Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Semester 1 Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

Your syllabus for Semester 1

In first year you study three subjects: pick them below. Each gives one 4-credit paper. You also take one vocational skill course (VSC) and one skill enhancement course (SEC), and the courses for every B.A. student. Together they make the semester's 22 credits.

Subjects

Not on munotes yet for Semester 1: Marathi, Hindi, Geography, Gujarati, Urdu, Sindhi, Pali, Persian, Arabic, Islamic Studies. If you study one of these, ask your college for its syllabus. Open Electives (OE), the courses some colleges run from outside your subjects, are not on munotes yet either.

Practise with the Semester 1 past papers. Papers in the subject folders were set on this syllabus. The year folders hold older papers, so check each topic against this one.

Major

One 4-credit paper per subject. The University's own first-year timetable sets only the 4-credit papers; ask your college before studying a 2-credit one.

PDF Micro Economics - I Economics · Major · 4 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Basic Concepts in Economics - I Economics · Major · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Introduction to Literatures in English - I English · Major · 4 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Background to Poetry in English English · Major · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Introduction to Extension Work Extension Work · Major · 4 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Extension Work and Community Outreach Extension Work · Major · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Ancient India: From Earliest Times to 6th BCE History · Major · 4 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Concepts and Terms in Ancient India History · Major · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Introduction to Moral Philosophy Philosophy · Major · 4 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Ideals and Praxis in Ethics Philosophy · Major · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF The Constitutional Framework of Indian Polity Politics · Major · 4 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Introduction to Political Theory Politics · Major · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Introduction to Psychology Psychology · Major · 4 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Basics of Learning and Memory Psychology · Major · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Basics of Rural Studies Rural Studies · Major · 4 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Introduction to Rural Development Rural Studies · Major · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Introduction to Sociology Sociology · Major · 4 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Society and Social Institutions Sociology · Major · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

Skill courses

You take one vocational skill course (VSC) and one skill enhancement course (SEC), as your college decides.

PDF Entrepreneurship Development Economics · Skill enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Basics of Agriculture - I Economics · Skill enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Economic Data Analysis Economics · Skill enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Money Transaction and Consumer Protection Economics · Skill enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Creative Writing I English · Skill enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Social Media and Blog Writing English · Skill enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Communication Skills Extension Work · Vocational skill course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Creative Writing - I Extension Work · Skill enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Introduction to Indian Archaeology History · Vocational skill course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Introduction to Competitive Examinations History · Skill enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Basics in Yoga Philosophy · Vocational skill course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Academic Reading Philosophy · Skill enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Introduction to Psephology Politics · Vocational skill course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Democratic Awareness Through Legal Literacy Politics · Skill enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Personal and Social Skills Psychology · Vocational skill course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Methods for Studying Psychology Psychology · Skill enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Agro-Allied Activities (Bee keeping) Rural Studies · Vocational skill course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Land Survey Skills Rural Studies · Skill enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Climate Change and Sustainability Sociology · Vocational skill course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Sociology of Ageing Sociology · Skill enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

For every B.A. student

Language course (AEC): this one, for every student.

Value education course (VEC): one. Your college may run a different one from the University's list, such as Indian Constitution.

Indian Knowledge System: taken once, in Semester 1 or 2, as your college decides.

PDF Communication Skills in English I Ability enhancement course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Environmental Management & Sustainable Development - I Value education course · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

PDF Indian Knowledge System Indian Knowledge System · 2 credits Read syllabus Read

Browse Syllabus by Subject

A B.A. student is admitted to the degree, not to a single subject, and carries three subjects in the first year, two in the second and one Major with one Minor in the third. So each semester lists every subject taught in it, and you open your own. Common Papers holds the courses every B.A. student takes whatever their subjects: a language course, Environmental Management, Indian Knowledge System and a co-curricular course such as NSS or Sports. Your college decides which of them it offers.

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