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153735/GA - IV - B2/2018/Admn
UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
Abstract
General and Academic - Faculty of Language and Literature - Syllabus of BA English Language and Literature
(including Dual Core) under CBCSS UG Regulations 2019 with effect from 2019 Admission onwards -Implemented-
Orders Issued.
G & A - IV - B
U.O.No. 8653/2019/Admn Dated, Calicut University.P.O, 02.07.2019
The Regulations for Choice Based Credit and Semester System for Under Graduate (UG)
Curriculum-2019 (CBCSS UG Regulations 2019) for all UG Programmes under CBCSS-Regular and
SDE/Private Registration w.e.f. 2019 admission has been implemented vide paper read first above .
The meeting of the Board of Studies in English UG held on 27/03/2019 vide item No. 3 has
approved the Syllabus of BA English Language and Literature (including Dual core) in tune with new
CBCSS UG Regulation implemented with effect from 2019 Admission onwards, vide paper read
second above.
The Faculty of Language and Literature at its meeting held on 17/06/2019 has approved item No.3
of the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Studies in English UG held on 27/03/2019 vide paper
read third above.
Under these circumstances, considering the urgency , the Vice Chancellor has accorded sanction to
implement the Scheme and Syllabus of BA English Language and Literature (including Dual core) in
accordance with the new CBCSS UG Regulations 2019, in the University with effect from 2019
Admission onwards, subject to ratification by the Academic Council.
Sanction is therefore accorded for implementing the Scheme and Syllabus of BA English Language
and Literature (including Dual core) in accordance with CBCSS UG Regulations 2019, in the University
with effect from 2019 Admission onwards .
Orders are issued accordingly. (Syllabus appended)
Biju George K
Assistant Registrar
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Revised Syllabus (w.e.f 2019 admission) of
B.A. Programme in
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (CBCSS-
UG)
CHOICE BASED CREDIT SEMESTER SYSTEM (CBCSS)
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Contents
Topics Pages
Courses at a Glance
Audit Courses 7
Assessment Framework
Internal Assessment 8
End-semester Test 9
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CORE COURSES
Seri COURSE CODE SEMES TITLE OF THE COURSE HRS/WK CREDITS PAGE NO.
al TER
No.
1 ENG1B01 1 INTRODUCING 6 5 10
LITERATURE
17 SCHEME OF EXAMINATION 72
TOTAL 63 CREDITS
Study Tour
Students may be taken on a study tour to any of the premier institutions of language, culture, art, film or media
within the country during the Vth or VIth semesters
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ELECTIVES
6 ENG6B20 6 SHAKESPEARE 3 50
OPEN COURSES
Open Course offers chances for any undergraduate students in an institution to take a course of their own
choice, from other disciplines in the same institution.
3 ENG5D03 5 APPRECIATING 3 3 61
LITERATURE
Seri COURSE CODE SEMES TITLE OF THE COURSE HRS/WK CRED PAGE
al TER ITS NO.
No.
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1 ENG1B01 1 INTRODUCING 6 5 10
LITERATURE
ENG6B21
ENG6B22
TOTAL 41 CREDITS
*Project can be chosen either from Core English or from other core
Complementary Courses
Complementary Courses provide learners with openings to disciplines ancillary to core Courses. They give
opportunities to explore areas contiguous to English Language and Literature and also of reciprocal interest.
There are Type I and Type II Complementary Courses. There shall be only one Complementary Course in a
semester for B A Programmes. Type I Complementary Courses are taught in Semester I and IV. Type II
Complementary Courses are taught in Semester II and III. The college can decide on which complementary
course to be taken as Type I or Type II.
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ASPECTS OF ORAL AND
INTERPERSONAL
COMMUNICATION
ASPECTS OF READING
AND WRITING
TOTAL 8 CREDITS
Table 1 Table 2
*Colleges can opt one Complementary Course from Table 1 and a corresponding Complementary
Course from Table 2. It is not permitted to make options across the table given above
1 ENG1(2)C02 ½ HISTORY OF 6 4 66
ENGLISH
LITERATURE – I
2 ENG4(3)C02 ¾ HISTORY OF 6 4 68
ENGLISH
LITERATURE - II
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TOTAL 8 CREDITS
These are courses which are mandatory for a programme but not counted for the calculation of SGPA or
CGPA. There shall be one Audit course each in the first four semesters. These courses are not meant for class
room study. The students can attain only pass (Grade P) for these courses. At the end of each semester there
shall be examination conducted by the college from a pool of questions (Question Bank) set by the University.
The students can also attain these credits through online courses like SWAYAM, MOOC etc (optional). The list
of passed students must be sent to the University from the colleges at least before the fifth semester
examination. The list of courses in each semester with credits are given below.
Environment Studies 1 4
Disaster Management 2 4
*Gender Studies/Gerontology 4 4
Assignments 4 3
Seminar/Presentation 4 3
Total 20 15
*Assignments and Seminars may be given from the FURTHER READING section attached to the syllabus of
each course.
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Split up of marks for test papers/viva voce
Total 80
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End Semester Test Design of Courses with 60 Marks
*For courses with three credits or lesser, the external exam is for 2 hrs with 75 marks(60
external and 15 internal
Total 60
Time 2 hrs
CORE COURSES
INTRODUCING LITERATURE
NO. OF CREDITS 5
AIM OF THE COURSE: To introduce students to literary texts and their unique conventions and contours –
the linguistic, the social, the cultural and the political. The course is more of a search for the ‘why” and “how”
rather than the “what” of literature. Creative texts are analysed organically in participatory classrooms with
teachers and students dialoguing with the texts.
a. To introduce students to the language of literature, i.e., the meaning-making devices, verb phrases,
collocations, linkers, sense groups and their functions in the literary text
b. To train the students to identify the linguistic structures of poetic texts: symbols, metaphors, and other
tropes and equip them in poetic conventions
c. To recognize diverse points of view within a single text and to understand the rationale of polyphony
d. To prepare students in reading literary/cultural texts closely, beyond the literal.
e. To enable students to recognize the dominant voice/s within the text and its agendas
f. To encourage questioning the text in order to perceive marginalized voices - the voices of the child,
Dalit, transgender and female
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g. To comprehend how the subaltern perspectives question and counter the privileged voices in the
mainstream texts
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY
Module 1: 18 hrs
Module 2: 18 hrs
Module 3: 30 hrs
Module4: 30 hrs
Evaluation: 12 hrs
Total: 108 hours
B. COURSE DETAILS:
1. RK Narayan Swami and Friends (Excerpt from Chapter XI “In Father’s Presence”)
2. Arun Kamble “Which language should I Speak?” and FM Shinde “Habit”
3. The Letter Q: Ely Shipley<https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/letter-q-ely-shipley>
4. Maxine Hong Kingston “No Name Woman”
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
Web Resources:
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. “The Danger of a Single Story.” TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, 7 Oct. 2009.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg.
