The Syllabus of Bachelors in Chemical Engineering offered by Department of Chemical Engineering of Jadavpur University is as follows:

Semester - 1
HUMANITIES
English
2 classes per week x 14 weeks = 28 classes. Internal Assessment 2 weeks.
Teaching : 24 classes.
1. Basic writing skills : based on Sections 1 and 2 of English for All = 8 classes (4 weeks).
2. Communication skills.
Report writing = (4 classes) 2 weeks
Precis writing = (4 classes) 2 weeks
CVs and resumes = (4 classes) 2 weeks
Reading scientific papers ; Scholarly conventions = (4 classes) 2 weeks
3. Two prose extracts from English for All (may be changed from time to time : proposal for this year, JBS Haldane, “Scientific Research for Amateurs” and Rabindranath Tagore “ The Religion of the Forest”) = (4 classes) 2 weeks.
4. One short story from English for All (may be changed from time to time : proposal for this year, James Thurber, “ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”) = (4 classes) 2 weeks.
Group presentations in class to be encouraged.

Society, Culture and Technology
1. Understanding technology historically
Emergency and growth of technology in response to collective needs
Commodity production and expansion of trade; economic imperatives for technological advancement.
2. Technology and work
Technology and industrial production : fordism and post-fordism
Division of labour and social identities : race, ethnicity, gender.
3. Technology, cultural globalization and global consumerism
Computer, Media and Culture Information and communication technology. Role of communication technology : five components of communication, pyramid pf communication Global television and American cultural imperialism.
4. Internet and Community Understanding of Community in the information age.
The virtual individual and the virtual social Power and cyberspace
5. The Ecology Approach
The natural world and the built environment; nature, man and science; eco-systems and ecofeminism. Technology and sustainable development.
6. The gender question Sex and gender; science and technology ; the malestream
Women and technology. Domestic technology : persistence of gender roles.

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