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Uttara
University
School of Arts & Social Science
Department of English
Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in English
House-4, Road-15, Sector-6, Uttara Model Town, Uttara, Dhaka-1230
Phone: 8919794, 8919116
SCHOOL OF ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCE
Page-2 Department Of English
Syllabus
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English
1. Introduction: Uttara University offers English Honours, M.A (Preliminary) and M.A (Final) in English for
under graduate & graduate students respectively. The courses aim at creating in the students
general background in humanities with concentration in language & literature.
2. Course Description:
The course offered for B.A (Honors) students are grouped into (1) Core course- compulsory
for all (2) General Education course, Compulsory for all and (3) Concentration (elective) course
with alternatives.
3. Break down of the Courses:
3.1. Total credits : 132
3.2. Core courses : Credits (25x4) 100 (Compulsory for all students)
3.3. General Education courses 09 : Credits (4x3) 12 (Compulsory for all students)
Credits (5x4) 20 (Compulsory for all students)
4. Credit: Credits to be taken in each semester are a minimum of 12 and a maximum of 18.
5. Course Tenure:
There will be 3 semesters in each year & Honours students will complete 132 credits in 12
semesters (4 years).
6. Admission Requirement:
1. For Under Graduate Programs
1. Minimum two second divisions or one first division and one third division or 4 CGPA
in S.S.C., H.S.C or equivalent examinations.
2. 45% marks in related subjects
3. Students having break of study can apply
4. Must attain qualifying marks at the admission test.
2. For Post Graduate Degree/Diploma Program
1. Students seeking admission must have the bachelor degree from a recognised University
(National/International).
2. Over and above all candidates seeking admission must sit for admission test and attain
qualifying marks to be decided by Uttara University Authority.
Page-3 7. Grading System & Performance Evaluation
Students having minimum 75% class attendance will be eligible to take semester
examinations. Letter grading will be made to asses students performance. The grade will be
assigned on the overall evaluation of a student’s performance on the basis of semester final
examination, midterm test, case studies, tutorial test, term papers, assignment & class
attendance in aggregate and whatever is applicable for an individual program. Grades/GPA
will be determined by the teachers responsible for the course. The final result will be prepared
by cumulating the grade point average (CGPA) over the courses. The Letter grade
corresponding to numerical grade and grade point will be as follows:
Numerical Scores Letter Grade Grade Point 80-100 A+ 4.00 (A plus)
75-79 A 3.75 (A regular)
70-74 A- 3.50 (A minus)
65-69 B+ 3.25 (B plus)
60-64 B 3.00 (B regular)
55-59 B- 2.75 (B minus)
50-54 C+ 2.50 ( C plus)
45-49 C 2.25 ( C regular)
40-44 D 2.00
00-39 F 00
F * Failure
I ** Incomplete
W *** Withdrawal
R **** Repeat
Y***** Audit
* “F” means failure. Credits for courses with this grade do not apply towards graduation.
** An “I” grade is given to students who have fulfilled the majority of the course
requirements but have been unable to complete the rest. The student is not required to
register for the course in the next semester.
*** “W” means withdrawal. A student may decide to withdraw from a course by the
deadline with the consent of the instructor and the Academic Advisor.
**** “R” means repeat. Credits for courses with these grades do not apply towards
graduation and are not used for the calculation of the grade point average. Other
provisions for “R” will be applied as mentioned in the Section-3.5.
***** “Y” means audit. An existing student or ex-student may decide to audit a course of
his/her interest for improvement of his knowledge for the particular course. In this
case, the student pays the full tuition fee for the course, attends the classes, but is not
required to sit for the exams and no credit is earned.
Marking in the courses will be in the following manner:
10% marks for class attendance, 10% marks for tutorial, case studies, class test, viva voce or
other assignment by the course teacher or instructor, 30% marks for midterm test and 50%
marks for semester final examination to be converted into letter grade.
To remain in good standing in any degree offered by the Uttara University must a student
maintain a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.00 out of 4.00 on the basis
of courses taken. The GPA or CGPA will be calculated on the basis of number of
courses taken including the course(s) in which a student receives an F grade until he or she
repeats the course and the F grade is substituted to repeat the course only once. If, after
repeating the courses, a student fails to raise his/her CGPA to 2.00 he/she will stand dismissed
from the program.