Ananthamurthy, UR. “Dalit Contribution to Indian Literature.” YouTube, 9 Dec. 2010,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SajALSSbNKw.
“Collocations in English: Vocabulary Lesson.” YouTube, 10 Nov. 2014.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssTWkruGar8.
“100 Common Phrasal Verbs.” YouTube, 19 July 2016,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIUwXYEtL_o
“English Grammar: Connectors and Linkers.” YouTube, 14 Apr. 2016,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkccaI0A7N8.
“Phrasal Verbs in Daily English Conversations.” YouTube, 25 Sept. 2013,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHwxdtT302I.
“Rashomon.”YouTube, 12 Oct. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=18MNCJ8YWg4.
“Transitive and Intransitive Verbs:English Grammar.” YouTube, 26 Nov. 2015,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpL2o3jjfoA.
“Useful Everyday Life Collocations in English Lessons.” YouTube, 22 Mar. 2017,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmRaYoqWGms.
APPRECIATING POETRY
NO. OF CREDITS 5
AIM OF THE COURSE: The course is a wide spectrum of poems across the globe. The course aims at the
transaction of the suggested texts so that the learners understand the trends in poetry of the past and the present. It also
aims to foster the ability in students for appreciating poetry as an art form.
a. To introduce the students to the basic elements of poetry, including the stylistic and rhetorical devices
employed in poetry, and to various genres of poetry.
b. To facilitate students to attain various perspective in reading poetry like gender, race, caste, ethnicity,
religion, region, environment and nation.
c. To familiarize the learners with different forms of poetry written in British and American literature.
d. To create an awareness among the learners about different forms and themes of poetry produced
across the globe in the history of literature.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY
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Module 1: 16 hrs
Module 2: 40 hrs
Module 3: 30 hrs
Module 4: 10 hrs
Evaluation: 12 hours
B. COURSE DETAILS:
Basic Elements of Poetry: Prosody: Rhythm, Meter – Rhyme - hard rhyme, soft rhyme, internal rhyme -
Alliteration, Assonance – Diction.
Figures of Speech: Metaphor, Simile, Personification, Oxymoron, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Transferred
Epithet.
Poetic Forms: Lyric, Ode, Sonnet, Haiku, Ballad, Couplet, Villanelle, Dramatic Monologue, Elegy, Satire,
Mock Epic, Free Verse, Tanka, Jintishi, Ghazal, Rubai, Prose poetry, Narrative poetry, Performance Poetry.
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
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A Concise Companion to Literary Forms. Emerald, 2013.
Bernard Blackstone. Practical English Prosody: A Handbook for Students. Longman, 2009.
C. T. Thomas Ed. Chaucer to Housman Vol I .New Delhi: B.I. Publications 1990.
Katherine Washburn and John S. Major Ed. World Poetry: An anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.
Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy. The Noeton Anthology of Poetry. 5th Ed. New York: W.
W. Norton, 2005.
Neil Corcoran. English Poetry since 1940. London: Longman, 1993.
Neil Roberts. A Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry. Malden, Blackwell,2003.
Philip Hobsbaum. Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form. London: Routledge, 2006 .
Rajiv Patke, Postcolonial Poetry in English. Oxford: OUP, 2006.
R. P. Draper. An Introduction to Twentieth Century Poetry in English. Basingstoke, Palgrave,1999.
Tom Furniss and Michael Bath. Reading Poetry- An Introduction. London: Prentice Hall, 1996.
APPRECIATING PROSE
NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM OF THE COURSE: The course aims to enable the learners to appreciate and to critically analyze prose
writings of different types and from diverse contexts – social, political, historical and national
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY
Module 1: 30 hrs
Module 2: 30 hrs
Evaluation: 12 hrs
Total: 72 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
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Module 1: Introduction to Prose
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
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ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE
NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM OF THE COURSE: This course aims at preparing undergraduate students to learn how to use language
with a proper knowledge of the nuances of structure and usage of English. It aims at a recapitulation of English
grammar and usage that learners would have acquired at the lower levels
a. To familiarize the students with the key concepts of English grammar and to use them more sensitively
in their day-to-day communication needs.
b. To help students towards a better language use through the understanding of the sentence patterns in
English.
c. To help the students develop a sense of English grammar, idioms, syntax, semantics and their usage.
d. To develop the logical and analytical skills in the use of language for communication.
e. To familiarize students with contemporary English usage
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY
Module 1: 18 hrs
Module 2: 10 hrs
Module 3: 15 hrs
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Module 4: 15 hrs
Module 5: 20 hrs
Evaluation: 12 hrs
Total: 90 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
1. Tag questions
2. Active passive
3. Direct and indirect
4. Simple, complex, Compound
5. Movement – Collocation
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
Gleason, H. A. Linguistics and English Grammar. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. 1965.
Leach, Geoffrey & Ian Savaitvik. A Communicative Grammar of English. ELBS.
Murphy, Raymond. English Grammar. Cambridge University Press, 2005
Quirk R. & Sidney Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. ELBS.
Swan, Michael. Practical English Usage. Oxford University Press, 2005.
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Thomson, A. J. and Martinet. A Practical English Grammar Combined Exercises Vol. 1 & 2. . Oxford
University Press.
Quirk, Randolph. The Use of English. Longman, 1968.
