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UNOM BA. English Syllabus with effect from 2020-21
University of Madras Chepauk, Chennai 600 005
[Est. 1857, State University, NAAC ‘A’ Grade, CGPA 3.32, NIRF 2019 Rank: 20]
Website: www.unom.ac.in, Tel. 044-2539 9561
Undergraduate Programme in English
Curriculum and Syllabus for
B.A. English
(With effect from the Academic Year 2020-21)
February 2020
Based on Learning Outcome Based Curriculum Framework uploaded in the UGC website for UG Degree Programmes.
UNOM BA. English Syllabus with effect from 2020-21
Content
1. Preamble
2. Programme Learning Outcome
3. Course Structure
4. Course Learning Outcomes and Syllabus
(i) Core Courses
(ii) Allied Courses
(iii) Elective Courses
5. Examination and Evaluation (Existing System) or Changes can be suggested
for (i) and (ii) only
(i) Assessment Methods
(ii) Question Paper pattern
(iii) Grading System
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Model Curriculum and Syllabus for B.A. English
(With effect from the Academic Year 2020-21)
1. Preamble Literature makes sense of the world through works of poetry, prose, fiction, and drama. It is a
gateway to the varied human experiences, both past and present. Therefore it brings focus to
human nature, their values, morals, beliefs, ideologies, culture and practices. It fosters social
justice and equality and teaches the need to think logically and critically. Studying Literature in
a STEM world remains relevant as it alone can offer an understanding of the many forces that
shape and rule human lives and appreciate them, to bring about a balance in societies.
Literature as a field of study involves the study of texts and thus differs from reading literature
for pleasure. A study of English Literature refers to the study of literatures in English and in
translation, from around the world. This allows knowledge of social and political history,
philosophy, ideologies, culture, aesthetics and literary traditions across the world.
Literary texts also offer linguistic inputs to help learners acquire the skills for English language
development and improvement. It facilitates one to interpret language better and enhance
communication skills in English. The transferable skills thus developed are competencies
required globally in the 21century workplace.
With the digital era ascertaining the presence of the English language, it has once again
established itself as a world language and therefore an appreciable proficiency in using it can
leverage life skills and career opportunities. Reading and studying English Literature will
continue to stay relevant as long as human experiences and the English Language dominate the
world.
2. Programme Learning Outcome
By the end of the B.A. programme, the students will be able to
● acquire critical temper, creative ability, and realisation of human values
● cultivate humaneness, respect, empathy and openness to the varied affiliations in
different contexts across the world
● employ the knowledge gained, in criticism, interpretation and in the different modes of
writing and oral communication
● interpret historical and cultural forces that shaped humanity through literary texts
● formulate the interconnectedness of all areas of knowledge and its synthesis, and get
inspired by great minds, thoughts, and actions.
Nature and Extent of the Programme
The BA English Programme includes relevant core courses that are progressively introduced
to acquire an overall exposure to English Literature from Britain to the Literatures in the
English Language across the world, including India. At the same time, each course based on
nationality distinguishes one literature from another. Allied courses will give the required
background knowledge for an effective understanding of the core courses offered. Basic
critical theories and approaches required to evaluate literature are also introduced. Courses in
the various aspects of the English Language will introduce the students to its origin, structure
and linguistics, grammar and usage that help to develop comprehensive written and
communication skills. The Electives will enable the students to make choices in areas of
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research and career opportunities. A few of them are skill-based and encourage internship for
hands-on learning to enable the students acquire twenty-first century employability skills
needed in the global environment.
Aim of the Programme
The Programme aims at providing a holistic understanding of the discipline and equips the
students with life and transferable skills to pursue higher education or a career.
Graduate Attributes
By the end of the B.A. (English) programme, the students will be able to
● demonstrate knowledge of literature as a discipline by studying a range of literary
texts written in English or translated into English from the past to present times
● show an understanding of the significant historical, political, and social backgrounds
relevant to the literary texts studied
● derive an understanding of a variety of literary forms, styles, and structures for close
analysis of texts
● appreciate literature as a source of understanding ideologies, practical wisdom, and
aesthetic pleasure
● apply language in academic and non-academic contexts and in a standardised system
for communication.
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3. COURSE STRUCTURE
SEMESTER I
Course
Component
Name of the Paper
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PART I Language Paper -I
3 4 25 75 100
PART II BP2-ENG01-Communicative English
3 3 25 75 100
PART III
BEN-DSC01:British Literature-I 4 6 25 75 100
BEN-DSC02:Shakespeare 4 5 25 75 100
BEN-DSA01:Background to English Literature-I 5 6 25 75 100
PART IV
Basic Tamil / Adv. Tamil / * NME 2 2 25 75 100
BP4-EASS-English for Arts and Social Sciences 4 4 25 75 100
SEMESTER-WISE CREDITS TOTAL 24
*NME; Choose any one from other Department
SEMESTER II
*NME; Choose any one from other Department
Course
Component
Name of the Paper
Cre
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Inst
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Max.Marks
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PART I Language Paper – II
3 4 25 75 100
PART II English Paper-II
3 4 25 75 100
PART III
BEN-DSC03:British Literature- II 4 6 25 75 100
BEN-DSC04:Indian Writing in English 4 6 25 75 100
BEN-DSA02:Background to English Literature – II 5 6 25 75 100
PART IV Basic Tamil / Adv Tamil / NME*
2 2 25 75 100
Soft Skills 3 2 50 50 100
SEMESTER-WISE CREDITS TOTAL 24
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SEMESTER III
Course
Component
Name of the Paper
Cre
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Max.Marks
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Part I Language - Paper III 3 4 25 75 100
Part II English Paper-III 3 6 25 75 100
Part III
BEN-DSC05:British Literature - III 4 5 25 75 100
BEN-DSC06:Aspects of English Language-I 4 5 25 75 100
BEN-DSA03:Background to English Literature – III 5 6 25 75 100
Part IV
Soft Skills 3 2 25 75 100
Environmental Studies 2 Examination will be held in IV
Sem.
SEMESTER-WISE CREDITS TOTAL 24
SEMESTER IV
Course
Component
Name of the Paper
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Part I Language Paper IV 3 4 25 75 100
Part II English Paper-IV 3 6 25 75 100
Part III BEN-DSC07:American Literature - I 4 5 25 75 100
BEN-DSC08:Aspects of English Language – II 4 5 25 75 100
BEN-DSA04:Background to European and American Literature 5 6 25 75 100
Part IV Soft Skills 3 2 25 75 100
Environmental Studies 2 2 25 75 100
SEMESTER-WISE CREDITS TOTAL 24
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SEMESTER V
Course
Component
Name of the Paper
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Part – III
BEN-DSC09:American Literature- II 4 6 25 75 100
BEN-DSC10:World Classics in Translation 4 5 25 75 100
BEN-DSC11:Aspects of English Language – III 4 6 25 75 100
BEN-DSC12:Introduction to Literary Theory
and Criticism 4 6 25 75 100
BEN-DSE1A:Introduction to Journalism (or)
BEN-DSE1B:English Language Teaching (or)
BEN-DSE1C:Writing Skills for the New Media
5 5 25 75 100
Part –I V Value Education 2 2 25 75 100
SEMESTER-WISE CREDITS TOTAL 23
SEMESTER VI
Course
Component
Name of the Paper C
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Part IV
BEN-DSC13:Postcolonial Literatures in
English 4 6 25 75 100
BEN-DSC14:Contemporary Literature 4 6 25 75 100
BEN- DSC15:Indian Literatures in English 4 6 25 75 100
BEN-DSE2A:Creative Writing (or)
BEN-DSE2B:Women’s Writing (or)
BEN-DSE2C:Literatures from the Margin
5 6 25 75 100
BEN-DSE3A:Green Studies (or)
BEN-DSE3B:Introduction to Translation Studies (or)
BEN-DSE3C:Film and Literature
5 6 25 75 100
Part V Extension Activities 1
SEMESTER-WISE CREDITS TOTAL 23
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4. Course Learning Outcomes and Syllabus (Attached separately)
(i) Core Courses
(ii) Allied Courses
(iii) Elective Courses
5. Examination and Evaluation
5.1 Assessment Methods
Alignment of Programme Learning Outcomes and Course Learning Outcomes with assessment
methods should be prioritized to determine learners’ achievement. They may be done at two
levels:
Formative Assessment: Internal Assessment (25 marks)
CIA Tests- 10 marks | Assessment Tasks & Activities: 10 Marks | Attendance: 05 Marks
Summative Assessment: End Semester University Examination (75 marks)
Formative Assessment Methods- Internal Assessment:
It will be required to prioritize formative assessments, that is, In-semester tasks and
activities including Continuous Internal Assessment Tests.
Diversity in assessment methods is encouraged to ensure that the objectives of the
courses are clearly aligned to learning outcomes.
Assessment requirements must be clearly communicated to all students at the
commencement of the semester.
Any subsequent change or minor modification necessary for fuller realization of learning
outcomes must be arranged with due notice and communicated to the learners effectively.
Progress of learners towards achieving learning outcomes may be internally assessed
making creative use of the following, either independently or in combination.
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i) Internal Assessment Tasks/Activities (10marks) Students may be assigned ANY TWO or more tasks/activities indicated,
based on learning-levels, credit load and
class size.
All students need not necessarily do the same task or activity.
Core Courses:
BEN-DSC01, BEN-DSC03, BEN-DSC04, BEN-DSC05, BEN-DSC07, BEN-DSC09,
BEN-DSC10, BEN-DSC13, BEN-DSC14, BEN-DSC15
Classroom Simulations
Oral presentations, including seminar presentation
Poetry Recitation/Performance
Role Play
Individual or Group Quiz
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Individual or Group Term Papers
Literary Chart/Poster Presentations
Library Visits (Individual or Group Reports to be submitted)
Core Courses: BEN-DSC02
Enactment of Scene/Play
Recitation of Passages
Memorizing Quotes
Individual or Group Quiz
Individual or Group Term Papers on Film Adaptations of Shakespeare
Literary Chart/Poster Presentations
Core Courses: BEN-DSC06, BEN-DSC08, BEN-DSC11
Language in Use – Tasks as indicated in the Course Components
Core Course: BEN-DSC12
Individual or Group Quiz
Computerized adaptive testing for MCQ
Application- oriented Assignment
Oral presentations, including seminar presentation
Individual or Group Term Papers
Literary Chart/Poster Presentations
Library Visits (Individual or Group Reports to be submitted)
Elective Courses
BEN-DSE1A: Internship
The internship can be with any print/online media for 20 hours
Tasks to be aligned with Unit 5 in Course Components
A journalistic article/report/digital story to be written and published
A comprehensive report of the internship to be submitted.
BEN-DSE1B: Internship
The internship should be related to the student's career goals
Students should have sufficient background and maturity to learn from the experience
Students must have a well-prepared Resume
Orientation-Lesson Plans- Teaching Learning Materials – Execution –
Setting Question Paper – Administering Test – Correction – Submitting a Report.
A comprehensive report of the internship to be submitted.
BEN-DSE1C: Internship
Hands-on –training from a recognized print/digital media for 20 hours.
Publish an article in an print/digital media
A comprehensive report of the internship to be submitted.
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BEN-DSE2A:
Each student to write a creative article
Class Magazine with the articles and publish
Interview with creative writers
BEN-DSE2B and BEN-DSE2C
Case Studies with reports ( 500words)
Problem based Assignments/Problem solving Activities
Real life simulations
Team Project with Reports (500 words)
Awareness Campaigns/Posters/Rally
BEN-DSE3A
Application-oriented Assignments
Case Studies
Field Visit with Report (500 words)
BEN-DSE3B
Application-oriented Assignments
Individual or Group Project- Translate any writing/talk
Translate and Write subtitles of films/documentaries
Publish the Translations
Interview translators
BEN-DSE3C
Application-oriented Assignments
Review a Film
Team Project with Report (500 words)
Field Visit
Allied Courses: BEN-DSA01, BEN-DSA02, BEN-DSA03, BEN-DSA04
Individual or Group Quiz
Computerized adaptive testing for MCQ
Oral presentations, including seminar presentation
Individual or Group Term Papers
Literary Chart/Poster Presentations
Library Visits (Individual or Group Reports to be submitted)
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Non-Major Elective Courses BEN-NME01 and BEN-NME02: Spoken English I & II
Observation of practical skills (speaking and listening, within a peer group or a class)
Rubrics for Speaking Assessment
Fluency Pronunciation
and accent
Vocabulary Grammar Details
5 Smooth and
fluid speech; few
to no hesitations;
no attempts to
search for
words; volume is
excellent.
Pronunciation is
excellent; good
effort at accent
Excellent control
of language
features; a wide
range of
wellchosen
vocabulary
Accuracy &
variety of
grammatical
structures
Excellent level
of description;
additional details
beyond the
required
4 Smooth and
fluid speech; few
hesitations; a
slight search for
words; inaudible
word or two.
Pronunciation is
good; good
effort at accent
Good language
control; good
range of
relatively well-
chosen
vocabulary
Some errors in
grammatical
structures
possibly caused
by attempt to
include a variety
Good level of
description; all
required
information
included
3 Speech is
relatively
smooth; some
hesitation and
unevenness
caused by
rephrasing and
searching for
words; volume
wavers.
Pronunciation is
good; Some
effort at accent,
but is definitely
non-native
Adequate
language
control;
vocabulary
range is lacking
Frequent
grammatical
errors that do not
obscure
meaning; little
variety in
structures
Adequate
description;
some additional
details should be
provided
2 Speech is
frequently
hesitant with
some sentences
left
uncompleted;
volume very
soft.
Pronunciation is
okay; No effort
towards a native
accent
Weak language
control; basic
vocabulary
choice with
some words
clearly lacking
Frequent
grammatical
errors even in
simple structures
that at times
obscure
meaning.
Description
lacks some
critical details
that make it
difficult for the
listener to
understand
1 Speech is slow,
hesitant &
strained except
for short
memorized
phrases; difficult
to perceive
continuity in
speech;
inaudible.
Pronunciation is
lacking and hard
to understand;
No effort
towards a native
accent
Weak language
control;
vocabulary that
is used does not
match the task
Frequent
grammatical
errors even in
simple
structures;
meaning is
obscured.
Description is so
lacking that the
listener cannot
understand
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BEN-NME03 and BEN-NME04: English for Competitive Examinations –Paper I & II Internal Tests – verbal and reasoning, vocabulary, grammar exercises, different reading materials
for comprehension, writing tasks
BEN-NME05 and BEN-NME06 Individual Writing Tasks- Create a website and publish – Class Magazine/Blogs
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(ii) Question Paper Pattern: End Semester University Examination
For Core Courses: BEN-DSC01/03/05: British Literature- Paper I, II & III - 75 Marks
SECTION A (From Unit 1: Detailed Poetry only) I.Annotate FIVE of the following: (5 out of 8) 5x2= 10 marks
SECTION B (From Poetry (non-detailed), Prose and Drama)
II. Analyse any THREE of following passages and answer the questions given below:
(3 out of 5) 3x5=15 marks
(5-7 lines to be given and three questions to be asked for each passage)
[1. textual question (1mark) 2. Word meaning/allusion (1 mark) 3. Explanation (3marks)
]
III. Answer any FOUR of the following questions in about 100 words (from Units 3,4,5)
( 4 out of 6) 4x5 = 20 marks
SECTION C (from all Units)
IV. Write essays on any THREE of the following in 300 words. ( 3 out of 5)
3x10=30 marks
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For Core Courses:
BEN-DSC04:Indian Writing in English
BEN-DSC07&09: American Literature- Paper I, & II,
BEN-DSC10:World Classics in Translation
BEN-DSC13:Postcolonial Literatures in English
BEN-DSC14:Contemporary Literature
BEN- DSC15:Indian Literatures in English
Total Marks: 75
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SECTION A (From Poetry only) - I. Annotate FIVE of the following: (5 out of 8) 5x2= 10
marks
SECTION B (From Prose) (3 out of 5) II. Analyse any THREE of following passages and answer the questions given below:
3x5=15 marks
(5-7 lines to be given and three questions to be asked for each passage)
[1. textual question (1mark) 2. Word meaning/allusion (1 mark) 3. Explanation (3marks)]
III. Answer any FOUR of the following questions:
(from Drama/Graphic Fiction & Short Stories) (4 out of 6) 4x5 = 20
marks
SECTION C ( From all units) (3 out of 5)
IV. Write essays on any THREE of the following in 300 words. (from all Units)
3x10=30 marks
For Core CourseBEN-DSC02: Shakespeare - 75 Marks
SECTION A I. Annotate any FIVE of the Following without omitting any Group
5x2= 10 marks Group –A (3 passages from Henry IV Part I)
Group –B (3 passages from Twelfth Night)
Group –C (3 passages from Macbeth)
Group –A (3 passages from Tempest)
SECTION B (5 out of 7)
(Theoretical questions from Unit divisions-1.2, 2.2, 3.2, 4.2 and Unit V )
II. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words 5x5 = 25
marks
SECTION C
III. Answer any FIVE of the following in 250 words without omitting any Group.
5x8=40 marks
Group –A (3 questions from Unit 1)
Group –B (3 questions from Unit 1I)
Group –C (3 questions from Unit 1II)
Group –D (3 questions from Unit 1V)
Group –E(3 questions from Unit V)
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For Core Course BEN-DSC06:ASPECTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER I 75
marks
SECTION A
MCQ- Questions1 - 20 – Based on Language in Use indicated in all Units
I. Choose the correct answer. 20x1= 20 marks
SECTION B
Short answers – Q 21- Q27 – Theoretical questions from all Units (5out of 7)
II. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words. 5x 5 = 25 marks
SECTION C
III. Answer the following
Q 28 or Q 29 - (internal choice) – Essay Question from Unit 1 – Introduction – 10 Marks
Q 30 – (Grammar - Higher Order Applications/ practice) 5x2 = 10 marks
a. Rewrite the sentence in the right order (jumbled words) - (5)
b. Rewrite the paragraph by writing the sentences in the correct sequence - (5)
Q 31 – (Higher Order Applications/ practice) 2 x 5 =10 marks
a. Conversion (Change the voice, direct vs reported speech) – 2 sentences - (2)
b. Transformation of sentences (simple- compound- complex, linkers)- 2 sentences
(2)
c. Error correction - 4 errors – tense, concord, preposition, pronoun
- (2)
d. Rewrite the sentences by changing the tense– 2 sentences
- (2)
e. Rewrite the sentences by changing the pronoun and number - (2)
Note – Unit divisions 5.3, 5.4 & 5.5 are not for testing in the End Semester Examination.
