Activities to be taken up under the NSS course:
Introduction and basic components of NSS:
Orientation
NSS programmes and activities
Understanding youth
Community mobilisation
Social harmony and national integration
Volunteerism and shramdan
Citizenship, constitution and human rights
Family and society
Importance and role of youth leadership
Life competencies
Youth development programmes
Health, hygiene and sanitation
Vocational skill development
Issues related environment
Disaster management
Entrepreneurship development
Formulation of production oriented project
Documentation and data reporting
Resource mobilization
Additional life skills
Activities directed by the Central and State
Government
Youth health, lifestyle, HIV AIDS and first aid
Youth and yoga
Theory Lecture Schedule
1. Sociology- Concept, meaning and scope-classification
2. Rural sociology - concept and meaning- characteristics of a rural society.
3. Society - rural/urban difference: comparison
4. Social institutions – definition, and characteristics
5. Functions of social institutions – physical and symbolic trails of social institution
6. Family as a social institution – meaning, concept and functions
7. Ecological entities – society, community and neighborhood
8. Social organizations – definition, meaning and functions
9. Social groups – types, characteristics and importance
10. Social process - meaning, definition and types
11. Stratification – meaning, definition and types
12,13 Culture – meaning and definition, cultural concepts – traits, complexes and patterns,
characteristics of culture
14,15. Social change – definition, factors affecting social change
16.17 Theories of social change – linear theory, cyclic theory and deterministic theory
18. Sociological concepts – norms, folkways, mores, customs and taboos, social problems.
19. Psychology – concept, meaning scope and limitations.
20. Branches of psychology and its application
21. Educational psychology – definition, concept, principles and scope
22. Human behaviour- stimulus response mechanism
23. Cognitive, affective and psychomotor domain.
24. Behavioural mechanism – classical Vs operant conditioning
25 Personality- definitions & importance - types of personality, factors affecting personality
26, 27 Learning – definitions and concepts – elements of learning and types of learning – teaching -
Adult education.
28. Motivation – definition, concept and meaning and factors affecting motivation.
29. Motives – types
30. Theories of motivation
31, 32 Attitudes and values – types, techniques and importance
33,34 Intelligence – definition and types , measurement
35,36 Factors affecting intelligence - Theories of intelligence