Tribhuvan_Uhiv_ersity Humanit,ies ah`d Social`'Sciences BA` `wiaj,or English Syllabus 2019 Major English courses for the four-year BA in English aim at developing studellts' foundatioiial knowledge of English literatui.e, critical tradition, ancl iiiterpretive practices. Tliese courses will help inculcate in them a spirit of iiiquiry, critical thinking, and a taste for appreciating literature, besides improviiig their communicative, analytical, research, and writiiig skills. The syllabus, by thus consolidating and strengthening the base, looks forward to tlie specialized study of literature at the Master' s and levels thereafter. Objectives The syllabiis, which incorporates current global trends in English Studies while remaining attentive to the iiational/ local needs, envisages tlle followiiig broad objectives or outcomes. Upon the completion of BA Major English courses, students will be able- • to provide a broad understanding of English literature, including the heuristics for reading and writing critically about it, • to embrace and appreciate the core humanistic values~integrjty, empathy, and respect to differences, • to comprehend and appreciate ]iteratures belonging to differeiit cultural and natioiial traditions, • to acquire necessary I+nowledge and skills to undeilake serious litei.ary and cultural stuclies independently, • to recognize the historical formation of ideas, traditions, aiid social practices, • to analyze and understand an issue from multiple perspectives, and • to develop competency in researching, communicating, and problem-solving nligibility To be eligible for admission to four-year BA Major English, students will have completed aiid I.eceived a higher secondary certificate ( 10-puls 2) or equivalent degree in any discipline or stream from any institution recognized by Tribhuvan University. Structure of the Courses Tlie four-year Major English programme at Tribhuvan University consists of seven papers and one elective course (optional elective for non-English majors). Paper Code No. Title ____F_u_lTi I ENG 421 Reading, Writing, and Thinking I ____._I_I_ __i_N_GTZ History of. Literature and Critical I tradition Ill Literature from Early Modern to I Modern Period IV F,NG 423 Romantic and Victorian 1 Literature V E~NTF424 Moderli and Postinodem I A Literatui.e 11 Marks Teaching Hours loo 150 _To.a______ -`_______-1So _Tb_6 150 Too 150 I()0 150 \i.rfu,,`` \`p.9,` -Tf orif I; I,\ \ a-`.i,,, -1a I:.;''ij;-+" `..i ,_,,.i:,;`
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Major English courses for the four-year BA in English aim at developing studellts' foundatioiialknowledge of English literatui.e, critical tradition, ancl iiiterpretive practices. Tliese courses will helpinculcate in them a spirit of iiiquiry, critical thinking, and a taste for appreciating literature, besidesimproviiig their communicative, analytical, research, and writiiig skills. The syllabus, by thusconsolidating and strengthening the base, looks forward to tlie specialized study of literature at theMaster' s and levels thereafter.
ObjectivesThe syllabiis, which incorporates current global trends in English Studies while remaining attentive to theiiational/ local needs, envisages tlle followiiig broad objectives or outcomes. Upon the completion of BAMajor English courses, students will be able-
• to provide a broad understanding of English literature, including the heuristics for reading andwriting critically about it,
• to embrace and appreciate the core humanistic values~integrjty, empathy, and respect todifferences,
• to comprehend and appreciate ]iteratures belonging to differeiit cultural and natioiial traditions,• to acquire necessary I+nowledge and skills to undeilake serious litei.ary and cultural stuclies
independently,• to recognize the historical formation of ideas, traditions, aiid social practices,• to analyze and understand an issue from multiple perspectives, and• to develop competency in researching, communicating, and problem-solving
nligibilityTo be eligible for admission to four-year BA Major English, students will have completed aiid I.eceived ahigher secondary certificate ( 10-puls 2) or equivalent degree in any discipline or stream from anyinstitution recognized by Tribhuvan University.
Structure of the CoursesTlie four-year Major English programme at Tribhuvan University consists of seven papers and oneelective course (optional elective for non-English majors).