Sailaja, Pingali. Indian English. Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
APPRECIATING FICTION
NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM OF THE COURSE: The course aims to instil in the learners a love of fiction, to stimulate their
imagination and to foster intercultural dialogue
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY:
Module 1: 20 hrs
Module 2: 35 hrs
Module 3: 15 hrs
Module 4: 8 hrs
Evaluation: 12 hrs
TOTAL 90 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
Craft, Stephen and Helen D Cross. Literature, Criticism and Style: A Practical Guide to Advanced Level
English Language. Oxford: OUP,2000.
Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel. University of California Press, 2001.
Booth, Wayne C. Rhetoric and Fiction. University of Chicago Press, 1983
Lubbock, Percy. Craft of Fiction. Penguin 2017.
Lazar ,Gillian. Literature and Language Teaching: A Guide for Teachers and Learners. Cambridge University
Press, 2008.
Guerin, Wilfred L et al. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. New Delhi: OUP, 2007.
Borges, Jorge Luis and Andrew Hurley.Collected Fictions. The Penguin Press,1954.
Camus, Albert. The Stranger. New York: Vintage Books,1954
Evans, Arthur B eds. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction..Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University
Press, 2010
Gorky, Maxim. The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky. Citadel Press, 1988
Joyce, James - Dubliners at Planet eBook
Liu, Ken. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. London, Sydney, New York: Saga Press, 2016
Maupassant, Guy De. Complete Maupassant Original Short Stories at Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org
Morgan, Sally. My Place. New York: Seaver Books, 1987.
O’ Henry .Works by O Henry- at Project Gutenberg www.gutenberg.org
Orwell, George –1984. London: Secker and Warburg, 1949
Poe, Edgar Allan –The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Vintage Books,1975
Salinger, J D.The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown,1951
Tagore, Rabindranath. The Hungry Stones and Other Stories.atProject Gutenberg. www.gutenberg.org
Tolstoy, Leo. The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories. New York: New American Library, 1960
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LITERARY CRITICISM
NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM OF THE COURSE: The course is a comprehensive spectrum of literary criticism of the west and the east,
a survey of key movements, writers and concepts. It seeks to introduce the students to the history and
principles of literary criticism since Plato and to cultivate in them the philosophical and critical skills with
which literature can be appreciated.
a. To have an understanding of important texts and movements in the history of literary criticism.
b. To examine how literary criticism shapes literature and culture across centuries.
c. To recognize and critique the major arguments underlying critical writings.
d. To relate critical perspectives to the history of eastern and western ideas.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY:
Module 1: 12 hrs
Module 2: 24 hrs
Module 3: 18 hrs
Module 4: 6 hrs
Evaluation 12 hrs
Total 72 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
Module 2:
1. Philip Sidney: Apology for Poetry – Reply to Stephen Gosson, The Argumentative Method
2. John Dryden: Neoclassicism – The function of Poetry, Dramatic Poesy, Observations on tragedy,
comedy, satire, epic.
3. Dr. Samuel Johnson: Neoclassicism, Biographical Criticism, Historical approach, Observations on
Poetry, Drama, Shakespeare, Tragicomedy, Three unities.
1. William Wordsworth: “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” – The Romantic Creed - Difference between
Neoclassicism and Romanticism - definition of poetry – poetic diction and language.
2. S. T. Coleridge: Theory of Imagination, Fancy and Imagination, Primary Imagination and Secondary
imagination, Poetic Genius.
3. P. B. Shelley: The Defence of Poetry – Concept of Poetry.
4. Mathew Arnold: Classicism - Concept of Culture – the use and function of poetry - Touchstone
method – Moralistic criticism – Function of criticism – High seriousness and Grand Style.
1. T.S. Eliot: “Tradition and Individual Talent” – Historical Sense – Impersonality – Poetic Emotion –
Objective Correlative – Dissociation of Sensibility.
2. I. A. Richards: Poetry and Communication, Practical Criticism - The Four Kinds of Meaning –
Scientific and Emotive uses of Language.
3. F.R. Leavis: Concept of Literature and Criticism
4. Formalism: Key Features of Formalism - Its Origin, Focus on language, Form, Literariness,
Defamiliarization, Fabula/Syuzet, Motivation.
5. New Criticism: The origin - Close reading and explication - Ambiguity, Paradox, Irony, Tension,
Intentional Fallacy and Affective fallacy.
6. Archetypal Criticism: Myth, Archetype, Collective Unconscious, Northrop Frye.
Module 4: Glossary
1. Indian Aesthetics: Rasa, Dhwani, Vyanjana, Alamkara, Thinai.
2. Literary Movements: Classicism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Humanism, Realism, Naturalism,
symbolism.
3. Literary Concepts: Catharsis, Mimesis, Objective Correlative, Ambiguity, Negative Capability.
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
B Prasad, An Introduction to English Criticism.
Lois Tyson, Critical Theory Today.
David Daiches, Critical Approaches to Literature.
Harry Blamires. A History of Literary Criticism.
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Ramaswamy S & Sethuraman V.S. The English Critical Tradition.
Das B. B., Literary Criticism: A Reading
NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM OF THE COURSE: The course is a wide spectrum of drama across the globe. It seeks to stimulate in the
learners interest in drama, to appreciate drama as an art form and to fathom its trends and techniques
a. To introduce the students to the basic elements of drama, including the historical progress of drama in
different continents.
b. To foster an ability in the students for appreciating drama as an art form.
c. To familiarize the students with the different genres and masters of drama.
d. To facilitate the learners to critically go beyond the theatrical performances to the texts and approach
them critically from various standpoints.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY:
Module 1: 16 hrs
Module 2: 30 hrs
Module 3: 20 hrs
Module 4: 12 hrs
Evaluation 12 hrs
Total 90 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
Basic Elements of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy; The Constituent Parts of Drama – Plot, Character,
Thought, Song, Spectacle, Diction, Three Unities, Tragic Hero, Chorus, Simple plot and Complex plot; The
basic structure of tragedy
History of Drama: Greek Theatre and Drama, Miracle Plays and Morality Plays, University Wits,
Shakespearean Theatre, Restoration Drama, Sentimental Drama, Anti-sentimental Drama, Comedy of
Manners, Drama of the Romantic Period, Decadence, Problem Play, Realism, Ibsen and Bernard Shaw. Avant-
garde: Expressionism & Epic Theatre, Angry Young Man, The Theatre of the Absurd, Comedy of Menace, The
Theatre of Cruelty, Feminist theatre, Street theatre, Ritualistic Theatre, The Poor theatre, Radio Drama.
