BMM (Bachelor in Mass Media): Syllabus, Notes, Answers

BMM (Bachelor in Mass Media) in Mumbai. Find the complete syllabus, books, references, notes, and answers of assignments and exams.

Bachelor of Mass Media (BMM course) is an undergraduate program conducted by University of Mumbai. BMM offers exciting career options in Audio and Video Journalism, TV and Radio Communication, Cinema, Advertising, PR, Event Management & Magazines, Newspapers and much more.

BMM Subjects

FYBMM

Semester 1: Economics, Effective Communication Skills 1, Fundamentals of Mass Communication, History & Landmarks in the world, Introduction to Computers, Introduction to Sociology.

Semester 2: Effective Communication Skills 2, Literature, Management, Marketing, Political Science, Psychology

SYBMM

Semester 3: Advanced Computers, Creative Writing, Culture Studies, Media Studies, Public Relations, Understanding Cinema

Semester 4: Introduction to Advertising, Introduction to Journalism, Mass Media Research, Organizational Behaviour, Photography, and Print Production, Radio and television

TYBMM

Semester 5: Advertising, Journalism.

Semester 6: Advertising, Journalism

Question Banks for Various Semesters

Introduction to Economics

1. Law of demand assumptions and exception.
2. Features of oligopoly
3. Inflation meaning, types, causes, effects and measures to control Inflation.
4. Commercial Bank and its functions.
5. Central bank and its functions.
6. What is a demand? Name any five factors that determine a demand.
7. Discuss in detail various challenges faced by Indian economy.
8. Explain the concept of cost with its different types.
9. What is the difference between macroeconomics and microeconomics?
10. How is it supportive to each other? How do you think the study of economy is incomplete
without these two?
11. What are the salient features of monopolistic competition? Is it an ideal market structure?
Justify.

1. State objective of International Monetary Fund.
2. State the features of Perfect completion.
3. State the features of Monopoly.
4. State the features of Monopolistic Completion.
5. Discuss Circular flow of national Income.
6. Discuss Trade cycles features and phases
7. State the meaning and function of money.
8. ‘WTO is a watchdog of international trade’ Elucidate.
9. State the merits and demerits of LPG model in India 1991
10. Discuss ‘Hypothetical individual and market demand schedule and derive their demand
curves.’
11. Explain with suitable diagrams the different types of price elasticity of demand.
12. Difference between Inflation & Deflation.
13. Economies of scale.
14. State the types of budget
15. State the types of deficits
16. Balance of trade v/s balance of payment
17. What is the difference between short run and long run production function? Explain.

Effective Communication Skills

1. Illustrate and explain the process of communication and its components with the
help of a diagram and an example from any medium of media.
2.Explain the physical and psychological barriers of communication in detail.
3. What are the errors in thinking? Discuss the four fallacies with an example for each.
4.What is skimming and scanning. Explain the importance of skimming and scanning
for Effective communications.
5.What are the hallmarks of writing? Explain them with the help of examples.
6. List all the qualities/skills of a good translator.
7. Define the following words of the media vocabulary:
Editorial, Subjective, Plagiarise, Credibility, Investigative Journalism, Media Bias,
Propaganda, Yellow Journalism, Surrogate Advertising, Slug Line, Ombudsman, Columnist, Source, Libel

1. Write a notice for a departmental meeting.
2. Write an agenda for the annual meet of a multinational company.
3. Write minutes of the meeting for the “…” (Will differ from paper to paper)
4. Write a letter to the BMC drawing his attention to the growing menace of
hawkers on Footpaths outside major railway stations.
5. Write a job application letter for the post of an assistant copy writer in an
advertising agency Referring to their classified ad in a daily
6. Discuss how translation plays an important role in the global media industry.
Substantiate your answer with examples.
7. What are the four steps of listening?
8. Describe importance of context, relevance & multiple encoding in the process of
translation.
9. Explain the goals of communication.
10. Describe the composition of speech.
11. What are the different types of listening.
12. Explain the impact of public speaking. List the fundamentals of the same.

