Career Enhancement Course

PROGRAMME CURRICULUM AND REGULATIONS

As per National Credit Framework, National Education Policy,
UGC Guidelines
(w.e.f Academic Session 2023-24)

CAREER ENHANCEMENT COURSE

3 YEAR PROGRAM(BCA)

7th KM, Roorkee Haridwar Highway, Vardhmanpuram, Roorkee 247 667

(Uttarakhand)
2023
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INDEX

Page
S.No. Contents
Number
PREAMBLE OF PROGRAMME
1. 03

2. VISION AND MISSION OF THE UNIVERSITY 05

3. ABBREVIATIONS 06
BOARD OF STUDIES
4. 07

DISTRIBUTION OF CREDITS
5. 08

DETAILED CURRICULUM
6. 09-23

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PREAMBLE OF PROGRAMME
The training program offered by the Training and Placement Department plays a crucial role in
preparing students for their professional careers. Here are some of the key importance of
such training programs:

1. Skill Development: Training programs help students develop essential skills required in the
workplace. These skills can include technical skills specific to their field of study, as well as soft
skills like communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and leadership abilities. By
acquiring these skills, students become more competent and confident in their professional
pursuits.

2. Industry Relevance: The training programs offered by the Training and Placement Department
are designed to align with industry requirements and trends. They provide students with
practical knowledge and exposure to real-world scenarios, enabling them to understand the
industry's expectations, practices, and standards. This industry relevance enhances students'
employability and helps them bridge the gap between academia and the professional world.

3. Practical Experience: Training programs often incorporate hands-on training, internships, or

industry projects, giving students the opportunity to gain practical experience. Practical
exposure allows students to apply theoretical concepts learned in classrooms to real-world
situations, fostering a deeper understanding and enhancing their problem-solving abilities. This
experience also provides them with valuable industry contacts and networking opportunities.

4. Career Guidance: The Training and Placement Department not only offers training but also
provides career guidance and counseling to students. They help students identify their
strengths, interests, and career goals, and guide them towards appropriate training programs
and job opportunities. This guidance helps students make informed decisions about their career
paths and equips them with the necessary skills to excel in their chosen fields.

5. Industry Connections: The Training and Placement Department often collaborates with various
industries and companies to facilitate recruitment drives, job fairs, and campus placements.
These connections provide students with direct access to potential employers and create
opportunities for internships, projects, and job placements. Industry collaborations also ensure
that the training programs are aligned with industry demands, increasing the chances of
student success in the job market.

6. Confidence Building: Participating in a well-structured training program enhances students' self-

confidence. As they acquire new skills, gain practical experience, and receive guidance,
students become more self-assured in their abilities. This confidence positively impacts their
performance during interviews, presentations, and job-related tasks, making them more
competitive candidates in the job market.
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Overall, the training programs offered by the Training and Placement Department are essential for
students' holistic development and successful transition from academics to professional life. By
equipping students with relevant skills, practical experience, and industry connections, these
programs significantly enhance their employability and prepare them to thrive in their chosen careers.

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VISION AND MISSION OF THE COER UNIVERSITY

VISION
To promote innovation-centric education, become centre of excellence to international
standards, perform research in pace with industrial development; producing ‘life and
career ready’ professionals.

MISSION
M1 To develop the professionals having basic and advanced competencies so that
they can serve Society & Industry, and face global challenges.
M2 To impart education based on the latest knowledge, with analytical and
experimental skills, through advanced methods of training, research and strong
Institute-Industry interface.
M3 To create an innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

M4 To promote research/based projects/activities in the emerging areas.

M5 To foster the science of creativity and educate ownership for sustainable &
scalable ventures.
M6 To inculcate strong moral values and integrative thought processes for disciplined
professional growth and instil lifelong learning.