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Module 2: Classical Drama
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
Catherine Belsey. The Subject of Tragedy- Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama. London: Methuen,
1985.
Jean Chothia. English Drama of the Early Modern Period, 1890-1940. London: Longman, 1996.
A C Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy. London: Elibron, 1904.
H. Granville-Barker, Study of Drama. London: Sedgwick, 1931.
Peter Womack and Simon Shepherd. English Drama: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996.
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LITERARY THEORY
NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM OF THE COURSE: To introduce the students to the history and principles of literary theory and thereby
to enhance the vision of students by introducing them to newest developments in theory.
a. To cultivate among the students an understanding of important texts and movements in the history
of literary theory.
b. To enable the learners to critically approach literature and culture in the context of theory.
c. To enrich the students through various perspectives of thinking and critique the major arguments
presented in theory.
d. To promote a pluralistic perspective of culture and literature in a multicultural society.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY
Module 1: 12 hrs
Module 2: 18 hrs
Module 3: 18 hrs
Module 4: 12 hrs
Module 5: 18 hrs
Evaluation 12 hrs
Total 90 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
1. Structuralism: Saussure - Sign, Signifier, Signified – Claude Levi-Strauss and Roland Barthes –
Structuralist narratology
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2. Poststructuralism: Derrrida, Logocentrism, Aporia, Decentering
3. Psychoanalytic Theory: Unconscious. Freud – Id, Ego, Superego, Oedipus Complex. Lacan –
Imaginary, Symbolic, Real, Mirror Stage
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING
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TITLE OF THE COURSE LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS
NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM OF THE COURSE: The course studies what language is and what knowledge of a language consists
of. This is provided by basic examination of internal organization of sentences, words, and sound systems. The
course assumes no prior training in linguistics. Students of Linguistics begin their studies by learning how to
analyze languages, their sounds (phonetics and phonology), their ways of forming words (morphology), their
sentence structures (syntax), and their systems of expressing meaning (semantics).
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY:
Total: 90 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
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semiology, discourse
Branches of linguistics - psycho- linguistics, ethno-linguistics, socio-linguistics
Language Varieties - Idiolect – Dialect - Isogloss- Register – Pidgin, Creole - Bilingualism - Diglossia.
(Concepts of linguist & polyglot)
Approaches to the study of linguistics - synchronic & diachronic - descriptive& prescriptive - traditional &
modern
Concepts of langue, parole, competence. performance
Module 2: Phonetics
Airstream mechanism -Organs of speech
Classification & description of speech sounds - vowels - monophthongs, diphthongs, triphthongs - cardinal
vowels - consonants
Phonology - phoneme - allophones- - transcription- IPA symbols, diacritics
Phonemes in English - vowels, consonants, some important allophonic variants
Homophones, homonyms
Syllable- definition/description - structure - syllabic consonant - consonant clusters, abutting consonants
Word accent
Accent & rhythm in connected speech - weak forms
Intonation
Juncture- Assimilation & Elision
Transcription
Need for uniformity - RP & GIE
Module 4: Syntax
Types of phrases, clauses & sentences (brief repetition of Grammar already included in previous semester
syllabus)
Syntactic models - IC Analysis, labelled IC Analysis - PS Grammar - TG Grammar - kernel sentences
& transforms - deep structure & surface structure - Some transformations - obligatory & optional -
Interrogative - Do support - Negation - Passivisation - Co-ordination & subordination
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
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SEMESTER IN WHICH THE COURSE IS 5
TO BE TAUGHT
NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM OF THE COURSE: To enable students to appreciate Indian literature in English and to explore its
uniqueness
a. To provide an overview of the various phases of the evolution of Indian writing in English
b. To introduce students to the thematic concerns, genres and trends of Indian writing in English
c. To expose students to the pluralistic aspects of Indian culture and identity
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY
Module 1:20 hrs
Module 2:15 hrs
Module 3:25 hrs
Module 4:18hrs
Evaluation: 12 hrs
Total: 90 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
Module 1: Poetry
1.Rabindranath Tagore: Two verses - one each from The Gitanjali and The Gardener.
2. Sarojini Naidu: The Coromandel Fishers.
3. Kamala Das: Introduction.
4. Arun Kolatkar: Old Woman.
5. Agha Shahid Ali: Country without a Postcard.
Module 2: Prose
Module 3: Fiction
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READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
VOICES OF WOMEN
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NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM OF THE COURSE: To introduce students to experiences unique to women and to the fundamental
precepts of the feminist movement and to identify the polyphonic quality of women's voices.
a. To equip students to steer clear of misconceptions regarding women and to evolve a human perspective
about them.
b. To arouse a keen interest in analysing critically the diversity of women's experiences across the world and to
marvel at their creative skills.
