SAURASHTRA UNIVERSITY
Re-accredited Grade B by NAAC
(CGPA 2.93)
Dharmendrasinhji Arts College. SYLLABUS FOR
ENGLISH
Semester 5
Name of the course: Foundation Course in English 5 (FCE 5)
Total credits: = 03
Total teaching time: = 45 hours
Distribution of marks:
Total Marks per semester: 100
Semester end exam: 70
Internal assessment 30
Internal marks break up: assignment/internal test = 10, assignment/MCQ test = 10,
presentation = 10
Text: Golden Petals- An Anthology of Prose and Verse for Advanced Learners
By Board of Editors; Orient Blackswan 55 marks
Skills and Proficiency in English: 45 marks
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100 marks
Communication Skills: Teaching time: 10 hrs
Topic: Presentation – Review or Discussion of any article pertaining to ecosocio-
political-academic or environment published in a
newspaper/magazine/journal
Or
Power point presentation offering comprehensive study of any topic
pertaining to eco-socio-political-academic or environment
Reading and Writing Skills:
Text: „Golden Petals- An Anthology of Prose and Verse for Advanced
Learners (chapters 1 to 5) Teaching time: 15 hrs
Proficiency in Language Teaching time: 20 hrs
Translation from English into Mother Tongue
Translation from Mother Tongue into English
Questionnaire (pertaining to academic and social issues)
Structure of Questions and Distribution of Marks:
Internal Assessment 30 marks
· Assignment 10 marks
Press release
· MCQ 10 marks
Based on the prescribed text
· Seminar 10 marks
Presentation
Semester end exam 70 marks
Section 1 20 marks
MCQ (Twenty sentences of one mark each)
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Based on the prescribed text
Section 2 50 marks
Q. 1 Descriptive questions – answers 2/4 15 marks
(Based on the prescribed text)
Q. 2 Brief questions – answers 2/4 10 marks
(Based on the prescribed text)
Q. 3 Questionnaire 1/2 10 marks
Q. 4 Translation from English into Mother Tongue 15 marks
(Paragraph)
Translation from Mother Tongue into English
Recommended reading:
Murphy’s English Grammar (with CD- Rom). Cambridge University Press.
Thomson and Martinet. A Practical English Grammar (4th edition). Oxford University
Press.
Redman, Stuart. 1997. English Vocabulary in Use : Pre-intermediate and
Intermediate. Cambridge University Press.
Jones Daniel. English Pronouncing Dictionary (with CD – Rom). Cambridge
University Press.
Ur, Penny. Grammar Practice Activities Paperback with CD-ROM: A Practical Guide
for Teachers (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers).
*[1 credit = 1 hour of teaching per week (1 credit course = 15 hours of lectures per
semester; 3 credits = 3 hours of instruction per week (3 credit course = 45 hours of
lectures per semester)]
Semester: 5
Name of the course: Core Course in English (CCE 11) (Shakespeare)
Total credits: Semester 3 = 03 (3 Credit course)
Total teaching time: 45 hours
Distribution of marks:
Total Marks per semester: 100
Semester Exam: 70
Internal Marks: 30
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Internal Marks break up: Assignment 1/presentation = 10, Assignment
2/presentation= 10, Assessment of writing and speaking skills/MCQ = 10
Unit 1
Hamlet – William Shakespeare. New Cambridge Shakespeare. Edited by Philip
Edwards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003.
Teaching time: 22.5 Hours.
Unit 2
Measure For Measure – William Shakespeare. New Cambridge
Shakespeare.Edited by Brian Gibbons. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. 2003.
Teaching time: 22.5 Hours
Structure of questions and allotment of Marks:
Q. 1 Objective type questions based on text (20 x 1) 20 marks
Q. 2 1 out of 2 long answer question (text- 1) (11 x 1) 11 marks
Q. 3 Short Note (2 out of 4) (Text-1) (07 x 2) 14 marks
Q. 4 1 out of 2 long question (Text-2) (11 x 1) 11 marks
Q. 5 2 out of 4 short notes (Text-2) (07 x 2) 14 marks
Semester: 5
Name of the course: Core Course in English (CCE 12) Criticism
Total credits: Semester 3 = 03 (3 Credit course)
Total teaching time: 45 hours
Distribution of marks:
Total marks per semester: 100
Semester end exam: 70
Internal marks: 30
Internal Marks break up: Assignment 1/presentation = 10, Assignment
2/presentation= 10, Assessment of writing and speaking skills/MCQ = 10
Text: Literary Criticism - A New History by Gary Day. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press Ltd. 2008. ISBN 978 0 7486 1563 6 (hardback)
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Unit 1 Teaching Time: 45 hours
Literature of Power and Knowledge, Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Dante, Sir Philip
Sidney, Ben Jonson, Dryden.