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Core Course BEN-DSC08:ASPECTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER II-75 marks
SECTION A
MCQ Q1 - Q20 – all Units - as given in Language in Use
I. Choose the correct answer: 20x1=20 marks
SECTION B
( short answers from all units, transcription, morphological analysis)
II. Answer the following. 25 marks
Q 21 – Q25 –- Answer any 3 out of 5 – (3 x 5 = 15)
Q26. Phonetic transcription – short sentences - 2 sentences (5)
Q 27. Morphological analyses – tree diagram – 2 sentences (5)
SECTION C
(Essays – Internal choice – Choices should not be from the same unit)
III. Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words. 10x 3=30 marks
Q28. a. or b.
Q 29. a. or b.
Q 30. a. or b.
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Core Course BEN-DSC011:ASPECTS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER III - 75 marks
SECTION A
MCQ –Q1. – Q10 (from Unit 1 – Introduction only )
I. Choose the correct answer: 10 marks
SECTION B
(short answers, disambiguation of sentences, IC Analysis)
II. Answer the following 35 marks
Q 11- Q 17 – Answer any 5 out of 7 – All Units – (5 x 5 = 25)
Q18. IC Analysis (5)
Q 19. Disambiguate the following sentence – (5 sentences) - (5)
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SECTION C
(Internal choice – theoretical question (or) Writing in Practice)
III. Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words. 3x 10 = 30 marks
Q20. a. Theoretical Question (10)
(or)
b. Writing in Practice
Q21. a. Theoretical Question (10)
(or)
b. Writing in Practice
Q22. a. Theoretical Question (10)
(or)
b. Writing in Practice
Core Course BEN-DSC12: Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
SECTION A
(MCQ from all the Units)
I. Choose the correct answer: 20x1=20 marks
SECTION B
II. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words 5x5=25 marks
SECTION C
III. Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words 10x3=30
marks
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For ALL ELECTIVE Courses 75 marks
BEN-DSE1A: Introduction to Journalism
BEN-DSE1B: English Language Teaching
BEN-DSE1C: Writing Skills for the New Media
BEN-DSE2A:Creative Writing
BEN-DSE2B:Women’s Writing
BEN-DSE2C:Literatures From The Margin
BEN-DSE3A: Green Studies
BEN-DSE3B: Introduction to Translation Studies
BEN-DSE3C: Film and Literature
SECTION A
(MCQ from all the Units except Unit V)
I. Choose the correct answer: 1x15=15 marks
SECTION B
I. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words 6x5=30 marks
SECTION C
II. Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words 10x3=30marks
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For ALLIED Courses: 75 marks
BEN-DSA01/02/03: Background to English Literature –Paper I,II &III
BEN-DSA04: Background to European and American Literature
SECTION A
(MCQ from all the Units)
I. Choose the correct answer; 20x1=20 marks
SECTION B
II. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words 5x5=25 marks
SECTION C
III. Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words 10x3=30
marks
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For All Non-Major-Elective Courses
SECTION A
I. Answer any FIVE of the following in about 100 words 6x5=30 marks
SECTION B
II. Answer any THREE of the following in about 300 words 15x3=45 marks
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iii) Grading System:
Existing
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UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.A. DEGREE COURSE IN ENGLISH
(With effect from the academic year 2016-2017 onwards)
Revised Scheme of Examinations
I SEMESTER
II SEMESTER
Course
Component Name of the Course
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Ext.
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Course
Component Name of the Course
Ins
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PART I Language Paper I 4 3 25 75 100
PART II English Paper - I 4 3 25 75 100
PART III
Core Paper-I:British Literature I 5 4 25 75 100
Core Paper – II: Indian Writing in English 5 4 25 75 100
Allied Paper –I :Background to the Study of
English Literature I 6 5 25 75 100
PART IV * Basic Tamil / Advanced Tamil / NME 2 2 25 75 100
Soft Skill - I 2 3 50 50 100
PART I Language Paper II 4 3 25 75 100
PART II English Paper II 4 3 25 75 100
PART III
Core Paper-III: British Literature II 5 4 25 75 100
Core Paper– IV: Regional Indian Literature
in Translation 5 4 25 75 100
Allied Paper – II: Background to the study of
English Literature II 6 5 25 75 100
PART IV Basic Tamil / Advanced Tamil / NME 2 2 25 75 100
Soft Skill - II 2 3 50 50 100
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THIRD SEMESTER
Course
Component Name of the Course
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PART I Languages Paper III 6 3 25 75 100
PART II English Paper III 4 3 25 75 100
PART III
Core Paper-V: British Literature III 6 4 25 75 100
Core Paper – VI: Modern English Language
and Usage 6 4 25 75 100
Allied Paper III : Myth and Literature 6 5 25 75 100
PART IV
Soft Skill - III 2 3 50 50 100
Environmental Studies Examination will be held in
IV semester
FOURTH SEMESTER
Course
Component Name of the Course
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Int.
Mark
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PART I Languages Paper IV 6 3 25 75 100
PART II English Paper IV 4 3 25 75 100
PART III
Core Paper-VII: American Literature I 6 4 25 75 100
Core Paper – VIII: Film and Literature (or)
Green Studies 6 4 25 75 100
Allied- Paper IV: Introduction to the Study
of Language and Linguistics 6 5 25 75 100
PART IV
Environmental Studies 2 25 75 100
Soft Skill IV 2 3 50 50 100
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FIFTH SEMESTER
Course
Component Name of the Course
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PART III
Core Paper – IX: American Literature II 6 4 25 75 100
Core Paper – X:Post Colonial Literature in
English I, Australian Literature 6 4 25 75 100
Core Paper-XI: Women’s Writing 6 4 25 75 100
Core Paper – XII: Introduction to Literary
Theories 6 4 25 75 100
Elective Paper – I:
1.Introduction to Translation Studies (or)
2. Practical Approach to Technical
Writing
6 5 25 75 100
PART V
Value Education 2 25 75 100
SIXTH SEMESTER
Course
Component Name of the Course
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Core Paper – XIII: Contemporary Literature 6 4 25 75 100
Core Paper – XIV: Post – Colonial
Literature in English II Canadian Literature 6 4 25 75 100
Core Paper- XV: Shakespeare 6 4 25 75 100
Elective Paper II: World Literature in
Translation 6 5 25 75 100
Elective Paper III: Journalism 6 5 25 75 100
PART V
Extension Activities 1
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UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.A. DEGREE COURSE IN ENGLISH
(With effect from the academic year 2016-2017 onwards)
REVISED SYLLABUS Semester I
Core Paper – I British Literature I
Unit-1: Introduction
The Renaissance and its Impact on England, The Reformation - causes and effects,
The Commonwealth of Nations, The Restoration, Coffee-houses and their social
relevance
Unit-2: Prose 1. On Revenge - Francis Bacon
2. Sir Roger at the Theatre - Joseph Addison
3. A City Night-Piece - Oliver Goldsmith
Unit-3: Poetry 1. Prothalamion - Edmund Spenser
2. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? - William Shakespeare
3. A Valediction: of Weeping - John Donne
4. Paradise Lost (Book IX) - John Milton ( lines 795 - 833)
5. The Rape of the Lock: Canto III - Alexander Pope (lines 125 -178)
Unit-4: Drama Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
Unit- 5: Fiction The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
Prescribed Texts:
English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries – G M Trevelyan (for Unit I)
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Christopher Marlowe
Ed. William-Alan Landes (Revised). Players Press, 1997.
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith - Ed. Stephen Coote (Penguin UK, 2004)
Recommended Texts:
Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page. Ed. Professor M L Stapleton, Dr
Sarah K Scott (Revised) - Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013.
Relevant Videos on YouTube:
S. No. Video URL
1 History of the Renaissance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhd-uwFonog
2 The Restoration and Enlightenment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Jzp4Ywuek
3 The English Reformation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrDhYS5lk3c
4 17th Century British Literature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwGestYnQPA
5 Doctor Faustus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE4_oBsuX5g
6 The Vicar of Wakefield https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fm9jy5F3EE
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Core Paper – II - Indian Writing in English
Unit-1: Introduction Arrival of East India Company and the associated impact History of Indian Writing in English Nativisation of English Introduction of English Studies in India (Macaulay's speech) Indian Diasporic writers
Unit-2: Prose 1. The World Community - S. Radhakrishnan
Prescribed: Links - Balram Gupta 2. The Argumentative Indian - Amartya Sen
Prescribed: The Diaspora and the World – Chapter 4 only Unit-3: Poetry
1. The Tiger and the Deer - Sir Aurobindo Ghosh 2. Summer Woods - Sarojini Naidu 3. In India - Nissim Ezekiel
Prescribed (for poems 1-3): An Anthology of Indian English Poetry - Orient Longman 4. Crab - Arun Kolatkar 5. Evening wheat - Vikram Seth 6. Fireflies - Manohar Shetty
Prescribed (for poems 4-6): Oxford Indian Anthology of Twelve Modern Poets Unit-4: Drama
Dance like a Man – Mahesh Dattani Prescribed: Dance like a Man – Penguin Publications
Unit-5: Fiction 1. Swami and Friends - R.K. Narayan
Prescribed Texts: Links – Balram Gupta The Diaspora and the World (Chapter 4) Anthology of Indian English Poetry – Orient Longman Oxford Indian Anthology of Twelve Modern Poets Dance like a Man – Mahesh Dattani - Penguin Publications Swami and Friends - R.K. Narayan Recommended Texts: A.K. Mehrotra's Illustrated History of Indian Literature - Introductory chapter Indian Writing in English - K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar Modern Indian poetry in English - Bruce King
Relevant Videos on YouTube:
S. No. Video URL
1 English: An Indian Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADRK-m82bGM
2 The Rise of English in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDYqYIwdMNU
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Allied Paper – I Background to the Study of English Literature I
Unit-1: Drama - A Brief Introduction to the Literary Forms
Elements of Drama, Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy, Heroic Comedy, Revenge
Tragedy, Melodrama, Farce, Masque
Unit-2: Poetry - A Brief Introduction to the Literary Forms
Subjective and Objective poetry
Narrative poetry: The Epic, the Mock-epic, the Ballad
Lyrical: The Ode, the Sonnet, the Elegy
Dramatic Monologue
Poetic Drama
Prosody: Rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, simile, metaphor and allegory
Unit-3: Prose - A Brief Introduction to the Literary Forms
The Essay and its types (Aphoristic, Periodic, Satirical, Critical)
The Short Story
The Biography and the Autobiography
Travel Writing
Unit-4: The Renaissance Period (1350 – 1660)
An Introduction to Bible Translation - Tyndale, Coverdale
The University Wits
Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
Comedy of humour
Unit-5: The Late Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries (1660 - 1800)
Comedy of Manners
Neo-Classicism
Sentimental and Anti-sentimental comedies
Pre-Romantics
Prescribed Texts:
History of English Literature – 5th edition – Edward Albert A History of English Literature – Compton Rickett
Relevant Videos on YouTube:
S. No. Video URL
1 18th Century Literature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOAc1YNROLg
2 The Novel in 18th Century Britain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNzns759wqM
3 Types of Drama: Tragedy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qQqPlDE_b8
4 Types of Drama: Farce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0LOcjs-hQ
5 Types of Poetry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-9FbQ6cvy4
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Semester II
Core Paper – III - British Literature II
Unit-1: Introduction
Impact of the Industrial, Agrarian and the French Revolutions on the English society,
Humanitarian Movements in England, the Reform Bills and the spread of education
Unit-2: Prose
1. Dream-Children, A Reverie - Charles Lamb
2. On Going a Journey - William Hazlitt
3. Of King's Treasuries - John Ruskin (An Extract from Sesame and Lilies)
Unit-3: Poetry
1. Lucy Gray - William Wordsworth
2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3. Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. Ode to a Nightingale - John Keats
5. Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson
6. Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold
7. My Last Duchess - Robert Browning
Unit-4: Drama
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Unit-5: Fiction
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Prescribed Texts:
English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries – Chancer to Queen Victoria by G M
Trevelyan (for Unit I)
The Importance of Being Earnest - A Readers companion Ed. BY Peter Raby - Oxford
University Press. 2008.
Great Expectations - A Readers Companion- Margaret Cardwell - Clarendon Press. 1993
(expansion in the title of the Secondary Sources)
Relevant Videos on YouTube:
S. No. Video URL
1 The Agrarian Revolution in England https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWYm0T8RLo4
2 Reform Bill - 1832 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8DuXT5g0X4
3. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhXx2A6CsNM
4. Ode to a Nightingale - I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKRMbiQ8Ry0
5. Ode to a Nightingale - II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AplVF2wiHNQ
6. Ulysses : Tennyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHA0BWxZ5Mg
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Core Paper – IV - Regional Indian Literature in Translation
Unit-1: Introduction Concept of Indian Literature, , Agam and Puram Concepts, Theory of Nine Rasas in Indian Aesthetics Prescribed: Translator's note to Poems of Love and War by AK Ramanujam (Oxford), Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation – GN Devy Bharathamuni from Natyashastra
Unit-2: Poetry
1. Is Poetry always worthy when it's old? Kalidasa (Malavikagnimitram) Website references for topic 1: http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/brough-1977-poems-from-sanskrit.html
2. What She Said - Tevakulattar, Kurunthokai 3 (Tamil) 3. What She Said to her Girlfriend - Kapilar, Akanaanooru 82 (Tamil)
Prescribed for topics 2 and 3: Translation of Sangam Age Poetry by A.K.Ramanaujan Website references for topics 2 and 3: http://www.poetrynook.com/poem/what-she-said-7 https://sangampoemsinenglish.wordpress.com/sangam-tamil-scholar-a-k-ramanujan/
4. Gitanjali – (1-5) - Rabindranath Tagore 5. Six Rubaiiyats - Mirza Arif (Urdu)
Unit-3: Prose
1. Roots - Ismat Chughtai (Urdu) 2. The Shroud - Munshi Premchand (Hindi) 3. Sita Brand Soapnut Powder - Sundara Ramaswamy (Tamil)
Prescribed: Waves, Manas publications 4. Poovan Banana - Vaikom Mohammad Basheer (Malayalam)
Prescribed: Poovan Banana and Other Stories
Unit-4: Drama Wedding Album – Girish Karnad
Unit-5: Fiction Beasts of Burden – Imayam (Tamil)
Prescribed Texts: Waves - Manas Publications Poems of Love and War – AK Ramanujam Texts and Their Worlds - Foundation Books Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation – GN Devy Bharathamuni from Natyashastra Beasts of Burden – Imayam Poovan Banana and Other Stories – VM Basheer Wedding Album – Girish Karnad - OUP Recommended Texts: Plays of Girish Karnad Chandalika - Rabindranath Tagore - or Post Office (Bengali) Gora - Tagore The infinity of Grace - O.V. Vijayan Dharmapurana Short stories of Paul Zachariah. Lalithambika Antarjanam, Ambai, CS Lakshmi Chudamani Raghavan Krishna Sobti Poems of Nirala I will meet you yet again - Amrita Pritam (Punjabi)
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Relevant Videos on YouTube:
S. No. Video URL
1 Theory of Nine Rasas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBx0BH77L3E
2 Indian Literature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJbaww4Uxlw
Allied Paper – II - Background to the Study of English Literature II
Unit-1: Drama (Continued)
Well made play (Drama of Ideas - Shaw and Ibsen), Existential Drama, Comedy of
menace, Kitchen-sink drama, Problem Play, Didactic Drama(Propaganda play), One-act
play
Unit-2: The Novel
Epistolary, Picaresque, Gothic Fiction, Historical Novel, Detective Novel, Bildungsroman,
Stream of Consciousness, Avant-garde, Science Fiction
Unit-3: The Romantic Age (1798 - 1832)
Romanticism with respect to
Prose - Lamb, Hazlitt
Poetry - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley , Keats
Novels - Jane Austen
Unit-2: The Victorian Age (1832 - 1901)
Pre-Raphaelite movement - D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti
Humanitarian Movement - Methodist, Anti Slavery and Salvation Army
Aesthetic Movement - Walter Patter
Victorian Poets - Tennyson, Browning
Victorian Novelists - Charles Dickens, Thackeray
Victorian Writers - Carlyle, Ruskin
Impressionistic Writers- Proust, Joyce
Symbolist Movement - Yeats
Unit-3: The Modern Age (Post 1901)
Imagist Poetry- Ezra Pound
Poets of the Thirties – Wilfred Owen, Auden
Essay - Huxley
Drama – GB Shaw
Novel - HG Wells, Virginia Woolf
Prescribed Texts:
An Introduction to the Study of Literature – WH Hudson – Atlantic Publishers
English Literature: An Introduction for Foreign Readers - R. J. Rees
A Background to the Study of English Literature – B Prasad, Haripriya Ramadoss – Macmillan
Relevant Videos on YouTube:
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S. No. Video URL
1 The Romantics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjSm2acUXB8
2 The Victorian Poets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBG6-BtCnxQ
3 The Victorian Era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXHspj1pZ3Y
4 Understanding Virginia Woolf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdTrFoCLMGs
5 Understanding W H Auden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvezOvM_VgQ
6 Understanding Imagism through Ezra Pound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gU4F6ePhcM
7 World War I poetry in England https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggMmDCUYJ1o
Semester III
Core Paper-V British Literature III
Unit-1: Introduction
Social impact of the two world wars, the Labour Movement, the Welfare State
Unit-2: Prose
1. Tradition and Individual Talent – TS Eliott
2. The Art of Fiction – Henry James
Unit-3: Poetry
1. The Wreck of the Deutschland - G.M. Hopkins
2. Easter, 1916 - W.B. Yeats
3. Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen
4. The Unknown Citizen - W.H. Auden
5. The Thought-Fox - Ted Hughes
Unit-4: Drama
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
Unit-5: Fiction
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Texts:
English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries – G M Trevelyan (for Unit I)
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw - Filiquarian Publishing, LLC., 2007
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Relevant Videos on YouTube:
S. No. Video URL
1 Impact of World War I on Britain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at1RJgfdDUA
2 Pygmalion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XJlgdKMeqk
3 Easter, 1916 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh-83rZ5YLI
4 Animal Farm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7TFxG19CRk
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Core Paper VI - Modern English Language and Usage
Unit-1: Introduction
The Evolution of Standard English
Prescribed: An Outline History of the English Language [(Chapter- 8) (Pages 196-209)]
Unit-2: Language and Regional Variation
The Standard Language
Accent and Dialect
Dialectology
Regional Dialects
Style, Slang and Jargon
Prescribed: The Study of Language (3rd edition) by George Yule
Unit-3: Areas of Difficulty in the Usage of English Language for the II Language Users
Basic Grammar
Parts of speech and agreement (voice, tense, number)
Modals and Auxiliaries
Types of sentences (Interrogatives, Declaratives, Exclamatory and Imperative)
Direct and Indirect speech
Question Tags
Unit-4: Language for specific Speech events
Drafting an invitation
Drafting the minutes of a meeting
Addressing a gathering (welcome address)
Proposing vote of thanks
Unit-5: English in the Internet Era
The Internet and English Vocabulary
Role and Scope of Online English Dictionaries
Language and the Advent of Technology
Useful online resources such as YouTube, Google Scholar
Prescribed Texts:
The Study of Language (3rd edition) - George Yule
An Outline History of the English Language – F T Wood
Practical English Grammar – A J Thomson and A V Martinet (OUP)
Language and the Internet – David Crystal, Cambridge University Press
English as a Global Language – David Crystal, Cambridge University Press
Allied Paper – III - Myth and Literature
Unit-1: Introduction
Beginnings of myth, Natural Phenomena as Myth, Myth and Legends
Prescribed: The Norton Reader-Ed by Linda H.Petrson, Johin C. Brereton:
Chapter – Mythology Robert Graves (Pages 1150-1154)
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Unit-2: Greek and Roman Mythology
