INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY CHITTAGONG (IIUC)
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Department of English Language and Literature
Proposed SYLLABUS
for
B.A. (Hons) in English Language and Literature
with effect from Autumn-2009
The B.A. (Hons) Program in the Dept. of English Language and Literature is designed to give students a milieu
in literature, language, writing, and other relevant fields of studies like philosophy, history and to create a moral
awakening among them as well. The program will reveal to them both the opulent cultural testimony of the old
and the most ambitious artistic work of the contemporary poets and writers.
The Department of English Language and Literature offers Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English Language and
Literature. To be an honours graduate in English Language and Literature a student has to complete 131 Credit
Hour integrated courses consisting of
 13 Credit Hour University Required Courses,
 12 Credit Hour Interdisciplinary Courses,
 104 Credit Hour Major Courses and
 02 Credit Hour Viva-Voce
within 6-12 semesters in an Open Credit Hour System (OCHS). Each semester is of 14 weeks. Each course is
evaluated in 100 marks. Of the total marks allotted to each course, 20 marks are for class test / assignment / oral
test / attendance, 30 marks for the mid-term examination and 50 marks for the final examination. The 02 credit
hour Viva-Voce carries 100 marks divided among eight semesters (10 marks for each semester from the 1st to
the 7th semester and 30 marks for the eighth semester).
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Summary of the Courses
All courses for this program are distributed as follows:
Name of the Courses
a) University Required Courses
b) Interdisciplinary Courses
c) Major Courses
d) Viva Voce [ENG - 4800]
Total
No of Courses
11
04
35
Total Credit Hour
13
12
104
2
131
50
a) University Required Courses (URC) [Effective from Spring-2007]
A. Language Courses
SL.
Course Code
1.
URAL-1101
URQS-1101
2.
URAL-1202
URHS-1202
Course Title
Elementary Arabic OR
Quranic Studies in Text and Translation
Intermediate Arabic OR
Hadith Studies in Text and Translation
Total
B. Aqidah & Islamic Studies Courses
1.
URIS-1101
Islamic Aqidah
2.
URIS-1203
Introduction to Ibada
3.
URIS-2303
Introduction to al-Quran & al-Sunnah
4.
URMW-2401
Muslim World View
5.
URIS-2405
Dealings and Behaviour in Islam
6.
URIS-3505
Government and Politics in Islam
7.
URIS-3607
Biography of the Prophet (Saw)
Total
C. History Courses:
1.
URIH-4701
History of Khilafah upto 1258
2.
URBS-4802
Bangladesh Studies
Total
Grand Total:
Credit Hour
1
Contact Hour
3
1
3
2
6
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
8
1
1
2
2
1
1
2
10
1
2
3
13
2
2
4
20
b) Interdisciplinary Courses:
The following courses shall be offered as Interdisciplinary Courses.
The students of the Dept. of ELL shall choose 12 (twelve) credits from the follows courses:
SL.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Course Code
CSE-2301
CSE-2402
CSE-3503
ECON-3501
ECON-2401
Course Title
Introduction to Computer (Excepting CSE/CCE students)
Micro Computer Application-I (Excepting CSE/CCE students)
Micro Computer Application-II (Excepting CSE/CCE students)
Principles of Economics (Excepting DBA students)
Introduction to Islamic Economics
Total:
Credit / Contact
Hour
3
3
3
3
3
12
c) Major Courses: 35 Courses, 104 Credit Hours [Effective from Autumn-2009]
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Course Code
Course Title
Credit
Hours
2
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
Contact
Hours
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
ENG-1100
ENG-1103
ENG-1104
ENG-1105
ENG-1208
ENG-1209
ENG-1210
ENG-1214
ENG-2311
ENG-2314
ENG-2315
Introduction to the English Language
Socio - Political History of England – I
Introduction to the Study of Literature – I
History of Intellectual and Philosophical Ideas-I
Socio - Political History of England – II
Introduction to the Study of Literature – II
History of Intellectual and Philosophical Ideas-II
Writing - I [Basic Writing]
English Poetry from Anglo-Saxon period to the Renaissance
Greek and Latin Classics in Translation
English Novel – I (Pre 19th century)
ENG-2317
English Poetry: The Romantics
ENG-2318
ENG-2416
ENG-2417
ENG-2420
ENG-2421
ENG-3519
ENG-3520
ENG-3521
ENG-3522
ENG-3623
ENG-3624
ENG-3625
ENG-3626
Writing - II [Advancing Writing Skill]
English Drama – The Renaissance
English Prose – 17th Century
26.
ENG-3627
Writing - III [ Business Writing ]
3
3
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
ENG-4727
ENG-4728
ENG-4729
ENG-4730
ENG-4831
ENG-4832
ENG-4833
ENG-4834
English Language Teaching - I (ELT-I)
Modern Drama
Selections from American Poetry
English Literary Criticism-I
English Literary Criticism-II
Modern English Poetry
American Drama
Critical Theory
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
35.
