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CHITTAGONG INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY (CIU)
SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Syllabus for BA( Honours) in English Literature, Language & English Language
Teaching (ELT).
BA ( Honours) in English Literature , Language & English Language Teaching(ELT) combines
a Liberal Arts Program with two different concentrations: Concentration 1: English Literature
and Concentration 2: Language & English Language Teaching (ELT). The course structure and
credit distribution will be as follows:
1. Foundation Courses : 12 Courses 36 Credits
2. Core Courses : 18 Courses 54 Credits
3. Concentration Courses : 7 Courses 21 Credits
4. Project/Teaching Practice/Seminar Paper: 3 Credits
5. Minor Courses : 5 Courses 15Credits
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Total: 129 Credits
**Note: In addition to the basic requirements of 111 credits for BA ( Honours) degree ,students
from other departments may do one of the two minors: (a) Minor in English Literature and (b)
Minor in Language & English Language Teaching(ELT), for which they are required to
complete 5 Courses of 3credits each. i.e. a total of 15 Credits. ‘The students from Literature
Concentration will do minor in Language & English Language Teaching(ELT)and students
from English Language and English Language Teaching(ELT) Concentration will do
minor in English Literature’.
Foundation Courses :
Communication Skills 6 Credits.
ENG 101 Listening and Speaking Skills .
ENG 106 Advanced English.
Computer Skills 3 Credits.
CIS 101 Fundamentals of Computer System
Numeracy 6 Credits.
MAT 100 Basic University Mathematics I
MAT210 Basic University Mathematics II
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Natural Sciences 6 Credits.
ENV 101 Introduction to Environmental Science
ENV 102 World Geography
PSY 201 Principles of Psychology
Social Sciences 6 Credits.
ANT 101 Introduction to Anthropology
SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology
HEA 101 Health and Society
ECN 200 Introduction to Economics
Humanities 6 Credits.
NCH 101 National Culture and Heritage l
BPH 101 Bangladesh Political History
BLA 101 Bangla Literature and Art
HST 103 History and Civilization
AAT101 Art and Aesthetics
FRN 101 Elementary French l
PHL 101 Introduction to Philosophy
PHL 206 Philosophy of Religion
Live- in –Field Experience 3 Credits.
LFE 201 Live- in –Field Experience
Core Courses : All students must take the following Core Courses to complete 54 Credits .
Each course consists of 3 credits.
Core Courses: 54 Credits.
ENG 201 Introduction to English Literature
ENG 202 History of England
ENG 203 Understanding Poetry
ENG 204 Seventeenth Century Poetry
ENG 205 Victorian Poetry
ELT 201 English Language
ELT 301 The History of English Language
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ELT 303 English Language Teaching: Approaches and Methods
LIN 301 Introduction to Linguistics
ENG 305 Introduction to Drama
ENG 306 Elizabethan Drama
ENG 307 Romantic Poetry
ELT 401 Research Methodology
ENG 402 Introduction to Literary Theory
ENG 403 Creative Writing
ENG 404 South Asian Fictions in English
ENG 405 Nineteenth Century Novel
ENG 406 Twentieth Century Poetry
Concentration Courses : All students must take any seven (7) of the Concentration
Courses to complete 21 Credits . Each course consists of 3 credits.
Concentration l: English Literature
ENG 312 Twentieth Century American Poetry
ENG 314 American Literature: Bradford to Dickenson
ENG 315 American Literature: Twain to Mukerjee
ENG 316 Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
ENG 407 Twentieth Century Novel
ENG 411 South Asian Literature in English
Eng 412 English Dramas from Congreve to Churchill
ENG 413 Classics in Translation
ENG 414 Other Literatures in English
ENG 415 Modern Literature in Translation
ENG 416 Women and Literature
Concentration 2: Language and English Language Teaching(ELT).
ELT 204 Advanced English Grammar
ELT 305 Discourse in ELT
ELT 312 Syllabus and Course Design
ELT 314 Materials Evaluation and Preparation
ELT 315 Introduction to CALL(Computer Assisted Language Learning)
ELT 403 Teaching English for Specific Purpose
ELT 405 Teacher Education and Supervision for ELT
ELT 411 Teaching and Learning Grammar, Pronunciation & Vocabulary
ELT 416 Testing & Evaluation
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Minor Courses : Students of English Literature( Concentration l) will do minor in any
five(5) courses from a total of 15 credits. . Each course consists of 3 credits.
Minor in Linguistics and English Language Teaching(ELT). ELT 313 Morphology
ELT 314 Syntax and Semantic
LIN 315 Discourse Analysis
LIN 411 Sociolinguistics
LIN 412 psycholinguistics
LIN 413 Historical Linguistics
ELT 415 Translation Studies
Minor in English Literature : Students of English Linguistics and English Language
Teaching (ELT) (Concentration ll ) will do minor in any five(5) courses from a total of 15
credits. Each course consists of 3 credits.
ENG 312 Twentieth Century American Poetry
ENG 314 American Literature: Bradford to Dickenson
ENG 316 Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
ENG 411 South Asian Literature in English
Eng 412 English Dramas from Congreve to Churchill
ENG 415 Modern Literature in Translation
ENG 416 Women and Literature
Course Descriptions: Foundation Courses
ENG 101 Listening and Speaking Skills (3 credits)
Listening for main ideas and specific information, getting meaning from context,
identifying stressed words and reductions, listening for advice, directions,
understanding instructions, guessing meaning, inferring, predicting, listening to
lectures and note taking, listening to narratives and amusing anecdotes. Speaking
as social interaction, to obtain and give information, telephone conversations,
introductions, greetings, partings, giving instructions, making complaints,
apologies, giving directions, opinions and suggestions, expressing feelings and
moods, attitudes and opinions. Classroom interaction, asking for clarification and
giving explanations, descriptions, comparisons, analysis, and evaluations.
