The Unknown Citizen

The Unknown Citizen

Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS) — Second Year

Subject: Business Communication (MGT 205)

Part II - I: Culture and Society

Academic Year: 2083/84

Topic Objectives

After studying this topic, students should be able to:

• Explain the scope and key elements of the unknown citizen.
• Analyze the relevant communication task or prescribed text and prepare a clear, audience-appropriate response.

Curriculum Scope

• Prescribed reading: The Unknown Citizen

Detailed Microsyllabus

1. Reading The Unknown Citizen

   1. Identify the speaking voice and represented institutional perspective.
   2. Examine irony, enumeration and impersonal language.
   3. Analyze the relationship between public records and individuality.

2. Critical response

   1. Discuss the criteria used to evaluate a person in the poem.
   2. Differentiate the speaker's view from the reader's interpretation.
   3. Support a critical response with textual evidence.

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Curriculum reference: Tribhuvan University, Faculty of Management, revised four-year BBS curriculum, PDF pages 19-23.

Source note: The curriculum scope above is retained from the existing TU syllabus breakdown. The numbered study subtopics are editorial elaborations for teaching and study, rather than a separately issued TU syllabus. Unit or component allocations apply at their stated level; no separate topic hours or marks are assigned here. Reading activities refer to the prescribed text in the assigned edition; interpretations must be supported by that text. Printed titles are retained from the curriculum.