DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Eligibility Criteria:

B.A , English Literature : A pass in the HSE (+2) both academic & vocational stream.

CORE PAPERS

S.NO SUBJECT NAME SEMESTER1 British Literature-I I 2 Indian Writing in English I 3 British Literature-II II 4 Regional Indian Literature in Translation II 5 British Literature-III III 6 Modern English Language and Usage III 7 American Literature – I IV 8 Film and Literature IV 9 American Literature - II V 10 Post- colonial Literature - I (Australian Literature) V 11 Women’s Writing V 12 Introduction to Literary Theories V 13 Contemporary Literature VI 14 Post-colonial Literature in English- II (Canadian Literature) VI 15 Shakespeare VI

ELECTIVE PAPERS

S.NO SUBJECT NAME SEMESTER1 Introduction to Translation Studies V 2 World Literature in Translation VI 3 Journalism VI

ALLIED PAPERS

S.NO SUBJECT NAME SEMESTER1 Background to the Study of English Literature I I 2 Background to the Study of English Literature II II 3 Myth and Literature III 4 Introduction to the Study of Language and Linguistics IV

DETAILED SYLLABUS

SEMESTER I

Title of theCourse/ Paper CORE-BRITISH LITERATURE I

Core I Year & FirstSemester

Course outline

Unit - 1: Introduction- The Renaissance and its Impact on England, the Reformation- causes and effects, The Commonwealth Period, The Restoration, Coffee-houses and their social relevanceUnit - 2: Prose

1. On Revenge – Francis Bacon 2. Sir Roger at the Theatre - Joseph Addison3. A City Night Piece – Oliver Goldsmith

Unit - 3: Poetry1. Prothalamion - Edmund Spenser2. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?- William Shakespeare3. A Valediction of Weeping- John Donne4. Paradise Lost (Book IX) –John Milton (lines795-833)5. The Rape of the Lock (Canto III- lines125-178)- Alexander Pope

Unit - 4: Drama- Doctor Faustus- Christopher Marlow

Unit - 5: Fiction-The Vicar of Wake field- Oliver Goldsmith

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CORE-INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Core I Year & FirstSemester

Course outline

Unit – 1: Introduction- Arrival of East India Company and the associated impact, History of Indian Writing in English, Nativisation of EnglishIntroduction of English Studies in India (Macaulay’s Speech), Indian Diasporic WritersUnit– 2: Prose

1. The World Community – S. Radhakrishnan 2. The Argumentative India – Amartya Sen

UNIT- 3: Poetry1. The Tiger and the Deer – Sir Aurobindo Ghosh2. Summer Woods – Sarojini Naidu3. In India – Nissim Ezekiel4. Crab – Arun Kolatkar5. Eating Wheat – Vikram Seth6. Fireflies – Manohar Shetty

Unit -4: Drama Dance like a Man – Mahesh Dattani

Unit-5: Fiction Swami and Friends – R.K.Narayan

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ALLIED - ALLIED PAPER – I - BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE I - (BRB1A)

Core I Year & ISemester

Course outline

Unit - 1: Drama – A Brief Introduction to the Literary FormsElements of Drama, Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy, Heroic comedy,

Revenge Tragedy, Melodrama, Farce, Masque

Unit - 2: Poetry – A Brief Introduction to the Literary FormsSubjective and Objective poetryNarrative poetry: The Epic, the Mock-epic, the BalladLyrical: The Ode, the Sonnet, the ElegyDramatic MonologuePoetic DramaProsody: Rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, simile, metaphor and

allegory

Unit - 3: Prose – A Brief Introduction to the Literary FormsThe Essay and its types (Aphoristic, Periodic, satirical, Critical)The Short StoryThe Biography and the AutobiographyTravel Writing

Unit - 4: The Renaissance Period (1350 – 1660)An Introduction to Bible Translation – Tyndale, CoverdaleThe University WitsElizabethan and Jacobean DramaComedy of Humour

