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GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS)
KUMBAKONAM
Part III-B.A English- Course Structure under CBCS
(for the candidates to be admitted from the academic year 2008-2009 onward)
SEM COURSE
TITLE
INSTRUCTION
HOURS
CREDIT EXAM
HOURS
INT.
MARKS
EXT.
MARKS
MARKS
I
Part I-Language
Tamil 6 3 3 25 75 100
Part II-
Language
English
6 3 3 25 75 100
Part III-CC I-
Prose 5 4 3 25 75 100
Part III-CC II-
Fiction 3 - - - - -
Part III –AC I-
Social History
of England
4 3 3 25 75 100
Part III-AC II-
History of
English
Literature I
2 - - - - -
Part IV –Value
Based
Education-Yoga
2 2 3 25 75 100
Part IV-Skill
Based Course-
Functional
English-Spoken
English
2 2 3 25 75 100
Total 30 17 600
SEM COURSE TITLE INSTRUCTION
HOURS
CREDI
T
EXAM
HOURS
INT.
MARKS
EXT.
MARKS
MARKS
II
Part I-Language
Tamil 6 3 3 25 75 100
Part II-Language
English 6 3 3 25 75 100
Part III-CC II-
Fiction 2 4 3 25 75 100
Part III-CC III-
Poetry I 5 4 3 25 75 100
Part III –AC II-
History of
Literature I
3 3 3 25 75 100
Part III-AC III-
History of English
Literature II
4 4 3 25 75 100
Part IV-Skill
Based Course 2 2 3 25 75 100
Environmental
Studies 2 2 3 25 75 100
Total 30 25 800
GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS)
Part III-B.A English- Course Structure under CBCS
(for the candidates to be admitted from the academic year 2008-2009 onward)
Semester Course Title Instruction
Hours\Week
Credits Exam
Hrs
Int.
Mark
Ext.
Mark
Total
III
Part I Language-Tamil 6 3 3 25 72 100
Part II Language-English 6 3 3 25 75 100
Part III core Course-IV-
Drama 4 4 3 25 75 100
Part III Core Course-V
Poetry II 3 - - - - -
Part III Allied Course IV
Literary Forms 4 4 3 25 75 100
Part III Allied Course V
Principles of literary
Course Criticism
3 - - - - -
Part IV Skill Based Course 2 2 3 25 75 100
Part IV Non –Elective
Course 2 2 3 25 75 100
Total 30 18 600
IV
Part I Language- Tamil 6 3 3 25 75 100
Part II Language- English 6 3 3 25 75 100
Part III Core Course-V-
Poetry II 3 4 3 25 75 100
Part III Core Course-VI
Drama II-Modern 5 4 3 25 75 100
Part III Allied Course V
Principles of Literary
Criticism
2 3 3 25 75 100
Part III Allied Courses VI
Comparative Literature 4 3 3 25 75 100
Part IV Skill Based Course 2 2 3 25 75 100
Part IV Non-Major Elective
Course 2 2 3 25 75 100
Total 30 24 800
GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS) KUMBAKONAM
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
U.G – COURSE STRUCTURE UNDER CBCS (140 Credits)
(For the Candidates to be admitted from the academic year 2008-2011 onwards)
SEMESTER COURSE TITLE INST.
HOU
RS
CREDIT EXAM
HOUR
S
INT.
MAR
KS
EXT.
MARKS
TOTAL
MARKS
V CC – VII
SHAKESPEARE
5 5 3 25 75 100
CC – VIII INDIAN
WRITING IN
ENGLISH – I
5 5 3 25 75 100
CC – IX
AMERICAN
LITERATURE
5 5 3 25 75 100
CC – X INDIAN
WRITING IN
ENGLISH – II
5 5 3 25 75 100
EC – I
TRANSLATION:
THEORY &
PRACTICE
5 5 3 25 75 100
EC – II ENGLISH
LANG. TEACHING
3 - - - - -
SKILL BASED
COURSE
2 2 2 25 75 100
TOTAL 30 27 18 150 450 600
SEMESTER COURSE TITLE INST.
