Maharaja Ganga Singh University - MGSU Courses

Ph.D. (History)

Course Syllabus

Teaching Aptitude

• Teaching : Nature, objectives, characteristics and basic requirement;
• Learner’s characteristics;
• Factors affecting teaching;
• Method of teaching;
• Teaching aids;
• Evaluation systems.

Research Aptitude

• Research : Meaning, characteristics and types;
• Steps of research;
• Methods of Research
• Research Ethics;
• Paper, article, workshop, seminar, conference and symposium;
• Thesis writing: its characteristics and format.

Reading Comprehension

• A passage to be set with questions to be answered.

Communication

• Communication: Nature, characteristics, types, barriers and effective classroom communication.

Reasoning (including Mathematical)

• Number series; letter series; codes;
• Relationships; classification.

Logical Reasoning

• Understanding the structure of arguments;
• Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning;
• Verbal analogies : Word analogy-Applied analogy;
• Verbal classification;
• Reasoning Logical Diagrams : Simple diagrammatic relationship, multi- diagrammatic relationship;
•  Venn diagram; Analytical reasoning.

Data Iterpretation

• Sources, acquisition and interpretation of data;
• Quantitative and qualitative data;
• Graphical representation and mapping of data.

Information and communication technology (ICT)

• ICT : meaning, advantage, disadvantage and uses;
• General abbreviation and terminology;
• Basic of internet and e-mailing.

People and Environment

• People and environment interaction;
• Sources of pollution;
• Pollutants and their impact on human life, exploitation of nature and energy resource;
• Natural hazard and mitigation

Higher Education System : Governance, polity and Administration

• Structure of the institutions for higher learning and research in India; formal and distance education; professional/ technical and general education; value education: governance, polity and administration; concept, institutions and their interaction.