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MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY

SYLLABUS FOR COMMON COURSES FOR BA/BSc(MODEL 1)

2016 ADMISSIONS ONWARDS

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1 FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH – LISTENINGAND

SPEAKING SKILLS

COMMON COURSE-I

EN1CCT01 5 4 20 80

1 SELECTIONS FROM LITERATURE. COMMON COURSE-2

EN1CCT02 4 3 20 80

2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, HUMAN RIGHTS,

& LITERATURE

COMMON COURSE-3

EN2CCT03 5 4 20 80

2 SKILFUL READING AND WRITING COMMON COURSE-4

EN2CCT04 4 3 20 80

3 ADVANCED SKILLS IN ENGLISH FOR LIFE AND

CAREERS

COMMON COURSE-5

EN3CCT05 5 4 20 80

4 INSPIRATIONAL WRITINGS AND SPEECHES COMMON COURSE-6

EN4CCTO6 5 4 20 80

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MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY SYLLABI FOR COMMON COURSES -UG PROGRAMMES

2016 ADMISSIONS ONWARDS COURSE-1---- FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH –PART 1

Course Code EN1CCT01

Title of the course FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH

LISTENING & SPEAKING SKILLS

Semester in which the course is to be taught

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No. of credits 4

No. of contact hours 90

1. AIM OF THE COURSE

The course is intended to introduce the students to correct pronunciation and usage of the English language. This will help them to acquire jobs anywhere in the world as English is today a global language.

2. OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE On completion of the course, the student should be able;

o To know to speak English language in a neutral accent, without an trace of the vernacular language. This is the English used by educated people all over the world.

o By improving the Listening and Speaking skills they will be able to comprehend announcements, and communicate fluently with anyone speaking the English language anywhere in the world. This will help students to establish connections across frontiers of region, country, occupations and disciplines

o The course has been designed to train the students in rhetorical skills which include public speaking and debates. This will help them become good public speakers.

To become acquainted with self-introductions and description of persons and things.. 6. COURSE DESIGN

Module One: Speech Sounds 18 HOURS ----Vowels, Diphthongs, Consonants. ---- Stress in words, sentences, Intonation. --- Listening Skills—an Introduction. ---- Exercises in listening to short descriptive passages from the CD (audio) and answering questions based on the same. Three examples will be worked out in class with the help of an audio system. Activity:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11. passages recorded in the given CD will be played and exercises done with the help of the teacher ----Listening to announcements. Sample announcements given in the CD will be worked out by the teacher and similar recordings given as exercises. ----Listening to News Bulletins /reports. Activity 22, 23,& 24 to be done as exercises by the students . Module Two : Speaking Skills 18 hours. --An Introduction to the importance of acquiring fluency in the spoken form of the language.

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-- Talking in everyday situations—formal /informal. The exercises in the form of dialogues will help the student to identify similar situations and articulate in the required manner. ---Activity to help students acquire the skill: Activity 4,5,7,7,8,9,10. --- Self Introduction. Dialogues will be used to create a scenario which will help the student to begin speaking about himself/herself. Practice is given both for Formal and Informal Self Introduction. ----Introducing friends to others in informal situation. ---Introducing a guest or dignitary in formal situations. ---Abbreviations which are allowed in conversations: Formal and Informal ---Activity to be done by students. Module Three 18 hours. --Speaking skills –in describing People, Animals, Places. People:Examples, followed by Activity 1,2,3,4,5. Animals: Examples will be followed by Activity. 6,7,8,9,10. Describing places—tourist locations, places of interest etc. Examples will be done in class and the teacher will facilitate activity.which will be done by the students in class. ---- Getting People’s attention and interrupting conversations. Examples will be given through dialogues. Formal and informal situations will be given as practice exercises. This will be followed by Activity 1,2,3,4. --Some points to remember regarding such communication. --- Making Requests and Responding to them. Imaginary situations will be introduced in the text and examples of responses and replies worked out through dialogue form. The Chapter will have Activity at the end . --- Points to be noted for such dialogues. ModuleFour 18 hours. --Asking for directions and giving directions. Dialogues 1,2,3,4. ---Some useful points to be kept in mind. Practice exercises: Activity 1,2,3,4,5,6. --- Giving Instructions and Seeking Clarifications. Dialogue 1,2,3,. ---Points to remember. --Activity 1,2,3,4. ---Thanking and Responding to Thanks. Dialogue said in imaginary situations. Activity. ---Congratulating and Responding to Congratulations. Examples and Activity. ---- Agreeing and Disagreeing with opinions. Module Five. 18 hours. A- Telephone Conversation and Etiquette. (i) Answering the telephone.

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(ii) Dealing with wrong numbers. (iii) Taking and leaving messages (formal&Informal). (iv) Making Enquiries over the telephone-telephone etiquette to be followed etc. . B- RhetoricalSkills. --Guidelines to be followed for public speaking such as Oration, debate. -- ---Speeches, Presentations; Different kinds of Speeches such as Expository, Argumentative. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internal examination for this paper will be conducted at the Practical level and theory level. A practical listening test using Language lab or audio devices will be done to test the skill of the student to comprehend Standard English. A theory test paper can also be conducted to test the student’s skill in communication. There will be no Assignment or Seminar for this paper as the practical exam will be treated as Viva in this paper.The internal Assessment for this paper will be as follows. INTERNAL ASSESSMENT PATTERN Attendance =5 marks. Practical language testing – 10 marks. Theory paper (Model Univ Paper) = 5 marks. Total =20 marks. Internal Assessment -20 + External Exam 80 = 100 marks for this paper. 13. Conduct of Practical Examination --Practical language exam will be conducted internally in colleges. A language lab is considered to be ideal for such testing. In the lab the testing can be done using software which can be designed by the teacher from the exercises provided in the CD that comes with the text. If the practical is conducted in a big classroom with speakers, the batches should be limited to 20-25. Exam will be conducted on the comprehension capacity of the students when exposed to speakers of Standard English. News Bulletins, dialogues of everyday situation etc can be designed by the teacher for testing. Audio CDs must necessarily be used as the exam should not lose its essence of being oral or audio. Edited by BOS Members/ Dr. Saju Joseph (Coordinating Editor) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Core text shall be prepared by Orient Blackswan&Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam.

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SYLLABI FOR COMMON COURSES - UG PROGRAMMES


COURSE-2---- SELECTIONS FROM LITERATURE


Title of the course SELECTIONS FROM LITERATURE

Semester in which the course is to

be taught 1

No. of credits 3



To acquaint the learners with the different forms of literature and develop in them

an ability to understand and appreciate literary pieces.

2. OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

• To sensitize students to the aesthetic, cultural and social aspects of literature.

• To develop in the learners an appreciation of the subtle nuances of literary

expression.

• To enable the learners to revalue literature as cultural and communicative events.

• To improve the learners’ use of language as a means of subjective expression.

3. OUTLINE OF THE COURSE

MODULE ONE: SCREENPLAY

M. T. Vasudevan Nair: The Ferry (Trans. Dr. B. Kerala Varma) (18 hours)

MODULE TWO: ONE ACT PLAYS (18 hours)

1. Dust of the Road (Kenneth Sawyer Goodman)

2. Boatswain’s Mate ( WillaimWymark Jacobs& Herbert C Sargent)

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MODULE THREE: SHORT STORIES (18 hours)

1. The Fortune Teller (Karel Capek)

2. The Dowry (Guy De Maupassant)

3. Games People Play (David Hunter)

4. Deliverance (Premchand)

5. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Ambrose Bierce)

6. Beyond the Bayou (Kate Chopin)

MODULE FOUR: POETRY (18 hours)

1. Lead Kindly Light ( John Henry Newman)

2. This is Going To Hurt Just a Little Bit (Ogden Nash)

3. La Belle Dame Sans Mercy (John Keats)

4. Inheritance (Kamala Das)

5. Refugee Mother and Child (Chinua Achebe)

6.The Convergence of the Twain (Thomas Hardy)

7. If (Rudyard Kipling)

MODEL QUESTION PAPER WILL BE INCORPORATED LATER




COMMON COURSE-3---- ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, HUMAN RIGHTS,

AND LITERATURE


Title of the course ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND

LITERATURE

Semester in which the course is

to be taught 2

No. of credits 4


Environmental Studies, Human Rights, and Literature

DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS

MODULE 1: INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (18 hours)

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

1.1 Understanding the natural environment 1.1.2 Environment and ecology 1.1.3 Environmental studies as a discipline

Case Study: Vultures, Cows, Wild Dogs, and Rabies 1.2 Global environmental issues

1.2.1 Population crisis 1.2.2 Human consumption 1.2.3 High carbon dioxide emissions 1.2.4 The risk of losing species

1.3 Ecological footprint 1.4 Carrying capacity 1.5 Sustainable development

End-of-Module case study

MODULE 2: ECOSYSTEMS AND NATURAL RESOURCES (18 hours)