Speeches, presentations, debates and discussions at seminars and conferences.
Pronunciation with emphasis on intonation, stress patterns, paralinguistic, features.
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ENG 106 Advanced English Skills (3 credits)
Advanced skills in reading- Critical reading and responding, analysis and
evaluation of texts styles, comparing different purposes and registers, writing
critiques of articles, text books and reviews, reading scientific and technical
articles, journals and research papers. Writing in response to reading, notes,
summaries, term papers, seminar and workshop presentations, collaborative
writing on wider topics. Speeches and debates. Writing in narrative and expository
modes. Writing research papers, abstracts, formulating thesis questions and
statements, making bibliographic surveys, writing research questions for surveys
and interviews, gathering and presentation of data, drawing conclusions,
abbreviations and numbers, quotations, footnotes and references, bibliographies,
tables, illustrations, editing and proofreading. Term paper mandatory.
CIS 101 Fundamentals of Computer Systems (3 credits)
Organization of digital computers, types of computers, history and generations,
Binary numbers, BCD and ASCII codes. Microcomputers and bus organized
architecture of microcomputer, motherboards and adopters, primary and secondary
memories, Input/output peripheral devices, system bus, ISA and PCI buses.
Software classification, operating systems, introduction to windows and UNIX,
Application software: word processing spreadsheet and database software,
programming languages, assembles and complies. Computer networks, concept of
LAN, WAN and Internet, Internet services and WWW, introduction to multimedia
systems. Power supply and power conditioning, general maintenance of computer.
MAT 100 Basic University Mathematics l (3 credits)
Theory of numbers: number systems. Set Theory: notations, subset, superset;
Algebra of sets, Venn-Euler diagrams. Coordinates and locus; definition of
Cartesian, Polar and spherical coordinate systems; distance between two points;
interpolation and extrapolation. Straight line: equations in slope form, intercept
form; linearity of tree points. Circle: general equation of a circle; tangent at a given
point. Tangent from an outside point. Calculus: limits and continuity; Differential
calculus; differentiation of product and quotient; application of differentiation;
integral calculus; integration by parts; application of integral calculus. Vector and
Matrices: units vectors; Algebra of vectors; dot and cross products; elementary
concepts of a matrix; elementary row operations; solutions of linear equations.
MAT 210 Basic University Mathematics ll (3 credits)
Coordinate geometry: Cartesian systems, linear equations, Sets real number system
and complex number system. Functions: Linear function, Quadratic function,
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Power, Exponential and logarithmic functions, Trigonometric functions. Graph of
these functions. Solving system of two equations. Discrete probability, discrete
statistics.
ENV 101 Introduction to Environmental Science (3 Credits )
Fundamental concepts and scopes of environmental science. Earth's atmosphere,
hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. Humans and nature; technology and
population; ecological concepts and ecosystems; environmental quality and
management; agriculture, fisheries, forestry and wildlife. Energy and mineral
resources; renewable and nonrenewable resources. Environmental degradation;
pollution and waste management, Environmental policy and planning,
Environmental Conventions and Laws.
ENV 102 World Geography (3 credits)
An overview of the physical forces which have shaped the continents and imparted
a distinctiveness to various countries. A brief discussion of the historical events
which have influenced present day political geography, Discussion of the
Heartland theory, Environmental factors affecting the trade & commerce of
different location will be reviewed. The geography of continents and their
surrounding oceans will be the setting for in-depth study of certain key countries,
particularly of their economic geography.
PSY 201 Principles of Psychology (3 credits)
Key definitions and concept :Major Theories of Personality-The Behaviour
Machine-Intelligence-Emotion-Motivation Values-Stress- Copying Mechanisms-
Interpersonal Relationship, Interpersonal Conflict –Self-Concept , Psychological
Development.
ANT 101 Introduction to Anthropology (3 credits)
Definition, Branches of Anthropology: Physical Anthropology, Social and Cultural
Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistic; Relation of Anthropology with other
disciplines; Different Schools of Anthropology: Evolution, Diffusionism,
Functionalism, Neoevolution, Structuralism; Kinship and Descent: Descent
Groups, Corporate Groups, Kinship Terminologies; Marriage: Rules of Marriage,
Incest, Taboo, Endogamy and Exogamy, Residence: Patrilocal, Matrilocal,
Neolocal, Virilocal, Duelocal; Economic Anthropology: Labour Organization,
Land Ownership, Capital, Technology, Production, Distribution and Exchange,
Barter and Trade; Political Organization.
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SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology (3 credits)
Introductory Sociology is designed to acquaint the beginning students with the
major concepts and theories. With a brief discussion of its history and
contributions of the major sociologists the course introduces the students to the
methodology of social research. The course then looks at the major concepts, like
culture, groups, socialization, deviance and social control. The next section deals
with social inequality in terms of social stratification, global inequality, and
inequalities among ethnic groups, gender and of age. It then moves to the different
institutions like, family, religion, education, economy, and government and
politics. The next section deals with population, environment, urbanization and
finally with collective behaviour and social movements and social change.
HEA 101 Health and Society (3 credits)
This course aims to introduce students to an understanding of key sociological
approaches to the analysis and understanding of health and society. The course
covers concepts of health and disease, patterns of health and the social construction
of disease. Special attention is given to develop knowledge on theories central to
the notion of health, including the social, cultural and institutional forces and
context that play a role on health and health related practices. The purpose is to
help establish a perspective that will enable the students to better understand the
relationship between health and society as well as to provide skills and knowledge
for research experiences. The course also provides an overview of the basic
concepts of population studies that will help students develop their own
demographic perspective, enabling them to understand some of the most important
issues confronting the world. The course will use a combination of methods, such
as lectures, debates, preparation of assignments by reviewing journal articles and
presentation.