1. Mass Communication
2. Creative Thinking
3. Representational and Procedural Memory
4. Four steps of Listening
5. Non Verbal Skills
6. SQ3R Method of Reading
7. Intellectual and Emotional Memory of a Translator
8. Script Writing
9. Importance of Body Language
10. Essential skills required for Anchoring

Introduction to Mass Communication

1. Write with examples the difference between Mass Communication & Mass Media?20 21
2. Describe the Barriers in Communication with suitable examples 7
3. Discuss the tools of mass communication.
4. What is the contribution of electronic media in mass communication?
5. Explain with Diagram the process of communication and its various elements.4 5
6. Explain with examples various forms of Communications. 2
7. Discuss the scope of any two of the following tools of mass communication :
(a) Books, Newspapers, Magazines 27-37
(b)Radio 39
(c) Television 41
(d)Films 44
(e) Internet 48

8. What is Media Convergence? Explain with examples its technological dimension,
economic dimension, socio-cultural dimension and its implications to ‘Mass
Communication’. 68
9. With specific example explain Portrayal of women in Indian Cinema [84,85]
10. How is Mass Communication different from other forms of communication?
Explain in detail with the help of examples.
11. Explain the term ‘Gatekeeping’? Explain the Gatekeeping Model. [12,13]
12. With the help of a case study, explain how mass communication can be used for
social and political causes. [58,59]
13. Explain the term Convergence. In what ways do you think convergence is going to impact the traditional mass media? [66]
14. Critically examine mass media’s portrayal of women. How can such portrayal impact women?[84,85]
15. Explain the Laswell Model of Communication with diagram.
16. What is the code of broadcast for AIR and Doordarshan.[40]
17. Write a short history of ‘Films in India’ and explain any two decades of Hindi cinema.
18. Public Relation is all about public and communication. Explain with reference to PR in
India. [51,52]
19. Who according to you is a good social communicator? Explain by giving instances in
which s/he connected with the masses
20. Describe various tools of Traditional & Folk Media with suitable examples
21. Elaborate the concept of communication with various definitions and explain various forms of communication.
22. Discuss the use of television as a means of mass communication in India.
Describe its advantages and disadvantages, uses and potential with examples.
23. Discuss with examples how newspapers serve the functions of mass communication. Discuss benefits and drawbacks
24. Discuss the objectives/ functions of Mass Communication.
25. Discuss barriers to mass communication with examples.
26. Discuss the growth and evolution of radio as a mass medium in India.
27. Define Barriers to Communication with special reference to Socio- Psychological barrier and Cultural barriers.
28. Write a short history of ‘Films in India’ and explain any two decades of Hindi
cinema. [45,46]
29. Discuss the process of communication with reference to any mass medium
30. What do you mean by ‘barriers to communication’? Do you agree that barriers are
created by the media?
31.Do political communicator’s speech style create an impact? Explain it with reference to
your favourite political communicator
32.Do you think that mass media only creates negative impact on children and youth? Discuss.
33.What has been the impact of media on our culture? Discuss with relevant examples.
34.Comment on ‘Media Convergence and its technological dimension with impact on mass Communication’.
35. Elaborate on Group Communication using Traditional and Folk Media
36. Impact of New Media on Women and Children and their development.
37. Communication is a process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired and
transformed. Explain the concept with the help Gerber’s model and the barriers involved in
the process of mass communication.
38. Describe Interpersonal, Public, Satellite and Interactive forms of communication and role
of culture in mass communication with suitable examples.
39. Communication used to inform, to build an image and to influence public opinion. Explain
the nature of mass media with role of Advertising and Public relations.
40. Outline the difference between Traditional Folk media and Modern mass or Electronic
media.
41. Elaborate the conceptual framework of Media Convergence and its implications to mass
communication.
42. Explain the significance of Gatekeeping model of Communication
43. Write a short history of films in India and explain any two decades of Hindi Cinema.
44. What is Mass Media? What are the different types of Mass Media? List and explain the
merits and demerits of each medium.
45. Explain and illustrate two communication models
46. What is traditional and folk media? Name and explain some of the traditional media.
47. What is the purpose of using traditional media in mass communication?
48. Analyse the impact of media on youth and children. Justify giving examples.
49. How is Mass Communication different from other forms of communication? Explain in
detail with the help of examples.
50. With the help of a case study, explain how mass communication can be used for social
and political causes.

51. Public Relation is all about Public and Communication. Explain with reference to PR in
India.
52. Explain the different types of appeals in advertising. Give example of one product which
uses advertising and how it has changed over the years.
53. What is ‘Convergence of Media’? Explain the impact of New Media convergence and
Socio – Cultural dimension of convergence.
54. What are different types of Communication? Explain each with importance.
55. What are different types of Mass Communication Media? Explain its importance in
today’s World?
56. Discuss the impact of new technology on mass media with reference to media
convergence and information super highway.

