Semester I,II English NEW Syllabus 2016-17 & English Department Time Table

Dharmendrasinhji Arts College, RAJKOT

Time-Table Dept of English Year 2016-17 Sem. 1-3-5

Syllabus of  English  Bachelor of Arts  (Semester I,II)  In effect from 2016 onwards

Regular students 2:15 Hours 70 Marks

External Students 3:00 Hours 100 Marks

Foundation Course in English (FCE 1)

Text: Bliss: An Anthology of Short Stories (unit 1 to 5)

Published by Macmillan Publishers India Limited, New Delhi.

40 Marks

Grammar & Composition

Parts of Speech 10 marks

Tenses 10 Marks

Word formation – Forming noun, forming adjective 10 Marks

CCE 1

Course Title Literary Form: Short Story Course Credit 03

Category Core Course / Elective 1 /

Elective 2

 Literary Form: Short Story

 Text: Popular Short Stories

Titles of short stories for study: 1. The Apple. 2. The World Renowned Nose. by V. M. Basheer 3.The Open Window. by  H. H. Munro
 4. A Work of Art.by Anton Chekhov 5. Some Words with a Mummy. by Edgar Allan Poe 6. The Gift of the Magi.by O. henry 7. The Ant and the Grasshopper.by W. S. Maugham. 8. How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy  9. The Necklace.by Guy de Maupassant 10. Living or Dead? by

Rabindranath Tagore

Unit 1 Overview of Origin and Development of the Genre Teaching time: 7 hours

Unit 2 Nature, Scope and Types of Short Stories Teaching time: 7 hours

Unit 3 Elements of short stories - character, setting, plot, conflict, theme etc.- with

CCE II

Form: Lyric

Text: Appreciating English Poetry

Editor: Praveen K. Thaker. Orient Longman. 2005.

Note: the following poems are to be taught and asked in the exam.

1. Sigh No More, Ladies - William Shakespeare

2. Daffodils - William Wordsworth

3. Thou Hast Made Me – John Donne

4. Ode on Solitude – Alexander Pope

5. Love – P. B. Shelley

6. Dover Beach – Matthew Arnold

7. When You Are Old – W. B. Yeats

8. On His Blindness – John Milton

9. La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats

10. Coming - Philip Larkin

Unit 1: Origin and Development of the genre Teaching time: 05 hours

Unit 2: Types - Ballad, Sonnet, Ode, Hymn and Chant and Elegy: 10 hours

Unit 3: Characteristics of Lyric Teaching time: 5 hours

Concepts of poetic techniques -regarding structure, rhyme, meter, alliteration, lines

and stanza, assonance etc. with reference to the prescribed works

Unit 4: Appreciating English Poetry Teaching time: 25 hours

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Foundation Course in English (FCE 2)

Text: Bliss: An Anthology of Short Stories (unit 6 to 10)

Published by Macmillan Publishers India Limited, New Delhi.

40 Marks

Grammar & Composition

Modal Auxiliaries 10 marks

Vocabulary (Synonyms, antonyms and one word substitution) 10 Marks

Information transfer from visual to verbal 10 Marks

CCE III

 English Literature 1558 to 1660 (CCE-3)

Text: Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare (Play)

Textbook: Midsummer Night’s Dream - New Cambridge Shakespeare (168pp) Price

Rs. 125/-ISBN: 9788185618869. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press.

Detailed syllabus:

Unit 1: History: Renaissance, Chorus, Dramatic Design, Romantic Comedy

Unit 2 History: Metaphysical Poetry, University Wits

Unit 3 History: Comedy of Humours, Comedy of Manners

Unit 4 Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare (Play)

Semester 2 (CCE 4)

 Metaphysical Poetry

Prescribed Textbook: The Winged Word. Edited by David Green. Macmillan India Ltd.

1974. ISBN: 0333911520 / 9780333911525

Note: the following poems are to be taught and asked in examination.

(The Page No. shown after each Poem is from the Prescribed Textbook)

1. Delight In Disorder – Robert Herrick (Page No. 20)

2. To the Virgins, To Make Much Of Time – Robert Herrick (Page No. 21)

3. Disdain Returned – Thomas Carew (Page No. 24)

4. Dirge – James Shirley (Page No. 24)

5. Song – Edmund Waller (Page No. 25)

6. The Wish – Abraham Cowley (Page No. 40)

7. To His Coy Mistress – Andrew Marvell (Page No. 42)

8. The Garden - Andrew Marvell (Page No. 43)

9. The Retreat – Henry Vaughan (Page No. 45)

10. The World – Henry Vaughan (Page No. 46)

Poetic Devices, with an emphasis on the prescribed Figures of Speech

(1) Alliteration (2) Simile (3) Metaphor (4) Personification (5) Paradox (6)

Conceit (7) Apostrophe (8) Synecdoche (9) Hyperbole (10) Pun