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ABBREVATIONS

Cr Credit
L Lecture

T Tutorial

P Practical Hours
TH Theory End Semester Examination Duration
ATN Attendance

CWA Class Work Assessment

MTE 1 Mid Term Examination I

MTE 2 Mid Term Examination II

ESE End Semester Examination

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BOARD OF STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF TRAINING AND PLACEMENT

COER UNIVERSITY

S.
Name & Designation Contact Details Role in BOS
No.
Dr. Rashmi Gupta
[email protected] Chairperson
1) Head,
+91 8126819975 u/s 3.15(1)(a)
Humanities
Ms. Divya Mishra
[email protected] Member
2) Dy.Registrar,
+91 8449663499 u/s 3.15(1)(c)
Department of Training & Placement

Mr. Rakesh Marqus [email protected] Member

3)
Department of Training & Placement +91 75 00 720 372 u/s 3.15(1)(c)

Dr. Sunita Rani

[email protected] Member
4) Assistant Professor,
+91 9996557341 u/s 3.15(1)(d)
College of Business Studies

Mr. Sandeep Chaudhary [email protected] Member

5)
Department of Training & Placement +91 7055110102 u/s 3.15(1)(d)

Dr. Rohit Kanauzia

Head,
[email protected] Member
6) Department of Information
8126207090 u/s 3.15(1)(d)
Technology

Mr. Nitin Mohan Arya, [email protected] Member

5)
Expert +91 9999406841 u/s 3.15(1)(e)

Ms. Richa Chawla, [email protected] Member

6)
Expert u/s 3.15(1)(e)

Mr. Sohan Lal [email protected] Member Secretary

8)
Deputy Registrar (Academic) +91 89 79 500 483 u/s 3.15(1)(g)

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Course Objective

This course is tailored to enhance the interpersonal, communication, and professional skills of BCA students. It
aims to prepare students for the IT industry by developing their abilities in areas such as teamwork, leadership,
communication, and problem-solving.

Course Objectives:
 To develop effective communication skills, both verbal and written.

 To enhance interpersonal and teamwork skills.

 To build leadership qualities and understand the principles of effective leadership.

 To foster critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.

 To improve time management and organizational skills.

 To prepare students for professional interactions in a global workplace.

 CO # 1 – Soft Skills – At the end of the course, the students will have the ability to communicate convincingly and negotiate diplomatically while
working in a team to arrive at a win-win situation. They would further develop their inter-personal and leadership skills.

 CO # 2 – Soft Skills – At the end of the course, the students shall learn to examine the context of a Group Discussion topic and develop new
perspectives and ideas through brainstorming and arrive at a consensus.

 CO # 3 – Verbal – At the end of the course, the students will have the ability to relate, choose, conclude and determine the usage of right
vocabulary.

 CO # 4 – Verbal – At the end of the course, the students will have the ability to utilise prior knowledge of grammar to recognise structural
instabilities and modify them.

 CO # 5 – Verbal – At the end of the course, the students will have the ability to comprehend, interpret, deduce and logically categorise words,
phrases and sentences. They will also have the ability to theorise, discuss, elaborate, criticise and defend their ideas.

CO/PO PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 P07 PO8

CO1 2
CO2 5
CO3 4
CO4 3
CO5 2

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EVALUATION SCHEME

CODE SUBJECT CATEGORY SEMESTER CREDIT L T P ATT CWA/PRA MTE1 MTE2 ESE
Career
UTP001 Enhancement TNP I 1 0 0 2 10 40 _ _ 50
Course-I
Career
UTP0012 Enhancement TNP II 2 0 0 4 10 40 _ _ 50
Course-II
Career
UTP0013 Enhancement TNP III 2 0 0 4 10 40 _ _ 50
Course-III
Career
UTP0014 Enhancement TNP IV 2 0 0 4 10 40 _ _ 50
Course-IV
Career
UTP0015 Enhancement TNP V 2 0 0 4 10 40 _ _ 50
Course- V

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Career Enhancement Course-I

Course Code: UTP001 Credit: 1 L T P: 0 0 2

Module Name Soft Skills

S.No. Topics Duration 30 Hours

1. Orientation and ice-breaking session 5 hours

2. SWOC Analysis 4 hours

3. Pronunciation and diction 6 hours

4. Activity – Striking a 10 hours

conversation/storytelling/explaining a situation

5 Manners & Etiquettes 5 Hours

 Phone Etiquettes
 Social Media Etiquettes
 Networking Etiquettes

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Module Name Technical-C Language

