ASSUMPTION COLLEGE

AUTONOMOUS

Reaccredited by NAAC with ‘A’ Grade

Affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University,
Kottayam

CURRICULUM FOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME

IN
BA ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Under Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)

(2017 Admission onwards)
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CONTENTS

Sl. No TITLE

1 PREFACE

2 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

3 MEMBERS OF BOARD OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH

MINUTES OF BOARD OF STUDIES MEETING HELD ON 10 th

4
JANUARY 2017

REGULATIONS FOR UNDER GRADUATE PROGRAMMES

5
UNDER CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM 2016

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE AND SYLLABI OF UNDER

6 GRADUATE PROGRAMME IN BA ENGLISH LANGUAGE

AND LITERATURE

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PREFACE

The revised syllabus of the undergraduate programme in English Language and

Literature is both traditional and modern in focus. It is traditional in that the thrust is

primarily on the three literary genres: prose, poetry and fiction. Film studies has

purposefully been omitted as in our traditional classroom set up with a student strength of

more than 40, viewing and critical analysis of films may be difficult. Nevertheless, this

genre too will be incorporated in the years to come. Simultaneously, the programme is

modern, as all the courses incorporate contemporary writing. A Song by the 2016 Nobel

Laureate in Literature, Bob Dylan and an excerpt from the 2014 Peace Prize Nobel laureate

Malala Yousafzai’s autobiography too finds space here. Thus in this syllabus we have tried

to bring about a fusion of the past and the present so that the students learn about the glory

of yore and the splendour of the present as only an amalgam of the two can bring out a

greater understanding of the craft of literature.

In the very first semester, the students are given an overview of the History of

English Literature. The subsequent semesters take up each of the genres in detail. In the

second semester the focus is on the history of the English Language along with phonetics

and linguistics. The final two semesters deal with the varieties of literatures from across

the continents. Thus the BA degree course in English Language and Literature spreads a

platter that includes aspects of the English Language, English Literature and the several

varieties of Englishes flourishing across the globe to serve as a foundation for the Masters

Programme.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

While working with my colleagues on our first ever draft syllabus, I realized how
hectic, frenzied and chaotic life could get under an autonomous system. Nevertheless it was
also a period of exploring unchartered lands, fathoming obscure concepts and drinking deep
from the well of knowledge. It was a journey that not only helped us scale the strenuous
heights of learning, but also left us wishing for more such challenges.

AND now it is time to place on record the gratefulness that we feel towards all who
helped create this.

We genuflect before the Almighty who gave us the ability, strength and resilience to
complete work on this syllabus.

We thank our patron, His Grace Mar Joseph Perumthottam, Arch Bishop of
Changanacherry for his vision and foresight in propelling the college towards academic
excellence. We also thank our Manager, Rev Dr James Palackal for inspiring and
motivating us.

Sincere thanks are also due to the Honorable Vice Chancellor, Pro Vice Chancellor,
Registrar, the members of the syndicate and all the other academic bodies of Mahatma
Gandhi University, for the guidance and support extended towards the college.

We are extremely obliged to the Principal Dr. Sr. Marikutty Joseph, who has always
extended unflinching support to the department in all her endeavours. Special thanks are also due
to our Vice Principals Sr. Thresiamma Devasia and Dr. Regimol C Cherian for their noteworthy
suggestions and critical observations.

We sincerely thank all the members of the Board of Studies for their expert guidance,
practical suggestions and minute observations which helped us formulate this syllabus. It
was indeed a mesmerizing experience, collaborating with some of the finest minds in the
discipline.

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Our heartfelt gratitude is also due to the Governing Council and Academic Council
for their support and motivation.

We wish to thank and credit all involved in the process of restructuring this syllabus.
Together we have put together our very best in the limited time we had.

Chairperson
Board of Studies
Assumption College (Autonomous)

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ASSUMPTION COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHANGANASSERY

BOARD OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH

Chairperson:

Dr Judith Sebastian, Associate Professor, Assumption College, Autonomous Changanassery

Subject Experts:

Dr Hariharan B, Institute of English, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram

Dr Radhika P, Associate Professor, Fatima Mata National College, Kollam

Members

Sr Annie, Department of French, Assumption College, Changanassery

Dr Sabu Joseph, Associate Professor, St Berchmans College, Changanassery

Dr Raju Sebastian, Associate Professor, St Berchmans College, Changanassery

Dr Vimal Mohan John, Assistant Professor, St Berchmans College, Changanassery

Representative from Industry

Mr T. C. Mathew, Senior Associate Editor, Deepika

Alumna

Dr Gigy Alex, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram

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Minutes of Board of Studies Meeting, held at Assumption College,

Changanassery on 10 January 2017

The following members attended the meeting.

Chairperson:
Dr Judith Sebastian Sd/
Subject Experts:
Dr Radhika P Sd/
Members
Sr Annie Sd/
Dr Sabu Joseph Sd/
Dr Raju Sebastian Sd/
Dr Vimal Mohan John Sd/
Mr T. C. Mathew Sd/
Dr Gigy Alex Sd/

The meeting proceeded to the matters on the Agenda

• Approval of the minutes of the previous Board of Studies meeting held on 30

May 2016.

• Approval of Draft Syllabus of BA English 2017- 2020

• Approval of Draft Syllabus of BA Communicative English 2017- 2020

• Approval of Draft Syllabus of MA English 2017- 2020

• Approval of Draft Syllabus of Common course in English for BCom and BCA
2017- 2020

• Approval of Draft Syllabus of French (Second Language) for undergraduate

Programmes 2017- 2020

• Preparation of the Board of Examiners (Theory & Practical) for second semester
UG/PG Examination 2017-18.

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Recommendations from the Board:

1. The draft syllabus was presented before the Board of Studies. A detailed discussion
ensued on all the papers. After incorporating the suggestions and modifications
raised by the members, the draft syllabus was framed, approved and recommended
to be presented before the Academic council.

2. The Board of Examiners (Theory & Practical) for Second semester UG examination
2016-17 was approved by the Board of Studies.

3. Minutes of the meeting held on 30 May 2016 was approved by the members.

Chairperson, Assumption College, Changanassery

Read and confirmed
Principal, Assumption College, Changanassery

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REGULATIONS FOR UNDER

GRADUATE PROGRAMMES
UNDER CHOICE BASED
CREDIT SYSTEM, 2016

ASSUMPTION COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)

CHANGANASSERY

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1. TITLE
These regulations shall be called “Regulations for Under Graduate Programmes
under Choice Based Credit System, 2016”, Assumption College, Autonomous.

2. SCOPE
Applicable to all regular and self-financing Under Graduate Programmes conducted
by the College with effect from 2017 admissions.

3. DEFINITIONS
3.1. ‘Academic Week’ is a unit of five working days in which distribution of work
is organized from day-one today-five, with five contact hours of one hour
duration on each day. A sequence of 18 such academic weeks constitutes a
semester.
3.2. ‘College Co-ordinator’ is a teacher nominated by the College Council to co-
ordinate the continuous evaluation undertaken by various departments within
the college. She shall be nominated by the College Principal.
3.3. ‘Common Course I’ means a course that comes under the category of courses
for English and ‘Common Course II’ means additional language, a selection of
both is compulsory for Model I and Model II undergraduate programmes.
3.4. ‘Complementary Course’ means a course which would enrich the study of core
courses.
3.5. ‘Core course’ means a course in the subject of specialization within a degree
programme.
3.6. ‘Course’ means Paper(s) which will be taught and evaluated within a semester.
3.7. ‘Credit’ is the numerical value assigned to a paper according to the relative
importance of the content of the syllabus of the programme.
3.8. ‘Department’ means any teaching department in a college.
3.9. ‘Department Co-ordinator’ is a teacher nominated by the Head of Department
to co-ordinate the continuous evaluation undertaken in that department.
3.10. ‘Extra Credits’ are additional credits awarded to a student over and above the
minimum credits required for a programme for achievements in co-curricular
activities carried out outside the regular class hours as directed by the college.
3.11. Grace Marks shall be awarded to candidates as per the Orders issued from time
to time.

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3.12. ‘Grade’ means a letter symbol (e.g., A, B, C, etc.), which indicates the broad
level of performance of a student in a course/ semester/programme.
3.13. ‘Grade point’ (GP) is the numerical indicator of the percentage of marks
awarded to a student in a course.
3.14. ‘Institutional Average (IA)’ means average mark secured (Internal + External)
for a paper at the College level.
3.15. ‘Open course’ means a course outside the field of specialization of a student
and offered by the Departments which can be opted by a student.
3.16. ‘Parent Department’ means the department which offers core courses in an
under graduate programme.
3.17. ‘Programme’ means a three year programme of study and examinations spread
over six semesters, according to the regulations of the respective programme,
the successful completion of which would lead to the award of a degree.
3.18. ‘Semester’ means a term consisting of a minimum of 450 contact hours
distributed over 90 working days, inclusive of examination days, within 18 five-
day academic weeks.
3.19. Words and expressions used and not defined in this regulation shall have the
same meaning assigned to them in the Act and Statutes of the University.

4. ELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION AND RESERVATION OF SEATS

4.1 Eligibility of admission, Norms for admission, reservation of seats for various
Under Graduate Programmes shall be according to the rules framed by the
University in this regard from time to time.
4.2 Students can opt for any one (other than core and complementary subjects) of
the Open course offered by different departments of the college in the fifth
semester (subject to the availability of vacancy in the concerned discipline).
Selection of students in the open course will be done in the college based on the
interest of the students.

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5. DURATION
5.1 The duration of U.G. programmes shall be 6 semesters.
5.2 There shall be two semesters in an academic year. The duration of odd semesters
shall be from June to October and that of even semesters from November to
March. There shall be three days semester break after odd semesters and two
months vacation during April and May in every academic year.
5.3 A student may be permitted to complete the Programme, on valid reasons,
within a period of 12 continuous semesters from the date of commencement of
the first semester of the programme.

6. REGISTRATION
6.1 The strength of students for each course shall remain as per existing regulations,
as approved by the University except in case of open courses for which there
shall be a minimum of 15 and maximum of sanctioned strength including
marginal increase.
6.2 The number of courses/credits that a student can take in a semester is governed
by the provisions in these regulations pertaining to the minimum and maximum
number of credits permitted.
6.3 Those students who possess the required minimum attendance and progress
during an academic year/semester and could not register for the annual/semester
examination are permitted to apply for Notional Registration to the examinations
concerned enabling them to get promoted to the next class.

