I b. A. / B. Sc. / B. Com. / Bba. / Bca / B. Lit. Semester I

ENGLISH FOR Communication - I

Unit I

2. E.F. Row & P.C. Wren - The Five Kinds of Workers

Unit II

4. J.C. Hill - Good Manners

Unit III

6. J.B.S. Haldane - What is Life?

(ii) Reported Speech

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 1301)

Unit 1: Medieval England

Feudalism – Medieval Church – The Black Death

Peasants’ Revolt – Social Life

The Renaissance – The Reformation

The Civil War and the Cromwellian Revolution

The Restoration Theatre

1. 
   G.M Trevelyan: English Social History
   
2. 
   M.V.Subramanyan: Social History of England
   
3. 
   A.G.Xavier: Introduction to the Social History of England
   
4. 
   The Pelican Guide Series (ed) Boris Ford
   
5. 
   The Twentieth Century Mind (ed) Cox and Dyson (Vol. 1-3).
   

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 1401)

Unit 1

2. Francis Bacon - Of Great Place

Unit 2

2. Richard Steele - The Trumpet Club

1. Oliver Goldsmith - Man in Black

2. Charles Lamb - Poor Relations
Unit 4

1. William Hazlitt - The Fight

2. G.K. Chesterton - The Worship of the Wealthy
Unit 5

1. J.B. Priestly - Lectures

2. Robert Lynd - In Praise of Mistakes

Book for Reference

A Galaxy of English Essayists:

From Bacon to Beerbohm. M. G. Nayar (Ed.); Macmillan.

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 1402)

Hrs/week: 5 Credits: 4

Unit 1

Oscar Wilde - The Model Millionaire

E.A. Poe - The Tell Tale Heart

O’ Henry - The Gift of the Magi
Unit 3

Walter Scott - Ivanhoe

Jane Austen - Emma

Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 1701)

Hrs/week: 2 Credits: 2
Unit 1:

1. Tenses – Forms and uses.

2. Use of modals and other auxiliaries

3. Agreement of Subject with the verb

1. Active voice and Passive voice

2. Articles
Unit 3:

1. Prepositions

2. Adverbs

Unit 4:

2. Conditionals

1. Relative clauses

2. Simple, Compound and Complex sentences

Book for reference:

1. 
   F.T. Wood. A Remedial English Grammar.
   

Semester II - Part II ENGLISH – Paper II

ENGLISH FOR COMMUNICATION - ii

Text: An Anthology of Popular Essays and Poems

Ed. A.G. Xavier - Rs. 32.75/- Macmillan

Unit 1

Oscar Wilde - The Selfish Giant

R.K. Narayan - Sweets for Angels

Jawaharlal Nehru - At Harrow and Cambridge
Unit 3

George Bernard Shaw - How I Became a Public Speaker

A.G. Gardiner - On the Rule of the Road
Unit 4 - Concord, Degrees of Comparison, Verbs – Ordinary verbs, auxiliary verbs, Question Tag.
Unit 5 - Transformation of Sentences, Synthesis of

Sentences.

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 2302)

Unit 1: The Age of Enlightenment

The Industrial Revolution

The Impact of French Revolution
Unit 3: Humanitarian Movements
Unit 4: The Victorian Age

Reform Bills

Transport and Communication

Education, Religion

Welfare Movements

Books for Reference:

1. 
   G.M Trevelyan: English Social History
   
2. 
   M.V. Subramanian: Social History of England
   
3. 
   A.G. Xavier: Introduction to the Social History of England
   
4. 
   The Pelican Guide Series (ed) Boris Ford
   
5. 
   The Twentieth Century Mind (ed) Cox and Dyson (Vol. 1-3).
   

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 2303)

Unit 1: The Age of Chaucer - Chapters II & III

Text: W.H. Hudson: An Outline History of English Literature

Prose - II

Hrs/Week: 5 Credits: 4

Unit 1

A.G. Gardiner - On Letter Writing

Harold Nicholson - An Educated Person

Bertrand Russell - Knowledge and Wisdom
Unit 3

Martin Luther King - I Have a Dream

James Thurber - University Days
Unit 4

Stephen Leacock - My Lost Dollar

Chinua Achebe - Marriage is a Private Affair
Unit 5

Swami Vivekananda - The Secret of Work

K.P.S. Menon - Tolstoy’s Home
References

1. 
   Sesame : An Anthology of English Prose : K.K. Reddy (ed) Chand & Co.,
   
2. 
   Guiding Lights – T. Prabakar (ed) Emerald Publishers.
   

(Subject Code: 08 U3LE3)