ECN201 Introduction to Economics (3 credits)
Basic concepts of Economics, Distinction between Micro and Mcro Economics,
General view of price system: Demand and Supply, Elasticities of demand and
supply, Consumer’s behavior: Utility analysis, Inferior good and Giffen good,
Market Structures, Prefer competition, Monopoly. Monopolistic competition and
Oligopoly, Factors of production: labour, land, capital and entrepreneur, Basic
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concepts of Macroeconomics, Circular flow of income, mixed economy, private
and public sector economic interactions. Measuring domestic output: national
income and price level, Aggregate Expenditures Model, The Multiplier, net
exports, and government, Aggregate demand and supply, Fiscal policy, Money
market equilibrium. The Multiplier, net exports, and government, Aggregate
demand and supply, Fiscal policy, Money market equilibrium
Credit creation by banking system, Monetary policy, Some concepts of
International Trade, exchange rate determination and economic development.
NCH 101 National Culture and Heritage I (3 credits)
The anthropological background of the people; Physical and environmental
geography; The characteristics of Bengali culture; Archaeological evidence of the
cultural heritage; Kingdoms and empires; Advent of the Muslims and its impact;
The Mughal rule; Religion and society in Mediaeval. Bengal; (a) religious
tolerance and conflicts, (b) Social conditions; Middle Bengali literature.
BPH 101 Bangladesh Political History (3 credits)
Introduction, Political conditions in ancient period and ruling dynasties,
archeological sites: Mahasthan, Mainamati, Paharpur, Wari Bateswar, Muslim
conquest of Bengal and political unification of Bengal, Bengal under the Sultans,
Bengal under the Mughals, Foreign Travelers in ancient and medieval period, idea
of golden period, Coming of the European and political conditions in early 18th
century, Battle of Palashi (1757) and the establishment of the rule of the English
East India Company in Bengal. Permanent settlement and the extension of the
company’s rule over other parts of India, The Hindu society and the reform
movements (19th
century): Raja Rammohan Roy, Ishar Chandra Vidyasagar, The
Muslim society and the reform movements Hazia Shariatullah, Titumir, Nawab
Abdul Latif, Sayed Amir Ali, Peasant movements in Bengal, Muslim separatism in
the 19th
century, Partition of Bengal 1905, Major politics events in Bengal and
India (1905-1947), Economic backwardness of Bengal under British Colonial
Rule, The Language Movement (1952),
Movement for Autonomy in East Pakistan, Economic Disparity between the two
wings of Pakistan, War of Liberation, 1971, Political Development since 1971
BLA 101 Bangla Literature and Art (3 credits)
Origin of Bangla language, Development of Bangla language, the early period of
Bangla literature, The literary works of medieval period, Short religious poems of
medieval period, The modern period of Bangla literature: beginning and
characteristics, The first half of the 19th century: the period of prose development,
Literary works of the 2nd half of the 19th century, The beginning of 20th century
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and Rabindranath Tagore, Nazrul and the other poets and the trend of fiction, The
trend of poetry, 1947-2000. The trend of fiction, 1947-2000.
HST 103 History & Civilization (3 credits)
Meaning, Growth and Spread of civilization The Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia-
Egypt- The Hebrews- The Hittites Canaanites - Philistine - Phoenicians - Crete -
Mycenea _ The Classical World the Greeks and the Romans - The Medieval Age:
Christianity, Barbarian invasions, Feudalism, Manorial System, Growth of towns
and Universities - Byzantine civilization and the formation of Russia - Early
Culture in America: The Mayas, the Aztecs, the Incas - The Renaissance and the
Reformation - Government and Societies in the Age of Absolutism - The Age of
Explorations – The formation of Latin American - the Scientific and Industrial
Revolutions – Consolidation of Europe's Global dominance - World War I - The
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
AAT 101 Art and Aesthetics (3 credits)
Introduction, concepts and principle of Aesthetics; History of civilization;
Introduction to Indian Mythology; People and Art; History of Paintings; Theory of
Bengali Paintings; Objectives of Bengali Paintings; Mughal Paintings; Bengali
Paintings and Western Influence; Bangladeshi Painting in the pre-Liberian period
1947-1970; Bengali folk painting and craft, Impressionism, Expressionism and
Modern Bangladeshi Paintings; Practical orientation to museum study; Post
Modernism in Bengali paintings. Introduction to History of music; Early medieval
Bengali music; Tune and lyrics of Bengali music (17th to mid 19th century).
Bengali Folk songs, Contemporary Bangladeshi Music; Western influence in
Bangladeshi Music; Introduction to Origin of Bengali Theatre; Genera of Bengali Theatre;
Modern Theories and forms of Bengali Theatre; Conclusion.
FRN 101 Elementary French I ( 3 credits)
Letters of alphabet. Accents and their pronunciation. Definite and indefinite
articles (feminine/masculine, singular/plural). Personal pronouns. Auxiliaries "to
be" and "to have", verbs ending with '-er', in the present tense. Interrogative,
negative form. Simple adjectives (descriptive, colours). Presenting onself.