7. SCHEME AND SYLLABUS

7.1. The U.G. programmes shall include (a) Common courses I & II, (b) Core
courses, (c) Complementary Courses, (d) Open Course.

7.2. There shall be one Open course in the fifth semester.

7.3. There shall be one Choice based paper in the sixth semester with a choice of one
out of three elective papers.

7.4. A separate minimum of 30% marks each for internal and external (for both
theory and practical) and aggregate minimum of 40% are required for a pass for
a paper. For a pass in a programme, a separate minimum of Grade D is required
for all the individual papers. If a candidate secures F Grade for any one of the
paper offered in a semester/programme, only F grade will be awarded for that

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semester/programme until she improves this to D Grade or above within the

permitted period.

7.5. Improvement/supplementary examinations will be conducted only in the even

semesters following the publication of the results. As an exemption to this, prior
to final semester, the improvement/supplementary examinations can be arranged
along with the previous end semester exam.

7.6. Students discontinued from previous regulations, can pursue their studies in
Regulations for Under Graduate Programmes under Choice Based Course
Credit System, 2016” after obtaining readmission. These students have to
complete the programme as per Regulations for Under Graduate
Programmes under Choice Based Credit System, 2016”.

8. PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

Model I BA/BSc

a Programme Duration 6 Semesters

Total Credits required for successful completion of the

b 120
programme

c Credits required from common course I 22

d Credits required from common course II 16

Credits required from Core + complementary

e 79
including Project

f Credits required from Open course 3

g Minimum attendance required 75%

Model IB Com

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a Programme Duration 6 Semesters

Total Credits required for successful completion of
b 120
the programme
c Credits required from common course I 14
d Credits required from common course II 8
Credits required from Core + complementary
e 95
including Project
f Credits required from Open course 3

g Minimum attendance required 75%

Model II BA/BSc

a Programme Duration 6 Semesters

Total Credits required for successful completion of the
b 120
programme
c Credits required from common course I 16
d Credits required from common course II 8
Credits required from Core + complementary +
e 93
vocational courses including Project

f Credits required from Open course 3

g Minimum attendance required 75%

Model III BA/BSc/B Com

a Programme Duration 6 Semesters

Total Credits required for successful completion of the

b 120
programme

c Credits required from common course I 8

Credits required from Core + complementary +
d 109
vocational courses including Project

e Credits required from Open course 3

f Minimum attendance required 75%

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9. EXAMINATIONS
9.1 The evaluation of each course shall contain two parts:
(i) Internal or In-Semester Assessment (ISA)
(ii) External or End-Semester Assessment (ESA)
9.2 The internal to external assessment ratio shall be 1:4, for both courses with or
without practical. There shall be a maximum of 80 marks for external evaluation
and maximum of 20 marks for internal evaluation. For all courses (theory &
practical), grades are given on a 10-point scale based on the total percentage of
marks. (ISA+ESA) as given below:

Percentage of Marks Grade Grade Point

95 and above O Outstanding 10

85 to below 95 A+ Excellent 9

75 to below 85 A Very Good 8

65 to below 75 B+ Good 7

55 to below 65 B Above average 6

50 to below 55 C Average 5

40 to below 50 D Pass 4

Below 40 F Fail 0

AB Absent 0
Note: Decimals are to be rounded to the next whole number

10. CREDIT POINT AND CREDIT POINT AVERAGE

Credit Point (CP) of a course is calculated using the formula
CP = C x GP, where C = Credit; GP = Grade point
Credit Point Average (CPA) of a Semester/Programme is calculated using the formula
CPA = TCP/TC, where TCP = Total Credit Point; TC = Total Credit

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Grades for the different semesters and overall programme are given based on the
corresponding CPA as shown below:

CPA Grade

Equal to 9.5 and above O Outstanding

Equal to 8.5 and below 9.5 A+ Excellent

Equal to 7.5 and below 8.5 A Very Good

Equal to 6.5 and below 7.5 B+ Good

Equal to 5.5 and below 6.5 B Above average

Equal to 5 and below 5.5 C Average

Equal to 4 and below 5 D Pass

Below 4 F Fail

Note: A separate minimum of 30% marks each for internal and external (for both theory
and practical) and aggregate minimum of 40% are required for a pass for a course. For a
pass in a programme, a separate minimum of Grade D is required for all the individual
courses. If a candidate secures F Grade for any one of the courses offered in a
Semester/Programme only F grade will be awarded for that Semester/Programme until
he/she improves this to D grade or above within the permitted period. Candidate who
secures D grade and above will be eligible for higher studies.

11. MARKS DISTRIBUTION FOR EXTERNAL EXAMINATION AND INTERNAL

EVALUATION
The external examination of all semesters shall be conducted by the College at the
end of each semester. Internal evaluation is to be done by continuous assessment. All
the components of the internal assessment are mandatory. Mark distribution for
external and internal assessments and the components for internal evaluation with
their marks are shown below:

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11.1 For all courses without practical

a) Marks of external Examination : 80
b) Marks of internal evaluation : 20

Components of Internal Evaluation Marks

Attendance 5
Assignment /Seminar/Viva 5
Two Test papers
10
(2x5=10)
Total 20

11.2 For all courses with practical

a) Marks of theory - External Examination : 60
b) Marks of theory - Internal Evaluation : 10

Components of Theory – Internal Evaluation Marks

Attendance 3
Assignment/Seminar/Viva 2
Test Papers (2 x 2.5=5) 5
Total 10

c) Marks of Practical - External Examination : 40

(Only in even semesters)
d) Marks of Practical – Internal Examination : 20
(Odd and even semesters combined annually)

12. Attendance Evaluation

1) For all courses without practical

% of attendance Marks

90 and above 5

85 – 89 4

80-84 3

76-79 2

75 1

(Decimals are to be rounded to the next higher whole number)

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2) For all courses with practical

% of % of
Marks Marks
attendance attendance

90 and above 3 90 and above 4

80 – 89 2 85 – 89 3

75 – 79 1 80 – 84 2

75 – 79 1

13. ASSIGNMENTS/SEMINAR/VIVA
Assignments/Seminar/Viva is to be done from 1 st to 5th Semesters. Each teacher can
decide the mode of evaluation. The student shall appear for compulsory viva-voce in
the 6th semester for each paper.

14. INTERNAL ASSESSMENT TEST PAPERS

Two internal test-papers are to be conducted in each semester for each course. The
evaluations of all components are to be published and are to be acknowledged by the
candidates. All documents of internal assessments are to be kept in the Department
for three years and shall be made available for verification. The responsibility of
evaluating the internal test papers is vested on the teacher(s), who teach the paper.

14.1 Grievance Redressal Mechanism

Internal assessment shall not be used as a tool for personal or other types of
vengeance. A student has all rights to know, how the teacher arrived at the
marks. In order to address the grievance of students a two-level Grievance
Redressal mechanism is envisaged. A student can approach the upper level only
if grievance is not addressed at the lower level.

Level 1: Dept. Level: The department cell chaired by the Head, Dept.
Coordinator and teacher in-charge, as members.

Level 2: College level: A committee with the Principal as Chairman, Controller

of Examination and College Coordinator as members.

14.2 The college council shall nominate a senior teacher as coordinator of internal
evaluations. This coordinator shall make arrangements for giving awareness of

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the internal evaluation components to students immediately after

commencement of I semester.
14.3 The internal evaluation report in the prescribed format should reach the
Controller of Examination office before the 4th week of October and March in
every academic year.

15. EXTERNAL EXAMINATION

The external examination of all semesters shall be conducted by the College at the
end of each semester.
15.1 Students having a minimum of 75% average attendance for all the courses only
can register for the examination. Condonation of shortage of attendance to a
maximum of 10 days or 50 hours in a semester subject to a maximum of 2 times
during the whole period of the programme may be granted by the
Principal/Controller of Examination on valid grounds. This condonation shall
not be counted for internal assessment.
Benefit of attendance may be granted to students attending University/College
union/Co-curricular activities by treating them as present for the days of
absence, on production of participation/attendance certificates, within one week,
from competent authorities and endorsed by the Head of the institution. This is
limited to a maximum of 10 days per semester and this benefit shall be
considered for internal assessment also.
Those students who are not eligible even with condonation of shortage of
attendance shall repeat the course along with the next batch.

15.2 All students are to do a project in the area of core course. This project can be
done individually or as a group of 3 students. The projects are to be identified
during the II semester of the programme with the help of the supervising teacher.
The report of the project in duplicate is to be submitted to the department at the
sixth semester and are to be produced before the examiners appointed by the
College. External project evaluation and Viva is compulsory for all subjects and
will be conducted at the end of the programme.
15.3 A student who registers her name for the external exam for a semester will be
eligible for promotion to the next semester.

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15.4 A student who has completed the entire curriculum requirement, but could not
register for the Semester examination can register notionally, for getting
eligibility for promotion to the next semester.
15.5 A candidate who has not secured minimum marks/credits in internal
examinations can re-do the same registering along with the examination for the
same semester, subsequently.

16. All programmes and courses shall have unique alphanumeric code.

17. PATTERN OF QUESTIONS

Questions shall be set to assess knowledge acquired, standard application of
knowledge, application of knowledge in new situations, critical evaluation of
knowledge and the ability to synthesize knowledge. The question setter shall ensure
that questions covering all skills are set. The question setter shall also submit a
detailed scheme of evaluation along with the question paper.
Question paper shall be a judicious mix of objective type, short answer type, short
essay type /problem solving type and long essay type questions according to the
question paper blue print given.

Pattern of questions for external examination for theory paper without practical

Total no. of No. of questions Marks of each

Pattern Total marks
questions to be answered question

Very short answer 10 10 1 10

Short Answer 12 8 2 16

Short
9 6 4 24
essay/problem

Essay 4 2 15 30

35 26 X 80

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Pattern of questions for external examination for theory paper with practical

Total no. of No. of questions Marks of each

Pattern Total marks
questions to be answered question

Very short answer 8 8 1 8

Short Answer 10 6 2 12

Short
6 4 4 16
essay/problem

Essay 4 2 12 24

28 20 X 60

Each BOS shall specify the length of the answers in terms of number of words.
Pattern of questions for external examination of practical papers will be decided by the
concerned Board of Studies/ Expert Committees.

