B.A. English Literature Syllabus
B.A. English Literature Syllabus
B.A. English Literature Syllabus
THIRUVALLUVAR UNIVERSITY
BACHELOR OF ARTS
B.A. ENGLISH
DEGREE COURSE
CBCS PATTERN
(With effect from 2020 - 2021)
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Total Total
Part Subject Papers Credit Marks
credits Marks
Part I Languages 4 4 16 100 400
Part II English 4 4 16 100 400
Part III Allied (Odd Semester) 2 4 8 100 200
Allied (Even Semester) 2 6 12 100 200
Electives 3 3 9 100 300
Core 15 (3-7) 56 100 1500
Project 1 5 5 100 100
Part IV Environmental Science 1 2 2 100 100
Soft skill 1 1 1 100 100
Value Education 1 2 2 100 100
Lang. & Others/NME 2 2 4 100 200
Skill Based 4 2 8 100 400
Part V Extension 1 1 1 100 100
Total 41 140 4100
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THIRUVALLUVAR UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Arts
B.A DEGREE COURSE
CBCS PATTERN
(with effect from 2020-2021)
SEMESTER I
OBJECTIVES
To inculcate the spiritual and moral values from the Indian Sages.
SYLLABUS
Unit -1 :Poetry
3.Home Coming-R.Parthasarathy.
Unit-2:Poetry
Unit-3:Prose
Unit-4: Drama
1.Nagamandala-Girish Karnad
UNIT-5: NOVEL
UNIT I
Students will be able to comment on the humor in A Very Indian Poem in English.
Students will be able to grasp the in-depth ideas about the poem Home Coming.
UNIT II
Students will be able to critically appreciate the poem The Child’s Return.
Students will be able to appreciate the poem Of Mother, among other Things.
UNIT III
Students will be able to scrutinize the writing style adopted by Kushwant Singh.
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UNIT IV
UNIT V
Web Sources:
https://khanindradutta.wordpress.com/2019/02/27/nissim-ezekiels-poem-very-indian-
poem-in-indian-english-complete-poem/
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/homecoming-0
http://e4english-corner-sasha.blogspot.com/2013/11/an-old-woman-by-arun-kolatkar-poem-
and.html#:~:text=In%20Arun%20Kolatkar's%20poem%2C%20%22An,land%20from%20which%2
0she%20comes.&text=The%20old%20woman%20'tightens%20her,She%20is%20persistent.
http://www.ncert.nic.in/ncerts/l/kehb101.pdf
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.463117/page/n13/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/whitetigernovel00adig/page/n9?q=the+white+tiger+arvind+adiga
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OBJECTIVES
SYLLABUS
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REFERENCE TEXTBOOKS
Hewings, Martin. Advanced English Grammar. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press,
1999.
COURSE OUTCOMES
UNIT I
Students will be able to get distinct ideas on all the parts of speech.
Students will be able to examine the usage of Parts of Speech in various contexts.
Students will be able to identify the different ways to adopt Parts of Speech.
UNIT I
UNIT III
Students will be able to know about Sentence Pattern and its types.
Students will be able to identify the different ways to adopt Sentence Pattern.
Students will be able to distinguish the Sentence Pattern with the help of illustrations.
UNIT IV
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Students will be able to understand and use Tenses in day to day life.
UNIT V
Students will be able to absorb noun, verb, adjectival and prepositional phrases.
OBJECTIVES
SYLLABUS
UNIT I : POETRY
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1. What is Poetry?
2. The Lyric
3. The Sonnet
4. The Elegy
5. The Epic
6. The Ode
UNIT II : PROSE
1. The Essay
3. Biography
4. Autobiography
1.The Tragedy
2.The Comedy
3. Tragi-Comedy
1. Historical Novel
COURSE OUTCOMES
UNIT I
Students will be able to understand how poetry requires a different writing style.
Students will be able to understand the traits of Lyric, Ode, and Sonnet.
UNIT II
UNIT III
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UNIT IV
UNIT V
Students will be able to absorb the basic ideas of Plot, Melodrama and Irony.