Paper Code No. Title____F_u_lTi
I ENG 421 Reading, Writing, and Thinking I
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traditionIll Literature from Early Modern to I
Modern PeriodIV F,NG 423 Romantic and Victorian 1
LiteratureV E~NTF424 Moderli and Postinodem I
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ENG 410 Professional Communicati(
(elective)~E-NG 425Researching and Writing
ENG 426 World Literature in Englisr
Evaluation SchemeEach course carries 100 full marks. Students have to score at least 40 marks to pass the course. Of thetotal 100 marks, 30 marks will be based on continuous/ internal evaluation and rest of the 70 marks willbe awarded based on the students' performance in the final examination taken at the end of the academicyear. Students must pass both internal and fmal examinatioiis. However, ENG 425 has a practicumcomponent (part of internal evaluation) that carries 50% course weight.
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Paper: ILevel: BA Major EnglishYear: FirstCourse Title: Reading, Writing, and ThinldngCourse Code: ENG 421
Course DescriptionThis course concentrates on tlie major elements of literature and provides practical guidelines on readingclosely and writing analytically. While the first two units give an exclusive coverage of the genres with ademonstration of the skills needed for a successful reading of and writing about literature with criticalthinking, the last two units incorporate some of the well-known topics with wide-ranging tools to helpentry level students respond critically to literature at the college level.
Course ContentsUnit 1 : Study of Literature and Its Close Reading Contact hours.: 40
• Thinking about LiteratureI. Discussed Text: "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant" (Emily Dickinson)2. Discussed Text: "The sacred" (Stephen Dunn)3. Activity Text: "When my love swears that she is made of trLith" (William Shakespeare)
• Why study Literature?4. Discussed Text: "Praise Song for the Day" (Elizabeth Alexander)5. Discussed Text: "Peanuts" (Charles schulz)
• CloseReading8. Discussed Text: from A4j;4#/o7".cz (Willa cather)9. Activity Text: "To an Athlete Dying Young" (A. E. Housman)
• Elementsofstyle10. Activity Text: Re-reading "To an Athlete Dying Young" (A. E. Housman)11. Discussed Text: from "Old Mr. Marblehall" (Eudora Welty)12. Activity Text: from 77?e Greczf Gc}fLsdy (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• Special Considerations for Reading poetry closely13. Discussed Text: from "The Red Wheelbarrow" (William Carlos Williams)I 4. Activity Text: "Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art-"(John Keats)
` 15. Discussed Text: "Delight in Disorder" (Robert Herrick)16. Activity Text: "My Father's Song" (Simon Ortiz)
• TalkingwiththeText17. Activity Text: "Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken" (Christina Georgina Rossetti)18. Discussed Text: "When, in disgrace with Fortune and iiien's eyes" (William Shakespeare)
Unit 2: Elements of Fiction & Drama• Elements of`Fiction
Contact hours.: 40
24. Discussed Text: "One of These Days" (Gabriel Garcia MarqLiez)25. Discussed Text: from Pr;.cJe cz7?c7 P7.c}/.tzc7z.ce (Jane Austen)26. Activity Text: from fJczrcJ rz.773es (Charles Dickeiis)27. Discussed Text: from "The Masque of the Red Death" (Edgar Allan Poe)28. Discussed Text: from 77!e' G7'czpes o/Wr¢/fe (John Steinbeck)29. Discussed Text: from "Call it Sleep"(Henry Roth)30. Discussed Text: froin /984(George Orwell)31. Activity Text: from Tess o/ffee D 'Urbervz.//es (Thomas Hal.dy)32. Discussed Text: from Zlfee Beczc4/I/w/ 7'fez.#gr 777czf fJeczve# Beczrs (Dinaw Mengestu)33. Discussed Text: from 772e 4c7i;e#f#rcb' o/fJ„c4/eberr)/ FTz.77# (Mark Twain)34. Discussed Text: from "Miss Brill"(Katherine Mansfield)35. Discussed Text: from "The Lottery"(Shirley Jackson)36. Discussed Text: from A4lrs. Dcz//owcz)/ (Virginia Woolf)37. Activity Text: "Seeing Eye"(Brad Watson)38. Discussed Text: from j4 C7.j.%e j# ffoe Ivez.gfoz)o7`7jtJod (Suzanne Berne)39. Discussed Text: from Frcj7?ke7cs/ez.;? (Mary Shelley)40. Activity Text: from Brook/y7? (Colm T6ibill)41. Discussed Text: "The First Day"(Edward P. Joiies)42. Activity Text: "Girl"(Jamaica Kincaid)
