English Syllabus Semester 3,5

Syllabus Texts & Topics

Semester: 3

Foundation Course in English 3 (FCE 3)

Text: Pathways to English: A Course for Intermediate Learners, By Board of

Editors, Cambridge University Press

Grammar: Types of Sentences

Active and Passive Voices

Creative Writing – writing a paragraph

Core Course in English (CCE 5) Form: Comedy
Recommended Text : English Literature for Foreign Readers by R. J. Reez

Text: Arms and the Man- G. B. Shaw (Play) Orient Edition First Published 1953.

Edited with Introduction by A. C. Ward. New Delhi: Orient Longman. 1979.

Core Course in English (CCE 6)

Texts: 1. Silas Marner- George Eliot (Novel) Oxford World Classics. New Delhi: O. U. P. 2004.

2. Isabella- John Keats (Poem). From Poetical Works of John Keats. New Delhi: O. U. P. 1990.

Core Course in English (CCE 7)

Text: Introduction to the Study of English Literature - W.H. Hudson. London:

Macmillan. 1989. Chapter: 1, 2 and 3

Semester 5

Foundation Course in English 5 (FCE 5)

Text: Golden Petals- An Anthology of Prose and Verse for Advanced Learners

By Board of Editors; Orient Blackswan

Core Course in English (CCE 11) (Shakespeare)

Hamlet – William Shakespeare. New Cambridge Shakespeare. Edited by Philip

Edwards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003.

Measure For Measure – William Shakespeare. New Cambridge

Shakespeare.Edited by Brian Gibbons. Cambridge: C. U.P. 2003.

Core Course in English (CCE 12) Criticism

Text: The Making of literature by R A Scott-James

Literature of Power and Knowledge, Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Dante, Sir Philip

Sidney, Ben Jonson, Dryden.

Name of the course: Core Course in English 13 (CCE 13)

 1 The Clerk’s Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2000.

 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.

Core Course in English 14 (CCE 14)

1 History-Spenser, Marlowe, Milton, John Donne, Addison, Samuel Richardson

 2 Text: Samson Agonistes - A Poem by John Milton from Poetical Works of

John Milton. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1990.

Core Course in English 15 (CCE 15) (Literary Criticism)

Text: The Making of literature by R A Scott-James

William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, John Ruskin, Saint Beuve, Matthew Arnold,

Walter Pater, Croce, I. A. Richards

Core Course in English (CCE 16) (Non British Masters)

1Text: “Metamorphosis” – by Franz Kafka. From Short Stories of Franz Kafka.

New Delhi: Penguin Books. 2001.

2 Text: The Old Man and the Sea - by Ernest Hemingway. New Delhi: Penguin Books. 1992.