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SSB Odisha Lecturer Syllabus

Recruitment Test for Lecturers for Degree Classes, 2021 Syllabus
** The candidates shall answer 100 Multiple Choice Questions.
** Each correct answer carries 1.5 mark
** 0.5 marks shall be deducted for each wrong answer.

English Syllabus

Unit-1 British literature from Chaucer to the Contemporary period [40]
Unit – 2 Indian Writing in English [10]
(i) Poetry, Novel, Drama from 1930s till the Contemporary period
(ii) Indian Classical Literature: ‘The Dicing’ and ‘The Sequel to Dicing,’ in the Mahabharata by Vyasa, Abhijnanasakuntalam by Kalidasa, Mrcchakatika by Sudraka, Bharata’s Rasa theory

Unit 3 – American Literature From the 1850s to the contemporary period [10]

Unit – 4-Popular Literatures, Postcolonial Literature, World Literature & Literature of Diaspora [20]
World Literature : Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoyvosky, Margaret Atwood, Alice Monroe, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Luigi Pirandello, Eugene Ionesco , Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett , Bertolt Brecht
Postcolonial Literature: V S Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, J M Coetze, Salman Rushdie Literature of Diaspora – Kiran Desai, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amitav Ghose, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Popular Literature: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Shobha De, Chetan Bhagat, Amish Tripathi, Anuja Chandramouli

Unit–5 Literary Theory and Criticism [10]
i. Aristotle : Poetics
ii. Wordsworth: “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”
iii. Matthew Arnold – “Study of Poetry”, “Culture & Anarchy”
iv. New Criticism & Formalism – I.A Richards, T.S.Eliot, F.R. Leavis, Cleanth Brooks, William K. Wimsatt Jr. , Monroe Beardslay, Victor Sahklovsky, Roman Jacobson.
v. Marxist Criticism – Louis Althusser, Raymond Williams,Stephen Greenblatt, Terry Eagleton,
vi. Structuralism and Post- Structuralism, Ferdinad Saussure, Claude Levi Strauss, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault.
vii. Feminism – Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Elaine Showalter, Luce Irigaray, Mary Wollstonecraft.
viii. Post-Colonialism – Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
ix. Eco-criticism and Eco-feminism – Rachel Carson, Colleen Mack-Canty.

Unit -6 Grammar in context [10]
(Subject- verb agreement, Tense and Aspects, Active and Passive voice, Direct and Indirect Speech,
Prepositions, Modals, Phrasal Verbs, Linking Devices, Conditional Sentences)

Computer Science Syllabus

UNIT 1. : DISCRETE STRUCTURES AND DIGITAL LOGIC
1. Propositional Logic, Predicate calculus, Sets, Relations, Functions, Inclusion-Exclusion Principle, Equivalence and Partial Orderings, Elementary Counting Techniques.
2. Computability: Models of computation-Finite Automata, Pushdown Automata, Non-determinism and NFA, DPDA and PDAs and Languages accepted by these structures, Grammars, Languages, Non-computability and Examples of non-computable problems.
3. Graph: Definition, walks, paths, trails, connected graphs, regular and bipartite graphs, cycles and circuits. Tree and rooted tree, Spanning trees, Eccentricity of a vertex radius and diameter of a graph, central Graphs, Centers of a tree, Hamiltonian and Eulerian graphs, Planar graphs, Graph Coloring.
4. Groups: Finite fields and Error correcting/ detecting codes.
5. Logic Families: TTL, ECL, and C-MOS gates, Boolean algebra and Minimization of Boolean functions, Flip-flops-types, race condition and comparison, Design of combinational and sequential circuits.
6. Representation of Integers: Octal, Hexadecimal, Decimal, and Binary, 2’s complement and 1’s complement arithmetic, Floating point representation.
7. Arithmetic: Addition and subtraction of signed Numbers, Design of Fast Adders, Multiplication of positive Numbers, Signed-operand multiplication , Fast multiplication, Integer Division, Floating-point Numbers, (IEEE754 s…) and operations.