S No Topics Duration 10 Hours
Introduction to different types of popular online programming
platforms (Hackerrank, Leetcode).
Illustration of problem solving skill by solving simple problems on
1. Hacker Rank and Leetcode plateforms (Problems based on use of 2 Hours
basic data types and decision constructs, at least four problems
should be discussed in class and ten problems as an assignment ).
Problem solving based on real life scenario using different types of
2. array and pointers. 2 Hours

Solving problems based on string manipulation using char & string

3. data types and concept of ARGV and ARGC (use of variable 2 Hours
number of arguments in functions)
Problem solving based on use of different types of secondary data
4. types like Structure Union, Enum & Typedef. 2 Hours

Problems based on use of Preprocessors, Bit fields, File Handling

5. and some basic concepts of low level programming techniques.
2 Hours

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Aptitude
Module Name
S.No. TOPIC Duration 10 Hours

1 Classification of number system Rational and, irrational 2 Hours

numbers, Prime, Relative prime Composite numbers , Factors,
Total Number of factors, Even Odd factor

2 Total number of digits ,Unit’s Digit, Last Two Digits, Calculation 2 Hours
& Simplification Multiplication Tricks, Finding Square and
square root of numbers

3 Divisibility rules, Remainder theorem, Remainder 2 Hours

using binomial expansion Successive division
method
4 Average of numbers, Surds and Indices 2 Hours

5 HCF & LCM, HCF & LCM by factorization and division 2 Hours
method , Percentage

SUGGESTED READING MATERIAL

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Career Enhancement Course-II

Course Code: UTP0012 Credit: 1 L T P: 0 0 2

Module Name SOFT SKILLS

S.No. Topics Methodology Duration 30
Hours

1. TNA- Training Need Analysis. TNA- How to prepare and practice mock test. 2 Hours
To understand the level of the
students.)

2. Extempore- Lets Speak  Pick a chit 10 Hours

 Jam Session
 Write Something

4 Etiquettes – Corporate 10 Hours

How to present yourself in a corporate world. The
Dressing. focus will be on corporate dressing and meeting
manners. Students may be involved in team work
through role play.

5 Mock Practice Test 2 mock test for the Students 8 hours

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Module Name Technical-Data Structures

Module Duration
Module Name. Module
No. Contents 16 Hours
1 1 Hours
Introduction and Overview Classification of data structures, Representation of linked
on Stack, Queue, and list in memory, operations on array using stack and Queue,
Linked List Difference between array and linked list
Operations on Stack Algorithm of PUSH and POP operations, Implementation
Operations on Queue of Stack using C Language. Applications of stack,
Problem solving based on stack.
Types of Queue, Insertion and deletion operations on
Circular queue, Dequeue, and simple queue,
Implementation of related operations in C language,
Problem solving based on Queue.

Types of linked list, Algorithms of operations on singly,

2 Operators on linked list doubly, circular, and header linked list, Implementation 1 Hours
of operations on linked list in C language, Problem
solving based on linked list.

Infix to postfix, postfix to infix, expression evaluation,

3 Expression Evaluation using Construction of recursion tree, Recursive algorithms and 1 Hours
Stack, Recursion programs, Tower of Hanoi.

Trees and searching Binary trees and their properties, terminology, sequential
4 algorithms and linked implementations of tree, linear search & binary 2 Hours
search, Implementation of searching algorithms

Procedure of sorting using Quick sort, merge sort, insertion

5 Sorting algorithms sort, bubble sort, and selection sort, heap sort. Priority 1 Hours
queue. Implementations of recursive sorting algorithms,
Problem solving based on sorting algorithms.

Algorithm, procedure of tree traversal methods, DOT

6 Tree traversal methods method to calculate tree traversal, Implementation of tree 2 Hours
traversal methods in C Language, Problem solving based
on Trees.