18. MARK CUM GRADE CARD

The College under its seal shall issue to the students a MARK CUM GRADE CARD
on completion of each semester, which shall contain the following information:
(a) Name of the College
(b) Name of the University
(c) Title & Model of the Under Graduate Programme
(d) Name of the Semester
(e) Name and Register Number of the student
(f) Code, Title, Credits and Max. Marks (Int., Ext. & Total) of each course opted
in the semester.
(g) Internal, External and Total Marks awarded, Grade, Grade point and Credit
point in each course opted in the semester.
(h) Institutional average (IA) of the marks of all papers.
(i) The total credits, total marks (Max. & Awarded) and total credit points in the
semester.
(j) Semester Credit Point Average (SCPA) and corresponding Grade.
(k) Cumulative Credit Point Average (CCPA) corresponding to Common courses,
Core and Complementary (separately and together) and whole programme, as
the case may be.

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(l) The final Mark cum Grade Card issued at the end of the final semester shall
contain the details of all papers taken during the final semester examination
and shall include the final grade/marks scored by the candidate from 1st to 5th
semester and the overall grade/marks for the total programme.

19. There shall be 2 level monitoring committees for the successful conduct of the
scheme. They are -
1. Department Level Monitoring Committee (DLMC), comprising HOD and two
senior-most teachers as members.
2. College Level Monitoring Committee (CLMC), comprising Principal, Dept.
Co-ordinator and A.O/Superintendent as members.

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BA PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND

LITERATURE

No. of contact
Course code Title of course Semester Credits
hours/Sem

COMMUNICATION
EN1CC001 1 4 90
SKILLS IN ENGLISH

READING LITERATURE
EN1CC101 1 3 72
IN ENGLISH

CRITICAL THINKING,
ACADEMIC WRITING
EN2CC002 2 4 90
AND PRESENTATION
SKILLS

MUSINGS ON VITAL
EN2CC102 2 3 72
ISSUES

REFLECTIONS ON
INDIAN POLITY,
EN3CC003 SECULARISM AND 3 4 90
SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT

EVOLUTION OF THE
EN4CC004 PHILOSOPHY OF 4 4 90
SCIENCE

EN1CRT01/ A SHORT HISTORY OF

1 4 108
CE1CRT01 ENGLISH LITERATURE

LANGUAGE,
EN2CRT02 PHONETICS AND 2 4 108
LINGUISTICS

EN3CRT03/
READING PROSE 3 4 72
CE3CRT10
EN3CRT04/
READING POETRY 3 4 90
CE3CRT11
SOCIAL AND
EN3CMT01 POLITICAL HISTORY 3 4 108
OF ENGLAND I
EN4CRT05/
READING DRAMA 4 4 90
CE4CRT17
EN4CRT06/
READING FICTION 4 4 72
CE4CRT18

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No. of contact
Course code Title of course Semester Credits
hours/Sem

SOCIAL AND
EN4CMT02 POLITICAL HISTORY 4 4 108
OF ENGLAND II
METHODOLOGY OF
EN5CRT07 HUMANITIES AND 5 4 108
LITERATURE
LITERARY CRITICISM:
EN5CRT08 5 4 90
THEORY & PRACTICE
POSTCOLONIAL
EN5CRT09 5 4 90
LITERATURES
READINGS ON
ENVIRONMENTAL
EN5CRT10 5 4 90
STUDIES AND HUMAN
RIGHTS

EN5OPT01 OPEN COURSE 5 3 72

EN6CR T11/ LITERARY CRITICISM

6 4 90
CE6CRT23 THEORY & PRACTICE II

EN6CRT12/ INDIAN WRITING IN

6 4 90
CE6CRT24 ENGLISH
EN6CRT13/ AMERICAN
6 4 90
CE6CRT25 LITERATURE
EN6CRT14/ WOMEN’S
6 4 90
CE6CRT26 LITERATURE
REGIONAL
EN6CBT01
LITERATURE IN 6 4 90
TRANSLATION I
EN6CBT02 CREATIVE WRITING IN
6 4 90
ENGLISH
EN6CB T03 MEDIA STUDIES 6 4 90

EN6PR01 PROJECT 6 3 18

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STRUCTURE OF UNDER GRADUATE PROGRAMME IN

BA ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Total Credits: 120
Semester I

No. Course Title Hrs/Week Credits

1 Common Course- English 5 4
2 Common Course- English 4 3
3 Common Course- Second Language 4 4
Core Course - A Short History of
4 6 4
English Literature
Complementary Course -Political
5 6 4
Science
Total 25hrs 19 credits

Semester II

No. Course Title Hrs/Week Credits

1 Common Course- English 5 4
2 Common Course- English 4 3
3 Common Course- Second Language 4 4
Core Course - Language Phonetics
4 6 4
and Linguistics
Complementary Course - Political
5 6 4
Science
25hrs 19 credits

Semester III

No. Course Title Hrs/Week Credits

1 Common Course- English 5 4
2 Common Course- Second Language 5 4
3 Core Course - Reading Poetry 5 4
4 Core Course - Reading Prose 4 4
Complementary Course- Social and
5 6 4
Political History of England I
Total 25hrs 20

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Semester IV

No. Course Title Hrs/Week Credits

1 Common Course- English 5 4
2 Common Course- Second Language 5 4
3 Core Course- Reading Drama 5 4
4 Core Course- Reading Fiction 4 4
Complementary Course- Social and
5 6 4
Political History of England II
25hrs 20 credits

Semester V
No. Course Title Hrs/Week Credits
Core Course- Methodology of Humanities
1 6 4
and Literature
Core Course- Literary Criticism: Theory
2 5 4
and Practice (I)
Core Course- Readings on Environmental
3 5 4
Studies and Human Rights
4 Core Course- Post Colonial Literatures 5 4

5 Open Course- English for Careers 4 3

25hrs 19

Semester VI

No. Course Title Hrs/Week Credits

1 Literary Criticism: Theory and Practice 5 4
(II)
2 Indian Writing in English 5 4
3 American Literature 5 4
4 Women’s Literature 5 4
5 Regional Literatures in Translation 4 4
6 Project 1 3
25hrs 23 credits

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SCHEME:
Semester I: CORE COURSE

Course No. of Total Total Hrs/

Course title Hr/Week
Code Credits Credits Semester

EN1CRT01/ A Short History of

6 4 4 108
CE1CRT01 English Literature

Semester II: CORE COURSE

Course No. of Total Total Hrs/

Course title Hr/Week
Code Credits Credits Semester

Language
EN2CRT02 Phonetics and 6 4 4 108
Linguistics

Semester III: Core Course

Course No. of Total Total Hrs/

Course title Hr/Week
Code Credits Credits Semester

EN3CRT03/
Reading Prose 4 4 4 72
CE3CRT10

EN3CRT04/
Reading Poetry 5 4 4 90
CE3CRT11

Semester III: Complementary Course

Course No. of Total Total Hrs/

Course title Hr/Week
Code Credits Credits Semester

Social and Political

EN3CMT01 6 4 4 108
History of England - I

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Semester IV: Core Course

No. of Total Total Hrs/

Course Code Course title Hr/Week
Credits Credits Semester
EN4CRT05/
Reading Drama 5 4 4 90
CE4CRT17
EN4CRT06/
Reading Fiction 4 4 4 72
CE4CRT18

Semester IV: Complementary Course

No. of Total Total Hrs/

Course Code Course title Hr/Week
Credits Credits Semester

Social and Political

EN4CMT02 6 4 4 108
History of England II

Semester V: Core Course

Course No. of Total Total Hrs/
Course title Hr/Week
Code Credits Credits Semester

Methodology of
EN5CRT07 6 4 4 108
Humanities & Literature
Literary Criticism:
EN5CRT08 5 4 4 90
Theory And Practice (I)
EN5CRT09 Postcolonial literatures 5 4 4 90
Readings on
EN5CRT10 Environmental Studies 5 4 4 90
and Human Rights

Semester V: Open Course

Course No. of Total Total Hrs/
Course title Hr/Week
Code Credits Credits Semester
EN5OPT01 English For Careers 4 3 3 72

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Semester VI: Core Course

Total
No. of Total
Course Code Course title Hr/Week Hrs/
Credits Credits
Semester
Literary Criticism:
EN6CRT11/
Theory And 5 4 4 90
CE6CRT23
Practice (II)
EN6CRT12/ Indian Writing in
5 4 4 90
CE6CRT24 English
EN6CRT13/ American
5 4 4 90
CE6CRT25 Literature
EN6CRT14/ Women’s
5 4 4 90
CE6CRT26 Literature
Regional Literature
EN6CBT01/02/03 in Translation/
Choice Based Creative Writing in 5 4 4 90
Credit Course English / Film
Studies
EN6PR01 Project 1 3 3 18

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EXAMINATION SCHEME: CORE COURSE WITHOUT PRACTICAL

Total Total marks

No. of Exam
Semester Title of Course hrs per Internal External
Credits Duration
semester 20 80
A Short History
I of English 4 108 3 20 80
Literature
Language and
II 4 108 3 20 80
Linguistics
Reading Prose 4 72 3 20 80
Reading Poetry 4 90 3 20 80
Social and
III
Political
4 108 3 20 80
History of
England I
Reading Drama 4 90 3 20 80
Reading Fiction 4 72 3 20 80
Social and
IV
Political
4 108 3 20 80
History of
England II
Methodology
4 108 3 20 80
of Humanities
Literary
Criticism:
4 90 3 20 80
Theory and
Practice I
V Postcolonial
4 90 3 20 80
literatures
Readings on
Environmental
4 90 3 20 80
Studies and
Human Rights
Open Course 4 72 3 20 80
Literary
Criticism:
4 90 3 20 80
Theory and
Practice II
Indian Writing
4 90 3 20 80
in English
American
VI 4 90 3 20 80
Literature
Women’s
4 90 3 20 80
Literature
Regional
Literatures in
4 72 3 20 80
Translation/
Creative

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Writing in
English/ Media
Studies
Project 3 18 - 20 80

SYLLABI FOR CORE

COURSES

MODEL I

BA PROGRAMME IN ENGLISH
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

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SEMESTER I
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Course Code : EN1CRT01

Teaching Hours : 108 HRS / SEMESTER

Credit : 4

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

• 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.