UNIT 2. : PROGRAMMING IN C AND C++
1. Programming in C: Elements of C-Tokens, identifiers, data types in C, Control structures in C, Sequence, selection and iterations, Structured data types in C-arrays, structure, union, string and pointers.
2. Object Oriented Programming Concepts: Class, object, instantiation, Inheritance. Polymorphism and Overloading.
3. C++ Programming: Elements of C++ -Tokens, identifiers, Variables and constants, Data types, Operators, Control statements, Functions parameter passing, Class and objects, Constructors and destructors, Overloading, Inheritance, Template, Exception handling.

UNIT 3. : DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS
1. Data, Information, Definition of data structure, Arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, graphs, priority queues and heaps.
2. File Structures: Fields, records and files, Sequential, direct, index-sequential and relative files, Hashing, inverted lists and multi-lists, B trees and B+ trees.

UNIT 4. : ARCHITECTURE AND OPERATING SYSTEMS
1. Main functions of operating systems, Multiprogramming, Multiprocessing, and Multitasking.
2. Memory Management: Virtual Memory, Paging, Fragmentation.
3. Concurrent Processing: Mutual exclusion, Critical regions, lock and unlock.
4. Scheduling: CPU scheduling, I/O scheduling, Resource scheduling, Deadlock and scheduling algorithms, Banker’s algorithm for deadlock handling.
UNIX
5. The Unix System: File system, process management, bourne shell, shell variables, command line programming.
6. Filters and Commands: Pr, head, tail, cut, paste, sort, uniq, tr, join, etc., grep, egrep, fgrep, etc., sed, awk, etc.
7. System Calls (like): Create, open, close, read, write, iseek, link, unlink, stat, fstat, unmask, chmod, exec, fork, wait, system.

UNIT 5. : COMPUTER NETWORKS AND DATABASES
1. Network fundamentals: Local Area Networks (LAN), Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN), Wide Area Networks (WAN), Wireless Networks. Reference Models: The OSI model, TCP/IP model.
2. Data link control: Channel capacity, Transmission media -twisted pair, coaxial cables, fiber- transmission –radio, microwave, infrared and millimeter waves, Light wave transmission, Telephones –local loop, trunks, multiplexing, switching, narrowband ISDN, broadband ISDN, ATM, High speed LANS, Cellular Radio, Communication satellites -geosynchronous and low- orbit, Switch/Hub, Bridge, Error detection and correction, Flow control.
3. Internetworking: Router, Gateways, Concatenated virtual circuits, Tunneling, Fragmentation, Firewalls. Routing: Virtual circuits and datagrams, Routing algorithms, Congestion control and avoidance, TCP Congestion management policy.
4. Cryptography and Protocols of network applications: Public key, secret key, Domain Name System (DNS) -Electronic Mail and World Wide Web (WWW), The DNS, Resource Records, Name servers, E-mail-architecture and Servers, Web server, HTTP.
5. ER diagrams and their transformation to relational design, normalization –1NF, 2NF, 3NF, BCNF, 4NF. Limitations of 4NF and BCNF.
6. SQL: Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Manipulation Language (DML), Data Control Language (DCL) commands, Database objects like –Views, indexes, sequences, synonyms, data dictionary.

Education Syllabus

Unit-I : Philosophical Foundation of Education
** Relationship between Philosophy and Education with reference to Metaphysics, Epistemology and Axiology.
** Western Schools of Philosophy and their Educational implications: Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism and Existentialism.
** Contributions of Rousseau, Tagore, Gandhi, Sri Aurobinda, John Dewey and J.Krishnamurthy to educational theory and practice.
** Indian schools of philosophy and their educational implications: Sankhya, Vedanta, Buddhism & Jainaism.