CHAPTER 2: ECOSYSTEMS AND NATURAL RESOURCES

2.1 Ecosystem Case Study: Conserving Snakes and Crocodiles

2.2 Natural resources 2.2.1 Renewable Sources 2.2.2 Non-renewable Natural Resources 2.3 Water resources 2.3.1 The amount of water we need 2.3.2 Water Scarcity 2.3.3 Some Solutions to the Water Crisis 2.3.4 Rain water harvesting 2.4 Forest resources 2.4.1 Deforestation 2.4.2 How are Communities Involved in Forest Conservation in India? 2.5 Land resources 2.5.1 Soil 2.5.2 Green revolution

End-of-Module case studies • Drink Coffee in U.S. and Make the Songbird Vanish in South America! • The Bishnois of Rajasthan • Thimakka: Trees as Children

MODULE 3: ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (18 hours)

CHAPTER 3: SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

3.1 Waste and its management 3.2 Plastic waste 3.3 E-waste 3.4 Nuclear waste and nuclear radiation Case Study: The Story of Nuclear Waste—‘Chernobyl would be Small Potatoes’

CHAPTER 4 AIR AND WATER POLLUTION

4.1 Air pollution 4.2 Sources of outdoor air pollution 4.3 Reducing outdoor air pollution 4.4 Water pollution 4.5 Sources of water pollutants 4.6 Controlling water pollution

End-of-Module Case Study:The Cancer Express: Pesticide poisoning in Punjab

MODULE 4: HUMAN COMUNITIES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (18 hours)

CHAPTER 5: POPULATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

5.1 Population Growth

5.2 The Environmental Implications of Population Growth and Urbanization 5.3 Environment and human health 5.4 Toxic chemicals 5.5 Chemicals Used as Pesticides and their Impact

Case Study: The Story of Endosulfan—Poison from the Sky? 5.6 Dichloro-diphenol-trichloroethane (DDT) 5.7 Contamination by Lead or Mercury 5.8 Asbestos

CHAPTER 6: ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND HUMAN RIGHTS

6.1 Our environmental policy Case Study: The story of the Ganga: The river that caught fire

6.1.2 Lessons from the Ganga Pollution case 6.2 The Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986 6.3 The Forest Conservation Act of 1980 specify 6.4 The objectives of the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972 6.5 Other important laws 6.6 Environmental ethics and justice

CHAPTER 7: CLIMATE CHANGE

Case Study: The Story of Ghoramara: Climate Change and Vanishing Islands 7.1 The changing global climate 7.2 Global warming and its causes 7.3 Natural disasters

CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSION: ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE

8.1 Moving from despair to hope 8.2 The real enemy 8.3 Act and save the planet

End-of-Module Case study: The man who planted trees

MODULE 5: HUMAN RIGHTS (18 hours)

Chapter 9: An Introduction

Chapter 10: Fundamental Rights and Duties

Chapter 11: Chief Seattle’s speech

Model Question papershall be incorporated later




COMMON COURSE-4---- SKILFUL READING AND WRITING


Title of the course SKILFUL READING AND WRITING


be taught 2

No. of credits 3


• Aim of the Course:

This course has been designed to enhance the reading and writing skills of the

students. All the finer nuances of the English language: intensive and extensive reading,

vocabulary, the writing skills of pre writing, drafting revising and editing skills have been

included to enable students to acquire skill in comprehending English language on a higher

standard. This will enable students to compete for jobs in a global market.

• Objectives:

• To train students in acquiring skills in reading and writing in order to prepare them for competitive exams and other exams such as IELTS and

TOEFL. This will improve their job prospects in a significant manner.

• To improve communication skills in real life situations through better language use

MODULE 1: Basic Grammar (18 hours)

• Primary and Auxiliary Verbs, • Functions of Tenses and Articles • Types of Sentences and Modal • Auxiliaries • Negative Prefixes, words, verbs and adverbs • Prepositions – Time, place, position and direction • Exercises on Prepositions

• Conjunctions • Punctuation

Module 2: Reading (18 hours) 2.1. Reading efficiently for comprehension of text

• Practice through short stories, poems, editorials and film reviews 2.2. Skimming and Scanning

• Skim to get a general idea of the topic, • Scan text to find important information quickly • Practice scanning simple articles and reports

Module 3: Writing (18 hours) 3.1. Pre Writing

• Organizing Ideas 3.2. Drafting

• Rough Draft – Preparation & Research 3.3. Revising

• Review the ideas, topics, themes, questions 3.4. Editing

• Structure paragraphs and use appropriate style and language 3.5. Paragraph Writing

3.6. Precis

3.7. Story Expansion

3.8. Caption Writing

3.9. Profile Writing (Both Persons and Places)

Module 4: Writing (18 hours) 4.1. Letter Writing

• Layout of letter • Opening & Closings in Business Letters • Characteristics of good letter • Letter of Complaint

4.2. Email Writing

• Drafting • Email Etiquette • Business E-mails

4.3. CV Writing

4.4. Report Writing

• Structure and Organization of a Report • Process of Report writing

Model Question Paper shall be incorporated later.




COURSE-5---- ADVANCED SKILLS IN ENGLISH FOR LIFE AND CAREER


Title of the course ADVANCED SKILLS IN ENGLISH FOR LIFE AND CAREER


be taught

3

No. of credits 4


1. Aim of the Course:

To enhance the creative and critical skills of students and to provide them with job skills and communication skills in real life situations so as to equip and empower them for a successful career. Objectives:

• To develop creative and career skills in students • To enhance workplace communication skills • To improve communication skills in real life situations through better

language use

2. Course Outline:

Module 1: Creative and Critical Skills (18 hours)

1. Writing for advertisements( captions, jingles, posters, brochures) • Identifying the correct media • Identifying the target audience • Creating a concept: ideation, scripting • Copy-writing

2. Understanding Media:

a. Social Networking • Types of Social Media • Social Media etiquette • Privacy and security • Visibility

b. Online Content Writing

• Writing and creating blogs • Writing for websites and on-line forums

c. Writing reviews (cinema, drama, painting) • Giving feedback • Personal opinion versus criticism • Making comparisons

d. Making a documentary/ short film • Identifying a topic/subject • Technology • Budgeting

3. SWOC Analysis • Ways to conduct SWOC analysis • Using SWOC in everyday situations ( with examples)

Module 2: Job Skills (18 hours)

1. Job Application • understanding the job advertisement • cover letter • Online job portals

2. Résumé Writing • format and structure • video résumé

3. Public Speaking • Speeches at the Workplace • Presentations • Do’s and Don’ts

4. Interview Techniques • Types of interviews • Rounds in an interview (MNCs)

5. Group discussion • Opening a GD • Interrupting, agreeing and disagreeing • Concluding a GD

Module 3: Workplace Communication Skills (18 hours)

1. Organizational skills • Prioritizing • Multi-tasking • Making and keeping to a schedule

2. Meetings • Making meetings effective • Preparing the agenda • Minutes of the meeting

3. Official Correspondence

• Memos • Letter of Complaint • Business emails • Purchase Orders

4. Non-verbal Communication

• What is non-verbal communication • Types of non-verbal communication • Effective strategies for improving non-verbal communication

5. Team Work • Leadership • Collective responsibility • Resolving differences • Negotiation and Mediation

6. Professional Etiquettes

• Meeting and greeting

• Dining

• Telephone etiquette

Module 4: Language for Everyday Use (18 hours)

Vocabulary in Use

1. Using the Dictionary

2. Idioms, Phrasal verbs,

3. Affixes, Compound words, Homonyms

4. Countable and Uncountable Nouns, plurals

Common Errors in Usage

1. Troublesome Pronouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs 2. Capital Letters 3. Spelling and vocabulary in American, British and Indian English 4. Unnecessary words, Confusing words 5. Common spelling mistakes 6. Use of apostrophes, articles 7. Commonly mispronounced words

Module 5: Situational Communication (18 hours)

1. At the Restaurant

• Welcoming guests and taking them to a table • Taking orders and responding to guests’ queries • Related vocabulary

2. Front office, Sales and Marketing

• Greeting visitors • Responding to enquiries • Taking a message • Selling a product

3. Airport and Aviation

On the Ground:

• Responding to enquiries

• Making announcements, Giving instructions

• Providing information

• Apologizing

In Flight:

• Service excellence tips

• Offering help

4. At the Bank

• Customer Service, Pleasant attitude

• Explaining a procedure (eg. Cash transaction)

• Asking for information

5. Professional communication online

• Customer Care

• Video conferencing

• Conference calls

References: Carter, Ronald, Rebecca Hughes and Michael McCarthy. Exploring Grammar in Context. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Coe, Norman, Robin Rycroft and Pauline Ernest. Writing Skills: A Problem-solving Approach. Cambridge University Press, 1983. Driscoll, Liz. Common Mistakes at Intermediate and How to Avoid Them. CUP,2005. Ferguson. Public Speaking : Building Competency Stages. Oxford Publishing Griffin. A First Look at Communication Theory. Mcgraw-Hill Hewings, Martin and Craig Thaine. Cambridge Academic English: An Integrated Skills

Course for EAP. Cambridge University Press,2014. Kennedy. Transferable Skills(On the Job Employability Skills Book). Steek Vaughn Co. McCarthy, Michael and Felicity O’ Dell. English Vocabulary in Use: Upper-intermediate. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Miller. Organizational Communication. Wadsworth Publishing. Taylor, Shirley. Model Businness Letters, Emails and Other Business Documents. 7th Edition. Pearson,2013. MODEL QUESTION PAPER WILL BE INCORPORATED LATER