c. To perceive gender as a social construct
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY:
Module 1: 18 hrs
Module 2: 18 hrs
Module 3: 30 hrs
Module 4: 12 hr5
Evaluation: 12 hrs
Total: 90 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
Module 1: Essays
Module 2: Poetry
Module 3: Fiction
Thozhilkendrathilekku
At Five in the Afternoon : dir. Samira Makhmalbuf
Mustang : dir Denize Gamze Erguven
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READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
NO. OF CREDITS 4
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AIM: To hone the sensibility of the student to appreciate the great classics, to understand their universal quality
and thereby achieve a broader perspective of life
a. To acquaint the students with the classic literatures and thereby composite cultures of the world
b. To enable students to develop cross cultural perspectives
c. To enhance the literary sensibility of students
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY:
Module 1: 10 hrs
Module 2: 30 hrs
Module 3: 18 hrs
Module 4: 20 hrs
Evaluation: 12 hrs
Total: 90 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
Introducing epics of the world and conventions: The Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The
Mahabharata and Ramayana – Introduction to Greek theatre and Indian theatre
Module 2: Poetry
Module 4: Fiction
READING LIST:
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CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
FILM STUDIES
NO. OF CREDITS 4
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AIM OF THE COURSE: To introduce students to films studies as a discipline and to develop in them
analytical and critical skills so that they can appreciate cinema as an independent art form.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY:
Module 1: 18 hrs
Module 2: 20 hrs
Module 3: 20 hrs
Module 4: 20 hrs
Evaluation: 12 hrs
Total: 90 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
Module 1:
Mise–en-scene, long takes, shallow focus, deep focus, Shots: (close up, medium shot, long shot). Camera
Angle: Straight on Angle Shots, High Angle Shots, Low Angle shots. Shot-Reverse Shot.
Editing: chronological editing, Continuity Editing, Cross cutting, Montage, continuity cuts, jump
cuts, match cuts, Compilation cuts, 30 degree rule, 180 degree rule.
Introduction to the basic concepts of film theories: Realism, Formalism, Auteur theory, Apparatus Theory,
Suture Theory, Culture Industry, Male Gaze, Film Semiotics.
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Module 2: Selected Essays on Film
1. Andre Bazin: The Evolution of the Language of Cinema (from What is Cinema)
2.Gilbert Harmen: Semiotics and the Cinema: Metz and Wollen
3.Laura Mulvey: Visual pleasure and Narrative Cinema
4.Bill Nichols: The Voice of the Documentary
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM OF THE COURSE: This course aims at introducing students to the body of literature, some of them still
emerging, produced by writers from countries that were not a part of the canon of British Literature eg. writers
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from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean’s, Latin America, Canada and Australia. Writers from America are also
included.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY:
Module 1: 5 hrs
Module 2: 20 hrs
Module 3: 25 hrs
Module 4: 2o hrs
Module 5: 8 hrs
Evaluation: 12 hrs
Total: 90 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
Module 1: Introduction
A brief introduction to the canon of English literature, Commonwealth literature, post Colonialism and
the context of New Literatures
Module 2: Poetry
Module 4: Drama
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Module 5: Film
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
ELECTIVE COURSES
NO. OF CREDITS 3
AIM OF THE COURSE: The course aims at introducing to the students the various aspects of marginality and
how the question of marginality gets reflected in literature through revolutionary, indigenous and autonomous
ways of expression
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OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY:
Module 1: 10 hours
Module 2: 10 hours
Module 3: 10 hours
Module4: 12 hours
Evaluation: 12 hours
Total: 54 hours
B. COURSE DETAILS:
Module 1: Prose
Module 2: Poetry
READING LIST:
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CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
Disability Studies Reader Second Edition. Ed. Lennard J. Davis. Routledge, 2006.
Hull, John M. Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness. SPCK, 1990.
Douglass, Frederick. My bondage and my freedom. www.gutenberg.org
Selvon, Samuel. Ways of Sunlight. Macgibbon and Kee. 1957
NO. OF CREDITS 3
AIM OF THE COURSE: To introduce the students to the changing domains of literature developed digitally.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY:
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Module 1: 6 hrs
Module 2: 18 hrs
Module 3: 18 hrs
Evaluation 12 hrs
Total: 54 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
1. Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stally Brass and Nancy Vickers: Introduction to Language Machines
2. Robert Coover: The End of Books (New York Times)
3. Matt Kirschenbaum: “Materiality and Matter and Stuff: What Electronic Texts Are Made Of”
4. Alice Bell: “Theory: Hypertext Fiction and the Significance of Worlds” (Ch.2, The Possible Worlds of
Hyperttext Fiction
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
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WRITING FOR THE MEDIA
NO. OF CREDITS 3
AIM OF THE COURSE: The course aims to make a better understanding on professional media industry and
to the forms of writings for mass media.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY
Module 1: 10 hrs
Module 2: 12 hrs
Module 3: 10 hrs
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Module4: 10 hrs
Evaluation: 12 hrs
Total: 54 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
a. Radio - types of programmes- writing for broadcast-scripting for drama feature, talks and discussions-news
writing for radio-fixed programme chart preparation-scope of radio in podcasting-community and commercial
FM broadcasting.
b. Television and film documentary-concept to story structure-narrative arc –script-screenplay and storyboard –
production book and set design-difference between various media content- TV programmes- documentary and
fiction.
Module 3: Advertisement
Various types of commercials- copywriting for print- radio and online advertisement- creative content filling-
TV commercials.
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
Stoval, James Glen. Writing for the Mass Media. Pearson Education, 2006.
Menchar, Melvin. Basic News Writing. William C Brown Cox, 1983
Rich, Carole. Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2003.
Neal, James A and Suzane S Brown. News Writing and Reporting. Surjeeth Publications, 2003.
Feldman, Tony. An Introduction to Digital Media. Blueprint Series, 1996.
Boother, Dianna. F Writing. Macmillan, 2008.
Lewis, Richard. Digital Media: An Introduction. Prentice Hall.
Nigel, Chapman. Digital Media Tools. Paperback 26 Oct, 2007.
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TRANSLATION STUDIES
NO. OF CREDITS 3
AIM OF THE COURSE: To introduce translation studies as an academic activity and to enable students to
translate texts from one language to the other
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY:
Module 1: 10 hrs
Module 2: 10 hours
Module 3: 10 hours
Module4: 12 hours
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Evaluation: 12 hours
Total: 54 hours
B. COURSE DETAILS:
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
Bassnett, Susan. Translation Studies. Routledge, London and New York, 2002.
Catford, J.C. A Linguistic Theory of Translation. OUP, 1965.
Jakobson, Roman. On Linguistic Aspects of Communication.