COURSE OUTLINE
Module 1: Old English & Middle English Literature (18 hours)
Old English Literature
1. Anglo-Saxon Literature – Themes.
2. Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Beowulf, Caedmon, and 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- Wycliffe

Literature of the 15th and Early 16th Century

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

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Module II: Age of Shakespeare / Flowering of Renaissance (18 hours)

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 : Age of Milton & Augustan age (1625-1660) (18 hours)
1. Influence of Puritanism
2. Poetry-Milton, Metaphysical Poets, Cavalier Poets
3. Prose- John Bunyan, Milton, Sir Thomas Browne
4. Drama

Age of Dryden (1660-1700)

1. Characteristics
2. Poetry- Dryden, Samuel Butler’
3. Prose- Dryden, John Locke, Samuel Pepys
4. Drama- Comedy of Manners, Heroic Drama
Neo-Classical Age / Augustan Age (1700-1798)
1. Poetry- Pope
2. Satire - Dryden, Pope, Jonathan Swift
3. Periodical Essays- Addison and Steele
4. Drama- Sentimental Comedy , Anti-sentimental Comedy
5. Rise of Novel- Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, Lawrence
Sterne
6. Dr. Johnson and his circle, Transitional Poets, Graveyard Poets, Blake, Burns

Module IV: Romantic & Victorian Age (1798-1832) (18 hours)

Romantic Age
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

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4. Novel- Sir Walter Scott’s Historical Novels, 2. Jane Austen’s Domestic Novels, 3.
Emergence of Gothic Novels
Victorian Age (1832-1901)
1. Poetry :Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning and Barret Browning, Matthew Arnold,
Pre-Raphaelites
2. 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
3. Prose : Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Macaulay, Matthew Arnold, Cardinal Newman
4. Drama- Oscar Wilde

Module V: The Modern Age (18 hours)

Modern Age
1. Fiction :Kipling, E.M Forster, H.G Wells, Chesterton, Orwell, James Joyce, Virginia
Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, J.R.R Tolkein
2. Poetry : T.S Eliot, Edwardian and Georgian Poetry, Wilfred Owen, W.H Auden, Ezra
Pound, Yeats, Stephen Spender, Movement Poetry
3. Modern Movements : Expressionism, Orientalism, Imagism, Futurism, Surrealism,
Angry Young Man
4. Novel- Agatha Christie, P.G Wodehouse, Isaac Asimov, Stephen King
5. Drama : Shaw, T.S Eliot, Synge, Sean O’Casey, Osborne

Module VI: The Post Modern (18 hours)

Post Modernism, Apocalyptic Fiction, Gay and Lesbian writing
1. Fiction- Ian Mcewan, Angela Carter, Doris Lessing
2. Poetry : Donald Davie, Roy Fisher, Tom Raworth,, R.S Thomas, Carol Ann Duffy,
Georgia Hill , Dub Poetry
3. Drama :Theatre of the Absurd, Harold Pinter, Beckett, Edward Bond, Tom Stoppard
4. Literatures in English
5. Post-Colonial Literature
Core Text:
Nayar, Pramod K. A Short History of English Literature. Cambridge University Press,
2014.

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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.

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SEMESTER II
LANGUAGE PHONETICS AND LINGUISTICS

Course Code : EN2CRT02

Teaching Hours : 108 HRS / SEMESTER
Credit : 4
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

• Form an idea about the various stages in the development of the English language.
• Distinguish between the different varieties of English used all over the world.
• To lead to a greater understanding of how human speech sounds are produced.
• To familiarize students with the key concepts of linguistics and develop awareness
of the latest trends in language study.
• To help students move towards better and intelligible pronunciation and to improve
the general standard of pronunciation in everyday conversation.

COURSE OUTLINE
Module 1 Growth of the English Language (36 Hours)
Language Families
Indo-European family of Languages-Branches of Indo-European, Home of the Indo
Europeans-Main characteristics of Indo-European Germanic family of Languages ,
Characteristics of the Germanic family, Grimm’s Law, Verner’s Law.

Periods in the History of English Language:

Old English Period: Old English Dialect, Old English vocabulary, Scandinavian Influence,
Latin influence.

Middle English Period: Norman Conquest, French influence, East Midland Dialect,
Modern English Period.

Early Modern English: The Great Vowel Shift, Renaissance and Reformation, The
invention of Printing, Latin influences.

English Today: The evolution of Standard English, English as a global language,

Influences on English. Renaissance, Reformation, Printing Press, Authors and Books- The
Bible, Shakespeare, Milton.

MODULE 2 – PHONETICS (36 HOURS)

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Air stream Mechanism - Organs of speech - Functions of vocal cords – Soft palate action
– Active and passive articulators
Consonants: Classification
Vowels, Cardinal vowels –- Diphthongs: Classification
R P and G I E
Suprasegmentals -- Stress, intonation - Juncture - Elision – Assimilation
Transcription of words and passages

MODULE 3 – LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS (36 HOURS)

What is Language – Human Communication Vs Animal Communication
What is Linguistics – Difference between Traditional Grammar and linguistics.
Evolution of the study of linguistics – Major linguists and their contributions: Saussure,
Synchronic and diachronic linguistics, sign, signifier and signified: Langue, Parole.
Chomsky - Competence – Performance.
Phonology- Phonemes - allophones, free variation
Morphology: Morphemes and allomorphs – Lexical/Content Words -
Functional/Structural Words
Syntax: IC Analysis, Phrase structure Grammar – Transformational Generative Grammar
Basic concepts in Semantics

READING LIST
Krishnaswamy and Sivaraman: An Introduction to Liguistics: New Delhi: OUP, 1989.
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,
1965.
H.A.Gleason. Linguistics and English Grammar. New York: Holt, Rinehart &. Winston,
1965.
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.

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

Macmillan, 1992.
F T Wood. An Outline History of English Language. Macmillan.
George Yule. The Study of Language. Cambridge University Press.
David Crystal. The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language. Penguin.
David Crystal. English as a Global Language. Cambridge University Press.
G.L. Brook. Varieties of English. Macmillan.

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SEMESTER III
READING PROSE

Course Code : EN3CRT03

Teaching Hours : 72 HRS /SEMESTER

Credit : 4

OBJECTIVES:

• To develop critical thinking in students

• to enable them to critically interact with prose writings from different contexts-
social, political, economical, historical, national and philosophical

• To introduce the literature students to a good variety of well written prose by some
well- known writers of the literary tradition.

• To enable them to write and appreciate different types of prose

COURSE OUTLINE
Module: 1 (18 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, Travel Writing, Autobiography, Prose
Poetry, Memoir, Commentary, Journal, Letter.

Module: 2 (18 hrs)

Of Studies - Francis Bacon
Meditations in Westminster Abbey- Joseph Addison
Of Greatness - Abraham Cowley
The good sort of woman: Samuel Johnson

Module: 3 (18 hrs)

Dream Children - Charles Lamb
On the Rule of the Road - A.G. Gardiner
Seeing People Off - Max Beerbohm

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Tricks of Memory - G. K. Chesterton

Mispronunciation - Robert Lynd

Module: 4 (18 hrs)

Prologue to I Am Malala : Malala Yousafzai
“A Fable for Tomorrow” Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Sharing the World- Amartya Sen
Letter from Goneril, Daughter of King Lear to her sister Regan – Maurice Baring

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SEMESTER III

READING POETRY
COURSE CODE : EN3CRT04
Teaching Hours : 90 hrs/Semester

Credit : 4
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:
• To enhance the level of critical thinking and appreciation of poems from different
contexts and genres
• To introduce the students to the basic elements of poetry- to enrich the students
through various perspectives readings in poetry.
• To enrich the students through various perspectives of readings in poetry

Module 1 (18 hours)

The Poet - The Nature and the Language of Poetry
Forms – Dramatic Monologue, Sonnet, Sonnet Sequence, Ode, Epic, Mock epic, Elegy,
Pastoral poetry, Ballad, Lyric, Romance, Limerick, Haiku, free verse, Acrostic, Tanka,
Villanelle, Concrete Poems.
Genres: Narrative poetry, Dramatic poetry, Satirical poetry, Prose poetry, Pattern poetry
Rhyme, Rhythm and Metre, Alliteration, Assonance, Simile, Metaphor, Extended metaphor,
Pun, Personification, Pathetic Fallacy, Onomatopoeia, Hyperbole, Oxymoron,
Apostrophe

MODULE 2 RENAISSANCE (18 hrs)

1. Shakespeare - Shall I Compare Thee….
2. Milton - On His Blindness
3. Donne - Hymn to God the Father
4. Gray – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

MODULE 3 ROMANTIC REVIVAL & VICTORIAN (18 hrs)

1. Keats – La Belle Dame Sans Merci
2. Tennyson - Ulysses
3. Browning - My Last Duchess
4. Arnold - Dover Beach

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MODULE 4 THE MODERN AGE (18 hrs)

1. T S Eliot - Journey of the Magi
2. Philip Larkin - Church Going
3. W. B. Yeats – Easter 1916
4. Sylvia Plath : Lady Lazarus

MODULE 5 CONTEMPORARY (18 hrs)

1. Seamus Heanney - Digging
2. Maya Angelou -Phenomenal woman
3. Jayanta Mahapatra -Hunger
4. Ayappa Paniker -Where are the woods, Children
5. Bob Dylan: Masters of War

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SEMESTER III

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND I

Course Code : EN3CMT01

Teaching Hours : 108 HRS / SEMESTER
Credit : 3
Semester : 3

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

• To make the learner aware of the way in which history shapes the life and literature
of a people
• To give a comprehensive overview of the history of Britain and its impact on the
rest of the world
• To understand English literature in the light of historical events
• To analyse the manner in which a person is moulded by the historical events of
his personal and communal life

COURSE OUTLINE

MODULE ONE 36 hours

Early settlers and invaders- the Iberians, the Celts and Romans, the Angles, Saxons, Jutes.
The Anglo Saxon heptarchy- The coming of Christianity- Theodore of Tarsus and the
organization of the church- Alfred the Great – St. Dunstan and Edgar – Canute the Danish
king- Edward the Confessor, Harold Godwin- Society and literature of the time-the
Witangemot -the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, Beowulf, Caedmon, Cynewulf, Venerable Bede
and others.

