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Course Structure and Syllabi for Three Year B.A. Degree Course COURSE STRUCTURE AND SYLLABI FOR THREE YEAR B.A. DEGREE COURSE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE ADAMAS UNIVERSITY 2019-22 SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES UNDERGRADUATE COURSE STRUCTURE UNDER CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM B.A. (Hons.) in ENGLISH SEMESTER I CONTACT HOURS SL. TYPE OF COURSE REM TITLE OF THE COURSE PER WEEK No. COURSE CODE ARKS L T P C CC HEN31101 INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH 5 1 0 6 BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: CC HEN31103 TH TH 14 TO 17 CENTURIES 5 1 0 6 GENERIC ELECTIVE – (SUB-1; GE PAPER- 1) 5 1 0 6 AECC HEN31105 ENGLISH COMMUNICATION 2 0 0 2 GENDER: SOCIAL SCIENCE EXT HSO31107 PERSPECTIVES 2 0 0 2 SUB TOTAL 22 SEMESTER II CONTACT HOURS SL. TYPE OF COURSE REM PER WEEK No. COURSE CODE TITLE OF THE COURSE ARK L T P C S BRITISH POETRY AND DRAMA: 17TH CC HEN31102 TH AND 18 CENTURIES 5 1 0 6 CC HEN31104 INDIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE 5 1 0 6 AECC SGY31106 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 2 0 0 2 GENERIC ELECTIVE – (SUB-1; GE PAPER- 2) 5 1 0 6 EXT HSO31108 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 2 0 0 2 SUB TOTAL 22 SEMESTER III CONTACT HOURS SL. TYPE OF COURSE REM PER WEEK No. COURSE CODE TITLE OF THE COURSE ARK L T P C S BRITISH LITERATURE: 18TH CC HEN32101 CENTURY 5 1 0 6 CC HEN32103 BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE 5 1 0 6 POPULAR LITERATURE CC HEN32105 5 1 0 6 SEC SKILL ENHANCEMENT COURSES-I 2 0 0 2 GENERIC ELECTIVE (SUB-2, GE PAPER-1) 5 1 0 6 SUB TOTAL 26 SEMESTER IV CONTACT HOURS REM SL. TYPE OF COURSE PER WEEK No. COURSE CODE TITLE OF THE COURSE ARK L T P C S BRITISH LITERATURE: 19TH CC HEN32102 CENTURY 5 1 0 6 BRITISH LITERATURE: THE EARLY CC HEN32104 20TH CENTURY 5 1 0 6 EUROPEAN CLASSICAL CC HEN32106 LITERATURE 5 1 0 6 GENERIC ELECTIVE (SUB-2, PAPER- GE 2) 5 1 0 6 SEC SKILL ENHANCEMENT COURSES-II 2 0 0 2 SUB TOTAL 26 SEMESTER V SL. CONTACT HOURS TYPE OF COURSE REM NO PER WEEK COURSE CODE TITLE OF THE COURSE ARK . L T P C S CC HEN33101 MODERN EUROPEAN DRAMA 5 1 0 6 CC HEN33103 AMERICAN LITERATURE 5 1 0 6 DSE DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE-I 5 1 0 6 DSE DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE-II 5 1 0 6 PRO/INT HEN33411 PROJECT/ INTERNSHIP 2 0 0 2 26 SEMESTER VI CONTACT HOURS SL. TYPE OF COURSE REM PER WEEK No. COURSE CODE TITLE OF THE COURSE ARK L T P C S CC HEN33102 WOMEN’S WRITING 5 1 0 6 CC HEN33104 POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURES 5 1 0 6 DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE- DSE III 5 1 0 6 DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE- DSE IV 5 1 0 6 GDS HEN33112 DISSERTATION 2 0 0 2 26 TOTAL 148 (REQUIRED CREDIT) Discipline Specific Electives (DSE): Students are required to study FOUR elective Papers from the Major/ Hons discipline during semester V and VI. The lists of the electives are given below. Choose any Two in Semester-V Choose any Two in Semester-VI 1. LITERATURES OF THE HEN33105 5. LITERATURE AND HEN33106 INDIAN DIASPORA CINEMA 2. BRITISH LITERATURE: HEN33107 6. WORLD LITERATURES HEN33108 POST WORLD WAR II 3. LITERARY THEORY HEN33109 7. TRAVEL WRITING HEN33114 4. SCIENCE FICTION AND HEN33111 8. AUTOBIOGRAPHY HEN33116 DETECTIVE LITERATURE ABBREVIATIONS: CC Core Course AECC: Ability Enhancement Compulsory Course DSE Discipline