A brand new lecture series from NPTEL by experts! Today's Topic - FILM SENSE

Dear Learners 

Join us for a brand new lecture series from NPTEL! 

Today's session: 

Topic : Film Sense 
Speaker : Mr. Badri Venkatesh 
Profession : Film Director 
Time : 6:00pm 
Link to watch : https://youtu.be/loBJPhlh4vA 

Feedback for American Literature and Culture

Dear student

We are glad that you have attended the NPTEL online certification course.

We hope you found the NPTEL Online course useful and have started using NPTEL extensively.

In this regard, we would like to have a feedback from you regarding our course and whether there are any improvements, you would like to suggest.
 
We are enclosing an online feedback form and would request you to spare some of your valuable time to input your observations. Your esteemed input will help us in serving you better.

The link to give your feedback is :

https://docs.google.com/a/nptel.iitm.ac.in/forms/d/1TWb-lk9YUeXRh6dDBzx_DS42-SOIC277OBMD735X6tY/edit


We thank you for your valuable time and feedback.

Thanks & Regards,
NPTEL Team

Hall ticket for Oct 16/Oct 23rd NPTEL Online Certification exams is now available for download.

Dear Candidate:

If you have registered for the Oct 16/Oct 23rd NPTEL Online certification exam

We have sent the hall tickets to your registered email id and also sms regarding the same is also sent out from our exam partner.

You can also download it from the below link:

https://www3.digialm.com//EForms/configuredHtml/885/50508/login.html
 
Please login with your registered Google-enabled account email id (used to access the course on the portal and used for registering for the exam) and its password to access and download the hall ticket(s) for the Oct 16/Oct 23rd exams, from the link.  

Note that you will be able to login here, only if you have a valid registration for exams on Oct 16/Oct23rd 2016.

Please download hall ticket, take a print out and along with a valid ID card, carry it with you to the venue (The exam centre address is there in the hall ticket). Read all instructions given in the admit card/ hall ticket carefully and follow them.

Note:- If you are writing 2 exams - 1 on Oct 16th and another on Oct 23rd, please ensure that you have downloaded 2 hall tickets.
 
NPTEL Team wishes you the very best for the certification exam(s).

For any other queries: please write to nptel@iitm.ac.in.

Assignment - 9

Assignment - 8 (All issues sorted)

Week - 10 (Lecture and Assignment)

URGENT!!

Week - 8 Contents

Reminder 1:REGISTER TODAY - CERTIFICATION EXAM FORM IS NOW OPEN!

Dear Student:

Here is the much-awaited announcement on registering for the October 2016 certification exam. The registration for the certification exam is only open to students who have enrolled in the course.

Registration is open from now - 31st AUGUST 2016 (Wednesday) until 19th SEPTEMBER 2016 10.00 AM (Monday).

The certification exam registration URL is : http://nptelonlinecourses.iitm.ac.in/

(If you want to register for the exam for this course that started on July 18th or September 05th, login here using the same email id used to enroll to the course)

Dates of exam: 16th October 2016 / 23 October 2016 (You can choose either date according to your convenience for writing the exam)
Exam Session time: 2 PM - 5 PM
Examination Cities: The exam is to be conducted in several cities across India whose list is available on the registration form. Click here to access the list of exam cities: http://nptel.ac.in/noc/resources/List%20of%20examcities_October%202016.pdf
Registration fees: Rs 1000/-
(Students belonging to the SC/ST category can avail a 50% fee waiver - please select Yes for the SC/ST option and upload the correct certificate)

Mode of payment: Online payment - debit card/credit card/net banking or cash/spoc (if the college has agreed to collect the money and pay it to NPTEL)
Type of exam: Online (on the computer - MCQ/MSQ,Fill in the blanks)

The hall ticket will be available for download tentatively from 7th October 2016. We will confirm the same through an announcement.