ENG-4835
Total:
English Poetry – 17th & 18th Centuries
English Poetry – The Victorians
English Drama – Shakespeare
English Prose – 18th & 19th Centuries
American Transcendentalists
English Novel – II
American Novels
English Drama – Jacobean and Restoration
Modern English Novel
New Writings in English
English Language Teaching-II (ELT – II)
35 Courses
3
3
104
105
International Islamic University Chittagong
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Department of English Language and Literature
Course offer list for the undergraduate students
First Semester: 6 courses - 13 credit hours
1.
Course Code
Course Title
ENG-1100
Introduction to English Language
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Credit Hour
Contact Hour
2
3
w.e.f. Autumn-2009
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
ENG-1103
ENG-1104
ENG-1105
URAL-1101
URQS-1101
URIS-1101
Socio -Political History of England – I
Introduction to the Study of Literature – I
History of Intellectual and Philosophical Ideas-I
Elementary Arabic OR
Quranic Studies in Text and Translation
Islamic Aqidah
Total :
3
3
3
1
3
3
3
3
1
1
13
16
Second Semester: 6 courses - 14 credit hours
Course Code
Course Title
Credit Hour
Contact Hour
1.
ENG-1208
Socio-Political History of England – II
3
3
2.
ENG-1209
Introduction to the Study of Literature – II
3
3
3.
4.
ENG-1210
ENG-1214
History of Intellectual and Philosophical Ideas-II
Writing - I [Basic Writing]
3
3
3
3
5.
URAL-1202
URHS-1202
URIS-1203
Intermediate Arabic OR
Hadith Studies in Text and Translation
Introduction to Ibadah
1
3
6.
Total:
1
1
14
19
Credit Hour
Contact Hour
3
3
3
3
3
3
1
3
3
3
3
3
3
1
19
19
Credit Hour
Contact Hour
3
3
3
3
2
1
3
3
3
3
3
2
1
3
18
18
Third Semester: 7 Courses - 19 credit hours
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Course Code
Course Title
ENG-2311
ENG-2314
ENG-2315
ENG-2317
ENG-2318
CSE-2301
URIS-2303
English Poetry from Anglo-Saxon period to the Renaissance
Greek and Latin Classics in Translation
English Novel –I (Pre 19th century)
English Poetry: The Romantics
Writing - II [Advancing Writing Skill]
Introduction to Computer
Introduction to al-Quran and al-Sunnah
Total:
Fourth Semester: 7 Courses - 18 credit hours
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Course Code
Course Title
ENG-2416
ENG-2417
ENG-2420
English Drama – The Renaissance
English Prose – 17th Century
English Poetry – 17th & 18th Centuries
ENG-2421
English Poetry – The Victorians
URMW-2401
URIS-2405
CSE-2402
Muslim World View
Dealings and Behaviour in Islam
Micro Computer Application- I
Total:
Fifth Semester: 7 Courses - 19 credit hours
Course Code
Course Title
Credit Hour
Contact Hour
1.
2.
3.
ENG-3519
ENG-3520
ENG-3521
English Drama – Shakespeare
English Prose – 18th & 19th Centuries
American Transcendentalists
3
3
3
3
3
3
4.
ENG-3522
English Novel – II
3
3
5.
CSE-3503
Micro Computer Application- II
3
3
6.
URIS-3505
Government and Politics in Islam
1
1
7.
ECON-3501
Principles of Economics
3
3
19
19
Total:
Sixth Semester: 6 Courses – 16 credit hours
Course Code
Course Title
Credit Hour
Contact Hour
1.
2.
3.
4.
ENG-3623
ENG-3624
ENG-3625
ENG-3626
American Novels
English Drama – Jacobean and Restoration
Modern English Novel
New Writings in English
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
5.
ENG-3627
Writing - III [ Business Writing ]
3
3
6.
URIS-3607
Biography of the Prophet (Saw)
1
2
16
17
Credit Hour
Contact Hour
3
3
3
3
1
3
3
3
3
2
13
14
Credit Hour
Contact Hour
3
3
Total:
Seventh Semester: 5 Courses - 13 Credit hours
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Course Code
Course Title
ENG-4727
ENG-4728
ENG-4729
ENG-4730
URIH-4701
English Language Teaching – I (ELT-I)
Modern Drama
Selections from American Poetry
English Literary Criticism-I
History of Khilafah upto 1258
Total:
Eighth Semester: 7 Courses - 19 credit hours
1.
