Photoshop

Objective:
The course is designed with an objective to
 Describe how to use photo shop
 Navigate Photoshop’s Workspace, create & setup documents
 Work with effects, filters and adjustments.
 Describe typography, color, layout, photo editing, composition, graphics, vector & raster
application
 Describe Layers and Masking

Learning Outcome:
On completion of the course, students will be able to
 Identify and describe the major functions of Photoshop.
 Work and manipulate images
 Work with basic selections.

Unit I: 2L
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop: About Photoshop, Navigating Photoshop, Menus and
panels, Opening new files ,Opening existing files , Exploring the Toolbox

Unit II: 4L
Working with Images: Zooming & Panning an Image, Working with Multiple Images, Rulers,
Guides & Grids Undoing Steps with History, Adjusting Color with the New Adjustments Panel,
Cropping images.

Unit III: 4L
Working with Basic Selections: Selecting with the Elliptical Marquee Tool, Using the Magic
Wand & Free Transform Tool Selecting with the Regular & Polygonal Lasso Tools, Combining
Selections, Using the Magnetic Lasso Tool, Using the Quick Selection Tool & Refine Edge,
Modifying Selections

Unit IV: 4L
Getting started with Layers: Understanding the Background Layer, Creating, Selecting,
Linking & Deleting Layers Locking & Merging Layers, Copying Layers, Using Perspective &
Layer Styles, Filling & Grouping Layers, Introduction to Blending Modes, Modifying Text

Unit V: 2L
Painting and Pen Tool: Using different Tools, Painting with Selections, photo retouching,
Color Spaces & Color Modes, Saving & Removing a Selection from the Background, creating
different path, add effects.

Books Recommended:
1. Jennifer Smith and AGI Creative Team ,Adobe Photoshop CS6 Digital Classroom,
Wiley; Pap/Dvdr edition , 2012
2. Andrew Faulkner & Conrad Chavez , Adobe Photoshop CC Classroom in a Book,
Adobe, 2017
3. Toni Toland, Best Practice: The Pros on Adobe Photoshop Delmar Cengage Learning;
Pap/Cdr edition, 2006
4. Philip Andrews, Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 A to Z: Tools and features illustrated
ready reference Paperback Focal Press; 1 edition 2006

Computer Lab Based on Photoshop:
 Practical exercise based on concept listed in theory using Adobe Photoshop and other
photo editing tool.

HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE II (c. 1780 -1939)

Course Objective:

The Objective of this Course is to acquaint the Students with
(i) Liberal Democracy, Working Class Movements and Socialism in the 19th and
20th Centuries:
(ii) Crisis of Feudalism in Russia and Experiments in Socialism
(iii) War and Crisis: c. 1880-1939 and
(iv) Post 1919 Political Development, Cultural and Intellectual Developments
since c. 1850

Unit-1 Liberal Democracy, Working Class Movements and Socialism in the 19th
and 20th Centuries:
[a] The Struggle for Parliamentary Democracy and Civil Liberties in Britain.
[b] Forms of Protest during early Capitalism: Food Riots in France and England:
Luddites and Chartism.
[c] Early Socialist thought; Marxian Socialism in the First and the Second
International.
[d] German Social Democracy, Politics and Culture.
[e] Christian Democracy as a Political and Ideological Force in Western and
Central Europe

Unit-2 The Crisis of Feudalism in Russia and Experiments in Socialism:
[a] Emancipation of Serfs.
[b] Russian Populism and Social Democracy.
[c] Revolutions of 1905; the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
[d] Programme of Socialist Construction.

Unit-3 Imperialism, War, and Crisis: c. 1880-1939:
[a] Theories and Mechanisms of Imperialism; Growth of Militarism; Power
Blocs and Alliances: Expansion of European Empires - War of 1914 - 1918
[b] The Post-1919 World Order: Economic Crises, the Great Depression and
Recovery.

Unit-4 Post 1919 Political Development :
[a] Fascism and Nazism.
[b] The Spanish Civil War.
[c] Origins of the Second World War.

Unit-5 Cultural and Intellectual Developments since c. 1850:
[a] Changing Contexts: [i] Notions of Culture [ii] Creation of a New Public
Sphere and Mass Media [iii] Mass Education and Extension of Literacy.
[b] Creation of New Cultural Forms: from Romanticism to Abstract Art.
[c] Major Intellectual Trends: Darwin and Freud.
[d] Culture and the making of Ideologies: Constructions of Race, Class and
Gender, Ideologies of Empire.

