Detailed Syllabus of Major Courses
ENG100 Basic English
100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Grammar: Parts of speech, tenses, use of articles, prepositions, appropriate prepositions, subject-verb
agreement, conditional sentences, right form of verbs, making questions, affixes, common errors.
Mechanics: Capitalisation, italics and underlining, use of numbers, title writing, abbreviations.
Pronunciation: Phonetics and phonology, International Phonetic Association (IPA) symbols.
Recommended Reading:
Ahmed, Sadruddin. Learning English the Easy Way
Martinet & Thomson. A Practical English Grammar
Hornby, A.S.. The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary of Current English
Taylor, Clive. Advancing Language Skills
Close, R.A. The English We Use
Heffernon, James A.W. & John E. Lincoln. Writing: A College Handbook
ENG101 Basic English (LAB)
100 Marks [60% Exam, 30% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
2 Hours/weeks (0+1), 1 Credit
Listening: Listening to recorded texts and class lectures and learning to take useful notes based on
the listening.
Speaking: Formal and informal oral communication, situational dialogues, presentation skills,
asking questions, inviting, agreeing, disagreeing, drawing attention, speaking on prepared topics,
extempore speech, role playing, talking about families, friends, persons, places and other local and
global issues.
ENG102 Introduction to Poetry
100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Shakespeare, William: Sonnet l8: “Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”
:Sonnet 130: “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun”
Donne, John
: “The Sun Rising”
Sonnet l4: “Batter My Heart, Three-personed God”
Herrick, Robert
Marvell , Andrew
Gray, Thomas
Keats, John
Arnold , Matthew
: “Delight in Disorder”, “Upon Julia’s Clothes”
: “To His Coy Mistress”, “Definition of Love”
: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
: “Ode to Autumn”
: “Dover Beach”
: “Fern Hill”
: “Pike” and “Jaguar”
: “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
: “Digging”
Thomas, Dylan
Hughes, Ted
Rich, Adrienne
Heaney, Seamus
Recommended Reading:
Boulton, Marjorie
Abrams, M. H.
Long, William J.
Vendler, Helen
Carey, John
Martin, L.C.
Hunt, John Dixon
Southam, B.C.
Rahman, Mofizur
: Anatomy of Poetry
: A Glossary of Literary Terms
: History of English Literature
: The Art of Shakespearean Sonnets
: John Donne: Life, Mind and Art
: Robert Herrick: Poems
: Andrew Marvel: His Life and Works
: A Student’s Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
: An ABC of English Literature
ENG110 Introduction to Prose
100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
Bacon, Francis : “Of Studies”, “Of Truth”, “Of Marriage and Single Life”
Narayan, R. K. : An Astrologers' Day
Mansfield, Katherine: “The Garden Party”
Lawrence, D.H. : “Why the Novel Matters”
Orwell,George : “Shooting an Elephant”
Newman, Cardinal : “The Idea of a University”
Recommended Reading:
Boulton, Marjorie : Anatomy of Prose
Brooks &Warren : Understanding Prose: Understanding Fiction
Allen, Walter
: The English Novel
Abrams, M. H. : A Glossary of Literary Terms
Vickers, Brian
: Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose
Mackie, Erin (ed. by): The Commerce of Everyday Life
Ehrenpreis, lrvin : Swift: the Man, his works and the Age
Voorhees, R. J.
: The Paradox of George Orwell
ENG102 Introduction to Literature (Critical Appreciation)
100 Marks [70% Exam, 20% Quizzes/Class Tests, 10% Attendance]
3 Hours/weeks (3+0), 3 Credits
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Using different genres to introduce figurative language (image, simile, metaphors,
connotation, denotation, personification, allusion, symbol, hyperbole, irony, paradox,
oxymoron and apostrophe)
Understanding sound patterns (alliteration, consonance, assonance, internal, end rhyme, blank
verse, free verse, heroic couplet, rhythm) and scansion
Understanding aspects of style and structure (mood, tone, setting, character and theme)
Understanding overall discourse to relate structure and meaning to the analysis and
comprehension of the text
Reading critically to make judgments about how a text is argued and to make personal
responses as well as close scrutiny of language to understand writer's attitude, and perspective
and point of view (speaker, narrator)
ENG109 Viva Voce
2 Hours/weeks (0+1), 1 Credit