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  • Art of Living (AOL) for Today and Tomorrow


    Welcome to the Course Art of Living: For Exploring the Beautiful World

    It has been perceived from the different evaluations that intellectual ability needs to be exercised in an effective way through scheduled practice and performance.

    Success comes not just from the knowledge and skills but also from behavior which can create distance between success and failure. And we can achieve expected behavior only by learning and unlearning ways of thinking that finally craft body language and ensure effective living in this beautiful world.



    Objective of the course

    The Objectives of this course are –

    • Self Confidence: All learners will have a strong belief that we all are inborn genius and that any dream is possible to achieve to create a difference.
    • Boldness: They will become strong with critical thinking & creativity to accept the unacceptable in the face of unavoidable challenges in daily life.
    • Equity with Empathy: They will have fundamental human & life skills including conscious self-awareness to learn and find how to do things in an empathetic and equitable way - a way that pleases  the Creator.
    • Questioning: They will not hesitate to ask any question to unleash inner genius and the genius of local & global collectives, towards building a Just Daffodil, Bangladesh, and World.
    • Values: Learners will set, feel, and realize core human values and act with or reflect those in their daily life.
    • Learning to learn: They will learn how to learn & will be able to criticize themselves.
    • Peace & Mutual Happiness: All learners will achieve Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to create harmonious relationships with parents, family, friends & community in order to experience a good,  peaceful, and mutually happy life.


    Video Introduction Of the Course : 


                       


    Assessment Policies and Final Outcome

    Parent’s involvement in the Course:

    Parents will be involved in this course conduction at the initial level of course during the chapter” Parents: Life & Living” with an objective for exploring three-dimensional relationships for lifetime growth.

    Fieldwork:

    A number of field & homework will be organized in a mutually agreed manner throughout the course.

    Assignment and presentation tips:

    Students will be asked for using Google to search and find enter-educative tools including slides, documents, movies and others for every chapter. Relevant films and video clips will be downloaded by respective students to explore global learning opportunities from the sky. Final presentations will be done by students with proper guidance from respective course teachers.

    At the end of the semester SWBAT (Students Will Be Able To) – 
      • SWBAT know the necessity of Questioning, How to question, core values, and theories on goal setting for life. 
      • SWBAT create empathy, broaden the conception of people, moral concern, a sense of honor and decency and strengthen responses to unjust conditions. 
      • SWBAT make humanitarian qualities as the basic tools for enjoying the journey from “I” to “We” to promote effective living in this precious world. 
      • SWBAT achieve competency to cope with rapidly changing world considering university as a place and platform to create knowledge and skills for their meaningful survival. 
      • SWBAT set her/his own goal for life with core values and can break down big goals into short term attainable goals. 
      • SWBAT evaluate situations & problems and can act like a resilient with empathetic and equitable way

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  • Assignments and Quiz Submission

    • PRESENTATION

      • Final Exam Summer 2022

        • Lesson - 1: Coming Out of the Box

          Coming Out of the Box

          This introductory chapter is to engage students in divergent thinking and involve them in a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring the most possible solutions. 

          Objective

          1. To motivate the students' minds for cherishing a new way of thinking for a better living.
          2. To understand the definition of the Box and Out of the Box.
          3. To find out the reason for staying inside the box or Comfort Zone.
          4. Explore the necessity of Coming Out Of The Box.
          5. Explore the ways of Coming Out of the Box.


          Outcome

          At the end of the Chapter SWBAT (Students Will Be Able To) –

          1. Understand the definition of the Box and Out of the Box. 
          2. Understand the relationship between the Box and our subconscious mind. 
          3. Get an overview of staying inside our comfort zone. 
          4. Have a clear knowledge about the necessity and the ways of coming out of the box.    