Recommended Readings:

Gerald Brennan: The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background
of the Civil War
C.M. Cipolla: Fontana Economic History of Europe, Volume II the Present (1981).
Norman Davies, Europe: A History
J. Evans: The Foundations of a Modern State in 19th Century Europe.
T.S. Hamerow: Restoration, Revolution and Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany
E.J. Hobsbawn : The Age of Revolution.
Lynn Hunt: Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution.
James Joll, Europe Since 1870.
David Landes: Promctheus Unbound.
George Lefebvre, Coming of the French Revolution.
George Lichtheim: A Short History of Socialism.
Peter Mathias, First Industrial Revolution.
Alec Nove: An Economic History of the USSR.
Andrew Porter, European Imperialism, 18760 -1914 (1994).
Antbony Wood, History of Europe, 1815-1960 (1983).
G. Barrowclough, An Introduction to Contemporary History.
Fernand Braudel, History and the Social Science in M. Aymard and H. Mukhia eds. French
Studies in History, Vol. I (1989).
Maurice Dobb: Soviet Economic Development Since 1917.
M. Perrot and G. Duby [eds.]: A History of Women in the West,
H.J. Hanham; Nineteenth Century Constitution, 1815 û 1914.
E.J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism.
Charles and Barbara Jelavich: Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1840-1920.
James Joll, Origins of the First World war (1989).
Jaon B. Landes: Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution.
David lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Country.
Colin Licas: The French Revolution and the Making of Modern Political Culture, Volume 2.
Nicholas Mansergh: The Irish Question, 1840 - 1921.
K.O. Morgan: Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Volume 3
R.P. Morgan: German Social Democracy and the First International.
N.V. Riasanovsky: A History of Russia.
J.M. Robert, Europe 1880 - 1985.
J.J. Roth (ed.), World War I: A Turning Point in Modern History.
Albert Soboul: History of the French Revolution (in two volumes).
Lawrence Stone, History and the Social Sciences in the Twentieth Century, The Past and the
Present (1981).
Dorothy Thompson: Chartists: Popular Politics in the Industrial Revolution.
E.P. Thompson: Making of the English Working Class.
Michel Vovelle, fall of the French Monarchy (1984).
H. Seton Watson: The Russian Empire.
Raymond Williams: Culture and Society.

RISE OF THE MODERN WEST - II

Course Objective:

(i) This paper will help the students to know about the 17th century European
crisis, the English Revolution
(ii) The Scientific development from 15th to 17th century , Growth of mercantilism
(iii) End of Absolute Monarchy and growth of Parliamentary Democracy
(iv) The American and Industrial Revolutio

Unit-1 17th century European crisis:
economic, social and political
dimensions.

Unit-2 The English Revolution:
major issues; political and intellectual
currents.

Unit-3 Rise of Modern Science in relation to European society
from the Renaissance to the 17th century.
Mercantilism and European economics;
17th and 18th
centuries.

Unit-4 European politics in the 18th century:
parliamentary
monarchy; patterns of Absolutism in Europe.

Unit-5
(a) Political and economic issues in the American Revolution.
(b) Preludes to the Industrial Revolution.

Recommended Readings:

T.S. Aston and C.H.E. Philpin (eds.), The Brenner Debate.
H. Butterfield, The Origins of Modern Science.
Carlo M. Cipolla, Fontana Economic History of Europe, Vols. II and
III.Carlo M. Cipolla, Before the Industrial Revolution, European Society and Economy, 1000
-1700. 3rd ed. (1993)
D.C. Coleman (ed.), Revisions in Mercantilism.
Ralph Davis, The Rise of the Atlantic Economics.
Maurice Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism.
J.R. Hale, Renaissance Europe.
R. Hall, From Galileo to Newton.
Christopher Hill, A Century of Revolutions.
Rodney Hilton, Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism.
H.G. Koenigsberger and G.L. Mosse, Europe in the Sixteenth Century.
Stephen J. Lee, Aspects of European History, 1494 - 1789.
G. Parker, Europe in Crisis, 1598 - 1648.
G. Parker and L.M. Smith, General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century.
J.H. Parry, The Age of Renaissance.
Meenaxi Phukan, Rise of the Modern West: Social and Economic History of Early Modern
Europe.
V. Poliensiky, War and Society in Europe. 1618 -48.
Theodore K. Rabb, The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe.
V. Scammell, The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion, 1400-1715.
Jan de Vries, Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis 1600 û 1750.
M. S. Anderson, Europe in the Eighteenth Century.
Perry Anderson, The Lineages of the Absolutist State.
Stuart Andrews, Eighteenth Century Europe.
B. H. Slicher von Bath, The Agrarian History of Western Europe. AD. 500 - 1850.
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Vol. I - VI.
James B. Collins, The State in Early Modern France, New Approaches to European History.
G. R. Elton, Reformation Europe, 1517-1559.
M. P. Gilmore, The World of Humanism. 1453-1517.
Peter Kriedte, Peasants, Landlords and Merchant Capitalists.
J. Lynch, Spain under the Hapsburgs.
Peter Mathias, First Industrial revolution.
Harry Miskimin, The Economy of Later Renaissance Europe: 1460-1600.
Charles A. Nauert, Humanism and the Culture of the Renaissance (1996).
The New Cambridge Modern History of Europe, Vols. I - VII.
L. W. Owie, Seventeenth Century Europe.
D. H. Pennington, Seventeenth Century Europe.
F. Rice, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe

Android Programming

Objective:
The course is designed with an objective to
 Introduce Android Operating System.
 Discuss Android based programming language.

Learning Outcome:
On completion of the course, students will be able to
 Explain Android based Technologies.
 Design and Develop Android Applications

Unit I: 2L
Introduction: History of Android, Introduction to Android Operating Systems, Android Development
Tools, Android Architecture.

Unit II: 4L
Overview of object oriented programming using Java: OOPs Concepts: Inheritance, Polymorphism,
Interfaces, Abstract class, Threads, Overloading and Overriding, Java Virtual Machine.

Unit III: 4L
Development Tools: Installing and using Eclipse with ADT plug-in, Installing Virtual machine for
Android sandwich/Jelly bean (Emulator), configuring the installed tools, creating an android project –
Hello Word, run on emulator, Deploy it on USB-connected Android device.

Unit IV: 2L
User Interface Architecture: Application context, intents, Activity life cycle, multiple screen sizes.

Unit V: 2L
User Interface Design: Form widgets, Text Fields, Layouts, Button control, toggle buttons, Spinners
(Combo boxes), Images, Menu, and Dialog.

Unit VI: 2L
Database: Understanding of SQLite database, connecting with the database.

Books Recommended:

1. Android application development for java programmers. By James C. Sheusi. Publisher: Cengage
Learning, 2013
Computer Lab Based on Android Programming:
ANDROID APPLICATION DEVLOPMENT USING TOOLS LIKE
 JAVA
 HTML5
 XML
 ANDROID STUDIO
 SQLite

Internet Technologies

Objective:
The course is designed with an objective to
 Design a webpage using HTML and CSS.
 Make an interactive webpage using JavaScript.
 Use Server side scripting language to make a dynamic webpage.

Learning Outcome:
On completion of the course, students will be able to
 Design dynamic and interactive web pages by embedding Java Script code in HTML and
using Java Script to validate user input.
 Apply CSS in Webpages.
 Create website using Server Side Scripting language.
 Database connectivity to Webpages.

Unit I: 6L
Introduction to Web Design: Introduction to hypertext markup language (html) document type
definition, creating web pages, graphical elements, lists, hyperlinks, tables, web forms, inserting
images, frames.

Unit II: 4L
Customized Features: Cascading style sheets, (css) for text formatting and other manipulations.

Unit III: 6L
JavaScript: Data types, operators, functions, control structures, events and event handling.

Unit IV: 12L
Java: Use of Objects, Array and Array List class, Designing classes, Inheritance, Input/Output,
Exception Handling.

Unit V: 8L
JDBC: JDBC Fundamentals, Establishing Connectivity and working with connection interface,
Working with statements, Creating and Executing SQL Statements, Working with Result Set
Objects.

Unit VI: 16L
JSP: Introduction to JavaServer Pages, HTTP and Servlet Basics, The Problem with Servlets, The
Anatomy of a JSP Page, JSP Processing, JSP Application Design with MVC, Setting Up the JSP
Environment, Implicit JSP Objects, Conditional Processing, Displaying Values

Unit VII: 8L
Using an expression to Set an Attribute, Declaring Variables and Methods, Error Handling and
Debugging, Sharing Data Between JSP Pages, Requests, and Users, Database Access.

Books Recommended:
1. Web Enabled Commercial Application Development Using Html, Dhtml, javascript, Perl
Cgi by Ivan Bayross, BPB Publications, 2009.
2. BIG Java Cay Horstmann, Wiley Publication , 3rd Edition., 2009
3. Java 7, The Complete Reference, Herbert Schildt, 8th Edition, 2009.
4. The Complete Reference J2EE, TMH, Jim Keogh, 2002.
5. Java Server Pages, Hans Bergsten, Third Edition, O'Reilly Media December 2003.

Computer Lab Based on Internet Technologies:
 Design dynamic and interactive web pages to validate user input.
 Apply CSS, JSP in Webpages.
 Apply database connectivity in a Webpage.