Course Code
Course Title
ENG-4831
English Literary Criticism-II
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
ENG-4832
ENG-4833
ENG-4834
ENG-4835
URBS-4802
ENG-4800
Modern English Poetry
American Drama
Critical Theory
English Language Teaching –II (ELT-II)
Bangladesh Studies
Viva Voce
Total:
3
3
3
3
2
2
3
3
3
3
2
0
19
17
ENG-1100: Introduction to English Language
2 C.H.
Contents:
A. The English IPA Symbols; Transcriptions.
B. Modals
C. Phrases and Clauses
D. Idioms and Phrases.
E. Appropriate Prepositions.
F. Sentence
a) Elements of Sentence and Basic Sentence Patterns
b) Subject - Verb Agreement
c) Capitalization and Punctuation
d) Transformation of Sentences
e) Common Errors
f) Question Forms
G. Translation from Bengali into English (Passage)
H. Reading Skill
a) Reading Strategies
I. Skimming
II. Scanning
III. Previewing
IV. Prediction
V. Inference
b) Reading Comprehension (Intensive Reading)
 to develop specific vocabularies and understand their meaning in the text.
 to understand the meaning of phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and the whole extract.
 to grasp the ideas and organization of the passage
 to learn the uses of the sentence structures of the text.
Books Recommended:
1. Wishon, G.E. and Burks, J.M.: Let’s Write English
2. Wren & Martin: High School English Grammar and Composition
3. John C. Hodges and Mary E, Whitten: Harbrace College Handbook
4. Ahmed, Sadruddin: Learning English the Easy Way
5. Murphy Raymond: Intermediate English
6.
Hornby A. S.: A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English
7. Alexander L.G. : Fluency in English
8. Jones Daniel: English Pronouncing Dictionary
9. Hornby A. S. : Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English
10. Swan Michael: Practical English Usage
11. Thomson and Martinet: Practical English Grammar
12. Janes A.W. Heffeman, John E. Lincoln: Writing - A Concise Handbook
13. G. Moshack and V. Mosbook: Practical Faster Reading
14. A. J. Glover: Build up your English
ENG-1103:
Socio-Political History of England-I
3 C.H.
Prescribed Text
G. T. Warner et . al: The New Groundwork of British History ( Book one : 55 B. C. –A. D. 1603)
(The following items from the set text are to be read)
1. The Military Conquest.
2. The Feudal System.
3. The Manorial System.
4. Monarchy and the Church.
5. Richard – The Crusades.
6. Magna Carta.
7. The Hundred Year’s War.
8. Religion : Wycliff and the Lollards.
9. The Black Death and Social Changes.
10. Richard- II.
11. The House of Lancaster.
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12. Henry –VIII.
13. Mary Tudor.
14. Elizabeth-I
Books Recommended:
1) A.C. Baugh: A Literary History of England.
2) G.M. Trevelyan: Social History of England.
3) A. L Norton: A People’s History of England.
4) Mayers: A Short History of Modern Times
5) A.F. Tout: History of England.
ENG-1104:
Introduction to the Study of Literature –I
3 C.H.
(A) Introducing Poetry: Form and Features of Poetry
(B) Rhetoric and Prosody
Selected Poems:
a) Shakespeare: Sonnet 130 (My Mistres’s Eyes are Nothing Like The Sun)
b) John Donne: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.
c) John Keats: To A Nightingale
d) P.B. Shelley: To a Skylark
e) Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
f) Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
g) W. B. Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
h) Ted Hughes: The Jaguar.
1) Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard;
(C) Practical Criticism of Individual Poems.
Books Recommended:
1) X.J. Kennedy: Introduction to Literature
2) I.A. Richards – Practical Criticism
3) Warren Brooks- Understanding Poetry
4) W.B. Goodman: Practical Criticism
5) Richard Gill: Mastering English Literature
6) M. Chakraborthy: Principles of English Rhetoric & Prosody
7) Bose & Sterling: Rhetoric and Prosody
8) M. H. Abrams: A Glossary of Literary Terms.
9) J. A. Cuddon: A Dictionary of Literary Terms. Penguin, 1984.
10) G. M. Thakur: The Anatomy of Rhetoric and Prosody.
11) 11) David Daiches : Critical Approaches to Literature.
12) Cleanth Brooks& Robert Penn Warren: Understanding Poetry.
13) Patrick Murray : Literary Criticism : A Glossary of Major Terms.
ENG-1105:
History of Intellectual and Philosophical Ideas- I:
3 C.H.
Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Locke, Hobbes, Hume.
Books Recommended:
1) Samuel Enoch Stumphs: A History of Philosophy: Socrates to Sarte.
2) Bertrand Russell: History of Western Philosophy; The Wisdom of the West.
3) T.Z. Lavine: From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest.
4) S.Radha Krishnan: History of Philosophy-Eastern and Western.
5) Durrant , Will: The Story of Philosophy.
6) Arthur Smullyan et . al. : Introduction to Philosophy, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd.
7) B. A. G. Fuller: A History of Philosophy, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.
8) Bryan Magee: The Great Philosophers.
ENG-1208:
Socio-Political History of England –II
3 C.H.
From the 17th Century to the present day (1940-45)
A. The Struggle between Crown and Parliament (1603-1688)
James –I-Charles I- The Civil War- The Commonwealth and the Prolectorate–Charles II
– James II
B. The Struggle with France and the Growth of Constitutional Monarchy (1688-1714)
William and Mary- Anne
C. The Expansion of Britain and the Final Contest with the Crown (1714-1783)
The Hungarian Dynasty-The Foundation of the British Empire- George III – The American Revolution
D. The Great Struggle with France: Revolution and Napoleon (1783-1815)
The France Revolution The War with Revolutionary France- The Napoleonic War
E. Industrial Development: Abuses and Reforms (1815-1867)
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1815 and after in Great Britain- The Industrial Revolution- The Reform of Parliament –The Whigs and Reform- Working class
Movements: Foreign affairs-Palmerston-the Crimean War.
