THIRD YEAR | 750 Marks (for Sessions 2011 – 2015)
| Course Code | Course Titles | Credits | Marks |
| E 301 | Classical Literature (in English Translation) | 4 | 100 |
| E 302 | Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama | 4 | 100 |
| E 303 | Victorian Literature | 4 | 100 |
| E 304 | 19th Century American Literature | 4 | 100 |
| E 305 | African and the Caribbean Literature in English | 4 | 100 |
| E 306 | Introduction to Applied Linguistics and ELT | 4 | 100 |
| E 307 | Professional Communications | 4 | 100 |
| Viva-Voce | 2 | 50 | |
| 30 | 750 |
E 301 Classical Literature (in English Translation)
4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
The objective of this course is to introduce students to the oriental and western classical literatures in English translation. Offering classics written originally in Greek, Latin, Persian and Sanskrit languages, the course aims to help students understand and study ancient literatures that have shaped the development of epic and drama in the later periods. Knowledge of the historical and literary ages concerned is required.
- Vyasa The Mahabharata (abridged version)
- Homer The Iliad
- Aeschylus Agamemnon
- Euripides Electra
- Virgil The Aeneid
- Firdausi The Shahnameh (selection)
E 302 Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course offers some of the great dramatic works of two of the most prolific literary ages in the history of English literature. Deeply infused with the spirit of the Renaissance, the plays cover diverse dramatic genres – tragedy, comedy, romance, and history plays – as well as incorporate values and spirit that have long shaped the development of English literature. In reading these seminal texts, both knowledge of the socio-political background of the relevant ages and politically-informed critical reading (for example, issues of race and gender) are required.
- Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus
- William Shakespeare Richard II, Macbeth, The Tempest
- Ben Jonson Volpone
- Webster The Duchess of Malfi
E 303 Victorian Literature
4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course accommodates some major works of seven major writers of the Victorian period. The poems and novels selected for critical reading provide glimpses of the vibrant and turbulent political and spiritual experiences of the age that saw immense development in urbanization, industrialization, colonization, women’s rights movements, and scientific discoveries.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson “Tithonus”, “Locksley Hall”, In Memoriam A. H. H. (selection)
- Charles Dickens Great Expectations
- Robert Browning “Porphyria’s Lover”, “My Last Duchess”, “Fra Lippo Lippi”, “Andrea Del Sarto”
- Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights
- Matthew Arnold “The Scholar Gypsy”, “Dover Beach”
- Thomas Hardy Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- Gerard Manley Hopkins “God’s Grandeur”, “The Windhover”, “Spring and Fall”
E 304 19th Century American Literature
4 Credits | 100 Marks (35 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course samples some major works of American literature in English produced in the 19th Century, a century that saw the emergence of writings of the Americans not as a part of ‘English’ literature but as ‘American.’ Accommodating writers as diverse as Emerson and Twain, the course includes poems, novels, essays, and slave narratives. Thorough knowledge of the political and cultural history of the USA is required.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nature,” “The American Scholar”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter
- Henry David Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”
- Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (selection)
- Walt Whitman Song of Myself
- Herman Melville Benito Cereno
- Emily Dickinson Poems 49, 67, 214, 280, 341, 465, 712, 754, 986, 1463, 1670, 1732.
- Samuel Langhorne Clemens
- (Mark Twain) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
E 305 African and Caribbean Literature in English
4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course introduces students to the rich variety of the African and Caribbean literature in English in the 20th century. Often read as ‘postcolonial’ writings, these poems and novels in English intend to accommodate complex and conflicting emotions and experiences triggered by the long experience of colonization. Appropriating the language of the ‘centre’ as well as western narrative mode and structure, these writings offer both critique of domination and creative resistance. Knowledge of the socio-political and cultural background of the modern day Africa and the Caribbean, the history of the European colonization, and anti-colonial resistance movements is required.
- Gabriel Okara “You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed,” “Suddenly the Air Cracks”, “The snowflakes sail gently down,” “The Mystic Drum”
- Nadine Gordimer July’s People
- Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
- Wole Soyinka The Road
- Ngugi wa Thiong’o Petals of Blood
- E K Brathwaite The Arrivants (“New World A-Comin’”, “Folkways”, “Bosompra“, “Homecoming”, “Negus”)
- Derek Walcott “A Far Cry from Africa”, “Ruins of a Great House”, Another Life (select sections), Omeros (select sections)
- V S Naipaul A House for Mr Biswas
Required Reading
- Edward Said “Orientalism Reconsidered”
- Chinua Achebe “The African Writer and the English Language”
- Stuart Hall “Cultural Identity and Diaspora”
Recommended Reading
- Ascroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin (eds.). The Post-colonial Studies Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.