Unit - 5: The Late Seventeenth and the Eighteenth Centuries (1660 – 1800)Comedy of MannersNeo-ClassicismSentimental and Anti-sentimental comediesPre-Romantics

SEMESTER II

Title of theCourse/ Paper CORE- BRITISH LITERATURE II

Core I Year & IISemester

Course outline

Unit - 1: IntroductionImpact of the Industrial, Agrarian, and the French Revolution on the English Society, Humanitarian Movements in England, the Reform Bills and the spread of Education

Unit - 2: Prose1. Dream Children- A Reverie – Charles Lamb2. On Going a Journey – William Hazlitt3. Of King’s Treasuries – John Ruskin (An Extract from

Sesame and Lillies)

Unit - 3: Poetry1. Lucy Gray- William Wordsworth2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner- Coleridge3. Ozymandias- Shelley4. Ode to a Nightingale - Keats5. Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson6. Dover Beach – Matthew Arnold7. My Last Duchess – Robert Browning

Unit - 4: DramaThe Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde

Unit - 5: FictionGreat Expectations – Charles Dickens

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CORE -REGIONAL INDIAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

Core I Year & IISemester

Course outline

Unit - 1: IntroductionConcept of Indian Literature, Agam and Puram Concepts, Theory of Nine Rasas in Indian Aesthetics___________________________________________________________Unit - 2: Poetry

1. Is Poetry always worthy when it’s old? –Kalidasa2. What She Said – Tevakulattar, Kurunthokai 3(Tamil)3. What She Said to her Girlfriend – Kapilar, Akanaanoor 82(Tamil)4. Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore5. Six Rubaiiyats – Mirza Arif (Urdu)

____________________________________________________________Unit - 3: Short Stories

1. Roots – Ismat Chugtai (Urdu)2. The Shroud – Munshi Premchand (Hindi)3. Sita Brand Soapnut Powder – Sundara Ramaswamy (Tamil)4. Poovan Banana – Vaikom Mohammad Basheer (Malayalam)

____________________________________________________________Unit - 4: DramaWedding Album – Girish Karnad__________________________________________________________Unit - 5: FictionBeasts of Burden – Imayam (Tamil)

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ALLIED - BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE II

Core I Year & IISemester

Course outline

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), Oct-act play.

Unit - 2: The NovelEpistolary, 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, HazlittPoetry – Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelly, Keats Novels – Jane Austen

Unit - 4: The Victorian Age (1832 – 1901)Pre- Raphaelite movement – D.G. Rossetti, Christina Rossetti Humanitarian Movement – Methodist, Anti-Slavery and Salvation ArmyAesthetic Movement - Walter PatterVictorian Poets - Tennyson, BrowningVictorian Novelists - Charles Dickens, ThackerayVictorian Writers - Carlyle, RuskinImpressionistic Writers - Proust, JoyceSymbolist Movement - Yeats

Unit - 5: The Modern Age (Post 1901)Imagist Poetry- Ezra PoundPoets of the Thirties- Wilfred Owen, AudenEssay- Huxley Drama- GB ShawNovel - HG Wells, Virginia Woolf

SEMESTER III

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CORE-BRITISH LITERATURE III

Core II Year & III Semester

Course outline

Unit - 1: IntroductionSocial impact of the two world wars, the Labour Movement, the Welfare State

Unit - 2: ProseTradition and Individual Talent – TS EliotThe Art of Fiction – Henry James

Unit - 3: PoetryTheWreck of the Deutschland – G.M. HopkinsEaster, 1916 – W.B. YeatsAnthem for Doomed Youth – Wilfred OwenThe Unknown Citizen – W. H. AudenThe Thought Fox – Ted Hughes

Unit - 4: DramaPygmalion – George Bernard Shaw

Unit - 5: FictionAnimal Farm – George Orwell

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CORE-MODERN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND USAGE

Core II Year & III Semester

Course outline

1. INTRODUCTION

The Evolution of Standard English

____________________________________________________________2. LANGUAGE AND REGIONAL VARIATION Regional language, Accent, Dialect, Dialectology Regional dialects, Style, Slang and Jargon___________________________________________________________ 3. AREAS OF DIFFICULTY IN THE USAGE OF

