English I

Course Title: English I

Course No: CACS103

Nature of the Course: THEORY

Semester: 1

Full Marks: 20 + 20 + 60

Pass Marks: 8 + 8 + 24

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

This course aims at helping students combine the knowledge of the English language with their technical knowledge with special emphasis on vocabulary acquisition and grammatical accuracy. It offers up-to-date technical content, authentic reading and listening passages covering a wide range of topics like the use of virtual reality in industry, personal computing, viruses and security, information systems, and multimedia. Letter-writing section offers a complete guide to writing work-related letters and comprehensive glossary of technical terms forms a useful mini-dictionary of computing terminology.

Course Objectives

Upon the conclusion of the course, students should be able to: - Impart effective language skills to students and enable them to use language accurately, clearly and concisely - Acquaint students with language used in computer study through extensive reading activity - Help them to enhance their ability to use language in a proper way with specific focus on grammatical accuracy and writing competence - Enable students to improve work-related letter writing skills with special attention to presentation and structure - Familiarize them with innovation in computer science while introducing them with the language used in this field

Course Contents

1. A. Learning the Language - Unit One

9 hrs

1.1. Personal Computing - The Processor, Language Focus A: Contextual Reference

1.2. Portable Computers - Operating Systems, Language Focus B: Word formation, prefixes

1.3. Online Services - Data Transmission, Language Focus C: Word formation, suffixes

2. A. Learning the Language - Unit Two

12 hrs

2.1. Computer Software - Comparing Software Packages, Language Focus D: Making Comparisons

2.2. Computer Networks - Network Configurations, Language Focus E: Time Sequence

2.3. Computer in Education - CALL, Language Focus F: Giving Examples

2.4. Virtual Reality - VR Input Devices, Language Focus G: Classifying

3. B. Organizing and Writing Texts - Unit Three

9 hrs

3.1. Programming and Languages - C Languages, Language Focus H: Organizing Information

3.2. Computer Viruses - Computer Security, Language Focus I: Listing

3.3. Computers in the Office - Computer System, Language Focus J: The Passive

4. B. Organizing and Writing Texts - Unit Four

6 hrs

4.1. Computers in Medicine - Data Storage and Management, Language Focus K: Explanations and Definitions

4.2. Robotics - Robot Characteristics, Language Focus L: Compound Noun

5. B. Organizing and Writing Texts - Unit Five

9 hrs

5.1. Machine Translation - AI and Expert System, Language Focus M: Cause and Effect

6. Additional Topics

6.1. Multi Media - Computer-to-video-conversion, Language Focus N: Making Predictions

6.2. Computer Graphics - 24 bit Color, Language Focus O: Letter Writing

Text Books

1.Boeckner, Keith and P. Charles Brown. Oxford English for Computing. London: Rutledge, 1993.

Notes:

This syllabus follows the official BCA curriculum of Tribhuvan University. In case of any doubt or revision, the university's published syllabus shall be considered authoritative.

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