PHL 101 Introduction to Philosophy ( 3 credits)
Definition of philosophy. Functions of philosophy: critical and constructive; its
relation to religion and science. Philosophy and life; methods of philosophy:
dogmatism, skepticism and criticism. Theories of the origin of knowledge:
authoritarianism, empiricism, rationalism, critical theory and Kant, intuitionism;
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Idealism and realism. Criterion of truth: correspondence, coherence and pragmatic
theories. Nature of mind: mind as substance; the concept of empirical self the
organism and concrete view. Theories of mind-body relationship. The problem of
value: the concept of intrinsic and extrinsic value: the three cardinal values--truth,
beauty and goodness.
PHL 206 Philosophy of Religion (3 credits)
Students will be required to acquire a general knowledge of its fundamental
teachings of the principal world-religions and their philosophical and
psychological interpretations and implications.
Live-in-Field Experience
LFE 201: Live-in-Field Experience (3 Credits)
The course is intended to expose CIU students to experience life in the cross-
cultural situation obtained in the country, and to the practice of the field survey
method. It is usually offered during the semester break in the winter and summer.
Course Descriptions: Core Courses
ENG 201 Introduction to English Literature
This course will focus on reading and analyzing works of poetry, prose, fiction and
drama, in order to develop student appreciation and enjoyment of literature.
Students will also be introduced to the use of literary features such as point of
view, imagery, overstatement, understatement, metaphor, irony, allusion, etc.
Students are expected to become familiar with technical terms such as plot,
character, narrator, setting used to discuss works of literature.
Recommended Texts: Poems: X.J. Kennedy, Literature: An introduction to fiction, poetry, and
drama. Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"; John Milton: "On His Blindness"; P.B. Shelly:
"Ozymandias"; Robert Browning: "Meeting at Night"; Robert Frost: "Stopping by Woods on a
Snowy Evening"; Non-Fiction Prose: Desmond Morris: Altruistic Behaviour; George Orwell:
Politics and the English Language; Short Fiction: The Ant and the Grasshopper; The Invisible
Japanese Gentleman; Novel: R.K. Narayan: The Guide; Drama: J. M. Synge: The Riders to the
Sea.
Recommended Reading : Guy Cook. Discourse and Literature.
ENG 202 History of England
This course will focus on the political and social history of England from the late
medieval period to the mid-twentieth century Students are expected to become
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familiar with major historical events and movements that impacted or influenced
different literary genres.
The Age of Chaucer
The Tudors and the Stuarts
Renaissance and Reformation England
The Civil War
The Restoration of 1660
The Glorious Revolution of 1688
The Industrial Revolution
The English Empire Victorian England
The World Wars
Recommended Reading: J.Huizinga The waning of the Middle Ages, G.M. Trevelyan English
Social History, P. Smith The Age of Reformation, D. Thomson England in the Nineteenth
century .Daiches, David Critical History of English Literature,vol-1-4. A.C.Bough Literary
History of England Vols. 1-5.
ENG 203 Understanding Poetry This course will familiarize students with the major genres of poetry as well as
with major English and American poets. Students will be expected to appreciate
and analyze poetry using the technical terms they have acquired earlier. What
rhetorical and linguistic devices do poets use to convey their themes? What are the
advantages and/or the disadvantages of free verse versus more formally structured
poetry? How important is the poets message for a poem?
Recommended Texts: Shakespeare. Sonnets 18-130. John Donne ,’’A Valediction Forbidding
Mourning.’’ Thomas Gray ‘’An Elegy Written in a Country Church yard.’’
S.T.Coleridge,’’KublaKhan’’ . Robrt Browning,’’My Last Duchess’’. T.SEliot,’’The Love song of
J. Alfred Prufrock.’’ etc.
Recommended Reading: Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Understanding Poetry,
Marjorie Boulton, Anatomy of Poetry .
ENG 204 Seventeenth Century Poetry This course includes the major poets of this period. Students will be expected to
appreciate and analyze poetry taking into consideration the social and political
aspects of the period. They will be capable to understand how important is the
poets message for a poem?
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Recommended Texts: . John Donne,’’ Good Morrow,’’, Twicknam Garden, Canonization; Dryden :
Absalom and Achitophel, Pope: Rape of the Lock, , Blake: Selection as from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. etc.
Recommended Reading: Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Understanding Poetry,
Marjorie Boulton, Anatomy of Poetry . John Milton: Paradise Lost Bk. I,The pelican guide to English Literature Vol-3.
ENG 205 Victorian Poetry
This survey course includes Victorian texts in the genres of poetry. How did the
Victorian differ from the Romantics who preceded them? What influence and
impact did the rise of the empire have upon Victorian writing? The course seeks to
show the changes taking place in society.
Recommended Texts: Tennyson: " Tithonus"; "The Lady of Shallot"; "Tears, Idle Tears"; "The
Lotus Eaters"; Selections from "In Memorium"; Browning: Love Among the Ruins; Fra Lippo
Lippi; The Last Ride Together;; Arnold: Dover Beach The Scholar Gypsy; Thyrsis etc.
Recommended Reading: Newman The idea of a University, Chapters V, VI, and VII,
Arnold: Culture and Anarchy, Chapters I & II; F.L. Lucas. The Victorian poets. Richard D
Altick. The Victorian people and ideas. Herbert F Tucker. A companion to Victorian Literature
and Culture .
ELT 201 English Language
The properties of language; animal and human language; the sounds of English;
the sound patterns of English; words and word-formation processes; morphology;
English syntax; English semantics and pragmatics; discourse analysis; language
and the brain; language and society.
Recommended Reading : K.Ballard. The Frameworks of English.Palgrave,2001.
C. Barber. The English Language : A Historical Introduction, Cambridge University Press,
1993. D. Crystal. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Cambridge University
Press,1993.R.A. Jacobs. English Syntax. Oxford University Press,1997
ELT 301 The History of English Language
This course will help students trace the development of the English language from
its Anglo-Saxon roots to the present. What impact did the Norman Conquest have
on English? Did the expansion of the British Empire have any impact on English?