Students will be able to comprehend Allegory, Comic Relief and Dramatic Monologue.
Semester II
British literature I
Objectives
SYLLABUS
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Unit 1 poetry
Unit 2 poetry
Unit 3 prose
Of friendship
Of studies
Unit 4 drama
Unit 5 novel
Unit I
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Unit II
Unit III
Unit IV
Unit V
Understand that the road to Heaven is not easy, the cost is great,
Know that the true Christian must be willing to pay the cost no matter what.
Know that man is full of sin, but this does not keep him from attaining glory.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44115/a-hymn-to-god-the-father
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44185/a-song-for-st-cecilias-day-1687
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44360/the-collar
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44744/sonnet-7-how-soon-hath-time-the-subtle-
thief-of-youth
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46561/ode-on-solitude
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44455/on-my-first-son
https://www.fulltextarchive.com/page/Essays2/
https://www.fulltextarchive.com/page/Essays3/
https://emed.folger.edu/sites/default/files/EMEDWorkshop-ShoeHol.pdf
http://bunyanministries.org/books/pp_full_text.pdf
American Literature
Course Objectives
1. To introduce the major works of American authors and their intellectual philosophies
tostudentsof Literature.
4.To direct students’ ardent attention towards the development of their knowledge about
American Literature
6. To channelize their academic vision to grasp more about the American Drama and Fiction
Unit-1: Poetry
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Unit-2: Poetry
Unit-3: Prose
Unit-4: Drama
Unit-5: Fiction
Text Books
Unit-1: 1. American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
2. American Literature
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Unit-4
Penguin UK Edition
Unit-5 :
2. American Literature
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E- Materials
https://www.theatlantic.com/w.s.merwin
https://www.poetryfoundation. org/w.s.merwin
https://www.poem hunter.com/w.s.merwin
https://www.poeticside.com/poets/w.s.merwin
https://www.cliffnotes.com/americanwriters
https://www.poeticside.com/poets/w.s.merwin
https://www.poemanalysis.com/americanpoets
https://www.whitmanarchive.org
https://www.enotes.com/americanwriterspoets
https://www.bl.uk.collections
https://www.beamingnotes.com/americandramatists
https://www.britannia.com/americanliterature
https://www.sparknotes.com/americanpoets
https://www.imagination.com/americanliterature
https://www.gradesaver.com/americanwriters
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Unit-1,
1. the student will be able to grasp the lyrical richness embedded in American Poetry
2. the student will be able to understand the modern American writer like Merwin and his
thoughts related to Environment
3. the student will come to know the great American Poets like Frost, Lowell and Sandburg
and their works.
4. the student will be able to develop a taste of American poetry and thus he or she further
reads and understands
5. the student will search in web, related poems written by these great poets to develop
further knowledge on poetry
Unit-2,
1. the student will be able to admire and try to emulate the literary expertise of Walt
Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe and Wallace Stevens
2. the student will come to know the literary terms available in the American poetry
3. the student will get inspiration from Walt Whitman and his knowledge about India
4. the student will read further about these great poets
5. the student will develop a taste to study the lifestyle of American people
Unit-3,
Unit-4,
Unit-5,
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Unit I
A brief history of the early inhabitants of England, The Hundred Years of War (1337-1453) The
war of the Roses. The Black Death & The Peasants Revolt.
Emergence of a Strong Monarchy –The Church – The Monasteries - The grammar schools, public
schools, Education - The status of Women – Love and Marriage - The Printing Press – Its
Significance
Unit II
The Renaissance, The Reformation, The Spanish Armada - The Elizabethan - Theatre and Audience
– The Rule of Queen Elizabeth I – A Golden Period – The East India Company - The Puritan Age
& Restoration England
Unit III
Colonization, The Stuarts – King James Authorized Version of the Bible – The Civil War, The
Puritan Rule, The Restoration England - The Royal Society – The Glorious Revolution
Unit IV
Unit V
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The Victorian Age – Reform Bills – The Chartist Movement - The Modern Age – The Cold War
– Life in Sixties, Seventies, Eighties – The Origin and Growth of Political Parties in England.