COURSE-6 ---- INSPIRATIONAL WRITINGS AND SPEECHES

COURSE CODE EN4CCT06

TITLE OF THE COURSE TREASURE TROVE: INSPIRATIONAL

WRITINGS AND SPEECHES

SEMESTER IN WHICH THE COURSE IS

TAUGHT 4

NO. OF CREDITS 4

NO. OF CONTACT HOURS 90


To acquaint the learners with different forms of inspiring and motivating literature and speeches and there by guiding them to think of great highs in life. Objectives:

• To introduce students to various authors and texts • To provide a range of biographical sketches of some of the leading

personalities • To familiarize students with some of the famous speeches by prominent

persons • To expose students to diverse voices and narratives

2. Course Outline:

MODULE I: Biographical Sketches (18 hours)

1. My Early Days – A P J Abdul Kalam 2. Mother Teresa - F G Herod 3. Rabindranath Tagore – E H Carter 4. Martin Luther King – R N Roy

MODULE II: Essays (18 hours)

1. On Seeing Ourselves – A G Gardiner 2. Our Urgent Need for Self-esteem – Nathaniel Branden 3. The Right to Public Amnesia – Santosh Desai 4. On Original Thinking – Sri Aurobindo

5. On Cheerful Readers – Robert Lynd

MODULE III: Speeches (18 hours)

1. We Must Hold Together – Nehru’s Address to the Nation through AIR on Gandhi’s Death

2. Nobel Lecture – MalalaYousafzai 3. Let Us March! (Nobel Lecture) – KailashSatyarthi 4. Inaugural Address – Barack Obama

MODULE IV: Short Stories (18 hours)

1. Quality – John Galsworthy 2. The Avenger – Anton Chekhov 3. Princess September – Somerset Maugham 4. The Coffee- House of Surat – Leo Tolstoy 5. The Nightingale and the Rose – Oscar Wilde 6. The Lottery – Shirley Jackson

MODULE V: Drama (18 hours)

1. The Stronger – August Strindberg 2. The Twelve Pound Look – James Barrie


SYLLABUS FOR COMMON COURSES FOR B.Com.(MODEL 1)


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COMMON COURSE-I

EN1CCT01 5 3 20 80

2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, HUMAN RIGHTS &

LITERATURE

COMMON COURSE-2

EN1CCT03 5 3 20 80

3 BASIC SKILLS IN ENGLISH FOR LIFE AND CAREERS COMMON COURSE-3

EN3CCT07 3 3 20 80

4 GLEANINGS FROM LITERATURE COMMON COURSE-4

EN4CCT08 3 3 20 80


SYLLABUS COMMON COURSE FOR BCom


COMMON COURSE-7---- SKLLS IN ENGLISH FOR LIFE AND CAREER


Title of the course SKLLS IN ENGLISH FOR LIFE AND CAREER


be taught

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No. of credits 3


1. Aim of the Course: To enhance the reading and writing skills of students and to provide them with communication skills in real life situations so as to equip and empower them for a successful career. Objectives:

• To develop reading and writing skills in students • To enhance workplace communication skills • To improve communication skills in real life situations through better

language use

2. Course Outline:

Module 1: Reading Skills (18 hours)

1. Effective Reading and Comprehension Strategies, Types of Reading 2. Reading passages with comprehension exercises ( short samples of story, poem,

report, film review, articles etc) 3. Reading and interpreting data, signs etc.

Module 2: Writing Skills (18 hours)

1. Essentials of good writing ( pre-writing, organizing, drafting and editing) , Essential Grammar( articles, prepositions, conjunctions, tags, negatives0

2. Making notes, writing summaries, reports, giving captions, headlines etc 3. Job Application ( cover letter, Online job portals, Résumé Writing / video résumé) 4. Official Correspondence ( Memos, Letter of Complaint, Business emails,

Purchase Orders)

Module 3: Workplace Communication Skills (18 hours)

1. Meetings ( Preparing the agenda and minutes of the meeting) 2. Effective strategies to improving non-verbal communication 3. Team Work( Resolving differences, Negotiation and Mediation) 4. Professional Etiquettes and Cultural Differences (Meeting and greeting, Dining,

Telephone etiquette)

5. Professional communication online ( customer care, responding to queries, video conferencing

6. Language for everyday use ( using the dictionary, vocabulary, common spelling mistakes, commonly mispronounced words)

References: Carter, Ronald, Rebecca Hughes and Michael McCarthy. Exploring Grammar in Context. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Coe, Norman, Robin Rycroft and Pauline Ernest. Writing Skills: A Problem-solving Approach. Cambridge University Press, 1983. Driscoll, Liz. Common Mistakes at Intermediate and How to Avoid Them. CUP,2005. Ferguson. Public Speaking : Building Competency Stages. Oxford Publishing Griffin. A First Look at Communication Theory. Mcgraw-Hill Hewings, Martin and Craig Thaine. Cambridge Academic English: An Integrated Skills Course for EAP. Cambridge University Press,2014. Kennedy. Transferable Skills(On the Job Employability Skills Book). Steek Vaughn Co. McCarthy, Michael and Felicity O’ Dell. English Vocabulary in Use: Upper-intermediate. Cambridge University Press, 2001. Miller. Organizational Communication. Wadsworth Publishing. Taylor, Shirley. Model Businness Letters, Emails and Other Business Documents. 7th Edition. Pearson,2013. MODEL QUESTION PAPER WILL BE INCORPORATED LATER


SYLLABUS- COMMON COURSE FOR BCom


COMMON COURSE-8 ---- GLEANINGS FROM LITERATURE


Title of the course GLEANINGS FROM LITERATURE

Semester in which the course

is to be taught

4

No. of credits 3



To acquaint the learners with the different forms of literature and

develop in them an ability to understand and appreciate literary

pieces.


• To sensitize students to the aesthetic, cultural and social aspects of

literature.

• To develop in the learners an appreciation of the subtle nuances of

literary expression.

• To enable the learners to revalue literature as cultural and

communicative events.

• To improve the learners’ use of language as a means of subjective

expression.


MODULE ONE: POETRY

(18 hours)

1. This is My Prayer to Thee - Rabindranath Tagore 2. Mutability - P B Shelley 3. If You Forget Me - Pablo Neruda 4. I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died - Emily Dickinson 5. After Apple Picking - Robert Frost 6. Nine Gold Medals - David Roth 7. Leisure - W H Davies 8. Good Bye Party to Miss Pushpa - Nissim Ezekiel 9. a) Tomorrow b) Toys - Kamala Das

MODULE TWO: SHORT STORIES

(18 hours)

1. After Twenty Years - O. Henry 2. The Refugees - Pearl S Buck 3. Goodbye Africa - NgugiWaThiong'o 4. One Friday Morning - Langston Hughes 5. The Devil and the Mushroom - Michael Trembley 6. Vendor of Sweets - R. K. Narayan

MODULE THREE: ONE ACT PLAY

(18 hours)

1. On the Face of It - Susan Hill

MODEL QUESTION PAPER WILL BE INCORPORATED LATER


SYLLABUS FOR BA ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (MODEL 1)


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FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH

LISTENING AND SPEAKING

SKILLS

COMMON

COURSE-I

EN1CCT01

5 4 20 80

1 SELECTIONS FROM LITERATURE.

COMMON

COURSE-2

EN1CCT02

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1 SECOND LANGUAGE COMMON

COURSE 4 4 20 80

1 SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH

LITERATURE

CORE COURSE:

EN1CRT01 6 4 20 80

1 I -COMPLEMENTARY

COURSE- 1

COMPLEMENTARY

COURSE

EN1CMT01

6 4 20 80

2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES,

HUMAN RIGHTS & LITERATURE

COMMON

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EN2CCT03

5 4 20 80

2 SKILFUL READING & WRITING

COMMON

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EN2CCT04

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COURSE-LANG 4 4 20 80

2 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY

OF LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CORE COURSE.

EN2CRT02 6 4 20 80

2 I - COMPLEMENTARY-2

COMPLEMENTARY

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EN2CMT02

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3 ADVANCED SKILLS IN ENGLISH

FOR LIFE AND CAREERS

COMMON

COURSE 5 4 20 80

EN3CCT05

3 POETRY CORE COURSE

EN3CRT03 5 4 20 80


COURSE 4 4 20 80

3 EXPLORATIONS IN PROSE CORE COURSE.

EN3CRT04 5 4 20 80

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II - COMPLEMENTARY COURSE –

1 CONTEXT IN TEXTS – I, A

STUDY OF THE BACKGROUND IN

LITERARY WORKS

COMPLEMENTARY

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EN3CMT03

6 4 20 80

4 INSPIRATIONAL WRITINGS AND

SPEECHES

COMMON

COURSE:

EN4CCTO6

5 4 20 80

4 READING FICTION. CORE COURSE:

EN4CRT05 5 4 20 80


COURSE 5 4 20 80

4 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS. CORE COURSE.