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Why is American English different from British English? How have social changes
affected the English language? Other topics to be focused on include English as a
world language and the future of English.
Recommended Texts: Albert C Baugh, A History of English Language. Alastair Pennycook, The
Cultural Politics of English as an International Language, London: Longman,1994.
Recommended Reading : C. Barber. The English Language : A Historical Introduction,
Cambridge University Press1993.O Jesperson, Growth and Structure of the English Language .
ELT 303 English Language Teaching: Approaches and Methods
Differences between approaches, methods, and strategies; A history of language
teaching; Principles that underpin a method; The different methods: The oral
approach and situational language teaching, The grammar-translation method, The
direct method; The "Natural" approach, The audio-lingual method; The
communicative approach; Comparing and evaluating methods.
Recommended Reading: Adrian Doff. A Training Course for teachers, Cambridge University
Press. Jack C. Richards and Theodore’s Rogers. Approaches and Methods in English Language
Teaching- A description and analysis .
LIN 301 Introduction to Linguistics
This course will acquaint students with the theories of language and
communication and the role of language in personal and social development. It will
also trace the origins, development, acquisition and diversity of language as well as
the nature and functions of symbolic systems. Other topics to be covered include
phonology, morphology, syntax, orthography, sign language and semantics.
Students will also be expected to be familiar with recent developments in
linguistics.
Recommended Reading: H.Bussman. Routledge .Dictionary of Language and Linguistics.
Routledge 1996 . G.Hudson. Essential Introductory Linguistics. Blackwell 2000. R.L.Trask
Language: the Basics. Routledge 1995.
ENG 305 Introduction to Drama This course will give students an overview of the gradual development of drama of
diverse types starting with a Greek classic to the present time. Students will be
expected to be familiar with technical terms necessary to write about drama such as
character, plot, setting etc.
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Recommended Texts: Sophocles Oedipus. Shakespeare- The merchant of Venice/ As you like it.
G.B.Shaw- Arms and man. Samuel Beckett ,Waiting for Godot.etc.
Recommended Reading : Aristotle,Poetics Penguine chp. 6-14.Marjorie Boulton, Anatomy of
Drama .H.D.F. Kitto, Form and Meaning in Drama. H.B.Charlton The Shakesprean Comedy.
ENG 306 Elizabethan Drama
Students will read a range of plays of the Elizabethan era and will gain a
perspective on the historical, religious and political background of the Age. .
Students will be expected to appreciate and analyze plays of the Elizabethan era
taking into consideration the social and political
aspects of the period.
Recommended Texts: Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy; Marlowe: Doctor Faustus;
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night; Ben Jonson: The Alchemist; Congreve: The Way of the World.
Recommended Reading : R.T .Jones Studying Drama:An Introduction. Marjorie Boulton,
Anatomy of Drama .
ENG 307 Romantic Poetry
Students will study selected texts of the major Romantic writers. Why were these
writers called "Romantic?’’Students will also learn about Romantic traits of the
Age.
Recommended Texts: Selections from Songs of Innocence and Experiences. Wordsworth :
"Tintern Abbey"; "Ode on the Intimations of immortality"; "London 1802"; "The World is too
much with Us";"; Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner";"; PB Shelly : "Ode to the West
Wind", "To a Skylark, Adonais"; Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, : "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode to
Autumn", "Ode to Melancholy.On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"; "Byron : Manfred etc.
Recommended Reading : C.M.Bowra The Romantic Imagination. HaroldBloom, Shelly’s
Mythmaking. F.R.Leavis Shelley’s Imagery.Mario Praz,The Romantic Agony. M.H.Abrams (ed)
English Romantic Poets .
ELT 401 Research Methodology
Students will learn how to write a research paper using the library and on-line
resources. How does one arrive at a workable thesis for a paper? How much should
one try to include in a paper? What is meant by documentation and what are the
different methods? It introduces students to the different areas and different types
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of ELT research such as qualitative research, quantitative research, experimental
research, case studies and action research. It talks about setting a research program,
doing literature review, designing research tools which includes tools for
questionnaire survey for interviews and classroom observation, data processing
and analysis, and presenting the result. It also introduces students to statistical
concepts such as central tendency (mean, median, mode), distribution.(standard
deviation, normal distribution What is plagiarism and how does one avoid it? This
course includes one final research paper in addition to exams.
Recommended Reading: Joseph Gibaldi, MLAHandbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6
th ed.
Newyork : Modern Language Association of America, 2003. Etc.
ENG 402 Introduction to Literary Theory
This introductory course will cover some of the major texts beginning with the late
sixteenth century down to the present. Students will be expected to be familiar with
different theories as well as with the changes that have taken place in theory
because of social and political changes. Recommended Texts: Selected works of Freud, Cleanth Brooks, E M Forster, M H Abrams, R
Barthes, William Wordsworth, Fish, Said, Kora Kaplan, M. Foucault: The Archaeology of
Knowledge; Derrida: Difference; (Selection from Literary Theory- An Anthology – Rivkin &
Ryan) T.S.Eliot ‘’Tradition and Individual Talent.
Recommended Reading: I.A. Richards ,Principles of Literary Criticism. George Waston, The
Literary Critics.
ENG 403 Creative Writing
Students will be introduced to different genres of writing. What is the difference
between writing for information and writing for entertainment? Students will be
expected to write features for newspapers, critiques of books, plays, and movies, as
well as more creative forms of writing.
Recommended Reading: A Maley and S. Moulding Poem into poem: Reading and writing poems
with students of English.
ENG 404 South Asian Fiction in English
This course includes fiction in English from South Asian region to give students an
exposure to the range of writing in English produced in their own geographical
location.