Structure of questions and allotment of Marks:
Q. 1 Objective type questions (20 x 1) 20 marks
Q. 2 Long questions- answers 1/2 (12 x 1) 12 marks
Q. 3 Long questions- answers 1/2 (12 x 1) 12 marks
Q. 4 Long questions- answers 1/2 (12 x 1) 12 marks
Q. 5 Short notes 2/4 (07 x 2) 14 marks
Semester: 5
Name of the course: Core Course in English 13 (CCE 13)
Total credits: Semester 3 = 03 (3 Credit course)
Total teaching time: 45 hours
Distribution of Marks:
Total Marks per semester: 100
Semester end exam: 70
Internal marks: 30
Internal Marks break up: Assignment 1/presentation = 10, Assignment
2/presentation= 10, Assessment of writing and speaking skills/MCQ = 10
Unit 1 The Clerk’s Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
2000.
Unit 2 The English Language - By C.L. Wrenn. New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House
Pvt. Ltd. 1993.
Topics from The English Language: General Character of English, Landmarks in the
History of English, English as a World Language, influence of Latin, Greek Influence,
French Influence, American Influence.
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Recommended reading: The Oxford Companion to the English Language Edited by
Tom McArthur. New York: Oxford University Press. 1992. ISBN 0-19-214183-X
(Note: Rendering of the text “The Clerk‟s Tale” is not recommended as a criteria for
assessment of the students and any questions on rendering should be avoided)
Structure of questions and allotment of Marks:
Q. 1 Objective type questions based on text (20 x 1) 20 marks
Q. 2 Long questions- answers (Unit- 1) 1/2 (11 x 1) 11 marks
Q. 3 Short Notes (Unit-1) 2/4 (07 x 2) 14 marks
Q. 4 Long questions- answers (Unit-2) 1/2 (11 x 1) 11 marks
Q. 5 Short notes (Unit-2) 2/4 (07 x 2) 14 marks
Semester: 5
Name of the course: Core Course in English 14 (CCE 14)
(History of English Literature)
Total credits: 03 (3 Credit course)
Total teaching time: 45 hours
Distribution of marks:
Total marks per semester: 100
Semester end exam: 70
Internal marks: 30
Internal Marks break up: Assignment 1/presentation = 10, Assignment
2/presentation= 10, Assessment of writing and speaking skills/MCQ = 10
Unit 1 History (Elizabethan Age to Neo- Classical Age - Specific Topics given
below)
Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, John Donne, Addison, Samuel Richardson
Teaching time: 22.5 hrs
Unit 2 Text: Samson Agonistes - A Poem by John Milton from Poetical Works of
John Milton. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1990.
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Teaching time: 22.5 hrs
Structure of questions and allotment of Marks:
Q. 1 Objective type questions based on text (20 x 1) 20 marks
Q: 2 Long questions- answers (Unit- 1) 1/2 (11 x 1) 11 marks
Q. 3 Short Note (Unit-1) 2/4 (07 x 2) 14 marks
Q. 4 Long questions- answers (Unit-2) 1/2 (11 x 1) 11 marks
Q. 5 short notes (Unit-2) 2/4 (07 x 2) 14 marks
Recommended reading:
(1) A History of English Literature By Robert Huntington Fletcher.
http://www.blackmask.com// Blackmask Online. 2002
(2) A Critical History of English Literature (in Two Volumes) by David Daiches.
London: Mandarin Paperbacks. 1997.
(3) History of English Literature by Edward Albert. Revised by J. A. Stone (Fifth
Edition) Mumbai: Oxford University Press. 2000.
