| MA in English |
| Department of English |
| Manarat International University |
Masters Program
| A Short Presentation |
Hasan Al-Mahmud
Student of MA in English
Fall 2014 – Summer 2015
Students ID: 1434ENM00199 | September 9, 2015 |
[email protected]
Manarat International University
Department of English (MA in English Program)
List of the Courses with Course Teachers
Fall 2014
| Courses | | Course Teachers |
ENM 111: Applied Linguistics & ELT Ahmad Mahbub-ul-Alam
ENM 112: Modern Poetry Professor Hemayet Hussain Khan
ENM 113: Modern Fiction Tasmia Moslehuddin
ENM 218: Research Methodology Farzana Zaman
Spring 2015
| Courses | | Course Teachers |
ENM 216: Continental Literature Tasmia Moslehuddin
ENM 217: South Asian and Afr. Lit. in Eng. Md. Afsar Kayum
ENM 115: Modern Literary Theories Ahmad Mahbub-ul-Alam
ENM 116: Modern Prose Professor Hemayet Hussain Khan
Summer 2015
| Courses | | Course Teachers |
ENM 114: Modern Drama Md. Afsar Kayum
ENM 301: Thesis Paper Md. Afsar Kayum
ENM 302: Viva Voce Department
Manarat International University
Department of English (MA in English Program)
List of the Courses with Short Description
ENM 111: Applied Linguistics & ELT
In this course we visited the areas of Applied Linguistics with particular emphasis on ELT. We
learned the principles of language learning and teaching. We also had some practical experiences
of how to apply their academic knowledge in practical language classes in the universities.
ENM 112: Modern Poetry
We studied modern poets like T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, D. H. Lawrence, Seamus Heaney, W. B.
Yeats. We studied the Selections from Norton Anthology as the details study.
ENM 113: Modern Fiction
We studied modern novelists like William Golding, Virginia Woolf, and Doris Lessing. We
studied the books: Lord of the Flies, To the Lighthouse, The Grass is Singing and The Old Man
and the Sea.
ENM 114: Modern Drama
We studied modern playwrights like J. M. Synge, Bernard Shaw, T.S. Eliot, Samuel Becket and
Harold Pinter. Selected Texts for detailed study were Riders to the Sea, Man and Superman,
Murder in the Cathedral and The Dumb Waiter.
ENM 115: Modern Literary Theories
In this course we learned the modern literary theories such as The Theory before Theory,
Structuralism, Post Structuralism and Deconstruction, Modernism and Post Modernism,
Psychoanalytic Criticism, Feminist Criticism, Marxist Criticism, Postcolonial Criticism and etc.
ENM 116: Modern Prose
We studied Virginia Woolf‘s A Room of One’s Own, James Joyce‘s Dubliners and Araby, D. H.
Lawrence‘s Why the Novel Matters in this course.
ENM 216: Continental Literature
We met some famous novelists, poets and playwrights from different European countries in this
course. We studied Dostoevsky‘s Crime and Punishment, Franz Kafka‘s The Metamorphosis,
Albert Camus‘s The Outsider and Ibsen‘s A Doll’s House.
Manarat International University
Department of English (MA in English Program)
List of the Courses with Short Description
ENM 217: South Asian and African Literature in English
In this course we emphasized on South Asian, African and Caribbean Writers. We studied V. S.
Naipaul‘s A House for Mr. Biswas, R. K. Narayan‘s The Guide, Chinua Achebe‘s Things Fall
Apart and Anita Desai‘s Clear Light of Day.
ENM 218: Research Methodology
In this course we learned some methods and techniques of conducting academic research in the
areas of English Literature, English Language teaching and Linguistics.
ENM 301: Thesis Paper
After completing the core and optional a student is to prepare a thesis paper under a departmental
supervisor. So, I am doing my research on ―The Pedagogical Aspects of English Studies in the
Private Universities of Bangladesh; and Evaluation‖ under the supervision of Md. Afsar Kayum,
Senior Lecturer, Department of English
ENM 302: Viva Voce
Viva Voce exam will take place at the end of the student‘s total MA in English program.
ENM 111 Applied Linguistics & ELT
Book Approach and Methods in Language Teaching
By Jack C. Richards and Theodore S. Rodgers
Chapt. Chapters
No.