        • Lesson - 2: Learning to Learn

          Objectives:

          • To prepare students ready to learn meaningfully with a proper understanding of the importance of unlearning in learning for continuous growth besides traditional learning.
          • To create a synergy of learning and unlearning for effective development and living.
          • To create the ability to glean knowledge and skills from reading, watching, and analyzing to make learning circuit functional.



          Outcome:

          At the end of the chapter, students will be able to  - 

          • Learn the necessity of Learning to Learn.
          • Know the process of Learning to Learn. 
          • The definition of Learning to Unlearn. 
          • Know the things which need to be Unlearnt. 

        • Lesson 03 - Parents, Life and Living

          This chapter will cover the basics of parenting, relationship, and values of empathy, the relationship that we can’t ignore in living in this beautiful world. Moreover, the socio-economic condition of the country where opportunity cost is very high for many of the parents in creating children’s futures will be focused.

          Objectives  
          • To understand parenting and their empathetic bondage by extracting from past, bearing present and exploring future by involving them directly
          • To uphold self-esteem, confidence, and self-driven quality for evolving leadership quality.
          • To know about Self-Guardianship and its impact on personal life. 

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          Outcomes

          At the end of the Chapter SWBAT (Students Will Be Able To) –

          • Understand the process of conscious parenting and its impact on the child. 
          • Realize the necessity of Self-Guardianship and learn the steps of it. 
          • Recognize the values of empathy, a relationship that we can’t ignore in living in this beautiful world.
          • Participate in an interactive discussions in the presence of parents or legal guardians. 

          • Know their parents deeply for creating an emotional and professional bridge between parents and their sons/daughters.


        • Lesson – 4 Etiquette, Personal Behavior and Professionalism.

          If we think about learning to have two components: one that leads to tool building (information and knowledge) and another that leads to wisdom and transformation (subjective learning), unlearning is an extraordinarily important component of the second kind. So the phrase 'learning to learn’ is more closely related to unlearning though the focus is 'freeing from what we have learned’ that keep someone non-judgmental in learning and de-learning.

          OBJECTIVES OF THE CHAPTER

          • To understand society and its role in developing behavioral and humanitarian quality at the individual level.
          • To create synergy among personal, social, and global professionalism in relation to etiquette and behavior.
          • To understand the basics of professional etiquette stands on the ethics of respecting every individual in their workplace and displaying well-mannered behavior in business interactions.
          • Understanding professional etiquette can have a long-lasting and fantastic impact on professional life; be it someone’s personal career growth or a business-related company.


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          OUTCOMES OF THE CHAPTER

          • At the end of the Chapter SWBAT (Students Will Be Able To) –
          • Learn basics about behavioral sciences in relation to humanitarian quality which finally contributes to exploring successes.
          • Learn and practice different tips about etiquette, behavior, and professionalism.
          • Understand the culture of the workplace and thus, it becomes essential to follow some basic professional etiquette. 
          • Get the knowledge on different etiquette like Conversation Etiquette, Email Etiquette, Dining Etiquette, Dressing Etiquette, General Etiquette, etc. 
          • Practice some etiquette through assignments and other activities. 


        • Lesson - 5: Self Esteem and You.


          Self Esteem is considered as an important component of emotional health; self-esteem encompasses both self-confidence and self-acceptance. Experiences at home, at school, and with peers can all build or diminish a child's self-esteem. Psychologists and child-care authorities who write about self-esteem generally, discuss it in terms of two key components: the feeling of being loved and accepted by others and a sense of competence and mastery in performing tasks and solving problems independently. In order for youth to feel good about them, they must feel that they are able to do things well.

          Objectives of the Chapter

          1. To learn efficient lifetime performance by developing social, ethical, and intellectual abilities depending on practical needs.
          2. Explore the possibility of becoming self-guardian or director to face unpredictable or unscripted life and living.
          3. To know the definition and the categories of Self Esteem. 
          4. To understand the ways of identifying High Self Esteem and Low Self Esteem.