- —. Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.
- —. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and practice in post-colonial literatures. 1989. London and New York: Routledge, 2003.
- Beier, Uli and Gerald Moore. 1986. The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry. Middlesex: Penguin.
- Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Brown, Stewart and Ian McDonald (sel.). 1992. The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry. Oxford: Heinemann.
- Childs, Peter and Patrick Williams. An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory. Essex: Longman-Pearson Education, 1997.
- Donnell, Alison and Sarah Lawson Welsh (eds.). The Routledge Reader in Caribbean Literature. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
- Gilbert, Helen and Joanne Tompkins. Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, practice, politics. London and New York: Routledge, 1996.
- King, Bruce (ed.). 1998. New National and Post-colonial Literatures: An Introduction. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.
- Nayar, Promod K. Postcolonial Literature: An Introduction. New Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2008.
- Thieme, John. Post-Colonial Studies: The Essential Glossary. London: Arnold, 2003.
E 306 Introduction to Applied Linguistics and ELT
4 Credits | 100 Marks (70 Final Examination+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
Applied linguistics is concerned with increasing understanding of the role of language in human affairs and thereby with providing the knowledge necessary for those who are responsible for taking language-related decisions whether the need for those arises in the classroom, the workplace, the law court, or the laboratory. The course is then designed to allow the students to develop both theoretical and empirical skills crucial to an understanding of language teaching and other language-related professional practices.
- Applied linguistics: definition and development
- Applied linguistics and human practices
- Applied linguistics and language education
- ELT: social and psychological factors
- ELT: syllabus design and materials development
- ELT: classroom teaching and learner strategies
- ELT: testing and washback
Recommended Reading
- Brown, H. D. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. London: Longman, 2000.
- Carter, R. and Nunan, D. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Cambridge: CUP, 2001.
- Cook, G. and North, S. (Eds.). Applied Linguistics in Action. New York: Routledge, 2010.
- Ellis, R. The Study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: OUP, 1994.
- Hunston, S. and Oakey, D. Introducing Applied Linguistics: Concepts and Skills. New York: Routledge, 2010.
- McDonough, S. Applied Linguistics in Language Education. New York: OUP, 2002.
- McNamara, T. Language Testing. Oxford: OUP, 2000.
- Richard, J. C. and Rodgers, T. S. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP, 2001.
- Schmitt, N. (Ed.). An Introduction to Applied Linguistics. New York: OUP, 2002.
- Wardhaugh, R. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
- Weir, C. J. Understanding and Developing Language Tests. London: Prentice Hall, 1993.
E 307 Professional Communications
4 Credits | 100 Marks (35 Final Examination+35 Practical+20 Tutorial+10 Attendance)
This course introduces students to the art and practice of professional communication. Accommodating business communication, media texts, and public speech, this course is intended to make students understand and demonstrate the use of basic and advanced writing techniques that today’s business demands, do presentations and interviews effectively, prepare successful reports, and make effective media texts.
BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
- Basics: nature and process of communication; communicating interculturally; communicating in team
- Styles and techniques: the you-viewpoint; positive language; courtesy; five steps of planning, etc.
- Letters: components of a letter; letter formats; cover letter; types of letter: inquiry, quotations, orders, and tenders; claim and adjustment; complaint; credit and collection; sales, etc.
- Memorandum
- Job application and interview: reading adverts; drafting job application; preparing CV/Resumé; types of Interview; strategies for success in interview; assessment criteria of job interview
- Meeting: writing notices, minutes, memos, etc.; conducting a meeting; taking part in a meeting; asking for clarification; interrupting; asking for suggestions; writing minutes
- Report: definition and purpose of a report; types of report; objectives of a report; format of a report; basic and subsidiary parts of a report; elements of a long formal report; abstract and executive summary; discussion of findings and analyses; research
- Proposal: purposes of writing proposal; classification; planning; preparing a proposal; finishing touches; reading effective proposals
MEDIA TEXTS
- Notes, Notice, Advertisement, etc.
- Writing book review
- Writing short feature report for newspaper
PUBLIC SPEAKING
- Multimedia presentation
- Social ritual speeches: announcement, welcome, award presentation, acceptance speech, etc.
- Informative speech
- Demonstrative speech
Recommended Reading
- P D Chaturvedi and Mukesh Chaturvedi. Business Communication: concepts, Cases and Applications.