01 A brief history of language teaching
02 The natural approach and methods in language teaching
03 The oral approach and Situational Language Teaching
04 The Audiolingual Method
05 Total Physical Response
06 The Silent Way
07 Communicative Language Teaching
08 Suggestopedia
09 Whole Language
Assignments
1. ―The brief history of English Language Teaching and its development in Bangladesh‖
(September 13, 2014)
2. ―The probable application and the outputs of the Oral Approach and Situational
Language Teaching Approach in Bangladesh‖ (October 14, 2014)
3. ―Consider Grammar Translation Method and its failure of global acceptance in ELT‖
(November 9, 2014)
4. ―Use of Social Media and Paradigm Shift of Learning English in Bangladesh‖ (December
7, 2014)
Thinking Log
1. ―Language Testing System for New Admitted University Students of Bangladesh‖
(November 18, 2014)
2. ―Use of Social Media and Paradigm Shift of Learning English in Bangladesh‖
(December 7, 2014)
Class Observation Report
1. General Information: Course Name: Fundamentals of English, Class Topic : Present
and Past Tense, Course Teacher : Tasmia Moslehuddin (Senior Lecturer, Department of
English, MIU), Class Room no. : 508, Class students : Students from DBA [Mixed],
Class students‘ level : Students of first and Second Semester, Class Time and Date :
October 19, 2014 [1:30 – 2:00 pm]
2. General Information: Course Name: Fundamentals of English, Class Topic : Article and
Nouns, Course Teacher : Tasmia Moslehuddin (Senior Lecturer, Department of English,
MIU), Class Room no. : 505, Class students : Students from DBA [Mixed], Class
students‘ level : Students of first and Second Semester, Class Time and Date : November
26, 2014 [9:00– 10:30 am]
Micro-teaching
1. Subject - Verb Agreement (December 9, 2014)
ENM 112 Modern Poetry
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
SL Poem(s) It is about
1
The speaker describes a frightening scene: the falcon (human), turning in
The Second a widening ―gyre‖ (spiral), cannot hear the falconer (god); ―Things fall
Coming apart; the center cannot hold‖; anarchy is loosed upon the world; ―The
blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of
innocence is drowned.‖ The best people, the speaker says, lack all
conviction, but the worst ―are full of passionate intensity.‖ Surely, the
speaker asserts, the world is near a revelation; ―Surely the Second
Coming is at hand.‖
2
Throughout the three short quatrains the poem explores the speaker‘s
The Lake longing for the peace and tranquility of Innisfree while residing in an
Isle Of urban setting. The speaker in this poem yearns to return to the island of
Innisfree Innisfree because of the peace and quiet it affords.
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It uses a journey to Constantinople (Byzantium) as a metaphor for a
spiritual journey. Yeats explores his thoughts and musings on how
Sailing to immortality, art, and the human spirit may converge. Through the use of
Byzantium various poetic techniques, Yeats‘s ―Sailing to Byzantium‖ describes the
metaphorical journey of a man pursuing his own vision of eternal life as
well as his conception of paradise.
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A Prayer It is written to Anne, his daughter with Georgie Hyde Lees, whom Yeats
for my married after his last marriage proposal to Maud Gonne was rejected in
1916. Yeats wrote the poem while staying in a tower at Thoor
Ballylee during the Anglo-Irish War, two days after Anne‘s birth on
Daughter February 26, 1919. The poem reflects Yeats‘s complicated views on Irish
Nationalism, sexuality, and is considered an important work of Modernist
poetry.
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This poem‘s vitality comes partially from its joining together of the
personal, the political, and the historical or mythical worlds. Yeats was
No Second deeply involved in his country‘s movement to cultural, if not political,
Troy independence from Great Britain, and his work is strengthened by this
involvement. He managed to include his own love (with Maud Gonne)
life in his poetry, without excluding the larger social and mythic realms.
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One of the most powerful political poems of the 20th century was written
by a man who was ambivalent about politics. Easter, 1916 describing the
poet‘s torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged
Easter, 1916 in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. The
uprising was unsuccessful, and most of the Irish republican leaders
involved were executed for treason. The poem was written between May
and September 1916.
