Course Objectives: 

1. To help the students appreciate the essential complementary between 'VALUES' and 'SKILLS' to ensure sustained happiness and prosperity which are the core aspirations of all human beings.

2.   To facilitate the development of a Holistic perspective among students towards life and profession as well as towards happiness and prosperity based on a correct understanding of the Human reality and the rest of existence. Such holistic perspective forms the basis of Universal Human Values and movement towards value-based living in a natural way.

3. To highlight plausible implications of such a Holistic understanding in terms of ethical human conduct, trustful and mutual fulfilling human behavior and mutually enriching interaction with Nature.

Course Outcomes: At the end of the course student able to

CO1: Describe the terms like Natural Acceptance, Happiness and Prosperity (L2)

CO2: Identify one’s self, and one’s surroundings (family, society nature) (L2)

CO3: Relate human values with human relationship and human society. (L2)

CO4: Illustrate the need for universal human values and harmonious existence(L2)

CO5: Develop as socially and ecologically responsible engineers (L3)

UNIT I: Introduction to Value Education (6 lectures and 3 tutorials for practice session)

Lecture 1: Right Understanding, Relationship and Physical Facility (Holistic Development and the Role of Education)

Lecture 2: Understanding Value Education

Tutorial 1: Practice Session PS1 Sharing about Oneself

Lecture 3: Self-exploration as the Process for Value Education

Lecture 4: Continuous Happiness and Prosperity –the Basic Human Aspirations

Tutorial 2: Practice Session PS2 Exploring Human Consciousness

Lecture 5: Happiness and Prosperity – Current Scenario 

Lecture6: Method to Fulfill the Basic Human Aspirations

 Tutorial 3:Practice Session PS3 Exploring Natural Acceptance

UNIT II  Harmony in the Human Being (6 lectures and 3tutorials for practice session)

Lecture 7: Understanding Human being as the Co-existence of the self and the body.

Lecture 8: Distinguishing between The Needs of these lf and the body

Tutorial 4: PracticeSessionPS4Exploringthedifferenceof Needs of self and body.

Lecture 9: The body as an Instrument of the self

Lecture 10: Understanding Harmony in the self

Tutorial 5: Practice Session PS5 Exploring Sources of Imagination in the self

Lecture 11: Harmony of these lf with the body

Lecture 12: Programme to ensure self-regulation and Health

Tutorial 6: Practice Session PS 6 Exploring Harmony of self with the body

UNIT III: Harmony in the Family and Society (6 lectures and 3tutorials for practice session)

Lecture 13: Harmony in the Family – the Basic Unit of Human Interaction

Lecture 14: 'Trust' – the Foundational Value in Relationship

Tutorial 7: Practice Session PS7 Exploring the Feeling of Trust

Lecture 15: 'Respect' – as the Right Evaluation

Tutorial 8: Practice Session PS8 Exploring the Feeling of Respect

Lecture 16: Other Feelings, Justice in Human-to-Human Relationship

Lecture 17: Understanding Harmony in the Society

Lecture 18: Vision for the Universal Human Order

Tutorial 9: Practice Session PS 9 Exploring Systems to fulfil Human Goal

UNIT IV: Harmony in the Nature/Existence (4 lectures and 2 tutorials for practice session)

 Lecture19: Understanding Harmony in the Nature

Lecture 20: Interconnectedness, self-regulation and Mutual Fulfilment among the Four Orders of Nature

Tutorial 10: Practice Session PS10 Exploring the Four Orders of Nature

Lecture 21: Realizing Existence as Co-existence at All Levels

Lecture 22: The Holistic Perception of Harmony in Existence

Tutorial 11: Practice Session PS11 Exploring Co-existence in Existence.

UNIT V: Implications of the Holistic Understanding –a Look at Professional Ethics (6 lectures and 3 tutorials for practice session)

Lecture 23: Natural Acceptance of Human Values

Lecture24: Definitiveness of(Ethical)Human Conduct

Tutorial 12: Practice Session PS12Exploring Ethical Human Conduct

Lecture 25: A Basis for Humanistic Education, Humanistic Constitution and Universal Human Order

Lecture 26: Competence in Professional Ethics

Tutorial 13: Practice Session PS13 Exploring Humanistic Models in Education

Lecture 27: Holistic Technologies, Production Systems and Management Models-Typical Case Studies

Lecture 28: Strategies for Transition towards Value-based Life and Profession

Tutorial 14: Practice Session PS14 Exploring Steps of Transition towards Universal Human Order

Textbook and Teachers Manual

a. The Textbook

R R Gaur, R Asthana, G P Bagaria, A Foundation Course in Human Values and Professional Ethics,

2nd Revised Edition, Excel Books, New Delhi, 2019. ISBN 978-93- 87034-47-1

b. The Teacher’s Manual

R R Gaur, R Asthana, G P Bagaria, Teachers’ Manual for A Foundation Course in Human Valuesand Professional Ethics, 2nd Revised Edition, Excel Books, New Delhi, 2019. ISBN 978-93-87034-53-2

1. Jeevan Vidya: Ek Parichaya, A Nagaraj, Jeevan Vidya Prakashan, A markantak, 1999.

2. Human Values, A. N. Tripathi New Age Intl. Publishers, New Delhi, 2004.

3. The Story of Stuff(Book).

4. The Story of My Experiments with Truth-by Mohandas Karam chand Gandhi

5. Smallis Beautiful -E. F Schumacher.

6. Slow is Beautiful –Cecile Andrews

7. Economy of Permanence-JC Kumarappa

8. Bharat Mein Angreji Raj– Pandit Sunderlal

9. Rediscovering India-by Dharampal

10. Hind Swarajor Indian Home Rule –by Mohandas K. Gandhi

11. India Wins Freedom –Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad

12. Vivekananda-Romain Rolland (English)

13. Gandhi-Romain Rolland (English)