STS2001 SoftSkillsforEngineers L T P J C

PreReq:
0 0 0 3 1
None
Unit Topics Hours SLO
1
Writing:WritingifStories,DraftingNewsarticles,Notemaking,Contentdevelopment 6
Vocabulary Building: Vocabulary Building using Journals, Word Walls, using words in
2
context 6
3 ImpressionCreating:Bodylanguage,Grooming,Diction,Etiquette 3
Art of Questioning: View Company Videos, Notes Taking, Preparing Questions, Framing
4
Questions,Good/BadQuestions 9
NonVerbalReasoning:Analysevisualinformation, Diagrammaticreasoning,Spatial
5
reasoning 6
6 SWOTAnalysis:Personal,ActionPlanDevelopment,360Feedback,PESTanalysis
6
SocialInteraction:Commitment,Accountability,StressManagement,Resilience,
7
Persuasion,Inspiring,SelfConfidence 6
8 TimeManagement:GoalSetting,Monitoring,Scheduling 3
TotalLectureHours
45
TeachingModes;Assignments;FieldTrips,CaseStudies;elearning;Learningthroughresearch,TEDTalks
TextBooks

1.TheArtofQuestioning:AnIntroductiontoCriticalThinking,DanielFlagePh.D.,Pearson;1edition(17June2003)
2.GettingThingsDone:TheArtofStressFreeProductivity,DavidAllen,PenguinBooks;Reprintedition(December
31,2002)
3.McGrawHillVocabulary,GeneStanford,TataMcGrawHillEducation(2005)

ReferenceBooks
1.TheOneMinuteManager,KennethH.BlanchardandSpencerJohnson,WilliamMorrow(2003)
2.ThePassionateProgrammer:CreatingaRemarkableCareerinSoftwareDevelopment(PragmaticLife),Chad
Fowler,PragmaticBookshelf;1edition(June7,2009)
3.The7HabitsofHighlyEffectivePeople:PowerfulLessonsinPersonalChangebyStephenR.Covey,FreePress
(firstpublished1989)
4.HowtoWinFriendsandInfluencePeople,DaleCarnegie,GalleryBooks(firstpublished1936)
5.CrucialConversations:ToolsforTalkingWhenStakesareHighbyKerryPatterson,JosephGrenny,RonMcMillan,
AlSwitzler,McGrawHillContemporary(2001)
6.Peopleware:ProductiveProjectsandTeamsbyTomDeMarco,TimothyR.Lister,DorsetHousePublishing
Company,Incorporated(1999)
7.TheDefinitiveBookofBodyLanguagebyBarbaraPeaseandAllanPease,Bantam(July25,2006)
8.JustListen:DiscovertheSecrettoGettingThroughtoAbsolutelyAnyonebyMarkGoulstonM.D.AMACOM;
Reprintedition(March4,2015)
9.PowerQuestions:BuildRelationships,WinNewBusiness,andInfluenceOthersbyAndrewSobelandJerold
Panas;Wiley;1edition(February7,2012)
WebsiteReference

1.https://www.mindtools.com/
2.http://www.skillsyouneed.com/general/transferableskills.html
3.http://www.forbes.com/sites/lisaquast/2014/04/07/officeetiquettetipstoovercomebadmannersatwork/