Courses offered by Department of English under B.A (P)
ENGLISH- A(LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE)
Category: Core
Course outcomes:
After completing the course student should be able to
- 1. Develop a confidence and ability amongst the students to understand, process and examine different kinds of texts present in the written or in the verbal medium
- 2. To understand the social and ethical frameworks in the texts that they encounter.
- 3. To understand the skills of comprehension, listening, reading, skimming, summarising, precise writing, paraphrasing
- 4. To understand the use of different kinds of writing : descriptive, expository , argumentative and narrative.
- 5. To articulate their own views by using the language skills gathered through both the verbal and written modes.
ENGLISH- B (ENGLISH FLUENCY)
Category: Core
Course outcomes:
After completing the course student should be able to
- 1. To possess basic grammatical and vocabulary skills in English as the students are basic learners of the English language.
- 2. To interact and express opinions on topics of everyday experiences and content.
- 3. To read and understand information on topical matters and make basic levels of interaction.
- 4. To write formal/informal letters, personal notes, blogs, reports and other familiar matters.
- 5. To organise and write paragraphs
- 6. To comprehend and analyse texts.
ENGLISH-C (ENGLISH -PROFICIENCY)
Category: Core
Course outcomes:
After completing the course student should be able to
- 1. To comprehend and be able to enrich their vocabulary through reading, short and simple passages.
- 2. To be able to make use of basic grammar and syntactic structures , through practise exercises and through contextualized settings.
- 3. To be able to use basic sound and pronunciation in order to be able to use the english language without any inhibition.
- 4. To be able to cultivate their way around the English language through the basic practise on everyday interactive sessions using the language.
Programme: B.A. Hons English
Courses offered by Department of English under B.A. Hons
Indian Classical Literature: 12031101
Category: Core
Learning Outcomes:
- Understanding of classical Indian poetics and Indian theatre
- Understanding of Sanskrit drama, Rasa theory and the Natyasastra
- Understanding of Tamil poetics: Akam, Puram and Thinai in Tolkappiyam
European Classical Literature: 12031102
Category: Core
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of multiple genres and forms, such as epic, tragedy, comedy, the lyric and the dialogu
- Understanding of the historical, cultural and philosophical origins of tragedy and comedy.
- Understanding of the Old and New Testament of The Bible.
Indian Writing in English: 12031201
Category: Core
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of Indian English Literature and its major movements and figures.
- Understanding of Indian literary productions in English in relation to the hegemonic processes of colonialism, neo-colonialism, nationalism and globalization.
- Understanding of Indian writing in English from the perspectives of multiple Indian subjectivities
British Poetry and Drama- 14th to 17th Centuries:
12031202
Category: Core
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of the earliest writings in England from medieval literature through the Renaissance.
- It offers a perspective on the history of ideas including that of disability and its varied meanings within this period.
- Understanding of Renaissance poetry, its form and innovation in content in the Elizabethan sonnet tradition and the metaphysical poetry.
American Literature: 12031301
Category: Core
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of some of the key tropes of mainstream America's selfperception, such as Virgin Land, the New World, Democracy, the Melting-Pot, and Multiculturalism.
- Understanding of cultural motifs that have been erases, suppressed or marginalised through a study of African American narratives.
- Understanding of the dark side of American modernity through the study of texts written by women writers.
Popular Literature: 12031302
Category: Core
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of the rise of genres such as Literature for Children, Detective Fiction, Science Fiction, and Graphic Fiction.
- Understanding of debates about culture, and the delineation of high and low culture.
- Understanding of issues concerning print culture, bestsellers, and popular literature in other media.
British Poetry and Drama- 17th and 18th Century:
12031303
Category: Core
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of a new interweaving of the sacred and the secular subjects in poetry of 17th Century.
- Understanding of British Literature in the 17th Century with its varied genres, the historical ruptures and the intellectual debates of the time.
- Through study of Aphra Behn’s writings, students understand the paradox of Tory conservatism and the woman’s question in Restoration stage.
British Literature- 18th Century: 12031401
Category: Core
Learning outcomes:
- To reach a comprehensive understanding of texts both in the Augustan period and in the later eighteenth century, the age of sensibility.
- Understanding of satire as a mode, as well as look at questions of genre, through Swift’s satiric narrative within the mode of fictional travel writing.
- Understanding of Neo-classical Literature through a study of Johnson and Gray’s poems.
British Romantic Literature:12031402
Category: Core
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of the Romantic period in English literature which serves as a critical link between the Enlightenment and Modernist literature.
- Understanding of marginal voices that were historically excluded from the canon of British Romantic writers.
- Understanding of important French and German philosophers whose ideas influenced the British Romantic writers.
British Literature- 19th Century: 12031403
Category: Core
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of Victorian Age in English literature through a selection of novels and poems that exemplify some of the central formal and thematic concerns of the period.
- Understanding of the novel as an emerging genre during the 19th century.
- Understanding of the major socio-historical and intellectual currents of the period.
Women’s Writing: 12031501
Category: Core
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of social construction of women by patriarchy and the structural oppression of women.
- Understanding of the resistance offered by women and how it reflects in their writings as well.
- Understanding of the heterogeneity of oppression of women in different places, historically and socially.
British Literature- The Early 20th Century: 12031
502
Category: Core
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of the transition from 19th century literary and artistic methods and forms to the growth of modernism in England.
- Understanding of the critical and radical perspectives on questions of war, the nature of art, and the relationship between individuals and the state in the 20th century.