Hrs/Week: 6 Credits: 3

An Anthology of Popular Essays and Poems (Macmillan)

Ed. A.G. Xavier

Six Famous Plays – (ed) Satyanarain Singh (Macmillan)

William Wordsworth - The Daffodils

John Keats - La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Unit 2: Poems

Lord Tennyson - Ulysses

Robert Browning - Incident of the French Camp
Unit 3: Poems

John Masefield - Laugh and be Merry

Robert Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Unit 4: One Act Play

Anton Chekov - The Boor

John Galsworthy - The Little Man

Unit 5: One Act Play

Bertolt Brecht - The Informer

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 3304)

Text: W.H. Hudson: An Outline History of English Literature

Fiction – II

Hrs/week: 5 Credits: 4

Unit 1

Khuswant Singh - Mark of Vishnu

Ruskin Bond - A Thief’s Story
Unit 2

Guy de Maupassant - The Diamond Necklace

Katherine Mansfield - A Cup of Tea

H.H. Munroe - The Story Teller

Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge

D.H. Lawrence - Sons and Lovers

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

Poetry – I

Hrs/week: 4 Credits: 4

Unit 1

Spenser - Epithalamion

Shakespeare - Sonnet No. 65 and 116

Donne - Canonization
Unit 3

George Herbert - The Collar

Milton - Paradise Lost (Book I)

(Lines 1-200)

Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress

Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock (Canto – 1)
Unit 5

Thomas Gray - Elegy written in a Country Churchyard

William Blake - The Lamb, The Tyger

II B.A

Semester III – Skill Based Elective II

Language Skills

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 3802)

Unit 1: Reading - Reading Comprehension exercises –Methods and Techniques for developing comprehension skills and abilities

main ideas, making inferences. (For internal assessment only)

1. Kamala Nanda, Developing English Comprehension

2. 
   M.L.Tickoo & Sasikumar, Writing With a Purpose.
   
3. 
   Sarah Freeman, Written Communication in English.
   
4. 
   B. J. Carroll, English for Colleges.
   
5. 
   G.Radhakrishnapillai & K.Rajeevan, Spoken English for You.
   
6. 
   Shreesh Chaudhary: A New Course in Better Spoken English for You.
   
7. 
   Judith Tanka & Paul Most, Interactions I: A Listening/Speaking Skill Book.
   

ENGLISH FOR Journalism

Hrs/Week: 2 Credits: 2

Unit 1

What is Journalism?

.

Unit 2

New Agencies

Unit 3

News Writing

Unit 4

Unit 5

1. M.V. Kamath - The Journalist’s Handbook.

2. M.V. Kamath - Professional Journalism.

3. John Hohenberg - The Professional Journalist.

4. Keval J. Kumar - Mass Communication in India.
II B.A. / B.Sc. / B.Com. / BBA. / BCA / B.Lit.

Semester IV – Part II ENGLISH – Paper IV

ENGLISH FOR Competitive Examinations

Hrs/week: 6 Credits: 3

Book Title: English for Competitive Examinations by Manmohan Bhatnagar

Unit 1

Spotting Errors

Sentence Completion

Vocabulary – Synonyms & Antonyms

Letter Writing

Report Writing

Essay Writing

Semester IV - Allied Course V

Literary Forms and terms

Hrs/week: 5 Credits: 3

Unit 1: Poetry

(a) Nature and elements of Poetry in general. Definitions of Poetry.

(b) Classification of Poetry Subjective, Objective

(c) Explication of the Poem.
Unit 2: Poetry

(a) The Ode, The Elegy, The Lyric, The Sonnet, The Epic, The Ballad

The Essay, Short Story, Biography and Autobiography.

Elements of Drama,

Tragedy, Comedy, One act play.
Unit 5: Fiction

Elements of Fiction, Historical Novel, Picaresque Novel, Detective Fiction, Science Fiction. Psychological Novel.

1. W.H. Hudson : An Introduction to the study of English Literature.

2. R.J. Rees : Introduction to English Literature for Foreign Students.

3. B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature.

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 4306)

Unit 1: The origins of language

The development of writing
Unit 2: The properties of language

Morphology

Syntax
Unit 4: Semantics

Language and machines
Unit 5: Language varieties

Language, society and culture

Text:

George Yule. The Study of Language.