F. Political Development: Imperialism and Democracy (1867-1914)
Gladstone-Disraeli:-Homerule-The Era of the Jubilees –Social Reform and Imperialism – Unionists and Trade Unionists- Liberals and
Labor.
G. Britain and the First World War (1914-18)
Irish Independence; The General Strike; The Economic Crisis (1918-31)
Britain and the Dictators (1931-40)
Britain and the Second World War (1940-45)
Books Recommended:
1) A.C. Baugh: A Literary History of England.
2) G.M. Trevelyan: Social History of England.
3) L Norton: A People’s History of England.
4) Mayers: A Short History of Modern Times.
5) A.F.Tout: History of England
ENG-1209:
Introduction to the study of literature –II
3 C.H.
A. Introducing Drama: Forms and elements of Drama
G.B. Shaw: Arms and the Man
B. Introducing Fiction: Elements and Characteristics of Fiction
i) George Orwell: Animal Farm
ii) James Joyce: Araby
iii) Earnest Hemingway: A Clean Well Lighted Place
Books Recommended:
1) M.H. Abrams: A Glossary of Literary Terms.
2) J. A. Cuddon : A Dictionary of Literary Terms. Penguin , 1984.
3) Aristotle: Poetics ( with an introductory essay by S. H. Butcher) (Hill & Wang 1967)
4) Cleanth Brooks & H. Heilman: Understanding Drama.
5) R.T. Jones: Studying Drama: An Introduction.
6) Malcom Kelsall: Studying Drama: An Introduction.
7) Jeremy Hawthorn: Studying the Novel: An Introduction.
8) E. M. Forster: Aspects of the Novel.
9) Milan Kundera: The Art of the Novel.
ENG-1210:
History of Intellectual & Philosophical ideas-II
3 C.H.
Descartes, Kant, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx; Nietzche, Sartre, The positivists, Pragmatism
Books Recommended:
1) Samuel Enoch Stumphs: A History of Philosophy: Socrates to Sartre.
2) Bertrand Russell: History of Western Philosophy; The Wisdom of the West.
3) T. Z Lavine: From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest.
4) S.Radha Krishnan: History of Philosophy-Eastern and Western.
6) Durrant , Will: The Story of Philosophy.
7) Arthur Smullyan et . al. : Introduction to Philosophy, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd.
8) B. A. G. Fuller: A History of Philosophy, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.
9) Bryan Magee: The Great Philosophers.
ENG-1214: Writing-I [Basic Writing]
3 C.H.
Contents:
A. Writing Process (Mifflin, H) Gathering ideas, planning, Writing and news writing, making final draft.
B. The organization of written texts (Tribble, C) Introduction, Layout, Social function, clause relations, discourse relations, conclusions.
C. Shaping paragraph (Mifflin, H and Unit One, Chpt-2, Bamet et. Chapter-3)
D. Different kinds of paragraphs: narrative, descriptive, expository
E. Writing Letters
a) Personal Letters
b) Official Letters
c) Letters to Newspapers
F. Amplification
G. Dialogue Writing
H. Précis Writing
I. Writing and Developing Essays
a) Free composition
b) Guided composition
Books Recommended:
1. Tribble C.(1996) : Writing, OUP
2. Mifflin, Houghton: English Grammar and Composition
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3.Taylor, Clive (1985): Advancing Language Skill
4.Islam, Zahurul (1991): A Handbook of Paragraph Writing
5. Bhatnagar and Bell,(1979): Communication in English
6.Taylor, Grant: English Conversation Practice
7. Morrice Imhoof: From Paragraph to Essay
8. Ahmed, Sadruddin: Learning English the Easy Way
ENG-2311:
English Poetry from the Anglo-Saxon to the Renaissance
3 C.H.
1) Beowulf – Translation by Seamus Heaney
2) Geoffery Chaucer: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
(The Knight; The Wife of Bath; The Doctor of Physic; Clerk of Oxford, The Pardoner,
The Summoner).
3) Edmund Spenser: The Faeric Queene, Book – I (Cantos I to IV)
Books Recommended:
1) K.S. Banner: Chaucer and the Twentieth Century.
2) G.L.Kittredge: Chaucer and his Poetry.
3) C.S. Lewis: English Literature in the Sixteenth Century.
4) E. M.W. Tillyard: Elizabethan World Picture.
5) C. M. Bowra: From Virgil to Milton.
6) John Bayley : Spenser : Faerie Quenne.
ENG-2314:
Greek and Latin Classics in Translation.