HOU
RS
CRE
DIT
EXAM
HOURS
INT.
MARKS
EXT.
MAR
KS
TOTAL
MARKS
VI CC- XI WOMEN’S
WRITING IN
ENGLISH
6 4 3 25 75 100
CC – XII COMMON
WEALTH LIT.
5 4 3 25 75 100
CCXIII CANADIAN
LITERATURE
5 4 3 25 75 100
CC – XIV
LANGUAGE &
LINGUISTICS
5 4 3 25 75 100
EC –II ENGLISH
LANG. TEACHING
2 5 3 25 75 100
EC – III
JOURNALISM
5 5 3 25 75 100
SKILL BASED
COURSE
2 2 3 25 75 100
TOTAL 30 28 21 175 525 700
GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS)
KUMBAKONAM RR1E1
Semester-I
Part –II English
Esays
1.Building Self – Confidence – Norman Vincent Peale
2. My Greatest Olymic Prize- Jesus Owens
3. Education of New India – C. Rajagopalachari
4. Examinations – Winston Churchill
5. Nehru – Some Memories – Arnold J. Toynbee
Stories
6. The Three hermits -= Count Leo Tolstoy
7. The Land Where There were No Old Men – Jean Ire
8.The Diamond Necklace – Gue de Maupassant
9. The Lost Child _ Mulk Raj Anand
PART III
CORE COURSE I
PROSE
Instruction Hours:5 Credits:4
Units I,II,III : Sesame and Lilies - John Ruskin
Unit IV: Essays of Orwell (ed) M.G.Nayar (Macmillan)
a) Propaganda and Demotic Speech
b) The eBookshop Memories
c) Why I Write
Unit V: selections from E.M. Froster (ed) R.Krishnamoorthy (Macmillan)
a) Notes on the English Character
b) My Wood
c) A Book that Influenced Me
PART III
ALLIED COURSE I
SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND
Instruction Hours:4 Credits:3
Unit I
Medieval England
Tudor England – The Renaissance & The Reformation
Age of the Stuarts-The Civil war
Unit II
Restoration England
The age of Queen Anne
The Agrarian Revolution
Unit III
The Industrial Revolution
The Effect of French Revolution
The War of American Independence
Unit IV
Methodist Movement
Humanitarian Movements
The Reform Bills
Unit V
The age of Queen Victoria
The Twentieth Century England
Books for Reference:
A.G.Xavier : Introduction to the Social History of England.
Part III
Core Course II
Fiction
Instruction Hours: 5 Credits: 4
The following Stories from Stories of Yesterday and Today (ed) A.E Augustine
(Blackie) (from units 5-10)
Unit I: The Best Investment I Ever Made –A.J.Cronin.
Heaven in Your Hand- North Lofts.
Unit II: Princess September- Somerset Maugham
A Horseman in the Sky – Ambrose Bierce.
Unit III: The Cop and the Anthem – O.Henry
An Astrologer’s Day- R.k.Narayan.
Unit IV: The Vicar Of Wakefield- Oliver Goldsmith
Unit V: A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Semester-II RR2E2
Part –II English
Essays
1. Good Manners – J.C . Hill
2. My London Days – Mahatma Gandhi
3. The Secret of work – Swami Vevekanandha
4.What I Cherish Mosat – V.S srinivasa Sastri
5. Give us a role Model – A.P.J kalam
Stories
6. The Gift of Magi – O’ Henry
7. The model Millionaire – Oscar Wilde
8. The Face of Judas Isxariot – Bonnie Charnerlain
9. A devoted son – Anita Desai
10. My Lost dollar – Stephen Leacock
Part III- B.A. English
Semester II
Core Course II- Poetry-I
The following selection from The Mystic Drums(ed. Vilas Salunke et.al Orient
Longman)
Unit I: Edmund Spenser : One Day I wrote her Name
W.Shakespeare : Poor Soul, The Center
(Sonnet No.146)
John Milton : On his Bilndness
Unit II:
John Donne : The Sunne Rising.
