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Course Objectives
This introductory course input is intended
a. To help the students appreciate the essential complementarity between ‘VALUES’ and
‘SKILLS’ to ensure sustained happiness and prosperity which are the core aspirations of all
human beings.
b. To facilitate the development of a holistic perspective among students towards life, profession
and happiness, based on the correct understanding of the Human reality and the rest of the
Existence. Such a Holistic perspective forms the basis of value-based living in a natural way.
c. To highlight plausible implications of such a Holistic understanding in terms of ethical human
conduct, trustful and mutually satisfying human behavior and mutually enriching interaction
with Nature.
Unit 1: Introduction to Value Education No. of lectures: 03+1
1. Understanding the need, basic guidelines, content and process for value education.
2. Basic Human Aspirations: Prosperity and happiness
3. Methods to fulfil the human aspirations – understanding and living in harmony at various levels.
4. Practice Session – 1. [T1], [R1], [R4]
Unit 2: Harmony in the Human Being No. of lectures:
05+1
1. Co-existence of the sentient “I” and the material body – understanding their needs – Happiness &
Conveniences.
2. Understanding the Harmony of “I” with the body – Correct appraisal of physical needs and the
meaning of prosperity.
3. Programme to ensure harmony of “I” and Body-Mental and Physical health and happiness.
4. Harmony in family and society: Understanding Human-human relationship in terms of mutual trust
and respect.
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5. Understanding society and nation as extensions of family and society respectively.
6. Practice Session – 02 [T2], [R1], [R2]
Unit 3: Basics of Professional Ethics No. of lectures: 04+1
1. Ethical Human Conduct – based on acceptance of basic human values.
2. Humanistic Constitution and universal human order – skills, sincerity and fidelity.
3. To identify the scope and characteristics of people – friendly and eco-friendly production
system,
Technologies and management systems.
4. Practice Session – 03. [T1],[R4]
Unit 4: Professional Ethics in practice No. of lectures: 04+1
1. Profession and Professionalism – Professional Accountability, Roles of a professional, Ethics
and image of profession.
2. Engineering Profession and Ethics - Technology and society, Ethical obligations of
Engineering professionals, Roles of Engineers in industry, society, nation and the world.
3. Professional Responsibilities – Collegiality, Loyalty, Confidentiality, Conflict of Interest,
Whistle Blowing
4. Practice Session – 04 [T1], [T2], [T3], [R3]
Text Books:
[T1] Professional Ethics, R. Subramanian, Oxford University Press.
[T2] Professional Ethics & Human Values: S.B. Srivasthva, SciTech Publications (India) Pvt. Ltd.
New Delhi.
[T3] Professional Ethics & Human Values: Prof. D.R. Kiran, TATA Mc Graw Hill Education.
References:
[R1] Success Secrets for Engineering Students: Prof. K.V. SubbaRaju, Ph.D., Published by
SMARTstudent.
[R2] Ethics in Engineering Mike W. Martin, Department of Philosophy, Chapman University and
Roland Schinzinger, School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine.
[R3] Human Values: A. N. Tripathy (2003, New Age International Publishers)
[R4] Value Education website, http.//www.universalhumanvalues.info[16]
[R5] Fundamentals of Ethics, Edmond G. Seebauer & Robert L. Barry, Oxford University Press.
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[R6] Human Values and Professional Ethics: R. R. Gaur, R. Sangal and G. P. Bagaria, Eecel Books
(2010, New Delhi). Also, the Teachers‟ Manual by the same author.
*PRACTICAL SESSIONS OF 14 HOME ASSIGNMENTS will be followed by the students
pursuing this paper. (Ref: Professional Ethics & Human Values: S.B. Srivastava, SciTech
Publications (India) Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi. )
CONTENT OF PRACTICE SESSION
Module 1: Course Introduction – Needs, Basic Guidelines, Content and Process of Value
Education
PS-1: Imagine yourself in detail. What are the goals of your life? How do you set your goals in your
life? How do you differentiate between right and wrong? What have been your achievements and
shortcoming in your life? Observe and analyze them.
Expected Outcome:
The students start exploring themselves; get comfortable to each other and to the teacher and start
finding the need and relevance for the course.