3 C.H.
1) Homer: The Iliad
2) Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
3) Seneca: Phaedra
Books Recommended:
1) H. R. Rose: A Handbook of Greek Literature.
2) Gilbert Murray: The Rise of the Greek Epic.
3) Norwood: Greek Tragedy.
4) Gilbert Height: The Classical Tradition.
5) Robert Graves: Greek Myths I & II.
6) Edith Hamilton: Mythology.
7) Edith Hamilton: The Greek Way.
8) Edith Hamilton: The Roman Way.
9) C. M. Bowra: The Greek Experience.
10) T.A. Sinclair: A History of Classical Greek Literature.
11) J.B. Hainsworth: Homer.
12) Winnington Ingram: Sophocles: An Introduction.
13) Steele Commager: Twentieth Century Views on Virgil.
14) P.R. Hargh: A Handbook of Classical Drama.
ENG-2315:
English Novel-I (Pre 19th Century Novels)
3 C.H.
1) Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
2) Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
3) John Bunyan: The Pilgrims’ Progress.
Books Recommended:
1) The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol- I &II.
2) A.E . Dyson(ed): Tom Jones (case book)
3) Judith O’Neil(ed): Critics on Jane Austen.
4) John Oemarks: An Understanding of Jane Austen’s Novels.
5) Walter Allen: The English Novel.
6) Walter Allen: Tradition and Modernism.
7) John Hardy: Jane Austen’s Heroines.
ENG-2317:
English Poetry: The Romantics
3 C.H.
1) William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (selected)
2) W. Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey; Immortality Ode
3) S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Kubla Khan.
4) P.B. Shelley: Ode to the Westwind; The Cloud
5) John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn; To Autumn; Ode to Psyche; Ode on Melancholy
Books Recommended:
1) H.N. Bralisford: Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle.
2) The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol-V: From Blake to Byron.
3) F.B.Pinion: A Wordsworth Companion.
4) Patricia Hodgart: Preface to Shelley.
5) Northrop Frye: A Study of English Romanticism.
6) D.G.Gilham: William Blake.
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7) Twentieth Century Interpretation on Songs of Innocence and of Experience
ENG-2318: Writing-II [Advancing Writing Skill]
3 C.H.
Contents:
a) Composing:
1) Pyramid planning
2) Using a diagram of ideas
3) Brain storming,
4) Organizing points,
5) Working from opening sentences
6) Free writing / Creative writing
7) Interviewing people
b) Communicating:
1) Exchanging letters,
2) Giving directions,
3) Jigsaw story writing
4) Asking and giving advice,
5) Writing letters of invitation
6) Graph / table reading
7) Writing journalistic report and article
c) Crafting:
1) Writing newspaper article
2) Combining narrative and direct speech
3) Writing simple instructions
4) Organizing points for a contrast and comparison essay
5) Organizing topics and points in an argument
d) Writing essays about literature
Books Recommended:
1) McLaren,s (2003):Easy Writer, Viva Books Private Ltd.
2) Baugh, S,L. Prayer, M & Thomas, D.A. (1998): How to write First class Business Correspondence. NTC Publishing Group.
3) Hedge, T. (1988): Resource Books for Teachers, OUP
4) Tribble, C (1996): Writing, OUP
5) Kelley Grieffith Eeric: Writing essays about literature.
ENG-2416:
English Drama – The Renaissance.
3 C.H.
1) Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
2) Christopher Marlowe: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
3) T. Middleton& W.Rowley: The Changeling
Books Recommended:
1) F.L. Lucas: Seneca and Elizabethan Drama.
2) Vaughan: Types of Tragedy
3) J. A. Symonds : Shakespeare’s Predecessors in the English Drama.
4) Jan Kott: Shakespeare: Our Contemporary.
5) J. P. Brockbank: Marlowe: Dr. Faustus.
ENG-2417:
English Prose – 17th Century.
3 C.H.
1) Francis Bacon: Essays (Selection as in Norton Anthology)
2) John Milton: Areopagitica
3) John Dryden: Preface to Fables
Books Recommended:
1) The Bible (King James Version).
2) Norton Anthology of English Literature. Vol- I & II.
3) Basil Willey: Seventeenth Century Background.
4) Huge Walker: Satire and Satirists.
ENG-2420:
English Poetry: 17th & 18th Centuries
3 C.H.
1) John Donne: Selected Poems
[As in Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol-1 (7th Edition)]
2) Andrew Marvell: Selected Poems
[As in Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol-1 (7th Edition)]
3) John Milton: Paradise Lost, Books. I & II
4) Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Books Recommended:
1) C.S. Lewis: The Allegory of Love.
3) C.S.Lewis: A Preface to Paradise Lost.
4) H.J.Gierson: Cross Currents in English Literature of the 17th Century.
5) E.M.Tillyard: Milton.
6) Hugh Walker: Satire and Satirists.
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ENG-2421:
1)
C.M.Bowra: From Virgil to Milton.
G.K.Hunter: Paradise Lost.
John Butt: Augustan Age.
Sutherland : Preface to Eighteenth Century Poetry.