Out Come:
This Comprehensive Paper enables the students to understand the subject thoroughly and
provides them the scope of their study. Helps them in the long run should go for their higher studies
and appear for competitive examinations such as (NET, SET, TET Etc)
Text: 1.The Social History of England, Dr. A. Shanmugakani., Ph.D. Manimekala Publishing
House
Semester III
British Literature II
Objectives
UNIT I – POETRY
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UNIT II – POETRY
UNIT IV – DRAMA
UNIT V – NOVEL
Course Outcome:
Unit I
Unit II
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Unit III
Unit IV
Unit V
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Web Source:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45527/lines-composed-a-few-
miles-above-tintern-abbey-on-revisiting-the-banks-of-the-wye-during-a-
tour-july-13-1798
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45134/ode-to-the-west-wind
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-
urnhttps://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43991/kubla-khan
https://www.bartleby.com/380/prose/491.html
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Best/GoldsmithCity.htm
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24761/24761.txt
https://www.planetebook.com/free-ebooks/robinson-crusoe.pdf
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1260/1260-h/1260-h.htm
Objectives
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Syllabus
Unit – I
Unit – II
Unit – III
Unit – IV
Unit – V
References:
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Course Objectives
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Syllabus
Unit I
Unit II
Unit III
Unit IV
The Restoration Age: Poetry: John Dryden & Samuel Butler: Drama: The
Comedy of Manners – William Congreve – Wycherley – Thomas Shadwell
– Dryden. Augustan Age – Alexander Pope as a poet , Critic – Addison and
Steele – Doctor Johnson, Goldsmith - Sheridan – Henry Fielding – Tobias
Smollett, Lawrence Sterne, Horace Walpole
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Unit V
Text Books
E – Materials
Course Objectives
Syllabus
Unit I
Unit II
1. Purpose of Interviews
Unit III
1.Preparing a Resume
Unit IV
Unit – v
1. Workplace etiquette
3. Culture
4. Gender equality
Unit I
Unit II
Unit III
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1.The students will be able to Know how to lay out the details in a
CV
2.The student will be able to learn how to organize in formation in
an cover letter
3.The student will be able come to know how to write a covering
letter
4.The student will be able to know FAOS about their family
members
5.The student will be able to learn how to answer question about
yourself and your family
Unit IV
Unit – V
Reference
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Course Objectives
UNIT I:
1. Meeting people
2. Exchanging greetings
3. Introducing, others, giving personal information, taking about people
animals and places
UNIT II:
COURSE OUTCOMES
UNIT I
UNIT II
Text books:
Semester IV
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Syllabus
UNIT I: POETRY
UNIT V: NOVEL
Course outcome:
Unit I
Unit II
Unit III
Unit IV
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UnitV
Web Source
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43606/the-scholar-gipsy
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43588/dover-beach
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43768/my-last-duchess
https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn6/7869/78693125.6.pdf
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34901/34901-h/34901-h.htm
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/844/844-h/844-h.htm
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/580/580-0.txt
https://www.fulltextarchive.com/page/The-Mayor-of-Casterbridge-by-
Thomas-Hardy/
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/550/550-0.txt
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Objectives
Unit I
1. Characteristic features of English Language
2. Indo European Family of Languages
Unit II
1. American English
2. English as world language
Course Out come:
Unit I
Unit III
Unit IV
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Course Objectives
3 .To expose the students to the magnum opuses of the literary masters
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SYLLABUS
Unit I
Unit II
Unit IV Drama:
Text Books
Unit – 1,2,3,4:
Unit – 5
https://oxfords.com
https://www.britanica.com
E – Materials
https://oxfords.com
https://www.britanica.com
Course Objectives
Syllabus
Unit I
Getting started
Gaining control
Writing for a Diverse Audience
Organizing your thought
Managing the purpose of writing
Overcoming the writes Block.
