting to have the course under the banner of the dept.

I wish that you come up with suggestions to see how we can move forward from here

I am organising a course in Art and Architecture criticism for three days between 15 and 20 April 2007. Those of you who are interested may get in touch with him. The course will be taught by Kaiwan Mehta, himself a pracising art and architecture critic, journalist and professor or architecture.

Good luck for 5000 word essay!

anil

IFEP Writing skill model Question paper

END SEMESTER EXAMINATION APRIL - 2007

II SEMESTER

Model Question Paper

Course: BA Marks: 50

Subject: Introduction to Writing Skills Time: 2 Hours

I. In the following paragraphs identify the topic sentence, the supporting sentences, and the concluding sentence. (5 x 2=10)

1. In times gone by, lions lived in Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa. Humans killed hundreds of lions either out of fear or for sport. When areas were cleared to make towns and villages, lions and other animals were killed in large numbers. Now there are no lions left in the Middle East or Northern Africa. Lions can be found in Asia and the Eastern part of Central Africa. They are mostly found in zoos or national parks.

2. In these modern times we live a fast-paced life. We speed on highways that never end, take jet planes to travel faster. Fast food restaurants save us time. Our machines are working faster than ever, and we can enjoy more leisure time. Then, in our leisure time, we grumble because things move too slowly.

II. Write a paragraph each for the following types. (2x5=10)

(Evaluation criteria: Knowledge of paragraph type, paragraph structure, spelling, grammar)

Cause and effect
Argumentative
Process
Descriptive
Narrative

III. Read the following passages and identify paragraph type. Do not rewrite the passage.

(2x5=10)

1. The old store lightened by 360 watts bulbs, smelled of coal oil and baking bread. In the middle of the rectangular room, where the oak flow sagged a little, stood an iron stove. To the right was a wooden table with an unfinished game of checkers and a stool made from an apple – tree stump. On shelves around the walls sat earthen jugs with corncob stoppers, a few canned goods and some of the 2000 old clocks and clock works Thurmond watts owned. Only one was ticking; the others he just looked at.

2. The young man started out to look for wood. It was not long before he saw wood that would make a beautiful warm fire, and he began to busy himself gathering the wood. Suddenly he felt the presence of the owl. The owl reached down and put the young man in its ear. The young man strung his bow and fitted one of his arrows, letting it fly from his bow deep into the ear of the owl. And the young man was free.

3. You enter with a violin and prepare to play some lovely music. Taking out a pocket handkerchief you fold it carefully and place it on your shoulder as a violin rest. You then put the violin under your chin on your left shoulder ( or vice versa if you are left handed). Drawing the bow back on the strings, you suddenly send the bow flying offstage into the wings like an arrow! Dismayed, you produce a second a bow and repeat the action, launching the bow offstage as well. You investigate the violin and discover the elastic strings, reacting with either embarrassment and delight.

4. The great increase in the free black population in America came after the Revolutionary War. In appreciation of the service of some 5000 blacks in the War for independence and as a result of the libertarian and egalitarian spirit that the declaration of independence and the war inspired, many masters, especially Northerners, freed their slaves. Soon individual states in the North decreed the gradual abolition of the institutions, beginning with Vermont’s action in 1777. In 1776 the population of United States was about two and a half million, more than 500,000 back slaves and approximately 40,000 free blacks. More than one half of these free blacks lived in the south. The revolutionary leaders, including Washington and Jefferson anticipated a constitution of the trend toward emancipation until eventually slavery would disappear from the land. This expectation was to be drowned, almost literally, by the whirring noise of Eli Whiney’s cotton gin. The invention of this native of Massachusetts made cotton production increasingly profitable and caused rapid and substantial increases in the slave population, so that on the eve of Civil War they were four million black slaves in the South.

5. To begin with, dinosaurs fell into two groups: the bird-hipped ones or ornithischians, and the reptile-hipped ones, saurischians. The bird-hipped dinosaurs were almost all herbivorous or plant-eaters, while the reptile-hippped group contained both meat eaters and plant eaters.

IV. Write an essay on any ONE of the following topics in about 600 words. (10x1=10)

(Evaluation criteria: Knowledge of essay structure, paragraph structure, spelling, grammar, punctuation, development of ideas, language)

A sound knowledge of political science, sociology and economics is crucial to become a competent journalist/media person.
Students of humanities and social sciences are more important for an inclusive and humanistic growth of societies.
Social evils like caste and gender discriminations do not disappear; they only change forms.
Indian society in 2020.
Bollywood films and the Indian Diaspora

V. Prepare a bibliography of the following books and articles using recent MLA or APA styles. (Evaluation criteria: Knowledge bibliography formats) (1x5=5)