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Among The poem was composed after the poet‘s visit to a convent school in
School Waterford Ireland in 1926. This poem moves from a direct consideration
Children of the children to Yeats‘ early love, Maud Gonne, and then to a
passionate philosophical conclusion in which all of Yeats‘s platonic
thinking blends into an exalted hymn of raise to the glory and the puzzle
of human existence.
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)
SL Poem(s) It is about
1
The Shield of Achilles is the shield that Achilles uses in his fight
with Hector, famously described in a passage in Book 18, lines 478–
608 of Homer‘s Iliad. Auden was disillusioned by the totalitarian state
The Shield of the modern world which completely buried the growth of the
of Achilles individual. He felt that people existed as the ‗State‘ and not as the
‗Individual‘. He therefore reflects the contrast between the modern
world and the Achillean world. Auden deliberately interprets the
images drawn on the shield to speak of the ills of the modern world.
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)
SL Poem(s) It is about
1
―The Waste Land‖, by T.S. Eliot, is widely regarded as ―one of the
most important poems of the 20th century‖ and a central text in
Modernist poetry published in 1922 having the 434-lines. The poem‘s
structure is divided into five sections: ―The Burial of the
Dead‖ introduces the diverse themes of disillusionment and despair,
The Waste ―A Game of Chess‖ employs pictures of several characters—
Land alternating narrations—that address those themes experientially, The
Fire Sermon, offers a philosophical meditation in relation to the
imagery of death and views of self-denial in juxtaposition influenced
by Augustine of Hippo and eastern religions. After a fourth section that
includes a brief lyrical petition, the culminating fifth section, What the
Thunder Said concludes with an image of judgment.
2
―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock‖, commonly known as
―Prufrock‖, is a poem by American-British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–
1965). Eliot began writing ―Prufrock‖ in February 1910. This poem,
The Love the earliest of Eliot‘s major works, was completed in 1910 or 1911 but
Song of J. not published until 1915. It is an examination of the tortured psyche of
Alfred the prototypical modern man—overeducated, eloquent, neurotic, and
Prufrock emotionally stilted. Prufrock, the poem‘s speaker, seems to be
addressing a potential lover, with whom he would like to ―force the
moment to its crisis‖ by somehow consummating their relationship.
Seamus Justin Heaney(1939-2013)
SL Poem(s) It is about
1
It takes a look at how we can be so incredibly rooted in a family, a
Digging tradition, and a place, and still be our own people, different from those
who came before us. These differences don‘t exclude us from our roots
and our past, but add another layer of variety to our personal identities.
In other words, we can take the man out of the potato field, but you
can‘t take the potato field out of the man.
2
It shows how the speaker‘s father plowing in the fields where Heaney
describes the taxing nature of the work. It tells too how the young
Follower speaker follows his father and how his father follows his son when the
father is an old man in present day.
3
It details the exploits of a young boy collecting frogspawn from a flax-
dam who remembers everything he saw and felt at those times. He
Death of a then remembers his teacher telling him all about frogs in a section that
Naturalist speaks volumes about childhood innocence. Finally, we hear about a
trip to the flax-dam that went wrong.
ENM 113 Modern Fiction
SL Writer(s) Writings(s) It is about
1
William Lord of the A group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited
Golding Flies island who try to govern themselves with devastating
results. It stands on the controversial subjects of human
nature and individual welfare versus the common good
2 Doris The Grass Is
Lessing Singing The conflict and racial politics between whites and
blacks in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
3 Ernest The Old Man
Hemingway and the Sea It‘s a straggling between human and nature. An old
fisherman named Santiagostruggles with a giant marlin
(fish) alone in sea and finally he wins and becomes the
Hemingway‘s ―code‖ hero.