Final score on certificate: 25% of assignment score + 75% of certification exam score.
Award of certificate:  Certificate will be awarded only to those candidates who register for the exam, attend the certificate examination and whose Final score > 40%

The final score, assignment score and exam score will be printed on the certificate. The certificate will also have a link to the NPTEL website (http://nptel.ac.in/noc), where on logging in, your scores and e-certificate will be available for verification  (Appropriate announcements will be made). Please do regularly submit assignments to get a good final score.

IMPORTANT NOTES

1) FOR CANDIDATES WHO WOULD LIKE TO WRITE MORE THAN 1 COURSE EXAM:- Once the registration form is submitted after payment, no changes like adding or removing the chosen course, exam date, city is possible. So, if you are choosing to write 2 course exams, please choose suitably and make the payment for both courses at the same time. It’s not possible to pay later for the second course. Once the payment is made, the registration form will be non-editable.

2) FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE GOT SCHOLARSHIP VIA YOUR LOCAL CHAPTER: -  
Students who have got scholarship via NPTEL local chapter can opt to pay individually using the above form. While doing so, the reduced fee will automatically apply.

3) FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE PAYING VIA THE LOCAL CHAPTER OF YOUR COLLEGE:-
If you are paying fee via Local chapter of your college:
a) If your SPOC has given us your photo & signature then your registration is complete but please login to verify the details given are correct using this form.
b) If the SPOC has asked you to fill the details, Please login and fill all the details in the form and select payment as "via SPOC of my college".

If there are any changes/issues/concerns, please write to nptel@iitm.ac.in giving your Application number, email id, course registered for, name and mention the change required. No changes will be entertained in these details after September 22 2016 – 12 Noon.

- NPTEL TEAM

Week-7 Contents

Week- 6 Contents

Dear all
The lectures and Assignment-6 for the week (Lectures 28 - 31) have been released. Please note that the deadline for the submission of Assignment-5 is 24 August '2016.
Thanks

Week-5 Contents

Week- 4 Contents

Week- 3 (Additional lectures)

Week - 3 Contents (Lectures and Assignment)

Downloading the Lectures

Dear all
The lectures for the course are now available for downloading. Click the link provided below to access the same. The lectures can be downloaded in  MP4, 3gp, flv and mp3 formats.
Link for download: http://nptel.ac.in/courses/109106099/

Please note that the link provided above is for only viewing and downloading the videos. The actual online certification course is being offered at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in
where enrolled candidates should submit assignments.
Thank you

Week 2 contents

Dear candidate

Week-2 lectures have been released. The first assignment for week-2 is now open to all of you who have enrolled for the course.

It is recommended of you to take the assignments regularly to experience the course more effectively and to have your certificates at the end of the course.
Hope you are enjoying it.

For further queries, get back to us.

Thank you and Happy Learning!

Correction in Week-1 Assignment -1

Week-1 Assignment-1

Dear all
The course has officially been aired from today. As informed earlier, Week-1 lectures have been released. The first assignment for week-1 is now open to all of you who have enrolled for the course.
It is recommended of you to take the assignments regularly to experience the course more effectively and to have your certificates at the end of the course.
Hope you are enjoying it. For further queries, get back to us.
Thank you and Happy Learning!

American Literature and Culture - Week 1

Dear students
Welcome to the course on 'American Literature and Culture'. Week-1 lectures have been released.
Please get back to us in case of any clarifications.
Thanks

Welcome to American Literature & Culture

• The announcement list which will only have messages from course instructors and teaching assistants - regarding the lessons, assignments, exam registration, hall tickets etc.    
• The discussion forum which is for everyone to ask questions and interact, the course instructor/TA will respond to your queries- Forum is divided into categories like admin, week 1, week 2,..........and so on.
• If you have any questions regarding the exam, registration, hall tickets, results, etc can be posted under the admin section and queries related to the technical content in the lectures, any doubts in the assignments - please post under each week appropriately.