1. Hercules (Cleaning of Aegean Tables, Atlas and Hercules)
2. Ulysses & Cyclops, Ulysses & Circe, the story of Penelope.
3. The Story of Romulus and Remus
4. The Story of Dido, Queen of Carthage
5. The Story of Cupid & Psyche
6. The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice
7. The Story of Echo & Narcissus
Unit-3: Celtic Mythology
1. Oisin in the Land of Forever Young
Unit-4: Legends
1. Arthurian Cycle (The Holy Grail)
2. Robin Hood Cycle
Unit-5: Hindu Mythology
1. Stories from Ramayana
The Story of Mareecha
The Burning of Lanka
2. Stories from Mahabharatha
Kurukshetra - The Battle & The Deception of Bheema
The Dog
The Bhagavad Gita
3. Stories from Puranas, Epics and Vedas
The Story of Nala and Damayanthi
The Story of Nacheeketa and Yama
The Story of Ganga
The Story of Sakuntala
Prescribed texts:
1. The Norton Reader - Ed by Linda H.Petrson, Johin C. Brereton
2. Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists – Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and Sister Nivedita
(Chapters III and VII only)
Reference texts:
1. The Encyclopedia of World Mythology
2. Bulfinch’s Mythology
3. Myth and Me
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Semester IV
Core Paper – VII - American Literature I
Unit-1: Introduction
Puritanism, Transcendentalism, American War of Independence, Abolition of Slavery
Unit-2: Prose
1. Self-Reliance – R.W. Emerson (an extract)
2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For – H.D. Thoreau
3. Gettysburg Address – Abraham Lincoln
Unit-3: Poetry
1. Nature – H.W. Long fellow
2. A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment – Anne Bradstreet
3. Brahma – R.W. Emerson
4. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking – Walt Whitman
5. O Captain! My Captain! – Walt Whitman
6. There’s a certain Slant of light – Emily Dickinson
Unit-4: Short stories
1. The Cask of Amontillado – Edgar Allan Poe
2. Bartleby, the Scrivener – Melville
3. Let Me Feel Your Pulse – O Henry
4. Pigeon Feathers – John Updike
Unit-5: Fiction
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Prescribed Texts:
The Scarlet Letter: A romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Samuel E. Cassino, 1892
Relevant Videos on YouTube
S. No. Video
1 American Puritanism
2 American War of Independence
3 Gettysburg Address
4 O Captain! My Captain!
5 The Cask of Amontillado
6 The Scarlet Letter
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Core Paper VIII: 1. Film and Literature
Unit-1: Introduction
Adaptation
Prescribed Text: A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon: Chapter1 - "Beginning to
theorize adaptation"
The Concept of Film Form: genre / sub-genre (narrative film , avant-garde film, film
noir, documentary), Themes tropes - cue - suspense - themes - functions - motif -
parallelism - development - unity / disunity
Film Narrative: Title - Story - Plot - narration (Restricted and omniscient) - duration -
motivation - motif- parallelism - character traits - cause and effects – exposition -
climax - point of view
Unit-2: Adaptation of Contemporary Indian English Fiction
Danny Boyle's Slum Dog Millionaire (2008)
Unit-3: Adaptation of Fantasy / Science Fiction
Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds (2005)
Unit-4: Adaptation of British Literature in Films
Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Rajiv Menon's Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000) (Tamil)
Unit-5: Components of a Film Review
Plot, Genre, Role of actors, Background information, condensed synopsis,
argument/analysis, evaluation, recommendation, opinion
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Core Paper VIII: 2. Green Studies
Unit 1: Introduction
Introduction to Eco-criticism - Definition Scope and importance of Ecocriticism
Prescribed: Garrard, Greg, Ecocriticism (Routledge, 2004)
Introducing concepts of Indian ecocriticism –Tinai - significance- ecoregions
Prescribed: Nirmal Selvamony -Tinai in Primal and Stratified Societies
Unit 2: Bioregionalism and Ecofeminism (Greg Gaard)
Community, Region, Home
Prescribed: Carson Rachel, The Silent Spring (Chapter One-‘A Fable for Tomorrow’)
Letter to President Pierce,1855 -Chief Seattle (Norton Reader)
Selected tale from Flowering Tree - A.K Ramanujan (Ecofeminism)
Ecology
Deep Ecology Basic Principles-Biocentric Equality- Naess and George Sessions
Self-Realization: The World is too much with us (Wordsworth)
Unit 3: Environment and Literature
Symbiosis, Mutation, Parasitism Biodiversity
Wordsworth, ‘Nutting’
Dylan Thomas –‘The sap that through the green fuse runs’
The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh (Man and the Environment)
Unit 4: Indian Ecocriticism (Tinai- Kurinchi, Neidal, Mullai Marutam and Palai)
What She Said - Kapilar,Akananooru 318 A,k.Ramanujan p.14
What Her Girl Friend Said, the Lover within Earshot, Behind a Fence- Uloccanar.
Narrinai 63
Unit 5: Oikopoetics - Oikos, Integrative, Hierarchic Anarchic Oikos
‘The Fly’ - D.H. Lawrence and ‘Snake’
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Allied Paper – IV: Introduction to the Study of Language and Linguistics
Unit-1: Introduction
Definition of language, spoken and written language
Diachronic & synchronic approaches of language study
Linguistics - definition, nature and scope
Unit-2: English Phonetics and Phonology
Speech Organs
Sounds in English (Consonants, Vowels and Diphthongs)
Syllables, Stress and Intonation
Transcriptions (exercises)
Unit-3: Grammar
Definition of Grammar
Different Approaches of Grammar – Descriptive, Prescriptive and Functional
Unit-4: Syntax
Structural analysis ( I.C. analysis)
Deep and surface structure.
Unit-5: Semantics
Word, morphemes
Word meaning association (semantics)
Prescribed Texts:
An Introductory textbook of linguistics, phonetics – Rathe L Vashney
The Study of Language – George Yule
English for Research: Usage, Style and Grammar – Adrian Wallwork
Grammar - Frank Robert Palmer
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Semester V
Core Paper IX- American Literature II
Unit-1: Introduction
Harlem Renaissance, World War II and its aftermath, Post-modern impulse,
Multiculturalism
Unit-2: Poetry
1. Richard Cory – Edward Arlington Robinson
2. The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
3. In a Station of the Metro – Ezra Pound
4. The Snow Man – Wallace Stevens
5. A Dream Deferred – Langston Hughes
6. Mirror – Sylvia Plath
7. Mr. Edwards and the Spider – Robert Lowell
8. An Agony. As Now. – Amiri Baraka
Unit-3: Drama
The Crucible – Arthur Miller
Unit-4: Short Stories
1. This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona – Sherman Alexie
2. Something to Remember Me By – Saul Bellow
3. Separating – John Updike
4. The Snows of Kilimanjaro – Ernest Hemingway
Unit-5: Fiction
The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
Prescribed Texts:
The Crucible. Arthur Miller. Penguin, 2003.
The House on Mango Street. Sandra Cisneros. 2nd ed. Arte Publico Press, 1983.
Relevant Videos on YouTube:
S. No. Video
1 Harlem Renaissance
2 The Road Not Taken
3 A Dream Deferred
4 Mirror
5 The Crucible
6 The Snows of Kilimanjaro
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Core Paper-X- Post-Colonial Literature in English I: Australian Literature
Unit 1: Introduction:
Theory: Colonialism/Settler Colonialism Concept of Identity, Insider/Outsider, Home,
Displacement, Assimilation, Nationhood
Australian History: Confrontation and Conflicts between Settlers / Aboriginal
Cultures.
Literature: Oral Traditions, Aboriginal Writings, Bush Culture, Convictism- Australian
Legend, The national Myths (e.g. The Wild Colonial Boy etc.), Pre-War and Post-War
Immigration to Australia, Immigrant Experience, Recent Developments in Australian
Writing.
Unit-2: Short Stories
Mate – Kate Grenville
One Sunday in February 1942 – Thomas Keneally Unit-3: Poetry
1. Waltzing Matilda – Banjo Paterson
2. No more Boomerang – Kath Walker
3. The Immigrant Voyage – Les Murray
4. For New England – Judith Wright
5. Myths and Legends
The Aboriginal Song Cycle - The Djanggawul Song Cycle (Part ONE- Song 1
from Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature)
The Wild Colonial Boy
Unit-4: Drama
Ned Kelly – Douglas Stuart
Unit-5: Novels
Seven Little Australians – Ethel Turner
Reference Texts:
The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature – Elizabeth Webby – Cambridge
University Press – 2000
The Macmillan Anthology of Australian Literature – Ken Goodwin and Allan Lawson,
Macmillan – 1990
Online References:
Australian Government – www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-stories
Creative Spirits – www.creativespirits.info
Austlit: The Australian Literature Resource – www.austlit.edu.au
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Core Paper XI - Women’s Writing
Unit-1: Introduction
Women’s writing and the specific issues it deals with, gender aspects viz-a-viz
society, theories
Ecriture Feminine
Female, feminist, femininity
Waves of Feminism, Post feminism
Tenets of Feminism- Liberal, Radical, Socialist, Cyber feminism
Patriachy, Androgyny, Double marginalization, Stereotyping, male gaze,
objectification
Womanism
Language and gender
Unit-2: Prose
1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral
Subjects - Mary Wollstonecraft
(Restricted to Chapter 13)
2. Ain’t I a woman? - Sojourner Truth (Speech)
Unit-3: Poetry
1. Persephone, Falling - Rita Dove
2. Journey to the Interior - Margaret Atwood
3. Request to a Year - Judith Wright
4. Medusa - Sylvia Plath
5. A Sunset of the City - Gwendolyn Brooks
6. The old Playhouse- kamala Das
Unit-4: Drama
1. Trifles - Susan Glaspell
Unit-5: Short Stories
1. Draupathi - Mahasweta Devi
2. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilmar
3. Forest - Ambai
Prescribed Texts:
Trifles - Susan Glaspell. Baker's Plays, 2010
Recommended Texts:
Feminism: A Very Short Introduction. Margaret Walters. Oxford University Press, 2005.
The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory. Ellen Rooney. Cambridge University
Press, 2006.
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Core Paper-XII- Introduction to Literary Theories
Unit-1: Introduction
Literary theorizing from Aristotle to F.R. Leavis, some key moments, the transition to
‘theory’, some recurrent ideas in critical theory
(Pages 20 – 35 of the prescribed text)
Unit-2: Structuralism
The Scope of Structuralists, What Structuralist Critics do
(Pages 38 – 58 of the prescribed text- Excluding ‘Stop and Think’ portions)
Post-structuralism and Deconstruction
(Pages 59 – 65; 68-70 of the prescribed text)
Unit-3: Post-Modernism and Psychoanalytic Criticism
Post Modernism
(Pages 78-88 up to What postmodernist critics do (Excluding ‘Stop and Think’
portions)
Psychoanalytic Criticism
(Pages 92- 97 and 100 ( What Freudian Psychoanalytic critics do ) of the prescribed
text (Excluding ‘Stop and Think’ Portions)
Unit-4: Feminist and Marxist Criticism
Feminist Criticism
(Pages 118 -124 of the prescribed text)
Marxist Criticism
(Pages 150-154 of the prescribed text)
Unit-5: Post-Colonial Criticism
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
(Pages 172-184 of the prescribed text)
Post Colonial Criticism
(Pages 185-192 of the prescribed text Excluding ‘Stop and Think’ portions)
Ecocriticism
(Pages 239-248 of the prescribed text)
Training in Practical Criticism with an unknown passage in the classroom is recommended
Prescribed Texts:
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, Peter Barry – Viva Books
Pvt. Ltd., 2017.
Recommended Texts:
M. H. Abrams - A Glossary of Literary Terms -7th Ed. Heinle & Heinle, 1999
The Penguin Dictionary of Literary terms and Literary Theory, J.A. Cuddon revised by C.E.
Preston, Penguin Books, London, 6th edition. 1999.
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Elective Paper – I: 1. Introduction to Translation Studies
Unit-1: Introduction
Definition and Scope of Translation, Translation and Culture, Types of Translation
Unit-2: History
A Brief History of Translation
Unit-3: Issues in Translation
Decoding and Recoding, Problems of Equivalence, Loss and Gain, Gender and
Translation
Unit-4: Formal and Dynamic Equivalence
Formal and Dynamic Equivalence, Translation Shift
Unit-5: Comparative Analysis
A Comparative Study of Two Translations of Thirukkural by G U Pope and Rajaji
( Selected verses as attached* )
(Selected verses as attached)*
1.
Pope: The men of household virtue, firm in way of good, sustain
The other orders three that rule professed maintain.
Rajaji: The householder so-called helps the other orders in the proper fulfillment of their
duties.
2.
.
Pope: 'The pipe is sweet,' 'the lute is sweet,' by them't will be averred,
Who music of their infants' lisping lips have never heard.
Rajaji: They speak of the sweet tones of the flute and of the harp, who have not had children
and heard them lisp their newly learnt words.
3.
Pope: When mother hears him named 'fulfill'd of wisdom's lore,'
Far greater joy she feels, than when her son she bore.
Rajaji: Hearing words of appreciation uttered by people about her son, the mother feels greater joy
than what she felt on the day he was born.
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4.
.
Pope: To sire, what best requital can by grateful child be done?
To make men say, 'What merit gained the father such a son?'
Rajaji: The son’s greatest filial service is so to conduct
5.
Pope: The loveless to themselves belong alone;
The loving men are others' to the very bone.
Rajaji: Those who have not a loving disposition, belong wholly to themselves. The tender-
hearted belong to other even in their bones.
6.
.
Pope: When pleasant words are easy, bitter words to use,
Is, leaving sweet ripe fruit, the sour unripe to choose.
Rajaji: When gentle words are available, why do men choose the words that hurt? Is it not
foolish to pick unripe berries when ripe ones can be had for the plucking?
7.
.
Pope: A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,
The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth.
Rajaji: By itself the help rendered may be a trifle, but the hour of need when it was given
makes it bigger than tha whole world.
8.
Pope: As earth bears up the men who delve into her breast,
To bear with scornful men of virtues is the best.
Rajaji: Does not the earth support the man that is engaged in digging it? It is proper that we too bear
with those who wrong us.
9.
.
Pope: You ask, in lips of men what 'truth' may be;
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'Tis speech from every taint of evil free.
Rajaji: Truthfulness is attained if one’s speech is such that it harms no being in the world.
10.
.
Pope: To punish wrong, with kindly benefits the doers ply;
Thus shame their souls; but pass the ill unheeded by.
Rajaji: The best punishment for those who do evil to you, is to shame them by returning good
for evil.
Prescribed texts:
Translation Studies (1980) Susan Bassnett : Routledge Publishers
The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation - Lawrence Venuti
The Translation Studies Reader - Lawrence Venuti
Mouse or Rat? Translation as Negotiation – Umberto Eco
In These words (A Course book on Translation) – Mona Baker, Routledge
A Linguistic theory of Translation: An Essay in Applied Linguistics - John C Catford: OUP
Translation – R A Brower, Cambridge (On Linguistic aspects of translation - Roman Jakobson
Pages 232-239 only)
Towards a Science of Translating – Eugene Nida (E J Brill)
The theory and practice of Translation - Eugene Nida and C R Taber (E J Brill)
Translation/History/Culture: A Sourcebook - Andre Lefevre, Routledge Publishers (1992)
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Elective Paper – I : 2. Practical Approach to Technical Writing
Unit-1: Introduction
Introduction to technical writing, objectives and importance of technical writing
Unit-2: The Technical Writing Process
The technical writing process - examining purpose, determining goals, considering
audience and gathering data, determining the context, formatting, pre-writing,
writing and rewriting
Unit-3: Examples of Technical Writing
Preparing marketing material, composing promotional material, describing products
services and incorporating facts for homepages on websites, press releases,
brochure, product descriptions
Unit-4: Ethics and Technical Writing
Legalities, practicalities, ethicalities, guidelines for ethical standards, strategies for
making ethical decisions, multicultural communication
Reference texts:
Technical writing, Process and Product - Shaaron J Gerson and Stevan M Gerson, 5th edition
Writing for the Web – Faye Hoffman
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Semester VI
Core Paper – XIII - Contemporary Literature
Unit 1: Introduction
Multiculturalism
Diasporic Writing
Displacement and Alienation and Identity crisis
Theme of Acculturation, Assimilation, Globalization, Hybridity
Unit -2: Prose:
1. Joseph Anton- A Memoir: An Extract- Chapter II-Manuscripts Don’t Burn(Paragraph
beginning: “ On the day he received the bound proofs of The Satanic Verses…….’
