English SEM,4,6 Syllabus

SEM,4,6 Syllabus

Semester 4

 (FCE 4)Text: Pathways to English: A Course for Intermediate Learners

Topic: Personal Interview for Job and Admission Reading and Writing Skills: Grammar: Reported Speech Preparing Resume and C. V.

Creative Writing – essay writing

 (CCE 8)Texts: 1. Guide - R. K. Narayana (Novel) New Delhi: Penguin Books. 2011.2. Nag Mandla (Play) - Girish Karnad. New Delhi: OUP2004.

 (CCE 9)Texts: 1. Wuthering Heights (Novel) - Emily Bronte. Oxford World Classics. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2004.

2. Enoch Arden (Poem) – Tennyson. New Delhi: O U P 1999

 (CCE 10)Text: Introduction to the Study of English Literature - W. H. Hudson. New Delhi: Macmillan. 1989 (Chapters: 4, 5 and 6)

SEMESTER: 6

 (FCE 6)Text: Golden Petals- An Anthology of Prose and Verse for Advanced Learners Topic: Group Discussion

Comprehension (of moderate difficulty level)

Creative Writing - Reshaping the Story

 (CCE 17) Text: “Byzantium” – W.B. Yeats. From Collected Poems: W. B. Yeats. New York: Oxford University Press. 1984.

Text: Murder in the Cathedral - by T.S. Eliot. London: Faber & Faber. 1988.

Structure of questions and allotment of marks:

 (CCE 18)Romanticism, Classicism, Realism, Surrealism, Feminism, Modernism, Structuralism, Imagism, Symbolism, Expressionism.

 (CCE 19) Unit 1

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

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)

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 08marks.

Text: An English Phonetic Reader - BY R. K. Bansal and Clive Brasnett, Orient Longman, 1989.Exercises in Spoken English - By R. K. Bansal.

 (CCE 20)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

Unit 2 Text: Great Expectations - Novel by Charles Dickens

 (CCE 21) Unit 1 Rasa, Dhvani, Vkrokti, Alankar Teaching time: 45hrs

(CCE 22)Unit 1 Text: Where There is a Will – Mahesh Dattani. From Collected Plays of Mahesh

Dattani New Delhi: Penguin Books. 2000.

Unit 2 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