MODULE TWO 36 hours

Normans: the last invaders –William the Conqueror –the reforms of Henry I- Feudalism-
the Angevin kings - the struggle between the church and the state, St. Thomas Becket –
the universities of Oxford and Cambridge–the Guilds - Richard the Lionheart and the
Crusades- the Magna Carta- Henry III – Simon de Montfort, and the Parliament- Edward
I, annexation of Wales, Scotland and Ireland – Edward II and Edward III – The Black
Death, The Hundred Years War, The Peasants Revolt – the effects of these on society and
literature- The Wars of the Roses – Chaucer and the growth of the East Midland dialect

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into standard English – Growth of drama and stage performances- Chaucer’s

contemporaries- John Wycliffe and the Lollards.

MODULE THREE 18 hours

The Tudor Dynasty- benevolent despots – Renaissance – maritime discoveries – the
scientific temper and scientific inventions- flamboyant Henry VIII, Reformation- religious
persecution- Thomas More, Erasmus, Thomas Cromwell-The Book of Common Prayer-
Elizabeth I- Shakespeare – nest of singing birds- Francis Drake- peace and prosperity-

MODULE FOUR 18 hours

The Stuarts and the Divine Right Theory- The Authorised Version- The Civil War- Oliver
Cromwell and the Protectorate – John Milton- the Jacobean playwrights – Restoration-
Caroline writers- The Whigs and Tories- Queen Anne and the expansion of colonialism –
The Glorious Revolution

CORE TEXT
Varghese, Susan. The Shapers of Destiny. Thrissur: Current Books, 2014.

Reading List
1. Trevelyan, G. M. Illustrated English Social History (Vol 1-6). England: Penguin,
1968.
2. Sampson, George (ed.) A History of English Literature. Delhi: Foundation, 2004.
3. Thorndike, Lynn. Encyclopedia of World Civilization (Vol 2). Delhi: Shubi
Publications, 1990.
4. Padmaja Ashok. The Social History of England. Orient Blackswan. 2012

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SEMESTER IV
READING DRAMA

Course Code : EN4CRT05

Teaching Hours : 90 HRS / SEMESTER
Credit : 4
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
• To develop in the students a taste for reading drama
• To acquire practical knowledge of theatrical performances.
• To appreciate and evaluate various types of plays.

COURSE OUTLINE
Module 1 The Drama (18 hrs)
Drama – Origins and early forms: Greek Drama, Mystery plays, Miracle Plays, Morality
Plays and Interludes.
The Major Dramatic Genres: Tragedy, Comedy, and Tragi-Comedy.
Types of comedy – Romantic Comedy, Comedy of Humours, Comedy of Manners/
Restoration Comedy, Sentimental Comedy, farce, burlesque, black comedy.
Types of Tragedy: Revenge Tragedy, Domestic Tragedy, Heroic Drama.
Other forms: melodrama, masque, One-Act Plays, epic drama, absurdist drama, kitchen-
sink drama
Dramatic Devices – irony, soliloquy, aside, chorus.
Module 2 (54 hours)
Macbeth – William Shakespeare

Module 3 (18 hours)

Six characters in search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

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SEMESTER IV
READING FICTION
Course Code : EN4CRT06

Teaching Hours : 72 HRS / SEMESTER

Credit : 4

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

• To introduce students to different kinds of fiction and help them appreciate fiction.
• To develop critical thinking and imagination
• To familiarize students with cultural diversity through different representative samples
of fiction.

COURSE OUTLINE

Module 1: Introduction to fiction & Short Stories (18 hrs)

Introduction: Difference between fiction & short fiction,
Types of novels: Romance, bildungsroman, picaresque, epistolary, historical, gothic
psychological, detective novels, science fiction, utopia, dystopia, stream of consciousness
novel, metafiction, Hypertext fiction, Graphic novels, pulp fiction anti – novel, Story, plot,
characters, underlying thought, language, setting, point of view
Short Stories
The Diamond Necklace: Guy de Maupassant
The Last Leaf: O’ Henry
The Postmaster: Rabindranath Tagore
The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World: Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Module 2: Novella (18 hrs)

• Animal Farm : George Orwell
• The Old Man and the Sea: Ernest Hemingway

Module 3: Novel (36 hrs)

• Wuthering Heights: Emile Bronte

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SEMESTER IV
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND II
Course Code : EN4CMT02
Teaching Hours : 108 HRS / SEMESTER
Credit : 4

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

• To make the learner aware of the way in which history shapes the life and literature
of a people
• To give the learner a comprehensive overview of the history of Britain and its
impact upon the rest of the world
• To enable him to understand English literature in the light of historical political
and social events
• To analyse the manner in which a person is moulded by the historical events of
his personal and communal life

COURSE OUTLINE
MODULE ONE 36 hours
The Age of Queen Anne -Hanoverian England -The Industrial Revolution - The Agrarian
Revolution - The Rise of Methodism -Humanitarian Movements -The American War of
Independence -The Effects of the French Revolution on British Life

MODULE TWO 36 hours

England at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century - The Victorian Age - The Reform
Bills - The Development of Transport and Communication - The Development of
Education in the Nineteenth Century

MODULE THREE 18 hours

The Dawn of the Twentieth Century - Life Between the Two World Wars -The Effects of
World War II - Social Security and the Welfare State - The Effects of the Cold War

MODULE FOUR 18 hours

Life in the Sixties - Life in the Seventies - Life in the Eighties - Trade Unionism -The
Origin and Growth of Political Parties in England -Contemporary Life in England

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4. CORE TEXT
Padmaja Ashok. The Social History of England. Orient Blackswan. 2012.

For Further Reading

Trevelyan, G. M. Illustrated English Social History (Vol 1-6). England: Penguin, 1968.
Alexander, Michael (ed.) A History of English Literature. New York: Palgrave-
Macmillan, 2007.
Sampson, George (ed.) A History of English Literature. Delhi: Foundation, 2004.
Varghese, Susan. The Shapers of Destiny. Thrissur: Current Books, 2014.

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SEMESTER V
METHODOLOGY OF HUMANITIES AND LITERATURE

Course Code : EN5CRT07

Teaching Hours : 108 HRS / SEMESTER
Credit : 4
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
• The course is intended to introduce the student to the interrelationship between
paradigms of social formation
• To know and appreciate the location of literature within humanities
• To establish connections across frontiers of disciplines
• To critically engage with culture, gender and marginality
• To become acquainted with narration and representation

COURSE OUTLINE
Module (1) (54 hours)
A: Understanding the humanities - the scientific method – how humanities explore
reality – the natural and social sciences – facts and interpretation –study of natural
and subjective world- tastes, values and belief systems
B: Language, culture and identity- language in history- language in relation to caste,
class, race and gender- language and colonialism.
C: Narration and representation- what is narration-narrative modes of thinking-
narration in literature, philosophy and history- reading.

Module (2) (54 hours)

The following essays are to be dealt with intensively in relation with the methodological
questions raised above (module 1)

Peter Barry : “Theory before ‘theory’ – liberal humanism”. Beginning Theory: An

Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. New York, Manchester. 1995. 11-38

Sudhir Kakar, Katharina Kakar. “The Hierarchical Man” The Indians: Portrait of a
People. Penguin India, 2007. 7-24.

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G. N. Devy. “Introduction” in Sharankumar Limbale’s The Outcaste: Akkarmashi. New

Delhi, OUP. 2008 xii-xxvi

V. Geetha. “God made you different, Nature made us different”. Gender. Calcutta: Stree,
2002 11-23

Fridrun Rinner. “The Arabian Nights: Telling Stories as a means of escape from death”.
Narrative. A Seminar. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1994 180-185.

Note on Course work the teaching of the course will involve making the student enter
into a sort of dialogue with some of the issues raised in the reading material given above.

CORE TEXT

Methodology and perspectives of humanities published by Pearson Longman 2009

(except chapter 4 “Indian philosophy”)

Social roots of literature. Edited by Dr.K.M. Krishnan and Tom Thomas: DC Books,
M. G. University.

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SEMESTER V
LITERARY CRITICISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE I

Course Code : EN5CRT08

Teaching Hours : 90 HRS / SEMESTER

Credit : 4

Semester : 5

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

• To introduce the various streams in literary criticism

• To make them aware of the interdisciplinary nature of literary criticism
• To develop the skills for appreciating literature
• Gets in touch with various movements and schools of thought.
• Comes to praxis from theory.

MODULE 1 (18 hrs)

• Major Streams of Indian Aesthetics and the Theory of Rasa
• Plato The Republic
(Three classes of society, Kallipolis, why philosophers should rule the city, poetry
as imitation, Censorship of poetry)
• Aristotle Poetics
(Tragedy, Elements of a Tragedy, Catharsis, Tragic Hero, Hamartia, Peripeteia,
Anagnorisis, Simple and Complex Plot)

MODULE 2 (36 hrs)

• Samuel Johnson Preface to Shakespeare
Shakespeare as poet of nature, his characters, he has no heroes, drama as a mirror of
life, faults and merits of Shakespeare.
• William Wordsworth, "By what is usually called poetic diction".(Appendix to the
Preface to Lyrical Ballads)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge– Biographia Literaria ( Chapter 14)

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Module 3 (18 hrs)

• Matthew Arnold : “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
• T.S. Eliot : “Tradition and the Individual Talent”

MODULE 4 APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE (18 HRS)

(PRACTICAL CRITICISM)
In this module, critical analysis of short poems and prose passages are to be done by
students. The students may be asked to analyze pieces in terms of theme, diction, tone,
figures of speech, imagery, etc. Theoretical approaches may be avoided.

Books Recommended:

• M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms

• David Lodge: (ed.) Modern Criticism and Theory- A Reader (Pearson, 2005) A
Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature (OUP, 2005)
• James Reeves, The Critical Sense: Practical Criticism of Prose and Poetry (William
Heinemann)
• The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2001)
• MS Nagarajan ,English Literary Criticism and Theory , Orient blackswan
• V. S. Sethuraman. Ed. Indian Aesthetics. Ch. 3 “Highways of Literary Criticism in
Sanskrit” by Kuppuswami Sastri.
• Ch. 13 “Rasa as Aesthetic Experience” by Mohan Thampi.