Unit II
Endings
Headings
Graphic Devices
Bullets
Unit III
Unit IV
Unit V
Letter of complaint
Responses to letters of complaint
Letter of request
Persuasion : some practical pointer
Shaping a persuasion message
The sales letter
International correspondence
Message for email
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Unit - I
Unit II
Unit III
1. Construct subject line the key lines of the message in a captive way.
2. Include the punctuation marks in the right place
3. Learn to use the tens in the items in the menu bar like headings endings
bullets and graphic devices
4. Makes the message accessible
5. Learn to incorporate the special effect
Unit IV
Unit V
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Text Book :
Course Objectives
UNIT I:
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UNIT II:
COURSE OUTCOMES
UNIT I
UNIT II
Text books:
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Semester V
BRITISH LITERATURE IV
Course Objectives
SYLLABUS
UNIT I – POETRY
UNIT II – POETRY
UNIT IV – DRAMA
1. Pygmalion – G.B.Shaw
UNIT V – NOVEL
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COURSE OUTCOMES
UNIT I
UNIT II
UNIT III
UNIT IV
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UNIT V
1. Students will be able to know the theme of the novels of William Golding with
reference to “Lord of the Flies.”
2. Students will be able to understand the concept of beastial instinct and savagery.
3. Students will be able to understand the suitability of the novel for film making.
4. Students will be able to understand the concept of totalitarianism
5. Students will be able to understand how the views in the novels are relevant in the
current scenerio.
Golding, William, and Edmund L. Epstein. Lord of the Flies: A Novel. New York:
Perigee, 1954.
https://www.gradesaver.com/the-second-coming/study-guide/poem-text
https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poem/23607/auto/0/0/Seamus-Heaney/THE-
TOLLUND-MAN/en/tile
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur
https://www.bartleby.com/236/239.html
http://www.askliterature.com/prose/functions-of-a-teacher-by-bertrand-russell/
https://orwell.ru/library/articles/bookshop/english/e_shop
https://sex-british.com/notes-on-the-english-character-e-m-forster/
SHAKESPEARE
Objectives
SYLLABUS
Course Outcome
Unit I and II
Unit III
Unit IV
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Unit V
Objectives
UNIT I
Poetics - Aristotle
UNIT II
UNIT III
Unit IV
Unit V
Course Outcome:
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Unit I
Unit II
Unit III
1.Why does the novel matter?
2. How Lawrence highlight the superiority of the novel over other forms of literature
3. What according to Lawrence are the supreme old novels
4.The relation between tradition and individual talent
5.The concept of objective correlative
Unit IV
TEXTS
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Reference books:
Subaltern Literature
Objectives
Syllabus
Unit I
Poetry
1. The Dying Eagle by E.J. Pratt
2. Why have you left the Horse Alone by Mahmoud Darwish
3. Telephone Converstion by Wole Soyinka
Unit II
Non Fiction
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Unit III
Short stories
1. The Sacrificial Egg by Chinua Achebe
2. Draupadhi by Mahaswetha Devi
Unit IV
1. Dumb Dancer by Asif Currimbhoy
2. Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka
Unit V
1. Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
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Course Outcomes
Unit I
Unit II
2. Realize that work is not a way out of poverty, but a physically and emotionally
damaging state in which the economic laws of supply and demand often simply
don’t apply.
3. Understand that low-wage workers are forced to fight an uphill, or even
impossible, battle:
4. understand that their problems stem not from individual weaknesses or laziness
but from entrenched structural issues that make working your way out of poverty
excruciatingly difficult.
Unit III
The students are able to understand
1. the tug-of-war between Western influences and native traditions and beliefs.
2. Through Julius, that even decades of colonialism are incapable of erasing the
rituals and beliefs of a people
3. The concept of emptiness and loss.
4. That Draupadi is an ironic tale of exploitation and struggle faced by a woman for
being born in a low birth
5. And explore the traumas undertaken by the women protagonists to resist and
survive.
Unit IV
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1. https://www.k-state.edu/english/westmank/spring_00/SOYINKA.html
2. https://english2302.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/the-sacrificial-egg.pdf
3. Currimboy, Asif. Dumb Dancers. Culcutta: Writers Workshop, 1992.
4. Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed. Picador, n.d.
