UNDERGRADUATE COURSES OFFERED:

BA I(COMPULSORY ENGLISH)

Prescribed Text: PROSE PARABLES, THE POETIC PALLETE,OXFORD PRACTICE GRAMMAR

Objectives

• To familiarize students with excellent pieces of prose and poetry in English so that they realize the beauty and communicative power of English
• To expose them to native cultural EXPERIENCE :s and situations in order to develop humane values and social awareness
• To develop overall linguistic competence and communicative skills of the student

BA I (ENGLISH ELECTIVE)

Prescribed Text: Interface: A Selection of English Prose compiled and edited by University of Kashmir, Dept. of English, Orient BlackSwan, LITERARY TERMS, PHONETICS, A Choice of Short Stories, eds. Shakti Batra and P. S. Sidhu, OUP, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.

Objectives

• To expose students to the basics of literature and language
• To familiarize them with different types of literature in English, the literary devices and terms so that they understand the literary merit, beauty and creative use of language
• To introduce the basic units of language so that they become aware of the technical aspects and their practical usage
• To prepare students to go for detailed study and understanding of literature and language
• To develop integrated view about language and literature in them

BA II(COMPULSORY ENGLISH)

Prescribed Text: GLEANINGS FROM HOME AND ABROAD, PRIDE AND PREJUDICS BY JANE AUSTEN, OXFORD PRACTICE GRAMMAR

Objectives

• To familiarize students with excellent pieces of prose and FICTION in English so that they realize the beauty and communicative power of English
• To expose them to native cultural EXPERIENCE :s and situations in order to develop humane values and social awareness
• To develop overall linguistic competence and communicative skills of the student

BA II (ENGLISH ELECTIVE)

Prescribed Text: Important Concepts pertaining to Drama, History of English Literature from Chaucer to the Eighteenth Century, JULIUS CAESER by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER by OLIVER GOLDSMITH, George Orwell: Animal Farm, Defoe: Robinson Crusoe.

Objectives

• To develop competence among the students for self-learning
• To familiarize students with excellent pieces of prose and poetry in English so that they realize the beauty and communicative power of English
• To develop students’ interest in reading literary pieces
• To expose them to native cultural EXPERIENCE :s and situations in order to develop humane values and social awareness
• To develop overall linguistic competence and communicative skills of the students

BA III(COMPULSORY ENGLISH)

Prescribed Text: ALL MY SONS BY ARTHUR MILLER, SELECTED COLLEGE POEMS

Objectives

• To familiarize students with excellent pieces of prose and FICTION in English so that they realize the beauty and communicative power of English
• To expose them to native cultural EXPERIENCE :s and situations in order to develop humane values and social awareness
• To develop overall linguistic competence and communicative skills of the student

BA III (ENGLISH ELECTIVE)

Prescribed Texts: Important Concepts/Terms pertaining to poetry, History of English Literature from Romantic Period to the Modern Period, A Thing of Beauty—Selections from English Poetry, Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre, Tagore : Gitanjali, Albert Camus : The Outsider Vijay Tendulkar : Kanyadaan

Objectives

• To develop competence among the students for self-learning
• To familiarize students with excellent pieces of prose and poetry in English so that they realize the beauty and communicative power of English
• To develop students’ interest in reading literary pieces
• To expose them to native cultural EXPERIENCE :s and situations in order to develop humane values and social awareness
• To develop overall linguistic competence and communicative skills of the students

B.Sc II(COMPULSORY ENGLISH)

Prescribed Texts:Perspectives: Selections from Modern English Prose and Fiction, Six One-Act Plays , edited by Maurice Stanford

Objectives:

• To expose students to the basics of short story, one of the literary forms
• To familiarize them with different types of short stories in English
• To make them understand the literary merit, beauty and creative use of language
• To introduce some advanced units of language so that they become aware of the technical aspects and their practical usage
• To prepare students to go for detailed study and understanding of literature and language
• To develop integrated view about language and literature in them

B.Com I(Compulsory English)

Prescribed Text: CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH PROSE, COMPOSITION, A Thing of Beauty, Selection from English Poetry.
Objectives

• To expose students to the basics of literature and communication
• To familiarize them with basic communication techniques
• To introduce the basic units of language so that they become aware of the technical aspects and their practical usage
• To develop integrated view about language and literature in them.