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          Outcome of the Chapter

          At the end of the Chapter SWBAT (Students Will Be Able To) –

          1. Know that we will be much happier and more effective people if we can take the time and the energy to understand who we are and how people know us!

          2. Know that knowing great people’s life, living history, etc. always can help anyone to write personal history by doing things practically.

          3. Know that it is important that more you are becoming aware of how your actions affect others, now and in the future, and then more you will be able to effectively communicate and motivate.

          4. Know that anyone can build or can change careers several times if he/she can grow and try to create positive change in the world.

          5. Meet the ways of improving Self Esteem for an effective life. 

        • Lesson: 6 - Essential Skills for 21st Century


          OBJECTIVES OF THE CHAPTER

          To reform essential skills for 21st century survival by young people and community

          CONTENTS TO BE COVERED

          The chapter will cover mostly future study and -

          • Use & abuse of ICT
          • Social Network Analysis
          • Common Senses
          • Reproductive Health
          • Stress from the Market Economy
          • Real Relationship vs Virtual Relationship
          • Becoming Global

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          OVERVIEW AND RATIONAL                  

          Over the past few years, all are discussing the various skills needed for effectively operating in a world characterized by information and accelerating changes.  Now, we have been assembling these ideas into a framework for 21st century young people for new thought architecture.

          All of the skills we’ll be covering are already in practice in our brains – it’s just a matter of becoming more aware of them so we can sharpen them and can transform into action for survival.

          Finally, students will learn the positive use of technology considering the century need.

        • Lesson 7 - Impression Management

          OBJECTIVES OF THE CHAPTER

          • To achieve quality for becoming “Ideal Self” or “how you would like to be” in real life setting
          • To become a self-evaluation expert and developmental

          CONTENTS TO BE COVERED 
          Role Play from Selected character and continuing at the classroom, home, and community by choice. It will cover skills for lifetime performance considering life as longest unscripted performance. 

          OVERVIEW AND RATIONAL
          Impression management is a process people use to control the perceptions or impressions about themselves, a bit like personal branding. 

          Individuals may believe they are being judged or perceived based on their outward appearance, personality or other subjective opinions by other people. Impression management attempts to control these perceptions from other people through the development of self-presentation, methods, and techniques used to control outward perceptions or impressions.
          The ideal impression management presentation is the attempt to present one’s self how he desires to behave or be viewed, rather than presenting himself in an authentic manner. Closely tied to the ideal brand is the tactical presentation. A tactical brand is used by individuals who wish to present a public image that reflects positively on them. This technique is used to create a behavior or personality that is consistent with outside perceptions of how an individual should act or behave.

          Self-presentation plays an integral part in developing impression management techniques. Individuals must select which method they wish to use when presenting themselves to other people, whether in business or social situations. Individuals may also need to develop techniques or characteristic personas that help them to develop their attempts at self-presentation. This persona may include self-disclosure, outward appearance, ingratiation or aligning actions with a current opinion or line of thought. 

        • Lesson 8 - Style of Living

          OBJECTIVES
          • To develop an effective style of living skills among young people for lifetime growth
          • To achieve self-guardianship 

          Contents to be covered: 
          Different era styles of living, tips for youthful living, managing stress, meditation, and holistic mindfulness for joyous living.

          Overview and Rational:
          For developing an adequate style of living someone must go through continuous self-evaluation and development. For continuous growth and development, a thoughtfully designed self-evaluation procedures are needed in relation to youthful living, stress management, and meditation.

          This chapter is to provide skills for student involvement in assessment decision-making, that elicit student cognition about their performance.

          It is also important to introduce a rational way of thinking among young people when the market is trying to maximize their profit by any means including the promotion of beyond capacity consumption, commoditization of friendship and relation, depression, etc. 

          Sample Tips for Healthy Living:

          Leading a physically and mentally well-balanced existence is the ideal way to live a healthy lifestyle. This is, of course, easier to say than perform, and there are many other things involved. 

