GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS)

KUMBAKONAM

UG ( 140 CREDITS) 2012 – 2013

Part Course

Total No. Papers Hours Credit Mark

I Tamil

4 24 12 400

II English

4 24 12 400

III Core Course

13 72 60 1300

III Allied Course

6 29 20 600

III Major Based Elective course 3 16 14 300

IV Skill Based EC

3 6 12 300

IV Non Major Elective Based Course 2 4 4 200

IV Value Based Education 1 2 2 100

IV Environmental Studies 1 2 2 100

V Gender Studies

1 1 1 100

V Extension Activities

0 0 1 0

Total 38 180 140 3800

GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS)

KUMBAKONAM

UG CBCS 140 Credit 2012 – 2013

Department of English

SEMESTER COURSE TITLE INSTRU.

HRS

CREDIT MARKS

I

Part –I Language Tamil

6 3 100

Part – II Language English

Prose and Communication Skills -I

6 3 100

Part – III Core Course – I

Prose

6 5 100

Part –III Core Course – II

Fiction

6 5 100

Part – III Allied Course –I

Social History of England

6 4 100

Total

30 20 500

II

Part –I Language Tamil

6 3 100

Part – II Language English

Prose and Communication Skills II

6 3 100

Part –III Core Course –III

Poetry –I

5 5 100

Part – III Allied Course – II

History of English Literature -I

5 3 100

Part – III Allied Course – III

History of English Literature-II

4 3 100

Value Education

Yoga

2 2 100

Environmental Studies

2 2

100

Total 30 21

700

SEMESTER COURSE TITLE INSTRU.

HRS

CREDIT

MARKS

III

Part –I Language Tamil

6 3 100

Part-II Language English Poetry

And Drama for Communication

6 3 100

Part – III Core Course – IV

Drama –I

6 5 100

Part-III Core Course –V

Poetry -II

5 4 100

Part-III Allied Course –IV

Literary Forms

5 4 100

Non Major Elective Course

Composition & Conversational

Skills

2 2 100

Total

30 21 600

IV

Part –I Language Tamil

6 3 100

Part – II Language English

English for Competitive

Examinations

6 3 100

Part – III Core Course – VI

Drama –II

5 4 100

Part – III Allied Course – V

Principles of Literary Criticism

5 3 100

Part- III Allied Course-VI

Comparative Literature

4 3 100

Part- IV Non Major Elective

Course - Journalism

2 2 100

Part –IV Skill Based Elective

Course- Interpersonal Skills

2 4 100

Total

30 22 700

SEMESTER COURSE TITLE INSTRU. HRS CREDIT

MARKS

V

CC– VII Shakespeare

6 5 100

CC –VIII

Indian Writing in English – I

5 4 100

CC – IX American Literature

5 4 100

Course – X Indian Writing in

English - II

5 4 100

Major Based Elective –I

Translation: Theory &

Practice

5 5 100

Part – IV Skill Based Elective

Course – II – Office

Management

2 4 100

Part – IV Skill Based Elective

Course-III– Office

Communication

2 4 100

Total

30 30 700

VI

CC – XI Women’s Writing in

English

6 5 100

CC – XII Commonwealth

Literature

6 5 100

CC-XIII Canadian Literature

6 5 100

Major Based Elective II

Language & Linguistics

6 5 100

Major Based Elective III

English Language Teaching

5 4 100

Extension Activities

-- 1 --

Gender Studies

1 1 100

Total

30 26 600

Part III Core Course I – Prose

Unit I: Francis Bacon : Of Studies

Of Travel

Unit II : Goldsmith : Beau Tibbs

Steele : Spectator Club

Unit III: Charles Lamb : Dream Children

Thomas De Quincey : Literature

Unit IV: Orwell : Bookshop Memories

Newman : Knowledge its own end

Unit V: Stephen Leacock : With the Photographer

Bernard Shaw : Spoken English & Broken English

Part III Core Course II– Fiction

Unit I:

Oscar Wilde : The Happy Prince

Somerset Maugham : Princess September

Unit II:

Saki : The Open Window

O’Henry : The Gift of Magi

Unit III:

Maupassant : The Diamond Necklace

Leo Tolstoy : God sees the truth but waits

Unit IV :

Dickens : Oliver Twist

Unit V: Emile Bronte : Wuthering Heights

Part III Allied Course I

Social History of England

Unit I:

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

Book for Reference:

A.G. Xavier : Introduction to the Social History of England

Part III Core Course III – Poetry –I

Unit I : Shakespeare : Sonnet No. 116 “Let me not”

Donne : Death Be not Proud

John Milton : On his Blindness

Unit II: Goldsmith : The Village Preacher

John Keats : Ode to Nightingale

Unit III: Tennyson : Ulysses

Hopkins : God’s Grandeur

Unit IV: W.B. Yeats : Easter 1916

D.H. Lawrence : Snake

Unit V: Larkin : Lines on a young Lady’s Photograph Album

Ted Hughes : Thrushes

Part III Allied Course II

History of English Literature – I

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 : Chapter 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

Book Referred Hudson: An Outline History of English Literature

Unit I : Chapter XIII, XIV – The Age of Pope.

Unit II: Chapter 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

Core Course – IV Drama –I

Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

Unit I : Christopher Marlowe : Dr. Faustus

Unit II : Ben Jonson : Volpone

Unit III: John Webster : The White Devil

Unit IV: Thomas Kyd : The Spanish Tragedy

Unit V: Beaumout and Fletcher : Philaster

Core Course V - Poetry II

Units I & II:

Milton : Paradise Lost – Book IX

Unit III:

Gray : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Collins : Ode to Evening

Unit IV:

Wordsworth : Ode on Intimations of Immortality

Shelley : Ode to a Skylark

Keats : Ode to Autumn

Unit V:

Browning : My Last Duchess

T.S. Eliot : Journey of the Magi

W.H. Auden : The Unknown Citizen

Allied course IV- Literary Forms

The Scope of study of the paper will be restricted to knowledge of the topics

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,

Tragic – Comedy, The Masque, Farce.

Unit V : FICTION – Elements of Fiction – Historical Novel, Picaresque

Novel, Detective Fiction, and Science Fiction.

Reference Books:

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

KUMBAKONAM

Department of English

NON – MAJOR ELECTIVE COURSE – UG COURSES - 2013-14

Composition and Conversational Skills

Unit I: Comprehension: A Passage of about 600 words given with question 15

Under the passage

Multiple choice : 5*1=5 marks

Factual : 4*1=4 marls

Reasoning : 2*2=4 marks

Evaluative : 1*2=2 marks

Unit II: Letter Writing: A. Formal Invitation 10

Reply to Formal Invitation B. Complaint letter (Loss, theft, nuisance,

Damaged goods, received goods, lack of amenities) One letter to be

written (either A or B)

Unit III: Cohesive Devices: Linkers, their function and use in context. 5

Sequence and Development of Ideas: Jumbled sentences into

sequence.

Coherence and Cohesion: Sequenced sentences into a passage of

Continuous writing.

Unit IV: Guided composition: Given sequenced hints to be developed 20

into a Paragraph of 200 words

Free Composition: On a given topic a passage of about 250 words

to be written.

Unit V: Conversational Skills: Dialogue Writing:

1. Listening Comprehension (Phonetic Symbols, transcription of 10

phonemes and words)

2. Write a dialogue on an imaginary situation described 10

3. Responding to the given questions (5 questions) 5

Reference Book:

Shiyamala .V Effective English Communication for you

Any other book which the course teacher finds adequate .