Paragraph ending “It was Valentine’s Day”) Edition : Jonathan Cape, 2012.
2. The Bomb and I- Arundathi Roy
3. The Medicine Bag- Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
4. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World- Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
5. Unaccustomed Earth- Jhumpa Lahiri
Unit-3: Poetry
1. Black Berry Picking - Seamus Heaney
2. A Far Cry from Africa - Derek Walcott
3. Hamlet - Wole Soyinka
4. I know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Unit-4: Drama
Harvest- Manjula Padmanabhan
Unit-5: Fiction
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Prescribed Texts:
Joseph Anton: A Memoir - Salman Rushdie - Knopf Canada, 2012.
Harvest - Manjula Padmanabhan - Aurora Metro, 2003.
Life of Pi - Yann Martel - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003
Recommended Texts:
Diasporas. Stéphane Dufoix. Trans. William Rodarmor. University of California Press:
London, 2008.
Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity. Floyd Collins. University of Delaware Press, 2003.
Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study. Narendra Kumar. Pinnacle Technology, 2009.
Caribbean Panorama: An Anthology from and about the English-speaking Caribbean with
Introduction, Study Questions, Biographies, and Suggestions for Further Reading. ed.
Kathleen Kelley Ferracane. La Editorial, UPR, 1999.
Perspectives on Wole Soyinka. Biodun Jeyifo. Univ. Press of Mississippi.
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Relevant Videos on YouTube
S. No. Video
1 What is multiculturalism?
2 Joseph Anton : A Memoir
3 Black berry picking
4 A Far Cry From Africa
5 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
6 Through the Tunnel - Doris Lessing
7 Life of Pi
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Core Paper – XIV :Post-Colonial Literature in English II: Canadian Literature
Unit 1; Introduction:
Post-Colonial Literature
Origins of Canadian Literature
Oral traditions including myths, folklore, and legends
The First nations: Native Literature
Colonization and the Colonizers: British and French and economically colonized by
the Americans
The Garrison mentality as a common theme in Canadian literature
Recent developments and mainstream writers.
Unit-2: Prose
Godzilla vs. Post-colonial – Thomas King
Disunity as Unity: A Canadian Strategy - Robert Krotesch
Unit-3: Poetry
First Neighbours – P K Page
Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga – A M Klein
The Cattle Thief – Emily Pauline Johnson
Like an Old Proud King in a Parable – A J M Smith
Unit-4: Drama
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe – George Ryga
Unit-5: Short Stories and Fiction Face – Alice Munro “The Hostelry of Mr Smith” (Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town) – Stephen Leacock Cannibal Woman – Ron Geyshick Fiction The Edible Woman Margaret Atwood
Prescribed Texts:
History of Canadian Literature - W H New
Canadian Culture: An Introductory Reader – Ed. Elspeth Cameron
An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry – Ed . C D Narasimhiah
New Contexts of Canadian Criticism – Ed Ajay Heble, Donna Palmateer Pennee and J R
Struthers
An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature – Ed. Daniel David Moses and Terry Goldie - 2nd
Edition
Websites:
Canadian Encyclopedia – www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com
Canadian Culture - www.culturecanada.gc.ca
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Core Paper – XV: Shakespeare
Unit-1: Introduction
The Age of Shakespeare
Life of Shakespeare
Shakespearean theatre
Shakespearean audience
Shakespearean players
Shakespeare Canon
Shakespeare’s Texts: Quartos and Folios
Shakespeare and Classical Conventions
Shakespearean comedies, tragedies, histories, romances, problem-plays
Unit-2: Tragedy
Macbeth
Unit-3: Comedy
Twelfth Night
Unit-4: History
Richard II
Unit-5: Critical Essays
1. “ From Hamlet to Lear” from Shakespeare in a Changing World – Arnold
Kettle
2. “On the Tragedies of Shakespeare” – Charles Lamb from the English Critical
Tradition – Ed. S. Ramasami & V.S. Sethuraman (Vol.1)
Prescribed Texts:
The English Critical Tradition – Ed. S. Ramaswami & V.S. Sethuraman (Vol. I)
Macbeth (Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night - Ed. Roger Warren and Stanley Wells - Oxford University Press 2008
Richard II- Ed by Frances E. Dolan (Editor, Introduction), Stephen Orgel (Series Editor), A. R.
Braunmuller (Series Editor)
Shakespeare in a Changing World- Arnold Kettle- Published by Lawrence and Wishart.
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Elective Paper-II - World Literature in Translation
Unit-1: Introduction
Goethe’s concept of World literature
Tragedy of Fate
French Revolution
Realistic drama of Ibsen and Chekhov
Multiculturalism
Realism
Concept of the Absurd
Postmodernism
Unit-2: Poetry
1. The Gate of Hell : Canto III(Inferno)-Dante Alighieri
2. Ithaca - Constantine Petrou Cavafy
3. The Burning of the Books - Bertolt Brecht
4. Lot’s Wife - Anna Akhmatova
5. The End and the Beginning- Wislava Szymborska
Unit-3: Drama
Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
Unit-4: Short Stories
1. The Guest - Albert Camus
2. The Convert - Guy de Maupassant
3. A Christmas tree and a Wedding - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. One Autumn Night - Maxim Gorky
5. The Blizzard- Alexander Pushkin
6. The Fairy Amoureuse - Emile Zola
Unit-5: Fiction
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas
Prescribed Texts:
Oedipus the King. Sophocles. Trans. David Grene. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Relevant Videos on YouTube
S. No. Video
1 French Revolution - Impact on Literature
2 The Trojan Women
3 Oedipus Rex
4 A Hunger Artist
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Elective Paper – III: Journalism
Unit-1: Introduction
Introduction to Journalism
A Short History of Journalism in India
Ethics of Journalism
Unit-2: The Press
Freedom of Press and Threats to Press Freedom
The Government and the Press
Press Laws: Defamation, Libel, Contempt of Court, Slander, Copyright Laws, Press
Regulation Act, Press Registration Act, Law of Privileges
Unit-3: Reporting News
Role of the Reporter and the Editor
Types of News Reports – Straight, Interpretive, Investigative, Scoop, Sting
Headlines - Editorial, Feature Writing, Personal Column, Reviews, Interviews and
Press Conferences
Reporting – News Values, Human Interest, Story Angle, Obituaries
Unit-4: Layouts, Advertising and News Agencies
Make-up of a newspaper - Editing, Proof-Reading
Photographic Journalism, Cartoons, News Agencies, Press Council of India
Advertisements – Types and Social Responsibility Exercises Editing, Proof-reading, Feature Writing, News Reporting, Planning interviews and Reviews
Unit 5 : Electronic and New Media Electronic Media, Radio, Television Emergence of New Age Media-Definition & Conceptualization of New Media, Future
of New Media Ethics and Social Responsibilities of New Media
Reference Texts: The Professional Journalism – M V Kamath
The Press – Chalapathi Rao
Journalism as a Career - Sengupta
Mass Communication: Principles and Concepts (2nd Edition, Kindle Edition )- Seema Hasan
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Question Paper Pattern
CORE COURSES
Semester 1
Major Paper - I - British Literature I
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
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Question Paper Pattern
CORE COURSES
Semester I
Major Paper - II - Indian Writing in English
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3-5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
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Question Paper Pattern
Allied - I
Semester 1
Allied - Paper I – Background to the study of English Literature I
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit I to Unit V Marks – 20x1=20
Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks- 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
Question Paper Pattern
CORE COURSES
Semester II
Major Paper - III – British Literature II
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C 3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30 Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
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Question Paper Pattern CORE COURSES
Semester II
Major Paper - IV – Regional Indian Literature
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
Question Paper Pattern
ALLIED - II
Semester II
Allied – Paper II - Background to the Study of English Literature II
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit I to Unit V Marks – 20x1=20
Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
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Question Paper Pattern CORE COURSES
Semester III
Major Paper - V – British Literature III
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
Question Paper Pattern CORE COURSES
Semester III
Major Paper - VI – Modern English Language and Usage
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
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Question Paper Pattern
ALLIED - III
Semester III
Allied – Paper III - Myth and Literature
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit I to Unit V Marks – 20x1=20
Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
Question Paper Pattern CORE COURSES
Semester IV
Major Paper - VII – American Literature - I
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
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Question Paper Pattern CORE COURSES
Semester IV
Major Paper - VIII – Film and Literature or Green Studies
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
Question Paper Pattern ALLIED - IV
Semester IV
Allied – Paper IV - Introduction to the Study of Language and Linguistics
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit I to Unit V Marks – 20x1=20
Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
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Question Paper Pattern
CORE COURSES
Semester V
Major Paper IX American Literature II
Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A
Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10
Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V
(Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B
Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25
Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C
3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
Question Paper Pattern CORE COURSES
Semester V Major Paper X Post Colonial Literature in English I Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10 Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V (Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25 Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C 3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30 Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
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Question Paper Pattern CORE COURSES
Semester V Major Paper XI Women’s writing Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10 Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V (Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25 Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C 3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30 Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
Question Paper Pattern CORE COURSES
Semester V Major Paper XII Introduction to Literary Theories Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10 Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V (Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25 Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C 3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30 Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
Question Paper Pattern ELECTIVES
Semester V Electives Paper I Introduction to Translation Studies or Practical Approach to Technical Writing Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10 Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V (Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25 Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C 3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30 Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
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Question Paper Pattern CORE COURSES
Semester V Major Paper XI Women’s writing Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10 Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V (Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25 Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C 3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30 Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
Question Paper Pattern Core Courses
Semester VI Major Paper – XIII Contemporary Literature Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10 Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V (Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25 Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C 3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30 Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
Question Paper Pattern Core Courses
Semester VI Major Paper – XIV Post - colonial literature in English II Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10 Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V (Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25 Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C 3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30 Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
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Question Paper Pattern Core Courses
Semester VI Major Paper – XV Shakespeare Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10 Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V (Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25 Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C 3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30 Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
Question Paper Pattern Electives
Semester VI Electives Paper II World Literature in Translation Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10 Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V (Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25 Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C 3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30 Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V
Question Paper Pattern Electives
Semester VI Electives Paper III Journalism Time 3 Hrs Max.75 Marks
Section A Questions 1 to 10 Multiple choice questions from Unit I - Introduction Marks – 10x1=10 Questions 11 to 20 Multiple choice questions from Unit II to Unit V (Prose, Poetry, Drama & Fiction) Marks – 10x1=10
Section B Five Paragraph answers – 200 words each – Choice 5 out of 7 Marks - 5x5=25 Questions 21 to 27 - Unit II to Unit V
Section C 3 essays – 300 words each – Choice 3 out of 5 Marks - 3x10=30
Questions 28 to 32 – Unit II to Unit V *****
AC.F’16
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1
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.A. DEGREE COURSE IN ENGLISH
SYLLABUS WITH EFFECT FROM 2020-2021
Title of the Course ALLIED: BEN- DSA01 -BACKGROUND TO ENGLISH LITERATURE-I
Category of the
Course
Year & Semester
First Year & First Semester
Credits
5
Subject Code
BEN-DSA01
Hours: 90
Objectives:
To introduce basic concepts about English history, literary forms and literary periods
with linguistic, historical and Legendary background
To enable students, understand the contexts and background from Medieval British
literature up until the Elizabethan and Jacobean Age
Course
Introduction
(to be considered for
internal assessment
only)
Why study the social, political and literary history of England, their legends and the ways
in which they have had an impact on the writers and their works?
What are literary forms? What is Prosody?
What is the importance of the evolution of English Language?
What is the significance of this course as an allied to understand the core courses?
How should this course be integrated with the study of literary texts?
Course
Components
BEN-DSA01
Unit 1: I. Literary Forms
1.1 Poetry – Metrical Romance, Ballad [Folk, Literary, Mock], Lyric, Sonnet
[ Petrarchan, Spenserian, Shakespearean]
1.2 Drama [Mystery and Morality Plays, Tragedy [Classical, Senecan, Romantic,
Heroic, Neo-Classical,], Masque and Anti-Masque
1.3 Prose- Fable, Parable, Essay [Aphoristic, Personal, Periodical, Critical]
1.4 Fiction [Short-story, Novel], Non- Fiction [Biography, Auto-Biography]
1.5 Periods of English Literature – (pages 279-285)
II. Literary Elements 1.6 Poetry – Rhyme, Metre, Stanza, Verse [ Blank Verse, Heroic /Couplet, Quatrain
etc] Refrain 1.7 Drama- Plot- Prologue, Acts, Scenes, Epilogue, subplot, Unity of Time, Place,
Action. Action – Conflict, Reversal of Fortune, Crisis, Rising Action,
Climax, Denouement - Character – Hero [tragic flaw], Heroine, Villain,
Stock Character, Foil Dialogue - Aside/ Soliloquy, Monologue, Choric
Function - Stage/Setting – Proscenium Arch, Box set, Scenery, Props, dues ex
machina 1.8 Prose – Fiction: Plot, Narration, Characterization [flat/ round characters], Setting
[Text - A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams & Geoffrey Galt Harpham.
Eleventh Edition. Cengage,2019 (Indian Reprint)]
Unit 2: Impact of the History of English Language on Literature from 11th to
17th Century
2.1 The Descent of the English Language
2.2 The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period
2.3 The Middle English Period
[Text. History of English Language by F.T. Wood. Trinity Press. Revised edition,
2016]
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2
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.A. DEGREE COURSE IN ENGLISH
SYLLABUS WITH EFFECT FROM 2020-2021
Unit 3: Impact of Socio- Political History on Literature from 11th
to 17th
Century
3.1 ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND – (pages 138 -139)
3.2 MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
The Norman Conquest [1066] –( pages 80-84).
A Struggle for Power –Magna Carta [1215] – (pages 126-128).
Henry VI and the Wars of Roses [1421- 71] – (pages 199-212)
3.3 TUDOR DYNASTY Henry VIII and the Break with Rome. –( pages 231- 253).
Queen Mary–(pages 261-264)
3.4 ELIZABETH I AND THE SUCCESSION – (pages 265-274)
The Conquest of the Armada– (pages 275- 286).
The English Renaissance – pages 287-291. Elizabethan England – (pages 292- 310)
3.5 CIVILWAR AND CROMWELL [1642 – 58]
Charles I and Parliament – pages 311-317. Civil War – (pages 326-340)
[Text Book: A History of England. John Thorn, Roger Lockyer and David Smith.
AITBS Publishers, India. 2012]
Unit 4: Literary History
4.1 Anglo-Saxon Literature – Romanized Britons, Arthurian romance,alliterative
verse, development of English Christianity – (pages 3- 6). Development of
Middle English Prose and Verse”- The Norman conquest, Anglo-French
language, French cultural domination of Europe, French as the courtly language,
west Saxon dialect – (pages 31- 35).
4.2 Middle English Literature - Courtly French romance, the fable as a famous
medieval literary form –( pages 68 – 70). Chaucer –( pages 89 – 91); Gower –
(pages 121 – 123)
4.3 The Early Tudor Scene – new geographical discoveries and their impact on
literature, beginning of the idea of national state – (pages – 147 – 148). Spenser
and his Time – ( pages 165 – 166 first paragraph). Drama from the Miracle
Plays to Marlowe - English poetic drama, dramatic elaborations of the liturgy,
transition from liturgical drama to miracle play – (pages 208 – 210); “University
Wits” – Elizabethan popular drama –(page 226); “Christopher Marlowe” –
„Tamburlaine, the Great‟ – (page 235). Shakespeare – professional man of the
theatre - (page 246) Drama from Jonson to the Closing of Theatres –
Shakespeare and Ben Jonson – (pages 309 – 311 first paragraph);Analysis of
English Poetic drama – (page 344-last paragraph).
4.4 Poetry after Spenser: The Jonsonian and the Metaphysical Traditions–
(page 360); Donne‟s influence –( page 368). John Milton – seventeenth century
political background, effects of Civil war, Milton‟s formative years –( pages 390
– 392).
4.5 Prose in the 16th
and 17th
Centuries - pamphleteering, colloquial prose
formalised – (pages 458-459); Bible translations – (pages 461-472); Holinshed‟s
„Chronicles‟ – (page 474); Walter Raleigh‟s „History of the World‟ – (page 475);
Francis Bacon – (pages 485 – 488); Thomas Hobbes – (pages 495-496)
[Text - A Critical History of English Literature- Volume I – From the Beginning to Milton by
David Daiches. Revised. Indian Edition 2010. Supernova Publishers.]
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Unit 5: Impact of European and British Legend on Literature 5.1 Valhalla – the Valkyrior – page 179. Thor‟s Visit to Jotunheim – page 183.
The death of Baldur – the Elves – Runic Letters – Skalds – Iceland –
page 186.
5.2 The Druids – Iona - page 193: 3 King Arthur and the Knights of the
Round Table – page 198
5. 3 Arthur – page 212, Sir Gawain –page 222, Launcelot of the Lake – page
229, Tristram and Iseult – page 241, Perceval – page 256
5.4 Beowulf- page 329
5.5 Robin Hood and his Merry Men – page 334
[Text - Bulfinch’s Mythology:The Classic Introduction to Myth and Legend. Complete
and Unabridged by Thomas Bulfinch.Penguin, 2014]
Learning
Outcomes:
At the end of this course students will be able to:
Identify and define basic terms and concepts which are needed for advanced
courses in British literatures
Describe the distinct periods of British literature
Write brief notes on seminal literary forms and devices
Write brief essays on seminal writers and their period from Medieval Europe up
to the Britain of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Age
Write brief essays on the historical background of the same period
Prescribed Texts
A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams & Geoffrey Galt Harpham. Eleventh Edition.
Cengage,2019 (Indian Reprint)
History of English Language by F.T. Wood. Trinity Press. Revised edition, 2016. Unit 1: 1-67
A History of England. John Thorn, Roger Lockyer and David Smith. AITBS Publishers, India. 2012
A Critical History of English Literature- Volume I – From the Beginning to Milton by David Daiches.