1. Is there any impact of Mass Media on Women & Culture? How
2. Describe the impact of Mass Media on Youth & Development.
3. Differentiate between mass communication and the mass media.
4. Explain in detail Laswell model of communication.
5. Which medium according to you is the most impactful and why?
6. Write a short history of “Films in India” and explain any two decades of Hindi
Cinema. [45,46]
7. Public Relation is all about public and communication. Explain with reference to PR in
India
8. Who according to you is a good social communicator? Explain by giving instances in
which s/he connected with the masses
9. What is convergence of media? Explain cultural convergence with reference to any one
channel providing space to the audience to create content.
10. What has been the impact of media on our culture?
11. What is the code of broadcast for AIR and Doordarshan?
12. What is convergence of Media? Explain Cultural Convergence with reference to any
one channel providing space to the audience to create content.
13. What has been the impact of media on our culture?
14 .Explain the code of conduct for advertisers in India.
15. What is the impact of mass media on Indian Society?
16. Discuss the impact of mass media with reference to any recent event
17 .where media intervention changed the situation.
18. List the advantages of social media and give examples for the same
19. Explain the linear model of communication
20. Discuss the positive and negative impact of mass media on Education
21. What is information super high way and information economy?
22. Explain the HUB Model in detail
23. Differentiate between mass communication and the mass media.
24. What is the impact of mass media on our culture? Explain with examples
25. What is communication? Explain its process with diagrams.
26. Explain the barriers of communication with examples.

1. What is the impact of Mass Media on Education & Children?
2. What was the role of Sant Gadge Maharaj as a mass communicator?
3. Discuss the role of Narendra Modi as a mass communicator
4. Write a short note on any one model of Communication
5. Write short note of various barriers to communication
6. Write short note on various types and importance of Traditional & Folk Media
7. Write short note on the impact of social media on Mass Communication
8. Differentiate between group communication and public communication.
9. How is broadcasting different from print as a mass medium.
10. Discuss the undesirable effects of mass media on children.
11. What is nonverbal communication? Explain its relevance with the help of examples.
What is the significance of Gate Keeping model of communication?
12. Explain the evolution of Television in India with specific reference to Doordarshan.
13. List the advantages of social media and give examples for the same.
14. Do you think mass media only creates negative impact on children and youth? Discuss with reference to media consumption of children.
15. Write a brief note of Traditional & Folk Media.
16. Advertising and Public relations as a tools and means of mass communication.
17. How Mass Media contribute in social development? Give some suitable examples
18. Discuss with examples how newspapers serve the functions of mass communication.

Discuss benefits and drawbacks
19. Discuss the objectives/ functions of Mass Communication.
20. Discuss the growth and evolution of radio as a mass medium in India.
21. What effect did the Gutenberg printing press have on society and communication?
22. Discuss the difference between magazines and newspapers
23. Discuss the elements of the communication process using examples from either radio
or television
24. Explain the importance of the Internet as an interactive medium
25. What is the nature of Mass Communication and state its difference from Mass Media
26. What is Laswell’s formula of communication?
27. Explain Gerbner’s model
28. Differentiate between group communication and public communication.
29. How is broadcasting different from print as a mass medium.
30. Explain traditional and folk media in detail with examples.
31. State the barriers to effective listening.
32. How newspaper played an important role in Mass Communication
33. Explain the functions of Mass Communication in detail.

1. Write short note on the impact of mass media on any one of the following
-Children[82]
-Education[81]
-Development[86/87]
-Youth[85/86]
-Culture[83]

Write a short note on the importance of feedback in communication. (5 ECS)

2. Explain the terms Information Economy[74] and Information Society[74,75].
3. Write short notes on
i. Verbal Communication
ii. b) Hub Model[14,15]
iii. c) Broadcast code of Doordarshan[SAME AS AIR]
4. Explain Digital Media.
5. What is the importance of folk media in the present times? [26/27]
6. Explain Gerber’s model in detail[10/11]
7. Discuss Mass Media and Education[81]
8. Explain growth of Cultural and economic development and impact on Mass
communication
9. Short note on any one of the following
a. Media and role of Culture

History & Landmarks in the world

[Page 9 ] 1. Discuss the reasons and effects for the Second World War.
[Page 37] 2. Explain in detail the causes of World War I.
[Page 37 ] 3. What was the Cold War? Describe the effects including the proxy wars.
[Page 37 ] 4. Discuss how “Propaganda” was used during World War I and II.
[Page 11 ] 5. Discuss how Adolf Hitler used the mass media prevalent at that time, for
propaganda, before and during the Second World War.
[Page 10 ] 6. Discuss the three most important dictators to arise in Europe after the First
World War.
[Page 66, 98, 68 ] 7. What are Human Rights? Mention any five Human Rights. What role does
the United Nations play to ensure that Human Rights are protected?
[Page 61 ] 8. Discuss the history and functions of the UNO.
[Page 62 ] 9. Describe rhr various Organs, Objectives, Activities and Issues under UNO.

