B.E. (Chemical Engineering) Professional and Communication Ethics Lab Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
The University has moved this degree onto NEP 2020 one year at a time. The first and second years are NEP 2020 syllabi; the third and fourth years are still examined on the REV-2019 'C' Scheme, which is what the University sets for them this year.
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Syllabus for Professional and Communication Ethics Lab
Module 1 printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- 1.1. Situational Application of Fundamentals of Communication 1.2. Case Studies on Fundamentals of Communication
Module 2 printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- 2.1. Listening for Details ● Listen to a song and fill in the blanks, Listen to a telephonic conversation and fill in the blanks, Listen to a story/lecture/podcast and fill in the blanks, Listen to a monologue and complete the sentences 2.2. Listening for Gist ● Listen to an audio recording and identify the gist/main idea/theme in the form of MCQs or True/False statements 2.3. Listening for Inference ● Listen to short passages and draw inferences in the form of MCQs or True/False statements 2.4. Listening Comprehension Exercises in the Language Lab or on Open Source Platforms ● Listening to a telephonic conversation, Listen to a Podcast Examples of the Activities That Can Be Done under the Above 4 Heads: Listen to a Formal Speech ● Martin Luther King Jr., ● Swami Vivekananda ● Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam ● John F. Kennedy ● Mr.Ratan Tata ● Steve Jobs Note-taking & Designing Quizzes ● Listen to a lecture, take notes and prepare a quiz for others Dictations ● Take old-fashioned dictation with special focus on punctuations and spellings Draw a Story ● Listen to a descriptive passage read out by the teacher on a scenery/item and draw a picture based on what you hear Labelling a Map, Plan, Diagram, Table & Flow Charts ● Listen to your teacher and write labels on a plan (e.g. of a building), map (e.g. of part of a town) diagram (e.g. of a piece of equipment), table (e.g. place/time/price), flow chart (e.g. a process which has clear stages).
Module 3 printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- 3.1. Conversational Activities - Monologues ● Introducing yourself, Introducing others, One-minute impromptu speeches, Scaffolded story telling 3.2. Conversational Activities - Dialogues ● Role plays on everyday interactions, Interviews (Find out if…), Information Gap Activities, Picture descriptions and feedback, Situational conversations. 3.3. Conversational Activities - Pronunciation, Stress and Rhythm, Intonation ● Neutralisation of accent, Word stress, Rhythm & Pauses, Tonal variations/inflections Suggested Examples of Functional Communication Activities That Can Be Done under the Above 3 Heads: ● Asking for and giving information ● Taking initiative ● Seeking and giving favour/offers ● Requesting and responding to requests ● Apologizing and forgiving ● Seeking and giving permission ● Congratulating people on their success ● Expressing opinions, likes and dislikes, agreements and disagreements ● Expressing condolences ● Asking questions and responding politely ● Giving instructions ● Agreeing and disagreeing ● Asking for and giving advice and suggestions ● Expressing sympathy ● Using mobile phone ● Live commentary on videos on mute ● Debates
Module 4 printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- 4.1. Verbal Aptitude Reading Fluency & Comprehension Monitoring ● Reading short/long passages to answer MCQs based on factual, general and inferential comprehension skills ● Reading short/long passages to answer MCQs based on factual, general and inferential comprehension skills (Passages should be of a technical nature and minimum length of passages should be 350-400 words) 4.2. Vocabulary Building Activities Examples of Word Games: ● Crosswords ● Bingo ● Word Ladders ● Hangman ● Word Association 4.3. Reading & Summarisation Skills ● Summarising text to Graphic Organisers and visa-versa o Venn diagrams o Radial Diagrams (Mindmaps) o Tree Diagrams o Cyclic Diagrams o Flow Charts o Timelines o Matrix (Tables) o Pyramids ● Summarising text in bullet points ● Summarising text in one-sentence central idea
Module 5 printed in the syllabus as Module Detailed Content
- 5.1. Mechanics of Writing - Paragraph Writing ● Building paragraphs developing coherence (Structure of written pieces, CSI Order of Organisation) ● Coherence (Structure of written pieces, CSI Order of Organisation) ● Cohesive Devices (Referencing, Repetition, Substitution, Ellipsis, Transition Signals). ● Structure of a Paragraph (Topic Sentence, Supporting Ideas, Concluding Sentence).
References
- 1 Communication Skills by Sanjay Kumar & Pushp Lata
- 1 https://bbclearningenglish.org
- 2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Chemical Engineering) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2024-25. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Modules are numbered in sequence here; in the syllabus itself, Module 1 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 2 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 3 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 4 is printed as Module Detailed Content; Module 5 is printed as Module Detailed Content. The PDF above is the syllabus's own page, unaltered.
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