B.S.Hommond: Pope.
H.J. Gierson: Cross Currents in English Literature of the 17th Century.
A. Alvarez: The School of Donne.
A. J. Smith: Donne: Songs and Sonnets.
John Carey: John Donne: Life, Mind and Art.
English Poetry: The Victorians
3 C.H.
Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses, Lotos-Eater, Oenone, Tithonus,
In Memorium (Selected sections)
2) Browning: Andrea del Sarto, A Grammarian’s Funeral, Fra Lippo Lippi
3) Mathew Arnold: Thyrsis , Rugby Chapel
Books Recommended:
1) The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol-V: From Blake to Byron.
2) F. B. Pinion: A Tennyson Companion.
3) Northrop Frye: A Study of English Romanticism.
4) Alan Sinfield: Alfred Tennyson.
5) Mainsie Dard: Robert Browning & His World: Two Robert Brownings.
6) The Pelican Guide to English Literature: Vol. VI.
ENG-3519:
English Drama – Shakespeare
Macbeth, Hamlet, As You Like It
Books Recommended:
1) G.B. Harrison: Introducing Shakespeare
2) F.L. Lucas: Seneca and Elizabethan Drama
3) Jan Cott: Sakespeare: Our Contemporary
4) John Russel Brown: Shakespeare: Macbeth ( Studies in Eng. Lit. Series )
5) Mark Von Daren: Shakespeare
6) Leo Salinger: Shakespeare and the Traditions of Comedy
7) Alexander Leggat: Shakespeare’s Comedy of Love
8) John Drakakis(ed.): Shakespearean Tragedy
9) Harold Bloom: Shakespeare
10) Frank Kermode: The Language of Shakespeare
11) Germaine Greer: Shakespeare
12) A.C. Bradley: Shakespearean Tragedy
13) Granville-Barker and G.B. Harrison: A Companion to Shakespeare Studies
14) K. Sagar: Shakespeare: Hamlet
15) K. Muir: Shakespeare: Hamlet
ENG-3520:
English Prose – 18th and 19th Centuries
1)
Addison & Steele: Coverley Papers (Selection as in Norton Anthology)
2)
Jonathon Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
3)
Cardinal Newman: The Idea of a University (Discourse- 1,2,3)
Books Recommended:
1) Basil Willey: Eighteenth Century Background
2) Gulliver’s Travels (Norton Critical Guide)
3) A.S. Turvenville: English Man and Manners in the Eighteenth Century
4) Richard Gavil (ed.):A Casebook on Gulliver’s Travels
ENG-3521:
American Transcendentalists
Emerson: Self-Reliance, Nature
Thoreau: Walden
Books Recommended:
1) Milton Konvitz and Stephen Whicher (eds.): Emerson: A Collection of Critical Essays
2) Sherman Paul (ed.): Thoreau A Collection of Critical Essays
ENG-3522:
English Novel-II
1) Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
2) Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities
3) Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native
Books Recommended:
1) David Cecil: Early Victorian Novelists
2) Hugh Walker: The Literature of the Victorian Era
3) James H. Kavangh: Emily Bronte
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Walter Allen: The English Novel
Merryn Williams: A preface to Hardy
Steven O Conner: Charles Dickens
Edward Albert J. ed: Hardy: A Collection of Critical Essays
ENG-3623:
American Novels
1) N. Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
2) H. Melville: Moby Dick
3) Scott Fitzerald: The Great Gatsby
Books Recommended:
1) Marcus Cunliffe: The Literature of the United States
2) Malcolm Bradbury, ed.: Intoduction to American Studies
3) Lauther S. Luedtke: Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States.
4) F.O. Mathiessen: American Renaissance
5) R.W.B. Lewis: The American Adam
6) Moses Cott Tayler: History of American Literature(1607-1765)
7) Perry Miller: The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century
8) Berecovitch, Sacvan: The Puritan Origin of American Self
9) Randall Steward: Nathaniel Hawthorne
10) Walcutt C.C.: The Scarlet letter and His Modern Critics
11) Mark Van Doren: Hawthorne
12) Richard Chase: The American Novel
13) John R. May : Apocalypse in American Novels.