          The way you think, what you eat, where you work, where you live, what you do, what your financial situation is, who you know, and so on. 

          You need to discover what works for you and what doesn't. You need to accept that certain things are beyond your control and there is little point in knocking yourself out about them. 

          You need to understand that leading a healthy lifestyle is a continual and life-long process. Think of yourself as a work of art in progress.

        • Lesson 9 - Mind Mapping

          Objectives:
          • To learn about mind mapping and practice in daily life and living with an objective to think and remember better
          • To learn about creative problem solving and action in need 

          Contents to be covered: 
          • WHAT IS A MIND MAP? 
          • WHY MIND MAPS WORK? 
          • HOW TO DO A MIND MAP 

          Overview and Rational:
          A lot of researches have been done in order to develop and strategize the effective ways on the process of learning for students. For developing students with creative thinking in a modern world of today, we need to always be well ahead of everyone and that is why the mind map concept is important to students who want to achieve their dreams. 
          This method is a thinking process which involves graphical way in representing ideas and concepts. It is like a visual thinking tool that helps you structure information, analyze a topic much better, comprehend, synthesize, recall and also generate new ideas easily. In other word, the information through mind map is structured in such a way so that it can help your brain work faster.
          Some of the elements that make the mind map method important is the simple and short text used enabling someone for easy understanding it’s content, along with it’s not too small font size so that eyes will not feel tired when looking at it, plus also not feeling bored because of reading it. 

          Mind Mapping Sample

          Graphical signs being used in your mind map such as arrows, squares and round shapes definitely help someone to create network interface for easy understanding of certain topics. 
          By adding picture drawing or sketches for explaining certain content in selected topics will provide easy understanding, plus also strengthening memory on each of the related pictures/topic involved.
          When a student has mastered the art of mind map techniques, they will be able to acquire analytic skills on whatever sketches or symbols they intend to portray in the mind map notes. This is important because all of this exercise will in the end generate an analytical attitude to the students.

        • Chapter 11 - PSYCHO-SOCIAL SUPPORT: Emotional growth and Personality

          OBJECTIVES
          • To understand Importance of neurological and psychological development for Body Language and Personality Development among young people. 
          • To develop a systematic approach to education in socio-economic transitional phases of the world when education is a basic human right, but it is also a response mechanism for protection and fulfillment of needs of time. Objectively a well-organized learning environment with caring mode may be the best way of reducing the effects of traumatic experiences (if any) and help rehabilitate individuals and communities as per need through proper psycho-social support.
          • To realize how body language is best defined as a non-verbal form of communication showed through facial expressions, gestures, posture, and body movements, says a lot about one’s personality. 

          Contents to be covered 
          The chapter will cover human brain : how it works, Body language :how it comes from neurological and psychological perspective, Personality :how you can build by growing emotionally and psycho-social support for performing life confidently.

          Overview and Rational
          Everyone needs psychological support in different manners throughout the lifetime. Especially now a days, young people can’t concentrate in deserved situation in preferred level where psycho-social support can evolve basic capacity of human brain for becoming rational and developmental.

          There are many ways people can improve body language, but like most things, it needs practice and consistency so that it will become part of you, and not just something you can do for a certain period of time. 
          Emotional growth can be ensured through proper psycho-social support where smart body language is logical sequence.
          On the other hand if someone wants to develop his/her personality in a positive way, they need to be aware of his/her own body language and make sure it remains to what is generally perceived as positive body language.

          Number of evaluation on individual body language will be done keeping in mind that great speakers are not born, they are made. Before they became great speakers, they underwent a rather difficult process of honing their skills, talents, and yes, even their body language. 
          This chapter within classes will give basic tips about emotional growth, psycho-social support and relationship among body language and personality that finally will be contributing to creating effective career for the 21st century.

        • Chapter 13 - Transforming Conceptual Learning into Action

          Objectives
          • To transform conceptual learning into action
          • To facilitate and enhance relationships within the locality, county, and region.