B.Com II(Compulsory English)

Prescribed Text: Popular Short Stories (OUP), COMPOSITION, LETTER WRITING, Eight short Plays- JagdishChander, COMPREHENSION, GRAMMAR

Objectives

• To expose students to the basics of literature and comprehension
• To familiarize them with different types of literature in English, the literary devices and terms so that they understand the literary merit, beauty and creative use of language
• To introduce the basic units of language so that they become aware of the technical aspects and their practical usage
• To develop integrated view about language and literature in them

POSTGRADUATE COURSES

The department offers post-graduation in English. The minimum qualification for getting admission in this course is 55% in the subject of English in under-graduation.

M.A I (SEM I)

COURSE I Medieval and Renaissance Poetry

The course is meant to familiarize the students with;

1. the literature of the Medieval Period, a product of a European society that lived its life revolving around concepts such as God, religion, sin, repentance, penance, romance, courtly love, chivalry and politics;

2.the literature of the Renaissance Period pervaded with classical antiquity and humanist philosophy.

COURSE II Classical and Elizabethan Drama

COURSE III Rise of the Novel

1. The course aims at introducing the student to a few novels of the 1800s, especially their backgrounds, historical and cultural milieus, which give rise to these works as well as their significant aspects and the purposes they served.
2. The novels are taught analytically in the light of Forster’s Aspects of the Novel in order to familiarize the student with the fundamentals of the genre as well as to help the student from critical opinions about the novels’ historical, cultural, literary and analytical merits.
3. The course develops ways of approaching any eighteenth-century novel by focusing (1) on the fundamentals of plot, characterization, setting, narrator, narrative, voice. Theme; and (2) discovering and analyzing historical changes taking place during the eighteenth century. These changes had helped to bring the new genre into existence; and the novel in question contributes in various ways to promoting or undermining these historical changes.

COURSE IV Shakespearean Drama

The course aims at making the students :

1. gain an insight into the age of Shakespeare
2. understand the themes and techniques of Shakespearean plays
3. analyse Shakespeare’s works critically

M.A.I(SEM II)

COURSE V Literary Criticism from Johnson To Eliot

1. The course intends to provide a critical understanding of the developments in literary criticism from the beginnings to the end.
2. Moreover some selected texts/critics are prescribed for detailed study whose contribution to this area constitutes a significant benchmark in each era.
3. It also provides a conceptual framework for developing an understanding of the function and practice of traditional modes of lite

COURSE VI Poetry from Neoclassical to Victorian Age

1. The course gives an introduction to specimens of poetry which belong to the Romantic, Victorian and Modern eras.
2. The course also provides the artistic and thematic aspects of
3. The emphasis of the course will be on reading and engaging with this poetry first-hand.

COURSE VII Nineteenth Century Fiction

1. The course aims to explore the novel as both a genre and a concept, and the ways in which it develops in the particular context of nineteenth-century Britain, responding to rapid social change - and the possibility of revolution - and the correspondingly shifting understandings of class, gender, sexuality, nation and culture.
2. The course considers what nineteenth-century readers taxonomized the novel and invested heavily in what they thought its purpose and formula should be and yet simultaneously defamiliarized it.
3. The course also introduces19th novel outside its historical context, and as subject to multiplicitous critical readings.
4. The course traverses a range of various styles such as "social realism", “sensationalism”, “historical fiction”, “fantasy”, and cover topics such as masculinity, the new woman, sexuality, childhood, landscapes, Empire, dialogues between image and text, evolution, and illness.

