4 hours/week Credit: 4
English: Comprehension with precis
writing, Completing sentences, Correction of sentences, Combination of
sentences, Framing WH questions, Sentence making with the expression of attitudes/emotions,
Amplification or dialogue writing,
Framing sentences with idioms and phrases, Using appropriate prepositions,
Changing the form of speech. Translation and re-translation, Letter writing:
Formal, Paragraph writing, Free compositions: on selected topics (within
3000-4000 words).
Economics:
Introduction: Definition, Scope of
economics, Importance and Uses of economics. Engineering Economics, Importance
of economics for engineers.
Basic Economic
Concepts:
Wants, Wealth, Goods, Value, Price, Utility, Production, Income, Consumption,
Savings, Investment, Exchange, Distribution, Firm and Industry, Equilibrium,
Micro Economics, Macro Economics, Open Market Economy, Controlled Economy.
Nature of
Economic Problems and its Solution: Nature of Economic Problems in Human life,
Different Levels of Activities in Solving Economic Problems.
(Production-Exchange-Distribution-Consumption), Price Mechanism.
Utility: Meaning of Total utility
and Marginal Utility, Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility, Limitation of the
Law Diminishing Marginal Utility. Consumer's Surplus, Importance of the Concept
of Consumer's Surplus.
Demand
Analysis:
Meaning of Demand, The law of Demand, Exception to the Law of Demand, Demand
Schedule, Demand Curve, Types of Demand, Contraction and Extension of Demand,
Increase and decrease of Demand, Causes in Demand.
Elasticity of
Demand:
Meaning of Elasticity of Demand, Types of Elasticity of Demand, Measurement of
Elasticity of Demand, Determinants of Elasticity of Demand.
Theory of
Production and Cost: Theory of production: Its contents, Importance of the theory of
production, Law of variable proportions, Concepts of Costs, Accounting Cost and
economic cots. Short run and long run costs.
National
Income, Growth, Fluctuation: Basic Concepts, Growth National Product (GNP), Net
National Product (NNP), Methods of measuring National Income, Meaning of
Economic growth, Stabilizing the economy, function of Commercial and Central
Bank.
Bangladesh
Economy:
Basic Economic problems of Bangladesh Economic Development, Natural Resources,
Agriculture, Water, Power, Irrigation and Flood Control Large Scale Industry,
Banking System, Economic Planning, Budget.