10. Trace the developments that led to the formation of Israel in 1948 and the impact in this
region.
11. Discuss the political career of Nelson Mandela and the anti- apartheid movement
12. Trace the career and achievements of Mao-Tse-Tung.
13. Discuss the rise of Communism in China.
14. What led to the collapse of USSR and what were the consequences?
15. Explain Peace Time Media Intervention with reference to Star Radio, Talking Drum Studio-
Liberia and Voice of Hope in Sudan
16. What is the Arab Spring? How did social media impact the Arab Spring? Answer with a
detailed reference to any one country
17. Define the role of media with special reference to Arab Spring, Tahir Square, Egypt and
Jasmine Revolution.
18. What led to the formation of Bangladesh? Discuss this with a brief background of Indo-
Pak relations since 1947
19. Explain in detail Indo-Pak War (1971) and formation of Bangladesh.
20. Discuss the formation of the state of Maharashtra and Samyukta Maharashtra Andolan’s
role in it.
21. What is the relevance of the Non Aligned Movement and what was India’s role in its
formation.
22. Analyse the coverage by Indian media of the Kargil War?
23. Describe in detail the formation and objectives of SAARC and also the role of India in it.
24. Evaluate the role of India in the formation of Bangladesh in 1971.
25. What is meant by cross border terrorism? With suitable examples explain how India is a
victim of this. Suggest solutions.

1. Give a short overview of how the American media report the Vietnam War.
2. Who were the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)? Why was it
formed?
3. What factors lead to rise of Dictatorship in Italy?
4. Discuss the impact of Cold war in Vietnam.
5. Explain in detail the Brinkmanship in Cuba.
6. Explain the consequences of World War II.
7. Critically analyse the invasion of Afghanistan by US in the 21st century.
8. What were the causes of the Sino-Indian War of 1962?
9. What was the Bhoodan Movement? Highlight the contribution of Acharya Vinoba Bhave in
the Bhoodan Movement.
10. Explain Propaganda and Discuss in detail Negative propaganda by War perpetrators.
11. Enumerate the contribution of Maharshi D.K. Karve for the up-liftment of Women’s
education.
12. Explain the Human Rights violation during Pol Pot’s regime in Cambodia.
13. How did the Indian government deal with the refugee problem post the partition of India?
14. Highlight the role of the common man in the Tiananmen Square democratic movement.
15. Explain Anna Hazare’s fight for good governance.
16. ‘The British left us with two countries’ trace the development of partition.
17. Describe the Human rights with reference to Humanitarian Aid in Africa by United Nation.
18. What role did the media play in highlighting the African famine of the 1980s?
[Page 119] 1. Write a short note on any one media platform in Africa that you have studied.
[Page 132, 142 ] 2. Why was the Berlin Wall built? What was its effect?
[Page 183] 3. List out the objectives of SAARC.
[Page 55] 4. Warsaw Pact
[Page 22,23] 5. Fascism
[Page 50] 6. Korean war
[Page 45] 7. Media Espionage
[Page 129, 133] 8. Glasnost and Perestroika
[From Mao’s Chapter -Important Points-]9. Mao’s Great Leap Forward
[Page 129, 133]10. Glasnost and Perestroika
[Page 3] 11. Treaty of Versail

Introduction to Computers

1. Define computers and explain its characteristics. What is Excel Spreadsheet and what are its uses? Pg 2 81
2. Explain the terms internet , intranet and extranet. Lsn3
3. What is E-Commerce? Explain its Benefits.pg 58
4. What is Excel Spreadsheet? Explain its uses.pg 81
5. What is QuarkXPress? Pg 367
6. What is MS-Excel used for? Pg 80
7. What is Typography? State its rules. Pg 218
8. Write a note on tools in Corel Draw.pg 347
9. What is internet ? Write note on services which we can use with the help of internet. Lsn4
10. Write a detailed note on MS Power Point. Pg 76
11. Write a note on Typography? Explain in brief the options provided in the
character panel of Photoshop?pg 218 lsn 8
12. What is the difference between Serif and Non Serif Fonts? Pg 218
13. What is meant by topology? State its types.pg 47
14. What is the effect of internet on journalism and journalists?pg 70