EN4CRT06 5 4 20 80

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II - COMPLEMENTARY COURSE –

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LITERARY WORKS

COMPLEMENTARY

COURSE

EN4CMT04

6 4 20 80

5 GENERIC ELECTIVE COURSES

1. FILM STUDIES:

EN5GET01

4 4 20 80

2. CREATIVE

WRITING:

EN5GET02

3.ENGLISH FOR

COMPETITIVE

EXAMS:

EN5GET03.

5 THEATRE AND TEXTS CORE COURSE.:

EN5CRT07 6 4 20 80

5

INTRODUCTION

TO LITERARY CRITICISM

&RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

CORE COURSE:

EN5CRT08 5 4 20 80

5 INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH CORE COURSE:

EN5CRT09 5 4 20 80

5 POST COLONIAL LITERATURE. CORE COURSE:

EN5CRT10 5 4 20 80

6 CHOICE BASED CORE ELECTIVE

COURSES

1. SUBALTERN

STUDIES -

EN6CBT01.

4 4 20 80

2. PHILOSOPHY

AND LITERATURE

EN6CBT02

3. COMPARATIVE

LITERATURE:

EN6CBT03

4. REGIONAL

LITERATURES IN

TRANSLATION:

EN6CBTO4

6 PERSPECTIVES OF GENDER IN

LITERATURE

CORE COURSE:

EN6CRT11 5 4 20 80

6 LITERARY THEORY CORE COURSE:

EN6CRT12 5 4 20 80

6 SELECTIONS FROM WORLD

LITERATURE.

CORE COURSE:

EN6CRT13 5 4 20 80

6 AMERICAN LITERATURE

ENCR 14

CORE COURSE:

EN6CRT14 5 4 20 80

6 PROJECT CORE COURSE:

EN6PRT01 1 2 20 80

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Course Code &

Name of Course Name of Text book Editor/s Publisher

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ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS:- COMMON COURSES

1 EN1CCTO1/FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH -

LISTENING & SPEAKING SKILLS

FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH -

LISTENING & SPEAKING

SKILLS

BOS Members/

Dr.Saju Joseph

(Coordinating Editor)

Orient

Blackswan&

MG University

1

2 EN2CCT02 THE FERRY Dr. Jose Augustine/

Prof. R. Rajashree

CUP & MG

University 1

3

EN2CCT03/ENVIRONMENTAL

STUDIES, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND

LITERATURE

ENVIRONMENTAL

STUDIES, HUMAN

RIGHTS, AND

LITERATURE

Dr. K Unnikrishnan/

Prof. Jain Mathew

OUP & MG

University 2

4 EN2CCT04/SKILFUL WRITING &

READING

SKILFUL WRITING &

READING

BOS Members/

Dr.Saju Joseph

(Coordinating Editor)

Macmillan &

MG University 2

5 EN3CCT05/ ADVANCED SKILLS IN

ENGLISH FOR LIFE AND CAREER

ADVANCED SKILLS IN

ENGLISH FOR LIFE AND

CAREER

Dr.Laly Mathew/

Prof. P J Thomas

CUP & MG

University 3

6 EN4CCT06/ INSPIRATIONAL

WRITINGS AND SPEECHES

TREASURE TROVE:

INSPIRATIONAL

WRITINGS AND

SPEECHES

Dr. Mathew P.

Joseph/ Prof. P.J.

Johnson

Mainspring &

MG University 4

COMMON COURSES FOR BCom

7 EN3CCT07/ BASIC SKILLS IN

ENGLISH FOR LIFE AND CAREERS

BASIC SKILLS IN

ENGLISH FOR LIFE AND

CAREERS

Dr.Laly Mathew/

Prof. P J Thomas

CUP & MG

University 3

8 EN4CCT08/ GLEANINGS FROM

LITERATURE ESTUARY

Dr. Jose Augustine/

Prof. R. Rajashree

CURRENT&

MG University 4

CORE COURSES B A ENGLISH MODEL 1

9 EN1CRT01/ Short History of English

Literature

Short History of English

Literature Nayar, Pramod K. CUP 1

10

EN2CRT02/INTRODUCTION TO THE

STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND

LITERATURE

1. A Background to the

Study of English

Literature: Macmillan

Prasad B. MACMILLAN

2

2. Introducing Film

Studies: Babu N. M. Mainspring

11 EN3CRT03/ POETRY Starlit Domes Prof.P.J.Thomas/

Dr. Jose Augustine Cosmo Books 3

12 EN3CRT04/EXPLORATIONS IN

PROSE Petals of Prose

Dr.Saju Joseph/

Prof. P.J. Johnson Cosmo Books 3

13 EN4CRT05/ READING FICTION Vernal Showers Dr. Jose Augustine/

Prof. P.J. Johnson

Orient

Blackswan 4

14 EN4CRT06/LANGUAGE AND

LINGUISTICS

A Companion to the

Study of Modern

Linguistics

Prof. Jain Mathew Mainspring 4

15 EN5CRT07/THEATRE AND TEXTS Beyond Footlights Dr.Laly Mathew/ Dr.

Jose Augustine OUP 5

16

EN5CRT08/INTRODUCTION TO

LITERARY CRITICISM: THEORY AND

PRACTICE & RESEARCH

METHODOLOGY

An introduction to

literary criticism

Prof. Thomas P.J /Dr.

Mathew P. Joseph Mainspring, 5

17 EN5CRT09/INDIAN WRITING IN

ENGLISH Voices of India Prof. R. Rajashree

Orient

Blackswan 5

18 EN5CRT10/ POSTCOLONIAL

LITERATURES

Reverberations: A

discourse on

Postcolonial Literatures

Dr.Saju Joseph/ Prof.

R. Rajashree Cosmo Books 5

19 EN6CRT11/PERSPECTIVES OF

GENDER IN LITERATURE

Perspectives Of Gender

in Literature Board of Studies Mainspring 5

20 EN6CRT12/ LITERARY THEORY An Introduction to

Literary Theory

Prof. Thomas P.J/Dr.

Mathew P. Joseph Mainspring 6

21 EN6CRT13/SELECTIONS FROM

WORLD LITERATURE

Selections From World

Literature Prof. Thomas P.J

Scientific

International

Pvt Ltd, New

Delhi

6

22 EN6CRT14/ AMERICAN LITERATURE

Selections From the

New World – An

Anthology of American

Literature

Prof. Jain Mathew Mainspring 6

23 EN5GET01/FILM STUDIES Silver Screen Studies Dr Jose Augustine Current Books 5

24 ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMS:

EN5GET03

Objective English for

Competitive Exams-

2016 ed.

Edgar Thorpe

&Showick Thorpe Pearson 5

25 EN6CBT01/ SUBALTERN STUDIES

Turbulence – An

Anthology of Writings

from the Periphery

Dr Jose Augustine

Prof. Jain Mathew CUP 6

26 EN6CBT03/ COMPARATIVE

LITERATURE

Core Text:

Between the Lines: A

Text Book of

Comparative Literature

Dr. K. M. Krishnan Current Books 6

27 EN6CBT04/REGIONAL LITERATURES

IN TRANSLATION

Revelations – An

anthology of Regional

Literatures in

Translation

Dr Jose Augustine

CUP

COMPLEMENTARY COURSES B A ENGLISH MODEL 1

28

EN3CMT03/CONTEXT IN TEXTS-I: A


LITERARY WORKS

CONTEXT IN TEXTS-I BOS Primus

Publishers 3

29

EN3CMT04/CONTEXT IN TEXTS-II: A


LITERARY WORKS

CONTEXT IN TEXTS-II BOS Primus

Publishers 4

COMPLEMENTARY COURSE BA ENGLISH MODEL 2

30

EN1CMTG03/BUILDING

VOCABULARY AND ORAL

COMMUNICATION

Core text: Enriching

Oral and Written

Communication in

English

Ashok Thorat,

MuniraLokhandwala

Orient

Blackswan,

2009

1


SYLLABUS FOR CORE COURSES - BA ENGLISH LANGUGAE AND LTERATURE


CORE COURSE-1 SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

COURSE CODE EN1CRT01

TITLE OF THE COURSE SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

SEMESTER IN WHICH THE COURSE

IS TO BE TAUGHT 1

NO. OF CREDITS 4



• To introduce the students to English literature and to its different periods in a chronological manner.

• To familiarize the students with the various ages, movements and writers of English Literature.


• To provide the students with an overview of English Literature • To give the students a comprehensive understanding of the various

stages in the development of the language and literature, • To place the various writers and their contributions in context. • Distinguish between the different varieties of English used all over the

world.

3. COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1 ( 18 hours)

Old English Literature

1. Anglo-Saxon Literature – Themes. 2. Anglo-Saxon Poetry (Alliteration)

Beowulf – , Caedmon,Cynewulf 3. Anglo-Saxon Prose

Venerable Bede, Alfred the Great

Middle English Period

1. Literature of Norman Period Metrical Romances, Pearl, Fables and Satires, Ballads

2. Literature of the Age of Chaucer

Poetry- Chaucer, William Langland, Gower

Prose- Wycliff,

Literature of the 15th and Early 16th Century

1. Caxton’s Printing Press 2. Malory’s Mort D’ Arthur 3. Erasmus’ Praise of Folly and More’s Utopia 4. Versions of the Bible 5. Origin of Drama- Gorboduc& Ralph Roister Doister, Mystery, Miracle, Morality,

Interlude)

Module II ( 18 hours)

Age of Shakespeare / Flowering of Renaissance

1. Elizabethan Age (1558- 1603) 2. Jacobean Age (1603- 1625) 3. Renaissance and its influence, Reformation 4. Poetry- Spenser, Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Marlowe 5. Prose- John Lyly, Sir Philip Sidney’s The Defense of Poesy

Francis Bacon, Sir Walter Raleigh , King James’ Authorized Version of Bible

6. Drama

University Wits, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Webster

Module III ( 18 hours)

Age of Milton (1625-1660)

1. Influence of Puritanism 2. Poetry-Milton, Metaphysical Poets, Cavalier Poets 3. Prose- John Bunyan, Milton, Sir Thomas Brownei 4. Drama

Age of Dryden (1660-1700)

1. Characteristics 2. Poetry- Dryden, Samuel Butler’ 3. Prose- Dryden, John Locke, Samuel Pepy 4. Drama- Comedy of Manners, Heroic Drama

Neo-Classical Age / Augustan Age (1700-1798)

1. Characteristics 2. Poetry- Pope

3. Satire - Dryden, Pope, Jonathan Swift 4. Periodical Essays- Addison and Steele 5. Drama- Sentimental Comedy , Anti-sentimental Comedy

6. Rise of Novel- Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, Lawrence Sterne

7. Dr. Johnson and his circle, Transitional Poets, Graveyard Poets, Blake, Burns

Module IV ( 18 hours)

Romantic Age (1798-1832)

1.Influence of French Revolution

2. Poetry- Coleridge, Wordsworth, P.B Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats

3. Prose- Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Thomas De Quincey

4. Novel- Sir Walter Scott’s Historical Novels, 2. Jane Austen’s Domestic Novels, 3. Emergence of Gothic Novels

Victorian Age (1832-1901)

1. Characteristics 2. Poetry

Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning and Barret Browning, Matthew Arnold, Pre-Raphaelites

3. Fiction

Charles Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and Wessex Novels, Bronte Sisters, Conan Doyle, R.L Stevenson, James Barrie, Conrad, Samuel Butler, Bram Stoker

4. Prose

Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Macaulay, Matthew Arnold, Cardinal Newman

5. Drama- Oscar Wilde

Module V( 18 hours)

Modern Age

1. Characteristics 2. Fiction

Kipling, E.M Forster, H.G Wells, Chesterton, Orwell, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf,

D. H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, J.R.RTolkein

3. Poetry

T.S Eliot, Edwardian and Georgian Poetry, Wilfred Owen, W.H Auden, Ezra Pound, Yeats, Stephen Spender, Movement Poetry

Modern Movements

Expressionism, Orientalism, Imagism, Futrurism, Surrealism, Angry Young Man

Novel- Agatha Christie, P.G Wodehouse, Isaac Asimov, Stephen King

Drama

Shaw, T.S Eliot, Synge, Sean O’Casey, Osborne

Module VI ( 18 hours)

Present

1. Post Modernism Apocalyptic Fiction, Gay and Lesbian writing

2 Fiction- Ian Mcewan, Angela Carter, Doris Lessing

3. Poetry

Donald Davie, Roy Fisher, Tom Raworth,, R.S Thomas, Carol Ann Duffy, Georgia Hill , Dub Poetry

4. Drama

Theatre of the Absurd, In-Yer-Face Theatre, Harold Pinter, Beckett, Edward Bond, Tom Stoppard

5. Literatures in English 6. Post-Colonial Literature

Core Text:

Nayar, Pramod K. A Short History of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

(Abridged Edition)

Reference: Hudson, William Henry. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. New Delhi:Kalyani Publishers, 1975. Prasad, Birjadish. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Macmillan, 1965. Wood, F. T .An Outline History of English Language. Macmillan, 1969. Thornley, G C and Gwyneth Roberts. An Outline of English Literature. Pearson, 2015.




CORE COURSE-2 INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND

LITERATURE


TITLE OF THE COURSE INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE


IS TO BE TAUGHT 2

NO. OF CREDITS 4



• To give the students a basic knowledge about the history and background of English language and various literary genres from the

perspective of the English literary tradition.

• To familiarize the students with the different varieties of English\ that have sprung up across the globe.


On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• Have a working knowledge on the various literary genres. • Form an idea about the various stages in the development of English

language.

• Distinguish between a few varieties of English used all over the world.

3. COURSE OUTLINE

Module: I 36 HOURS

1. Subjective and objective poetry 2. Poetical types 3. Stanza Forms 4. The Dramatic Art

5. Dramatic types 6. Origin of the English Drama 7. Origin of the English Theatre

Module: II 18 HOURS

1. The Essay 2. The Novel 3. The Short Story 4. Biography & Autobiography 5. Film

Module 3 36Hours

Language Families

Indo-European Family of Languages-

1. Branches of Indo-European 2. Home of the Indo Europeans-3. Main

characteristics of Indo-European

Germanic family of Languages

1. Characteristics of the Germanic family 2. Grimm ’s Law 3. Verner’s Law

The position of English in the Indo-European family.

Periods in the History of English Language:

Old English Period

1. Old English Dialects 2. Old English vocabulary 3. Scandinavian Influence 4. Latin

influence

Middle English Period:

1. Norman Conquest 2. Middle English Vocabulary 3. French influence 4. Middle

English Dialects5. Latin influence

Modern English Period-Early Modern English:

1. The Great Vowel Shift 2. Renaissance and Reformation 3. The invention of

printing 4.Authors and Books- The Bible, Shakespeare, Milton. 5 Latin influence.

6. Dictionaries.

Module 4 18 hrs.

Language varieties:

Dialect – Sociolect – Idiolect - Register – Pidgin – Creole

English Today:

1. The evolution of Standard English 2. Standard British English

3. Received Pronunciation 2. English as a global language 3. American English

4. Australian English 5. General Indian English (GIE)

Word Formation

1. Compounding 2. Derivation 3. Abbreviation 4. Onomatopoeic words

5. Abbreviations. 6. Clipping 7. Acronyms 8. Portmanteau words

Historical Semantics

Semantic Change: 1. Generalisation 2. Specialisation 3. Association of Ideas

4. Euphemism 5. Popular Misunderstanding

Core Texts for Modules I & II:

1. Prasad B. A Background to the Study of English Literature: Macmillan 2. Babu N. M. Introducing Film Studies: Mainspring

Books for General Reading:

1. F T Wood. An Outline History of English Language. Macmillan. 2. George Yule. The Study of Language. Cambridge University Press. 3. David Crystal. The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language.

Penguin.

4. David Crystal. English as a Global Language. Cambridge University Press. 5. G.L. Brook. Varieties of English. Macmillan. 6. John Peck and Martin Coyle. A Brief History of the English Language.

Palgrave.




CORE COURSE-3---- POETRY

Aim: --To introduce to the students some beautiful poems of English Literature. The poems are known for their beauty of expression and high sentiments. Objectives: --The selection has a representation from each period of the poetic literary tradition. This has been done to make the literature students aware of the changing trends manifested down the ages. The poets chosen here are well known for their literary ingenuity. MODULE I 18 hrs. RENAISSANCE 1. Spenser - One Day I Wrote Her Name 2. Shakespeare - Shall I Compare Thee…. 3. Milton - On His Blindness 4. Donne - Hymn to God the Father MODULE II 18 hrs ROMANTIC REVIVAL 1. Wordsworth - The French Revolution 2. Coleridge - Work without Hope 3. Shelley - Song to the Men of England 4. Keats - Ode to Autumn MODULE III 18 hrs VICTORIAN


TITLE OF THE COURSE POETRY

SEMESTER IN WHICH THE COURSE IS TO BE

TAUGHT 3

NO. OF CREDITS 4


1. Tennyson - Ulysses 2. Browning - My Last Duchess 3. Arnold - DoverBeach MODULE IV 18 hrs. MODERN 1. T S Eliot - Journey of the Magi 2. Philip Larkin - Church Going 3. W. B. Yeats - Sailing to Byzantium 4. Emily Dickinson - The Chariot MODULE V 18 hrs. CONTEMPORARY 1. Pablo Neruda If you forget me 2 SeamusHeanney - Digging 3. Kamala Das - An Introduction 4 Maya Angelou -Phenomenal woman (Model questions will be incorporated later)




CORE COURSE- 4 EXPLORATIONS IN PROSE


TITLE OF THE COURSE EXPLORATIONS IN PROSE


IS TO BE TAUGHT

3

NO. OF CREDITS 4


AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

A student of literature should be informed about the general features of this genre of

writing as well as the different kinds of prose writing existing today in literature.

The syllabus has been designed to introduce the literature students to a good variety

of well written prose by some well- known writers of the literary tradition. Effort has

been made to include all the pieces that have been identified as exemplary and

masterpieces of literary writing. The students shall benefit both from the contents as

well as the style of the selected pieces.

