Unit 1.1: Information: Concept, Characteristics, and Nature.
Unit 1.2: Conceptual difference between Data, Information and Knowledge.
Unit 1.4: Forms of Information: Oral, Pictorial Printed & Digitized.
Unit 2.1: Communication: Concepts and Nature.
Unit 2.2: Communication and its types.
Unit 2.3: Communication Process: Element and Cycle.
Unit 2.4: Communication Models: Shannon and Weaver's, Lasswell's, and Wilbur Schramm's.
Unit 3.1 Communication Channels in Information Centers: Oral, Written and Visual.
Unit 3.2 Communication Barriers.
Unit 3.3 Trends in Scientific Communication.
Unit 3.4 Changing role of Library and Information Centres in Information Society.
Unit 4.1: Information Society: Concept, Definition. Perceptions.
Unit 4.2: Dynamics of change in societies: Societal Change, Rapidity of Change & Agent of Change.
Unit 5.4: Knowledge Society: Features of Emerging Knowledge Society.