Recommended Texts: Roquiah Sakhawath Hossein , Sultana’s Dream . Mulk Rj Anand,
Untouchable. R.K. Narayan , The Guide.
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Recommended Reading:Edward Said,Culture and Imperialism Bruce King ed. New National and
Post-Colonial Literature.
ENG 405 Nineteenth Century Novel
This course includes the major novelists of the time and their representative works.
Students will be introduced to the social , political scenario of the time and will be
expected to analyze the works of the major novelists.
Recommended Texts: Emile Bronte: Wuthering Heights; Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
Charles Dickens . Great Expectations; Thomas Hardy : The Return of the Native .
Recommended Reading: B. Willey Nineteenth Century Studies. W.E. Houghton, The Victorian
Frame of Mind.
ENG 406 Twentieth Century Poetry
The survey course includes English texts in the genres of poetry. Students will be
familiarize with the historical and political changes that marked the rise of
modernism. They will also be able to understand as to how modernism had an
impact in the poems of the major poets.
Recommended Texts: W.B. Yeats , selection. W.H. Auden, selection .T.S. Eliot, the Love song of
J.A. Prufrock etc.
Recommended Reading: V.de.S Pinto, Crisis in Modern Poetry. C.M. Bowra, The heritage of
symbolism. T.S. Eliot, The use of poetry and the use of criticism.
Course Descriptions: Concentration Courses.
Concentration l English Literature:
ENG 312 Twentieth Century American Poetry
The course covers the earliest writings in American literature in the genres of
poetry starting from the colonial period to the 19th century. . Students will be
familiarize with the historical and political changes that marked the rise of
modernism. They will also be able to understand as to how modernism had an
impact in the poems of the major poets.
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Recommended Texts: Whitman: Song of Myself; "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed";
Henry James: Portrait of a Lady. Robert Frost: Selected poems from the Norton Anthology;
Dickinson: Selected Poems from the Norton Anthology; Eugene O'Neil: Long Day's Journeyinto
Night, Morning becomes Electra; Hemingway, The Sun also Rises.
Recommended Reading: F. Matthiessen, American Renaissance. M. Cunliff The Literature of the
United States.
ENG 314 American Literature: Bradford to Dickinson
This survey course includes American writings from the early Puritans to the mid-
19th century. How did American writers formulate an "American" self and nation
in the 19th century?
Recommended Texts: William Bradford , selections from Plymouth Plantation( as in Norton).
John Crevecoeur , ‘’What is an American?’’Emily Dickinson, selection. R .Emerson The
American Scholar.
Recommended Reading: R. Chase, The American Novel and its tradition. J.B.Hubbell , Who are
the Major American Writers?
ENG 315 American Literatures: Twain to Mukherjee
This survey course includes American writings from the late19th century to the
present. How has American writing changed over the period? A minimum of six
texts will be taught, including two novels.
Recommended Texts: M. Twain: Tom Sawyer; Henry James Daisy Miller Richard Wright, Native
Son etc.
Recommended Reading: Henry James The art of fiction. Wendy Miller An American Triptych.
ENG 316 Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
This course is designed to look closely at Shakespeare’s plays in the context of his
times and his contemporaries. What did Shakespeare learn from his contemporaries
and how did he differ from them?
Recommended Texts: Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy. Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Twelfth Night. Ben Jonson Volpone . John Webster, The Duches
of Malfi etc.
Recommended Reading: F Bowers, Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy. Una Ellis-Fermor , Jacobean
Drama : An interpretation.
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ENG 411 South Asian Literature in English This course includes works in English by South Asian writers over the past
hundred years. Beginning with the colonial times, the course will go on to include
South Asian writers who have emerged on the global literary scene and have won
international recognition and awards.
Recommended Texts: . Anita Desai , Clear light of day. Arundhati Roy , God of small things.etc.
Recommended Reading: Edward Said ,Culture and Imperialism. Bruce King ed. New National
and Post-Colonial Literature.
ENG 412 English Dramas from Congreve to Churchill The aim of this course is to strengthen the knowledge of traditional grammar that
students have acquired but also to introduce them to contemporary ways of looking
at grammar. Items to be covered include language and meaning, linguistic forms
and syntactic functions, clause structures, thematic and information structure of the
clause, tense, and modality.
Recommended Texts: William Congreve ,The Way of the World,. Richard Sheridan, The Rivals.
Oscar Wilde, The importance of Being Earnest. etc.
Recommended Reading: Bonamy Dobree, Restoration Comedy . Raymond Williams, Modern
Tragedy.
ENG 413 Classics in Translation
This course covers major European texts in a variety of genres from ancient Greece
through the Anglo-Saxon period. Students will also be expected to have some
knowledge of the socio-political conditions of the periods when these works were
written.
Recommended Texts: Homer, Illiad (D.C.Rieu & Peter Jones) Virgil -Aeneid; Aeschylus-
Agamemnon; Sophocles - Oedipus Rex ; Euripides- Alcestis ; Aristophanes – Frogs.
Recommended Reading: H.J. Rose, A Handbook of Greek Literature. Giulbert Murry The Rise of
the Greek Epic. C.M. Sophoclean Tragedy. etc.
ENG 414 Other Literatures in English This course includes writings in English from countries other than the UK and the
US to give students an exposure to the range of writing in English.
Recommended Texts: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart. Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin.
V.S. Naipaul , A Wonderful Civilization etc.
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Recommended Reading: Franz Fanon, Black Skin , White Masks. Edward Said ,Culture and
Imperialism.
ENG 415 Modern Literature in Translation
This course includes translations of European poetry, prose and drama from the
19th and early 20th centuries.