Module: 1 36 hrs

Kinds of Prose- Fiction, Non-fiction

Characteristics of Prose: Narration, Personal Essay, Expository, Descriptive,

Persuasive, Discursive, Didactic, Satiric, Heroic Prose.

Prose Genres; Essay, Short story, Biography, Travelogue, Autobiography, Prose Poetry,

Memoir, Commentary, Journal, Letter.

Module: 2 18 hrs

Of Friendship- Francis Bacon

Meditations in Westminster Abbey- Joseph Addison

Of Greatness- Abraham Cowley

The Spider and the Bee- Jonathan Swift

Module: 3 18 hrs

Death of Dryden- Samuel Johnson

Dream Children- Charles Lamb

The Fight- William Hazlitt

Manners- R.W. Emerson

Module: 4 18 hrs

On the Rule of the Road- A.G. Gardiner

Forgetting- Robert Lynd

The Beauty Industry- Aldous Huxley

Silent Spring- Rachel Carson

Sharing the World- AmartyaSen

On Crime & Punishment- Khalil Gibran




CORE COURSE- 5 READING FICTION

Course outline

MODULE ONE–SHORT FICTION - BRITISH(36 HRS)

Introduction: Difference between fiction, short fiction and short story

1. The Signal Man

Charles Dickens

2. The Blue Cross

G K Chesterton

3. Rain

Somerset Maugham

4. The Stolen Body

HG Wells

5. Shooting an Elephant

George orwell

6. The Dancing Partner

Jerome K Jerome

7. A Case of Identity

Arthur Conan Doyle

8. The Mark on the Wall


TITLE OF THE COURSE READING FICTION

SEMESTER IN WHICH THE COURSE IS

TO BE TAUGHT

4

NO. OF CREDITS 4


Virginia Woolf

MODULE TWO - SHORT FICTION –NON-BRITISH (36 HRS)

1. Mother of a Traitor

Maxim Gorky

2. What Men Live By

Leo Tolstoy

3. Once upon a Christmas

Pearl S Buck

4. The Umbrella

Guy de Maupassant

5. Living or Dead?

Rabindranath Tagore

6. A Cup of Tea

Katherine Mansfield

7. A Dark Brown Dog

Stephen Crane

8. Little Selves

Mary Lerner

9. The Drover’s Wife

Henry Lawson

MODULETHREE – NOVELLA (18 HRS)

1. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

R L Stevenson




CORE COURSE-6 LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

COURSE CODE

EN4CRT06

TITLE OF THE COURSE LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS


IS TO BE TAUGHT 4

NO. OF CREDITS 4



This course is an introduction to the science of linguistics. It seeks to give an

overview of the basic concepts of linguistics and linguistic analysis to the

students.

The course studies language and what it consists of. This is done through an

examination of the internal organization of sound systems, words and

sentences. The students of linguistics begin by learning how to analyse

languages, their sounds (phonetics and phonology), their ways of forming

words (morphology), their sentence structures (syntax), and their systems of

expressing meaning (semantics).


• To show the various organs and processes involved in the production of speech, the types and typology of speech sounds, segmental &suprasegmental

features of the English language, and transcription using IPA

• To describe and explain morphological processes and phenomena • To show the various processes involved in the generation of meaning • To enhance students’ awareness that natural language is structure dependent

and generative and to develop their ability to observe, describe and explain

grammatical processes and phenomena.

• To show the developments that have taken place in language studies in the twentieth century

3. COURSE OUTLINE

The following topics from the Core Text:-

MODULE I– INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS AND PHONETICS

(36 HOURS)

What is Language? - What is Linguistics? Hockett’s Design features - Arbitrariness –

Duality - Displacement – Cultural transmission

Basic Notions

Phonetics and Phonology

Branches of Phonetics – Articulatory, Acoustic, Auditory

Organs of Speech

Air Stream Mechanism – Pulmonic, Glottal, Velaric

Respiratory System

Phonatory System – Voicing, Voiced and Voiceless Sounds

Articulatory System - Oral, nasal &nasalised sounds

Classification of Speech Sounds

Consonants and Vowels

Criteria for Classification of Consonants

Place of Articulation - Bilabial, Labio-Dental, Dental, Alveolar, Post-

Alveolar, Palato-Alveolar, Palatal & Velar Sounds

Manner of Articulation – Plosives, Fricatives, Affricates, Nasals, Lateral,

Frictionless Continuants, Semi-Vowels, Trills & Taps

The Consonants of English RP

Criteria for Classification of Vowels

Tongue height: Close Vowels, Open Vowels, Half-Close Vowels, Half-

Open Vowels

Part of the Tongue raised: Front Vowels, Back Vowels, and Central

Vowels

Position of Lips: Rounded Vowels, Unrounded Vowels

The Vowels of English RP

Diphthongs:Monophthongs and Diphthongs, Falling and Rising Diphthongs,

Centring and Closing Diphthongs, Fronting and Retracting

Diphthongs

The Diphthongs of English RP

Cardinal Vowels

Vowel Diagram

Diphthongs

Tense and lax Vowels

Phonemes and Allophones

Phone, Phoneme, Minimal pairs

Allophone, Aspiration, Dark and Clear / l /

Contrastive Distribution and Complementary Distribution

Syllable

What is a syllable?

Syllabic Structure – Onset, Nucleus, Coda

Syllabic Consonants

Consonant Clusters, Abutting Consonants

Suprasegmentals

Segmentals and Suprasegmentals

Suprasegmental Phonemes

Word Stress

Sentence Stress

Weak forms and Strong Forms

Rhythm

Intonation

Tone, Tonic Syllable, Tonicity

Intonation patterns

Intonation – Functions

Juncture

Liasion

Assimilation

Elision

Linking / r / and Intrusive / r /

Transcription

The incongruity between spelling and pronunciation in English

IPA

Broad and narrow Transcription

Transcription Practice

MODULE II – MORPHOLOGY (18 HOURS)

Basic Notions

What is morphology?

Morph, Morpheme

Morpheme Types and Typology

Free and bound morphemes

Root, Base, Stem

Different types of affixes: Prefix, Suffix, Infix

Inflection

Inflectional and derivational affixes

Class-changing and class- maintaining affixes

Allomorphy

Allomorph

Zero Morph

Conditioning of allomorphs: Phonological &Morphological

Word

Why is a word a difficult concept to define in absolute terms?

Lexeme

Form class and Function Class words

Morphological Operations/Processes

Affixation

Reduplication

Ablaut

Suppletion

Structure of Words

Simple Words

Complex Words

Compound Words

MODULE III – SEMANTICS (18 HOURS)

Basic Notions

What is semantics?

Lexical and grammatical meaning

Sense, reference, referent

Sense Relations

Synonymy

Antonymy

Hyponymy

Homonymy

Homography

Polysemy

Metonymy

Ambiguity

Tautology

Collocation

MODULE IV – SYNTAX & BRANCHES OF LINGUISTICS (18 HOURS)

Basic Notions

What is syntax?

Grammar

Grammaticality and Acceptability

Descriptive and Prescriptive Grammar

Synchronic and Diachronic Grammar

Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Relationships

Sign, Signified and Signifier

Langue and Parole

Competence and Performance

Introduction to theories on Grammar

Traditional Grammar

Problems with traditional Grammar

Structural grammars

Ferdinand DeSaussure

Major Tenets

Leonard Bloomfield

Constituents and Constructions

Immediate Constituent Analysis

Immediate Constituents and Ultimate Constituents

Advantages of IC Analysis

Limitations of IC Analysis

Phrase Structure Grammars

Noam Chomsky

Phrase Structure Rules (Rewrite rules)

Phrase Structure and P-Marker

Transformational Generative Grammars

Kernel Sentences

Deep and Surface Structures

Generative Aspect & Transformational Aspect

Transformational Rules

The Aspects Model

Applied Linguistics

Definition and Scope

A brief introduction of the following topics: language pedagogy, second

language acquisition, lexicography, bilingualism and multilingualism and

translation

Computational Linguistics

Definition and Scope

A brief introduction of the following topics: Natural language processing,

Natural language generation, Machine translation, Speech recognition.

MODEL QUESTION PAPER WILL BE INCORPORATED LATER.

ONE QUESTION FROM THE ESSAY SECTION WILL BE COMPULSORY AND SHALL DEAL WITH

TRANSCRIBING A PASSAGE OF FIVE LINES OF CONVERSATION AND A SET OF FIVE WORDS

USING IPA SYMBOLS.

Core text

A Companion to the Study of Modern Linguistics, Mainspring, Chennai.

READING LIST

S. K. Verma and N. Krishnaswamy. Modern Linguistics : An Introduction. New Delhi: OUP,

1989.

H.A.Gleason. Linguistics and English Grammar. New York: Holt, Rinehart &. Winston, Inc.,

1965.

Radford A, Atkinson M, Britain D, Clahsen H and Spencer A, Linguistics An Introduction

Cambridge University Press., Cambridge:1999

Robins R H General Linguistics: An Introductory Survey Longman Group Limited., London:

1971

Fasold R W and Connor-Linton J (ed) An Introduction to Language and Linguistics Cambridge

University Press., Cambridge: 2006

Daniel Jones. The Pronunciation of English. New Delhi: Blackie and Sons,1976.