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION
NO. OF CREDITS 3
The course aims to help learners understand the basic principles underlying the practice of teaching English
as a second language
a. To expose them to the practical ways of teaching English language using different methods.
c. To develop in learners ability for critical reflections on their own and fellow-learners’ method of
teaching English.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY:
Module 1: 10 hrs
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Module 2: 10 hrs
Module 3: 10 hrs
Module4: 12 hrs
Evaluation: 12 hrs
Total: 54 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
Defining approach -Structural, Lexical, Eclectic and Communicative approaches -defining method-
Grammar Translation, Direct, Bilingual, PPP Methods -Task Based Learning and Teaching- Postmethod
Concept.
(Practical ways of teaching a single language component using different approaches/methods have to be
demonstrated in the classroom)
(Practical peer/microteaching by students is to be done in the class and it can be an alternative to tests
meant for internal assessment)
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
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SHAKESPEARE
NO. OF CREDITS 3
AIM OF THE COURSE: To initiate students to read and appreciate the master
a. To expose students to the universality of Shakespeare and his relevance for all times
b. To appreciate the polyphonic quality of Shakespeare’s works and to learn the different modes of approaching
Shakespeare
c. To develop the students’ skill of formulating his/her own critical position
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY
Module 1: 10 hrs
Module 2: 10 hrs
Module 3: 10 hrs
Module4: 12 hrs
Evaluation: 12 hrs
Total: 54 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
Maguire, Laurie. Ed. How to do Things with Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays. Wiley-Blackwell,
2007.
Stern, Tiffany. Watching as Reading: The Audience and Written Text in Shakespeare’s Playhouse
Coldiron, A.E.B., Canons and Cultures: Is Shakespeare Universal?
Peralta, Eyder. Things We Say Today and Owe to Shakespeare. NPR Series, 2011.
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PROJECT
SEMESTER 5 and 6
CREDITS 2
The following are the guidelines for conducting, reporting and submitting the Project in partial fulfilment of
the requirements for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English of the University of Calicut. The
entire course of Project Work is spread in the last two Semesters namely V and VI Semesters of the BA degree
Programme. In the V Semester, the Course of Project work, with two hours per week allotted is a non-credit
Course. In the VI Semester, the Course of Project Work is a continuation of the Course of Project work done in
the V Semester. The number of hours allotted per week is 2 hrs in Vth and VIth semester.
PROJECT GUIDELINES
The guidelines to be followed in the preparation, conducting, reporting, submission and evaluation of the
Project work are as follows:-
1. The topics shall strictly adhere to the authors or socio-cultural backgrounds/influences of English Literature.
2. The candidates can take up a topic either from the prescribed syllabus or from outside the prescribed
syllabus. The projects on the topics outside the syllabus will attract grace marks.
3. It is recommended that the project should be carried out on individual basis. In special cases Group
presentation of projects can be allowed.
4. V Semester shall be devoted to the study of methodology of research and project work. By the end of the V
Semester, a Synopsis of Project work should be finalised with the help of the guide.
5. The Synopsis of the Project, which is finalized by the end of V Semester, should be submitted to the
Department for approval.
It is strongly recommended that, the Department need not wait till the end of the Semester for the finalization
of the topic for Project Work. The students shall be encouraged to start the project work as early as possible in
the V Semester itself
6. A Department Level Project Committee under the Chairmanship of Head of Department, in its due course of
meetings, shall approve the topics for Project work. The Department Level Project Committee may or may not
conduct a zero-credit-zero-mark general viva to ascertain the competency of the candidates for conducting the
project work. The Department Level Project Committee shall give necessary guidelines, which should be taken
note by the students as well as the guide.
7. The approved topics, along with the name of students and the name of the guide/supervisor should be
displayed in a Notice Board under the Seal and Signature of the Head of the Department.
8. Considering the number of students available in a batch and the number of Faculty members available in a
department, it is suggested that the students shall be grouped into 5 to 10 groups consisting of 3 to 5 students.
Each faculty member shall thus give guidance to one or two such groups.
10. The candidates shall devote themselves to the project work, making use of the holidays. Hours allotted for
Project work in the V and VI Semesters should be devoted for attending lecture classes on Project work and for
obtaining guidance from the Supervisor.
11. Each candidate shall submit the Report of the Project work, separately under his/her name. However, in the
case of group submission, the names of other members of the group shall be mentioned in the Certificate
signed by the Supervisor/Guide and Head of Department.
13. It is of utmost importance that the student should refrain from plagiarism. The Supervisor shall take utmost
care in this regard.
14. Evaluation of the Project: The Project Report shall be subjected to both internal and external evaluation.
The total marks for the project is 75, of which 60 is awarded on the basis of external evaluation and 15 on the
basis of internal. The Internal Evaluation shall be done at the Department level. The criterion of awarding
internal marks is given below:
1 Originality 3
2 Methodology 3
4 Viva Voce 5
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TOTAL 15
*The Internal Viva-Voce conducted by a three member Committee comprising the Head of Department,
Supervisor, and a senior Faculty member.
The External Evaluation of the Project is done by a Board of Examiners appointed by the University. The
criterion for awarding external marks is given below:
4 Viva Voce 18
TOTAL 60
The student who fails to attain 40 % of marks for Project shall redo and resubmit his/her project.
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
NO. OF CREDITS 2
AIM OF THE COURSE: The course aims to introduces students to the fundamentals of research
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
COURSE SUMMARY
Module 1: 5 hrs
Module 2: 5 hrs
Module 3: 10 hrs
Module 4: 10 hrs
Evaluation: 6 hrs
Total 36 hrs
COURSE DETAILS:
Defining Research, Selecting a topic, Using the Library, Collecting Materials, Evaluating Sources, Taking
Notes, Avoiding Plagiarism.
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Module 2. The Format of the Research Paper
Synopsis, Parts of the Dissertation, Writing Drafts, Spelling and Punctuation, Capitalization,
Underlining and Italics, Quotations, Documentation, In-text and End text citations and Bibliography
READING LIST
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OPEN COURSES
NO. OF CREDITS 3
AIM OF THE COURSE: To prepare the students for competitive exams such as UPSC, Defence, SSC,
Banking, KPSC, Insurance and other examinations.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY
Module 1: 16 hrs
Module 2: 14 hrs
Module 3: 14 hrs
Evaluation 10 hrs
Total 54 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
Synonyms, antonyms, analogy, one-word substitution, idiomatic use of verbs, test of spellings, Correct
use of prepositions and articles.