COURSE VIII Modern Drama

The course aims at:

1. Reading and applying dramatic theory to dramatic texts.
2. To make the students conversant with how playwrights utilize and react to previous trends and styles to produce scripts.
3. To make the students identify and explain historical developments in dramatic literature within particular social, historical, political, theoretical and/or artistic frameworks.

M.A. II (SEM III)
COURSE IX Literature and Modernity

1. The course aims at discussing the relationship of literature with modernity.
2. It aims in making the students familiar with literature through pieces of prose and explaining

the sensitive issue of importance of literature in modern times.

COURSE X Twentieth Century Poetry and Fiction

1. Read and analyze a survey of texts written by 20th Century British writers, from the period 1890-2001;
2. At the end of the course, students will demonstrate thorough knowledge of the major literary movements of the period, the texts discussed and class and the socio-cultural conditions of British society in which they were produced;
3. Students will be able to locate texts within the cultural and historical framework of their time;
4. Students will learn at least two critical approaches to these works, with the instructor demonstrating various ways reading texts;
5. Students will prepare clear, well-organized essays on topics related to the works studied and be able to apply basic principles of selected critical theory to their chosen topics.

COURSE XI Literature and Gender

1. Integrate close reading skills, awareness of feminist and gender theories, and research in critical sources in effective written literary analyses.
2. Critically analyze and discuss several general theories of the relationship of gender and literary expression and EXPERIENCE :.
3. Analyze and compare/contrast works read in class on essay exams.
4. Participate in and contribute to group and class discussions of course texts.
5. Apply knowledge of gender and literature to literary texts directed to children.

COURSE XII Modern Indian Literature in Translation

After the completion of the semester students will

1. attain accessibility to regional and international literary forms.
2. be able to contextualize the texts.
3. develop a comparative perspective to study the text

M.A. II(SEM IV)

COURSE XIII Literary and Cultural Theory

1. Identify, describe and define a variety of literary theories from the New Criticism to the present day.
2. Identify critical responses to literature grounded in those theories.
3. Identify the elements of short prose fiction, poetry, longer narrative prose fiction, and dramatic literature.
4. Respond to works of literature using different critical,cultural and theoretical response techniques.
5. Identify the major theorists and thinkers of literary and cultural theory criticism.

COURSE XIV Indian Writing in English

1. To make the students understand the plot of an Indian Writing in English.
2. To acquaint them with the writings of different Indian writers. .

COURSE XV American Literature

1. Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.
2. Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during different historical periods in different regions.
4. Articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.

COURSE XVI Literature and Politics

1. The course aims at discussing the value of literature with politics.
2. It offers a critical approach that literature follows in the society and politics.
3. The course has fiction and prose in its contents which expose the relationship of literature with politics, society, humanity in general.

ADD ON COURSE IN SPOKEN ENGLISH

• ADD ON COURSE IN SPOKEN ENGLISH FOR COMMUNICATION SKILLS WAS STARTED IN THE YEAR 2011-12 WITH THE SEED MONEY OF 4 LACS GRANTED BY THE UGC UNDER THE UGC SCHEME OF CAREER ORIENTED PROGRAMME.
• DIPLOMA COURSE WAS STARTED IN YEAR 2013-14.
• ADVANCED DIPLOMA WAS STARTED IN 2014-15.
• STATE OF THE ACT LANGUAGE LABORATORY HAS BEEN SET UP.
• APPROXIMATELY 155 BOOKS HAVE BEEN PURCHASED BY THE COLLEGE LIBRARY FOR THE SUBJECT.
• THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LAB IS ALSO EQUIPPED WITH A SPOKEN ENGLISH SOFTWARE.
• THE LAB PROVIDES A WELL EQUIPPED UPTO DO TECHNOLOGY ORIENTED ENVIRONMENT TO THE STUDENTS.