Unit-II : Sociological Foundation of Education
** Relationship between Sociology and Education.
** Social Change: Concept, Factors, role of education as an instrument of social change and social control.
** Concept of Urbanization, Modernization and Westernization with reference to Indian Society and their educational implications.
** Multilingual and multicultural education.
** Education for Sustainable Development.
** Global Citizenship Education.
** Education of the Socially and Economically Disadvantaged sections of the society with special reference to Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Women and Children with special needs.

Unit-III: Psychological Foundation of Education
** Relationship between Education and Psychology.
** Principles of Growth and Development, Process of Growth and Development: Physical, Social, Emotional and Intellectual.
** Education of the Adolescents.
** Emotional Intelligence.
** Intelligence, Creativity and Problem Solving: Concept, Theories and Measurement of Intelligence (Guilford & Gardner) and Creativity.
** Individual Difference: Determinants and implications of Individual Differences.
** Concept of Motivation and Learning: Learning Theories-Pavlov’s Classical Conditioning, Skinner’s Operant Conditioning, Insightful Learning, Bloom’s Mastery Learning, Gagne’s Hierarchy Theory of Learning, Constructivist approach to Learning- Contributions of Piaget, Vygotsky, Ausubel and Bruner.
** Personality: Type and Trait Theory, Psycho-analytical theory, Assessment of Personality.

Unit-IV: Assessment, Research and Statistics
** Concept of Measurement, Evaluation and Assessment – Scales of Measurement – Nominal, Ordinal, Interval and Ratio. Assessment of Iearning, for learning, as learning.
** Norm referenced and Criterion referenced Evaluation.
** Procedure of Evaluation: Placement, Formative, Diagnostic and Summative.
** Concept of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE).
** Tools of Assessment: Essay Test, Objective Type Test, Scales, Questionnaires, Schedules, Observation, Interview, Assignment, Project, Portfolio and Rubrics.
** Characteristics of good measuring instruments: Reliability and Validity, Item analysis.
** View point of National Curriculum Framework (NCF) -2005 on Examination Reform ; Focus and Learning outcomes.
** Concept of Research, Major approaches to Research; Quantitative, and Qualitative. Types of research based on method – Descriptive, Ex – post – facto, Experimental Historical, Case Study, Narrative research.
** Analysis of Data: Descriptive (Mean, Median, Mode, Quartile Deviation and Standard Deviation) and Inferential Statistics: Normal Probability Curve, t-test, Chi-square test, Correlation: Rank Difference and Product- Moment.

Unit-V: Modern Trends in Education
** NEP2020 – Thrust areas and Educational Implications.
** Early Childhood Care and Education: Meaning, Nature and Objectives, Importance of Early Childhood Care and Education, Problem and issues
** Elementary Education: Universalization of Elementary Education with reference to NPE-1986-Problems and Issues. Samagra Siksha, Implementation of Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009.
** Secondary Education: Aims of Education, Curriculum and Methods of Teaching with reference to Secondary Education Commission-1952-53 and Education Commission 1964-1966, Quality improvement in Secondary Education, Problems and issues in Vocationalization of Secondary Education/ Higher Secondary Education and NEP- 2020.
** Higher Education: Higher Education with reference to NPE-1986 and NEP-2020; Issues in Higher Education: Access, Quality and Inclusion, Rastriya Uchattar Shiksha Abhiyan, National Assessment and Accreditation Council ; Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Implementation of choice- based credit system, Internationalization of Higher Education.
** Teacher Education: Teacher Education with reference to Education Commission (1964-66), NPE-1986, NCFTE-2009 and NEP-2020. Meaning and Scope of Teacher Education, Objectives of Teacher Education at Elementary and Secondary Level, Pre-service and In-service Teacher Education, Quality Improvement of teacher Education with reference to role of NCTE.
** Recent Concerns in Education: Life Skill Education, Environmental Education, Human Rights Education, ICT in Education, Inclusive Education.

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