Revised. Indian Edition 2010. Supernova Publishers
Bulfinch‟s Mythology
The Penguin History of Europe by J.M.Roberts, 1996 Unit 3: pages: 120- 138
European Renaissance, Reformation and Counter- Reformation– pages 222 – 230
Modernity and modern history[ End of Medieval Period] – pages 233-238
Enlightenment – pages 267-271
A History of England. John Thorn, Roger Lockyer and David Smith. AITBS Publishers, India. 2012.
History of English Language: British Council Archive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fJiHmR85cU
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SYLLABUS WITH EFFECT FROM 2020-2021
BOOKS AND WEB SOURCES FOR FURTHER REFERENCE ( to be considered for internal assessment only)
Carter, Ronald and John McRae, The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland.
Routledge, 2001.
Childs, Peter and Roger Fowler ed. The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms. Routledge. 6002
Rees, R. J., English Literature: An Introduction for Foreign Readers, Macmillan.
Periods of English Literature | Online Education | Paradigm Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzZ0wHgogjc
RECOMMENDED MOOC
History of English Language and Literature: Dr.Prof.Merin Simi Raj. Co-ordinated by IITM
(NPTEL)
https://nptel.ac.in/content/syllabus_pdf/109106124.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UghgTDWSyQM TEDX TALKS
Claire Bowern: Where did English come from?
https://www.ted.com/talks/claire_bowern_where_did_english_come_from/transcript?langua
ge=en
How the Normans changed the history of Europe - Mark Robinson
https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-the-normans-changed-the-history-of-europe-mark-robinson
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B.A. DEGREE COURSE IN ENGLISH
SYLLABUS WITH EFFECT FROM 2020-2021
Title of the
Course
ALLIED -BEN-DSA02-BACKGROUND TO ENGLISH LITERATURE-II
Category of the
Course
Year & Semester
First Year & Second Semester
Credits
5
Subject Code
BEN-DSA02
Hours: 90
Objectives:
This paper aims at introducing basic concepts about English history, literary
forms and literary periods with linguistic, historical and background to enable
students understand the contexts and background of British literature of
Augustan and Romantic and Victorian Age
Course
Introduction
(to be considered
for internal
assessment only)
The American war of Independence.
The French Revolution.
The Beginning of Democracy.
Printing Press.
The growth of Literary Forms, English Vocabulary
Darwin‟s theory of evolution. The Growth of Science.
Course
Components
BEN-DSA02
Unit 1:
I. Literary Forms
1.1 Poetry: Ode [Pindaric, Horatian, English ], Elegy, Pastoral
1.2 Epic and Mock Epic, Dramatic Monologue
1.3 Drama: Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Comedy of Manners, Farce
1.4 Drama: Sentimental Comedy, Melodrama, Comedy of Humours, Tragi- Comedy
1.5 Prose: Novel -– Gothic, Picaresque, Sentimental, Epistolary, Domestic,
Historical
II. Literary Devices
1.6 Poetry - Alliteration, Assonance, Metaphysical Conceit, [ Epic] similes,
Metaphor, Hyperbole.
1.7 Drama – Irony [ Verbal, Dramatic, Situational, Cosmic], Pun, Metonymy,
Malapropism, Anachronism
1.8 Fiction- Cliché, Paradox, Connotation, Epigram, Euphemism, Allusion [Text - A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams & Geoffrey Galt Harpham.
Eleventh Edition. Cengage,2019 (Indian Reprint)]
Unit 2: Impact of the History of Language on Literature
2.1 The Renaissance and After – pages 68-81
2.2 The Growth of Vocabulary – pages 82-113
2.3 Change of Meaning – pages 114-147
[Text. History of English Language by F.T. Wood. Trinity Press. Revised edition,
2016. ]
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Unit 3: Impact of Socio-Political History on Literature
3.1 Restoration England - Charles II – pages 351- 365. James II and William III& the
Glorious Revolution [1685-88] – pages 366-376. Queen Anne [1702-7] –
pages 377 – 389
3.2 The Foundation of the British Empire – pages 411-418. The Industrial Revolution
– pages 429-437. Britain and French Revolution – pages 438-445
3.3 Reactionary and Enlightened – pages 454-462. The Reform of Parliament– pages
463- 470. The Whigs and Reform [17th – Mid 19
th Century]– pages 471- 481.
The Chartists and Robert Peel – pages 482-489
3.4 Victorian England [1854-6] – pages 492-496. Imperialism: The Last Years of
Victorian England – pages 515-523
3.5 Britain and the First World War – pages 532-540. Irish Independence, General
Strike and the Economic Crisis” – pp. 541-549
[Text Book: A History of England. John Thorn, Roger Lockyer and David Smith.
AITBS Publishers, India. 2012]
Unit 4: Literary History I – 18th
and early 19th
c
4.1The Restoration – pages 537 – 541; Restoration comedy - pages 541-549; Dryden
– page 558; John Bunyan‟s „Pilgrim‟s Progress‟ – pages 587 – 588. The
Augustan Age: Defoe, Swift, Pope – pages 590 – 594; Joseph Addison and
the Spectator – page 595; Daniel Defoe – pages 598 -599; Jonathan Swift -
pages 602 – 603; Alexander Pope‟s „Rape of the Lock‟ – page 628;
4.2 The Novel from Richardson to Jane Austen – pages 700 – 701; Richardson‟s
Pamela – page 703; Henry Fielding‟s Tom Jones – page 720; Laurence
Sterne‟s Tristram Shandy– page 733; Gothic novel – page 741; Jane Austen‟s
Pride and Prejudice – pages 750 – 754
4.3 Eighteenth Century Prose – pages 768 – 769; George Berkeley – page 772;
David Hume – page 772; Dr. Johnson‟s „Preface to Shakespeare‟ – pages 782-
783; „Life of Dr. Johnson‟ by Boswell – page 795; Goldsmith – page 796;
Edmund Burke‟s „Reflections on the revolution in France‟ – page 799;
Thomas Paine – „The Rights of man‟ – page 803; Gibbon‟s „Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire‟ – page 807.
4.4 Scottish Literature&The Romantic Poets – page 809; Robert Burns – page 817;
Walter Scott and his attitude to Scotland – page 836. Period of transition –
pages 856-857; The Romantic Movement – page 860; William Blake‟s „Songs
of Innocence and Experience‟ – page 863; Wordsworth‟s „Lyrical Ballads‟ –
page 875; Coleridge‟s „Ancient Mariner‟ – page 893.Shelley‟s „Prometheus
Unbound‟ – page 909; Keats‟ „Endymion‟ – page 917; Byron‟s „Childe
Harold‟ – page 923
4.5 Prose of early and Middle 19th
century – autobiographical creative works of
theRomantic writers – page 935; Charles Lamb‟s „Essays of Elia‟ and „Tales
from Shakespeare‟ – page 937; Hazlitt – page 939
[Text - A Critical History of English Literature- Volume II– The Restoration to
the Present Day by David Daiches. Revised. Indian Edition 2010. Supernova
Publishers.]
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Unit 5: Literary History II -Victorian Age
5.1Victorian Prose – Macaulay‟s „History of England‟ – page 949; Thomas
Carlyle‟s „French Revolution‟ – page 955; “Victorian Prose” - Ruskin‟s
„Modern Painters‟ – page 968; Mathew Arnold‟s; Arnold‟s „Essays in
Criticism‟ – p. 977
5.2 Victorian Poets:An introduction to the age – page 993; Tennyson‟s „In
Memoriam‟ – page 1001; Robert Browning‟s dramatic monologue – page
1003; Browning‟s optimism – page 1007; Elizabeth Barrett Browning – page
1007; Mathew Arnold‟s „Scholar Gypsy‟ – page 1013; Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood – page 1017
5.3 Edward Fitzgerald‟s „Omar Khayyam‟ – page 1027; George Meredith‟s
„Poems and Lyrics‟ – page 1028; Algernon Charles Swinburne‟s
choruses – page 1030; Thomas Hardy‟s poetry – page 1037; Gerard
Manley Hopkins‟ „God‟s Grandeur‟ – page 1045
5.4 Victorian Novels: An introduction – page 1049; Charles Dickens‟ Pickwick
Papers – page 1051; William Makepeace Thackeray‟s Vanity Fair –
page 1060; Charlotte Bronte‟s Jane Eyre – page 1065; George Eliot‟s
Mill on the Floss- page 1069; Thomas Hardy‟s Mayor of Casterbridge–
page 1076;
5.5 Victorian Drama: Oscar Wilde‟s Importance of being Earnest – page 1104;
Bernard Shaw‟s well-made play – page 1105; [Text - A Critical History of English Literature- Volume II– The Restoration to the
Present Day by David Daiches. Revised. Indian Edition 2010. Supernova Publishers.]
Learning
Outcomes:
At the end of this course students will be able to:
Identify and define basic terms and concepts which are needed for advanced
courses in British literature
Describe the distinct periods of British literature
Write brief notes on literary forms
Write brief essays on seminal writers from Britain of Augustan and Romantic and
Victorian Age
Write brief essays on the historical background of the same period.
Prescribed Texts A Critical History of English Literature- Volume II – The Restoration to the Present Day by David
Daiches. Revised. Indian Edition 2010. Supernova Publishers.
The Penguin History of Europe by J.M.Roberts, 1996.
A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H.Abrams.
A History of England. John Thorn, Roger Lockyer and David Smith. AITBS Publishers, India. 2012
A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H.Abrams.
English Literature In Context by Paul Poplawski. CUP
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Western-philosophy/Ancient-Greek-and-Roman-philosophy
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UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.A. DEGREE COURSE IN ENGLISH
SYLLABUS WITH EFFECT FROM 2020-2021
BOOKS AND WEB SOURCES FOR FURTHER REFERENCE ( to be considered for internal assessment only)
Carter, Ronald and John McRae, The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland.
Routledge, 2001.
Childs, Peter and Roger Fowler ed. The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms. Routledge. 6002
Rees, R. J., English Literature: An Introduction for Foreign Readers, Macmillan.
https://sites.udel.edu/britlitwiki/
Periods of English Literature | Online Education | Paradigm Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzZ0wHgogjc
Victorian Novel and the Late Victorian Period: nptel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8NDuqI4zaU
RECOMMENDED MOOC
History of English Language and Literature: Dr. Prof. Merin Simi Raj. Co-ordinated by IITM
(NPTEL) https://nptel.ac.in/content/syllabus_pdf/109106124.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UghgTDWSyQM
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UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
PART II - ENGLISH
(Effective from the academic year 2014 - 2015)
COMMON TO ALL UNDER GRADUATE COURSES AND POST GRADUATE FIVE YEAR INTEGRATED
COURSES WHO STUDY PART II - ENGLISH FOR FOUR SEMESTERS ONLY
First Year- First Semester
Text - Catalyst A Multilevel English Refresher by Anu Chithra Publications Rs. 90/-
Test 05 Hours
Unit - I Preparatory Lessons 10 Hours
Unit - II Prose 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - III Poetry 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - IV Short Story 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - V Grammar 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class)
Tense, Aspect, Auxiliaries (Primary and Modal), Negatives, Interrogatives Yes or No, Wh
Questions) Tag questions, Completing the sentences, Common errors, Synonym, Antonym,
Word class, Use in sentences of words. (Refer to the Grammar exercises in the Text Book)
Part -I from Spring Board by Orient Black Swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.95/-
Sound Right
Introduction to the Sounds of the English Language, Word Stress, Strong and Weak Forms,
Sentences Stress and Intonation, Voice Modulation.
Second Semester
Text - Panorama English for Communication by Emerald Publishers Rs.89/-
Test 05 hours
Unit - I Prose 10 Hours
Unit - II Poems 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - III Short Stories 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - IV One-Act Plays 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - V Communicative Grammar 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class. Refer to the Text Panorama and Spring
Board) and
Part -III from Spring Board by Orient Black Swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.95/- and Watch Your English
from Panorama Grammar, Framing Questions, Common errors, More Grammar, Word
Building: Prefixes and Suffixes.
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Third Semester
Text - Reflections by Foundation Books Cambridge University Press. Rs.105/-
Inspiring Lives by Maruthi Publications Rs.60/-
Test 05 hours
Unit - I Prose 10 Hours
Unit – II Poetry 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in class in the
text itself)
Unit - III Short Stories 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in class in the
text itself)
Unit - IV Biographies 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in the class)
Unit - V Grammar 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in class)
Refer to Grammar exercises given in the Text - Reflections and also
Part -V from Spring Board by Orient Black Swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.95/-
Face-to-Face
Preparing for an Interview, Win the Game of Life, The First Written Encounter: Writing Skills.
Fourth Semester
Text - Six One - Act Plays by Pavai Publications Rs.50/-
Gifts to Posterity An Anthology of Short Stories by Anu Chithra Publications (the collection
which has got six short stories only) Rs. 32/-
Building Competency A Course in Reading and Writing English by Maruthi Publications. Rs.
50/-
Test 05 Hours
Unit - I Six One-Act Plays 20 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - II Short Stories 20 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - III Prose and Scenes from 20 Hours (including all exercises Shakespeare to
be done in class in the text itself)
Unit - IV Writing Skill Exercises 10 Hours
Letter Writing (Formal & Informal)
Précis Writing
Paraphrasing
Comprehension
Report Writing
For Communicative and Presentation Skills classroom exercises can be given
from Part II and Part IV sections from Spring Board.
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First Year
First Semester
Text - Catalyst A Multilevel English Refresher by Anu Chitra Publications Rs. 95/-
Unit - I Preparatory Lessons
1. Competition Matters - Suzanne Sievert
2. A Personal Crisis May Change History - Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
3. Why Preserve Biodiversity - Prof. D.Balasubramanian
4. A Call to Action - Adapted from Hillary Rodham Clinton's address.....
Unit - II Prose
1. My Greatest Olympic Prize - Jesse Owens
2. If You are Wrong Admit it - Dale Carnegie
3. Monday Morning - Mark Twain
4. The Unexpected - Robert Lynd
Unit - III Poetry
1. Pulley or Gift of God - George Herbert
2. La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats
3. The Night of the Scorpion - Night of the Scorpion
4. The Death of a Bird - A.D. Hope
Unit - IV Short Story
1. Mrs. Packletide's Tiger - Saki
2. A Snake in the Grass - R.K. Narayan
3. Three Questions - Leo Tolstoy
4. The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry
Unit - V Grammar
Tense, Aspect, Auxiliaries (Primary and Modal), Negatives, Interrogatives Yes or No, Wh
Questions) Tag questions, completing the sentences, Common errors, Synonym, Antonym, Word
class, Use in sentences of words. (Refer to the Grammar exercises in the Text Book) and Part I
from Spring Board by Orient Black swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.105/-
Part -I
Sound Right
Introduction to the Sounds of the English Language, Word Stress, Strong and Weak Forms,
Sentences Stress and Intonation, Voice Modulation.
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QUESTION PATTERN
FIRST SEMESTER
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
SECTION – A (15x1=15)
I. Answer all the Questions
a. Writing two words pronounced with /a:/ sound.
b. Marking the stress of the words.
c. Marking the strong and weak forms.
d. Writing sentences with contracted forms.
e. Marking the stressed words in sentences.
f. Rewriting sentence using an introductory it or there.
g. Filling the blanks with suitable articles.
h. Using appropriate preposition given in brackets.
i. Framing suitable question.
j. Filling the blanks using appropriate adjectival form of the word given in brackets.
k. Filling the blanks with suitable forms of the verb given in brackets.
l. Antonyms of the words without using prefixes.
m. Changing the sentences into negative.
n. Filling the blank with connective.
o. Reported Speech.
SECTION – B (5x3=15)
II. Answer FIVE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 30 words.
Either or Questions
Prose a or b
Poetry a or b
Short Stories a or b
Prose & Poetry a or b
Prose or Poetry or Short Stories a or b
SECTION – C (3x5=15)
III. Answer THREE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 100 words.
Either or Questions
Prose a or b
Poetry a or b
Short Stories a or b
SECTION – D (3x10=30)
IV. Answer THREE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 200 words.
Either or Questions
Prose a or b
Poetry a or b
Short Stories a or b
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First Year- Second Semester
Text - Panorama English for Communication by Emerald Publishers Rs.89/-
Unit - I Prose
1. The Refugee - K.A. Abbas
2. The Lion and The Lamb - Leonard Clark
3. The Lady or the Tiger? - Frank R. Stockton
4. The Sky is the limit - Kalpana Chawla
Unit - II Poems
1. The Solitary Reaper - William Wordsworth
2. Gift - Alice Walker
3. O What is that Sound - W. H. Auden
4. Ode to the West Wind - P.B. Shelly
Unit - III Short Stories
1. The Fortune-Teller - Karel Capek
2. The Postmaster - Rabindranath Tagore
3. The Model Millionaire - Oscar Wilde
4. The Dying Detective - Arthur Canon Doyle
Unit - IV One-Act Plays
1. The Death Trap - Saki (H.H. Munro)
2. The Dear Departed: A Comedy in ONE-ACT- Stanley Houghton
3. The Sherif's Kitchen - Ronald Gow
4. The Anniversary - Anton Chekkov
Unit - V Communicative Grammar
Refer to the Text Panorama and Part III from Spring Board by Orient
Blackswan Pvt. Ltd Rs.105/-
Watch Your English
Grammar, Framing Questions, Common Errors, More Grammar, Word
Building: Prefixes and Suffixes.
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QUESTION PATTERN
SECOND SEMESTER
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
SECTION – A (15x1=15)
I. Answer all the Questions
a. Arranging words in order.
b. Pick out the correct alternative.
c. Filling the gap with appropriate word to ask question.
d. Using correct preposition.
e. Filling the blank with missing preposition.
f. Correct the error.
g. Completing the analogy with the correct word.
h. Choosing the correct phrasal.
i. Completing the sentence with phrasal verb.
j. Writing the appropriate expression.
k. Arranging the sentence according to the order of adjectives.
l. Filling the blank with connective.
m. Filling the blank with proper verb.
n. Changing the sentence into negative.
o. Completing the statement by selecting the best alternative.