HISTORY OF INDIA II

Course Objective:

(i) The objective of this course is to acquaint the students with agrarian economy,
the growth of urban centres in northern and central India and the Deccan as well
as craft production, trade routes and coinage
(ii) Varna, jati, gender, marriage and property relations Process of State Formation and
the Mauryan and post-Mauryan plities with special reference to the Kushnas,
Satavahanas and Gana-Sanghas.Land grants, land rights and peasantry, urban
decline and
(iii)Gupta empire and post Gupta polities and the religion philosophy and society circa
300 BCE-CE 750

Unit-1 Economy and Society (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300):
[a] Expansion of agrarian economy: production relations.
[b] Urban growth: north India, central India and the Deccan; craft Production: trade and
trade routes; coinage.
[c] Social stratification: class, Varna, jati, untouchability; gender; marriage and property
relations

Unit-2 Changing political formations (circa 300 BCE to circa CE 300):
a] The Mauryan Empire
[b] Post-Mauryan Polities with special reference to the Kushanas and the Satavahanas;
Gana-Sanghas.

Unit-3 Towards early medieval India [circa CE fourth century to CE 750]:
[a] Agrarian expansion: land grants, changing production relations; graded Land rights
and peasantry.
[b] The problem of urban decline: patterns of trade, currency, and urban Settlements.
[c] Varna, proliferation of jatis: changing norms of marriage and property.
[d] The nature of polities: the Gupta empire and its contemporaries: post- Gupta polities -
Pallavas, Chalukyas,and Vardhanas

Unit-4 Religion, philosophy and society (circa 300 BCE- CE 750):
a) Consolidation of the brahmanical tradition: dharma,Varnashram, Purusharthas,
samskaras.
(b) Theistic cults (from circa second century BC): Mahayana; the Puranic tradition.
(c) The beginnings of Tantricism

Unit-5 Cultural developments (circa 300 BCE û CE 750):
[a] A brief survey of Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit and Tamil literature. Scientific and technical
treatises
[b] Art and architecture & forms and patronage; Mauryan, post-Mauryan, Gupta, postGupta

Recommended Readings:

B.D. Chattopadhyaya, The Making of Early Medieval India, 1994.
D. P. Chattopadhyaya, History of Science and Technology in Ancient India
D. D. Kosambi, An Introduction to the Study of Indian History,
S. K. Maity, Economic Life in Northern India in the Gupta Period,
B. P. Sahu (ed), Land System and Rural Society in Early India,
K. A. N. Sastri, A History of South India.
R. S. Sharma, Indian Feudalism, 1980.
R.S.Sharma,UrbanDecay in India,c.300-1000
Romila Thapar, Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, 1997.
Susan Huntington, The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain
N. N. Bhattacharya, Ancient Indian Rituals and Their Social Contents
J. C. Harle, The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent
P. L. Gupta, Coins.
Kesavan Veluthat, The Early Medieval in South India.
Romila Thapar, Early India: From the Origins to 1300. 

HTML Programming

Objective:
The course is designed with an objective to
 Introduce Web, Website designing and HTML.
 Enable students to use different HTML tags.
 Enable students to design and deploy web-sites.

Learning Outcome:
On completion of the course, students will be able to
 Demonstrate competency in using basic HTML codes.
 Develop efficient web pages and web sites.
 Develop interactive web pages using forms.
 Understand and use CSS in styling the web pages.

Unit I: 1L
Introduction: Introduction to WWW, Internet, Browser, HTTP, HTML.

Unit II: 2L
The Basics: The Head, the Body, Colors, Attributes, Lists, ordered and unordered

Unit III: 3L
Links: Introduction, Relative Links, Absolute Links, Link Attributes, Using the ID
Attribute to Link Within a Document

Unit IV: 2L
Images: Putting an Image on a Page, Using Images as Links, Putting an Image in the
Background

Unit V: 4L
Tables: Creating a Table, Table Headers, Captions, Spanning Multiple Columns,
Styling Table

Unit VI: 3L
Forms: Basic Input and Attributes, Other Kinds of Inputs, Styling forms with CSS,
Where To Go From Here

Books Recommended:
1. Introduction to HTML and CSS -- O'Reilly , 2010
2. Jon Duckett, HTML and CSS, John Wiely, 2012
3. HTML QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginner's Guide To HTML --ClydeBank
Technology, 2015.
4. A Smarter Way to Learn HTML & CSS (Volume 2)-- Mark Myers ,2015

Computer Lab Based on HTML Programming:
 Design HTML pages using various tags
 Implement CSS to HTML