Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University Ahmedabad

I want to get admission in graduation course in Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University Ahmedabad so provide me the details of admission process, eligibility criteria and the selection process for admission? Is Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University conducts its own entrance exam for admission?

Hi, I am from Ahmedabad; can you provide me the eligibility requirement for admission in Advanced Certificate Course in Communication Skills in English Program offered by Sardar Patel University?

[Neelu Bhasin]

Sardar Patel University has designed Advanced Certificate Course in Communication Skills in English Program as a team-taught, six-week pilot course. The course uses a combination of explicit instruction and collaborative exercises to helps one to use English as a secondary language to write clear, organized, critical academic discourse.

The focus of the course is preparation for writing the literature review; one of the most difficult aspects of the thesis, therefore one will first clarify the topics in relation to the literature of the fields and then practice the writing skills needed to distinguish the ideas from the published ideas of others in academic prose.


Eligibility

For admission to the Advanced Certificate Course in Communication Skills in English one should have successfully completed +2 under any stream with minimum 40% marks and be enrolled for an undergraduate course/graduate from any faculty discipline from a recognised university/institute in the Union of India.

The Centre for Training and Research in Language and Communication may conduct a test and/or an interview to ascertain level of proficiency at the point of entry.

The Program consists of three courses in all carrying a weighting of 100 marks each in the ratio of 50:50 for internal assessment and university examination respectively.

The programme aims at providing course participants training in language and communication in English in order to help them develop fluency and accuracy in both language and communication.
CSE-1: Communication Skills in English
CSE-2: Communication-related Skills; and
CSE-3: Individual Mini-Research Project

One shall undertake an individual guided project in consultation with the faculty and complete it under the supervision and guidance of one of their instructors.

Alternatively, one may choose to submit the entire term work consisting of marked quizzes, tutorials, assignments etc. turned in as a part of the course requirements, and make a seminar presentation.

A Viva-Voce Examination based on the individual project report or the entire term work will be held on the completion of the programme.


Objectives

One will learn to situate their original ideas within the context of the published ideas of others.

One will develop skills necessary to avoid accidental plagiarism by presenting their own ideas as related to, but clearly distinguished from, the ideas of others: one will correctly reference, quote, paraphrase, and cite material from outside sources in the styles accepted by the academic communities in their fields of study.

One will write clear summaries, syntheses, analyses, and evaluations of outside sources using academic structures for these genres.

One will analyse structures and techniques from published texts to use as models for improving the clarity and organization of their own writing.

One will strengthen skills in grammar, mechanics, and proofreading to produce writing that maintains the conventions of published English.


Contact Detail:
Sardar Patel University
Vallabh Vidyanagar-388120
Gujarat
e-mail : registrar_spu@spuvvn.edu
Fax : [02692]236475
Phone : [02692]226801