SECTION – B (4x5=20)
II. Answer FOUR QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 100 words.
Either or Questions
Prose a or b
Poetry a or b
Short Stories a or b
One-Act Plays a or b
SECTION – C (4x10=40)
III. Answer FOUR QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 200 words.
Either or Questions
Prose a or b
Poetry a or b
Short Stories a or b
One-Act Plays a or b
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Second Year- Third Semester
Text - Reflections by Foundation Books Rs.105/-
Inspiring Lives by Maruthi Publications Rs.60/-
Unit - I Prose
1. Dress in Communication -
2. Fusion Music - Pt. Ravi Shankar
3. About "An Inconvenient Truth" - Davis Guggenheim
4. A Speech - N.R. Narayana Murthy
5. A Speech - Barack Obama
6. Unity of Minds - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Unit - II Poetry
1. The Justice of Peace - Hillari Bellock
2. A Different History - Sujata Bhatt
3. Digging - Seamus Heaney
4. I Love You Mom -
5. Ozymandias of Egypt - Percy Bysshe Shelly
6. Leave this Chanting and Singing and Telling of Beads - Rabindranath Tagore
Unit - III Short Stories
1. Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde
2. The Story of Stanford -
3. Engine Trouble - R.K. Narayan
4. After Twenty Years - O. Henry
5. Two Gentlemen of Verona - A.J. Cronin
6. The Avenger - Anton Chekhow.
Unit - IV Biographies from Inspiring Lives
1. Madam Curie
2. Mother Teresa
3. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
4. Dr. Amartya Kumar Sen
5. Gertrude Elion
6. Vikram Sarabhai
7. Charles Chaplin
8. Wangari Maathi
Unit - V Grammar
Refer to the exercises given in the text and Part -V from Spring Board by
Orient Black swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.105/-
Face-to-Face
Preparing for an Interview, Win the Game of Life, The First Written Encounter:
Writing Skills.
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QUESTION PATTERN
THIRD SEMESTER
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
SECTION – A (4x5=20)
I. Answer Four Questions in 100 words selecting one from each.
Either or Questions
Prose a or b
Poetry a or b
Short Stories a or b
Biographies a or b
SECTION – B (4x10=40)
II. Answer Four Questions each in 200 words selecting one from each.
Either or Questions
Prose a or b
Poetry a or b
Short Stories a or b
Biographies a or b
SECTION – C (2x5=10)
III. Answer Two questions selecting one from each.
SECTION – D (5x1=5)
IV. Answer all the Questions.
Grammar
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Fourth Semester
Text - Six One - Act Plays by Pavai Publications Rs.50/-
Gifts to Posterity by Anu Chithra Publishers (the collection which has got six short stories
only) Rs. 32/-
Building Competency A Course in Reading and Writing English by Maruthi Publications. Rs.
50/-
Unit - I Six One-Act Plays
1. The Bishop's Candlesticks - Norman McKinnell
2. The Two Corporals - Val Gielgud
3. Wurzel-Flummery - A.A. Milne
4. Old Man River - Dorothy Deming
5. Hewers of Coal - Joe Corrie
6. Five at "The George" - Stuart Ready
Unit - II Short Stories
1. Comrades - Nadine Gardiner
2. Games at Twilight - Anita Desai
3. Gateman's Gift - R. K. Narayan
4. Open Window - Munro (Saki)
5. Some Words with a Mummy - Edgar Allan Poe
6. The Ant and the Grasshopper - Somerset Maugham
Unit - III Prose and Scenes from Shakespeare
Scenes from Shakespeare:
1. Merchant of Venice - Lines on Quality of Mercy
2. Julius Ceaser - Antony's Funeral Oration
3.* Macbeth - Line from Sleep Walking Sign
*Instead of Macbeth- line from Sleep Walking Sign the following Amendment occurs w.e.f.
2016-17(batch of candidates admitted to the course from the academic year 2015-16):-:-
3. Macbeth-Murder Scene in the same text Building Competency
Prose:
1. Little Girls are Wiser than Men - Leo Tolstoy
2. The Last Clock - James Thurber
3. How far is the River - Ruskin Bond
Unit - IV Writing Skill Exercises
Letter Writing (Formal & Informal)
Précis Writing
Paraphrasing
Comprehension
Report Writing.
Part II and Part IV from Spring Board can be used for Class room exercises to enhance the
students' communicative and presentation skills.
10
QUESTION PATTERN
FOURTH SEMESTER
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
SECTION – A (4x5=20)
I. Answer Four questions selecting not less than one from each.
Either or Questions
One-Act Plays a or b
Short Stories a or b
Prose and Scenes from Shakespeare a or b
SECTION – B (4x10=40)
II. Answer Four questions selecting not less than one from each.
Either or Questions
One-Act Plays a or b
Short Stories a or b
Prose and Scenes from Shakespeare a or b
SECTION – C (3x5=15)
III. Answer Three of the following.
Writing Skills
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COMMON TO ALL UNDER GRADUATE COURSES AND POST GRADUATE FIVE YEAR
INTEGRATED COURSES WHO STUDY PART II - ENGLISH FOR TWO SEMESTERS ONLY
First Year-First Semester
Text - Catalyst A Multilevel English Refresher by Anu Chitra Publications Rs. 95/-
Test 05 hours
Preparatory Lessons 10 Hours
Unit - I Prose 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - II Poetry 10 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - III Short Story 10 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - IV Abridged Novel 10 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - V Grammar 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class)
Tense, Aspect, Auxiliaries (Primary and Modal), Negatives, Interrogatives
(Yes or No, Wh Questions) Tag questions, Completing the Sentences,
Common errors, Synonym, Antonym, Word class, Use in sentences of the
given words, phrases or idioms. (Refer to the Grammar exercises in the Text
Book)
Part -I from Spring Board by Orient Black swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.120/-
Sound Right
Introduction to the Sounds of the English Language, Word Stress, Strong and
Weak Forms, Sentences Stress and Intonation, Voice Modulation.
Second Semester
Text - Panorama English for Communications by Emerald Publishers Rs.89/-
Test 05 hours
Unit - I Prose 10 Hours
Unit - II Poems 10 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - III Short Stories 10 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - IV One-Act Plays 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - V Drama 10 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class in the text itself)
Unit - VI Communicative Grammar 15 Hours (including all exercises to be done in
class Refer to the Text Panorama) and
Part -III from Spring Board by Orient Black swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.120/- and
Watch Your English from Panorama
Grammar, Framing Questions, Common errors, More Grammar, Word
Building: Prefixes and Suffixes.
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First Year= First Semester
Text - Catalyst A Multilevel English Refresher by Anu Chitra Publications Rs. 95/-
Preparatory Lessons
1. Competition Matters - Suzanne Sievert
2. A Personal Crisis May Change History - Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
3. Why Preserve Biodiversity - Prof. D.Balasubramanian
4. A Call to Action - Adapted from Hillary Rodham Clinton's address.....
5. If Only there Were More like Him - Revathi Seshadri
Unit - I Prose
1. My Greatest Olympic Prize - Jesse Owens
2. If You are wrong admit it - Dale Carnegie
3. Monday Morning - Mark Twain
4. The Unexpected - Robert Lynd
Unit - II Poetry
1. Pulley or Gift of God - George Herbert
2. La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats
3. The Night of the Scorpion - Night of the Scorpion
4. The Death of a Bird - A.D. Hope
Unit - III Short Story
1. Mrs. Packletide's Tiger - Saki
2. A Snake in the Grass - R.K. Narayan
3. Three Questions - Leo Tolstoy
4. The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry
Unit - IV
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (An Abridged Novel) by Emerald Publishers.
Unit - V Grammar
Tense, Aspect, Auxiliaries (Primary and Modal), Negatives, Interrogatives (Yes or No,
Wh Questions) Tag questions, completing the sentences, Common errors, Synonym, Antonym,
Word class, Use in sentences of words. (Refer to the Grammar exercises in the Text Book)
Grammar Reference Book Spring Board by Orient Black swan Pvt. Ltd Rs.120/-
Part -I
Sound Right
Introduction to the Sounds of the English Language, Word Stress, Strong and Weak Forms,
Sentences Stress and Intonation, Voice Modulation.
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QUESTION PATTERN
FIRST SEMESTER
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
SECTION – A (15x1=15)
I. Answer all the Questions
a. Writing two words pronounced with /a:/ sound.
b. Marking the stress of the words.
c. Marking the strong and weak form.
d. Writing the sentences with contracted forms.
e. Marking the stressed words in sentences.
f. Rewriting the sentence using an introductory it or there.
g. Filling the blanks with suitable articles.
h. Using appropriate prepositions.
i. Framing suitable question.
j. Filling the blanks using appropriate adjectival form of the word given in brackets.
k. Filling the blanks with suitable forms of the verb given in brackets.
l. Antonyms of the following without using prefixes.
m. Changing the following sentences into negative.
n. Filling the blank with connective.
o. Reported Speech.
SECTION – B (4x5=20)
II. Answer FOUR QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 100 words.
Either or Questions
Prose a or b
Poetry a or b
Short Stories a or b
Abridged Novel a or b
SECTION – C (4x10=40)
III. Answer FOUR QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 100 words.
Either or Questions
Prose a or b
Poetry a or b
Short Stories a or b
Abridged Novel a or b
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Second Semester
Text - Panorama English for Communication by Emerald Publishers Rs.80/-
Unit - I Prose
1. The Refugee - K.A. Abbas
2. The Lion and The Lamb - Leonard Clark
3. The Lady or the Tiger? - Frank R. Stockton
4. The Sky is the limit - Kalpana Chawla
Unit - II Poems
1. The Solitary Reaper - William Wordsworth
2. Gift - Alice Walker
3. O What is that Sound - W. H. Auden
4. Ode to the West Wind - P.B. Shelly
Unit - III Short Stories
1. The Fortune-Teller - Karel Capek
2. The Postmaster - Rabindranath Tagore
3. The Model Millionaire - Oscar Wilde
4. The Dying Detective - Arthur Canon Doyle
Unit - IV One-Act Plays
1. The Death Trap - Saki (H.H. Munro)
2. The Dear Departed: A Comedy in ONE-ACT- Stanley Houghton
3. The Sherif's Kitchen - Ronald Gow
4. The Anniversary - Anton Chekkov
Unit - V Drama
Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw (Drama) by Orient BlackSwan.
Unit - VI Communicative Grammar - Refer to the Text - Panorama
Part III from Spring Board by Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd Rs.120/-
Watch Your English
Grammar, Framing Questions, Common Errors, More Grammar, Word Building:
Prefixes and Suffixes.
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QUESTION PATTERN
SECOND SEMESTER
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
SECTION – A (15x1=15)
I. Answer all the Questions
a. Arranging words in order.
b. Pick out the correct alternative.
c. Filling the gap with appropriate word to ask question.
d. Using correct preposition.
e. Filling the blank with missing preposition.
f. Correct the error.
g. Completing the analogy with the correct word.
h. Choosing the correct phrasal.
i. Completing the sentence with phrasal verb.
j. Writing the appropriate expression.
k. Arranging the sentence according to the order of adjectives.
l. Filling the blank with connective.
m. Filling the blank with proper verb.
n. Changing the sentence into negative.
o. Completing the statement by selecting the best alternative.
SECTION – B (5x4=20)
II. Answer FIVE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 100 words.
Either or Questions
Prose a or b
Poetry a or b
Short Stories a or b
One-Act Plays a or b
Drama a or b
SECTION – C (5x8=40)
III. Answer FIVE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 100 words.
Either or Questions
Prose a or b
Poetry a or b
Short Stories a or b
One-Act Plays a or b
Drama a or b
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MODEL QUESTION PAPER
COMMON TO ALL UNDER GRADUATE COURSES AND POST GRADUATE FIVE YEAR INTEGRATED
COURSES WHO STUDY PART II - ENGLISH FOR FOUR SEMESTERS ONLY
FIRST SEMESTER
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
SECTION – A (15x1=15)
I. 1. Answer all the Questions
a. Write two words pronounced with / a: / sound.
b. Mark the stress of the words.
1) Always 2) Account
c. Mark the strong and weak form.
1) That ice cream looks nice. Do you want some?
2) I'm really thirsty. There is some orange juice in the kitchen.
d. Write the following sentences with contracted forms.
1) I will call you back in half an hour.
2) We would like to get an early reply.
e. Mark the stressed words in the following sentences.
1) Swimming is one of the healthiest forms of exercise.
2) Necessity is the mother of invention.
f. Rewrite the following sentence using an introductory it or there.
1) To inform him is important.
g. Fill in the blanks with suitable articles.
1) ______ encyclopaedia is _______ useful book.
h. Use appropriate preposition given in brackets.
1) He is confident ________ (of / about) his success.
i. Frame suitable question to the following.
1) This is Radha's bag.
j. Fill in the blanks using appropriate adjectival form of the word given in brackets.
1) Cancer ________ (cure) if detected early.
k. Fill in the blanks with suitable forms of the verb given in brackets.
1) This type of transistors _______ (be) no longer available.
l. Give the antonymn of the following without using prefixes.
1) Voluntary 2) Inhale.
m. Change the following sentences into negative.
1) The showman walked by the side of the caravans.
n. Fill in the blank with connective.
1) The Supermarket made a profit last year.________ it had to close down this year
because of poor sales.
o. Rewrite in reported speech.
1) "Please close the door, Selvi", I said.
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SECTION – B (5x3=15)
II. Answer FIVE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 30 words.
2. a) Why did Owens become hot under the collar before the trials.
Or
b) Why Harvey's boss treat him with respect?
3. a) Why does God call rest the jewel of blessings?
Or
b) Where did the knight meet the beautiful lady?
4. a) Why did the villagers agree to help Mrs. Packletide?
Or
b) Why did Dasa triumphantly ask, "Where was the snake"?
5. a) What was picturesque about Pickett?
Or
b) Where did the scorpion hide itself?
6. a) "I watched the flame feeding on the mother" - Comment.
Or
b) Why did the family wonder whether there were two snakes in the grass.
SECTION – C (3x5=15)
III. Answer THREE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 100 words.
7. a) How did Luz Long help Jesse Owens?
Or
b) How did Harvey handle a tense situation and win the admiration of his boss?
8. a) How does Herbert play with the word rest?
Or
b) What were the effects of scorpion sting on the mother and on other around her?
9. a) What were the questions that the king wanted to be answered?
Or
b) How did the villagers help Mrs. Packletide?
SECTION – D (3x10=30)
IV. Answer THREE QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 200 words.
10. a) How Luz Long exemplify the true sporting spirit?
Or
b) How does the grand plan of Tom on a Monday fail?
11. a) How does Herbert project Nature, God of Nature and man?
Or
b) Narrate the sad tale of the Knight at arms?
12. a) Consider Mrs. Pakletide's Tiger as a social satire?
Or
b) Describe the search for the snake and how it ended?
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SECOND SEMESTER
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
SECTION – A (15x1=15)
I. 1. Answer all Questions
a) Form affirmative statement using the given word or phrase by arranging them in proper
word order.
am practising I basement the drums in the
b) Pick out the correct alternative.
Everyone _____ to parties
d like going
loves going
loves to go
c) Fill the gap with appropriate word to ask question.
___________ time will get there, Sir? asked Ram.
d) Fill in the blank with the correct preposition chosen from those given in brackets.
We will be gone ______ two days (for, since)
e) Fill in the blank with the missing preposition we made our report _______ triplicate.
f) Correct the error in the following sentence.
In the class, children were having arithmetic lesson.
g) Complete the analogy by writing the correct word on the blank line.
Open is to close as near is to ________ (far, close, shut)
h) Choose the correct phrasal to fill in the blank.
Thieves broke ________ and stole all the valuables.
i) Complete the following sentence, using the phrasal verb given in brackets.
Here is another pair of shoes. You can ______ (try on).
j) Write the appropriate expression to ask for permission.
Brother: Am I permitted to use your computer/
Sister: Sure: But stop talking like a grammar book.
k) Arrange the following into a sentence according to the order of adjectives.
i) a leather, black, bag
ii) a black, old, wooden , toy.
l) Fill in the blank with a connective.
The supermarket made a profit last year _____ it had to be closed down this
year because of poor sale.
m) Fill in the blank with proper form of a verb.
I think you ought _______ told me.
n) Change the following into the negative.
The boy was really awed by the story.
o) Complete the following statement by selecting the best alternative from the bracket.
Mary bought four __________ (loaf/loaves) of bread.
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SECTION – B (4x5=20)
II. Answer Four Questions in 100 words, selecting one from each.
2. a) What were Maanji's thoughts when she moved out of Rawalpindi?
Or
b) Who were the people who went in search of the lion as soon as it escaped.
3. a) Describe the song of the solitary reaper?
Or
b) Give a descriptive of the sound heard by Auden.
4. a) How was Macheary able to book Mrs. Myers.
Or
b) List the merits and demerits of Hughie Erskine.
5. a) How did the ole man punish the daughters for their greed?
Or
b) How did the prince take revenge on the treacherous guards?
SECTION – C (4x10=40)
III. Answer Four Questions in 200 words, selecting one from each.
6. a) Narrate the story of "The Lion and the Lamb"?
Or
b) How did the semi barbaric king refine the people?
7. a) How does the poet bring out the pathos of lost-love being not so painful as the
accusation was charged against her?
Or
b) Write a summary of the poem what is the sound bringing out the feeling of the lady?
8. a) Friendship and separation are an inevitable part of life. Comment referring to the story
“The Postmaster”?
Or
b) Explain title of the story "Model Millionaire"?
9. a) Write an essay on the appropriate of the title " Death Trap"?
Or
b) Write an essay on the element of humour in the play The Dear Departed?
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THIRD SEMESTER
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
SECTION – A (4x5=20)
I. Answer Four questions in 100 words selecting one from each.
1. a) What in this world can break you in many situations. Do you agree with this view?
Give reasons?
Or
b) How did Narayanan Murthy convert the negative experience in Bulgaria into
something positive?
2. a) How does the speaker challenge his opponent? What is his strength over the opponent?
Or
b) What does the oppressors language do to the oppressed people according to Sujatha
Bhatt?
3. a) How did the narrator come to own a road engine?
Or
b) What kind of relationship did the narrator have with his friend Jimmy wells?
4. a) Write about the oppression of Polish people by the Czar of Russia?
Or
b) How did Vikram Sarabhai set up physical Research Laboratory?