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SEMESTER V
POST COLONIAL LITERATURES
Course Code : EN5CRT09

Teaching Hours : 90 HRS / SEMESTER

Credit : 4

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

• To familiarize the students with the basic tenets of Postcolonial theory and
literature
• To inculcate in the student an awareness of diverse cultures and literatures.
• To be acquainted with literary productions that address issues related to cultural
identity in colonized societies,
• To be acquainted with literary productions that deal with the construction of a
national identity after colonial domination, and the ways in which writers articulate
and celebrate such identity.
• To be acquainted with the resistance of the colonized against the colonizer through
literature that articulates it.

OUTLINE OF THE COURSE

MODULE ONE: PROSE (36 hours)
• Extract from Edward Said’s Out of Place
• Taisha Abraham ed. Introducing Post Colonial Theories
• Chapter I – “The Colonizer and the Colonized” (Macmillan)

MODULE TWO: POETRY (18 hours)

1. Wole Soyinka : ‘Procession I-Hanging Day’

2. Keki N Daruwalla : ‘Pestilence in Nineteenth-Century Calcutta”

3. Mahmoud Darwish : ‘Identity Card

4. Derek Walcott : ‘A Far Cry from Africa

5. Claude McKay : ‘The Enslaved’

6. Jean Arasanayagam : ‘Family Photographs’

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MODULE THREE: FICTION (18 hours)

Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart

MODULE FOUR: DRAMA (18 hours)

Mahasweta Devi : Mother of 1084

CORE TEXT
Dr P J George Ed. Emergent Voices: Selections from Postcolonial Literatures. Macmillan.

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SEMESTER V
READINGS ON ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

& HUMAN RIGHTS

Course Code : EN5CRT10

Teaching Hours : 90 HRS / SEMESTER

Credit : 4

1. OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

• To give the students knowledge about how and why things happen and
make their own decisions about complex environmental issues by
developing and enhancing critical and creative thinking skills.

• The course also deals with providing the students a basic knowledge
regarding environment and the social norms that provide unity with
environmental characterestics and also about how to create a positive
attitude about the environment.

• To develop a sense of awareness among the students about the

environment and its various problems and to help the students in realizing
the inter relationship between man and environment .

• To help students develop a positive attitude towards environment and

keep their environment healthy and sustainable.

2.COURSE OUTLINE

MODULE 1 (18HOURS)

Human Rights – Concept, Origin and Definitions-Types of Human Rights- UNO

and UDHR-Human Rights and Indian Constitution- Contemporary Human
Rights Issues -Women Rights-Child Rights-Rights of Minorities and Dalit’s-
HIV/AIDs-National and State Human Rights Commission.

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MODULE 2 (36 HOURS)

Multidisciplinary nature of Environmental Studies-Natural Resources-

Ecosystems-Biodiversity -Environmental Hazards-Green House Effect- Ozone
Depletion-Climate Change-Pollution-Acid Rain-Deforestation-Biodiversity Loss-
Toxic Wastes and Nuclear Radiation-Conservation Strategy and Sustainable
Development-UNEP-Environmental Laws and Environmental Movements in
India-Green Parties.

MODULE 3 (18 HOURS)

Deep Ecology - Fritjof Capra

God’s Grandeur –G M Hopkins

The World’s Too much With Us – William Wordsworth

The Rise and fall of Indian Environmentalism- Ramachandra Guha

Sarah Joseph: Gift in Green [chapter 2] - Hagar: A Story of a Woman and Water

MODULE 4 (18HOURS)

London –William Blake

Untouchable(an excerpt) – Mulk Raj Anand

I have a dream – Martin Luther King

A Private Experience- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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SEMESTER V
OPEN COURSE - ENGLISH FOR CAREERS

Course Code : EN5OPT01

Teaching Hours : 72 HRS/SEMESTER
Credit : 3
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
• Equip students in Comprehensive Language Enhancement.
• Have an understanding of English grammar.
• Produce grammatically and idiomatically correct spoken and written discourse.
• Spot language errors and correct them.
• Develop communicative skills, which will enable them to prepare for a career and
function effectively in it.
• Equip them in oral and written communication to enhance their academic and
professional use of language.

COURSE OUTLINE
MODULE 1: PARTS OF SPEECH (18 hours)
• Words - parts of speech - nouns - pronouns – adjectives - verbs - adverbs - prepositions
- conjunctions -interjection
• Nouns - different types - count and uncount - collective - mass - case - number - gender.
• Pronoun - different types - personal, reflexive - infinite-emphatic - reciprocal.
• Adjectives - predicative - attributive - pre- and post-modification of nouns.
• Verbs - tense-aspect - voice - mood - Concord - types of verbs - transitive - intransitive-
finite - non-finite. Helping verbs and modal auxiliaries - function and use.
• Adverbs - different types - various functions - modifying and connective.
• Prepositions - different types - syntactic occurrences - prepositional phrases
• Conjunctions - subordinating and coordinating , Determinatives articles - possessives
– quantifiers
• Interjection
MODULE 2: PHRASE, CLAUSE, SENTENCE & TENSES (18 hours)
• Phrases - various types of phrases - noun, verb, adjectival and prepositional phrases.
• Clauses - main and subordinate clauses - noun clauses - relative clauses - adverbial clauses
- finite and non-finite clauses - analysis and conversion of sentences -

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• Sentence as a self-contained unit - various types of sentence - simple - compound -

complex -declaratives - interrogatives - imperatives - exclamatives.
• Basic sentence patterns in English - constituents of sentences - subject - verb - object -
complement -adverbials.
• Active to Passive and vice versa
• Direct to Indirect and vice versa
• Degrees of Comparison, one form to the other.

MODULE 3 (18 Hours)

• Error spotting - errors in terms of specific grammatical concepts like constituents of
sentences - parts of speech - concord - collocation - sequences of tense - errors due to
mother tongue influence.

MODULE 4: ORAL AND WRITTEN SKILLS FOR JOBS AND CAREERS (18 hours)
• Applying for jobs-Preparing Resumes-Writing Cover letters.
• Preparing for interviews-Taking Interviews
• Group Discussions
• Composition writing

Reading List
• Samson et al. English for Life - 4. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press.
• Vasudev, Murthy. Effective Proposal Writing. New Delhi: Response Books, 2006.
• Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking. OUP, 2007.
• Bhatnagar, R. P. English for Competitive Examinations. New Delhi: Macmillan, 2009.
• English for Careers. Pearson.
• ABC of Common Grammatical Errors. Macmillan, 2009
• Kaul, Asha. The Effective Presentation. New Delhi: Response Books
• Shepherd, Kerry. Presentations at Conferences, Seminars and Meetings. New Delhi:
Response Books.
• Vilanilam, J. V. More Effective Communication: a Manuel for Professionals.
Response Books 2008

English for Career Development. Orient Longman, 2006

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SEMESTER VI

LITERARY CRITICISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE II

Course Code : EN6CRT11

Teaching Hours : 90 HRS / SEMESTER
Credit : 4
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
• Understand diverse views on art, literature, and even culture.
• Be introduced to various movements and schools of thought.
• Come to praxis from theory.
• Develop an interdisciplinary approach.

COURSE OUTLINE

MODULE 1 (18 HOURS)

• Formalism, New Criticism, Neo-Aristotelian Criticism
• Structuralism/Semiotics
• Post-Structuralism/Deconstruction
• Modernism / Postmodernism

MODULE 2 (36 HOURS)

• Psychoanalytic Criticism-
• Marxist Criticism
• Reader-Response Criticism
• Feminist Criticism

MODULE 3 (36 HOURS)

• New Historicism/Cultural Studies
• Post-Colonial Criticism
• Gender/Queer Studies
• Ecocriticism

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CORE TEXT

1. Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory. Manchester and NY: Manchester Uty. Press, 1995.

General (Background) Reading

2. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms

3. Peck John et al. Literary Terms and Criticism, New Delhi: Macmillan, 1998.

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

5. Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory. Manchester and NY: Manchester Uty. Press, 1995.

6. Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory: The Basics. London: Routledge, 2001.

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SEMESTER VI

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Course Code : EN6CRT12

Teaching Hours : 90 HRS / SEMESTER
Credit : 4
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
• To inspire students to read and appreciate Indian literature in English, and to explore
its uniqueness and its place among the literatures in English.
• To motivate students for a critical and comparative study of other literatures in
English and to examine the similarities and differences in attitudes, vision and style.
• To provide an overview of the various phases of the evolution of Indian writing in
English.
• To introduce students to the thematic concerns, genres and trends of Indian writing in
English.
• To generate discussions on the constraints and challenges encountered in articulating
Indian sensibility in English.
• To expose students to the pluralistic aspects of Indian culture and identity.

COURSE OUTLINE
MODULE I – PROSE (18 HRS)
1. M. K. Gandhi : “The Need for Religion”
2. C. V. Raman : “Water, the Elixir of Life”
3. Nirad C. Chaudhuri : “Money and the Englishmen”
4. Arundhati Roy : “The End of Imagination”

MODULE II - POETRY (18 HRS)

1. Sarojini Naidu
: The Soul’s Prayer
2. Rabindranath Tagore : Silent Steps
3 Nissim Ezekiel : The Railway Clerk
4 A. K. Ramanujan : The Striders
5 Arun Koltkar : An Old Woman
6. Jayanta Mahapatra : An October Morning

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7. Kamala Das : Nani

8. Meena Alexander : Her Garden

MODULE III SHORT STORIES (18 HRS)

1. Mahasweta Devi : Arjun
2. Anita Desai : Circus Cat, Alley Cat
3. Rabindranath Tagore : The Home Coming
4. Abhuri Chaya Devi : The Woodrose

MODULE IV - DRAMA (18 HRS)

1. Badal Sirkar : Evam Indrajith

MODULE V – FICTION (18 HRS)

Mulk Raj Anand : Untouchable

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SEMESTER VI

AMERICAN LITERATURE
Course Code : EN6CRT13
Teaching Hours : 90 HRS / SEMESTER
Credit : 4
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
• To introduce students to the glorious masterpieces of American literature—its
unique flavor, style, form and themes.
• To motivate students to attempt an intelligent appreciation and critical evaluation
of American civilization and culture as revealed in the works.
• To inspire them to make further explorations into contemporary American literary
works.
• To acquire knowledge about American literature, its cultural themes, literary
periods and key artistic features.
• To understand the various aspects of American society through a critical
examination of the literary texts representing different periods and cultures.