Benedict Anderson. Book: Imagined Communities. Published in London by Verso in 1991
Bill Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin. Editors. Book: The Post Colonial Reader. Published in London/New York by Routledge in 1995.
Felix Wilfred. Article: ‘Publishing History of the Bible’. Published in the The Hindu. on 02 Oct. 2001
John J Kenndy, Abhaya, Anil Pinto, Shaila Gaur, Sudhamshu. Book: Perspectives Published by Oxford in Banglore in 2007
Mrinalini Sebastian. Article Understadning culture. Updated on 7 Febraury 2006. Accessed on 5 February 2007. URL: http://cscsarchive.org/courses/ugdip05/paper1/mod1/

VI Prepare a research proposal on any ONE of the following topics. In about 150-200 words (5x1-5)

(Evaluation criteria: Knowledge of proposal format, quality of research areas identified and formulated, grammar, spelling, punctuation)

The impact of mobile phones on communication among youth
Communicative English syllabus
Impact of Rang De Basanti on politics in India
Multilingualism and contemporary media in Bangalore
Impact of autonomy in education in the college
TV viewing habits among college going students
Impact of Harry Potter on school children
Use of library by students
Emerging trends in FM radio
Elite academic institutions and their attitude towards student from slums

IFEP minor thesis evaluation

Dept of Media Studies

Christ College (Autonomous), Bangalore

FEP

Communicative English Paper IV

Introduction to Writing Skills

MINOR THESIS EVALUATION

Viva 10 + Thesis 15 = 25

Viva

Viva will try to understand the genuineness of the student work and the learning outcome by posing questions on

1. The research method

2. Analysis

3. Understanding of the conclusions drawn

Thesis

Thesis will be evaluated by Felix and Anil which will be then be ratified by the external examiners based on the viva and the re-examination of the thesis.

Thesis Evaluation criteria:

1. Content : Presentation Analysis of the research issue and conclusion

2. Understanding of research report format

3. Language: Grammar, spelling, punctuation, style

For clarification please contact Anil Pinto or Felix

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Introduction to Writing Skills Qestion Paper model

CHRIST COLLEGE, BANGALORE – 560029

(AUTONOMOUS)

MID SEMESTER EXAMINATION JAN/FEB - 2007

II SEMESTER

Course: BA – Communicative English Marks: 50

Subject: Introduction to Writing Skills Time: 2 Hours

I. In the following paragraphs identify the topic sentence, the supporting sentences, and the concluding sentence.

II. Write a paragraph each for the following types. (4x5=20)

(Evaluation criteria: Knowledge of paragraph type, paragraph structure, spelling, grammar, and punctuation)

III. Read the following passages and identify the paragraph type. Do not rewrite the passages.

(5x1=5)

IV. Write an essay on any ONE of the following topics in about 600 words. (1x15=15)

(Evaluation criteria: Knowledge of essay structure, paragraph structure, spelling, grammar, punctuation, development ideas, language)

All the best

Monday, January 01, 2007

Certificate Course in Philosophy

Prof Sundar Sarukkai of National Institute of Advanced Studies ( NIAS), Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, and I are in a dialogue to begin a short term course in Philosophy.

The course as it is planned now would deal with, in Part A, basic concepts of Philosophy like Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic, Ontology, Philosophy of Language, and in Part B Philosophy of Art, or Science, or Social Science.

We intend to keep the classes on Saturday afternoons may be from 2 to 6 in the months of January and February either at Indian Institute of Science, or Christ College. The course fee would be between Rs 500 or 750 or 1000 to meet the photocopying expenses of the reading material and remuneration. A certificate would be given either from NIAS or jointly by NIAS and Christ College. The second option is yet to be negotiated with the college.

The course is open to all the undergraduate and postgraduate students of all educational institutions of Bangalore, interested in Philosophy and its application in today’s world.

I understand, Prof Sarukkai has taught a similar course in Philosophy for the public of Bangalore, in Kabban park!! The course attracted about 40 enthusiastic participants then from diverse fields.

Presently, Prof. Sarukkai heads the Centre for Philosophy and teaches at the School of Humanities at NIAS. You may access his profile at

Prof Sarukkai would be the main resource Person and designer of the course.

I wish to know how many of you would be interested in joining the course.

Your feedback on the course content, fee structure, duration, timing and any other related issues is welcome.

A course in Philosophy is a rare one. So I strongly recommend it to you all.

Do respond by 7 January 2007 to: ajpinto42@yahoo.co.in or ajpinto42@gmail.com. I reply to emails within 24 hours. If you haven’t received my reply within this time, it means I haven’t received your email.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Semiotics Proposals

You may post your Semiotics Proposals here.