Page-4 Basis for awarding marks for class attendance and participation will be as
follows:
Attendance Marks
90% and above 10
85% to less than 90% 09
80% to less than 85% 08
75% to less than 80% 07
70% to less than 75% 06
65% to less than 70% 05
60% to less than 65% 04
Less than 60% 00
Semesters at the University:
There will be three semesters in an academic year (Winter- September to December, Spring-
January to April, & Summer- May to August).
COURSE-WISE DISTRIBUTION OF CREDITS
Number of Courses: 25 Core and 09 General Education Courses
Course Types Number of
Courses
Number of Credits
Per Course
Entire Syllabus
Total number
of credits.
Core Courses [Compulsory] 25 [courses ] 4 credits 100 credits
General Education Courses [Compulsory] 9 [courses]
4 [courses] 3 credits 12 credits
5 [courses) 4 credits 20 credits
Total number of credits for the entire BA (Honours) in English
curriculum:
132 Credits
CORE COURSES: 25 NUMBER OF CREDITS: 25x4 = 100
ENG-101: English Language: Basic Level (Grammar and application)
1. Articles
2. Parts of Speeches and their usages
3. Number: Singular, Plural
4. Verbs: Types: Auxiliary. Model Auxiliary, Regular, Irregular. Transitive,
Intransitive. Conjugation Forms, Infinitive, Past and Past Participle.
5. Tenses
6. Use of Adjectives and Adverbs:
Degree: Positive, Comparative, Superlative.
7. Active Voice and Passive Voice.
8. Prepositions -A general idea about their appropriate uses.
9. Vocabulary:
a) Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms & Homophones
b) Prefixes, Suffixes, Inflexion, Ellipses & Appostrophe.
10. a) The Rules of Syntax
b) Punctuation
11. Speaking Skills:
Correct Pronunciation with Proper with intonation and Accent. Articulation,
Grammatical Accuracy, Fluency.
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ENG 102: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
a) Sixteenth Century Poetry:
William Shakespeare: i) Sonnet 18
ii) Sonnet 55
Ben Jonson:
i) Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
ii) To The Memory of My Beloved Mother
b) Seventeenth Century Poetry:
1. Metaphysical Poetry:
John Donne: Elegy: On his Mistress
George Herbert: Virtue
2. Puritan Poetry:
John Milton: On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty three
c) Eighteenth Century Poetry:
Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Blake: The Little Black Boy
d) Romantic Poetry:
William Wordsworth: i) The Solitary Reaper
ii) To the Cuckoo
Percy Bysshe Shelley: To a Skylark
John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn
e) Victorian Poetry:
Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
f) Twentieth Century Poetry:
William Butler Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Thomas Stearns Eliot: The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
Ted Hughes: The Jaguar
g) American Poetry (19th – 20th centuries):
Emily Dickinson: Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
ENG 103: INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA
a) William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
b) William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
c) Richard Brinsley Sheridan: The Rivals
d) George Bernard Shaw: Arms and The Man
e) John Millington Synge: Riders to the Sea
ENG 104: INTRODUCTION TO FICTION
a) Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels [Selected parts]
b) Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
c) Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’Urbervilles / Return of the Native
d) William Golding: Lord of the Flies
ENG 105: INTRODUCTION TO PROSE
a) Francis Bacon: Selected Essays
b) Joseph Addison: Selected Essays/ Papers
c) Samuel Johnson: Lives of the Poets [The Life of one selected poet]
d) John Henry Newman: The Idea of a University
e) George Orwell: Shooting An Elephant
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ENG 106: ROMANTIC POETRY
a. William Wordsworth: i) The Prelude (Selected part)
ii) Tintern Abbey
iii) Ode on the Intimations of Immortality
iv) Michael
v) Three Years She Grew
b. S. T. Coleridge: i) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
ii) Kubla Khan
iii) Christabel
iv) Dejection; An Ode
c. G. G. Lord Byron: i) Don Juan (Canto I)
ii) The Prisoner of Chillon
d. P. B. Shelley: i) Ode to the West Wind
ii) Adonais
c. John Keats: i) Ode to a Nightingale
ii) Ode on Melancholy
iii) Ode to Psyche
iv) The Eve of St. Agnes
ENG-107: English Language: Advance Level (Applied Language Skills)
Writing Skills:
a) Re-Drilling in Syntax
b) Advance Sentence Framing
c) Sentence Types- Comparative Study
d) Intricate Sentence Structure
e) Relatively higher concepts of appropriate preposition in use
f) Phrasal verbs-importance and uses
g) Formal and informal (Colloquial) English Difference
h) Clauses and their usage patterns
i) Paragraphs, Descriptions, Expansions of ideas. Reports, Letters (formal &
informal), Summary, Précis. Synopsis, Essay
Reading Skills:
Art / Style of reading. Reading for comprehension. Reading for fluency. Reading to
comphasize ideas.