1. Explain the basic terms of Designing Industry pg 217
2. Explain Mail Merge in MS-Word pg 160
3. Explain various types of Scanners pg 13 14
4. Digital Computers
5. Power clip effect in CorelDraw lsn 10
6. Steps to put Watermark in Ms. Word pg 154
7. Computer hardware and Software pg 5 6
8. Explain text formatting buttons from HOME Tab in MS Word pg 142
9. State the method to change the slide background and applying the background to all the Slides in MS PowerPoint pg 180 181
10. Write a note on operating system.pg 24
11. What is design? Explain various types of designs.lsn 6
12. What are the different print file formats?
13. What are RGB & CMYK colour models? Explain colour separation?pg 222
14. Explain the difference between Intranet & Internet lsn 3
15. Explain – LAN, WAN, VPN (Networks)pg 46
16.Explain in detail Uniform Resource Locator (URL) & Web servers.pg 55 57
17. Explain in detail the characteristics of computers?pg 2
18. What do you mean by ‘Secondary Memory’ of a computer? Explain three types of Secondary memory.pg 9
19. What are printers and their types?pg 18
20. Describe laser printer & dot matrix printer?pg 20 22
21.What is a computer network? Enumerate the advantages and disadvantages of Computer.
Pg 52
22. Illustrate the Networks.pg 46
23. What is e-commerce? What are the different types of e-commerce?pg 58
24. Explain dpi and ppi.
25. Explain in detail Vector and Bitmap graphics lsn 9
26.What do you mean by Resolution- Screen Resolution and Print Resolution. Maybe lsn 9
27. Discuss RGB and CMYK. 222
28. Discuss margins and bleed.
29. What is a Sprite in Scratch Animation Programming? How will you animate a character to
make him dance in Scratch? Mention Steps? Pg 34 40
30. What are symbols? Why are symbols used?
31. Give a brief about pathfinder and shape mode options in Illustrator. Pg 300 323
32. Explain the process of selecting and deselecting objects in CorelDraw. Pg 361 362
33. Explain the process in a tabular format
34. Explain the various kinds of functions offered by MS Excel through relevant examples /
diagrams. Pg 123
35. Explain the file format supported by Photoshop.Pg 292
36. Discuss Raster & Vector Graphics.
37. Write a detailed note on input and output devices of computer. Pg 10
38.Explain various tool bars and tools of Quark Express. Pg 11
39. Write a note on Adobe Photoshop. State how it can be used in Web designing.272.. 261
40. Explain Disk Partitioning? What are logical and physical drives?
41. Explain Computer Graphics with examples?
42. What is Visual Hierarchy in designing?Pg Explain the factors to be observed to achieve
visual hierarchy in design.225
43. What are Layers? Explain its use while designing.Pg 276
44. Explain masking and other options in the layers panel.
45. What is Power clip? How and why is it used?
46. Give a brief about blend and contour tool of Corel Draw.lsn 10
47. What are the characteristics of a computer system? Pg 2
48. What are the basics of designing?218
49. Explain the drawing tools in Photoshop.Pg 281
50. Write a detailed note of the drawing tools in PageMaker.pg 230
51. Write a note on viruses in terms of internet security. Illustrate the idea through suitable
examples.pg 72

1. Write short note on Scratch programming pg 33
2. Write a note on ‘INTERNET’.pg 61
3. Explain any two tools of Microsoft Office.pg 65

4. Write a short note on ‘Operating Systems’. Pg 24
5. Write a note on Software. Define its types.pg 24
6. State the difference between RAM and ROM.pg 7
7. What are Search engines?
8. Explain Web Servers in detail.pg 57
9. Write a note on “Internet Security and Threats over internet”.pg 72
10. Explain Basics of Designing.pg 218
11. State the types of Websites.pg 56 57 58
12. State the types of Printers.pg 19
13. Vector images v/s Bitmap Images.
14. State the types of Display monitors.Pg 15 16
15. Define Static & Dynamic Websites? Pg 57 58
16. Define image Resolution,Anti-Aliasing and Kerning
17. Barcode reader.Pg14
18. GUI.
19. Online newsrooms.Pg 64 65
20. Pixels and resolution.
21. Explain video sharing and podcasting.
22. Name the tools in Photoshop used for selection? Explain each in brief and its
application.Pg 285
23. Explain memory and its types?Pg 7
24. What is a web portal and state its types.Pg 60
25. Explain the features of MS WORD . Pg 135
26. What is Scratch? Explain the concepts of scripting pg 33 34
27. Sprite packs.pg 34

