BSHF-101 Question Paper [December, 2009]

BDP/BCA/BTS

Term-End Examination
December, 2009

BSHF-101: FOUNDATION COURSE IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Time : 3 Hours

Max. Marks : 100

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Note : All Sections are compulsory. Choice of question is indicated at each Section.

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SECTION -1

Answer any two questions of the following in about 500 words each:
1.    Describe the main features of the post-industrial society.[20]
2.    How the economic reforms in India helped in integrating India with the global economy? [20]
3.    What were the factors that lead to the growth of national consciousness in India during the colonial rule? [20]
4.    Did the question of environment make any progress in the post Rio de Janeiro summit period? Discuss. [20]

SECTION-II

Answer any four questions of the following in about 250 words each:
5.    Discuss the Delors report on education submitted to the U.N. [12]
6.    Discuss the concept of food security. Do you think it is a multi-dimensional phenomenon? [12]
7.    What do you understand by the term ‘deindustrialisation’? [12]
8.    What are the basic objectives of planning in India? Describe. [12]
9.    Highlight the key issues in modern ‘governance’. [12]
10.   What do you understand by the term ‘digital-divide’? Explain. [12]
11.   Write a brief note on the modern Indian painting. [12]
12.   What are the functions of the institution of family? Examine. [12]

SECTION-III

Answer any two questions of the following in about 100 words each: [6+6]
13.    (a)    Regional style in Indian music
(b)    Demographic transition
(c)    Denotified tribes
(d)    Khilafat Movement

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