ENGLISHLANGUAGE FOR II LANGUAGE USERS

Basic Grammar-Parts of speech, Modals and Auxiliaries, Types of sentences, and Indirect Speech, Question tags____________________________________________________________4. LANGUAGE FOR SPECIFIC SPEECH EVENTS

Drafting an Invitation, Minutes of the Meeting,Welcome Address, Proposing Vote of thanks____________________________________________________________

5. ENGLISH IN THE INTERNET ERA

Internet and English vocabulary, Role and Scope ofOnline English dictionaries, Language and the advent of technology, Useful online resources such as YouTube and Google Scholar

Title of theCourse/ Paper ALLIED- MYTH AND LITERATURE Core II Year & III

SemesterCourse outline

Unit-I- IntroductionBeginnings of myth, natural phenomena as myth, myth and legends

Unit – II Greek and Roman Mythology1. Hercules – (Cleaning of Aegean Tables, Atlas and Hercules)2. Ulysses and Cyclops, Ulysses and Circe, the story of Penelope3. Romulus and Remus4. Dido, Queen of Carthage5. Cupid & Psyche6. Orpheus & Eurydice7. Echo & Narcissus

Unit – III Celtic Mythology1. Oisin in the Land of Forever Young

Unit – IV Legends1. Arthurian Cycle (The Holy Grail)2. Robin hood Cycle

Unit – V 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 Damayanti The Story of Nacheeketa and Yama The Story of Ganga The Story of Sakuntala

SEMESTER IV

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CORE-AMERICAN LITERATURE – I

Core II Year & IVSemester

Course outline

UNIT I – INTRODUCTIONPuritanism, Transcendentalism, American War of Independence, Abolishment of Slavery

UNIT II – PROSE1. Self-Reliance-R.W. Emerson2. Where I Lived and What I Lived for – H.D.Thoreau3. Gettysburg Address- Abraham Lincoln

UNIT III – POETRY1. Nature – H.W.Longfellow2. A Letter to her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment- Anne

Bradstreet3. Brahma- R.W.Emerson4. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking- Walt Whitman5. O Captain! My Captain- Walt Whitman6. There is a certain Slant of light- Emily Dickinson

UNIT IV – SHORT STORIES1. The Cask of Amontillado- Edgar Allan Poe2. Bartleby, the Scrivener- Henry Melville3. Let Me Feel Your Pulse- O. Henry4. Pigeon Feathers- John Updike

UNIT V – FICTION1. The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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CORE-FILM AND LITERATURE

Core II Year & IV Semester

Course outline

UNIT 1: Introduction

Adaptation Prescribed Text: A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon: Chapter 1- “ Beginning to theorize adaptation”

The Concept of Film Form: genre / sub-genre ( narrative film, avant-grante 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.

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UNIT 2: Adaptation of Contemporary Indian English Fiction

Danny Boyle’s Slum Dog Millionaire (2008)

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UNIT 3: Adaptation of fantasy Science Fiction

Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (2005)

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UNIT 4: Adaptation of British Literature in Films

Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility (1995) Rajiv Menon’s Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000)

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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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ALLIED - INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

Core II Year & IVSemester

Course outline

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 1.Speech Organs 2.Sounds in English (Consonants, Vowels and Diphthongs) 3.Syllables, Stress and Intonation 4.Transcription (exercises)Unit - 3: GRAMMAR 1.Definition of Grammar 2.Different Approaches of Grammar – Descriptive, Prescriptive and Functional

Unit - 4: SYNTAX 1.Structural analysis (I.C. analysis) 2.Deep and Surface structure

Unit - 5: SEMANTICS 1.Word, morphemes 2.Word meaning association (semantics)

SEMESTER V

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CORE-AMERICAN LITERATURE - II

Core III Year & V Semester

Course outline

UNIT I – INTRODUCTION

Harlem Renaissance, World War II and its aftermath, Post-modern impulse, Multiculturalism