4 Virginia To the
Woolf Lighthouse A landmark of high modernism which midpoints on the
main character Ramsay and his family who visit to
the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920
ENM 218 Research Methodology
The topics we learned about Research Methodology:
1) What is Research ? 8) Sampling
2) What is Research Methodology 9) Validity and Reliability
3) Types of Research 10) Techniques of data collection (For
4) How to develop a research example, how to conduct a good
question interview)
5) Developing a research design
6) Methodology
7) Methods of data collection
Finally, I did a research on ―Geoffrey Leech‘s Seven Types of Meaning‖
ENM 115 Modern Literary Theories
Book : Beginning Theory
Writer : Peter Barry
Topics
1. The Theory before Theory
2. Structuralism
3. Post Structuralism and Deconstruction
4. Modernism and Post Modernism
5. Psychoanalytic Criticism
6. Feminist Criticism
7. Marxist Criticism
8. Postcolonial Criticism
Assignments
1. A Psychoanalytic Criticism on Frank O Connor‘s ―My Oedipus Complex‖
2. A Feminist Criticism on Virginia Woolf‘s ―A Room of One's Own‖
3. A Criticism on ―Cat in the Rain‖ by Ernest Hemingway
4. A Criticism on My dear child… A letter from mom and dad
5. A Marxist Criticism On Katherine Mansfield‘s The Garden Party
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ENM 116 Modern Prose
SL Writer & Writings It is About
1
As a man needs change and continuous moving on by mental and
physical ways, a novel needs the characters to "live" in the story. If
Why the Novel the patterns of "life" doesn't change and stays the same, life will
Matters cease to live within the man, woman, or story. In this way, the essay
says to make people try to understand life as a succession of bad and
By good feelings, sensations, concepts, ideas, beliefs... The writer
D.H. Lawrence establishes the elements of his literary genre as if he would
describing the parts of his body- the novel is alive and ―whatever is
me alive is me‖.
2
The essay is based on a series of lectures she delivered at two
A Room of One's women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While
Own this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative
to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the
By manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled "Women
Virginia Woolf and Fiction", and hence the essay, are considered non-fiction. The
essay is generally seen as a feminist text.
Araby A young boy falls in love with his neighbor Mangan‘s sister. He
spends his time watching her from his house or thinking about her.
By
He and the girl finally talk, and she suggests that he visit a bazaar
James Joyce
called Araby, which she cannot attend. The boy plans to go and
purchase something for the girl, but he arrives late and buys nothing.
Dubliners Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first
published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle
By class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
James Joyce The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and
a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a
crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various
converging ideas and influences.
ENM 216 Continental Literature
SL Writer & Writings It is About
1
The Metamorphosis (The Transformation) is a novella of 1915. It
has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th
The century. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa,
Metamorphosis waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large,
monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation
by is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. The
Franz Kafka rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his
(Czech Republic- new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and
Austria) sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor
has become.
2
It is a novel published in 1942. Its theme and outlook are often cited
The Outsider as exemplars of Camus's philosophy of the
or The Stranger absurd and existentialism, though Camus personally rejected the
latter label. The titular character is Meursault, an indifferent French
By Algerian ("a citizen of France domiciled in North Africa, a man of
by Albert Camus the Mediterranean, an homme du midi yet one who hardly partakes
(Algeria-France) of the traditional Mediterranean culture") who, after attending his
mother's funeral, apathetically kills an Arab man whom he
recognises in French Algiers. The story is divided into two parts:
Meursault's first-person narrative view before and after the murder,
respectively.
3
The play is significant for its critical attitude toward 19th century
marriage norms. It aroused great controversy at the time, as it
A Doll's House concludes with the protagonist, Nora, leaving her husband and
children because she wants to discover herself. The play's theme is
by Henrik Ibsen not women's rights, but rather "the need of every individual to find
(Norway) out the kind of person he or she really is and to strive to become that
person.
4
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental suffering and
Crime and moral dilemmas1 of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished2 ex-
1
a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two different things you could do
2
needy penurious poor penniless disadvantaged
Punishment student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill
an unscrupulous3 pawnbroker4 for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that
By with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to
Fyodor counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a
Dostoyevsky worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own
(Russia) hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things,
and even have the right to do them. Several times throughout the
novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by comparing himself
with Napoleon Bonaparte, believing that murder is permissible in
pursuit of a higher purpose.
5 An Assignment A Post Modernism Study on Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis
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ENM 217 South Asian & African Literature
SL Writer & Writings It is About
1
It is set primarily in Old Delhi. The story describes the tensions in a
post-partition Indian family during and after childhood, starting with
Clear Light of Day the characters as adults and moving back into their lives throughout
the course of the novel. While the primary theme is the importance
By of family, other predominant themes include the importance of
Anita Desai forgiveness, the power of childhood, and the status of women,
particularly their role as mothers and caretakers, in modern day
India.