PS-2: Now a days there is lot of voice about techno-genie maladies such as energy and natural
resource depletion, environmental Pollution, Global Warming, Ozone depletion, Deforestation, etc. –
all these scenes are man made problems threatening the survival of life on the earth – what is root
cause of these maladies and what is the way out in your opinion?
On the other hand there is rapidly growing danger because of nuclear proliferation, arm race,
terrorism, criminalization of politics, large scale corruption, scams, breakdown of relationships,
generation gap, depression and suicidal attempts, etc - what do you think the root cause of these
threats to human happiness and peace – what could be the way out in your opinion?
Expected Outcome:
The students start finding out that technical education with study of human values can generate more
problems than solutions. They also start feeling that lack of understanding of human values is the root
cause of all the problems and the sustained solution could emerge only through understanding of
human values and value based living. Any solutions brought out through fear, temptation or dogma
will not be sustainable.
Observe that each one of us has Natural Acceptance, based on which one can verify
right or not right for him. Verify this in case of following
• What is naturally acceptable to you in relationship – feeling of respect or disrespect?
• What is naturally acceptable to you - to nurture or to exploit others? Is your living the same as
your natural acceptance or different?
2. Out of three basic requirements for fulfillment of your aspirations, right understanding,
relationship and physical facilities, observe how the problems in your family are related to each. Also
observe how much time and efforts you devote for each in your daily routine.
Expected Outcome:
1. The students are able to see that verification on the basis of natural acceptance and
experiential
validation through living is the only way to verify the right or wrong, and referring to any
external source life text or instrument or any other person cannot enable them to verify with
authenticity, it will only develop assumptions.
2. The students are able to see that their practice in living is not in harmony with their natural
acceptance at most of the time, and all they need to do is to refer to their natural acceptance to
remove this disharmony.
3. The students are able to see that lack of right understanding leading to lack of relationship is
the
major cause of the problems in their family and the lack of physical facilities in most of the
cases; while they have given higher priority to earning of physical facilities in their life
ignoring relationship and not being aware that right understanding is the most important
requirement for any human being.
Module 2: Understanding harmony in human being – Harmony in myself!
PS-4: Prepare the list of your desires. Observe whether the desires. Observe whether the desires are
related with self “I” or body. If it appears to be related with the both, see which part of it is related to
self “I” and which part is related to body.
Expected Outcome:
The students are able to see that they can enlist their desires and the desires are not vague,
also they are able to relate their desires to “I” and “body” distinctly. If, any desire appears to be
related with both, they are able to see that feeling is related to “I” while the physical facility is related
to the body. They are also able to see that “I” and “body” are two realities, and most of their desires
are related to “I” and not with the “Body”; while their efforts are mostly connected on the fulfillment
of the need of the body assuming that it will meet the needs of “I” too.
PS-5:
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Observe that any physical facilities you use, follows the given sequence with time;
and tasteful – unnecessary & tasteful – unnecessary & tasteless.
{B}. In contrast, observe that any feelings in you are either naturally acceptable or not
acceptable at all. If, naturally acceptable, you want it continuously and if not
acceptable, you do not want it at any moment.
Necessary
2. List Down all your activities. Observe whether the activity is of “I” or of “body” or with the
participation both “I” and “body”.
3. Observe the activities with “I”. Identify the object of your attention for different moments
(over a period say 5 to 10 minute) and draw a line diagram connecting these points. Try to
observe the link between any two nodes.
Expected Outcome:
1. The students are able to see that all physical facilities they use are required for limited time in
a limited quantity. Also they are able to see that cause of feeling, they want continuity of the
naturall y acceptable feelings and they do not want feelings which are not naturally acceptable
eve for a single moment.
2. The students are able to see that activities like understanding, desires, thoughts and selection
are the activities of “I” only; the activities like breathing, palpitation of different parts of the
body are fully the activities of the body. With the acceptance of “I”, while activities they do
with their sense organs like hearing through ears, seeing through eyes, sensing through touch,
tasting through tongue and smelling through nose or the activities they do with their work
organs like hands, legs, etc. are such activities that require the participation of both “I” and
“body”
3. The students become aware of their activities of “I” and start finding their focus of attention
at different moments. Also they are able see that most of their desires are coming from
outsides (through preconditioning or sensation) and are not based on their natural acceptance.