UNIT II – POETRY

1. Richard Cory – Edward Arlington Robinson2. The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost3. In a Station of the Metro – Ezra Pound4. The Snow Man – Wallace Stevens5. A Dream Deferred – Langston Hughes6. Mirror – Sylvia Plath7. Mr. Edwards and the Spider – Robert Lowell8. An Agony. As Now – Amiri Baraka

UNIT III – DRAMA

1. The Crucible – Arthur Miller

UNIT IV – SHORT STORIES

1. This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona – Sherman Alexie2. Something to Remember Me By – Saul Bellow3. Separating – John Updlike4. The Snows of Kilimanjaro – Ernest Hemingway

UNIT V – FICTION

1. The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros

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CORE-POST COLONIAL LITERATURE

Core III Year & V Semester

Course outline

Unit - 1 Introduction Colonialism/settler colonialism, concepts of identity, insider/ outsider, home, displacement assimilation, nationhood, Australian history, confrontation and conflicts between settlers/aboriginal cultures- Literature-Aboriginal tradition/ bush culture/oral literature, convictism- Australian Legend/the national myth (e.g. The Wild Colonial Boy),-Post-war immigration to Australia/ Immigrant experience-Recent developments in Australian writing

Unit – 2 Short Stories

“Mate” – Kate Grenville and “One Sunday in February 1942” – Thomas Keneally

Unit – 3 Poetry

Waltzing Matilda – Banjo Paterson, No more Boomerang – Kath Walker, and The Immigrant Voyage – Les Murray, Myths and Legends: The Aboriginal Song Cycle - The Djanggawul Song Cycle Song 1 from Macmillan Anthology of Australian Lit. The Wild Colonial Boy

Unit – 4 Drama

Ned Kelly – Douglas Stewart

Unit – 5 Novel

Seven Little Australians – Ethel Turner

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CORE-WOMEN’S WRITING

Core III Year & VSemester

Course outline

UNIT I INTRODUCTION

Women’s writing and the specific issues it deals with, gender aspects viz-a-viz society, theories.

Ecriture feminine

Female, feminist, feminity

Waves of Feminism, Post feminism

Tenets of Feminism- Liberal, Radical Socialist, Cyber feminism.

Patriarchy, Androgyny, Double marginalization, Stereotyping, male gaze, objectification

Womanism

Language and gender

UNIT 2 PROSE

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with strictures on Political and Moral Subjects- Mary Wollstonecraft

Ain’t I a woman?- Sojourner Truth ( Speech)

UNIT 3 POETRY Persephone, Falling –Rita Dove Journey to the Interior- Margaret Atwood Request to a year – Judith Wright Medusa – Sylvia Plath A Sunset of the city- Gwendolyn Brooks The Old Playhouse- Kamala Das

UNIT 4 DRAMA Trifles- Susan Glaspell

UNIT 5 SHORT STORIES Draupathi – Mahasweta Devi

The Yellow Wallpaper- Charlotte Perkins Gilmar Forest- Ambai

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CORE-INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY THEORIES

Core III Year & V Semester

Course outline

UNIT I – INTRODUCTION1. Literary theory from Aristotle to F.R.Leavis

____________________________________________________________UNIT II – STRUCTURALISM

1. The scope of structuralism2. Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction

____________________________________________________________UNIT III – POST-MODERNISM AND PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

1. Post-Modernism2. Psychoanalytic Criticism

____________________________________________________________UNIT IV – FEMINIST AND MARXIST CRITICISM

1. Feminist Criticism2. Marxist Criticism

____________________________________________________________UNIT V – POST-COLONIAL CRITICISM

1. New Historicism and Cultural Materialism2. Post-Colonial Criticism3. Ecocriticism

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ELECTIVE – INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION STUDIES

Elective III Year & VSemester

Course outline

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 Translation1. Decoding and Recoding2. Problems of Equivalence3. Loss and Gain4. Gender and Translation

Unit - 4: Formal and Dynamic Equivalence Formal and Dynamic Equivalence, Translation Shift

Unit - 5: Comparative AnalysisA Comparative Study of Two Translations of Thirukkkural by G.U.Pope and Rajaji (Selected Verses)

SEMESTER VI

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CORE- CONTEMPORARYLITERATURE

Core III Year & VI Semester

Course outline

UNIT – I INTRODUCTION

Multiculturalism, Diasporic writing, Displacement and Alienation, Identity crisis, Theme of acculturation, Assimilation Globalization, Hybridity.