My Semiotic Proposal

Construction of South Canara in the Cyberspace: A Semiotic Analysis

A land gets constructed in numerous ways in the public domain. It can be a drawing on a map, a geographical location described with reference to other landmasses or water bodies or in terms of cultural practices. This however gets represented in different media with each medium constructing it within its possibilities. These media could be folk narratives, gossips, TV, cinema, theatre, newspapers, literature, Radio or internet. The construction of land in each of these medium is contingent on the limitation of each of these medium and the ownership of the medium at the level of the sender.

South Canara has been constructed differently in terms of history, mythology, cultural artefacts, landscape, demography, and social relationships in different media down the centuries. One of the relatively new medium in which it is being constructed is the internet though websites. The place is described in websites of the State, NGOs, educational institutions, tourism firms, print and online media, and web pages of individuals.

This paper tries to analyze the way the internet, where possibilities of many other media converge, constructs the place. It will analyse the myths, metaphors, social meanings, discourses, mediations, stereotypes, ideologies, power, hegemony, representations that are present or surface in the different visual, textual, colour, sound symbols, and codes that the portals employ in the construction of the place.

Select Bibliography

Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Trs. Annette Lavers. London: Vintage, 1993.

Thwaites, Tony et al. Introducing Cultural and Media Studies. London: Palgrave, 2002.

Watson, James. Media Communication: An Introduction to Theory and Process. 2 ed. London: Palgrave, 2003.

<http://www.daaiz.com/>

<http://www.daijiworld.com/home.asp>

<http://www.soans.com/index.htm>

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Blogs vs Orkut (Social Network Service

Hi All,

Of late i have a feeling that orkut or Social Network services will be a major challenge for blogging. Since 85% of blogging is personal blogging, and orkut is more interactive and allows more networking (or so i assume) Blogging, atleast personal blogging, is passe'. From my personal experience, i see that present first years are not as excited about blogging as th last years final year students were. Among my firt year fep stuents out of 73, 37 are orkuting. That is about 50% I also find that i am able to communicate and inteact with them faster and better than say with the last year final years, owing to orkut.

Please find some time to quickly respond to this. you may give me your immediate impressions thorugh email or post on my orkut site or blog.

Waiting for you exciting or otherwise replies.

anil

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Feedback, please!

Hi All,

I hope you are back at home/rooms relaxed. I wish to have your feedback on the exam. Do start posting your views on my blog http://anilpinto.blogspot.com or email me.

You may also give suggestions on how the exam could have been done differently. Please be aware that your views are very precious as they will have an impact on the ‘fate’ of your next year’s friends.

Also planning to change the name of the paper. The present title is too long. Any suggestions?

On the whole I was happy with your performance. But felt that all those lectures on platform roles didn’t seem to have had an impact. The don’ts were hardly adhered to. However, for me, they have given better insights as to how I can change the way I go about the classes for next year’s batch as well as the exams. (But, I must admit that some of you were awesome.)

A reminder. For the Applied Phonetics and Communication Skills written exam, in the last section you might be asked to transcribe the passage to IPA apart for marking stress and intonation and dividing the tone groups. You need not transcribe it. But do mark the stress, tone groups and intonation.

I wish you all the best for the Psychology practical exam as well as the written exams ahead.

Take care.

Anil

Documentary Film Making Course at Mangalore

Dept of Journalism, St Aloysius College, Mangalore is organising a seven-day Documentary film Making Workshop. Those interested can get in touch with me. Click on the following link for further details.

http://richardrego.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/documentary-film-making-workshop/

Friday, October 06, 2006

I Sem FEP Comm Practicals Oct 2006 groups

DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA STUDIES

CHRIST COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), BANGALORE - 29

END SEMESTER PRACTICALS

PAPER II

APPLIED PHONETICS AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS

OCTOBER 07, 2006,

Venue: Conference Hall

Time: 9 am to 5.30 pm

GROUPS FOR THE PRACTICAL EXAMINATIONS

GROUP ONE

GROUP TWO

GROUP THREE

GROUP FOUR

GROUP FIVE

GROUP SIX

GROUP SEVEN

GROUP EIGHT

GROUP NINE

DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA STUDIES

CHRIST COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), BANGALORE - 29

End Semester Practicals

Paper II

Applied Phonetics and Communication Skills

October 07, 2006

PART I: GROUP DISCUSSION

Instructions:

· Have a group discussion in the given group for twenty minutes on the given topic

· A moderator will be appointed

· Maximum Marks 10 per person

· Evaluation Criteria: Communicative skills, knowledge of the subject, Language of agreement and disagreement, listening, body language, moderation

PART II :ASSEMBLIES

Instructions:

· Make a presentation in the given group on the given occasion

· Time limit 25-30 minutes

· Maximum Marks 15

· Evaluation Criteria: Organisation skills, communication skills, crisis management, teamwork, time management

Date: 30 Sept 2006