Recommended Texts: Gustave Flaubert , Madame Bovary. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. Franz
Kafka, Metamorphosis etc.
Recommended Reading: Peter France The oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation.
Toril Moi, Henrik Ibsen and the birth of Modernism.
ENG 416 Women and Literature
This course includes a study of texts by women authors as well as texts by male
authors that focus on women. Is there a difference between men's writings and
women's writings as some critics have suggested?
Recommended Texts: William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s
House. Emily Bronte , Wuthering Heights etc.
Recommended Reading: Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The
Woman Writer and the Nineteenth –century Literary Imagination.
Course Descriptions: Concentration Courses.
Concentration ll: Language and English Language Teaching (ELT)
ELT 204 Advanced English Grammar
The aim of this course is to strengthen the knowledge of traditional grammar that
students have acquired but also to introduce them to contemporary ways of looking
at grammar. Items to be covered include language and meaning, linguistic forms
and syntactic functions, clause structures, thematic and information structure of the
clause, tense, and modality.
Recommended Reading: Raymond Murphy, Upper Intermediate English Grammar (CUP).
Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Thomson & Martinet, A Practical English
Grammar(OUP).J. Harmer, Teaching and Learning Grammar, Longman, 1987.
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ELT 305 Discourse in ELT
Traditional approaches, and current approaches to discourse; Types of discourse:
Written, spoken, visual discourse; Language function and language use; Discourse
as a product and as a process; Psycholinguistics in language use; Formal features
of discourse; Cohesion and coherence in discourse; Fundamental concepts and
methods in discourse analysis; Approaches to describe and explain structure and
function of spoken, written and other types of discourse; Gender in discourse;
Developing discourse skills; Practical application of discourse analysis; Discourse
in the classroom; Discourse and the internet
Recommended Reading: Y.S. Freeman and D.E. Freeman . ESL/EFL. Teaching : Principles of
Success. Heinemannn,1998. J.C. Richards , The Language Teaching Matrix.(CUP)1986.
ELT 312 Syllabuses and Course Design
Analyzing teaching/learning context and isolating factors relevant to appropriate
course planning; Needs analysis as a basis for course design; Setting and stating
objectives for ELT courses; Course design models; Syllabus types and their
implication for course design; Selecting the shape of the syllabus; Principles for
selecting, grading and sequencing course content and learning materials, and tasks
to implement the syllabus; Identifying factors relating to course evaluation.
Recommended Reading: D .Brown , The Elements of Language Curriculum. Heinle and
Heinle1995 Dubin and E. Ostain , Course Design(CUP)1986. D.Nunan ,Syllabus Design, (OUP)
1988.
ELT 314 Materials Evaluation and Preparation
Principles of designing, selecting,, grading, and sequencing materials;
Supplementing/adapting materials to syllabus types and contents; Special purpose
material design; Self-direction material design; Student-generated materials; Role
of materials in curriculum innovation and renewal.
Recommended Reading: Byrd, P. ( 1995) Material Writers Guide. New York: Newbury House.
Cunning worth, A. (1995) Evaluating and Selecting ELT Materials. London: Heinemann.
Tomlinson, B. (ed.) ( 1998d): Materials Development in Language Teaching. Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press. Tomlinson, B. (ed) ( 2003, 2005) :Developing Materials For
Language Teaching. London: Cromwell Press.
ELT 315 Introduction to CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning)
This course will draw students' attention to computer-assisted language learning
and teaching, and the application of some specialized computer software in the
learning of language skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. The theories
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on which such software is based will be elaborated on, with a brief introduction to
the history of this new field.
ELT 403 Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Introduction to the field: Definition, origin, types, and theoretical perspectives;
Characteristics of the ESP learner, and the role of ESP learner; The linguistic
features of ESP - Register analysis and applications, Discourse analysis and
applications, Genre analysis and applications; ESP needs analysis; ESP course
design; ESP materials preparation, evaluation and adaptation; ESP methodology;
Assessment in ESP.
Recommended Reading: R .West ‘’Needs Analysis in Language Teaching‘’ Language
Teaching27/1,1994, 1-19. M.Stphens,1996 Practice Writing ,Longman. Carter, R and Nunan , D
(eds). ( 2001) : The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ELT 405 Teacher Education and Supervision for ELT
Overview of types of provision for and purposes of teacher education and
supervision; Effective techniques of teacher education and appropriate
applications; Tasks for teacher training, ways of promoting collaboration,
reflection on theory and practice, and group discussion; Analysing objectives of
typical tasks; Designing appropriate tasks; Evaluating tasks; Experiential learning
in teacher training and reflection on practice; Classroom observation;
Microteaching; Practicum; Supervision processes and techniques; Assessment of
practical teaching; Appraisal techniques; Mentoring and counseling techniques;
Observation of teacher training course sessions.
Recommended Reading: Cunning worth, A. ( 1995) Choosing Your Course book. Oxford:
Heinemann. Nunan , D . (1991): Language Teaching Methodology. London: Prentice Hall.
Richards, J.C. and D. Nunan (eds) ( 1990) : Second Language Teacher Education, New York:
Cambridge University Press.
ELT 411 Teaching and Learning Grammar, Pronunciation & Vocabulary
Communicative language teaching and grammatical competence issues, problems,
and compromises; Presenting new language. Analyzing, explaining, contrasting
forms, showing meaning visually, showing meaning through a situation, using
examples, simulation and role-play; Practicing new language - Substitution drills,
oral drills, information gap activities, games, oral composition, Ear training and
auditory discrimination; Transcription as an aid to identifying difficulties and for
dictionary use; Workshop tasks in analyzing "authentic texts"; Observation of
dynamic and extra-linguistic features on videotapes; Classroom techniques for
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teaching the different elements of pronunciation. The principles of learning
vocabulary; The presentation of vocabulary and context-text exploration; the use of
dictionaries; Vocabulary games and contests; Vocabulary errors; Comprehensible
input and vocabulary accumulation; Vocabulary output and problems.