1. Explain Network Topology and its three different types?
2. Explain any 3 input & output devices.
3. Explain Mail merge in MS Word.
4. Define computer and explain its characteristics in detail
5. What is a Network? What are its types?
6. What is e-commerce? What are its types?
7. Explain tools from Photoshop tool box used for editing a Photo/Image
8. Explain ‘Output Devices’.
9. State MS Excel Formulas.
10. Discuss Computers Basic use or application.
11. Explain the various types of networks with suitable examples
12.What is the impact of technology on journalism? Give some suitable examples in an Indian
Context.
13. What is memory? Explain various types of memory and memory devices
14. What is a computer and what is the importance of computer in our daily life?
15. State advantages and disadvantages of automation via computer technology in the world.
16. State and explain characteristics of a computer
17. Write a note on ‘Importance of internet in Media and its effects on journalism’.
18. State and explain different types of memory storage in computer
devices and state different storage devices and differentiate them in one line.
19. Explain in detail the basic structure of a PC?
20. What are operating systems? Discuss the different types of operating systems.
21. What is digital designing? Describe the stages in the process of digital designing.
22. What are Raster and Vector images? Explain their pros and cons and their relation to
resolution.
23. Discuss in detail why Internet security is needed and how it can be provided?
24. Explain in detail the types of physical network typologies and mention the advantages and
disadvantages of each.
25. Bring out the classification of printers on the basis of Print method/
Print Technology? Give a short brief about each on the basis of its application.
26. Define Visual Communication design? Explain the stages involved in a design process.
27. Explain the types of ecommerce with suitable examples in real world.
28. Explain different kinds of printers and discuss the printer mechanisms through relevant
diagrams.
29. Write a note explaining the concept of designing through appropriate diagrams.
30. Explain in detail the various internet services available today?

Introduction to Sociology

1. What is Sociology? Is it a Science? Take your stand on the statement. PG1
Sociology , Sociology as a Science [2,3,4,5]
2. Examine the nature and scope of Sociology. Discuss the three perspectives in the study of
Sociology. PG5,15,16,19
3. Define Sociology. Describe the growth of Sociology as an Academic Discipline. [2,8,9]
4. Define the term Society. Bring out the Differences between rural and urban
society.[20,21,24]
5. Explain Social Interaction and forms of Social Interaction?[35,37..]
6. Examine the term Social Stratification . Discuss stratification based on caste and gender in
Indian society.
7. Examine the role of Competition and Conflict as forms of social interaction.[38,42]
8. Elucidate the role of Media as an agency of Socialization.[97,193]
9. Explain Social group and types of Social groups.
10. Explain the various types of Social processes.
11. Discuss the impact of media on Socio-Cultural values and social institutions.
12. What are Social movements? Discuss the stages in social movements.
13. Today Marriage is no longer considered a sacrament. Comment.
14. Discuss the impact of Media on Socio – Cultural values and social institutions.
15. Explain the factors which determine the newsworthiness of a potential story.
16. Describe the various agencies of socialization.
17. Discuss the various formal and informal means of social control.
18. Social control is used as a means of maintaining social order. Elaborate.
19. Give an outline of the different types of Societies. In your opinion, in which category does
India fit in? Give reasons to support your answer.
20. Society progresses through organized conflict. Comment.
21. Define Society and state its features. Which are the different types of societies?
22. Discuss the Core Indian Values and how these are represented in our Media.
23. What is Social Control? Analyse the reason of non-conformity to social values.
24.Trace the evolution of any one Social movements of India.
25. How does the caste and class system play an important role in Social Stratification?
26. What is Social Control? Analyse the reason of non-conformity to social values .
27. What are the six types of Social process? Explain with examples.
28. Explain the role of Marriage, Family and Polity as institutions, shaping the society
29. What are the different types of news? Explain each with examples.
30. Examine the concept of Culture and discuss the elements of culture.
31. Examine the characteristics of rural and urban society.
32. Outline the impact of social media on children and adolescents