Specific Elective Course EXT Extension GE Generic Elective Course GDS Graduate Dissertation SEC Skill Enhancement Course INT Internship GENERIC ELECTIVE PAPERS DISCIPLINE WISE LIST OF GENERIC ELECTIVE PAPERS BENGALI ECONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY A BENGALI SHORT A INTRODUCTORY A GENERAL STORIES AND MICROECONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY NOVELS (HBE31105) (CEC31101) (HPS31109) B BENGALI B INTRODUCTORY B APPLIED LINGUISTICS & MACROECONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY GRAMMAR (CEC31102) (HPS31110) (HBE31106) C TAGORE C INDIAN ECONOMY C PSYCHOLOGY OF LITERATURE (CEC32103) VIRTUE (HPS32109) (HBE32107) D FILM & CULTURE D DEVELOPMENT D ABNORMAL STUDIES (HBE32108) ECONOMICS PSYCHOLOGY (CEC32104) (HPS32108) ENGLISH POLITICAL SCIENCE/ HISTORY INTERNAL RELATIONS/ PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION A INTRODUCTION TO A GOVERNANCE: A ENVIRONMENTAL LANGUAGE, ISSUES AND ISSUES IN INDIA LITERATURE AND CHALLENGES (HHS31105) CULTURE (HPO31105) (HEN31107) B ACADEMIC WRITING B GANDHI AND THE B MAKING OF AND COMPOSITION CONTEMPORARY CONTEMPORARY (HEN31106) WORLD (HPO31106) INDIA (HHS31106) C ENGLISH C CONTEMPORARY C ISSUES OF LANGUAGE AND POLITICAL CONTEMPORARY LINGUISTICS ECONOMY WORLD (HHS32107) (HEN32107) (HPO32107) D TEXT AND D FEMINISM: THEORY D HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE AND PRACTICE BENGAL (HHS32108) (HEN32108) (HPO32108) JOURNALISM & MASS SOCIOLOGY COMMUNICATION A BASICS OF A INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY (HSO31105) JOURNALISM HJM31105 B BASICS OF B INDIAN SOCIETY: IMAGES AND REALITY PHOTOGRAPHY (HSO31106) HJM31106 C FILM APPRECIATION C SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES (HSO32107) HJM32109 D DOCUMENTARY D METHODS OF SOCIOLOGICAL ENQUIRY PRODUCTION (HSO32108) HJM32210 SKILL ENHANCEMENT COURSES SEC-01- LANGUAGE TEACHING (HEN32109) SEC-02- CREATIVE WRITING (HEN32112) SYLLABI FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSE IN ENGLISH UNDER CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM AS PRESCRIBED BY UGC OFFERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, ADAMAS UNIVERSITY, BARASAT PROPOSED TO BE IMPLEMENTED FROM AUGUST, 2019 Structure of B. A. Honours English (CBCS) Core Course Semester I Paper 1: Indian Writing in English Unit I: Background The early history of Indian Writing in English — conflicts, controversies and debates — pre- Independence and post- Independence Contexts — readership— language and aesthetics in Indian English poetry — themes and issues in IE fiction — IE drama forms, language, performance Unit II: Fiction R.K. Narayan: Swami and Friends/Anita Desai: In Custody Unit III: Drama Mahesh Dattani: Bravely Fought the Queen Unit IV: Poetry (Pre-Independence) H.L.V. Derozio: “Freedom to the Slave”, “The Orphan Girl” Toru Dutt: “Our Casurina Tree” / Sarojini Naidu: “To India” Rabindranath Tagore: “Where the Mind is Without Fear”/ Sri Aurobindo: “The Golden Light” Unit V: Poetry (Post-Independence) Kamala Das: Introduction”/ “My Grandmother’s House” Nissim Ezekiel: “Enterprise”/ “The Night of the Scorpion” Arun Kolatkar: “Scratch” from Jejuri A. K. Ramanujan: “A River” Robin S. Ngangom: “The Strange Affair of Robin S. Ngangom”/ “A Poem for Mother” Unit VI: Prose/Short Story: Mulk Raj Anand: “Two Lady Rams” Shashi Despande: “The Intrusion” Temsula Ao: “Shadows” from These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone Paper 2: British Poetry and Drama: 14th to 17th Centuries Unit I: Background Medieval to Renaissance society, culture and poetry— Renaissance Humanism -Court and City — Secular life— and Political Thought — religious formulations — Elizabethan Lyric Tradition and Tottel’s Miscellany— stage, performance and drama. Unit II: Chaucer: Excerpts from “The General Prologue” Unit III: Poetry Edmund Spenser Selections from Amoretti: Sonnet LXVII “Like as a huntsman...”