- Understanding of the impact of the two world wars on literary expression and the various political/ideological positions of the European intelligentsia vis-à-vis the phenomenon.
British Literature- Post World War II: 12037503
Category: DSE
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding themes such as race, power and democracy.
- Understanding of the relationship between life and art, the artist and his creation, and the isolation resulting from an individual's struggle for selfhood.
- Understanding of multicultural identities that include alienation, exclusion, conflict, sense of belonging, and also the complexity of sexuality.
Nineteenth Century European Realism: 12037504
Category: DSE
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of realism as a historically and culturally specific mode of representation obtainable from the study of novels in 19th century Europe.
- Understanding of connections between Nineteenth-Century European Aesthetics and epistemological and political debates around reality and historical change.
- Understanding of wider comparatist perspective on the emergence of the Novel as dominant genre of literary expression in NineteenthCentury Europe.
Modern European Drama: 12031601
Category: Core
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of how modernity was introduced in the twentieth century through drama.
- Understanding of the dynamic relationship between actors and audience, and to observe the transition from passive spectatorship to a more active and vital participatory process.
- Understanding of naturalism, expressionism, epic theatre and the theatre of the absurd as diverse forms that emerged during the 19th century.
Postcolonial Literatures: 12031602
Category: Core
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of postcolonial theorisations and texts from hitherto colonized regions
- Understanding of the variety of postcolonial literatures to counter the stereotypes usually associated with assumptions regarding these literatures.
- Understanding of the importance of gender, class, and caste issues in postcolonial literatures.
Literary Theory: 12037605
Category: DSE
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of the emergence of literary studies, textuality, and the canon.
- Understanding of concepts, ideas and critical approaches to literature
- Understanding of an analytical practice that associates form with content.
Literature and Cinema: 12037614
Category: DSE
Learning outcomes:
- Understanding of relationship between literature and cinema by studying the points of contact of literary and cinematic praxis
- Understanding of cinema as an art employing different time frames situations literary cultures and other media/forms to compose itself as a text.
- Understanding of the awareness about intertextuality and the convergence between the modes of literature and cinema.
Programme: B.A Hons
Courses offered by Department of English under B.A (Hons)
CONTEMPORARY WOMEN EMPOWERMENT(12035905)
Category: Generic
After completing the course student should be able to :
- To understand how discourses of gender underlie and shape our lives, experiences, emotions and choices.
- Engage with contemporary representations of women femininities, gender-parity and power.
- To deeply examine the socially constructed nature of gendering by studying the range of literary and textual materials from various historical periods and contexts.
- To read, understand and examine closely narratives that seek to represent women femininities and by extension gendering itself
- To understand how gender norms intersect with other norms such as those of caste, religion and community to create further specific forms of privilege and oppression
- To identify how gendered practices influr=ence and shape knowledge production and circulation of such knowledge including legal sociological and scientific discourses.
- Participate in challenging gendered practices that reinforce discrimination
CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND LINGUISTIC PLURALITY:
Category: Generic
After completing the course student should be able to :
- To be aware of the cultural diversity and linguistic plurality of India by being exposed to the various literary traditions in various languages which are made available in translation.
- To engage with the diversity of literary cultures of Hindi, Urdu, Kannada, Bangla, Gujrati, Sindhi, Indian English, Tribals and Dalits and also the traditions from Sufi and Bhakti.
- To be aware of significant theoretical and critical aspects of the various Indian literary and cultural traditions.
LANGUAGE LITERATURE AND CULTURE(12035907)
Category: Generic
After completing the course student should be able to :
- To understand the basic concepts of language, its characteristics , its structure and how it functions.
- To understand how language is influenced by the socio-political-economiccultural realities of the society.
- To understand the significant themes and forms of Indian literature.
- To understand the relation between language and literature.
Media and communication skills(12305902)
Category: Generic
After completing the course student should be able to :
- To understand the role of media today -in India and globally
- To enable students with the basic theories on various aspects of media
- To have knowledge in the basic writing skills required in the field of media.
1. ENGLISH- A(LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE)
Category: Core
Course outcomes:
After completing the course student should be able to
- Develop a confidence and ability amongst the students to understand, process and examine different kinds of texts present in the written or in the verbal medium
- To understand the social and ethical frameworks in the texts that they encounter.
- To understand the skills of comprehension, listening, reading, skimming, summarising, precise writing, paraphrasing
- To understand the use of different kinds of writing : descriptive, expository , argumentative and narrative.
- To articulate their own views by using the language skills gathered through both the verbal and written modes.
ENGLISH- B (ENGLISH FLUENCY)
Category: Core
Course outcomes:
After completing the course student should be able to
- To possess basic grammatical and vocabulary skills in English as the students are basic learners of the English language.
- To interact and express opinions on topics of everyday experiences and content.
- To read and understand information on topical matters and make basic levels of interaction.
- To write formal/informal letters, personal notes, blogs, reports and other familiar matters.
- To organise and write paragraphs
- To comprehend and analyse texts.
ENGLISH-C (ENGLISH -PROFICIENCY)
Category: Core
Course outcomes:
After completing the course student should be able to
- To comprehend and be able to enrich their vocabulary through reading, short and simple passages.
- To be able to make use of basic grammar and syntactic structures , through practise exercises and through contextualized settings.
- To be able to use basic sound and pronunciation in order to be able to use the english language without any inhibition.
- To be able to cultivate their way around the English language through the basic practise on everyday interactive sessions using the language.