          Contents to be covered 
          Mostly basic dynamics of community and industry relationships will be discussed and practical assignments to make students capable to deal it. Field visits including industry, community and hard to reach areas will be part of it in regular basis.

          Overview and Rational
          DIU introduced Academic Social Responsibilities (ASC) where students can participate in social work from academic perspective. This chapter is to perform responsibility without expectation for the community where we belong to.
          This course and in particular the chapter itself will play a vital role in developing a developmental relationships among university, industry and community from where new knowledge and skills will be nourished.
          One of the main rationales for introducing this practical work is to reduce isolation among students, parents, industry and community.

        • Chapter 14 - Time and Financial Management

          Objectives

          ·         To reorganize young people on time and financial management from practical point of view.

          ·         To create feelings about time and money simultaneously in relation to successes.

          Contents to be covered

          Contents will cover basic tips for time management and financial management during study and professional life.

          Overview and Rational

          There are many adults as well as young people who often face one problem that is time management. Putting off large, chunky assignments till the last very minutes thus not able to complete the task given or simply rushed through it to get it done It can affect all the things from one's result at work, to a students' grades in college/universities.

          However, there are ways to end the situation, which can improve the student's time management skills. This chapter will explain how many steps are needed for most people to take in order to improve their time management skills.

          Same time it’s needed in “managing money”, we call financial management. It notices clearly that number of students don’t know how to manage parents money for building bright future rather spending without empathy. A good number of students are also trying to earn themselves but failing in managing in some cases. This chapter will help them to learn the same meaningfully.

          Finally, it will focus on synergy of time and money issue for effective living throughout the lifetime.



        • Chapter 15 - Career Plan: Life and Beyond

          Objective

          To understand career plan from wider perspective.

          Content to be covered 

          It will cover Career Plan, understanding life and living in this beautiful world. Moreover, knowing about how people will be missing you at every step rather than treated as burden. 

          Overview and Rational

          As career is perceived very differently by each individual selected contents and tips will lead to understanding that career planning is not just finding a job or earning handsome amount of money. 
          Career planning is an activity that is best done on a regular basis, especially given the data that the average worker will change careers (not jobs) multiple times over his or her lifetime. And it's never too soon or too late to start your career planning but better to start soonest once someone can realize.
          Contents and practices will be focused where it seems that career planning is not a hard activity, not something to be dreaded or put off, but rather an activity that should be liberating and fulfilling, providing goals to achieve in your current career or plans for beginning a transition to a new career. Hope this chapter will be able to create confidence that career planning should be a rewarding and positive experience. 
          A practical session will be conducted to learn using of free web resources and developing everyone’s personal website disseminating past, considering today and portraying tomorrow’s need.


          Having a personal website

          Having a personal website for anyone is cost-effective, more efficient, and more adaptable compared to print version. You can connect with people through your Face book, Twitter etc… social networking sites from your own website. It is easy to express yourself to people and share with your fans or followers in a more refined way. You can create a video of your profession and publish into your website. Now a day people used to search for services and their needs through internet only. If you have your own website it will be easy and more efficient to connect with people and express about your profession. It is easy to tell about yourself and your profession.
          It needs to be eye catching and transmit your message in a few seconds. It needs to have enough content that explains your message and what you do. A professional without a web site is like a salesman without his business card. 
          The web site needs to be your profile and what’s good about it is that there is limitless information you can add on it. Even better, you can go for a dynamic site which will automatically change your content based on changes to your articles, services, new thoughts and more.
          Time has come to hold a visiting card just with a web address like www.ami.com. This chapter finally will make things happened.