• Special considerations for Analyzing Drama
43. Discussed Text: from Pyg77'2cz/z.o7c (George Bernard Shaw)44. Discussed Text: from O/fee//o, /7!e A4oor o/ye77z.ce (William Shakespeare)45. Discussed Text: from 4 Do// 's fro"se (Henrik Ibsen)46. Activity Text: from 4 Jicw.sz.77 z.# /72e LS'}f7? (Lorraiiie Hansberi.y)
47. Discussed Text: from 2lfoe' Gz.7? Gcz"e (D. L. Coburn)48. Activity Text: 4#c7re 's A4o/foer (Terrence MCNally)
• From Analysis to Essay: Writing an lnterpretive Essay49. Discussed Text: rrz./res(Susan Glaspell)
Unit 3 General Topics in Literature: Family, Culture and Love• Home&Family
50. Activity Text: "The Dead"(James Joyce)i 5] . Activity Text: "I Stand Ilere Ironing" (Tillie Olsen)
52. Activity Text: "A Prayer for My Daughter" (William Biitlei. Yeats)53. Activity Text: "My Papa's Waltz" (Theodore Roethke)54. Activity Text: "Those Winter Sundays" (Robert Hayden)
• Home & Family-Student writing: Comparison and contrast• The writer's craft llose Reading (Connotation)• Identity &Culture
55. Activity Text: f7ec7r/ o/Dcz7`haess (Joseph Conrad)56. Activity Text: "Interpreter of Maladies"(Jliumpa Laliiri)57. Activity Text: "We Real Cool" (Gwendolyn Brooks)58. Activity Text: "The White Man's Burden" (Rudyard Kipling)59. Activity Text: "The Black Man's Burden" (H. T. Johnson)
• Home & Family-Student writing: Close Reading Fiction
Contact hours.: 40
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• The writer's craft -Close Reading (Specialized, Archaic, and unfamiliar Diction)
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60. Activ.rty Texl.. The Imp()rtance Of Being Ernest (Oscar W.llde)61. Activity Text: "To His Coy Mistress" (Andrew Marvell)62. Activity Text: "Coy Mistress" (Aline Finch)63. Activity Text: "Is Arranged Marriage Really Any Worse than Craiglist?" (Anita Jain)64. Activity Text: "Boyfriend" (Randall Munroe)
• Love & Relationships~Student writing: Analyzing Irony in Drama
• The writer's craft llose Reading (Irony)
Unit 4: Binary Topics in Literature• Conformity& Rebellion
Contact hours: 40
65. Activity Text: fJcz77?/e/ (William Shakespeare)66. Activity Text: "The Book of the Dead"(Edwidge Danticat)67. Activity Text: "anyone lived in a pretty how town" (E. E. Cummings)68. Activity Text: "An Epitaph" (Matthew Prior)69. Activity Text: "The Unknown Citizen" (W. H. Auden)
Ja,go, Ca;r\, et al. Literature and Composition: Reading, Writing, Thinking. Boston.. Bedford/St.Mailin's, 2011. \
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Paper: 11Level: BA Major HnglishYear: FirstCourse Title: History of English Literature and criticismCourse code: ENG 422
Course DescriptionThis course covers the key developments in the history of British literature and the history of literarycriticism. It emphasizes the growth of F,ng]ish literature, its traditions, conventions and changingcharacteristics, and includes an overview of the major movements in its literary critical tradition. Thecourse is divided into two segmeiits. The first deals with the history of English literature. In this segment,students wil] be introduced to the differeiit time periods of English lite].atiire, their fundamental concerns,representative writers of those times, and the nature of creative writing. The second segment willfamiliarize students with the art of criticism from the ancient classical world to the twentieth century. Thisengagement with the ideas and beliefs, essential for critiquing a piece of literary text, will improve theirskill for literary appreciation.