A.C Gimson. An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English. London: Methuen, 1980.

J. D. O’Conner. Better English Pronunciation. New Delhi: CUP, 2008.

T. Balasubramaniam. A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students. New Delhi:

Macmillan, 1981.

T. Balasubramaniam. English Phonetics for Indian Students: A Workbook. New Delhi:

Macmillan, 1992.

MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY SYLLABUS FOR CORE COURSES - BA ENGLISH LANGUGAE AND LTERATURE

2016 ADMISSIONS ONWARDS CORE COURSE-7THEATRE AND TEXTS


TITLE OF THE COURSE Theatre and Texts

SEMESTER IN WHICH THE COURSE IS TO BE TAUGHT

5

NO. OF CREDITS 4

NO. OF CONTACT HOURS

108

1. Aim of the course: To introduce the students to the different masterpieces of drama and to instill an appreciation for the aesthetics of theatre.

2. Objectives:

• To familiarize the students with the different genres and masters of drama • To developan ability in the students for appreciating drama as an art form • To encourage students to critically go beyond theatrical performances to the texts

and vice versa.

3. COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1- (72 hours)

Othello - William Shakespeare

Module 2- One-Act Plays (36 hours)

One- Act Plays

1. Anton Chekov – A Marriage Proposal 2. John Galsworthy – Defeat 3. Maurice Maeterlinck- A Miracle of St. Antony 4. Rabindranath Tagore- Chandalika

5. GirishKarnad- Broken Images Seminar( for non-detailed study)

6. Bernard Shaw – Augustus Does His Bit 7. Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter

4. CORE TEXT

Beyond Footlights: Theatre and Texts

6. MODEL QUESTION PAPER SHALL BE INCORPORATED LATER PATTERN TO BE FOLLOWED Part A(2marks) 9 out of 12 questions 6 from Othello and 6 from Beyond Footlights Part B( 4 marks) 6 out of 9 questions 4 from Othello and 5 from Beyond Footlights Part C( 6 marks) 3 out of 5 questions 3 from Othello and 2 from Beyond Footlights Part D( 10marks) 2 out of 4 questions 2 from Othello and 2 from Beyond Footlights (Questions on the Seminar topics may be asked only for Part A and Part B)

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MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY SYLLABUS FOR CORE COURSES - BA ENGLISH LANGUGAE AND

LTERATURE 2016 ADMISSIONS ONWARDS

COURSE 8 :INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY CRITICISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE& RESEARCH METHODOLOGY


TITLE OF THE COURSE

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY

CRITICISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE& RESEARCH

METHODOLOGY

SEMESTER IN WHICH THE COURSE IS TAUGHT

5

NO. OF CREDITS

4


90


1 To familiarize the students with some of the key literary terms.

2 To introduce the various streams in literary criticism

3 To make them aware of the interdisciplinary nature of literary criticism

4 To develop the skills for appreciating literature


At the end of the course the student

• Gets the feeling that every reader including himself/herself is a critic.

• Becomes able to differentiate between judgment and appreciation.

• Gets in touch with various movements and schools of thought.

• Comes to praxis from theory.

• Develops an interdisciplinary approach.

3. COURSE OUTLINE

MODULE I (18 hours)

Classical Criticism: Nature and Function-Contributions of PLATO-Mimesis and Inferiority of Art, ARISTOTLE- Mimesis, Catharsis, Hamartia-Definition of Tragedy-Parts of Tragedy, Plot, Tragic Hero.

Indian Aesthetics: Introduction to various schools of Indian aesthetics, Theory of Rasa, and Dhwani.

MODULE II (18 hours)

Renaissance and Neo-Classical Criticism: SIR PHILIP SIDNEY- Defence of Poetry.

JOHNSON- “Lives of Poets” – Shakespeare – Judgement of Literature

MODULE III (18 hours)

Romantic and Victorian Criticism: Romanticism and Neo- Classicism – Differences and Comparisons. WORDSWORTH – “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” – definition of poetry – poetic diction and language. COLERIDGE – definition of poetry – Fancy and Imagination. Victorian Age: MATTHEW ARNOLD – Concept of Culture – the use and function of poetry – touchstone method – moralistic criticism – function of criticism – high seriousness.

MODULE IV (18 hours)

Twentieth Century Criticism: T S ELIOT – “ Tradition and Individual Talent” – Historic Sense – Impersonality – Poetic Emotion – Objective Correlative – “Metaphysical Poets” – Lemon Squeezing Criticism. Dissociation of Sensibility.

I A RICHARDS – The Four Kinds of Meaning – Scientific and Emotive use of Language.

MODULE V (18 hours)

Practical Criticism Choose a prose piece/ and employ a critical method to analyse the same. Attempt a critical appreciation of a poem.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Introduce the students to the mechanics of academic writing; familiarise them with methodology to be followed in writing dissertations—introduce them to the MLA Handbook and its importance for writing academic /research papers.

Reference

1. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

2.Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of LiteraryTerms. VII Edn

3. Prasad, B. An Introduction to English Criticism. New Delhi: Macmillan. 1965

4. Harry Blamires. A history of literary criticism.

5. Terry Eagleton.Criticism & Ideology.

6. M.S. Nagarajan. English Literary Criticism and Theory. Orient Blackswan

7. Peck John et al. Literary Terms and Criticism. Macmillan.

Syllabus prepared by

Prof. Thomas P.J. S.B.College, Changnacherry

Dr. Mathew P. Joseph, Principal, Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta.

Model Question Paper will be incorporated later.




CORE COURSE 9 -- INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

COURSE CODE

EN5CRT09

TITLE OF THE COURSE INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH


IS TO BE TAUGHT 5

NO. OF CREDITS 4


Module 1

Poetry 18HRS

1.Aurobindo - To the Cuckoo

2. Nissim Ezekiel - “The Patriot”

3. Sarojini Naidu - “A Challenge to Fate”

4.Harp of India - Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

5. Friends - Arundhati Subramaniam

6. What Father Left Us - K Srilata

Module 2

Fiction

Raja Rao- The Cat and Shakespeare 18 hrs

Module 3

Drama 18 HRS

GirishKarnad:Tughlaq(1972)

Module 4

Short Stories 18 HRS

1. Rabindranatha Tagore : The Postmaster 2. R.K.Narayan : The Antidote 3. M.T.Vasudevan Nair : For You 4. VaikomMuhammedBasheer : The Card-Sharper’s Daughter

Module 5

Prose 18HRS

1.Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam :The joy of Human life

2.M.K.Gandhi :The London Diary

3.J Krishnamurthi :The Function of Education

4.Satyajit Ray :Odds Against Us

Model Question Paper will be incorporated later.




CORE COURSE 10: POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES


TITLE OF THE COURSE POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES

SEMESTER IN WHICH THE COURSE IS TO BE

TAUGHT 5

No. OF CREDITS 4

No. OF CONTACT HOURS 90


To familiarize the students with the basic concepts and the myriad nuances of postcolonial theories.


• The course will enable the students to be aware of the cultural, social, political and literary

developments in the postcolonial societies and how these developments resulted in the

critical theories and literary productions of varied genres.

• Students are supposed to discuss the issues which cropped up from the periods of colonial

aggression and understand how they formulated the postcolonial nationalities.


MODULE ONE: PROSE(36 HOURS)

• Introduction of The Empire Writes Back. Eds. Bill Ashcroft et al. London and New

York: Routledge, 1989. Pp 1-13.

• The following extracts from THE postcolonial studies reader. Eds. Bill Ashcroft et al.

• ‘Orientalism’ - Edward Said (pp 87-91)

• ‘The Fact of Blackness’ - Frantz Fanon (pp 323-26).

• ‘Whose Imagined Community?’ Chapter1 of Partha Chatterjee’s The Nation And Its

Fragments: Colonial And Postcolonial Histories. Princeton: Princeton U P, 1993. 3-13.

MODULE TWO: POETRY(18 hrs)

1 A D HOPE : ‘The Death of the Bird’

2 WOLE SOYINKA : ‘Civilian and Soldier’

3 MARGARET ATWOOD : ‘The Journey to the Interior’

4 FAIZ AHAMMED FAIZ : ‘A Prison Evening’

5. EDWIN THAMBOO : ‘Ulysses by the Merlion’

6. ARUN KOLATKAR : ‘An Old Woman’

MODULE THREE: FICTION(18 hrs)

NGUGI WA THIONGO : Weep Not, Child

MODULE FOUR: DRAMA(18 hrs)

DEREK WALCOTT : The Sea at Dauphin




CORE COURSE 11 -- PERSPECTIVES OF GENDER IN LITERATURE


TITLE OF THE COURSE PERSPECTIVES OF GENDER IN

LITERATURE


IS TAUGHT 6

NO. OF CREDITS 4



To introduce students to women’s writings from different parts of the world and there by familiarize them with the diverse concerns addressed through those writings. Objectives:

• The students will be able to critically analyze literary works from a feminist

perspective • The students will have an awareness of class, race and gender as social

constructs and about how they influence women’s lives.