Listening Skills:
Understanding a variety of speech sounds. Listening for specific information.
Listening for overall comprehension.
Phonetics:
1. a) Phonetic Symbols
b) Phonetic Transcription
c) Stress and Intonation
d) Art of correct pronunciation
e) Phonemes
f) Morphemes
ENG 201: ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
a) Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy
b) Christopher Marlowe: i) Doctor Faustus
ii) Tamburlaine The Great
c) William Shakespeare: i) Macbeth
ii) As You Like It
Page-7 d) Ben Jonson: Volpone
e) John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
ENG 202: 16TH and 17TH CENTURY POETRY a) Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene [One selected book]
b) William Shakespeare: Three Selected Sonnets
c) John Donne: i) A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
ii) Extasie
iii) Canonization
d) George Herbert: i) Affliction
ii) Death
iii) Life
e) Andrew Marvell: i) To His Coy Mistress
ii) On a Drop of Dew
iii) The Definition of Love
f) John Milton: i) Paradise Lost - Bk. IV
g) John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
ENG 203: 17TH CENTURY PROSE AND DRAMA
a. Prose works:
i) Sir Thomas Browne: Urn Burial
ii) John Milton: Areopagitica
iii) John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress
iv) John Dryden: ‘A Preface to Fables’
b. Drama:
i) John Dryden: All for Love
ii) William Congreve: The Way of the World
ENG 204: LITERARY CRITICISM This course introduces students to some of the fundamental ideas about literary
criticism leading to relevant approaches. It examines the different views on authors
and their works and on literature in general.
Prescribed texts
a) Aristotle: Poetics
b) Sir Philip Sidney: Defence of Poesie
c) John Dryden: An Essay of Dramatic Poesie
d) William Wordsworth: A Preface to Lyrical Ballads
e) Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia- Literaria [Chapters 14 and 16]
f) Mathew Arnold: The Study of Poetry
g) T S Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent
h) Terry Eagleton: The Rise of English
ENG-205: EASTERN THOUGHT AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
a) Eastern Thought
Indian / Sub Continental:
The Vedas
The Upanishads
The Theism of the Bhagabat Geeta
Buddhism
Charvaka
The Six Orthodox Schools
Sankhya- Yaga
Mimasnaha – Velanta
Nyaya – Vaisesikha
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Chinese / Japanese:
Taoism
Confucianism
Zen Buddhism
Islamic: School of Muslim Philosophy
Sufism
Ghazzali
Ibn Arabi
Rumi
b) Western Philosophy
Thoughts and views of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Rousseau, Schopenhauer,
Nietzsche and Sartre
ENG 206: WORLD LITERATURE- I
1. Drama:
a. Comedy
i) Moliere: The Miser
ii) Anthon Chekhov: Uncle Vanya
b. Tragedy
Henrik Ibsen: Ghosts/The Doll’s House
2. Fiction:
i) Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
ii) Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
iii) Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
ENG 301: 18TH CENTURY LITERATURE
a. Drama:
i) Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
ii) RB Sheridan: The School for Scandal
b. Fiction:
i) Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
c. Prose works:
i) Lord Chesterfield: Letters to His Son
ii) Edmund Burke: Reflections on the French Revolution
d. Poetry:
i) Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
ii) William Cowper: i) On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture,
ii) The Castaway
iii) William Blake: i) Songs of Innocence [Selected Poems]
ii) Songs of Experience [Selected Poems]
ENG 302: CLASSICS IN TRANSLATION
a. Epics:
i) Homer: The Iliad
ii) Virgil: Aeneid
b. Plays:
i) Aeschylus: Agamemnon
ii) Sophocles: Oedipus the King
iii) Euripides: The Trojan Women
iv) Aristophanes: Lysistrata
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ENG 303: HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Influences of events, circumstances and social changes across the ages
Evolution: Old English – Middle English- Mediaeval ages –Modern/ Present day
English: Trends/Usage.