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Unit I: Old English Literature to Renaissance and Restoration Drama Contact hours: 30Old English Literature
Beowulf"The Seafarer and the Wanderer"
Battle Poems and "The Dream of the Rood"Old English Language
Middle English LiteratureNorman Conquest to Chaucer
Julian Of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Sz.r Gczwczz.# cz#c7 /fee G7`ee7? K7?z.gfo/Geoffrey Chaucer, William Dunbar, Robert HenrysonWjmam Langland, Medieval Drama, Thomas Malory
Sixteenth-Century Poetry and ProseSir Thomas WyattSixteenth-Century Prose and the ReformationThe Sonhet: Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeai.eEdmund spenser r,
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ShakespeareShakespeare in ContextShakespeare's Comedies and HistoriesShakespeare's TragediesShakespeare's Late Plays
Renaissance and Restoration DramaRenaissance Drama and Christopher MarloweElizabethan and Jacobean Revenge TragedyBen Jonson and the MasqueRestoration Drama
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Unit 2: Seventeenth-century Poetry and Prose to the Romantic Period Contact hours: 30
Seventeenth-Century Poetry and ProseJohn DonneBen Jonson to John Buiiyan and Aiidrew MarvellJohn MiltonJohn Dryden
The Eighteenth CenturyAlexander PopeThe Augustan AgeEdward Gibbon and Samuel JohnsonSensibility
The Novel: The First Hundred YearsDaniel DefoeAphra Behn, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Lawrence Steme, Tobias SmollettEliza Haywood to Mary ShellyWalter Scott and Jane Austen
The Romantic PeriodThe Age of RevolutionWilliam Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelly, John KeatsRadical Voices
Unit 3: Victorian Literature to the Twentieth CenturyVictorian Literature: 1837-1857
Charles DickensCharlotte and Emily BronteWilliam Makepeace Thackeray, Elizabeth GaskellAlfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, El izabeth Barrett Browning
Contact hours: 3 0
Victorian Literature: 1857-1876Victorian ThinkersGeorge EliotWilkie Collins and the Sensation NovelAnthony Trollope, Christina Rossetti
Victorian Literature: 1876-1901Thomas HardyGeorge Gissing, George Moore, Samuel Butler, Henry James, Robert Louis StevensonRudyard KiplingGeorge Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Late Victorian Poetry
'The Twentieth Century: The Early Years
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Joseph ConradArnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, E. M. Foster, Katherine MansfieldD. 11. LawrenceGeoi.gian Poetry, War Poetry, W. 8. Yeats
The Twentieth Century: Between The Wclr`sT. S. EliotJames JoyceVirginia WoolfThe 1930s
The Twentieth Century: The Second World War to theEnd Of the Millennium
Wartime and Post-war BritainDramaNovelsPoetry
PostscriptThe Twenty-First Century
HISTORY 0F LITHRARY CRITICISM
Unit 4: Classical to the Seventeenth CenturyThe Classical Age
TheRenaissanceThe Complete Man: Elyot, AschamThe Art of poetry: Gascoigne, James Vl, Puttenham, WebbeThe Defence of poetry: Gosson, Lodge, Sidney, Harington
` The seventeenth c en[ury
The Gentleman and the Christian: Peach, Drayton, Reynolds, MiltonThe Debate about Drama: Flecknoe, Howard, Shadwell
Contact hours: 30
John DrydenThe Ancients and the Moderns: Temple, WottonThe Moral Debate: Mulgrave, Wolseley, Blaclunore, Collier, Vanbrugh, Congreve
Unit 5: Eighteenth to the Twentietli Century
The Eighteenth Century
Joseph AddisonThe Battle of the Books: Swift, FarquharA|exanderpopeandhisvi#iF=S7
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Contact hours: 30
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The Romantic AgeWi] liam WordsworthSamuel Taylor ColeridgeRomanticism at Bay: Peacock, Shelley, Blake, Keats
The Victorian AgeMathew AmoldAestheticism: Pater, Swiiiburne, Wilde
The Twentieth CenturyThe Modemist Movement: Yeats, Hulme, Pound, FordBloomsbury and Eastwood: Woolf, Forster, Lawrence, MurrayT. S. Eliot
Cambridge Influences: Richards, Empson, Leavis
Evaluation Scheme
Internal: 30%External: 70%
Prescribed texts:Blamires, Harry. f7z.s/ory o/£z./cyczry C'7.;tz.cz.s777. London: Palgrave, 1991.Peck, John and Martin Coyle.fJz.s/or}; c2/E72g/;.s¢ £z./erc}/#re.New York: Palgrave, 2002.