Search Trees: Binary search trees, search efficiency,

Binary search tree and insertion and deletion operations, and importance of 2 Hours
7 AVL Tree balancing, Binary search tree Implementation,
Implementation of searching operation on binary search
tree.
Construction of AVL Tree, Insertion and deletion
operations in AVL Tree, implementation of AVL tree in C
Language, Problems based on AVL tree.

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Search Trees: Binary search trees, search efficiency,

Binary search tree and insertion and deletion operations, and importance of 3 Hours
7 AVL Tree balancing, Binary search tree Implementation,
Implementation of searching operation on binary search
tree.
Construction of AVL Tree, Insertion and deletion
operations in AVL Tree, implementation of AVL tree in C
Language, Problems based on AVL tree.

Directed and undirected graphs, implementation –

adjacency matrix and linked adjacency chains, graph
8 Graphs traversal – breadth first and depth first, spanning trees, 2 Hours
Computation of minimum spanning trees, graph
implementation, Problem solving based on Graph data
structures.

Module Name Aptitude

S.No. TOPIC Duration 20 Hours

1 Boats & Streams 2 Hours

2 Problems based on ages Problems on trains 3 Hours

3 Time & Work ,Time and Distances 3 Hours

4 Progression and Sequence 2 Hours

5 Profit & Loss 3 Hours

6 Partnership 2 Hours

7 Simple Interest 2 Hours

8 Compound Interest 3 Hours

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Career Enhancement Course-III

Course Code: UTP0013 Credit: 1 L T P: 0 0 4

Module Name Soft Skills

S.No. Topics Duration 30 Hours

1. Orientation and ice breaking session 1 hours

2. Self Introduction with Practice Session 4 hours

3. Resume Writing Session In Lab 3 hours

4. Corporate Etiquettes and Dressing for 3 hours

Men and Women

o Corporate Dressing Men

o Corporate Dressing Women
o Body Language.
o Role Play

5. Group Discussion Review (7 hours)

 1 Hour- Lecture
 2 Hour- GD
 3 Hour- GD
 4 Hour- Review

6. Presentations- Individual and Group (8hours)

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Review

7. Grammer Review (2 hours)

8. Writing Cover letter for job application, 2 hours

with practical session in lab

Module Name Aptitude

S.No. TOPIC Duration 16 Hours

1 Alpha Numeric series, Coding & decoding 1 Hour

2 Alphabet coding, Numerical coding 1 Hour

3 Alphanumeric coding, Symbol based coding, Alphabet- 2 Hours

Symbol-Numerical coding

4 Blood relations, Blood relations in pointing form, 2 Hours

Blood
relations in coded form
5 Clocks & Calendar 2 Hours

6 Inequalities, Coded inequalities 2 Hours

7 Ranking and Order (Position) 1 Hour

8 Input-Output, Syllogism 1 Hour

9 Ratio & Proportion 2 Hours

10 Mixtures & allegation 2 Hours

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Module Name Technical-Operating System

S.No. Topics Duration 16

Hours
1 Problems based on Batch OS, Multi-programming, Multi-Tasking, Time-Sharing, 3 Hours
Real-time OS with example, Process concept, long term, Mid-term Short term
Scheduler, Principle of Concurrency, with example.

2 Problems based on FCFS, SJF, SRTF, LRTF, RR, Priority Queue, Calculative TAT, WT, 3 Hours
AT, BT with reduce time and Convoy Effect.

3 Problems based on Mutual exclusion, bound wait, progress, Race condition, Strict 3 Hours
alteration and Peterson’s algorithm, producer consumer problem with program
and example.

4 Producer consumer problem , Readers-Writers problem, Bounded Buffer problem 3 Hours

Dining Philosopher’s problem with program and examples.

5 Banker’s algorithm with example, Resource allocation graph, Program and example 2 Hours
of fork() system call, calculating no. of parent and child process in fork() system
call.

6 Internal and external Fragmentation, paging problem, pages replacement 2 Hours

algorithm FIFO, LRU, MRU, OPTIMAL with example.find TT, seek time, rotation
latency, rotation time, FCFS,SSTF, SCAN, C-SCAN,LOOK, C-LOOK problem with
example.