UNIT-I I PROSE & SHORT STORIES

1. Joseph Anton: A Memoir – Salman Rushdie2. The Bomb and I- Arundhati Roy3. The Medicine Bag- Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve4. The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World- Gabriel Garcia

Marquez5. Unaccustomed Earth- JhumpaLahiri

UNIT-III POETRY

1. Black Berry Picking – Seamus Heaney2. A Far Cry from Africa- Derek Walcott3. Hamlet- Wole Soyinka4. I Know why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou

UNIT-IV DRAMA

1. Harvest – ManjulaPadmanabhan

UNIT- V FICTION

1. Life of Pi – Yann Martel

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CORE-POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE IN ENGLISH II (CANADIAN LITERATURE)

Core III Year & VI Semester

Course outline

UNIT-I: 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- II PROSE1. Godzilla vs. Post-colonial- Thomas King2. Disunity as Unity: A Canadian Strategy- Robert Kroetsch

UNIT-III POETRY1. First Neighbours- P.K. Page2. Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga- A.M.Klein3. The Cattle Thief – Emily Pauline Johnson4. Like an Old Proud King in a Parable – A.J.M.SmithUNIT-IV DRAMA

The Ecstasy of Rita Joe – George Ryga

UNIT – SHORT STORIES AND FICTION1. Face – Alice Munro2. “The Hostelry of Mr. Smith” (Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town)-

Stephen Leacock3. Cannibal Woman- Ron Geyshick4. The Edible Woman – Margaret Atwood

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CORE-SHAKESPEARE

Elective III Year & VISemester

Course outline

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.Ramaswami& V.S. Sethuraman ( Vol.I)

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ELECTIVE – WORLD LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

Core III Year &VISemester

Course outline

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: Poetry1. The Gate of Hell: Canto III ( Inferno) – Dante Alighieri2. Ithaca- Constantine Petrou Cavafy3. The Burning of the Books- Bertolt Brecht4. Lot’s Wife- Anna Akhmatova5. The End and the Beginning- Wislava Szymborska

Unit - 3: Drama 1. 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 Pushki 6. The Fairy Amoureuse – Emile Zola

Unit - 5: Fiction

The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexander Dumas

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ELECTIVE- JOURNALISM

Core III Year &VISemester

Course outline

Unit - 1: Introduction1. Introduction to Journalism2. A Short History of Journalism in India3. Ethics of Journalism

UNIT II – The Press

1. Freedom of Press and Threats to PressFreedom2. The Government and thePress3. Press Laws: Defamation, Libel, Contempt of Court, Slander,

Copyright Laws, Press Regulation Act, Press Registration Act, Laws ofPrivileges

UNIT III – Reporting News1. Role of the Reporter and theEditor2. Types of News Reporting – Straight, Interpretive, Investigative,

Scoop,Sting3. Headlines – Editorial, Feature Writing, Personal Column, Reviews,

Interviews and PressConferences4. Reporting – News values, Human Interest, Story Angle,Obituaries

UNIT IV – Layouts, Advertising and News Agencies1. Make-up of a newspaper – Editing,Proof-Reading2. Photographic Journalism, Cartoons, News Agencies, Press Council

ofIndia3. Advertisements – Types and SocialResponsibility

UNIT V – Electronic and New Media1. Electronic Media – Radio,Television2. Emergence of New Age Media – Definition and conceptualization

of the New Media3. Ethics and social Responsibilities of New Media

ExercisesEditing, Proof- Reading, Feature Writing, News Reporting, Planning interviews and Reviews