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Error identification, Sentence correction, Jumbled words in a sentence, Sentence completion.
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
Edgar Thorpe and Showick Thorpe, Objective English for Competitive Exams.
Michael Swan, Practical English Usage.
Wren and Martin, High School English Grammar & Composition.
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CREATIVE WRITING IN ENGLISH
NO. OF CREDITS 3
AIM OF THE COURSE: To expose the students to the different kinds of writing and to enable them to write
creatively
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY:
Total 54 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
Analysis of the theme, structure, imagery and symbols, and rhythm - major poetic forms with examples.
Critical appreciation – emphasis on theme, structure, style, symbols, images, rhythm and diction.
Poetry writing sessions based on common/everyday themes in various forms – to initiate students into poetry
writing.
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History – origin – short story and novel – characteristic features– plot construction, characterization, narration,
local colour, atmosphere and title.
Speeches-Letters-Biographies.
Short Story appreciation - critical appreciation of stories - emphasis on theme, structure, style, images and
dialogue.
Practice sessions – building up short stories, speeches and letters based on given topics / themes from everyday
life and situations.
Elements of book/film reviewing/screenplays – Features of a good review must - sample book/film reviews
from newspapers and magazines - practice sessions on book and film reviews.
Screenplays- Constituent parts, Model sessions on screenplays for short films and documentaries
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING
Twelve Mo
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APPRECIATING LITERATURE
NO. OF CREDITS 3
AIM OF THE COURSE: This course aims to generate genuine interest in literature. Focus is given on the
literary aspects than the technical aspects of literary texts.
1. To teach students how to appreciate literature through simple and popular literary works.
2. To familiarize the students with the different genres and different varieties of English literature through
the selected pieces without formal introduction.
3. To teach students how literature can function as a reflection of life in its varied forms.
4. To teach students how literature is philosophical and social.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
A. COURSE SUMMARY
Module 1: 10 hrs
Module 2: 10 hrs
Module 3: 14hrs
Module4: 10 hrs
Evaluation: 10 hrs
Total: 36 hrs
B. COURSE DETAILS:
Module 1: Poetry
Module 2: Prose
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1. The Gift of the Magi: O. Henry.
2. Mark of Vishnu: Khushwant Singh.
3. Happy Prince: Oscar Wilde.
Module 4: Drama
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
Thomas, C.T. Twentieth Century Verse. Macmillan India Limited: 1979.
Wilde, Oskar. The Happy Prince and Other short stories. www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg
f Twelve Mod
Complementary course I
ENGLISH FOR COMMUNICATION
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First/Second Semester
NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM OF THE COURSE: To improve the oral and interpersonal communication skills of the learners
COURSE DETAILS:
Describing people and things (be+ adj/Noun construction) – Narrating incidents (simple past and past
progressive) – Framing Yes/No questions- speaking about likes and dislikes.
(sentences/questions/negatives have to be focused) - Expressing simultaneous/interrupting actions (past simple
and past progressive) –
Commonly mispronounced vowels and consonants by Keralite English Speakers– Fundamental aspects of
Stress and stressing- rhythm in connected speech - Received Pronunciation – Stress and Intonation
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Elements of an effective presentation –before/during and after presentation – tips for effective Power Point
Presentation-The learning pyramid-Four types of audience
READING LIST:
Complementary course II
ENGLISH FOR COMMUNICATION
Third/Fourth Semester
ASPECTS OF READING AND WRITING
NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM OF THE COURSE: To improve the reading and writing skills of the learners
COURSE DETAILS:
100 high frequency irregular verbs and their forms-Comparison of adjectives – common discourse markers
used in writing – oft-used conjunctions in writing– Common errors in written English.
Job application and interview – Covering letter – Resume - Personal letters – letters of
complaint/apology/enquiry-letter to the editor.
Writing as a skill –writing as a process– organizing and structuring a paragraph – Personal, academic and
business writing – Creative writing –writing seminar papers –cohesion and coherence in writing.
READING LIST
NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM: To acquaint students with the history of English literature from early history to the Romantic revival
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Module 1:
The Early history of England - Roman Britain - The coming and settlement of the Germanic tribes – The
arrival of Christianity - The Anglo Saxon Heptarchy - The Viking invasions - The reassertion of British control
- Old English literature – Bede, Beowulf, King Alfred.
Module 2:
The Norman invasion – Feudalism – Development of Middle English Prose & verse - Middle English literature
– Fabliau, Lyric, Dream, Allegory and Ballad - Langland – Piers Plowman - Medieval romances, alliterative
verse – Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales – John Gower - The beginnings of English drama - Miracle, morality
and mystery plays, and Interludes.
Module 3:
Scottish Literature in the 14th &15th centuries - The Renaissance - The Tudors - The English Reformation and
Counter-reformation - Trade and colonialism – Philip Sydney – The Drama – Towneley, Chester, Coventry and
Morality plays – Interludes – Marlowe – Prose – Arcadia -The Stuart Age - Elizabethan poetry – Spenser -
Renaissance drama - Ben Jonson – The University Wits – Shakespeare – Bacon - Thomas More - Authorized
(King James) Version of the Bible.
Module 4:
The decline of the Renaissance – Post-Shakespearean dramatists – Milton and the puritan movement –
Jacobean poetry - Donne and the metaphysical.
Module 5:
Restoration in England, Court poets of the restoration – Dryden and Pope - Satire – The great essayist –
Addison, Steele, Defoe and Swift - The Enlightenment - the rise of modern science and the rise of capitalism -
Coffee Houses in London as centres of social and political discussions Restoration theatre.
Module 6:
Neo classicism – Johnson and Goldsmith - The Great Novelists – The rise of women novelists - Memoirs –
Development of Science and philosophic thought – John Locke
Module 7:
Transitional poets – Perce’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry – Lyrical Ballads – Early Romantics –
Wordsworth, Coleridge & Southey – Ballad makers – Later Romantics – Shelley, Keats and Byron
-Romanticism in English Fiction – Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey -The development of Journalism.