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 4406)

Hrs/week: 4 Credits: 4

Unit 1

Coleridge - Kubla Khan

Shelley - To a Skylark

Keats - Ode on a Grecian Urn
Unit 3

Tennyson - The Lady of Shallot

Browning - My Last Duchess
Unit 4

W.B. Yeats - Prayer for my Daughter

G.M. Hopkins - The Windhover
Unit 5

T.S. Eliot - The Journey of the Magi

W.H. Auden - In Memory of W.B. Yeats

II B.A

Semester IV – Non-Major Elective II

English for Tourism

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 4602)

Unit 1: World of Travel and Tourism - Definition of tourist – types of tourism.

them.
Unit 3: India as a tourist destination

about travel at airport, at hotel, shopping etc.

Books for Reference:

1. Premnath Seth & Sushma Seth Bhal. An Introduction to Travel and Tourism

(Sterling)

2. John Eastwood. English for Travel (OUP)

3. Nehru. The Discovery of India.

III B.A. English

Semester V - Core Course VII

History of English Language and Phonetics

Hrs/week: 6 Credits: 5

Unit 1: - 1. Old English.

2. Foreign Contribution to the growth of English

Unit 2: - 1. Middle English.

2. Modern English.

Unit 3: - 1. Contribution of Shakespeare and Milton to English

2. Change of meaning

Unit 4: - 1. The air stream mechanism, The organs of Speech.

2. Classification and description of Speech Sounds.

3. Received Pronunciation.

Unit 5: - 1. Phoneme and Morpheme

2. Syllable: Stress, Intonation Strong forms and weak forms and its types and uses.

3. Transcription – Practice in Phonemic of simple words and Sentences.

Reference Books:

1. F.T. Wood : An outline History of English Language.

2. C.L. Wren : The English Language.

3. A.C. Baugh : A History of English Language.

4. T.A. Balasubramanian – A Textbook of English Phonetics for Indian Students.

Semester V- Core Course VIII

LITERARY CRITICISM - I

Hrs/week: 5 Credits: 5

Unit 1

1. The classical background - a brief introduction to Plato, Aristotle, Longinus and Horace.

2. Aristotle’s views on Poetry and tragedy – Key concept like mimesis,

Catharsis, Hamartia, Peripatetia and anagnorises.] (Relevant passage from Poetics to be explained).

Unit 2

Sir Philip Sidney: ‘Apologie for Poetry – excerpts pertaining to (i) superiority of poetry over philosophy (ii) objections to poetry and Sidney’s answer.

Unit 3

John Dryden: ‘An Essay of Dramatic Poesy’ – excerpts pertaining to Dryden’s Defence of the English dramatic tradition – function of poetry – dramatic poetry.

Alexander Pope: ‘Essay on Criticism’- qualities needed by the critic -laws for the critic – the ideal critic.

Unit 5

Dr. Johnson:

‘Preface to Shakespeare’ – Shakespeare as a poet of nature – chief faults of Shakespeare.

Indian Writing in English

Hrs/week: 5 Credits: 5

Unit 1 (Poetry)

Nissim Ezekiel - Night of the Scorpion

Kamala Das - An Introduction

A.K. Ramanujam - Obituary

Unit 2 (Prose)

Jawaharlal Nehru - Freedom and License

Unit 3 (Drama)

Unit 4 (Short Stories)

Anita Desai - A Devoted Son

Mulk Raj Anand - Untouchable

Drama – I

Hrs/week: 5 Credits: 5

Unit 1

Marlowe - Edward II

Congreve - The Way of the World

Sheridan - The Rivals

Henrik Ibsen - The Wild Duck

G.B. Shaw - Arms and the Man

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 5501)

Hrs/week: 5 Credits: 5

Unit 1 (Poetry)

Walt Whitman - Out of the cradle endlessly rocking.

Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken

Emily Dickinson - Because I could not stop for Death

Sylvia Plath - Lady Lazarus

Emerson - Self Reliance

Thoreau - Civil Disobedience
Unit 3 (Drama)

Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie

Mark Twain - Ghost Story

James Thurber - Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Unit 5 (Novel)

Harper Lee - To kill a Mockingbird

(Subject Code: 08UEN 5803)

Unit 1: Defining Communication

Reporting

Unit 3: Radio Journalism

Development of Radio

Style of Radio Journalism
Unit 4: Television Journalism

Growth & Development

Style in TV broadcasting
Unit 5: Online Journalism

Introduction to e-newspaper

Books for Reference:

1. 
   M.V. Kamath. The Journalist’s handbook.
   
2. 
   M.V. Kamath. Professional Journalism.
   
3. 
   John Hoheuberg. The Professional Journalist.
   
4. 
   Keval J. Kumar. Mass Communication in India.
   

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 5804)