SECTION – B (4x10=40)
II. Answer Four questions in 200 words selecting one from each.
5. a) Comment on the three facts of George's personality - human, religious and
professional as seen through Pandit Ravishankar memoir?
Or
b) What is Obama's perception of change and message?
6. a) The poem Digging is about man's reaction doing a certain job. Discuss.
Or
b) Write a Character sketch of Ozymandia based on your reading of the poem?
7. a) How were the couple in the story of Stanford different form most rich people?
Or
b) In which ways in The Happy Prince" different form the conventional fairy tale?
8. a) Write an essay on the experiences of Subramanyan Chandrasekar?
Or
b) Give an account of the achievement of Amarty Sen?
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SECTION – C (2x5=10)
III. Answer Two questions selecting one from each.
9. a) List out the things that you have to take for an interview.
Or
b) What may be the few possible reasons for rejection.
10. a) Draft a resume for the job of a manager in a company.
Or
b) Write an essay on learning a second language.
SECTION – D (5x1=5)
IV. Answer all questions
11. a) We stayed over time and completed the project (Change into a simple sentence)
b) He makes it a point to go to Tripathi.................. (Complete the sentence with a
subordinate clause)
c) We don't know why he was absent (Change the underline clause into a phrase)
d) Use one of the phrases in sentences of your own As soon As. In Spite of.
e) Use one of the phrases in sentences of your own Get rid of, In connection with.
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FOURTH SEMESTER
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
SECTION – A (4x5=20)
I. Answer Four questions in 100 words selecting not less than one from each.
1. a) Describe the Bishop's encounter with thief?
Or
b) "Learn from my failure", says Napoleon. What was his failure?
2. * a) Describe the meeting between Madame Loisel and Madame Forestner after ten
years.
Or
b) What is the Conjurers final effort to salvage his reputation?
* Instead of a)or b) Questions the following Modification occurs w.e.f. 2016-17(batch of
candidates admitted to the course from the academic year 2015-16):-:-
2. a) Describe the mad behaviour of the Gateman?
Or
b) Describe the attempts of doctor Ponnuonner and his friends to revive the life in the
mummy?
3. a) Describe how Sir Ensor Doone became an outlaw. Where did he decide to settle and
why was the place so suitable for the Doones?
Or
b) Why does Crawshaw accept the legacy?
4. a) Describe the reaction of the girls to the flood?
Or
b) Why was Lorna a prisoner not daring to leane her own house even to send John a
signal?
SECTION – B (4x10=40)
II. Answer any Four in 200 words of the following.
5. a) How is Dick a public hero number one?
Or
b) Narrate the circumstances leading to the discovery of the murderer in "Five at
Geroges".
6. a) How did Quinquart win Suzanne?
Or
b) What were the circumstances that compelled the authorities of St. Austin's college to
alter the rules for the sixth form poetry prize.
* Instead of a)or b) Questions the following Modification occurs w.e.f. 2016-17(batch of
candidates admitted to the course from the academic year 2015-16):-:-
6. a) Justify the title of Tolstoy’s story (or)
b) How do you Justify the behaviour of Tom Ramsay at the end of the story?
7. a) Describe the powerful message of Antony's funeral oration Speech.
Or
b) Describe the speech of the Sleep Walking Scene.
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* Instead of a) Question the following Modification occurs w.e.f. 2016-17(batch of candidates
admitted to the course from the academic year 2015-16):-
7. b) How did the absence of clocks impact the town?
8. a) Bring out the humour in Wuzzel Flummery?
Or
b) Narrate the story of Open Window by Munro?
Or
c) What happened in the church, in her marriage ceremony
* Instead of c) Question the following Modification occurs w.e.f. 2016-17:-
Excess choice, hence the question 8 (c) be deleted.
SECTION – C (3X5=15)
III. 9. Write a Précis for the following passage. (5)
Most of the new homes being built in the U.S. are low one-story structures that hug the
ground and blend with their natural setting, and follow contemporary architectural concepts that
stress simplicity, space, comfort, efficiency, beauty and ease of care. Many are designed to
reveal the intrinsic beauty of their construction materials, such as wood and stone, and have
patios o other areas for indoor-outdoor living. Although some of the new houses have smooth
lines and expanses of glass, others are more conservative, and include in their exterior design
touches of older traditional architectural forms.
The invention of the skyscraper in America came as an answer to crowded city space and
high land costs. It was engineered and invented by a succession of architects who realized that
steel framed buildings did need to have one story piled atop another for support, but that walls
could be fitted onto a steel frame. The invention of structural steel made possible the skeleton
steel frame, an d together with the elevator, made possible the skeleton steel frame, and together
with the elevator, made possible the invention of the skyscraper. The highest skyscraper in the
U.S. today is the Empire State Building in New York which has 102 stories and is 1,472 feet
(449 meters) high.
10. Write a Paraphrase of the following poem. (5)
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils:
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They sgtreched in neve-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in springly dance.
11. a) Write a report of an accident that you seen in your area. (5)
Or
b) Sum up your views on barriers of communication and suggest your tips for
overcoming it.
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MODEL QUESTION PAPER
FOR UG / INTEGRATED P.G STUDENTS WHO STUDY PART - II ENGLISH FOR TWO SEMESTER ONLY
FIRST SEMESTER
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
SECTION – A (15x1=15)
I. Answer all the Questions
a. Write two words pronounced with / a: / sound.
b. Mark the stress of the words.
i) Always ii) Account
c. Mark the strong and weak form.
i) That ice cream looks nice. Do you want some?
ii) I'm really thirsty. There is some orange juice in the kitchen.
d. Write the following sentences with contracted forms.
i) I will call you back in half an hour.
ii) We would like to get an early reply.
e. Mark the stressed words in the following sentences.
i) Swimming is one of the healthiest forms of exercise.
ii) Necessity is the mother of invention.
f. Rewrite the following sentence using an introductory it or there.
i) To inform him is important.
g. Fill in the blanks with suitable articles.
i) ______ encyclopaedia is _______ useful book.
h. Use appropriate preposition given in brackets.
i) He is confident ________ (of / about) his success.
i. Frame suitable question to the following.
i) This is Radha's bag.
j. Fill in the blanks using appropriate adjectival form of the word given in brackets.
i) Cancer ________ (cure) if detected early.
k. Fill in the blanks with suitable forms of the verb given in brackets.
i) This type of transistors _______ (be) no longer available.
l. Give the antonymn of the following without using prefixes.
i) Voluntary ii) Inhale.
m. Change the following sentences into negative.
i) The showman walked by the side of the caravans.
n. Fill in the blank with connective.
i) The Supermarket made a profit last year.________ it had to close down this year
because of poor sales.
o. Rewrite in reported speech.
i) "Please close the door, Selvi", I said.
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SECTION – B (4X5=20)
II. Answer FOUR QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 100 words.
2. a) How did Luz Long help Jesse Owens?
Or
b) How did Harvey handle a tense situation and win the admiration of his boss?
3. a) How does Herbert play with the word rest?
Or
b) What were the effects of scorpion sting on the mother and on other around her?
4. a) What were the questions that the king wanted to be answered?
Or
b) How did the villagers help Mrs. Packletide?
5. a) Why was Henfrey taken aback on seeing the stranger in "The Invisible Man"?
Or
b) How did the Iping humorists tease the stranger in "The Invisible Man"?
SECTION –C (4x10=40)
III. Answer FOUR QUESTIONS selecting not less than one from each in 200 words.
6. a) How Luz Long exemplify the true sporting spirit?
Or
b) How does the grand plan of Tom on a Monday fail?
7. a) How does Herbert project Nature, God of Nature and man?
Or
b) Narrate the sad tale of the Knight at armas?
8. a) Consider Mrs. Pakletide's Tiger as a social satire?
Or
b) Describe the search for the snake and how it ended?
9. a) Describe about the burglary at the vicarage in "The Invisible Man".
Or
b) Explain about the Griffin's adventure in the Emporium in "The Invisible Man".
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SECOND SEMESTER
Time 3 Hours Maximum 75 Marks
SECTION – A (15x1=15)
I. 1. Answer all Questions
a)Form affirmative statement using the given word or phrase by arranging them in proper
word order.
am practising I basement the drums in the
b) Pick the correct alternative.
Everyone _____ to parties
d like going
loves going
loves to go
c) Fill the gap with appropriate word to ask question.
___________ time will get there, Sir? asked Ram.
d) Fill in the blank with the correct preposition chosen from those given in brackets.
We will be gone ______ two days (for, since)
e) Fill in the blank with the missing preposition we made our report _______ triplicate.
f) Correct the error in the following sentence.
In the class, children were having arithmetic lesson.
g) Complete the analogy by writing the correct word on the blank line.
Open is to close as near is to ________ (far, close, shut)
h) Choose the correct phrasal to fill in the blank.
Thieves broke ________ and stole all the valuables.
i) Complete the following sentence, using the phrasal verb given in brackets.
Here is another pair of shoes. You can ______ (try on)
j) Write the appropriate expression to ask for permission.
Brother: Am I permitted to use your computer/
Sister: Sure: But stop talking like a grammar book.
k) Arrange the following into a sentence according to the order of adjectives.
i) a leather, black, bag
ii) a black, old, wooden , toy.
l) Fill in the blank with a connective.
The supermarket made a profit last year _____ it had to be closed down this
year because of poor sale.
m) Fill in the blank with proper form of a verb.
I think you ought _______ told me.
n) Change the following into the negative.
The boy was really awed by the story.
o) Complete the following statement by selecting the best alternative.
Mary bought four __________ (loaf/loaves) of bread.
27
SECTION – B (5x4=20)
II. Answer Five Questions in 100 words, selecting one from each.
2. a) What were Maanji's thoughts when she moved out of Rawalpindi?
Or
b) Who were the people who went in search of the lion as soon as it escaped.
3. a) Describe the song of the solitary reaper?
Or
b) Give a descriptive of the sound heard by Auden.
4. a) How was Macheary able to book Mrs. Myers.
Or
b) List the merits and demerits of Hughie Erskine.
5. a) how did the ole man punish the daughters for their greed?
Or
b) How did the prince take revenge on the treacherous guards?
6. a) Examine the relationship between Louka and Nicola in "Arms and the Man".
Or
b) What effect does the entry of Bluntschli have on the petkoffs in "Arms and the
Man"?
SECTION – C (5X8=40)
III. Answer Five Questions, selecting one from each.
7. a) Narrate the story of "The Lion and the Lamb"?
Or
b) How did the semi barbaric king refine the people?
8. a) How does the poet bring out the pathos of lost-love being not so painful as the
accusation was charged against her?
Or
b) Write a summary of the poem what is the sound bringing out the feeling of the lady?
9. a) Friendship and separation are an inevitable part of life. Comment referring to the story
“The Postmaster”?
Or
b) Explain title of the story "Model Millionaire"?
10. a) Write an essay on the appropriate of the title "Death Trap"?
Or
b) Write an essay on the element of humour in the play The Dear Departed?
11. a) Discuss Arms and the Man as a social satire.
Or
b) Is Bluntschli the hero of the play in "Arms and the Man"? Discuss.
*****
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Title of the Course Core Course BEN-DSC01: BRITISH LITERATURE- PAPER I
Category of the
Course
Year & Semester
First Year & First Semester
Credits
4
Subject Code
Hours 90
Objectives: To introduce the students to the rich legacy of Literature from Britain that remains the
fundamental body of literature written in English.
To introduce prominent English writers and their styles from the sixteenth to the eighteenth
century Course
Introduction
(for internal
assessment only)
Renaissance and its impact on England
Reformation- causes and effects
Restoration England
Commonwealth England
Coffee houses and their Social Relevance
Course
Components
UNIT 1: Poetry (Detailed)
1.1 “My galley charged” Sir Thomas Wyatt
1.2 “Alas, so all things now” Henry Howard
1.3 “Tell me, thou skilful shepherd’s swain” Michael Drayton
1.4 “Not marble, nor the gilded monuments”: William Shakespeare (Sonnet 55)
1.5 “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” John Donne
1.6 “How soon hath time” John Milton
1.7 “The Pulley” George Herbert
1.8 “The Retreat” Henry Vaughan
UNIT 2: Poetry (Non-Detailed)
2.1 “Prothalamion” Edmund Spenser
("CALM was the day...end my song" (Stanzas 1&2))
2.2 “Astrophel and Stella” Philip Sidney
(Sonnet XXXI: With how sad steps, O Moone, ...)
2.3 “Paradise Lost” (Book I - lines 1 - 83) John Milton
2.4 “The Garden” Andrew Marvell
UNIT 3: Prose (Detailed)
3.1 “On Revenge” Francis Bacon
3.2 “Of Studies” Francis Bacon
UNIT 4: Prose (Non-Detailed)
4.1 Book of Job: Prologue (chapters 1–2)
and The Bible [King James Version]
Epilogue (chapter 42:7–17)
UNIT 5: Drama (Detailed)
5.1 Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe
Learning
Outcomes:
By the end of the course, students will be able to understand the impact of social and historical events of 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries on
English writers and their works
analyse the themes and styles in English poetry, prose and drama written in the
Elizabethan and Jacobean Age
assess different works of the same author(s) as well as compare and contrast works of
different authors of the same literary period
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Prescribed Texts: i) An Anthology of Elizabethan Poetry edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford UP, Fourth impression–
2002.[ 1.1to 1.4]
ii) Six Ages of English Poetry edited by H. M. Williams, Blackie & Sons, Tenth impression–1976.[1.5] iii) The Winged Word edited by David Green, Macmillian, 2016 edition.[ 1.6 to 1.8]
iv) An Anthology of Elizabethan Poetry edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, Oxford UP, Fourth impression–
2002.[2.2]
v) Paradise Lost Books 1 & 2 Edited by Vrinda Nabar. Orient BlackSwan Annotated Study Texts, 2011
edition [2.3]
vi) Epic and Mock-Epic Anamika Chakraborty OUP.
vii) The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Tenth Edition) (Vol. Package 1: Volumes A, B, C)
Tenth Edition
FURTHER READING ( to be considered for internal assessment only)
“The Flaming Heart” – Richard Crashaw
“Another Grace for a Child” – Robert Herrick
“Epithalamion” – Edmund Spenser
“Faerie Queene” – Edmund Spenser
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” – Christopher Marlowe
“Definition of Love” – Andrew Marvell
“The Garden” – Andrew Marvell
“On Shakespeare” – John Milton
“Lycidas” – John Milton
“Easter Wings” – George Herbert
“Volpone” - Ben Jonson
BOOKS & WEB SOURCES FOR FURTHER REFERENCE English Poetry from the Elizabethans to the Restoration by Pramod K. Nayar. 2012.
Triumphal Forms: Structural Patterns in Elizabethan Poetry by Alastair Fowler.
Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship by Ilona Bell. Cambridge University
Press, 2010.
The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s (History of Early Modern
England) by Norman L. Jones. Blackwell Publishers, 1995.
British Literary Periods. https://www.thoughtco.com/british-literary-periods-739034
Poems for all the semesters with a detailed introduction to the author.
https:/www.poetryfoundation.org/
Renaissance Love Poetry. https://www.thoughtco.com/renaissance-love-poems-1788871
Elizabethan Age. https://www.ducksters.com/history/renaissance/elizabethan_era.php
Milton. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-milton
“Reading English : Why and How.” Dr. Sandie Byrne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xbBa-sy-Tc.
Canterbury Tales. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ZrBr9DOwA.
John Bunyan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ByKbrzm5gI.
Edmund Spenser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbpzer-OuQo.
RECOMMENDED MOOC
NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature. Lecture 1 - The Renaissance An Introduction -
Part-1 and 2 https://www.digimat.in/nptel/courses/video/109106120/L01.html
NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature. Lecture 13: The Age of Chaucer
http://www.digimat.in/nptel/courses/video/109103020/L13.html
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NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature. Lecture 15: Milton and his Times
http://www.digimat.in/nptel/courses/video/109103020/L15.html
TED TALKS
Anne Lamott·TED2017.
https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_lamott_12_truths_i_learned_from_life_and_writing.
Joshua Prager·TEDActive 2015.
https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_prager_wisdom_from_great_writers_on_every_year_of_life
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Title of the Course Core Course ENG- DSC02:SHAKESPEARE
Category of the
Course
Year & Semester
First Year & First Semester
Credits
4
Subject Code
Hours: 90
Objectives: To expose the students to the vitality and robustness of drama in the Elizabethan Age as exemplified
in Shakespeare
To appreciate Shakespearean language and its influence in the making of modern English
Course
Introduction
(to be considered
for internal
assessment only)
Outline the life and works of Shakespeare
His contribution to English Literature and Language
The relevance of Shakespeare in the 21st century
Course
Components
UNIT 1: History
1.1Henry IV Part 1 - [For Annotations: Act I-Scene 1; Act II Scene 4;
Act III-Scenes 1&3; Act IV - Scene1; Act V Scene 4
1.2 Shakespeare’s Histories - Historical Sources-Common Features- Language-
Reflection of the English social class
UNIT 2: Comedy
2.1 Twelfth Night - [For Annotations: Act I - Scenes 1 & 2;
Act II - Scenes 1& 4; Act III -Scene 2;
Act IV - Scene 2] Act V - Scene 5]
2.2 Shakespearean Comedies - Sources- Common features- Comedy through
language- Themes-Complex plots-Mistaken
Identities- Fools and Clowns- Use of songs-
Dramatic devices
UNIT 3: Tragedy
3.1 Macbeth - [For Annotations: Act I - Scenes 1, 3 & 5;
Act 2 - Scenes 1& 2; Act III - Scenes 2 & 4;
Act IV - Scene 1;Act V - Scenes 1& 8]
3.2 Shakespearean Tragedies - Sources-Elements of Shakespearean
Tragedies – Themes – Language-Dramatic
aspects-Tragedy and Modern Dramatists
UNIT 4: Tragicomedy
4.1 The Tempest - [For Annotations: Act I - Scene 2;
Act 2 - Scene 2; Act III - Scene 1;
Act IV - Scene 1; Act V - Scene 1]
4.2 Shakespearean Tragicomedy - genre of play-dramatic elements-
characters- Functions-Influence on the
Romantics and on 19th
& 20th
century
dramatists
UNIT 5: Shakespeare’s Theatre
5.1 Playhouses and the Globe Theatre - Staging of the Play-Audience-Actors,
Costumes- Influences
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Prescribed Texts: i) Henry IV, Part II The Philip Weller Annotated Shakespeare, Orient BlackSwan, 2014
ii) Twelfth Night The Philip Weller Annotated Shakespeare, Orient BlackSwan, 2014
iii) Macbeth The Philip Weller Annotated Shakespeare, Orient BlackSwan, 2014
iv) The Tempest The Philip Weller Annotated Shakespeare, Orient BlackSwan, 2014
FURTHER READING [to be considered for internal assessment only]
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb
BOOKS & WEB SOURCES FOR FURTHER REFERENCE Birch, Dinah. ed. “William Shakespeare” The Oxford Companion to English Literature. OUP
Dobson, Michael. & Stanley Wells eds. "Shakespeare, William" in The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare.