2. Course Outline:

MODULE I: ESSAYS 36 hrs

1. Betty Friedan - The Problem That Has No Name Chapter -1 from THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE

2. Patricia Hill Collins - Mammies, Matriarchs and Other Controlling Images

(Chapter - 4, Pages 79-84) from BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT

3. Susan Bolotin - Voices from the Post-feminist Generation

4. Jason Cromwell - Queering the Binaries: Transsituated Identities, Bodies and Sexualities

MODULE II: POETRY 18 hrs

1. Margaret Atwood - This is a Photograph of Me

2. Meena Alexander - House of a Thousand Doors

3. Julia Alverez - Women’s Work

4. Sutapa Bhattacharya - Draupadi

5. MamtaKalia - After Eight Years of Marriage

6. Kristine Batey - Lot’s Wife MODULE III: SHORT FICTION 18 hrs

1. Willa Cather - A Wagner Matinee

2. Charlotte Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper

3. Sara Joseph - The Passion of Mary

4. Leslie Marmon Silko - Lullaby MODULE IV: NON- FICTION & DRAMA 18 hrs

1. An excerpt (pages 285-288) from Women’s Voices, Ed. Eunice de Souza & Lindsay Pereira

2. Susan Glaspell - Trifles Model Question Paper to be incorporated later.

MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY SYLLABUS FOR CORE COURSES - BA ENGLISH LANGUGAE AND

LTERATURE (MODEL 1) 2016 ADMISSIONS ONWARDS

CORE COURSE 12: LITERARY THEORY


TITLE OF THE COURSE

LITERARY THEORY


6

NO. OF CREDITS

4


90

1. AIM OF THE COURSE:

To enhance the vision of students by introducing them to the world of theory.

2. OBJECTIVES:

To introduce the students to the basic theories of knowledge- to enrich the students through various perspectives of thinking and to learn about the notable theorists.

3. COURSE OUTLINE

MODULE 1 (18 hours)

Formalism: Defamiliarization, Dialogism, Carnival, Intentional Fallacy, Affective fallacy, Polyphony-Victor Schklovsky& Mikhail Bakhtin – extracts from their works.

MODULE 2 (18 hours)

Structuralism,-- Saussure---Sign, Signifier, Signified – relationship between them.

Post Structuralism--Derrrida – Structure, Sign and Play

Postmodernism: Differences between Modernism and Postmodernism.

MODULE 3 (18 hours)

Psychoanalytic Theory: Unconscious. Freud – Id, Ego, Superego.Lacan – Imaginary, Symbolic, Real

Reception and Reader – Response Theory: Horizons of expectations, Implied reader, Interpretative communities. Contributions of Wolfgang Iser& Hans-Robert Jauss.

MODULE 4 (18 hours)

Marxist Criticism: Base, Superstructure, Materialism. Antonio Gramsci – The formation of the intellectuals

Cultural Studies: Introduction. Raymond Williams – from “Forms” in Culture

Roland Barthes – The World of Wrestling.

MODULE 5 (18 hours)

Gender Theory: Three Phases of Feminism. Elaine Showalter – Introduction from “A Literature of their own”.

Post-colonial Theory: Alterity, Diaspora, Eurocentrism, Hybridity, Imperialism. .

Books for Reference:

Peter Barry. Beginning Theory. Manchester Uty. Press.

1. HansBertons. Literary Theory. Routledge. 2. Terry Eagleton. Literary Theory: An Introduction. 3. Aijaz Ahmad. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. 4. Jonathan Culler.Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. 5. Terry Eagleton. After Theory.

Model Question Paper to be incorporated later.




CORE COURSE13 :SELECTIONS FROM WORLD LITERATURE


TITLE OF THE COURSE SELECTIONS FROM WORLD LITERATURE


6

NO. OF CREDITS 4


• AIMS & OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

• To introduce students to some of the world’s best classics in English translation

• To develop in students a broader vision of life so that they become aware of universal problems and varied life situations.

2. COURSE OUTLINE

MODULE I - 36 HRS

POETRY

1. Dante-The Divine Comedy – Paradise Canto XXI

2.Goethe: “The Lovely Night”

3.Alexander Pushkin: “Winter Evening”

MODULE II – 18 HRS

DRAMA

1. Antigone: Jean Anouilh

MODULE III - 36 hrs

FICTION AND SHORT STORIES

1. SHORT FICTION –

1. Leo Tolstoy: The Repentant Sinner

2. FICTION:

2 Dostoevsky: Notes from Underground.

3. Herman Hesse: A Dream about the Gods.

MODEL QUESTIONS TO BE INCORPORATED

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CORE COURSE 14 -AMERICAN LITERATURE


TITLE OF THE COURSE AMERICAN LITERATURE

SEMESTER IN WHICH THE COURSE IS TO BE TAUGHT 6

NO. OF CREDITS 4


1. Aim of the course: • To provide a historical study of the rise and growth of American Literature in

ordertoappreciate itsdifferenceswith its British counterpart. • To include writings that belong to the minimalist tradition in order to offer a

holistic view of American Literary tradition as it is today.

2. Objectives: • To introduce the students to the uniqueness in the making of American Literature. • To familiarizethe learner with the different periods and genres of American

writing through a selection of essays, poems, short fiction, drama. • To represent the ethnicity of this literature through minority literature.

1. COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1- Introduction18 hours

1. An Outline of American Literature. 2. ‘The Last Frontier’- Robert E. Spiller (The Cycle of American Literature,1956). 3. ‘Indian Thought in Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman’-(An Anthology of

AmericanLiterature of the Nineteenth Century, Ed Fisher et.al.1963).

Module II Poetry18 hours

1. ‘A City In the Sea’—Edgar Allen Poe 2. ‘"A Psalm of Life"—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 3. ’I Hear America Singing’—Walt Whitman.

4. ‘I Shall Know Why’—Emily Dickinson. 5. ‘Tree At My Window’—Robert Frost. 6. ‘A Postcard from the Volcano’—Wallace Stevens. 7. Let’s Live Suddenly Without Thinking – E E Cummings

Module IIIShort Stories/ Fiction 18 hours

1. ‘To Build a Fire’ – Jack London. 2. An Angel in Disguise’ – T.S.Arthur 3. How I Edited An Agricultural Paper - Mark Twain 4. ‘On the Gull’s Road’—Willa Cather 5. My Kinsman, Major Molineux- Nathaniel Hawthorne 6. ‘The Cactus’- O. Henry

Module IV Drama36 hours

1. The Sandbox—Edward Albee. 2. The Case of the Crushed Petunias—Tennessee Williams. 3. The Oyster and the Pearl – William Saroyan 4. Porcelain and Pink – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Reference Books: 1. An Anthology of American Literature of the Nineteenth Century—

Ed.WilliamJ.Fisher, Reninger, Vaid. 1965 2. An Anthology of American Literature 1890-1945.Ed. Egbert S. Oliver. 1967. 3. The Best American Short Stories. 4. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vol B.1820--1865

(Model Question paper will be incorporated)




GENERIC ELECTIVE COURSE 1 --FILM STUDIES

COURSE CODE EN5GET01

TITLE OF THE COURSE FILM STUDIES


IS TO BE TAUGHT

5

NO. OF CREDITS 4


AIM:

• To introduce Film Studies as a discipline in the under graduate level so that students see and analyse film as cultural texts.

• To inform the students about the technicalities of film making • To expose the students to some classical films and its aesthetics.

COURSE OUTLINE:

Module One: Introduction to Films 18hr.

1. Film as Art and Representation: The Basic Concepts

2. Film Language: Art and Technique

3. An Overview of the Evolution of Film

MODULE 02 Film Language 18hr

1. Mise en scene : Setting Props

Lighting

Costume and Makeup, Acting/body language

Mise en scene: Uses and Functions;

Mise en scene Analysis of The Bicycle Thief by Vittoria de Sica

2. Cinematography: Classification of Shots Framing or Composition; Off-Screen

Camera Angle

Camera Distance (Extreme Long Shot, Long Shot, Medium Shot,

Medium Close-Up)

Height and Level of Framing

Camera Movement (Panning Tilting, Tracking Shots, Crane Shots,

Shot/Reverse Shot)

Masking

Simulated Camera Moves and Focusing

Shot Duration: The Long Take

3. Chronological Editing and Continuity Editing The Kuleshov Experiments and Montage Editing Cutting/Sequencing:

Continuity Cuts

Editing Types: The Cut, The Dissolve, Fade, Wipe The Iris

Module 3:

PERIODS AND MOVEMENTS IN CINEMA 36hr

1. The Silent Era 2. Classical Hollywood Cinema 3. Early Soviet Cinema 4. German Expressionism 5. French Poetic Realism 6. Italian Neo Realism 7. Third World Cinema and Latin America Cinema 8. New Hollywood Cinema 9. Contemporary World Cinema 10. Contemporary Indian Cinema

Reference reading:

SELECTED TEXTS

1. V I Pudovkin: “On Editing”

2. Andre Bazin: “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema”

3. Christian Metz: “Mirror, Image”

Films to be viewed and analysed critically:

1. Sergei Eisenstien: The Battleship Potemkin 2. Vittorio De Sica: Bicycle Thieves 3.

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