OUTLINE OF THE COURSE

MODULE ONE: ESSAYS (18 hours)

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson : “Art”
2. Henry David Thoreau : “The Battle of the Ants”
3. Robert E Spiller : “The First Frontier”
4. James Baldwin : “If Black English isn’t Language, then tell me, what is?”
5. Jerzy Kosinski : “TV as a Babysitter

MODULE TWO: POETRY (18 hours)

1. Walt Whitman : “Oh Captain, My Captain”
2. Emily Dickinson : “A Bird Came Down the Walk”
3. E A Robinson : “Miniver Cheevy”
4. Robert Frost : “Reluctance”

5. E E Cummings : “My Sweet Old Etcetera”

6. Theodore Roethke : “The Waking”

7. John Berryman : “The Ball Poem”

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MODULE THREE: FICTION (36 hours)

1. Nathaniel Hawthorne : “The Wives of the Dead”

2. Edgar Allan Poe : “The Fall of the House of Usher”

3. Mark Twain : “The Five Boons of Life”

4. Ambrose Bierce : “A Horseman in the Sky”

5. Kate Chopin : “The Story of an Hour”

6. O Henry : “Mammon and the Archer”

7. Ernest Hemingway : "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"

8. Ray Bradbury : “October 2026: Million Year Picnic

MODULE FOUR: DRAMA (18 hours)

Tennessee Williams : The Case of the Crushed Petunias

Lucille Fletcher : Sorry, Wrong Number

Richard A Via : Never on Wednesday

CORE TEXT
Dr Leesa Sadasivan Ed. “Blooming Lilacs: An Anthology of American Literature”. Current
Books

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SEMESTER VI
WOMEN’S LITERATURE

Course Code : EN1CRT014

Teaching Hours : 90 HRS / SEMESTER
Credit : 4
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
• To introduce students to the development of women’s writing in various countries.
• To familiarize them with the diverse concerns addressed by feminism.
• To motivate them 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.
• The students will have acquired the skill to understand feminism as a social
movement and a critical tool.
• They will be able to explore the plurality of female experiences.
• They will be equipped with analytical, critical and creative skills to interrogate the
biases in the construction of gender and patriarchal norms.

OUTLINE OF THE COURSE

MODULE ONE: ESSAYS (18 hours)

1. Virginia Woolf : “Shakespeare and his Sister”

(Excerpt from A Room of One’s Own)

2. Alice Walker : “In Search of our Mothers’ Gardens”

(From In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens)

3. Jasbir Jain : Indian Feminisms: The Nature of Questioning and the

Search for Space in Indian Women’s Writing (From
Writing Women Across Cultures)
MODULE TWO: POETRY (18 hours)
1. Elizabeth Barrett Browning : “A Musical Instrument”
2. Marianne Moore : “Poetry”
3. Adrienne Rich : “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
4. Sylvia Plath : “Lady Lazarus”

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5. Margaret Atwood : “Spelling”

6. Kishwar Naheed : “I am not That Woman”
7. Suniti NamJoshi : “The Grass Blade”
8. Nikki Giovanni : “Woman”

MODULE THREE: NOVEL (18 Hours)

Frances Collins : The Slayer Slain. Ed. Sobhana Kurien and Susan
Varghese (CMS College publication)

MODULE FOUR: SHORT FICTION (18 hours)

1. Katherine Mansfield : “The Fly”

2. Shashi Deshpande : “A Wall is Safer”
3. Sara Joseph : “Inside Every Woman Writer”
4. Amy Tan : “Rules of the Game”

MODULE FIVE: DRAMA (18 hours)

1. Sheila Walsh : “Molly and James”
2. Mamta G Sagar : “The Swing of Desire”

4. CORE TEXTS
1. Dr Sobhana Kurien, Ed. Breaking the Silence: An Anthology of Women’s Literature.
ANE Books.
2. Collins, Frances. The Slayer Slain. Ed. Sobhana Kurien and Susan Varghese (CMS
College publication)

5. READING LIST
a) General Reading
i. Kate Millett. Sexual Politics. New York: Equinox-Avon, 1971.
ii. Maggie Humm Ed. Feminisms: A Reader. New York: Wheat Sheaf, 1992.
iii. Elaine Showalter. A Literature of their Own.

b) Further Reading
i. Virginia Woolf. A Room of One’s Own. London: Hogarth, 1929.
ii. Patricia Mayor Spacks. The Female Imagination. New York: Avon, 1976.
iii. Jasbir Jain Ed. Women in Patriarchy: Cross Cultural Readings. New Delhi:
Rawat Publications, 2005
iv. Susie Tharu & K Lalitha. Women Writing in India Vol I & II. New Delhi:
OUP, 1991.

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v. Gayle Green & Copelia Kahn. Making a Difference: Feminist Literary

Criticism. New York: Routeledge.
vi. Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar. The Mad Woman in the Attic: The Woman
Writer. Yale University Press, 1978.
vii. Simone de Beauvoir. The Second Sex. UK: Hammond Worth, 1972.
viii. Angela Davis. Women, Race and Class. New York: Random House, 1981.
ix. Alice Walker. In Search of our Mothes’ Gardens. New York: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1983.
x. Leos S. Roudiex Ed. Desire in Language. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1975.
xi. Lisbeth Goodman Ed. Literature and Gender. New York: Routeledge, 1996.
xii. Adrienne Rich. Of Woman Born. New York: Norton.
xiii. Mahasweta Devi. Breast Stories. Calcutta: Seagull, 1998.

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SEMESTER VI
REGIONAL LITERATURES IN TRANSLATION

Course Code : EN6CBT01

Teaching Hours : 90 HRS / SEMESTER
Credit : 4
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
• This course aims at introducing the students to the priceless regional literary
assemblage of India so as to enable them to have a better understanding of the unique
nature of Indian culture.
• Get familiarized with the cultural heterogeneity and linguistic plurality of our
country through its literatures written in regional languages.
• Acquire a sense of national integration through the diverse experiences represented
in the regional literatures of India.

3. COURSE OUTLINE
MODULE I (18 hours)
a) Essay –
G. Koshy : Translation: an Introduction
b) Poetry
1. Thiruvalluvar : Thirukkural Part 1-Chapter2 – “The Excellence of
Rain” (Tamil)
2. Mirza Ghalib : “Philosophy of Life” (Urdu)
3. Anonymous : “Baul Song” (Bangla)
4. Padma Sachdev : “Mother Tongue” (Dogri)
5. E. M. Shinde : “Habit” (Marathi)
6. Sitakant Mahapatra : “Mother” (Oriya)
7. Vijayalekshmi : “Bhagavatha” (Malayalam)
MODULE II – DRAMA (18 hours)
1. G. Sankara Pillai : Wings Flapping, Somewhere (Malayalam)
2. Safdar Hashmi : Machine (Hindi)

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MODULE III: SHORT FICTION (36 hours)

1. Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai : “In the Flood” (Malayalam)
2. Jayant Kaikini : “Dagadu Parab’s Ashwamedha” (Kannada)
3. Abburi Chaya Devi : “The Touch” (Telugu)
4. Bibhuti Bhusan Bandopadhyaya : “The Medal” (Bengali)
5. Atulananda Goswami : “The Tiffin Box” (Assamese)
6. Amrita Pritam : “The Weed” (Punjabi)
7. Ram Swaroop Kisan : “The Broker” (Rajasthani)
8. Motilal Jotwani : “A Desire to See the Sky” (Sindhi)

4. CORE TEXT
Dr K Sujatha Ed. Rainbow Colours: Anthology of Indian Regional Literatures in
Translation. DC Books

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SEMESTER VI
Creative Writing in English
Course Code : EN6CBT02
Teaching Hours : 90 HRS / SEMESTER
Credit : 4
1. Aims of the Course

• To acquaint the students with the basic principles and techniques

involved in creative writing.

• To identify and promote creatively gifted students.

2. Objectives of the Course

• On completion of the course, the students should be able to become

familiar with the concept of creative writing and the process of writing
poetry, fiction and drama.
• They should also be encouraged to publish their creative works.
• A general awareness regarding the nature and scope of creative writing
will be developed among the students.
3. Course Outline

Module I: Introduction to Creative Writing (18 hours)

What is creative writing? Its scope - Role of imagination, inspiration and

perspiration in creative writing - How creative am I? - Creating creativity -
Challenges faced by a creative writer - Creative writing and text reception -
Importance of reading - Reading the text between the lines and beyond the lines.

Module II: Learning to Write (18 hours)

a. Familiarizing different forms of writing: imaginative, persuasive, descriptive,

evaluative, analytical, etc. (giving excerpts).

b. Finding pitfalls in writing - Identifying common errors in English -

Developing accuracy in writing.

c. Developing ideas into creative texts – Brainstorming - Free writing - Writing

drafts – Listing - Arguing with oneself - Final draft.

d. Making language figurative

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e. Style - Familiarizing different styles by writers

Module III: Modes of Creative Writing (18 hours)

a. What is literature?

b. Writing Fiction - plot and character - setting and atmosphere - symbolism -

points of view - Writing fiction for children

Workshop: finding theme, story line, setting, fixing characters, developing

c. Writing Poetry - Student responses to poetry - Its language - Figurative

language - Structure - Voices in the poem - Rhythm and versification

Analysis of the poem 'Wild Nights' (Emily Dickinson) and 'Telephone' (Robert
Frost).

Workshop

Starting with an idea, an experience, a person, a memory, etc. - Get the raw
materials into some kind of temporary organization, writing tentative lines -
Reading the poem to oneself - Revising.

d. Writing Drama

Student responses to drama - Characterization - plot - types of plays - stage

spaces

Workshop

Finding theme, story line, characters, writing and presenting plays on stage.