ENG 304: HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
a. Characteristics manifest in English Literature of different ages
b. The temper and mood of every period – various influences
c. Lifestyles, popular tastes and sentiments and their impact on the shaping of the
literature of any particular period
d. Writers, their lives and works.
ENG 305: VICTORIAN LITERATURE
a) Poetry:
i) Alfred Lord Tennyson: i) In Memoriam [Selected parts)
ii) Tithonus
iii) Oenone
iv) Morte D’Arthur
ii) Robert Browning: i) Andrea Del Sarto
ii) Rabbi Ben Ezra
iii) A Grammarian’s Funeral
iii) Matthew Arnold: i) The Scholar Gypsy
ii) Thyrsis
iii) Dover Beach
iv) Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems
b) Drama:
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
c) Fiction:
i) Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
ii) Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
iii) Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd
ENG 306: WORLD LITERATURE- II
a. Drama:
i) Seneca: Phaedra
ii) Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author
b. Fiction:
i) Andre Maurois: Ariel
ii) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
iii) R K Narayan: The Financial Expert
iv) V S Naipaul: The Enigma of Arrival
ENG 401: OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE
Group A: Old English Poetry
i) The Wanderer.
ii) The Seafarer
iii) Deor.
Group B: Middle English Poetry.
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Nonne Priest’s Tale
Group C: Middle English Prose
Sir Thomas Malory: Morte D’ Arthur
Page-10 ENG 402: FURTHER READINGS: ENGLISH LITERATURE
a. Drama:
i) John Milton: Samson Agonistes
ii) George Bernard Shaw: Saint Joan
iii) John Osborne: The Entertainer
b. Fiction:
i) Somerset Maugham: Of Human Bondage
ii) D H Lawrence: The Rainbow
iii) Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party and Other Stories
iv) A S Byatt: Possession
ENG 403: PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
Phonetics : Basic Ideas, The organs of speech, Phonetic symbols,
Description of consonants and vowels,
Study of English and Bengali speech sounds, Cardinal vowels,
Short vowels, Long vowels and diphthongs, English
plosives, fricatives, affricates and nasals.
Phonology : Defining phone, allophone and phoneme, Voice quality and
voice dynamics.
Phonemic transcription : The nature of stress, factors of stress prominence,
Weak and strong forms.
Intonation system in English: Function of intonation, Structure of tone unit,
High and low pitch possibilities in a single tone unit, Transcription
of utterances, Assigning stress marks to denote how written speech
should be intoned.
ENG 404: INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
b. Theories of Language and communication, Functions of Language
c. The role of Language in Human development – both individual and social
d. Acquisition of Language
Morphology, Orthography, Sign language, Syntax, Semantics
e. Ideas about Associative meaning, Audio lingual method, Aural – oral
method, Audio – visual method, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive strategy,
Language loyalty, Language Pedagogy, Hesitation phenomena, Lingua
franca, Etymology etc.
ENG 405: SHAKESPEARE a. Plays:
A few major plays excepting those selected for other courses
i) King Lear
ii) Richard II
iii) Henry IV [Part I)
iv) Measure for Measure
v) Twelfth Night
b. Sonnets (Six selected sonnets)
c. Criticism
Important critics on Shakespeare
i) A C Bradley
ii) Wilson Knight
iii) Caroline FE Spurgeon
iv) Terry Eagleton
v) Jan Kott
vi) Stephen Greenblatt
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ENG 406: ENGLISH AS A SECOND OR FOREIGH LANGUAGE: BASIC
THEORIES AND LEARNING METHODS
A study of the process of learning English as a second or foreign language,
Special attention to be given to theories, variables and second/foreign
Language Acquisition.