Recommended Reading: Weir, C.J. (1990): Communicative Language Testing. London: Prentice
Hall. J. Harmer, Teaching and Learning Grammar, Longman, 1987.A.S. Hornby Patterns and
usage in English.
ELT 415 Testing and Evaluation
Distinction between testing and evaluation; Approaches to test design; The
psychometric structural era, the psycholinguistic-socio-linguistic era, the
communicative paradigm; Basic considerations in test design :validity, reliability,
efficiency, and backwash effects; Test construction- test design, test development,
operation, monitoring; Test methods for reading, writing, listening, and speaking;
Multi-mode testing; Interactive testing.
Recommended Reading: Weir, C.J. (1990): Communicative Language Testing. London: Prentice
Hall. Bachman, L.F. and A.S. Palmer ( 1996): Language Testing in Practice. Oxford : Oxford
University Press Bachman , L.F. ( 1990): Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Description of Minor courses:
Minor in Linguistics and English Language Teaching (ELT).
LIN 313 Morphology and Lexicology
An introduction to morphology and lexicology; morphemes: (a) free morphemes:
lexical morphemes, functional morphemes (b) bound morphemes: prefixes,
suffixes, infixes, circum fixes; morphological analysis; the lexicon: more than
words; lexis and syntax; lexis and morphology; lexical partnerships; lexis and
meaning; lexis, phonology and orthography; lexis and social context; lexical
process and change; acquiring and processing lexis; the lexicon: a growth area.
Recommended Reading:Mark Aronoff and Kirsten Fudeman, What is Morphology? Oxford:
Blackwell,2005. Vit Bubenik, An Introduction to the study of Morphology.
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LIN 313 Syntax and Semantics
An introduction to the study of linguistic meaning; the meaning of semantics;
descriptive social and expressive meaning; lexical semantics: basic concepts;
semantic properties; semantic relationship among linguistic units; cognitive
semantics; semantics and lexicography; semantic change; semantics and language
comparison; semantics and grammar; compositional semantics; meaning and
context; semantics and literature.
Recommended Reading: Chomsky, Noam Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Andrew Carnie,
Syntax: A Generative Introduction . Oxford Blackwell ,2001.Keith Allal, Natural Language
Semantics, Oxford Blackwell ,2001.
LIN 314 Discourse Analysis
This course introduces students to speech act theory, conversational maxims,
relevance and implication, communicative events, modality, cohesion, coherence,
frames, presupposition and the pragmatics of politeness, topic change, turn taking,
interruptions, conversation structure, clarification, repair, face saving and
solidarity. It will also focus on spoken and written discourse analysis, contrastive
pragmatics, anthropological perspective and cross-cultural communication. By the
end of the course it is expected that students will be able to critically analyze
spoken interaction and to evaluate written text with particular reference to context,
cohesive ties, topic framework, illocution and inference.
Recommended Reading: Coulthard RM,An Introduction to Discourse Analysis.
LIN 411 Sociolinguistics
An introduction to sociolinguistics; dialects: education, occupation, social class,
age, sex, culture, and ethnic background, idiolects; language types: standard,
formal and informal; loan words, pidgins, and creoles; linguistic determinism: the
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; language shift, endangerment, and death; code switching
and code mixing; diglossia; major varieties of English.
Recommended Reading:Florian Coulmas, Sociolinguistics,(CUP)2005 Peter Stockwell,
Sociolinguistics: A Resource Book for Students. Oxford: Routledge, (Taylor and Francis).
LIN 412 Psycholinguistics
An introduction to psycholinguistics; language and the brain; parts of the brain;
brain and language acquisition; theories of first language acquisition; theories of
second language acquisition; comprehension; language production; language
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mistakes and errors; dissolution: neurolinguistics and language loss, speech and
language disorders.
Recommended Reading: Chomsky Noam, New Horizens in the study of Language aand mind.
(CUP)2000. John Field, Psycholinguistics: The Key Concepts, Oxford: Routledge, (Taylor and
Francis) 2004.
LIN 413 Historical Linguistics
An introduction to historical linguistics; language evolution; language variation
and change; principles of comparative linguistics; genetic relationships between
languages; language change: phonetic, phonological, morphological and syntactic
change; lexical and semantic change; the role of language and dialect contact;
comparative and internal reconstruction; typological and genetic classification of
languages.
Recommended Reading: Lyle Campbell, Historical Linguistics: An Introduction , 2
nd ed. Boston :
MTI Press,200. Hans Henrich Hock , Principles of Historical Linguistics.New York: Mouton de
Gruyter, 2001.
ENG 415 Translation Studies
This course introduces students to the methods and mechanism of translation from
vernacular to foreign language or vice versa. This is mostly a practice-based course
and so students will be required to choose a book for translation over the semester.
A teacher will be closely monitoring their progress and providing guidance. Some
relevant reading articles will also be selected for their theoretical grounding so that
they can have theoretical knowledge underpinning translation as a skill.
Minor in Literature:
** Note – Description of the following courses are given under Concentration l
English Literature.
ENG 312 Twentieth Century American Poetry.
ENG 314 American Literatures: Bradford to Dickinson
ENG 316 Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
ENG 411 South Asian Literature in English
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ENG 412 English Dramas from Congreve to Churchill
ENG 415 Modern Literature in Translation
ENG 416 Women and Literature
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