Module IV - Preparing for publication (18 hours)

a. Revising and rewriting

b. Proof reading

c. Editing

d. Submitting manuscript for publication

4. Reading List

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a) Poetry

1. John Keats - 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'

2. T. S. Eliot - 'Macavity: the Mystery Cat'

3. Nissim Ezekiel - 'Poet, Lover and Birdwatcher'

4. Ted Hughes - 'Thought Fox'

5. Wole Soyinka - 'Telephone Conversation'

6. Pablo Neruda - ‘Tonight I can Write'

b) Fiction

1. Kate Chopin - 'The Story of an Hour'

2. O. Henry - 'Spring Time'

3. James Joyce - 'Araby'

c) Drama

1. Henrik Ibsen – The Doll’s House

2. Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter
3. Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie

d) For Further Reading:

1. Mills, Paul. The Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook. Routledge Taylor &
Francis Group, London, 2001.

2. Dev, Anjana Neira, Marwah, Anuradha, Pal, Swati. Creative Writing: A

Beginner's Manual. Pearson Longman, 2009.

3. Anderson, Linda. Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings. Routledge Taylor

& Francis Group, London, 2006.

4. Wainwright, Jeffrey. The Basics of Poetry. Routledge.

5. Morley, David. Creative Writing. CUP

6. Emden, Joan Van and Becker, Lucinda. Effective Communication for Arts and
Humanities Students.

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SEMESTER VI
Media Studies
Course Code : EN6CBT03
Teaching Hours : 90 HRS / SEMESTER
Credit : 4
1. Aims of the Course

• To improve the communication skills of students and their knowledge of

English language in key areas of print, auditory and visual media.

• To train the students in the gathering of data and its organization for
various media including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, film
and the web.
2. Objectives

The following are the expected learner-outcomes of this course.

• The learners develop media literacy and learn to analyze, interpret,

evaluate/judge print and visual news items and their persuasive role in a
democratic polity.

• They master the basic skills of reporting, writing and presenting for the
media - print and broadcast journalism and apply media writing.

• They grasp proficiency in cohesion, comprehensiveness, data

interpretation, attractive presentation, style and information transfer.
3. Course Outline

Module I: The Rise of Mass Media (18 hours)

a. Introduction – Mass Communication - Theories of mass communication –

Different types of Mass Media – Freedom versus Control – Need for social
control

b. The Print Media – Different types – Editorials - Feature articles - Interviews -

Letters to the editor

Lead: datelines - - By lines - Credit line - Headlines - Nut graph

b. Reporting - News reporting - Specialized reporting - Business reports - Sports

reports - Obituary writing - Analyzing newspaper articles.

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c. Editing: - Proof reading - Freelancing.

Module II - Magazines and Periodicals (18 hours)

a. Nature of periodical articles - feature writing and article writing - Angle,

structure and organization - Types of articles included in magazines - Writing
for magazines - Action, angle and anecdote.

b. Composing magazine covers - Planning the contents of a magazine - Planning

a photo shootout - Planning and writing a true life story.

Module III- Electronic and Digital Media (18 hours)

a. Radio - Understanding the language of radio presenters - Radio skills -

Understanding the process of broadcasting - Broadcast writing - Giving post-
production feedback - Radio jockeying.

b. Visual media - Television skills - Understanding the pre-production process -

Writing for the media - Interviews - Reviews - Profiles - Travel writing -
Scripting for TV programmes - Preparing a film schedule - Editing a TV
Documentary – Anchoring -

Presentation for the Media - Presenting with and without script.

c. Digital Media

E-books, E-magazines, E-mail - Blog - Planning and writing a Blog - Web page
Designing - Creating a pod cast - Technical writing

Module IV – Advertising (18 hours)

a. Introduction to advertising - Advertisements in different media - Classified

ads - Texts – Captions - Logo design - Story board of advertisements

b. Copy editing Process - Guiding principles of editing - Selling your services to

a potential client - Creating print ad, Screen ad - Presenting a finished ad

4. Reading List

A. Select Reading List

1. McQuail, Dennis. Mass Communication Theory. New Delhi: Vistaar

Publications, (only Part I and II of the book)

2. Richardson, Brian. The Process of Writing News: From Information to Story.

Pearson Education.

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3. Thwaites, Tony, Davis, Lloyd, and Mules, Warwick. Introducing Cultural and
Media Studies. Palgrave MacMillan.

4. Watson, James. Media Communication: an Introduction to Theory and Process.

Palgrave MacMillan.

5. Stovall, James Glen. Writing for the Media, Sixth Edition. Pearson education,
2006.

6. White, Ted. Broadcast Newswriting, Reporting and Production. Macmillan.

7. Feldman, Tony. An Introduction to Digital Media. Sujeeth Publications, 1989.

8. Everett, Anna and Cladwell, John T. New Media: Theories and Practices of
Digitextuality. Routledge.

B. For Further Reading

1. Lewis, Richard L. Digital Media: An Introduction. Prentice Hall.

2. McGiffort, Robert M. The Art of Editing the News. Chilton Book Co., 1978.

3. Smith, Leila R. with contributions from Barbara Moran. English for Careers:
Business, Professional and Technical. Pearson/Prentice Hall.

4. Narasimha Rao, P. V. L. Style in Journalism. Orient Blackswan.

5. Stein. Newswriter's Handbook. Blackwell rpt.2006.

6. Ceramella, Nick and Lee, Elizabeth. Cambridge English for the Media. CUP

7. Dev, Anjana Neira, Marwah, Anuradha and Pal, Swati. Creative Writing: a
Beginner's Manual. Pearson Longman (Unit 4 only).

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PROJECT – VI SEMESTER EN6PR01

Research Methodology
• Unit I: What is Research? (Includes definition and explanation of the terms Research,
hypothesis in case of dissertation/thesis & thesis or thesis statement in case of
Research Paper and analysis and interpretation of data} Formulation of Research
Problem
• Unit II: Requirements of Research Paper Format and Components of Research
Proposal (Synopsis) Format and Components of Dissertation / Thesis MLA Style
Sheet (8th Edition)
• Unit III: Major Theoretical Approaches to Literary Research (Postcolonial, Feminist,
Ecocritical, etc.) Tools of Research

RULES
• Credit will be given to original contributions.
• There will be an evaluation of the project by an External examiner
• This will be followed by a viva voce, which will be conducted at the respective
college by the external examiner who valued the projects/dissertations.
• The Project/Dissertation must be between 20 and 25 pages. The maximum and
minimum limits are to be strictly observed.
• A Works Cited page must be submitted at the end of the Project/Dissertation.
• Two copies have to be submitted.
• One copy will be forwarded to the external examiner for valuation and the second
copy is to be retained at the department.
• Dissertation :
• Internal Valuation : 20 Mks
• External valuation : 40 Mks
Viva : 40 Mks

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Annexure 1a - Model Mark Cum Grade Card (I Sem)

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(Affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University)

Section :
Student ID : Date:
MARK CUM GRADE CARD
Name of candidate :
Name of College :
Permanent Register Number (PRN) : Degree : Bachelor of Science
Programme :
Stream : Model 1
Name of Examination : First Semester Examination Month and Year

Marks
Course Title External Internal Total

Institution Average (IA)

Credit Point (C x GP)
Grade Awarded (G)
Grade Point (GP)
Course
Awarded (E+I)
Awarded (E)

Code
Awarded (I)
Credits (C)

Result
Max

Max

Max

Common Course I
Common Course II
Core Course
Complementary
course I
Complementary
course II

TOTAL
SGPA :
SG :

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Annexure 1b - Model Mark Cum Grade Card (VI Sem)

ASSUMPTION COLLEGE, AUTONOMOUS

(Affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University)

Section :
Student ID : Date:
MARK CUM GRADE CARD
Name of candidate :
Name of College :
Permanent Register Number PRN : Degree: Bachelor of Science Programme
Stream : Model 1
Name of Examination : Sixth Semester Examination April 2014

Marks

Institution Average (IA)

Credit Point (C x GP)
External Internal Total

Grade Awarded (G)

Grade Point (GP)

Awarded (E+I)

Course Course
Awarded (E)
Credits (C)

Awarded (I)

Code Title

Result
Max

Max

Max

Core 9
Core 10
Core 11
Core 12
Choice
Based
Course

Project

TOTAL
SCPA :
SG :

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Marks Month
Credit GPA Grade and Year Result
Awarded Max

Semester 1
Semester II
Semester III
Semester IV
Semester V
Semester VI

Common Course
1
Common Course
II
Comple Course I
Comple course
II
Core + Project
Generic/Open
Elective
Overall
Programme
CGPA:

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Annexure 1c - Reverse side of the Mark cum Grade Card

(COMMON TO ALL SEMESTERS)
Description of the Evaluation Process

Table 1
%Marks Grade Grade Point

95 and above O - Outstanding 10

85 - <95 A+ - Excellent 9

75 - <85 A - Very Good 8

65 - <75 B+ - Good 7

55 - <65 B-Above Average 6

50 - <55 C - Average 5

40 - <50 D - Pass 4

Below 40 or Absent F - Failure 0

Grade and Grade Point

The Evaluation of each Course comprises of Internal and External Components in the ratio
1:4 for all Courses.

Grades and Grade Points are given on a 10-point Scale based on the percentage of Total
Marks (Internal + External) as given in Table 1

(Decimals are to be corrected to the next higher whole number)

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Credit point and Credit point average Grades for the different Semesters and overall
Programme are given based on the corresponding CPA, as shown in Table 2.

CPA Grade

9.5 and above O - Outstanding

8.5 - <9.5 A+ - Excellent

7.5 - <8.5 A - Very Good

6.5 - <7.5 B+ - Good

5.5 - <6.5 B - Above average

4.5 - <5.5 C - Average

4 - <4.5 D - Pass

<4 F - Failure

Credit point (CP) of a Course is calculated using the formula , where

C = Credit; GP = Grade Point

Credit Point Average (CPA) of a Semester or Programme etc. is calculated using the
formula

CPA = , where TCP = Total Credit Point;

TC = Total Credit

NOTE
A separate minimum of 30% marks each for internal and external (for both theory and
practical) and aggregate minimum of 40% are required for a pass for a course. For a pass
in a programme, a separate minimum of Grade D is required for all the individual courses.
If a candidate secures F Grade for any one of the courses offered in a
Semester/Programme only F grade will be awarded for that Semester/ Programme until
he/she improves this to D GRADE or above within the permitted period. Candidates who
secure D grade and above will be eligible for higher studies.

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