Note: The course you are referring to is a second-year English course offered in the four-year Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) program under the Faculty of Management at Tribhuvan University. This course aims to enhance students’ language and communication skills, both for general and professional purposes. It provides students with the opportunity to develop their ability to express themselves effectively in various contexts, helping them to succeed in their academic and future professional careers.
The course has two main components of equal weightage: (50% + 50%)
I. Business Communication Skills
II. Discourse in Disciplines
Course Contents
I. Business Communication Skills
Unit 1: The Communication Process
- Chapter 1: Elements of Communication Process
- Chapter 2: Methods of Communication
- Chapter 3: The Writing Process
- Chapter 4: Oral Communication Process
- Chapter 5: Group Work and Collaboration Process
- Chapter 6: Communication Structures and Systems
- Chapter 7: Management Style and Communication
- Chapter 8: Barriers of Business Communication
Unit 2: Business Communication
- Chapter 1: Defining Business Communication
- Chapter 2: Nature of Communication
- Chapter 3: Historical Perspectives
- Chapter 4: Purpose of Business Communication
- Chapter 5: Functions of Business Communication
- Chapter 6: Importance of Business Communication
- Chapter 7: Components of Business Communication
- Chapter 8: Types of Business Communication
- Chapter 9: Principles of Effective Business Communication
- Chapter 10: Challenges for Business Communication
Unit 3: Skills and Values in Business Communication
- Chapter 1: The Importance of Communication Skills
- Chapter 2: Identifying Communication Skill Sets
- Chapter 3: Organizational Communication Skills
- Chapter 4: Interpersonal Communication Skills
- Chapter 5: Leadership Communication Skills
- Chapter 6: Professionalism in Business Communication
- Chapter 7: Elements of Professionalism
- Chapter 8: Ethical Values
- Chapter 9: Intercultural Sensitivities
Unit 4: Electronic and Other Messages
- Chapter 1: Memos
- Chapter 2: Notices
- Chapter 3: Letters
- Chapter 4: Using Email
- Chapter 5: Blogs
- Chapter 6: Advertisements
- Chapter 7: Press Release
Unit 5: Reports and Proposals
- Chapter 1: Business Plan
- Chapter 2: Reports
- Chapter 3: Proposals
Unit 6: Oral Communication
- Chapter 1: Presentations and Speeches
- Chapter 2: Telephone Calls
- Chapter 3: Other Oral Communication Situations
- Chapter 4: Enhancing Oral Communication
- Chapter 5: Using Visual Aids
- Chapter 6: Using Nonverbal Communication
Unit 7: Visual Communication
- Chapter 1: Pictures
- Chapter 2: Charts
- Chapter 3: Graphics
Unit 8: Employment Communication
- Chapter 1: Planning and Conducting a Job Search
- Chapter 2: Resumes and Cover Letters
- Chapter 3: Job interview
II. Discourse in Disciplines (Visions: A Thematic Analogy)
Unit 1: Culture and Society
1.1 New Nepal (by Shiddicharan Shrestha)
1.2 Looking for a Rain God (by Bessie Head)
1.3 Dover Beach (by Matthew Arnold)
1.4 Shooting an Elephant (by George Orwell)
1.5 The Unknown Citizen (by W.H. Auden)
1.6 Augustus Does His Bit (by George Bernard Shaw)
1.7 The Parrot in the Cage (by Lekhnath Paudyal)
Unit 2: Money and Management
2.1 Advertise Your Business (by Phineas T. Barnum)
2.2 Eveline (by James Joyce)
2.3 The Company Man (by Ellen Goodman)
2.4 Light My Lucky (by R. Scholes, N.R. Comley, and G.L. Ulmer)
2.5 The Ideal of Craftsmanship (by C. Wright Mills)
Unit 3: Science and Environment
3.1 Religion and Science (by Alfred North Whitehead)
3.2 The New Physics (by Fritjof Capra)
3.3 Root Cellar (by Theodore Roethke)
3.4 On Warts (by Lewis Thomas)
3.5 The Etiquette of Freedom (by Gary Synder)
3.6 The Rights of Animals (by Brigid Brophy)
Unit 4: Gender and Women
4.1 Professions for Women (by Virginia Woolf)
4.2 The Use of Force (by William Carlos Williams )
4.3 The Stronger (by August Strindberg)
4.4 Here I Love You (by Pablo Neruda)
4.5 The Kiss (by Kate Chopin)
4.6 Girl (by Jamacia Kincaid)
4.7 Farewell (by Federico Garcia Lorca)
4.8 Popular Mechanics ( by Raymond Carver)
Unit 5: Life, Death and Beyond
5.1 The Fly (by William Blake)
5.2 Jest and Ernest (by Annie Dillard)
5.3 The Old Man at the Bridge (by Earnest Hemingway)
5.4 Once More to the Lake (by E.B. White)
5.5 The Hundredth Dove (by Jane Yolen)
5.6 The Lunatic (by Laxmi Prasad Devkota)
Unit 6: Art and Philosophy
6.1 An Essay in Aesthetics (by Roger Fry)
6.2 The Clock Tower (by Bhupi Sherchan)
6.3 Beauty (by Susan Sontag)
6.4 From the Fountainhead to the Future (by Alexandra York)
6.5 What I, Think I Am (by Edward Hoagland)
6.6 All-Pervading Poetry (by Balkrishna Sama)
6.7 The Allegory of the Cave (by Plato)
6.8 Her First Ball (by Katherine Mansfield)
6.9 Not the Non-Existent (from RigVeda, X, 129