Semester: 5
Name of the course: Core Course in English 15 (CCE 15) (Literary Criticism)
Total credits: 03 (3 Credit course)
Total teaching time: 45 hours
Distribution of marks:
Total Marks per semester: 100
Semester end exam: 70
Internal marks: 30
Internal Marks break up: Assignment 1/presentation = 10, Assignment
2/presentation= 10, Assessment of writing and speaking skills/MCQ = 10
Text: Literary Criticism- A New History by Gary Day. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press Ltd. 2008. ISBN 978 0 7486 1563 6 (hardback)
Link:http://books.google.co.in/books?id=3fllNYqKmWsC&pg=PA10&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
Unit 1 Teaching Time: 45 Hours
William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, John Ruskin, Saint Beuve, Matthew Arnold,
Walter Pater, Croce, I. A. Richards
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Structure of questions and allotment of Marks:
Q. 1 Objective type questions (20 x 1) 20 marks
Q. 2 1 out of 2 long answer question (12 x 1) 12 marks
Q. 3 1 out of 2 long question (12 x 1) 12 marks
Q. 4 1 out of 2 long question (12 x 1) 12 marks
Q. 5 2 out of 4 short notes (07 x 2) 14 marks
Semester: 5
Name of the course: Core Course in English (CCE 16) (Non British Masters)
Total credits: 03 (3 Credit course)
Total teaching time: 45 hours
Distribution of marks:
Total Marks per semester: 100
Semester Exam: 70
Internal Marks: 30
Internal Marks break up: Assignment 1/presentation = 10, Assignment
2/presentation= 10, Assessment of writing and speaking skills/MCQ = 10
Unit 1 Teaching time: 22.5 Hours
Text: “Metamorphosis” – by Franz Kafka. From Short Stories of Franz Kafka.
New Delhi: Penguin Books. 2001.
Unit 2 Teaching time: 22.5 Hours
Text: The Old Man and the Sea - by Ernest Hemingway. New Delhi: Penguin
Books. 1992.
Structure of questions and allotment of marks:
Q. 1 Objective type questions based on text (20 x 1) 20 marks
Q. 2 Long questions- answers (text- 1) 1/2 (11 x 1) 11 marks
Q. 3 Short Notes (Text-1) 2/4 (07 x 2) 14 marks
Q. 4 Long questions- answers (Text-2) 1/2 (11 x 1) 11 marks
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Q. 5 Short notes (Text-2) 2/4 (07 x 2) 14 marks
SEMESTER: 6
Name of the Course: Foundation Course in English 6 (FCE 6)
Total Credits: = 03
Total teaching time: = 45 hours
Distribution of Marks:
Total Marks per semester: 100
Semester end exam: 70
Internal assessment 30
Internal marks break up: assignment/internal test = 10, assignment/MCQ test =
10, presentation = 10
Text: Golden Petals- An Anthology of Prose and Verse for Advanced Learners
By Board of Editors; Orient Blackswan
55 marks
Skills and Proficiency in English: 45 marks
_______
100 marks
Communication Skills: Teaching time: 15 hrs
Topic: Group Discussion
Reading and Writing Skills:
Text: Golden Petals- An Anthology of Prose and Verse for Advanced Learners
By Board of Editors; Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd. chapters 6 to 10
Teaching time: 15 hrs
Proficiency in Language Teaching time: 15 hrs
Comprehension (of moderate difficulty level)
Creative Writing - Reshaping the Story
Structure of Questions and Distribution of Marks:
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Internal Assessment 30 marks
Distribution of Marks
· Assignment 10 marks
Reshaping of story
· MCQ 10 marks
Based on the prescribed text
· Seminar 10 marks
Group discussion
External Exam 70 marks
Section 1 20 marks
MCQ (Twenty sentences of one mark each)
Based on the prescribed text
Section 2 50 marks
Q. 1 Descriptive questions – answers 2/4 14 marks
(Based on the prescribed text)
Q. 2 Brief questions – answers 3/5 10 marks
(Based on the prescribed text)
Q. 3 Reshaping the story 01 10 marks
Q. 4 Comprehension (08 x 02) 02 16 marks
(08 x 01 = 08)
Recommended reading:
Murphy’s English Grammar (with CD- Rom). Cambridge University Press.
Thomson and Martinet. A Practical English Grammar (4th edition). Oxford University
Press.
Redman, Stuart. 1997. English Vocabulary in Use : Pre-intermediate and
Intermediate. Cambridge University Press.
Jones Daniel. English Pronouncing Dictionary (with CD – Rom). Cambridge
University Press.
Ur, Penny. Grammar Practice Activities Paperback with CD-ROM: A Practical Guide
for Teachers (Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers).