Core Course –VI – Drama –II

Modern Drama

Unit I:

George Bernard Shaw : Pygmalion

Unit II:

J.M. Synge : Riders to the Sea

Unit III:

John Galsworthy : Justice

Unit IV:

T.S. Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral

Unit V:

Samuel Becket : Waiting for Godot

Allied course V- Principles 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

III. 1. Moralistic Criticism

Unit IV & V: New Criticism /Formalistic Criticism

IV. 1. Allen Tate : Language as Paradox

2. Cleanth Brooks : Tension in Poetry

V. 1. Psychological 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 Schools of Comparative Literature.

Unit III:

Influence and Imitation – Periodization – Epoch, School, Movement.

Unit IV:

Genre Studies , Thematology.

Unit V:

Literature and other 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

NMEC – JOURNALISM

UNIT I:

The Role of the Press

UNIT II :

Role of Different Editors- Editing a copy

UNIT III :

Reporting - Quality of Reporters - Kinds of reporting with reference to

Court, Crime, Investigating, Election, Sports

UNIT IV :

Newspaper and Magazine Writing – Leads – Headlines

UNIT V :

News - Definition- Sources.

Hard and Soft News

Scoop; Fillers; Box News

Expected and Unexpected News

References Texts:

a) Ahuja, B.N. Theory and Practice of Journalism. ( New Delhi: Surjeet, 1983).

b) Parthasarathy, Rangaswami. Basic Journalism. (Madras: Macmillan,1984).

c) Kamath, M.V. Professional Journalism. (New Delhi: Vikas, 1997).

d) Bhatt, Raghupathi. Reflections on Journalism. (Bombay: Universal, 1996)

e) Rao, Narasimha. Style in Journalism. (Chennai: Orient Longman, 1998).

Core Course VII – Shakespeare

Unit I : Henry IV Part I

Unit II : Mid Summer Night’s Dream

Unit III : King Lear

Unit IV : Antony and Cleopatra

Unit V : The Winter’s Tale

Core Course VIII Indian Writing in English – I

Unit I Nissim Ezekiel : Good – Bye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.

Jayantha Mahapatra : Hunger

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

S. Radhakrishnan : The World Community

Unit V R.K. Narayan : The Guide

The poetical Selections are found in The Mystic 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 Ice-cream

Ezra Pound : In a Station of 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 : The Glass Menagerie

Unit V :Ernest Hemingway : The Old Man and the Sea

John Steinbeck : The Grapes of Wrath

Poetical Selections are found in The Mystic Drum (ed) Vilas Salunke et.

Core Course X – Indian Writing in English II

Unit I :

A.K. Ramajunan : 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 intrusion and

Other Stories)

Arun Joshi : The Boy with the Flute

Unit IV:

Kushwant Sing : Train to Pakistan

Unit V:

Anita Desai : Where shall We Go this Summer ?

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.Ed. by Shiv K.Kumar.

Major Based 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

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 Lessings : 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 – Commonwealth 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

Derek 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:

Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart

Margaret Atwood : Surfacing

Second Allied Course XIII – Canadian Literature

Unit I: Poetry

F.R. Scott : The Canadian Authors Meet

Margaret Lawrence: Notes towards a poem that can never be written

Unit II: Short Stories Collection: Margaret Atwood & Robert Weaver

1. Sinclair Ross: The Lamp at Noon

2. Margaret Lawrence : The Loons

Unit III:

George Ryga : The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

Unit IV:

Shelia Watson : The Double Hook

Unit V:

Margaret Atwood : The Edible Woman

Major Based Elective II- Language & Linguistics

Unit I & II

1. The Organs of Speech

2. The Consonants of English

3. The Vowels of English

4. Word groups, strong & weak forms, stress and intonation, transcription.

J.D. O’Connor: Better English Pronunciation (OUP)

Units 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

Major Based Elective course – III 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.

Unit IV:

Teaching Poetry

Unit V:

Teaching Prose

Books for Reference:

1. Introduction to English Language Teaching,(CIEFL(OUP)),Ghosh, Sastri,

Das.

2. Bright, MC Gregor, Teaching English as a School Language.

3. Paul Verghese – Teaching English as Second Language.