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READING LIST:
Daiches,David. A Critical History of English Literature, Supernova. 2016
Peck, John and Martin Coyle. A Brief History of English Literature. Palgrave, 2012. Poplawski,
Paul Ed. English Literature in Context. CUP, 2008.
Rickett, Arthur Crompton. A History of English Literature, UBS Publishers. 2009.
Thornley G C and Gwyneth Roberts. An Outline of English Literature. Pearson, 2011.
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NO. OF CREDITS 4
AIM: To acquaint the students with the history of English Literature from the Victorian Age to postmodern
English literature
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Module 1:
The Victorian Age - The Reform Acts - Changes in social life - Industrialization and its impact on the society -
Rise of Oxford and Cambridge Universities - Spread of science and technology and its impact – Marx, Darwin,
J.S. Mill, Freud - India and the Empire
Module 2:
Victorian poetry - Arnold, Browning and Tennyson - The Victorian novel - Charles Dickens, George Eliot and
Thomas Hardy – Pre-Raphaelites – Women writers – Criticism and the essay – Ruskin and Carlyle.
Module 3:
Oscar Wilde and the aestheticians. Early 20th century - Influences on the social milieu - The First World War -
The war poets - Modernism - T S Eliot, Yeats, Auden, Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad,
G B Shaw and the realists.
Module 4:
The mid-twentieth century and after - World War II - Life between the two World Wars - Effects of the Wars on
society and literature – Post-war literature – Movements – Angry Young Man – Waiting for Godot and Absurd
plays - The dissolution of the British empire.
Module 5:
Modern to the Post-modern - Poetry, fiction and drama of the period - Life in the 60s, 70s and 80s - The avant-
garde, bohemia and mainstream culture - Larkin and the Movement Poetry – The sixties: realism and
experiment- The seventies and the cult of culture
Module 6:
Empire and modern writing- Ted Hughes, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, Kingsley Amis, Graham Greene,
Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard
Module 7:
Modern life: fiction and satire - Modernity and myth - Psychoanalysis and literature - Biography and
autobiography - Literature and cinema - Feminism and environmentalism – Post Colonial fiction - Salman
Rushdie -.Contemporary writing - Carol Ann Duffy - Poetry after Ending the century: literature and digital
technology
READING LIST:
NO. OF CREDITS 5
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AIM OF THE COURSE: The course is a wide spectrum of drama across the globe. It seeks to enable learners
to stimulate interest in drama, to appreciate drama as an art form and to fathom its trends and techniques
a. To introduce the students to the basic elements of drama, including the historical progress of drama in
different continents.
b. To foster an ability in the students for appreciating drama as an art form.
c. To familiarize the students with the different genres and masters of drama.
d. To facilitate the learners to critically go beyond the theatrical performances to the texts and approach
them critically from various standpoints.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
C. COURSE SUMMARY:
Module 1: 16 hrs
Module 2: 30 hrs
Module 3: 20 hrs
Module 4: 12 hrs
Evaluation 12 hrs
Total 90 hrs
D. COURSE DETAILS:
Basic Elements of Drama: Tragedy, Comedy, Tragicomedy; The Constituent Parts of Drama – Plot, Character,
Thought, Song, Spectacle, Diction, Three Unities, Tragic Hero, Chorus, Simple plot and Complex plot; The
basic structure of tragedy.
History of Drama: Greek Theatre and Drama, Miracle Plays and Morality Plays, University Wits,
Shakespearean Theatre, Restoration Drama, Sentimental Drama, Anti-sentimental Drama, Comedy of
Manners, Drama of the Romantic Period, Decadence, Problem Play, Realism, Ibsen and Bernard Shaw. Avant-
garde: Expressionism & Epic Theatre, Angry Young Man, The Theatre of the Absurd, Comedy of Menace, The
Theatre of Cruelty, Feminist theatre, Street theatre, Ritualistic Theatre, The Poor theatre, Radio Drama.
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*NB: The learners are asked only essay/s and short essay/s (paragraph/s) questions from the adaptations in the end
semester examinations.
READING LIST:
CORE TEXT: A text containing the above lessons will be made available
FURTHER READING:
Catherine Belsey. The Subject of Tragedy- Identity and Difference in Renaissance Drama. London: Methuen,
1985.
Jean Chothia. English Drama of the Early Modern Period, 1890-1940. London: Longman, 1996.
A C Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy. London: Elibron, 1904.
H. Granville-Barker, Study of Drama. London: Sedgwick, 1931.
Peter Womack and Simon Shepherd. English Drama: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996.
SCHEME OF EXAMINATION
This scheme consists of external question paper with 80 marks and internal examination with 20 marks.
Duration of each external examination is 2.5 hours. The students can answer all the questions in A&B sections.
But there shall be ceiling in each section.
Section A
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Short Answer type that carries 2 marks each – 15 questions Ceiling – 25 marks
Section B
Paragraph/problem type that carries 5 marks each – 8 questions Ceiling – 35 marks
Section C
Essay type that carries 10 marks (2 out of 4) 2X10=20 marks
This scheme consists of external question paper with 60 marks and internal examination with 15 marks.
Duration of each external examination is 2 hours. The students can answer all the questions in A&B sections.
But there shall be ceiling in each section.
Section A
Short Answer type that carries 2 marks each – 12 questions Ceiling – 20 marks
Section B
Paragraph/problem type that carries 5 marks each – 7 questions Ceiling – 30 marks
Section C
Essay type that carries 10 marks (1 out of 2) 1X10=10 marks
For the project work, out of the total 50 marks, 10 for Internal assessment and 40 for External evaluation.
Evaluation of Project
This is done under mark system. There will be an Internal assessment by the supervising teacher of the Project
and an External evaluation by an Eternal Examiner appointed by the University. Grade will be awarded to the
candidates by combining the external and internal marks. The internal and external components are to be taken
in the ratio 1:4. The internal will be 20 percent of the total and external will be 80 percent of the total.
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