*[1 credit = 1 hour of teaching per week (1 credit course = 15 hours of lectures per
semester; 3 credits = 3 hours of instruction per week (3 credit course = 45 hours of
lectures per semester)]
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SEMESTER: 6
Name of the course: Core Course in English 17 (CCE 17) (Modern Masters)
Total credits: 03 (3 Credit course)
Total teaching time: 45 hours
Distribution of marks:
Total marks per semester: 100
Semester end exam: 70
Internal marks: 30
Internal Marks break up: Assignment 1/presentation = 10, Assignment
2/presentation= 10, Assessment of writing and speaking skills/MCQ = 10
Unit 1 Teaching time: 22.5 Hours
Text: “Byzantium” – W.B. Yeats. From Collected Poems: W. B. Yeats. New
York: Oxford University Press. 1984.
Unit 2 Teaching time: 22.5 Hours
Text: Murder in the Cathedral - by T.S. Eliot. London: Faber & Faber. 1988.
Structure of questions and allotment of marks:
Q. 1 Objective type questions based on text (20 x 1) 20 marks
Q 2 Long questions- answers (text- 1) 1/2 (11 x 1) 11 marks
Q. 3 Short Notes (Text-1) 2/4 (07 x 2) 14 marks
Q. 4 Long questions- answers (Text-2) 1/2 (11 x 1) 11 marks
Q. 5 Short notes (Text-2) 2/4 (07 x 2) 14 marks
SEMESTER : 6
Name of the course: Core Course in English 18 (CCE 18)
(Literary „isms‟ and Movements)
Total credits: 03 (3 Credit course)
Total teaching time: 45 hours
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Distribution of marks:
Total marks per semester: 100
Semester end exam: 70
Internal Marks: 30
Internal Marks break up: Assignment 1/presentation = 10, Assignment
2/presentation= 10, Assessment of writing and speaking skills/MCQ = 10
Unit 1
Romanticism, Classicism, Realism, Surrealism, Feminism, Modernism,
Structuralism, Imagism, Symbolism, Expressionism.
(Terms to be Selected from: Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory by J. A.
Cuddon, Revised by C. E. Preston. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1999.)
Structure of questions and allotment of Marks:
Q. 1 Objective type questions (20 x 1) 20 marks
Q. 2 Long questions- answers 1/2 (12 x 1) 12 marks
Q. 3 Long questions- answers 1/2 (12 x 1) 12 marks
Q. 4 Long questions- answers 1/2 (12 x 1) 12 marks
Q. 5 Short notes 2/4 (07 x 2) 14 marks
SEMESTER: 6
Name of the course: Core Course in English 19 (CCE 19) (English Language)
Total credits 03 (3 Credit course)
Total teaching time: 45 hours
Distribution of marks:
Total Marks per semester: 100
Semester end exam: 70
Internal Marks: 30
Internal Marks break up: Assignment 1/presentation = 10, Assignment
2/presentation= 10, Assessment of writing and speaking skills/MCQ = 10
Unit 1
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Spelling and Pronunciation only General Considerations Portion, The Ordering of
Words and Syntax, Syntax and Parts of Speech- Marks-40 (20 marks of
Objective)Reference Book: The English Language by C. L. Wrenn
Teaching time: 15 hrs
Unit 2
Terms: Autobiography, Absurd, Epic, Post-Colonialism, Science Fiction, Free Verse,
Irony, Monologue. 14 marks
(Terms to be Selected from: Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory by J. A.
Cuddon, Revised by C. E. Preston. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1999)
Teaching time: 15 hrs
Unit 3 Transcription 16 marks
(A) Sentences to be asked of 08 marks ( Transcription to be done by the Student)
(B) Words to be asked to be specified as which are Vowels and Consonants of 08
marks.
Teaching time: 15 hrs
Text: An English Phonetic Reader - BY R. K. Bansal and Clive Brasnett, Orient
Longman, 1989.
Exercises in Spoken English - By R. K. Bansal.
