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STELLA MARIS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 086 B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII – ENGLISH SYLLABUS (Effective from the academic year 2019–2020) PROSE CODE:19EL/MC/PR13 CREDITS:3 L T P:3 1 0 TOTAL TEACHING HOURS:52 OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE • To train students to critically analyse prose texts • To train students in reading for ideas • To hone academic writing skills in students COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES On successful completion of the course, students will be able to • demonstrate an understanding of the generic features of prose forms • identify the themes of varied prose texts • identify rhetorical devices in prose texts • critically analyse a variety of texts • organise their thoughts and ideas in a logical manner while writing essays Unit 1 Essays (15 Hours) 1.1 Kinds of Essays 1.2 Joseph Addison Ladies’ Headdress 1.3 Sam Roberts Celebrating The Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location, The New York Times, 18 Feb. 2008 1.4 Ramchandra Guha The Locality and the Nation, The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, 31 August 2003 1.5 George Mikes Tea Unit 2 Speeches & Letters (8 Hours) 2.1 Features of Speeches and Letters 2.2 Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address 2.3 J. K. Rowling Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 2008 2.4 Charles Dickens Letter to his Wife Unit 3 Life Writing (9 Hours) 3.1 Introduction to Biography, Autobiography, Memoirs, Diaries 3.2 Rajmohan Gandhi from The Good Boatman (pp 179-187) 3.3 Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Chapters 1-5 3.4 Temsula Ao Once Upon a Life: Burnt Curry and Bloody Rags, Part III, “Evening College”, “A New Identity” Unit 4 Travel Writing (12 Hours) 4.1 Kinds of Travel Writing and their features 4.2 Pico Iyer Falling off the Map (Bhutan) 4.3 Hugh and Colleen Gantzer Lapland Tales: Saga of the Shaman’s Stone, The Hindu, 21 Feb 2015. Unit 5 Practical Application Tasks (8 Hours) 5.1 Essay: Organisation; Beginning, Emphasis, Transition, Ending Unit 5: Not for Testing BOOKS FOR REFERENCE Cooley, Thomas. The Norton Sampler. W W Norton & Co., 2005. Gandhi, M.K. The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Trans. Mahadev Desai. Navjivan Publishing House, 1948. Jamison, Leslie. The Best American Essays 2017. Houghton Mifflin, 2017. Obama, Barack. Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Times Books, 1995. Ozick, Cynthia. The Best American Essays 1998. Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Shelston, Alan. Biography. Methuen, 1977. Walker, Hugh. The English Essays and Essayists. S. Chand & Co. 1966. Winkler, Antony C. Readings for Writers. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. WEB RESOURCES http://www.grammarcheck.net/how-write-essay-like-pros/ http://www.bucks.edu/media/bcccmedialibrary/pdf/howtowritealiteraryanalysisessay_10.15.0 7_001.pdf PATTERN OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous Assessment Test: Total marks: 50 Duration: 90 minutes Section A –Two out of four 150-word essays 2 x 10 = 20 marks Section B –One out of two 300-word essays 1 x 15 = 15 marks Section C – Passage analysis from prescribed texts 1 x 15 = 15 marks Other Components: Total Marks: 50 Assignment/Seminar/Presentation/Take Home Test/Open Book Test/Scheduled Class Work – Passage Analysis etc / Quiz/Panel Discussion/Group Presentation End-Semester Examination: Total Marks: 100 Duration: 3 hours Section A –Four out of six 150-word essays 4 x 10 = 40 marks Section B –Two out of four 400-word essays 2 x 20 = 40 marks Section C – Passage analysis from prescribed texts 1 x 20 = 20 marks STELLA MARIS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 086 B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII – ENGLISH SYLLABUS (Effective from the academic year 2019–2020) POETRY CODE:19EL/MC/PT13 CREDITS:3 L T P:3 1 0 TOTAL TEACHING HOURS:52 COURSE OBJECTIVES ● To enable students to learn how to read poetry with reference to form and context ● To train students to identify features related to poetic forms and issues related to contexts ● To train students to critically appreciate a variety of poems COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES On successful completion of the course, students will be able to ● read and appreciate different kinds of poetry ● identify poetic forms ● identify poetic devices ● critically analyse a variety of poems ● demonstrate an understanding of the contexts Unit 1 Poetic Forms and Devices (22 Hours) 1.1 The Sonnet William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 1.2 The Ode John Keats Ode to a Nightingale 1.3 The Elegy Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 1.4 The Lyric Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose 1.5 The Dramatic Monologue Robert Browning My Last Duchess 1.6 Song Lyrics John Lennon Imagine 1.7 Simile 1.8 Metaphor 1.9 Image 1.10 Symbol 1.11 Synecdoche 1.12 Metonymy Unit 2 Poetry of the British Isles (8 Hours) 2.1 Jackie Kay In My Country 2.2 Seamus Heaney Digging 2.3 Carol Ann Duffy Standing Female Nude 2.4 John Donne A Valediction of Weeping Unit 3 American Poetry (8 Hours) 3.1 T.S. Eliot The Preludes 3.2 Joy Harjo Remember 3.3 Maya Angelou Phenomenal Woman 3.4 William Carlos Williams The Red Wheel Barrow Unit 4 Postcolonial Poetry (8 Hours) 4.1 Anita Heiss The Colours of Aboriginality 4.2 Wole Soyinka Telephone Conversation 4.3 Derek Walcott A Far Cry From Africa 4.4 Allen Curnow House and Land Unit 5 Practical Application Tasks (6 Hours) Analysis of poems not prescribed on the syllabus – handouts to be given to students by course instructor BOOKS FOR REFERENCE Eagleton, Terry. How to Read a Poem. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2007. Erdrich, Heid.E. New Poets of Native Nations .Greywolf Press, 2018. Heaney, Seamus. Collected Poems: 1988-2013. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014. Matterson, Stephen and Darryl Jones. Studying Poetry. OUP, 2000. Perkins, David. Modern American Poetry 1945-2000 - An Introduction. Blackwell Publishers, 2006. Rosenthal, M.L. The New Poets: American and British Poetry since World War II. OUP, 1967. Thwaite, Anthony. Poetry Today: A Critical Guide to British Poetry 1960-1984. Longman Inc., 1985. JOURNALS Journal of Commonwealth Literature ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (online) Wasafiri Postcolonial Studies WEB RESOURCES www.poets.org www.poetryfoundation.org www.literarydevices.org http://criticalflame.org/(online) https://www.aprweb.org/(online) PATTERN OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous Assessment Test: Total Marks: 50 Duration: 90 minutes Section A–One out of two 150 word essays on poetic forms 1 x 10 = 10 marks (prescribed poems from Unit 1) Section B –Two out of four 75 word essay on poetic devices 2 x 5 = 10 marks (unseen poems) Section C –Two out of four 300 word essays 2 x 15 = 30 marks on content, form, tone & style (Units 2, 3 & 4) Other Components: Total Marks: 50 Assignment/Seminar/Presentation/Take Home Test/Open Book Test/Scheduled Class Work – Passage Analysis /Quiz/Panel Discussion/Group Presentation End-Semester Examination: Total Marks: 100 Duration: 3 hours Section A – three out of five 150 word essays 3 x 10 = 30 marks on poetic forms (prescribed poems from Unit 1) Section B – two out of four 75 word essays each 2 x 5 = 10 marks on poetic devices (unseen poems) Section C –four out of six 300 word essays 4 x 15 = 60 marks on content, form, tone & style (Units 2, 3 & 4) STELLA MARIS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), CHENNAI – 600 086 B.A. DEGREE: BRANCH XII – ENGLISH SYLLABUS (Effective from the academic year 2019–2020) INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS CODE:19EL/AC/LG15 CREDITS:5 L T P:5 0 0 TOTAL TEACHING HOURS:65 OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE ● To introduce students to the fundamental concepts of linguistics ● To inculcate in students a scientific approach to language ● To equip them with tools to analyse linguistic units ● To introduce them to the relationship between language, culture and society COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES On successful completion of the course, students will be able to ● understand issues related to the structure and functioning of language ● analyse sounds and identify patterns of sounds in languages ● compare and contrast language in terms of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics ● understand how language, society and culture are related Unit 1 Language as Communication (15 Hours) 1.1 Characteristics of Human Language 1.2 Human Language as a Signifying System Saussure: Langue and Parole, Syntagm and Paradigm, Arbitrary Nature of Sign, Linear Nature of the Signifier 1.3 Varieties of Language – Dialect, Idiolect, Register Unit 2 Phonology (15 Hours) 2.1 Segmental Phonemes 2.1.1 Cardinal Vowel Scale 2.1.2 Classification of Vowels and Consonants in English 2.2 Supra-Segmental Features 2.2.1 Word and Sentence Stress 2.2.2 Intonation Unit 3 Morphology (10 Hours) 3.1 Morphemes 3.1.1 Bound and Free Morphemes 3.1.2 Derivatives – Root and Affix 3.1.3 Zero and Empty Morph Unit 4 Grammar (15 Hours) 4.1 Traditional Grammar 4.2 Five Basic Sentence Patterns 4.3 I.C. Analysis Unit 5 Semantics (10 Hours) 5.1 Synonymy, Antonymy, Polysemy 5.2 Hyponymy and Homonymy BOOKS FOR REFERENCE Balasubramanian, T. A Text Book of English Phonetics for Indian Students. Macmillan India Ltd., 1981. Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language Cambridge UP, 2003. Palmer, Frank. Semantics: A New Outline. Cambridge UP, 1977. ---. Grammar, second ed. Penguin, 1971. Yule, George. The Study of Language – An Introduction. Oxford UP, 1970. Piller, Ingrid. Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics. Oxford UP, 2016. Pullum.Geoffrey K. Linguistics: Why it Matters. Wiley, 2018 PATTERN OF ASSESSMENT: Continuous Assessment Test: Total Marks: 50 Duration: 90 minutes Section A 20 marks Phonemic transcription 5x1 =5 marks IC analysis, 2x2.5=5 marks Identifying sentence patterns 5x1 = 5 marks Morphemic analysis –no choice 5x1=5 marks (Alternative questions, to replace Phonemic transcription and IC analysis, to be set for differently-abled students.) Section B - Three out of five 75-word essays 3x5 = 15 marks Section C – One out of three 300-word essay 1x15= 15 marks Other Components: Total Marks: 50 Oral test on phonetics 20 marks Transcription 10 marks I.C.