1. What do you understand by sociological imagination?
2. Social Control is exercised for promoting the welfare of the group as a whole. Comment
3. Stereotyping in media of gender and religion leads to ethnocentric views. Comment.[170]
4. Enumerate the types of marriages that are practiced in societies across the world?[72]
5. Write an account outlining the evolution of society from pre-industrial to postindustrial
societies?
6. Define Formal groups. What are the functions of informal groups within society?[215,219
7. What is Popular Culture?[131]
8. Explain the concept of ethnocentrism.[133]
9. Explain trends that are shaping family structure and values in today’s age[65]
10. Analyse the role of religion in shaping our society[89]
11. State the importance of a social institution. Give examples.[35]
12. Mention some types of social interaction.[37,50..]
13. Describe the impact of Mass Communication in shaping a society.[152]
14. Explain the concepts of institution and enumerate its functions in society.
15. Explain the link between Culture and Media[149]
16. What is the difference between news and information?[106]
17.Explain the concept of symbolic-interaction and feminist perspective.[13-14]
18. What are Sanctions?[124,239]
19. Explain the concept of symbolic-interaction and feminist perspective.[13,14]
20. What role does news play in democracy? Explain with examples

1. The economic system in simple and complex societies[28,30]
2. Sects and Cults[92]
3. Rights to Information[275]
4. News Value
5. Culture relativism[135]
6. Social change[245]
7. Culture shock[137]
8. Sub–culture[128]
9. Social exchange theory[37]
10. Symbolic interaction theory.[13]
11. Forms of accommodation[47]
12. Dysfunctions of Religion.[93]
13. Indicators of Social class
14. Need for social groups[204]
15. Social control by Beliefs and Religion.

Effective Communication Skills-II

1) What is editing? Explain the common errors in editing.
2) Explain Summarizing. Which linguistic tools help in summarizing a text?
3) State the objectives of summarizing and précis writing? Describe the differences between them.
4) How can we achieve competency in writing?
5) Write a letter under the RTI Act to the passport department asking them the reason for delay in issuing your passport.
6) Write a letter to the editor of “The Times of India” drawing attention towards the poor drainage system in your locality.
7) Write a letter to youthkiawaaz.com about a recent pro-feminism article that caught your attention.
8) Draft a letter of complaint as a customer about the bad services provided by the Health Fitness Club.
9) Write a letter to the Editor of freepressjournal about the unique Event on ‘save
trees’ which took place in your College.
10) The ElectronicRepairsCo. have recently charged you 50,000/-for repairing the machines in your Printing Press. Within 10 days you find that the machines are again out of order. Write a letter of complaint and ask for their technician to come again and repair the machines.
11) Draft a Sales letter to Principals of various Schools to promote the sale of children’s magazine.
12) Draft a letter to sell organic vegetables and fruits. Create a fictitious name for
your company and also discuss some innovative ideas related to your work in the letter.
13) Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper drawing attention to a civic problem in your area.
14) A well known Film Director from Hollywood will be attending the launch of your inter-collegiate festival. Write a Press release for the same.
15) Your Company has appointed a well known Bollywood Celebrity as a brand ambassador for its new line of summer clothing. Write a press release for the same.
16) Draft a petition in the form of a letter to be presented to the District Forum about a branded laptop purchased from a reputed store and which you now find falling short of promises made in the manual. Explain how the retailer and company have ignored your complaints.
17) Draft a press release for H.D.F.C. Bank opening a new branch in Borivali(east)
18) Write a complaint letter to “Samsung Company for the late delivery of LEDT.V.
19) Compare and contrast copy writing in print, radio and TV.
20) Actual Translation of a Paragraph/Feature/Hard news/News Comment.

More Questions
1) Explain coherence and cohesion with examples.
2) Write down any 10 tips which must be followed while editing a newspaper.
3) Explain the principles involved in Editing.
4) Explain the objective of writing a synopsis.
5) Explain the objectives of writing an abstract.
6) Summarizing means capturing the essence and not just pruning the number of words. Elaborate.
7) Summarize a novel your read recently in approximately 100 words.
8) Define ‘précis’, what are the points you take into consideration while making one?
9) How do graphic illustrations such as graphs, charts, tables etc. help us understand the content better?
10) Write a Paragraph on given Pie-chart/Bar Chart/Table/Graph.
11) How can you make a letter of complaint effective?
12) What is body copy? How can one write effective body copy?
13) What is Slogan? Explain its relevance and importance while giving examples of some well known slogans in popular advertisements.
14) Explain the features of Copy-writing.
15) Explain the features of Report writing.
16) You organized an Inter-collegiate Film Festival. Write a post-event report.
17) Prepare a report on industrial visit organized by your department/college.
18) What are the essentials of hard news/soft news?
19) What is translation? Explain the various types of translation with examples.
20) Actual Translation of the given Print Advertisements/Slogans/Headlines.