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CHILDREN LITERATURE
Objectives
1. To make the students read a broad range of children’s literature from Fairy tales to
recent books
2. it gives students appreciation about their own cultural heritage as well as those of
others;
3. it helps students develop emotional intelligence and creativity;
4. to explore new vocabulary, to internalize grammar and linguistic structures,
5. to motivate the students to develop the habit of reading
SYLLABUS
UNIT I
UNIT II
UNIT III
UNIT IV
UNIT V
2. Philip Pullman – On Children’s Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It (From
Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling).
Course outcome:
Unit I
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Unit II
Unit III
Unit IV
1. identify and describe the moral of the story, The Ugly Duckling
2. analyze the characters of the story.
3. analyzethe elements of a fairy tale.
4. Understand how to manage problematic situations
5. compare and contrast fairy tales
Unit V
1. it’s in the fantasy literature that we find a sense of sub-creating a world and the
tales that inhabit it that both reveal and delight.
2. that it is a wrong conception that one is behind in his reading and one is ahead,
3. that there isn’t a complete and unbridgeable gap between the books of the
children, and the grown-
4. That we grow up by moving along a sort of timeline, like a monkey climbing a
stick.
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Web Source:
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=9117
Rowling, J K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Bloomsbury Press, n.d.
Journalism
Objectives:
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Syllabus
Unit – I
History – Definition of News – News sources – News Values – Role and functions
of Journalism – Canons of Journalism.
Unit – II
Reporter – News Editor – Sub Editor – Anatomy of Editing – Language and Style
– Organisation and Structure of the News paper.
Unit – III
Unit – IV
Unit – V
House Style
Literary Material
- Running Heads
- Page Number
- Heading
- Footnotes and Endnotes
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- Tables
- Appendixes
- Glossaries
References:
1. Mencher, Melvin; News Reporting and Writing; 7th edition; (1997); Columbia
Univ.Press
2. Ed. Boyce, George; Curran, James; Wingate, Pauline; Newspaper History from the
17th century to the present day; (1978); Sage
3. Wilson, John; Understanding Journalism; (1996); Routledge
4. Mazumdar, Aurobindo; Indian Press and Freedom Struggle; (1993); Orient
Longman
5. Parthasarthy, Ramaswamy; Here is the News; (1994); Streling
6. Brumley and O’Malley; A Journalism Reader, (1997); Routledge
7. Howard, T; New: A Reader; (1991); OUP
8. Williams, Framcos; Dangerous Estate: (1957); Longman
9. Dhavan, Rajeev; Only the Good News; (1987); bharat Enterprises
10. Sarkar, R.C.S; The press in India; (1984); S. Chand & Co. Ltd.
11. Raghavan, G. N. S; PTi Story; (1987); Indraprastha Press
12. Rao, Amiya and Rao, B.G.; The Press she could not whip; (1977); Popular
Prakashan
13. Srinivasan. R.; Crusaders of the 4th Esate; (1989); Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan
14. Smith, Anthony; The News an International History; (1979); Thames and Hudson
15. Hohenberg; The professional Journalist
16. Ahuja, B.N., Theory and Practice of Journalism, Surject Publications, Delhi,1979
17. Gunning, Robert, The Technique of Clear Writing, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New
York.
18. Johnson, Stanley and Julian Hariss, The Complete Reporter, The MacMillan Co.,
New York, 1942.
19. Lent, John A. (ed), The Asian Newspaper’s Reluctant Revolution, The State
University Press, Ames Iowa, 1977.
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Web Source:
copac.ac.uk:
Content Writing
Course Objective
Expose students of English literature to the world of ‘ideation and creation’. By providing
a platform for writing contents for Advertisement, Websites, Product descriptions and
Social media contents ( for clients to express, inform, entertain or persuade the audience/
readers) enhances the artistic and analytic function of the student.
Course Outcome
Content Writing will play a vital role in the era of “start ups”. Withtechnical expertise
along with good writing skillscan provide a great career opportunity to a student.