Hrs/week: 2 Credits: 2

Unit 1 - Introduction to Communication Skills

The Process of Communication

Types & Barriers
Unit 2 - Introduction to Soft Skills
Four Parameters of Soft Skills

Communicative Skills

Emotional Skills

Functional Skills

Personality Skills
Unit 3 - Public Speaking

Public Speaking

Unit 4 - Career Oriented Communication

Group Discussions & Interviews

Leadership Qualities

Books for Reference:

1. Basic Managerial Skills For All - Rev Mcgrath (Prentice Hall)

2. Communicating For Results - Cheryl Hamilton (Wordsworth)

3. Confident Public Speaking - Lenny Laskowski (Warner)

4. Emotional Quotient - Daniel Goleman (Prentice Hall)

III B.A. English

Semester VI - Core Course XI

Shakespeare

Hrs/week: 5 Credits: 5

Unit 1 - A Mid Summer Night’s Dream
Unit 2 - Richard II
Unit 3 - As you Like It
Unit 4 - Othello
Unit 5 - The Tempest


III B.A. English

Semester VI- Core Course XII

Literary Criticism II

(Subject Code: 07 UEN 6412)

Hrs/week: 5 Credits: 5

Romantic Criticism

Unit 1: Wordsworth: ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’ - excerpts pertaining to

Wordsworth’s theory of poetic diction-his definition of poetry and

imagination.

his definition of poetry, imagination and fancy-his critique of Wordsworth’s

theory of poetic diction.( Chapters XIII & XIV).
Victorian Criticism

Unit 3: Matthew Arnold: ’The Study of Poetry’.

Twentieth Century Criticism

Modern Criticism

Unit 4: T.S. Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent.

Unit 5: I.A. Richards: The Four Kinds of Meaning.


III B.A. English

Semester VI - Core Course XIII

Drama – II

Hrs/week: 6 Credits: 5

Unit 1

Synge - Playboy of the Western World

Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral

Samuel Beckett - End Game

John Osborne - Look Back in Anger

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 6502)

Hrs/week: 5 Credits: 5

Unit 1: A.D. Hope: Australia

Micheal-de-Anang: Africa Speaks

F.R. Scott: The Canadian Authors Meet

Allan Curnow: Time

Walcott: Ruins of a Great House
Unit 3: Wole Soyinka: The Road
Unit 4: Achebe: The Novelist as a Teacher

Katherine Mansfield: Bliss, Prelude, Picture (Short Stories)

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 6503)

Hrs/week: 5 Credits: 5

Unit I: Problems and Prospects for the Teacher of English

What is involved in Teaching English?

The use of English

Strategies & Techniques for the Teacher

Methods & Techniques for inculcating the language Skills in Large Classes

Teaching of Prose Text

Unit 4: Teaching Reading Skills

Teaching Poetry
Unit 5: Teaching of Grammar & Composition

Examinations in English

Ghosh, Sastri, Das: Introductions to English Language Teaching

Vol: 3 CIEFL (OUP).
Reference:

Bright, McGregor: Teaching English as a Second Language (Longman/ ELBS).

II B.A

Semester VI – Skill Based Elective V

Communication and Soft Skills II

(Subject Code: 08 UEN 6805)

• 
  Verbal and non-verbal
  
• 
  
  

• 
  Emotional Intelligence
  
• 
  
  

Unit 4: Functional Skills

• 
  Interview Skills & Group Discussion
  
• 
  
  

• 
  Leadership Skills
  

Books for Reference:

2. Communicating for Results – Cheryl Hamilton (Wordsworth)

3. Confident Public Speaking – Lenny Laskowsky (Warner)

4. Emotional Quotient – Daniel Goleman

5 Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication – Leena Sen


III B.A English

Semester VI – Skill-based Elective VI

English for Mass Communication II

Subject Code: 08 UEN 6806

Hrs/week: 2 Credits: 2

Unit 1: News

-Values & Ethics
Unit 2: Language

• 
  Language of Journalism
  
• 
  
  

• 
  Writing for electronic Media
  
• 
  
  

• 
  Types of Editing
  
• 
  
  

• 
  Page Makeup & Design
  

Books for Reference:

1. 
   M.V. Kamath. The Journalist’s handbook.
   
2. 
   M.V. Kamath. Professional Journalism.
   
3. 
   John Hoheuberg. The Professional Journalist.
   
4. 
   Keval J. Kumar. Mass Communication in India.