/ Sonnet LVII “Sweet warrior...”/ Sonnet LXXV “One day I wrote her name...” William Shakespeare: “Sonnet 18” Philip Sidney: Astrophel and Stella, Sonnet 1 “Loving in truth...” Unit IV: Poetry John Donne: “The Sunne Rising”/ “The Good Morrow”/, “Valediction: forbidding mourning” Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”: Unit V: Drama Christopher Marlowe: Tambourline Part I/Edward II Unit VI: Drama William Shakespeare: Macbeth/ The Merchant of Venice/ Julius Caesar Semester II Paper 3: British Poetry and Drama: 17th and 18th Centuries UnitI: Background Historical context —Religious and Secular Thought in the 17th Century — Evolution of poetic practice — The Mock-epic and Satire — Changes in stage practice—Women in the 17th Century—The Comedy of Manners Unit II: John Milton: Paradise Lost: Book 1 Unit III: William Congreve: The Way of the World Unit IV: John Dryden: Mac Flecknoe Unit V: Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock (Canto I) Unit VI (Poetry) Thomas Gray: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” William Collins: “Ode to Evening” Paper 4: Indian Classical Literature Unit I: Background Society and culture in ancient India— Sanskrit and its literary traditions—The Indian Epic Tradition—Themes and Recensions — Classical Indian Drama —Theory and Practice — Alankara and Rasa—Dharma and the Heroic Unit II: Kalidasa: Excerpts from Abhijnana Shakuntalam, tr. Chandra Rajan, in Kalidasa: The Loom of Time (New Delhi: Penguin, 1989)/ Meghadutam Unit III: Vyasa: Extracts from “The Dicing”/”The Sequel to Dicing”/ “The Book of the Assembly Hall”/ “The Temptation of Karna”, Book V “The Book of Effort”, in The Mahabharata: tr. and ed.J.A.B. van Buitenen (Chicago: Brill, 1975) pp. 106–69. Unit IV: Sudraka: Mricchakatika, tr. M.M. Ramachandra Kale (New Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass, 1962). Unit V Ilango Adigal: “The Book of Banci”, in Cilappatikaram: The Tale of an Anklet, tr. R. Parthasarathy (Delhi: Penguin, 2004) Book 3. Unit VI Bharata: Natyashastra, tr. Manomohan Ghosh, vol. I, 2nd edn (Calcutta: Granthalaya, 1967) Chap. 6: “Sentiments”, pp. 100–18. Semester III Paper 5: British Literature: 18th Century Unit I: Background The Augustan Age— Enlightenment thought — Neoclassicism— Post-Restoration Drama—The Periodical Press — Development of Prose— the rise of the novel— the country and the city Unit II: Fanny Burney: Evelina Unit III: Daniel Defoe: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Unit IV: Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer Unit V: Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Books I and II) Unit VI: Periodical Essays and Prose Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: Spectator Papers 1, 2/ Samuel Johnson (The Rambler— Essay 155, 156)/ Oliver Goldsmith “An Essay on the Theatre”. Steele; Addison; Swift Paper 6: British Romantic Literature Unit I: Background Reason and Imagination — Conceptions of Nature — Literature and Revolution — Lyric poetry— the Gothic—Romanticism Unit II: Poetry: Early Romantics William
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