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Course Name Life Skills III
Course Code 23LSK301
Semester 5
Credits 2
Campus

Syllabus

The students shall visit villages or rural sites during the vacations (after 6th semester) and if they identify a worthwhile project, they shall register for a 3-credit Live-in-Lab project, in the fifth semester.

Thematic Areas

  • Agriculture & Risk Management
  • Education & Gender Equality
  • Energy & Environment
  • Livelihood & Skill Development
  • Water & Sanitation
  • Health & Hygiene
  • Waste Management & Infrastructure

Objectives and Outcomes

Course Objective:

  • Proposal writing in order to bring in a detailed project planning, enlist the materials required and propose budget requirement.
  • Use the concept of CoDesign to ensure User Participation in the Design Process in order to rightly capture user needs/requirements.
  • Building and testing a prototype to ensure that the final design implementation is satisfies the user needs, feasible, affordable, sustainable and efficient.
  • Real time project implementation in the village followed by awareness generation and skill training of the users (villagers)

Course Outcome

CO1: Learn co-design methodologies and engage participatorily to finalise a solution

CO2: Understand sustainable social change models and identify change agents in a community.

CO3: Learn Project Management to effectively manage the resources

CO4: Lab scale implementation and validation

CO5. Prototype implementation of the solution

CO-PO Mapping

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Evaluation Pattern

Evaluation Pattern

Assessment

Marks

Internal (Continuous Evaluation) [63 marks]

1. Proposed Implementation

2

Presentation Round 1

2. Proposal Submission + Review

6

3. Co-design

6

i. Village Visit I (Co-Design

Field Work Assignments)

4

ii. Presentation of Co-

design Assessment

2

4. Prototype Design

14

i. Prototype Design

4

ii. Prototype Submission

8

iii. Sustenance Plan

2

5. Implementation

35

i. Implementation Plan Review

3

ii. Implementation

24

iii. Testing & Evaluation

4

iv. Sustenance Model

Implementation

4

External [37 Marks]

6. Research Paper

18

7. Final Report

15

8. Poster Presentation

4

Total

100

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