Unit I
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Introduction
Writing for special purpose- nuances of technical writing- digital age writings- SEO-
target identification and focus- various platforms. Types of Content Ads., Blogs, E-Books
etc., Publication Platforms.
Unit II
Unit III
Unit IV
Unit V
Text Book
Reference Books.
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Semester VI
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
Course Objectives
Syllabus
UNIT 1-POETRY
UNIT 2-Poetry
1. Though My Mother was Already Two Years Dead (Long Distance II)- Tony Harrison
UNIT 3-Prose
UNIT 4-Drama
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UNIT 5-Novel
COURSE OUTCOMES
UNIT I
UNIT II
UNIT III
UNIT IV
UNIT V
https://poets.org/poem/rain-0
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/wedding/
https://poets.org/poem/long-distance-ii
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lonely-moon-5/
https://www.bartleby.com/topics/through-the-tunnel
https://archive.org/stream/GordimerOnceUponATime/Gordimer_Once_Upon_a_Time_djvu.txt
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Course Objectives
Syllabus
UNIT: I POETRY
UNIT II Non-Fiction
UNIT: III
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UNIT: IV
1. Sakunthalam – Kalidasa
2. EvamIndrajith – Badal Sarkar (Translated by GirishKarnad)
UNIT: V
COURSE OUTCOMES
UNIT I
UNIT II
UNIT III
2.Students will be able to understand the customs, taboos, beliefs and rituals of fishermen
community.
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UNIT IV
1. Students will be able to understand the importance of culture depicted in the epic
Mahabaratha.
2. Students will be able to develop a taste for language and literature with reference
to Sakuntalam.
3. Students will be able to understand the sign of true love.
4. Students will be able to learn the genre absurd play and the stream of
consciousness technique.
5. Students will be able to explore Sartrean existentialism.
UNIT V
https://www.worldcat.org/title/sins-of-appus-mother/oclc/309143
https://talesntunes.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/book-review-chemmeen-english-translation/
https://indianreview.in/fiction/indian-review-assamese-literature-the-bait-mahim-bora-
translated-lalit-saikia/
https://www.worldcat.org/title/kalidas-abhigyan-shakuntalam/oclc/643914898
Badal Sarkar, EvamIndrajith – translated by GirishKarnad. Oxford University Press, London 1974
Print.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/bridges-paalangal/oclc/229343130
https://www.academia.edu/9958506/TRANSLATION_OF_CLASSICS
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Course Objectives
UNIT I: POETRY
Australia – A.D.Hope
UNIT V: NOVEL
COURSE OUTCOMES
UNIT I
UNIT II
1. Students will be able to understand the feelings of displacement through the poem
“House and Land”.
2. Students will be able to know the New Zealand literature.
3. Students will be able to feel the state of immigrants.
4. Students will be able to understand the racial and cultural tensions in Africa.
5. Students will be able to understand the concept of colonialism.
UNIT III
Students will be able to understand how race plays an important role in works of African
writers.
Students will be able to understand the importance of journey and its benefits.
Students will be able to understand how a writer takes up the role of a teacher.
UNIT IV
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5. Students will be able to analyze that the play as a bridge between African and
European culture.
UNIT V
Soyinka, Wole. Death and the King’s Horseman Norton critical edition.New York : Norton,
2003.
Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. New York, N.Y: Scribner, 2003. Print.
https://www.studymode.com/subjects/a-black-grandmother-by-sally-morgan-page1.html
http://mrhuman.weebly.com/uploads/2/1/5/1/21516316/thenovelistasteacher.pdf
https://cdn.auckland.ac.nz/assets/press/all-
books/pdfs/2017/Appendix%20to%20Allen%20Curnow%20Collected%20Poems.pdf
https://poets.org/poem/far-cry-africa
https://sahyadriliterature.blogspot.com/2018/08/poem-analysis-of-australia-by-a.html
https://poets.org/poem/children-1
PROJECT CREDIT : 5
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Objectives:
Unit 1:
1. World Wide Web & Email, Internet
2. Searching the Internet & Search FAQ’s
3. The Internet as Resource Bank and classroom tool
Unit 2:
1. Introduction to NET (I)
2. Introduction to NET (II)
3. Writing Projects
4. Email projects and discussion lists
Unit 3:
Activities
1. Making news
2. Eco-tourism
3. Mystery Postcards
4. Classified ads
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5. Puzzle Maker
6. Reviewing a website
Unit 4:
