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Instru. Marks
Sem Exam
Title of the Course Hours / Credit Int. Ext. Total
ester Hours
Week
Language Course I (LC) 6 4 3 25 75 100
English Language Course I (ELC) 6 4 3 25 75 100
Core Course I (CC) World Regional
6 4 3 25 75 100
Geography
Core Course II (CC) Practical I Maps and
I 3 - * - - -
Diagrams
First Allied Course I (AC) 5 3 3 25 75 100
First Allied Course II (AC) 2 - * - - -
General Interest Course (GIC)
2 2 3 25 75 100
Computer Application
1
Core Course VII (CC) Human Geography 3 4 3 25 75 100
Core Course VIII (CC) - Geography of India 6 4 3 25 75 100
V Core Course IX (CC) - Geography of 6 4 3 25 75 100
Resources
Core Course X (CC) - Weather Report and 3 - * - - -
Projection - Practical
Elective Course I (EC) *** 4 3 3 25 75 100
Elective Course II (EC) *** 4 3 3 25 75 100
Elective Course III (EC) *** 4 3 3 25 75 100
The Department of Geography will offer the following Elective Courses (ECs)
For B.Sc. Geography students
Elective Course I. Physical Geography for Competitive Examination
Elective Course II. Social Geography for Competitive Examination
For other Department students
Elective Course III. Biogeography
Elective Course IV. Remote Sensing and GIS
* Examination at the end of even semester
** Examination at the end of fifth semester
*** Choice of the students as per the titles given in the Annexure
2
CORE COURSE I
REFERENCE BOOKS:
3
CORE COURSE II
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Monkhouse and Willinson Maps and diagrams Methuen & co
London.
2. R.L.Singh Elements of Practical Geography.
3. Raghunandhan Singh Map work and Practical Geography.
4. S. Jaiyachandran Practical Geography (Tamil Edition).
4
CORE COURSE III
CLIMATOLOGY
REFERENCES BOOKS:
5
CORE COURSE IV
GEOMORPHOLOGY
REFERENCE BOOKS:
6
CORE COURSE : V
REFERENCE BOOKS:
7
CORE COURSE VI
OCEANOGRAPHY
2. Major Relief Features of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean Floor.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
8
CORE COURSE VII
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
REFERENCE BOOKS:
9
CORE COURSE VIII
GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA
1. India in the continent of Asia and the World. Major terrain units of
India and their characteristics, drainage systems, the Indian Monsoon:
Regional and Seasonal variations in climate, climatic divisions, Soil
types their characteristics and distribution Forest Resources.
REFERENCE BOOK:
10
CORE COURSE IX
GEOGRAPHY OF RESOURCES
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Coh Cheng Leong Economic and Human Geography, Oxford
University Press, New Delhi.
2. Clawson Marion (Ed) Natural Resources and International
development, New York.
3. S.K. Sadhukhan (1994) Economic Geography An Appraisal of
Resources, S.Chand & Co, Chennai.
4. K.Khanna & V.K. Gupta (1998) Economic and Commercial
Geography Sultan Chand & Sons, New Delhi.
5. G. Venugopal Economic Geography (Tamil Edition), Tamil Nadu
Text Book Corporation, Chennai
11
CORE COURSE: X
WEATHER REPORT AND PROJECTION - PRACTICAL
REFERENCE BOOKS:
12
CORE COURSE XI
PRINCIPLES OF CARTOGRAPHY
REFERENCE BOOKS:
13
CORE COURSE XII
GEOGRAPHY OF TAMILNADU
REFERENCE BOOKS:
14
5. Sakthi Venkata K.Kumarasamy, (2003) Geography of TamilNadu
(Tamil Edition).
GEOGRAPHY OF SRILANKA
REFERENCE BOOKS:
15
CORE COURSE: XIV - PRACTICALS
REFERENCE BOOKS:
16
ELECTIVE - I
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
References:
1. Dayal, P., (1990) A Text book of Geomorphology, Shukia Book
Depot, Patna, India.
2. Lal, D.S., (1996) Climatology, Allahabad, Chaitanya Publishing
House
3. Robinson, H. (1978) Biogeography, ECBS & Mac Donald and Evans,
London
4. Strahler. A.H., and Strahler.A.N., (2001) Modern Physical Geography
(Fourth Edition), New York; John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
5. Thornbury.W.D., (1954) Principles of Geomorphology, John Wiley
and sons, Inc., New York.
6. Worcester, P.G., (1948) A Textbook of Geomorphology, Von
Nostrand Reinhold, Company, New York.
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ELECTIVE - II
SOCIAL GEOGRAPHY FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
1. Population World Population distribution, growth factors
affecting them. Theories: Malthus, Optimum, Demographic transition,
Migration.
Settlement Rural, Urban, Site, Situation, Classification,
Urbanisation.
Regional Studies Concept formal, functional regions, natural,
agricultural, industrial and cultural regions of the world.
2. Natural Region
REFERENCE BOOKS:
ELECTIVE COURSE: IV
REMOTE SENSING AND GIS
REFERENCE BOOKS:
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