2
The Guide Like most of his works the novel is based in Malgudi, the fictional
town in South India. The novel describes the transformation of
By the protagonist, Raju, from a tour guide to a spiritual guide and then
R. K. Narayan one of the greatest holy men of India. The novel brought its author
the 1960 Sahitya Akademi Award for English, by the Sahitya
Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.
3
The title of the novel comes from a line in W. B. Yeats' poem "The
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dishonest, unprincipled, corrupt, dodgy
4
a person who lends money in exchange for things which they can sell if the person leaving them does not pay an agreed amount of money in an
agreed time
Things Fall Apart Second Coming". The novel follows the life of Okonkwo,
an Igbo ("Ibo" in the novel) leader and local wrestling champion in
by the fictional Nigerian village of Umuofia. The work is split into
Chinua Achebe three parts, the first describing his family and personal history, the
(Nigerian) customs and society of the Igbo, and the second and third sections
introduce the influence of British
colonialism and Christian missionaries on the Igbos community.
ENM 114: Modern Drama
SL Writer & Writings It is About
1 It is a verse drama that portrays the assassination
of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170,
first performed in 1935. Eliot drew heavily on the writing of Edward
Grim, a clerk who was an eyewitness to the event . The play, dealing
Murder in the with an individual's opposition to authority, was written at the time
Cathedral of rising fascism in Central Europe. Some material that the producer
asked Eliot to remove or replace during the writing was transformed
by into the poem "Burnt Norton".
T. S. Eliot
2
It is a play written by an Irish Literary Renaissance playwright. A
Riders to the Sea one-act tragedy, the play is set in the Aran Island, Inishmaan, and
like all of Synge's plays it is noted for capturing the poetic dialogue
By of rural Ireland. The plot is based not on the traditional conflict of
John Millington human wills but on the hopeless struggle of a people against the
Synge impersonal but relentless cruelty of the sea.
3
It is a one-act play written in 1957. "Small but perfectly formed, The
The Dumb Waiter Dumb Waiter might be considered the best of Harold Pinter's early
plays, more consistent than The Birthday Party and sharper than The
by Caretaker. It combines the classic characteristics of early Pinter – a
Harold Pinter paucity of information and an atmosphere of menace, working-class
small-talk in a claustrophobic setting – with an oblique but palpable
political edge and, in so doing, can be seen as containing the germ
of Pinter's entire dramatic oeuvre".
ENM 301: Thesis Paper
Topic The Pedagogical Aspects of English Studies in the Private Universities
of Bangladesh; and Evaluation
Thesis Supervisor Md. Afsar Kayum, Senior Lecturer, Department of English
Introduction of My Work:
English language is studied since early Middle Ages, firstly in Europe. As some
European ruled Bangladesh after 1957, English language got the popularity day
by day. After the Palashi tragedy, English got the new independence in this area.
Actually, it got the independence around the world as well. It is now the most
widely used language in the world5. Our close countries like India and Pakistan
have the more success of learning English. Bangladesh also has a beginning
success of learning this language. There are about 375
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million native speakers (people with first language as English) , which will be the
largest after Mandarin and Spanish. Then, what about the situation in
Bangladesh? So, the article has observed the procedures of how the language is
taught in Bangladeshi university curriculum where it is an academic discipline
that includes the study of literatures, language, linguistics and so on. Like other
countries, in Bangladesh, the books are read written in the English language,
English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology,
semantics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and stylistics), and English
sociolinguistics (including discourse analysis of written and spoken texts in the
English language, the history of the English language, English language learning
and teaching, and the study of World Englishes). In Bangladesh, the literary and
cultural dimensions of English studies are typically practiced in university
departments of English and it‘s also being studied in some departments of foreign
language or comparative literature. Even after the great practices of this language,
it‘s has not got the expected success as our neighbor countries have already.
ENM 302: Viva Voce: A complete presentation of all courses [September 9, 2015]
5
Mydans, Seth (14 May 2007) "Across cultures, English is the word" New York Times. Retrieved 21 September
2011
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Curtis, Andy. Color, race, and English language teaching: shades of meaning. 2006, page 192.