Tools for Online works
1. Blogs and Wikis
2. Web Quest
3. Recent multimedia applications in everyday life.
Unit 5:
1. Professional development online
2. Listserv FAOs
3. Teaching online
4. Teaching development resources
Course Outcome:
Unit I
1 Student is able to use internet.
2 Learn to send and receive e-mails
3 Identify similar problems and know the ways to solve through
FAO’s
4 Incorporate the required material from the web resource bank in
learning English
5 Exchange ideas using e-mail
Unit 2:
1 Learn the history of computer and its gradual development till
date.
2 Get educated in online quiz and enrich their knowledge
3 Get their educational resource materials.
4 Involve in creating and publishing their articles.
5 Know to participate in online discussion and get their doubts
clarified
Unit 3:
1 Students are able to compose news and upload
2 They are able to locate popular places of tourism and learn their
ecological significance
3 Learn to create postcards and develop related knowledge
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Prescribed Text
The Internet and the Language Classroom – A Practical Guide for
Teachers – II Edition – Gavin Dudency , Cambridge University Press,
2007.
Objective:
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UNIT I
UNIT II
UNIT III
1 What’s in a Name?
2 Brevity is the soul of wit
3 How you say a thing
4 Acting is believing
UNIT IV
UNIT V
Course outcome
UNIT I :
UNIT II
1 Learn the basics of film – language and venture on to higher level.
2 Become knowledgeable in the trained areas of signs, codes and syntax
of film- language
3 Identify the circuit of film experience connected to different fields of
social political and religious life
4 Become more knowledgeable at cultural, social and political levels
5 Encouraged to write scripts for film
6 Learn how myths are used in cinema.
7 Comprehend the potentialities of cinema by concentrating on the sub-
text
8 Examine how the marginalized are portrayed through cinema
9 Understand how colours are used to highlight different ideas.
10 Appreciate the interactive process between the visual and the viewer
UNIT III
UNIT IV
UNIT V
Text Prescribed
BOOK RECOMMENDED:
Movies Recommended:
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Course Structure
Course Objectives
Unit I
Getting started
Gaining control
Writing for a Diverse Audience
Organizing your thought
Managing the purpose of writing
Overcoming the writes Block.
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Unit II
Unit III
Unit IV
Unit V
Letter of complaint
Responses to letters of complaint
Letter of request
Persuasion : some practical pointer
Shaping a persuasion message
The sales letter
International correspondence
Message for email
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Course Out Comes (five outcomes for each units should be mentioned)