ENG-3624:
English Drama – Jacobean & Restoration
1) Ben Johnson – Volpone
2) John Webster – The Duchess of Malfi
3) William Congreve – The Way of the World
Books Recommended:
1) F.L. Lucas: Seneca and Elizabethan Drama
2) Norman Rabkin(ed.): Twentieth Century Interpretation of The Duchess of Malfi
3) Jenash A. Barish (ed.): Ben Johnson: A collection of critical essays
4) Kathleen M. Lynch, ed.: The Way of the world
5) John MacCall: 18th Century Restoration Plays
ENG-3625:
Modern English Novel
1) Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
2) James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3) D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
Books Recommended:
1) E.M. Foster: Aspects of o the Novel
2) Percy Lubbock: The Craft of Fiction
3) A.J. Guerard: Conrad:The Novelist
4) J. Berthoud: Joseph Conrad: The Major Phase
5) F.B. Pintion: D.H. Lawrence Companion
6) Algad: Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
7) S. Bolt: Preface to James Joyce
8) M.Beja: James Joyce: Dubliners & Portrait of the Artist as a Youngman
9) P. Parrinder: James Joyce
ENG-3626:
New Writings in English
A. Drama: Wole Soyinka: The Swamp Dwellers
B. Poetry:
Derek Walcott: (a) A Far Cry from Africa;
(b) The Gulf;
(c) The Glory Trumpeter;
(d) Nearing Forty
(As in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Ed. Ellman et. al)
C. Novels: 1) Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
2) V.S. Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas
3) R. K. Narayan: The Guide
Books Recommended:
1) Bruce King: The New English Literature
2) James Gibbs: Wole Soyinka
3) Edman D. Jones: The Writing of Wole Soyinka
4) Ullie Beier: Introduction to African Literature
5) R.K. Dhawan (ed.) : Commonwealth Fiction
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David Carral: Chinua Achebe
G.L. Innings: Chinua Achebe
Edward Baugh: Walcott: Another Life
P.C.Sundara: R.K. Narayan
Holmstorm:The Novels of Narayan
ENG-3627: Writing - III [Business Writing]
3 C.H.
1) Format of Business Letters
2) Sales Letter / Sales Promotion Letter
3) Claim and Adjustment Letter
4) Credit and Collection Letter
5) Circular Letter
6) Enquiry Letter
7) Quotation, Order and Tenders, Advertisement
8) Memorandum / Memo
9) Notices, Agenda and Minutes
10) Office Procedure
11) E-mail and Instant Messages [Routine and Positive Messages, Negative Messages,
Persuasive Messages]
12) Job Application and CV writing
13) Report Writing
15) Oral Presentation
Books Recommended:
1) John V. Thill & Courtland L. Bovee: Excellence in Business Communication, (Pearson
Education)
2) R. C. Sharma & Krishna Mohan: Business Correspondence and Report Writing (Tata Mc
Graw-Hill Company Ltd.)
3) Prof Muhammad Mohiuddin: Business Communication (New Age Publications)
ENG-4727:
English Language Teaching- I (ELT-I)
3 C.H.
1. Theories in Second Language Acquisition (SLA)
a) Nativist theories of SLA
i)
General Characteristics
ii)
Chomsky’s Universal Grammar and SLA
iii)
A critique of language-specific nativist theories.
b) Environmentalist theories of SLA
i)
General Characteristics
ii)
Schumann’s Pidginization Hypothesis and Acculturation Model
iii)
A Critique of the Pidginization Hypothesis and Acculturation Model
c) Comparing and evaluating theories.
2. Research and Teaching Methodology
a) Interlanguage studies
i)
Introduction
ii)
Contrastive analysis
iii)
Error analysis
iv)
Performance analysis
3. Explanations for differential success among second language learners.
i)
Age
ii)
Aptitude
iii)
Social-Psychological factors; Motivation and Attitude
iv)
Personality
v)
Cognitive
vi)
Hemisphere specialization
vii)
Learning strategies
viii)
Other factors
4. Approaches and methods in language teaching.
i)
Grammar-Translation Method
ii)
Audio-Lingual Method
iii)
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
iv)
Others.
Books Recommended:
1) Larsen-Freeman and M.H. Long (1991) An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research, London: Longman.
2) Cook, V.J. (1993) Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, London: Macmillan.
3) Cook, V.J. (1991) Second Language Learning and Teaching, London: Edward Arnold.
4) Cook, G. (1989) Discourse, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5) Cook, G. (1994) Discourse and Literature, Oxford: OUP.
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6) Richards, J.C. et al; Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching.
7) Richards, J.C. et al; Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.
8) Corder, S. Pit; Error Analysis and Interlangugage
9) Larsen-Freeman, D; Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching
10) Madsen, H. Techniques in Testing
ENG-4728:
Modern Drama
3 C.H.
1) J. M. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World
2) John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
3) Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Books Recommended:
1) Martin Esslin (ed.): Samuel Beckett: A Collection of Critical Essays
2) Martin Esslin (ed.): The Theater of the Absurd
3) Walter Kauffmann: Religion from Tolstoy to Camus
ENG-4729:
American Poetry
3 C.H.
1) Walt Whitman: Selections (as in Norton Anthology of American Literature);
2) Emily Dickinson: Selections (as in Norton Anthology);
3) Robert Frost: Selections (as in Norton Anthology);
Books Recommended:
1) Geoffrey Dutton: Walt Whitman
2) Reyben A. Brower: The Poetry of Robert Frost
3) Philip L. Gerber: Robert Frost
4) Allen G. Wilson: The New Walt Whitman Handbook
ENG-4730:
English Literary Criticism-I
3 C.H.
1) Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesy.