a) Introduction
b) Approach
c) Consolidating Learning
d) Objectives
e) Consideration of Practical situations
f) Application and Utilization
ENG 407: AMERICAN LITERATURE
a. Fiction:
i) Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
ii) Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
b. Drama:
i) Eugene O’Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra
ii) Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
c. Poetry
i) Edgar Allen Poe: i) To Helen
ii) The Haunted Palace
iii) The Raven
ii) Walt Whitman: Selected Poems
iii) Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems
iv) Robert Frost: Selected Poems
d. Prose
i) Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self reliance
ii) Henry David Thoreau: Civil Resistance
ENG-408: Language / Learning in Bangladesh
1. The nature of language learning process
2. ELT teaching / learning in Bangladesh
3. Place of English in our curriculum
4. Introduction to the syllabus and methods.
ENG-409: Reading and Writing
Objective:
This course is designed to wake the student’s better readers and writers. It aims to
develop the students’ critical reading skills and waster the writing of well-planned,
organized and coherent essays.
Contents:
Main qualities of good compositions
Paragraph writing: topic sentences
Different modes of paragraph and essay writing: description, narration, process,
comparison and contrast, cause and effect
Structure of an essay: introduction, thesis statement, body and support, conclusion
Grammar issues relevant to the writing tasks
Summary writing:
Reading Skills: predicting, skimming, scanning, inferencing
Course Book: Writing Skills: John Langane.
References:
Grammar and Composition: Houghton Mifflin English.
The Advancing Writer: Karen L. Greenberg.
From Paragraph to Essay: Maurice Imhoof.
Page-12 GENERAL EDUCATION COURSES
9 COURSES (COMPULSORY FOR ALL STUDENTS)
4x3 + 5x4 =12+20= 32 Credits
GEC. 201: BANGLADESH STUDIES
Part-A : Society and Culture
The Sociological Perspective, Primary Concepts, Actors of social life, Social Structure
and Process, Social Institutions, Culture and Civilization, City and Country, Social
Change, Problems of Society, Social Problems of Bangladesh, urbanization Process and
its impact on Bangladesh Society will be covered.
Part B: Bangladesh History
1. Introduction: Sources of History, History in Nation Building.
2. Ancient Bengal: Ancient Geography and trade links with other world,-PalaL and Sena Dynasty.
3. Medieval Bengal: Muslim Conquest of Bengal, Socio-economic and cultural changes Unification
of Bengal, the Development of Bengali language and Literature. The Independent Sultanate in
Bengal-Bengal under the Mughals, the Nawaabi Rule in Bengal (1700-1765)
4. Modern Period: British Colonial Rule, Introduction of Zamindari System and decline of
socioeconomic condition, Resistance movements, English education and its impact, revival of
statehood in Bengal, the Growth of Indian national Congress, the Creation of New Province of East
Bengal and Assam, Muslim League (1906, Bengal Pact (1923).
5. Autonomous Bengal 1937-1947 & East Pakistan as a province of Pakistan: Foundation of Awami
League, Language Movement of 1952, united Front and Fall of Muslim League, the Military Rule
of Ayub Khan, Economic Disparity between the two regions, Cultural suppression of West
Pakistan, 6-point Movement, Mass upsurge in 1969, the Rule of Yahya Khan, Election of 1970, the
War of Independence and the Emergence of Bangladesh.
GEC. 202: WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
The Greeks and the Romans:The Pre-Socratic, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans, Cynics,
Skeptics. The medieval World view. The Renaissance: Earmus, More, Machiavelli, Bacon. The
Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Descartes, Hobbes, Locke. The Enlightenment and
18th Century Thought: Berkely Hume, Burke, Adam Smith, Malthus, Rousseau, Kant.
Romanticism and the French Revolution. The American war of Independence and Democracy.
19th Century Thought: Hegel, Marx and Socialism, Utilitariansim, Darwin and the Theory of
Evolution,
GEC. 203: WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Group-A
Characteristics of Ancient Philosophy: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Characteristics of
Medieval Philosophy : Saint Augustine, Saint Anselm, Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Group- B
Characteristics of modern Philosophy: Rationalism, Descartes; Empiricism, Locke and
Hume; Critical Theory: Kant, Idealism: Hegel, Characteristics of contemporary
Philosophy: Pessimism; Schopenhauer: Dialectic Materialism: Karl Marx; Existentialism:
Kierkegaard and Jean Paul Sartre; Pragmatism: William James; Analytic Philosophy: Moore
and Bertrand Russel.