Short Questions
1) Hard News
2) Soft News
3) Jingles
4) Slogans
5) Body copy
6) RTI
7) Coherence and Cohesion
8) Magazine Editing
9) Synopsis
10) Abstract
11) Types of Reports
12) Writing a Good Lead
13) Inverted Pyramid
14) Use of link-words in editing
15) Translating Headlines

Literature

Silence, The Court is in Session by Vijay Tendulkar
1. Critically evaluate the concept of patriarchal domination and unequal power structure in Silence! The Court is in Session.
2. Vijay Tendulkar, in his play Silence! The Court is in Session, has used this platform to expose gender discrimination in patriarchy. What are your views on this statement?
3. How is middle class hypocrisy exposed in the play Silence! The Court is in Session?
4. Ms Benare, who is bubbling with over-confidence in the beginning of the play, becomes a victim of social injustice by the end of the play Silence! The Court is in Session. What are your views on Tendulkar’s delineation of her character?

All literature notes here

Principles of management

Several management related topics are covered in this subject. You can read more on these management topics here.

Political Science

1. Discuss the features of Democracy with examples. Do you think India is really a democratic country?
Justify
2. What purpose does the Preamble of the Constitution serve? Discuss the values mentioned in the
Preamble in detail.
3. Discuss Right to Equality (Art. 14 to 18) and Right to Freedom (Art. 19 to 22) as given in the Indian
Constitution.
4. Discuss the role played by Religion and Caste in Indian politics.
5. Discuss any two regional political parties in Maharashtra with respect to their history and ideology.
6. What are Directive Principles? Discuss any three in detail with relevant examples.
7. What are the conditions necessary for the successful practice of democracy?
8. What is the role of the election commission. Discuss in detail.

1. What is the importance of regional parties in the functioning of the central government?
2. Elaborate the role of media as a watchdog/fourth pillar in Indian Democracy.
3.Examine the unitary feature of the Indian constitution.
4.Trace the evolution the Indian party system from OPDS to MPS.
5. Explain Meaning And justification for Uniform Civil Code In India.
6. Explain the reasons for emergence of coalition government in India
7. Explain any 4 forms Non-Democratic form of government along with examples.
8. Discuss the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement.
9. Explain how digital media is used to practice political propaganda
OR
How it is used to construct public opinion.
10. With the help of relevant examples ,discuss how digital media has had an impact on Indian youth’s
participation in the political process.
11. Discuss the origin and the present state of the Dalit movement in Maharashtra
12. Explain the origin of the Naxal movement in Maharashtra
13.Dominant caste and regional imbalance in India

1. Quasi federalism in India.
2. Define the concept of secular, socialist, sovereign, democratic, republic state.
3. Three tier system of Panchayat Raj System.
4. Differentiate between Opinion polls and Exit polls
5. Freedom of the Press with reference to the Constitution
6. Role of the dominant caste in Maharashtra
7.Regional parties in India: Akali Dal, NATIONAL CONFERENCE, PDP, SP, BSP,TRINAMOOL CONGRESS,JMM,RJD, SHIVAANSH SENA, BIJU JANATA DAL,DMK,AIADMK, TELUGU DESAM
[CASE STUDY 15 MARKS]
Give a contemporary event in India within the last 12 months and ask students to discuss the same with
reference to any fundamental right, fundamental duties to directive principles.
E.g.:
1)Building of monuments of ShivajiMaharaj
2)Actor Salman Khan and the black buck case
3)Ma Molestation Of women during New Year’s party in Bengaluru
4)Gau rakshaks beat up Dalits skinning the hide of cows Gujarat.
5)Lodha commission report and the BCCI restructuring
6)Akhilesh Yadhav and Samajwadi Party internal conflict
7)Dadri lynching
8) Sasikala takes over AIADMK
9) Jallikattu as a conflict between environment and tradition
10) Use of sedition law in popular discourse with reference to Kanhaiya Kumar
11)Government’s review of triple Talaq
12) controversy regarding the playing of the national anthem in the movie DANGAL

Understanding Cinema: Questions

Describe diverse film genres with examples,
Describe broad range of films. What are the different genres in cinema?
Trace the salient features of any three genres with the help of appropriate examples.
Explain the significance of any 2 genres of cinema along with examples.
Describe melodrama & musical with examples.
All understanding Cinema notes here

Journalism Questions

What is news? Explain news value with examples.
Describe the history of Indian Journalism
What is Editorial? Explain different types of Editorial.
Sub editor’s role is limited to glorified clerk
Comment and explain the editorial department with diagram and explanation.
All journalism notes here

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