George Herbert : Easter Wings.
Andrew Marvell : To His Coy Misrtress.
Unit III: William Blade : London
Wordsworth : A Slumber did my Spirit seal.
Unit IV: S.T.Coleridge : Kubla Khan
Lord Byron : She Walks in Beauty.
Unit V:
P.B.Shelley : Ode to the West Wind.
John Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn.
PART III
ALLIED COURSE II
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE-I
Instruction Hours:5 Credits:3
The scope as indicated in Hudson: An Outline History of English Literature (BI
Publications)
Unit I : Chapter II & III- The Age of Chaucer
Unit II : Chapters IV & V- Development of Drama
Unit III : Chapter VI,VII & VIII –The Age of Shakespeare
Unit IV : Chapter IX & X –The Age of Milton.
Unit V : Chapter XI & XII –The Age of Dryden.
PART III
ALLIED COURSE III
HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE-II
Instruction Hours:5 Credits:3
Book Referred Hudson: An Outline History of English Literature .
Unit I : Chapter XIII & XIV- The Age of Pope.
Unit II : Chapters XV & XVII- The Age of Johnson
Unit III : Chapter XVIII,XIX The Age of Wordsworth.
Unit IV : Chapter XXII-XXIV –The Age of Tennyson.
Unit V : Chapter XXV-XXVI-XXVII –The Age of Hardy &
The Present Age..
GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, KUMBAKONAM.
Semester –III Part II English
PAPERD III: POETRY AND DRAMA FOR COMMUNICATION
DEPARTMENT SELECTIONS
POETRY
1. Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali (XXXV & XXXVI)
2. Earl & Surrey: Description of Spring
3. Robert Herrick: To Daffodils
4. Alexander Pope: The Universal Truth
5. Wordsworth: The World is too Much with Us
6. Thomas Campbell: The Mariners of England
7. John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn
8. W.H. Davies: Leisure
9. John Masefield: Sea Fever
10. Felica Dorothea Hemans: Casabianca
EXTERSIVE READING
11. Oliver Goldsmith: Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
12. W.B. Yeats: The Ballad of Father Gilligan
DRAMA
One –Act Plays
1. Norman Mckinnel: The Bishop’s Candlesticks
2. Josephine Niggli: Sunday Costs Five Pesos
3. Cedric Mount: The Never –Never Nest
Question paper pattern
Semester III
Paper III: POETRY AND DRAMA FOR COMMUNICATION
Time:3hrs Max marks: 75
Section –A (30 Marks)
POETRY
1.True or False (3X1=3)
2. Choose the best answer (4X1=4)
3. Fill in the banks (4X1=4)
4. Choose any 2 of the following passages and answer the questions given below
(2 out of 4) (2X2=4)
5. Paragraph (1X5=5)
Either……or……. type question
6. Essay (1X10=10)
Either ……or……. type question
Section B (30 Marks )
DRAMA
1. True or False (3X1=3)
2. Choose the best answer (4X1=4)
3. Fill in the Blanks (4X1=4)
4.Choose any 2 of the following passages and answer the question given below
(2 out of 4) (2 X 2=4)
5. Paragraph (1X5=5)
Either …or… Type question
6. Essay ( 1X10=10)
Either … or … Type question
Section C( 15 marks)
COMMUNICATION
1. Comprehension from Extensive Reading – poetry ( 5X1= 5)
2. Dialogue and Report Writing (1X4=4)
3.Dialogue Writing (1X4= 4)
4. Sending SMS (1X2=2)
CORE COURSE –IV : DRAMA-I
ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA
Unit I- Christopher Marlowe : Dr.Faustus
Unit II – Thomas Dekkar : The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Unit III – Ben Johnson : Everyman in His Humour
Unit IV – John Webster : The Duchess of Malif
Unit V- Philip Massinger : A New Way to Pay Old Debts
AC IV –Literary Forms
The Scope of study of the paper will be restricted to knowledge of the topic
mentioned below:
Unit I: POETRY- Nature and Elements of poetry – Definitions
Classifications of Poetry- Subjective- Objective.