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Career Enhancement Course-IV

Course Code: UTP0014 Credit: 1 L T P: 0 0 4

Module Name Soft skills

S.No. Topics Methodology Duration-30 hours

1. Orientation on Corporate Hiring Lecture and PPT to 1 hours

Process and their expectations conducted with
from potential candidates Placement Cell
2. Simulated job interviews Mock Interviews to 9 hours
be conducted in
placement cell, 3
practice session for
each student.
3. HR Round – PI Technique Practice based
o 3 hours
4. HR Round – GD Technique Practice based (Take
o 3 hours
topics asked earlier
by previous
companies)

5. HR Round- Presentation Practice based

o 3 hours
6. HR Round - Written English Practice based
o 3 hours
7. Professional Profile Building & Practice based
o 2 hours
networking skills

8. Different Job Profiles and Job Practice based

o 1 hours
hunting skills

9 Etiquettes: Practice based

o 5 Hours
o Meeting Etiquettes
o Dining Etiquettes
o Social Gathering.

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o Role Play

Module Name Quant-IV

S.No. TOPIC Duration 16 Hours

1 Probability and permutation and combination 2 Hours

2 Statements & Arguments,Statements & Assumptions, Statements & 3 Hours

Conclusions

3 Cubes & Dice , 2 Hours

4 Analogy, Series 2 Hours

5 Counting of figure, Direction Sense 2 Hours

6 Water and Mirror Images 3 Hours

7 Venn Diagram, Seating Arrangement 2 Hours

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Module Name Technical-DBMS

Sr. Identify the entities and their relations and draw an E. R diagram and design
1 Topic to be 2 Hours
Duration 16 Hours
No. database applying normalization
Discussed
2 Study the various DDL and DML commands w.r.t MYSQL 3 Hours

3 Perform queries involving predicates LIKE, BETWEEN, IN, NOT IN, GROUP 2 Hours
BY, ORDER BY, GROUP BY and aggregate functions.
4 Execution of queries using multiple tables (JOINS). 2 Hours

5 Solving of queries using the concept of sub query. 2 Hours

Solving the given problem using relational algebra, relational calculus and 2 Hours
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SQL.
7. To apply the concepts of security and privileges.
2 Hours
8. Working with cursors and triggers for given problems 1 Hours

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Career Enhancement Course-V

Course Code: UTP0015 Credit: 2 L T P: 0 0 4

Module Name SOFT SKILLS

S.No. Topics Methodology Duration 12
Hours

1. Functional English (it should be Tenses/Subject Verb Agreement/Parts of Speech. 2 Hours

inclusive)

2. Interview Skills Practice Sessions with the students 4 Hours

4 Presentation Skills 4 Hours

7 habits of highly successful people based
on Steven R Covey.

6 Time Management  Goal Setting 1 hours

 Prioritization Planning
 Scheduling and delegation
7 Feed back session Feedback 1 hour
Generic feedback should be given to the students
and it will form the basis for the next session

Module Name Aptitude

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S.No. TOPIC Duration 16 Hours

1 Puzzles 4 Hours

2 Data Interpretation, Data Analysis 4 Hours

3 Heights and Distances 2 Hours

4 Statements & Arguments 2 Hours

5 Statements & Assumptions 2 Hours

6 Statements & Conclusions 2 Hours

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Module Name Technical-Python

S No Topics Duration 16
Hours
Simple problems based on
application of Python operators,
1. data type, decision construct and 2 Hrs.
looping.
Problem solving using string and
string operations (concatenation,
2. repetition, indexing, slicing, 2 Hrs.
splitting and joining) in Python.
Problem solving using list, tuple,
3. set and dictionary in Python. 2 Hr.
Problem solving using function
4. and modules in Python. 2 Hr.
Problem solving using python
5. libraries (Pandas, Numpy, SciPy, 2 Hrs.
Scikit-learn)
Problem solving using OOP
6. concept in Python. 2 Hr.
Problem based on use of
7. Exception Handling in Python. 2 Hr.
Problem based on File Handling in
8. Python. 2 Hr.

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