PS-6: 1. Chalk out the program to ensure that you are responsible to your body – for the
nurturing, protection and right utilization of the body.
2. Find out the plants and shrubs growing in and your campus. Find out their use for
curing different diseases.
Expected Outcome:
The students are able to list down activities related to a proper upkeep of the body and
practice them in their daily routine. They are also able to appreciate the plants wildly growing in and
around the campus which can be beneficial in curing the different diseases.
Expected Outcome:
The students are able to see that the first four questions are related to our natural acceptance
i.e. intention and the next four to our competence. They are able to note that the intention is always
correct, only competence is lacking. We generally evaluate ourselves on the basis of our intention and
other on the basis of their competence. We seldom look at our competence and other’s intention as a
result we conclude that I am a good person and other is a bad person.
PS-8:
1. Observe that on how many occasions you are respecting your related ones (by doing the right
evaluation) and on how many occasion you are disrespecting by way of under evaluation, over
evaluation or otherwise evaluation.
2. Also observe whether your feeling of respect is based on treating the other as yourself or on
differentiations based on body, physical facilities or beliefs.
Expected Outcome:
The students are able to see that respect is right evaluation and only right evaluation leads to
fulfilment of relationship. Many present problems in the society are an outcome of differentiation
(lack of understanding of respect) like gender biasness, generation gap, caste conflicts, class struggle,
and domination through poor play, communal violence, and clash of isms and so on so forth.
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All these problems can be solved by realizing that the other is like me as he has the same
natural acceptance, potential and program to ensure a happy and prosperous life for him and for others
though he may have different body, physical facilities or beliefs.
PS-9:
1. Write a note in the form of a story, poem, skit, essay, narration, dialogue, to educate a child.
Evaluate it in a group.
2. Develop three chapters to introduce “social science”, its needs, scope and content in the
primary education of children.
Expected Outcome:
The students are able to use their creativity for educating children. The students are able to
see that they can play a role in providing value education for children. They are able to put in simple
words the issues that are essential to understand for children and comprehensible to them. The
students are able to develop an outline of holistic model for social science and compare it with the
existing model.
Module 4: Understanding harmony in the nature and existence – Whole existence as Co –
existence -
PS-10: Prepare the list of units (things) around you. Classify them into four orders. Observe and
explain the mutual fulfilment of each unit with other orders.
Expected Outcome:
The students are able to differentiate between the characteristics and activities of different
orders and study the mutual fulfilment among them. They are also able to see that human beings are
not fulfilling to their orders today and need to take appropriate steps to ensure right participation (in
term of nurturing, protection and right utilization) in the nature.
PS-11:
1. Make a chart for the whole existence. List down different courses of studies and relate them
to different or levels in the existence.
2. Choose any one subject being taught today. Evaluate and suggest suitable modifications to
make it appropriate and holistic.
Expected Outcome:
The students are confident that they can understand the whole existence; nothing is a mystery
in this existence. They are also able to see the interconnectedness in the nature, and point out how
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different courses of study relate to the different units and levels. Also they are liable to make out how
these courses can be made appropriate and holistic.
Module 5: Implication of the above Holistic Understanding of Harmony at all Levels of
Existence.
PS-12: Choose any two current problem of different kind in the society and suggest how they can be
solved on the basis of the natural acceptance of human values. Suggest the steps you will take in
present conditions.
Expected Outcome:
The students are liable to present sustainable solutions to the problem in society and nature.
They are also able to see that these solutions are practicable and draw road maps to achieve them.
PS-13:
1. Suggest ways in which you can use your knowledge of engineering / technology /
management for universal human order from your family to world family.
2. Suggest one format of humanistic constitution at the level of nation from your side.
Expected Outcome:
The students are able to grasp the right utilization of their knowledge in their streams of
technology / engineering / management to ensure mutually enriching and recyclable production
systems.
PS-14: The course is going to be over now. Evaluate your state before and after the course in terms of-
• Thoughts
• Behavior
• Work and
• Realization
Do you have any plan to participate in the transition of the societ y after graduating from the
institute? Write a brief note on it.
Expected Outcome:
The students are able to sincerely evaluate the course and share with their friends. They are
also able to suggest measures to make the course more effective and relevant. They are also able to
make use of their understanding in the course for happy and prosperous society.