Unit II: The Ode, The Lyric, The Sonnet, The Elegy , The Epic, The
Ballad.
Unit III: PROSE- The Essay, Short Story , Biography, Autobiography.
Unit IV: DRAMA – Elements of Drama, Tragedy, Comedy, One –Act Play,
Tragi-Comedy The Masque, Farce.
Unit: FICTION – Elements of Fiction- Historical Novel, Picaresque
Novel, Detective Fiction , and Science Fiction.
Books and References:
1.W.H. Hudson: Introduction to the Study of English.
2. R.J. Rees: An Introduction to English Literature for Foreign Students.
3. Prasad: A Background to the study of English Literature.
4. Ramachandra Nair: Literary Forms
GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN(AUTONOMOUS)
KUMBAKONAM
Semester- IV Part II English
Paper IV: ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
Text Prescribed:
1. ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
Edited by Dr.V.Ayothi & Dr.R.Vedavalli
Published by New Century Book House(p) Ltd., Chennai. Price-Rs.70/-
The following selection are prescribed:
1. Basics in English Grammar
2. Error Correction
3. Vocabulary Enrichment
4. Synonyms & Antonyms
5. One word Substitution
6. Words Often confused and Misused
7. Idioms & Phrases
8. Vocabulary- Miscellaneous
9. Comprehension
10. Precis writing
11. Letter Writing
12. Reporting
13. Essay
14. Group Discussion and Interviews
Question Paper Pattern
Semester IV
Paper IV : ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
Time: 3hrs. Marks:75
Section-A (30 Marks)
1. Basics in English Grammar and Usage- 10 marks
2. Error Correction -5 marks
3. Vocabulary Enrichment-2marks
4. Synonyms&Antonyms-5 marks
5. One word Substitution-5 marks
6. Words Often confused and Misused -3 marks
Section-B (20 Marks)
7. Idioms & Phrases– 5 marks
8. Vocabulary – Miscellaneous – marks
9. Comprehension – 5 marks
10. Precis Writing – 5 marks
Section-C (25 Marks)
11. Letter Writing – 5 marks
12. Reporting – 5 marks
13. Essay – 10 marks
14. Group Discussion and Interviews - 5 marks
CORE COURSE V POETRY II
Units I & II: Milton : Paradise Lost –Book I
Units III: Tennyson : Break, Break , Break
R. Browning : My Last Duchess.
Thomas Hardy: Neutral Tone.
Units IV: Wilfred Owen : Futility
G.M. Hopkins : Springs and Fall
W.B. Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium
Unit V: T.S. Eliot : Journey of the Magi
Dylan Thomas:Do not go Gentle into the
Night.
John Hollander: Swan and Shadow.
Poetical Selections are found in the mystic Drum (ed) Vilas Salunke et.al
(Longman)
CORE COURSE V I:DRAMA-II
MODERN DRAMA
Unit I - Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
UnitII - George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man
Unit III - John Galsworthy : The Silver Box
Unit IV - T.S.Eliot : Murder in the Cathedrals
Unit V - Harold Printer : The Birthday Party
Allied Course V
Principle of Literary Criticism
Unit I. Critical/ Literary Terms
1. Irony
2. Paradox
3. Metaphor
4. Metonymy
5. Ambiguity
6. Chorus
7. Stream of Consciousness
8. Soliloquy
9. Dramatic Monologue
10. Sprung Rhythm
11. Metaphysical Poetry
12. Pre- Raphaelites
Unit II & III Traditional Criticism
II. 1.Biographical Criticism
2.Historical Criticism
II 1.Moralistic Criticism
2.Philosophical Criticism
Unit IV & V New Criticism/ Formalistic Criticism
III. 1.Theory of Allen Tate and Cleanth Brooks
2. Warren : Literary Theory, Criticism and History
IV. 1.Phychological Approach to Literature
2. Marxist approach to Literature
Part III Allied Course VI : Comparative Literature
Unit I:
Definition and Scope – National Literature, Comparative Literature –
General Literature – World Literature
Unit II:
The French and American School of Comparative Literature.