Structure of questions and allotment of marks:
Q. 1 Objective type questions based on Unit-1 & 2 (20 x 1) 20 marks
Q. 2 Long questions- answers (Unit- 1) 1/2 (12 x 1) 12 marks
Q. 3 Short Notes (Unit-1) 1/2 (08 x 1) 08 marks
Q. 4 Explain Terms (Unit-2) 2/4 (07 x 2) 14 marks
Q. 5 Phonetic Transcription - 08 Sentences (08 x 1) 08 marks
Phonetic Transcription- 08 words (Unit-3) (08 x 1) 08 marks
SEMESTER : 6
Name of the course: Core Course in English 20 (CCE 20)
(History of English Literature)
Total Credits: 03 (3 Credit course)
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Total teaching time: 45 hours
Distribution of marks:
Total Marks per semester: 100
Semester end exam: 70
Internal marks: 30
Internal Marks break up: Assignment 1/presentation = 10, Assignment
2/presentation= 10, Assessment of writing and speaking skills/MCQ = 10
Unit 1 History of English Literature (Romantic Age to Modern Age)
Specific Topics: Samuel Coleridge, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens,
D. G. Rossetti, Virginia Woolf, Andrew Motion
Teaching time: 22.5 Hours
Unit 2 Text: Great Expectations - Novel by Charles Dickens
Teaching time: 22.5 Hours
Structure of questions and allotment of marks:
Q. 1 Objective type questions based on text (20 x 1) 20 marks
Q. 2 Long questions- answers (Unit- 1) 1/2 (11 x 1) 11marks
Q. 3 Short Note (Unit-1) 2/4 (07 x 2) 14marks
Q. 4 Long questions- answers (Unit-2) 1/2 (11 x 1) 11marks
Q. 5 Short notes (Unit-2) 2/4 (07 x 2) 14marks
Recommended reading:
(1) A History of English Literature By Robert Huntington Fletcher.
http://www.blackmask.com// Blackmask Online. 2002
(2) A Critical History of English Literature (in Two Volumes) by David Daiches.
London: Mandarin Paperbacks. 1997.
(3) History of English Literature by Edward Albert. Revised by J. A. Stone (Fifth
Edition) Mumbai: Oxford University Press. 2000.
Semester: 6
Name of the course: Core Course in English21 (CCE 21) (Indian Poetics)
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Total Credits: 03 (3 Credit course)
Total teaching time: 45 hours
Distribution of Marks:
Total Marks per semester: 100
Semester end exam: 70
Internal Marks: 30
Internal Marks break up: Assignment 1/presentation = 10, Assignment
2/presentation= 10, Assessment of writing and speaking skills/MCQ = 10
Unit 1 Rasa, Dhvani, Vkrokti, Alankar Teaching time: 45hrs
Topics to be Selected from the Text: Indian Aesthetics by V. S. Sethuraman
New Delhi: Macmillan.2000.
Structure of questions and allotment of Marks:
Q. 1 Objective type questions (20 x 1) 20 marks
Q. 2 Long questions- answers 1/2 (12 x 1) 12 marks
Q. 3 Long questions- answers 1/2 (12 x 1) 12 marks
Q. 4 Long questions- answers 1/2 (12 x 1) 12 marks
Q. 5 Short notes 2/4 (07 x 2) 14 marks
Recommended reading: Literary Theory: Indian Conceptual Framework by Kapil
Kapoor. New Delhi: Affiliated East-West Press Pvt.Ltd. 1998.
Semester: 6
Name of the course: Core Course in English 22 (CCE 22)
(Indian Writing in English)
Total credits: Semester 3 = 03 (3 Credit course)
Total teaching time: 45 hours
Distribution of marks:
Total Marks per semester: 100
Semester end exam: 70
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Internal marks: 30
Internal Marks break up: Assignment 1/presentation = 10, Assignment
2/presentation= 10, Assessment of writing and speaking skills/MCQ = 10
Unit 1 Teaching time: 22.5 Hours
Text: Where There is a Will – Mahesh Dattani. From Collected Plays of Mahesh
Dattani New Delhi: Penguin Books. 2000.
Unit 2 Teaching time: 22.5 Hours
Poems to be Selected from Collected Poetry: A. K. Ramanujan. New Delhi:
Oxford University Press. 1999.
(prescribed poems are mentioned below)
(1) The River; (2)Elements of Composition; (3) Prayers to Lord Murugan
(4)Chicago en; (5) Astronomer; (6) Obituary
Structure of questions and allotment of Marks:
Q. 1 Objective type questions based on text (20 x 1) 20 marks
Q. 2 Long questions- answers (Unit- 1) 1/2 (11 x 1) 11marks
Q. 3 Short Notes (Unit-1) 2/4 (07 x 2) 14marks
Q. 4 Long questions- answers (Unit-2) 1/2 (11 x 1) 11marks
Q. 5 Short notes (Unit-2) 2/4 (07 x 2) 14 marks
Recommended reading:
Collected Poetry by A. K. Ramanujan. Oxford Uni. Press, 1999
Modern English Poetry by Bruce King, Oxford Uni. Press, 1989
Critical Essays on Indian Writing in Englis by M. K. Naik, Macmillan, 1972
Indian English Poetry after Independence - Book Enclave, Jaipur, 2000
Explorations in Indian English Poetry by Jaydeep Sarangi, Authors Press, 2007.