        • Chapter 18 - Universal Human Values

          OBJECTIVES 

           To enable students to live a happy-healthy life, in harmony with self & family, society & nature.
           To ensure tangible change in student's thinking in terms of their vision about happiness, prosperity and improvement in human relationship.
           To understand the ultimate role of education in transforming a man or a woman into a human being.
           To facilitate a holistic development perspective among students towards life, profession and happiness, based on correct understanding of Human reality and the rest of the Existence. Such a Holistic perspective develops the basis of value-based living in a natural way.
           Basic understanding about universal human values & ethical human conduct.
           Relationship between values and ethics.
           Values in higher education and professionalism.

          CONTENT TO BE COVERED
          ➢ Basic Human Aspirations: Prosperity and Happiness.
          ➢ Methods to fulfill human aspirations understanding and living in harmony at various levels.
          ➢ Harmony in the Human Being
          • Harmony in family and society: Understanding Human-human relationship in terms of mutual trust and respect.
          • Understanding society and nation as extensions of family and society respectively.// Solidarity in Family, Society & Nation
          ➢ Basics of Professional Ethics
          • Ethical Human Conduct – based on acceptance of basic human values.
          • Humanistic Constitution and universal human order skills, sincerity and fidelity.
          ➢ Professional Ethics in practice:
          • Profession and Professionalism – Professional Accountability, Roles of a professional, Ethics and image of profession.
          • Profession and Ethics – Technology and Society, Ethical obligations of Engineering professionals, Roles of Engineers in industry, society, nation and the world.



          OVERVIEW AND RATIONAL
          If we look at our living, it is clear that human living (our own living) can be seen as encompassing the following 4 levels:
          1. Myself
          2. Family
          3. Society
          4. Nature/existence
          Each one of us lives at all levels--whether we are aware of it or not, and each one of us wants to understand all these of our beings, or living. All these levels of our living need to be investigated for better understanding and performance. 
          Family, school and social environment constitute the three most potent factors in laying the foundations of personality and determining the character of a person to be a human being. 
          The development of human society in the last several hundred years has been characterized by a number of basic contradictions. It has brought positive trends as the rapid growth of technical and scientific knowledge, which has increased substantially the amount of information about our world that leads to a higher standard of living. But at the same time human being is confused with this huge pool of information like what to accept, reject or eject and continuously facing a psychological crisis. 
          “TRY TO TREAT OTHERS AS YOU WOULD WANT THEM TO TREAT YOU”
          We must, however, also consider the negative features of this development, which have dangerous consequences. The high, and still growing consumption connected with a rapid deterioration of natural resources and the production of enormous amounts of waste. 20 percent of the population now consumes about 80 percent of raw material and energy resources. Most of the population of the world lives in poverty. More than 780 million from the total of 5.5 billion world inhabitants are under the poverty level — in each minute 28 people die from hunger and people attempting desperately to survive destroy the surrounding nature.
          Expansive development is leading to the weakening or even destroying of national or regional cultures, which means irreparable loss of cultural diversity of human kind and restriction of its ability to react efficiently in new circumstances and leading thereby to a growing fragility and alienation of human society.
          Sustainable development — or perhaps more precisely a sustainable way of life — is concerned with a search for harmony between Human and Nature , society and its environment, so that we should achieve the ideals of humanism and respect for life and nature, as much as possible and in all temporal and spatial zones. 
          It is a way of life which searches for balance between rights and freedom of every individual and his or her responsibility towards other people and nature as a whole, including responsibility towards future generations.
          One can influence the conduct of others around him. If one is not like that already, it can be made much easier by just picking one virtue a day and specializing in it for that day. Doing that, they would all eventually be in. Now what do you suppose would happen if one were to try to treat those around him with - justness, loyalty, good sportsmanship, fairness, honesty, kindness, consideration, compassion, self-control, tolerance, forgivingness, benevolence, belief, respect, politeness, dignity, admiration, friendliness, love, and did it with integrity? It might take a while but don’t you suppose that many others would then begin to try to treat the one in the same way?
          The way to happiness is far more easily followed when one supports people with good will. SO DO NOT HARM A PERSON OF GOOD WILL.