Unit III:
Influence and Imitation – Periodization – Epoch , School, Movement
Unit IV:
Genre Studies, Thematology.
Unit V:
Literature and Others Disciplines,Literature and Other Arts.
Books for Reference:-
Ulrich Weisstein : Comparative Literature and other
Arts
Wellek & Warren : Theory of Literature(part II)
S.S Prawar : Comparative Literature
Core Course VII – Shakespeare
Unit I : Two Gentlemen of Verona
Unit II : As you like It
Unit III : King Lear
Unit IV : Julius Caesar
Unit V : The Tempest
Core Course VIII Indian Writing in English – I
Unit I: Nissim Ezekiel :Good – bye Party for Miss pushpa T.S.
Jayantha Mahapatra :An Old Woman
Gieve Patel :Forensic Medicine
Unit II: Adil Jussawala :Sea Breeze, Bombay
Dilip Chitre :Father Returning Home
Kamala Das :The Old Play House
Unit III: Girish Karnad :Hayavadhana
Unit IV: J. Nehru :Freedom and Licence
Radhakrishnan :The world Community
Unit V: R.K. Narayan :The Guide
The Poetical Selections are found in The Mustic Drum(ed) Vilas Salunke(Longman)
Core Course IX – American Literature
Unit I:
Walt Whitman : A Noiseless Patient Spider
Emily Dickinson : After Great Pain, a formal feeling comes
EA Robinson : Richard Cory
Robert Frost : Mending Wall
Unit II:
Wallace Stevens : The Emperor of Icecream
Ezra Pound : In a Station of the Metro
William Carlos Williams : The Red Wheelbarrow
E.E Cummings : What If a much of a which of a wind
Sylvia Plath : Daddy
Unit III:
Martin Luther King : I have a Dream
Robert Frost : The Figure a Poem Makes
Unit IV:
T. Williams : A Street Car Named Desire
Unit V:
Ernest Hemingway : The Old man and the Sea
John Steinbeck : The Grapes of Wrath
Poetical Selection are found in The Mystic Drum(ed) Vilas Salunke et. Al (Longman)
Core Course X – Indian Writing in English – II
Unit I:
A.K.Ramanujan : A River
R. Parthasarathy : Under Another Sky
Mamta Kalia : Tribute to Papa
Eunice de Souza : Bequest
Unit II:
Vijay Tendulkar : Silence! The Court is in Session
Unit III:
Shashi Deshpande : My Beloved Charioteer(from Instrusion and other
Stories)
Arun Joshi : The Boy with the Flute
Unit IV:
Khushwant Singh : Train to Pakistan
Unit V:
Anita Desai : Cry, the Peacock
Reference books
Contemporary Indian Poetry in English – An Assessment and Selection – Edited by Saleem
Peeradina
Nine Indian Women Poets – An Anthology – Edited by Eunice de Souza
Contemporary Indian Short Stories in English – Edited by Shiv K. Kumar
Elective Course – I Translation:Theory & Practice
Unit I:
Translation – Definition – Types – Principles of Translation- Decoding and Recoding –
Problems of Equivalence- Untranslatability.
Unit II:
History of Translation Theory- Period Study – The Romans – Bible Translation – Early
Theorists – The Renaissance – 17th century 18th century – Romanticism – Victorians – 20th
century.
Unit III:
Problems of Literary Translation – Structures – Poetry & Translation – Translating Prose
– Translating Dramatic Texts.
Unit IV & V
Translation Practice – Students will be trained to translate literary and articles of common
interest both from English to Regional Language & Vice Versa.
Books for Reference:
1. Susan Bassnett- MC Guire – Translation Studies(Methuene)
2. J.C. Catford – A Linguistic Theory of Translation(OUP)
3. Savoury Theodore – The Art of Translation
Elective Course – II English Language Teaching
Unit I:
Issues involved in Teaching of English – Explanation of curriculum, syllabus,
course, methods, approaches, techniques, Teaching English as a second Language.