Unit - I
Unit II
Unit III
6. Construct subject line the key lines of the message in a captive way.
7. Include the punctuation marks in the right place
8. Learn to use the tens in the items in the menu bar like headings endings bullets and
graphic devices
9. Makes the message accessible
10. Learn the incorporate the special effect
Unit IV
Unit V
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Course Structure
Course Objectives
Unit I
Unit II
1.Poetry
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2.Prose
Unit III
2.Character Sketch
3.Action Description
4.Dialogue
Unit IV
1.Travelogue
2.Writing Advertisements
Unit – v
1.Writing Documentaries
Unit I
Unit II
1. The student will be able to grasp the lyrical richness of the poetry
2. The student will come to know the liter any devices of the poetry
3. The student will be able to understand the features of prose
4. The student will be able of fours the multiple features of creative writing?
5. The student will be able to know the principles of writing for digital media.
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Unit III
1. The student will be able to understand the different elements and attributes of
drama
2. The student will be able to understand various genres of fiction
3. The student will be able to analyze the character speech
4. The student will be able to form dramatic devices used in conjunction with the
episodic and climactic plot forms
5. The student will be able to forms action description in creative writing.
Unit IV
1. The students will be able to write a Photographic Description of places
2. The students will be able to highlight the Various Attractions.
3. The students will be able to give some cultural background of the places
4. the students will be able to write catchy advertisements
5. the students will be able to write articles for newspapers
Unit V
1. Students will be able to understand documentaries
2. Students will be able to write documentaries
3. The Students will be able to write scripts for Television programmes
4. The students will be able to write scripts for radio programmes
5. The students will be able to organize TV and Radio programmes.
References
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Course Objectives
1. To acquaint the learner with the theories and practices of teaching English.
3. To make familiar our students with teaching processes involve in English language teaching.
6. To channelize their academic vision towards the language teaching and learning in a better way
Unit – I :
Unit – II:
2. Listening Activities
Unit – III:
Unit-IV:
Unit- V:
Text Books
Unit-I:
Unit-II:
Unit III:
Unit- IV:
2. Slavin, R. Cooperative Learning: Theory, Research and Practice. 2nd Ed. New York:
Prentice Hall
Unit - V:
2. Wrenn, C.L. The English Language. Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd.
2. Diane Larsen – Freeman and Marti Anderson. Techniques & Principles in Language
5. Dr. Meena Sehrawat and Dr. Subodh K. Jha. English Language Teaching. Lakshi
Publishers
6. M L Tickoo. Teaching and Learning English – A Sourcebook for Teachers and Teacher –
Learners. Orient Blackswan Publishers
9. Jeremy Harmer. The Practice of English Language Teaching – 5th Ed with DVD. Pearson
Publishers
10. Dr. Adi Ramesh Babu. English Language Teaching and Learning – Problems and
Remedies. Pointer Publishers.
E- Materials
1. https://eltbylinablog.wordpress.com
2. https://eltnotes.wordpress.com
3. https://medium.com.eltnotes
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4. https://talimenam.blogspot.com
5. https://www.eltnotes.blogspot.com
6. https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk.
7. https://www.scribd.com
8. https://opencourse.uoa.org
9. https://news.collindelt.com
10. https://en.mwikipedia.org
11. https://www.eltresearchbites.com
12. https://eltnotesfrombelow.org
13. https://shop.scholastic.co.uk.elt
14. https://eltaypwip.org.webnotes
15. https://www.cambridge.org.elt
unit - I,
1. the student will be able to understand the brief history of language learning
2. the student will be able to know that language can be acquired as a skill not as a
knowledge
3. the student will come to know the various innovative methods available in learning and
teaching the language
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4. the student will be able to develop a taste for language learning and teaching
5. the student will understand the objectives of teaching and learning English
Unit - II,
1. the student will be able to understand the mother tongue influence on the English
language and how to avoid this as this is a major problem for non native English speakers
2. the student will come to know the various listening activities as listening plays a very
vital role in learning any language
3. the student will get inspiration to learn native English language with correct accent
4. the student will learn the techniques of spoken English
5. the student will remove the barriers that come across in effective communication
Unit - III,
1. the student will be able to understand the methods and approaches in teaching English
2. the student will understand the translational method to learn the language
3. the student will get inspiration through the direct methods of learning the language
4. the student will understand the bilingual, situational and eclectic approaches of learning
the language
5. the students by learning these approaches and methods easily learn the language.
Unit - IV,
1. the student will be able to learn various methods of learning the language
2. the student will come to know the basis of communicative language teaching
3. the student will understand the cooperative language teaching
4. the student will get inspiration through the task-based and content-based teaching of
English language
5. the student will be able to approach the learning of a language in an easy manner through
learning these teaching methodologies
Unit - V,
1. the student will be able to understand the status of English in the world as English has
become a world language
2. the student will come to know the usage of English language in specific purposes related
to all fields
3. the student will understand the methods of approaches practiced in India to teach the
English language
4. the student will get inspiration through the various influences like technology, media and
cyber on the English language
5. the student will be able use the language in all specific purposes
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