First Year B.M.M. Semester I

1. Effective communication skills I

General:

Study strategies – Grellet, F.N. Delhi : Oxford University Press 1979
ELT Cell, University of Mumbai – Note making and Composition Exercise 1979 – Bhasker, W.S. and Prabhu, N.S.
Communication skills in English – Bellare, Nirmala, Martin, J.R. – Examination Papers, 1981.
Communication Skills in English – Hamp-Lyons, L. and Heasley B. – Examination Papers, 1987.

Reading:

Developing Reading Skills – Cambridge University Press 1981 – Freeman, Sarah.
Reading and Thinking in English, Four Vols. (Vol. 1 for the Lowest Level, Vol. 4 for the Highest Level), The British Council, Oxford University Press, 1979 – 1981 – Saraswathi, V.
English through Reading, Vols. 1 and 2, Oxford University Press, 1988.
Reading and Study strategies, Vols. 1 and 2, Oxford University Press, 1988.

Writing:

Factual Writing: Exploring and Challenging Social Reality, Oxford University 1990.
Study Writing : A course in Written English for Academic and Professional Purposes, Cambridge University Press 1987.
Written Communication. Orient Longman, 1977.
Organized Writing, Book1, Orient Longman
Organized Writing, Book 2, Orient Longman

Thinking:

De Bono, Edward; Teaching Thinking, (1986); Penguin Books.
De Bono, Edward; De Bono’s Thinking Course; (1996); BBC Books.
De Bono, Edward; Serious Creativity; (1992); Penguin

2. Fundamentals of Mass Communication:

De Fleur, Melvin and Dennis, Everette; Understanding Mass Communication; (1988); 3rd edition; Houghton Miffin Co.
Narula, Uma; Mass Communication Theory and Practice; (1944); Haranand.
Andal; Communication Theories and Models.
Ed. Barker and Petley; Ill Effects, 2nd edition; (1997); Routledge.
Ed. J. S. Yadav; Issues in Mass Communication; Kanishka Publishers.
Davison, Boylan and Yu; Mass Media – Systems and Effects; (1976).
Hobart; Information Ages

3. Landmarks in 20th Century World History:

Davis; World History.
Cahoone; From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology; Blackwell Publishers.
McNeil and Seldman; Continental Philosophy: an Anthology.
Hutchinson’s Dictionary Ideas (94); Helican.
J.O. Urmson and Ree; Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and
Philosophers; Unwin Hyman (89).

4. Introduction to Sociology:

Sociology, Polity Press, Ed 2 London 1999 – Giddens Anthony.
Sociology, Tata McGraw Hill 1999 – Law and Shaffers.
Sociology, Oxford University Press 1998; Leslie, Larson, Gorman.
Sociology Imagination – C. Wright Mills.
Human Society – Kingsley Davis.

5. Economics:

Paul Samuelson; Economics
Begg, Dombush and Fischer; Micro and Macro Economics
Stonier and Hague; Economics
Lipsey and Steiner; Economics
D.M. Mithani; Business Economics (part I and II)
R.R. Sahuraja and others; Economic Theory