Kurian Anna, Shakespeare, Orient Blackswan,2016
Leggatt, Alexander. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy, 2002.
Michael Neill, David Schalkwyk. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy, 2016.
Clapp, Larry. A Complete Critical Analysis of Shakespearean Plays: With A Reference To Elizabethan
Theatre (Reprint) Hardcover – 1993 by (Author)
https://www.britannica.com
www.encyclopedia.com
https://www.britannica.com/art/chronicle-play
https://www.thoughtco.com/shakespeare-histories-plays-2985246
https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-identify-a-shakespeare-comedy-2985155
https://www.britannica.com/art/tragedy-literature/Shakespeares-tragic-art
https://www.thoughtco.com/introducing-shakespeare-tragedies-2985293
https://www.britannica.com/art/tragedy-literature/Tragedy-and-modern-drama
https://www.britannica.com/art/tragicomedy
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Globe-Theatre/images-videos
The power of imagination: Lessons from Shakespeare
https://www.ted.com/talks/john_bolton_the_power_of_imagination_lessons_from_shakespeare#t-
21959
VIRTUAL TOUR: Google Earth
i.https://earth.google.com/web/@51.50808974,-0.09712407,19.29451181a,25.00298886d,35y,-
0h,60t,0r/data=KAI
ii. https://earth.google.com/web/@52.19664585,-
1.7129966,44.1944912a,14249.33519552d,35y,0h,0t,0r/data=ClYaVBJOCiUweDQ4NzBjNTIzZjgxODg
wMzc6MHhhZjMxODg2ZGNmNDE5OTc3Gb_Uz5uKGEpAIcMnnUgwVfu_KhNTdHJhdGZvcmQtdX
Bvbi1Bdm9uGAIgAQ
iii. Shakespeare; The Globe Theatre London tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VGa6Fp3zI&feature=youtu.be
Learning
Outcomes:
After doing this course the students will be able to
recollect features of Elizabethan theatre along with Shakespeare’s life and works
identify the generic diversity in Shakespearean plays and describe significant features of
Shakespearean oeuvre
analyse prominent themes in Shakespearean plays appreciate Shakespearean language, literary
elements and conventions
synthesise acquired knowledge to critique plays and enact
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RECOMMENDED MOOC
NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature Lecture 3 - Shakespeare's Life and Times
https://www.digimat.in/nptel/courses/video/109106120/L03.html
NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature. Lecture 14: The Age of Shakespeare
http://www.digimat.in/nptel/courses/video/109103020/L14.html
TEDx TALKS:
TED TALKSlivepage.apple.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khVubNIgS0o
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Title of the Course Core Course BEN-DSC03: BRITISH LITERATURE- PAPER II
Category of the Course Year & Semester
First Year & Second Semester
Credits
4
Subject Code
Hours: 90
Objectives: To introduce a few seminal texts of mainstream writers to students, to enable them to understand
and interpret literary works of the Augustan and Romantic Ages.
Course Introduction
(to be considered for
internal assessment
only)
Impact of the Industrial, Agrarian, French Revolution on the English Society
Humanitarian Movement in England,
The Reform Bills
The Spread of Education
Course Components UNIT 1: Poetry (Detailed)
1.1 “Macflecknoe” John Dryden
1.2 “Tyger” William Blake
1.3 “For A’ That And A’ That” Robert Burns
1.4 “Three years she grew” William Wordsworth
1.5 “Kubla Khan” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1.6 “From Childe Harolde’s Pilgrimage” Lord Byron
1.7 “Ozymandias” Percy Bysshe Shelley
1.8 “Ode to a Nightingale” John Keats
UNIT 2: Poetry (Non - Detailed)
2.1 “ The Rape of the Lock: Canto III”
(lines 125 -178) Alexander Pope 2.2 “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” S.T. Coleridge
2.3 “Essay on Man From Epistle II” Alexander Pope
2.4 “The Deserted Village” Oliver Goldsmith
UNIT 3: Prose
3.1 “Dream-Children: A Reverie” Charles Lamb
3.2 “Sir Roger at the Theatre” Joseph Addison
UNIT 4: Drama
4.1 The Rivals R. B. Sheridan
UNIT 5: Fiction
5.1 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Learning Outcomes: At the end of this course students will be able to
identify and define basic terms and concepts which are needed for advanced courses in
British literature
write brief essays on the important works of mainstream writers from Augustan and
Romantic Age
describe the distinct features of British literature of the same period
analyze and interpret seminal poetry of the period with close reading
Prescribed Texts:
i) The Winged Word edited by David Green, Macmillian, 2016 edition.
ii) Six Ages of English Poetry edited by H. M. Williams, Blackie & Sons, Tenth impression–1976
iii) The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Tenth Edition) (Vol. Package 1: Volumes A, B, C)
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Tenth Edition
FURTHER READING [Can be considered for Assignments & Presentations]
John Dryden – “Absalom and Achitophel”
Alexander Pope – “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan – Rivals
James Boswell – “Life of Samuel Johnson”
Dr. Samuel Johnson – “Preface to Shakespeare”
John Keats – “Ode to Grecian Urn”
William Wordsworth – “Tintern Abbey”
William Wordsworth – “Lines Composed upon Westminster Bridge”
Percy Bysshe Shelley - “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
William Blake - The Chimney Sweeper: A little black thing among the snow
“The Foundation of British Empire” pages 411- 419 - from A History of England. Eds.
John Thorn, Roger Lockyer and David Smith. AITBS Publishers, India.
BOOKS & WEB SOURCES FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
A Critical History of English Literature- Volume II – The Restoration to the Present Day by David
Daiches. Revised edition. Indian edition 2010. Supernova publishers. (“Romantic Poetry”- pages 856-935;
“Restoration, Augustan Age, rise of novel, 18th century prose”- pages 537-766 )
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine. 2011.
Romanticism (The New Critical Idiom) by Aidan Day. 1995.
Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Ferber. Oxford, 2010.
Romanticism: An Oxford Guide by Nicholas Roe. 2005.
Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History (Routledge Concise Histories of Literature) by Carmen
Casaliggi and Porscha Fermanis. 2016.
The Romanticism Handbook (Literature and Culture Handbooks). Edited by Joel Faflak and Dr. Sue
Chaplin. 2011.
The Age of Dryden. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39817/39817-h/39817-h.htm.
Alexander Pope. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alexander-pope.
Eighteenth Century. https://www.britannica.com/art/English -literature/The-18th-century.
Age of Restoration. https://www.bl.uk/restoration-18th-century-literature/articles/neoclassicism.
Romanticism. https://www.britannica.com/art/Romanticism.
Romanticism. https://www.theartstory.org/movement/romanticism/.
Romanticism. https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/roma/hd_roma.htm.
Romanticism. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/English /melani/cs6/rom.html.
Romanticism.https://wordsworth.org.uk/wordsworth/daffodils-and-other-poems/what-is-romanticism/.
Shelley. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/percy-bysshe-shelley.
Wordsworth. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45559/three-years-she-grew.
“The Age of Reason and the Age of History.” Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1YEr8ZiZhY.
Enlightenment. The Age of Reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0B28_gwj0M.
RECOMMENDED MOOC
NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature.Lecture 16: The Augustans
http://www.digimat.in/nptel/courses/video/109103020/L16.html NPTEL Video Course: English Language and Literature.Lecture 17: The Romantics
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http://www.digimat.in/nptel/courses/video/109103020/L17.html Swayam: English Literature of the Romantic Period 1798-1832
https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc20_hs31/preview
TEDx Talks:
Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein·TED2012. The long reach of reason.
https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_and_rebecca_newberger_goldstein_the_long_reach_of_reason?langu
age=en
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Title of the Course Core Course BEN-DSC04: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Category of the
Course
Year & Semester
First Year & Second Semester
Credits
4
Subject Code
Hours: 90
Objectives: To give an understanding of the evolution of Indian Writing in English and appreciate its literature from
the period of western colonization to the twenty first century.
Course Introduction
( to be considered for
internal assessment
only)
Arrival of East India Company and the associated impact
History of Indian Writing in English
Introduction of English Studies in India (Macaulay's minutes)
Nativisation of English
The Postcolonial experience
Diaspora Writers
Course Components UNIT 1: Poetry 1.1.“Our Casuarina Tree” Toru Dutt
1.2. “Coromandel Fishers” Sarojini Naidu
1.3. “ Night of the Scorpion” Nissim Ezekiel
1.4. “Introduction” Kamala Dass
1.5. “The Bus” Arun Kolatkar
1.6.“The Frog and the Nightingale” Vikram Seth
1.7. “Her Garden” Meena Alexander
1.8. “Narcissus” Easterine Kire
UNIT 2: Prose
2.1“The Secret of Work” - Swami Vivekananda
2.2 “India and Greece” & “The Old Indian Theatre” - Jawaharlal Nehru
(Selection from The Discovery of India)
2.3. “Religion in a Changing World” - Dr.Radhakrisnan
(Religion,Science and Culture)
2.4. Passages from The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian- Nirad C.Chaudhuri
(Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature – Amit Chaudhuri
UNIT 3: Drama
3.1 Dance Like a Man Mahesh Dattani
UNIT 4: Short Story
4.1“Under the Banyan Tree” R.K Narayan
4.2 “The Night Train at Deoli” Ruskin Bond
4.3 “ Unaccustomed Earth” Jhumpa Lahiri
4.4 “Laburnum for my Head” Temsula Ao
UNIT 5: Fiction
5.1 Kanthapura Raja Rao
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Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course, students will be able to
understand the evolution of Indian Writing in English identify the influence of Classical Indian tradition and the impact of western colonisation on
Indian English writers
analyse Indian ethos found in the representative texts
evaluate Indian English texts from the postcolonial perspective
Prescribed Texts: i) Gokak V.K, The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry, Sahitya Akademi, 2006
ii) Mehrotra, A.K. , The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Indian Poets , OUP,1993
iii) Peeradina, Salem , Contemporary Indian Poetry in English ,Macmillan 1972
iv) Nehru, Jawarhalal , The Discovery of India,1946
v) Vivekananda, Karma Yoga , Advaita Ashrama Publication,2012
vi) Radhakrishnan,Religion, Science and Culture, Orient Paperback
vii) Chaudhuri, Amit, Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature. 2001
viii) Davidar, David, A Clutch of Indian Masterpieces, Aleph Books, 2016
ix) Ao Temsula, Laburnum for my Head ,Penguin India, 2009
x) Lahiri, Jhumpa,Unaccustomed Earth, Random House India,2008
xi) Collected Plays - Mahesh Dattani , Penguin, India.
FURTHER READING ( to be considered for internal assessment only)
Henry Derozio - “The Harp of India”
Sri Aurobindo - “TheTiger and the Deer”
Mamta Kalia - “ Tribute to Papa”
Jeet Tayil - “The Penitent”
Anjum Hasan -“A Place like Water”
Arundhathi Subramamiam - “Another Way”
Amartya Sen – “ Diaspora and the World” from The Argumentative Indian
Arundhathi Roy - “Capitalism :A Ghost Story” from Broken Republic
Novels by Mulkraj Anand, R.K.Narayan , Manoghar Malgonkar,Anitha Desai, Shashi Deshpande , Arvind
Adiga,
BOOKS & WEB SOURCES FOR FURTHER REFERENCE
Iyengar, K. R. Srinivasa. Indian Writing in English . Revised edition, Sterling
King, Bruce: Modern Indian Poetry in English . Oxford University Press, 2005.
M. K., Naik. A History of Indian English Literature. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2009.
Mehrotra, A. K. An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English . New Delhi:Permanent Black, 2003.
Dharwadkar Vinay and A.K.Ramanujam,The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry
A.K.Mehrotra,The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Indian Poets
Thieme John, The Arnold Anthology of Postcolonial Literatures in English
Singh Umeed,Sharma Pankaj ed. Reading a Novel:Kanthapura & An Exercise in Language Use,
Macmillan, 2016.
Chaudhuri Amit, Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature, Picador
https://cafedissensus.com/2017/06/15/easterine-kires-six-poems/
http://poetry.sangamhouse.org/2013/03/a-place-like-water-by-anjum-hasan/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHr4FIKIU6c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzCE2_LoAXg
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RECOMMENDED MOOC
NPTEL: Indian Fiction in English https://nptel.ac.in/courses/109106135/
TEDX TALKS
Indian Writing in English: Literary Texts – Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAMk6akP5I
Significance of Salman Rushdie’s The Midnight’s Children
https://www.ted.com/talks/iseult_gillespie_why_should_you_read_midnight_s_childre
n
Significance of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_wright_why_should_you_read_the_god_of_small_thi
ngs_by_arundhati_roy
Communicative English
UG First Year (First Semester) Syllabus
Unit I (20 hours)
1. Listening and Speaking
a. Introducing self and others
b. Listening for specific information
c. Pronunciation (without phonetic symbols)
i. Essentials of pronunciation
ii. American and British pronunciation
2. Reading and Writing
a. Reading short articles – newspaper reports / fact
based articles i. Skimming and scanning
ii. Diction and tone
iii. Identifying topic sentences
b. Reading aloud: Reading an article/report
c. Journal (Diary) Writing
3. Study Skills - 1
a. Using dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesaurus Grammar in Context:
Naming and Describing
• Nouns & Pronouns
• Adjectives
Unit II (20 hours)
1. Listening and Speaking
a. Listening with a purpose: b. Effective Listening:
c. Tonal Variation: d. Listening for information
e. Asking for Information f. Giving Information:
2. Reading and Writing
1. a Strategies of Reading:
Skimming and Scanning b. Types of Reading :
Extensive and Intensive Reading
c. Reading a prose passage d. Reading a poem
e. Reading a short story
2. Paragraphs: Structure and types
a. What is a Paragraph?
b. Paragraph structure c. Topic Sentence
d. Unity e. Coherence
f. Connections between Ideas: Using Transitional
words and expressions
g. Types of Paragraphs 3. Study Skills II:
Using the Internet as a Resource
a. Online search: b. Know the keyword:
c. Refine your search: d. Guidelines for using the Resources:
e. e-learning resources of Government of India f. Terms to know
4. Grammar in Context Involving Action-I
a. Verbs b. Concord
Unit III (16 hours)
1. Listening and Speaking
a. Giving and following instructions
b. Asking for and giving directions
c. Continuing discussions with connecting ideas
2. Reading and writing
a. Reading feature articles (from newspapers and magazines)
b. Reading to identify point of view and perspective (opinion pieces, editorials etc.)
c. Descriptive writing – writing a short descriptive essay of two
to three paragraphs. 3. Grammar in Context:
Involving Action – II • Verbals - Gerund, Participle, Infinitive • Modals
Unit IV (16 hours)
1. Listening and Speaking
a. Giving and responding to opinions
2. Reading and writing
a. Note taking
b. Narrative writing – writing narrative essays of two to three paragraphs
3. Grammar in Context:
Tense • Present
• Past
• Future
Unit V (18 hours)
1. Listening and Speaking
a. Participating in a Group Discussion
2. Reading and writing
a. Reading diagrammatic information – interpretations
maps, graphs and pie charts b. Writing short essays using the language of comparison and
contrast
3. Grammar in Context: Voice (showing the relationship
between Tense and Voice)
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CONTENTS
Unit Pages
Unit I (18 hours)
1. Listening and Speaking
a. Listening and responding to complaints (formal
situation)
b. Listening to problems and offering solutions
(informal)
2. Reading and writing
a. Reading aloud (brief motivational anecdotes)
b. Writing a paragraph on a proverbial
expression/motivational idea.
3. Word Power/Vocabulary
a. Synonyms & Antonyms
4. Grammar in Context
● Adverbs
Prepositions
Unit II (20 hours)
1. Listening and Speaking
a. Listening to famous speeches and poems
b. Making short speeches- Formal: welcome speech and vote of thanks.
Informal occasions- Farewell party, graduation
speech
2. Reading and Writing
a. Writing opinion pieces (could be on travel, food,
film / book reviews or on any contemporary topic)
b. Reading poetry
b.i. Reading aloud: (Intonation and Voice
Modulation)
b.ii. Identifying and using figures of speech -
simile, metaphor, personification etc.
3. Word Power
a. Idioms & Phrases
4. Grammar in Context
Conjunctions and Interjections
Unit III (18 hours)
1. Listening and Speaking
a. Listening to Ted talks
b. Making short presentations – Formal presentation
with PPT, analytical presentation of graphs and
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reports of multiple kinds
c. Interactions during and after the presentations
2. Reading and writing
a. Writing emails of complaint
b. Reading aloud famous speeches
3. Word Power
a. One Word Substitution
4. Grammar in Context: Sentence Patterns
Unit IV (16
hours)
1. Listening and Speaking
a. Participating in a meeting: face to face and online
b. Listening with courtesy and adding ideas and
giving opinions during the meeting and making
concluding remarks.
2. Reading and Writing
a. Reading visual texts – advertisements
b. Preparing first drafts of short assignments
3. Word Power
a. Denotation and Connotation
4. Grammar in Context: Sentence Types
Unit V
(18 hours)
1. Listening and Speaking
a. Informal interview for feature writing
b. Listening and responding to questions at a formal
interview
2. Reading and Writing
a. Writing letters of application
b. Readers’ Theatre (Script Reading)
c. Dramatizing everyday situations/social issues
through skits. (writing scripts and performing)
3. Word Power
a. Collocation
4. Grammar in Context: Working With Clauses
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