Unit II:
Teaching of Pronunciation, Reading and Writing Skills – Teaching of
Composition.
Unit III:
Teaching of Grammar, Vocabulary, Teaching of Poetry, Prose.
Unit IV:
Testing Characteristics – Types of Questions.
Unit V:
Use of Audio- Visual Aids in Language Teaching.
Books for References:
1. Introduction to English Language Teaching(CIEFL(OUP)),Ghosh, Sastri,
Das.
2. Bright, MC Gregor, Teaching English as a Second Language
3. Paul Verghese – Teaching English as a Second Language.
CORE COURSE – XI WOMEN’S WRITING IN ENGLISH
UNIT I:
Margaret Atwood - Circle Game
Kamala Das - Freaks
Jenny Lins - Wonder Woman
UNIT II:
Shashi Deshpande - Writing from the Margins- Masks & Disguises
Elaine Showalter - Towards a Feminist Poetics
UNIT III:
Dorris Lessing - England vs England
Nadine Godimer - A Correspondence Course
Bharathi Mukerjee - Wife’s Story
UNIT IV:
Toni Morisson - Beloved
Pearl S. Buck - Letter from Peking
UNIT V:
Anita Nair - The Ladies Coupe
Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel
CORE COURSE XII – COMMON WEALTH LITERATURE
UNIT I:
A.D.Hope - Australia
Margaret Atwood - Journey to the interior
A.M. Klein - Portrait of my mother
UNIT II:
J.P.Clark - The Casualties
Roy Lampbell - Poets in Africa
Derel Walcott - A Far cry from Africa
UNIT III:
Margaret Atwood - The Sin Eater
Joyce Marshal - The Old Woman
UNIT IV:
Wole Soyinka - The Lion and the jewel
UNIT V:
Chinna Achebe - Things Fall Apart Margaret Atwood - Surfacing
SECOND ALLIED COURSE XIII CANADIAN LITERATURE
UNIT I:
Poetry
F.R.Scott : The Canadian Authors Meet
UNIT II:
Short Stories
Collection : Margaret Atwood & Robert Weaver
1.Sinclair Ross: The Lamp at Noon
2. Margaret Lawrence
UNIT III:
George Ryga : The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
UNIT IV:
Sheila Watson : The Double Hook
UNIT V:
Margaret Atwood : The Edible Woman
Core Course XIV-Language & Linguistics
UNIT I& II:
1. Organs of Speech
2. The Consonants of English
3. The Vowels of English
4. Word Groups, Strong and Weak Forms, Stress and Intonation,
Transcription J.D. O’Connor : Better English
Pronunciation(OUP)
UNIT III.IV,V:
General Linguistics
The Following Chapters from the Study of Language by George Yule(OUP)
UNIT III:
1. The Origins of Language
2. The Development of Writing
3. The Properties of Language
4. Words and Word – Formation Process.
UNIT IV:
5. Morphology
6. Phrases & Sentences:Grammar
7. Syntax
8. Semantics
UNIT V:
9. Language and Machines
10. Language. History, Change
11. Language Varieties
12. Language, Society & Culture
Elective Course – III Journalism
UNIT I:
Definition of Journalism – Role of Journalism – Ethics – Press Laws – Press Council.
UNIT II:
News – Definition – Kinds – Elements – Sources – News Agencies.
UNIT III:
Reporting-Quality of Reporters- Beats – Kinds of Reporting with special reference to
court, crime, election, sports-Investigative- Reporting.
UNIT IV:
Editing- News Editor-Sub Editor-Anatomy of Editing.
UNIT V:
Language of Journalism –Writing a News story-Writing opinion pieces- Writing leads –
Headlines.
Books for References:
1. Parthasarathy, R.Basic Journalism(Macmillan)
2. Metha, D.S.Mass Communication and Journalism in India(Allied)
3. Ramachandran Rao, Quest for News(Macmillan)
4. Sethil, Pathanjali, Professional Journalism(Longman)