2) Samuel Johnson: Preface to Shakespeare;
3) W. Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads;
Books Recommended:
1) Wimsatt & Brooks: Literary Criticism: A Short History
2) Rene Wellek : A History of Modrn Criticism (The Roman Age)
3) George Watson: The Literary Critics
4) Frank L. Huntley: The Unity of Dryden’s Dramatic Criticism
5) Bosker A.: Literary Criticism in the Age of Johnson
6) Walter Raleigh: Johnson on Shakespeare
7) Chapman: Wordsworth and Literary Criticism
8) Sir Walter: Wordsworth
ENG-4831: English Literary Criticism-II
3 C.H.
1) S.T. Coleridge: Biographia Literaria Chapter II, IV, XIII, XIV, XVII & XVIII
2) Matthew Arnold: Study of Poetry
3) T.S. Eliot: Tradition & Individual Talent
Books Recommended:
1) A.G. George: T.S. Eliot and the Impersonal Theory of Poetry
2) G.Tillotson: Criticism and the 19th Century
3) David Daiches: Critical Approaches to Literature
ENG-4832:
Modern English Poetry
3 C.H.
1) W. B. Yeats: Selections (as in Norton Anthology)
2) T. S. Eliot: Selections (as in Norton Anthology)
3) W. H. Arden: Selections (as in Norton Anthology)
Books Recommended:
1) Cullingford: Yeats: Poems
2) A.G. Stock: W.B. Yeats:His Poetry and Thought
3) B.C. Southam: T.S. Eliot
4) Smith: The Waste Land
ENG-4833: American Drama
3 C.H.
1) Eugene O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey into Night;
2) Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire;
3) Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman;
Books Recommended:
1) Marcus Cunliffe: The Literature of the United States
2) Malcolm Bradbury, ed.: Intoduction to American Studies
3) Lauther S. Luedtke: Making America: The Society and Culture of the United States.
4) F.O. Mathiessen: American Renaissance
5) Walter Allen: Tradition and Dream
6) Jean Gould: Modern American Playwrights
ENG-4834:
Critical Theory
3 C.H.
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Barry, Peter: Beginning Theory.
Students should acquire familiarity with the leading trends in contemporary critical theory: Structuralism and Formalism;
Deconstruction and New Historicism Psychoanalytic criticism; Feminist criticism; Postcolonial Theory; Reader Response
Theory.
Books Recommended:
1) Helen Wilcox (ed.): Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700
2) Mary Eagleton(ed.): Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader
3) Jonathan Culler: Structualist Poetics: Structuralist, Linguistics & the Study of Literature
4) Jonathan Culler: On Deconstruction
5) Michael Ryan: Literarry Theory:: A Practical Introduction
6) Terry Eagleton: Literarry Theory
7) Howard Felperin: Beyond Deconstruction: The Uses and the Abuses of Literary Theory
8) John Sturrock: Structuralism
9) Ann Jefferson and David Robey ( ed.) : Modern Leterary Theory : A Comparative Introduction
10) Hans Bertens : The Idea of the Postmodern
11) Nicholas Royle:: After Darrida
12) Bill Ashcroft et al (ed.): The Post-Colonial
13) David Lodge(ed.): Modern Criticism and Theory
ENG-4835: English Language Teaching-II (ELT-II)
3 C.H.
1. Testing and Evaluation.
2. Courses and Material Design
3. Syntax and Morphology
4. Discourse Analyses, Pragmatics and Practical Stylistics.
i)
Speech Acts and Conversational Maxims.
ii)
The analysis of literary discourse
iii)
Teaching language through literature
Books Recommended:
1) Larsen-Freeman and M.H. Long (1991) An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition Research, London: Longman.
2) Cook, V.J. (1993) Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, London: Macmillan.
3) Cook, V.J. (1991) Second Language Learning and Teaching, London: Edward Arnold.
4) Cook, G. (1989) Discourse, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
5) Cook, G. (1994) Discourse and Literature, Oxford: OUP.
6) Richards, J.C. et al; Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching.
7) Richards, J.C. et al; Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.
8) Corder, S. Pit; Error Analysis and Interlangugage
9) Larsen-Freeman, D; Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching
10) Madsen, H. Techniques in Jesting
11) McCarthy, Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers.
12) Coulthard, M. (1985) An Introduction to Discourse Analysis; Second Edition, London; Longman.
13) Carter, R. A. (ed.) (1982) Language and Literature
14) Carter, R and Simpson (ed.) Language, Discourse and Literature
15) Levinson, S (1983), Pragmatics, Cambridge: CUP.
16) Katamba, F (1993) Morphology, London, Macmillan.
17) Searte, J (1969) Speech Acts, Cambridge: CUP.
18) Austin, J. (1995) How to do things with words, Oxford: OUP.
19) Widdowson, H (1975) Stylistics and the Teaching Literature
20) Widdowson, H (1992) Practical Stylistics, Oxford: OUP.
21) Leech and Short (1981) Style in Fiction, London: Longman
22) Leech, G. (1982) A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry, London: Longman
23) Nunan, David: Syllabus Design
24) Skehan, P (1997) Individual Differences in Second Language Learning.
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