10MCA15 Professional Communication and Ethics syllabus for MCA


Unit-1 Professional / Technical Communication: Basics of Technical Communication 4 hours

Introduction, Process of Communication, Language as a Tool, Levels of Communication,Levels of Communication, Communication Networks, Importance of Technical Communication

Unit-2 Barriers to Communication 3 hours

Definition of Noise, Classification of Barriers

Unit-3 Technology in Communication 4 hours

Impact of Technology, Software for Creating Messages, Software for Writing Documents, Software forPresenting Documents, Transmitting Documents, Effective use of Available Technology

Unit-4 Active Listening 3 hours

Introduction, Types of Listening, Traits of good Listener, Active versus passive listening, implications ofeffective listening

Unit-5 Effective Presentation Strategies 5 hours

Introduction, Defining purpose, Analyzing Audience and Locale, Organizing Contents, preparing outline, VisualAids, Understanding Nuances of Delivery, Kinesics, Proxemics, Paralinguistic’s, Chronemics, Sample speech

Unit-6 Group Communication 5 hours

Introduction, Group Discussion, Organizational Group discussion, Group discussion as part of selection processMeetings, conferences.

Unit-7 Research paper, Dissertation and Thesis 4 hours

Introduction, Research paper, Dissertation, Thesis

Unit-8 Ethics 3 hours

An Overview of EthicsWhat are Ethics? Ethics in the Business World, Ethics in Information Technology (IT)

Unit-9 Ethics for IT Professionals and IT users 4 hours

IT professionals, The Ethical behavior of IT professionals, IT Users

Unit-10 Privacy 3 hours

Privacy Protection and the Law, Key Privacy and Anonymity Issues

Unit-11 Software Development 3 hours

Strategies to Engineer Quality s/w, Key Issues

Unit-12 Employer/Employee Issues 2 hours

Use of Nontraditional workers, Whistle Blowing

Unit-13 Introduction to Intellectual Property Law & Indian Cyber Law 9 hours

Intellectual property law basics, Types of Intellectual property, Agencies responsible for Intellectual propertyregistration, International organizations, Agencies and Treaties, the increasing importance of Intellectualproperty rightsIntroduction to Cyber Law: What is Cyber Law?, Need for Cyber Law, Jurisprudence of Indian Cyber Law,Evolution of Key Terms and Concepts, Evolution of Cyber Crime 3 HoursCase Studies and Discussion 6 Hours

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