GEC. 204: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER
Introduction to the terminology and use of computers in organizations, including hardware and
software technology, business data processing, distributed processing and networking.
character manipulations and Files; Use of DOS, database, and major software packages for
business. Algorithm Design and Program development. Programming Language, Compiler,
Interpreter, Assembler, Operating Systems
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GEC. 205: EUROPEAN HISTORY
Classic Greece, Classical Rome, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The Reformation, the
Enlightenment in History, the American Revolution the France Revolution, the Industrial
Revolution the German and Italian Unification, World war I, The Russian Revolution, the
World War II.
GEC. 206: INTRODUCTION TO BENGALI LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
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GEC. 207: INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE
Political Science: Its nature, meaning, scope and methods. Fundamental Concepts: State,
Sovereignty, Law, Liberty and Equality, Forms of Government: Democracy and Dictatorship,
Parliamentary, and Presidential; Unitary and Federal. Organs of Government: Legislature,
Executive and Judiciary, Theory of Separation Powers: Its meaning, Importance and
Working, Role of Political Parties and Electorate. The Constitution of Bangladesh.
GEC. 208: ECONOMICS
1. Definition and Subject matter of Economics: Distinction between micro & macro
economics-some basic economic concepts- Alternative economics systems- Capitalism,
Socialism and Islamic economics.
2. The Theory of demand and supply and their uses- Elasticity of demand and supply &
their measurement. Difference between demand and supply of agricultural and industrial
products.
The Law of diminishing marginal utility & the law of equimarginal utility-consumer’s
surplus.
3. The Indifference Curve analysis- Properties of Indifference Curve. Consumer’s
equilibrium-Income, substitution & price effects.
4. The Theory of Production- factors of production, returns to scale—production functions-
ISO-product and Iso-cost curves- producer’s equilibrium.
5. Market structure- Perfect, imperfect and monopoly-concepts of cost & revenue. short run
and long run, cost curves-producer’s equilibrium.
6. The Pricing of the factors of Production- The marginal productivity The of distribution-
determination of rent, wages, interest and profit.
7. National Income & its different concepts- methods of computing National Income-
problems of computing National Income-Uses of National Income.
8. The Theory of income determination- Keynesian approach-consumption function,
Investment function- Multiplier.
Page-14 9. Banking- The commercial banks-functions of commercial banks. Principles of
commercial banks and balance sheet-Multiple credit and credit creation-
Specialized financial institutions. The Central Bank-functions of Central Bank, various
instruments of credit control & their limitations- Monetary policy. Islamic banking systems.
10. Public Finance- Private Vs. public finance-Sources of revenue & heads of expenditure of
the governments. Public expenditure & Public borrowing budgets-capital & revenue.
Taxation-Principles of taxation-type of taxation-Incidence of taxation-zaket public debt:
Internal vs. external debt- Burden of public debt- fiscal policy.
GEC-209: MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
The objective of the course is to familiarize students with both traditional and emerging
concepts and trends of management and organizational behavior. Students are prepared for
general management and supervisory positions and are provided background to study in
specialized topics in management and organizational behavior. The course covers issues
of individual behavior, group functioning and the actions of organizations in their
environments. Problems of work motivation, task design, leadership, communication,
organizational design and innovation will be analyzed from a theoretical and practical
perspectives. Implications for the management of organizations are illustrated through
examples, cases and exercises.
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GEC. 202: WESTERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
The Greeks and the Romans:The Pre-Socratic, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans,
Cynics, Skeptics. The medieval World view. The Renaissance: Earmus, More, Machiavelli,
Bacon. The Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Descartes, Hobbes, Locke. The
Enlightenment and 18th Century Thought: Berkely Hume, Burke, Adam Smith, Malthus,
Rousseau, Kant. Romanticism and the French Revolution. The American war of Independence
and Democracy. 19th Century Thought: Hegel, Marx and Socialism, Utilitariansim, Darwin and
the Theory of Evolution,