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ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY, KARAIKUDI
B.A., ENGLISH LITERATURE – PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
(under CBCS with effect from the academic year 2011-12)
Sem Course Cr. Hrs./ Week
Marks Total Part Subject
Code Name Int. Ext.
I
I 111T Tamil / other languages – I 3 6 25 75 100 II 112E English – I 3 6 25 75 100
III 1BEN1C1 Core – I – Prose 5 6 25 75 100 1BEN1C2 Core – II – Fiction 5 6 25 75 100 Allied – I 5 5 25 75 100
IV
1NME1A/ 1NME1B/ 1NME1C
(1) Non-Major Elective – I – (a)jkpo; nkhopapd;
mbg;gilfs;/ (b) ,f;fhy
,yf;fpak; / (c) Communicative English
2 1 40 60 100
Total 23 30 -- -- 600
II
I 121T Tamil / other languages – II 3 6 25 75 100 II 122E English – II 3 6 25 75 100
III 1BEN2C1 Core – III – Poetry – I 5 6 25 75 100 1BEN2C2 Core – IV – Drama – I 5 5 25 75 100 Allied – II 5 5 25 75 100
IV 1BES2 (3) Environmental Studies 2 2 25 75 100 Total 23 30 -- -- 600
III
I 131T Tamil / other languages – III 3 6 25 75 100 II 132E English – III 3 6 25 75 100
III 1BEN3C1 Core – V – Poetry – II 4 5 25 75 100 1BEN3C2 Core – VI – Drama – II 4 5 25 75 100 Allied – III 5 5 25 75 100
IV
1NME3A / 1NME3B / 1NME3C
(1) Non-major Elective – II – (a),yf;fpaKk; nkhopg;
gad;ghLk;/ (b) goe;jkpo; ,yf;fpaq;fSk;
,yf;fpatuyhWk; / (c) Employability Skills
2 1 40 60 100
1SBS3A1/ 1SBS3A2
(2) Skill Based Subjects – I 2 2 40 60 100
V 1BEA3 Extension activities 1 - 100 -- 100 Total 24 30 -- -- 800
IV
I 141T Tamil / other languages – IV 3 6 25 75 100 II 142E English – IV 3 6 25 75 100
III
1BEN4C1 Core – VII – Shakespeare 4 5 25 75 100 1BEN4C2 Core – VIII – Indian Writing in
English – I 4 5 25 75 100
Allied – IV 5 4 25 75 100
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IV 1SBS4B1/ 1SBS4B2
(2) Skill Based Subjects – II 2 2 40 60 100
1BVE4/ 1BMY4/ 1BWS4
(4) Value Education / Manavalakalai Yoga / Women’s Studies
2 2 40 60 100
Total 23 30 -- -- 700
V
III
1BEN5C1 Core – IX – American Literature 5 7 25 75 100 1BEN5C2 Core – X – Women’s Writing in
English 5 7 25 75 100
1BEN5C3 Core – XI – Commonwealth Literature
4 6 25 75 100
1BENE1A/ 1BENE1B
Elective – I – Translation – Theory and Practice (or) Canadian Literature
5 6 25 75 100
IV 1SBS5A3/ 1SBS5A4/ 1SBS5A5
(2) Skill Based Subjects – I 2 2 40 60 100
(2) Skill Based Subjects – I 2 2 40 60 100
Total 23 30 -- -- 600
VI
III
1BEN6C1 Core – XII – Indian Writing in English – II
5 7 25 75 100
1BEN6C2 Core – XIII – Developing Language Skills
5 7 25 75 100
1BENE2A/ 1BENE2B
Elective – II – English Language Teaching (or) Literary Forms
5 6 25 75
100
1BENE3A/ 1BENE3B
Elective – III – Journalism (or) Comparative Literature
5 6 25 75 100
IV 1SBS6B3/ 1SBS6B4/ 1SBS6B5
(2) Skill Based Subjects – II 2 2 40 60 100 (2) Skill Based Subjects – II 2 2 40 60 100
Total 24 30 -- -- 600 Grand Total 140 180 -- -- 3900
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I YEAR – I SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN1C1
CORE COURSE I – PROSE
Unit I Baccon – Of Truth – Of Friendship – Of Love Unit II Addison – Sir Roger at Church Steele – The Spectator Club Unit III Oliver Goldsmith – Beau Tibbs Charles Lamb – Dream Children – Dissertation upon Roasted Pig Unit IV John Ruskin – King’s Treasuries (Sesame and Lilies) Unit V G.K.Chesterton – On Running after one’s Hat Robert Lynd – Forgetting
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I YEAR – I SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN1C2
CORE COURSE II – FICTION
Unit I Oscar Wilde – The Selfish Giant O Henry – The face of Judas Iscariot Unit II Kuswant Singh – Karma R.K.Narayan – White Flower Unit III Charles Bronte – Jane Eyre Unit IV Charles Dickens – Great Expectations Unit V George Orwell – The Animal Farm
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I YEAR – II SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN2C1
CORE COURSE III – POETRY – I
Unit I Chaucer – Prologue to Canterbury Tales (Introductory Part) (First 100 lines) Shakespeare – Sonnet 18 Unit II John Donne – The Canonization Alexander Pope – Ode on Solitude William Blake – Tyger Unit III Goldsmith – The Village School Master Thomas Gray – Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Unit IV William Wordsworth – Ode on Intimations of Immortality Ode S.T. Coleridge – Kublakhan Unit V John Keats – Ode on a Grecian Urn Shelley – Ode to West Wind Tennyson – Ulysses
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I YEAR – II SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN2C2
CORE COURSE IV – DRAMA – I
Unit I Marlowe – Edward II Unit II Webster – The Duchess of Malfi Unit III Ben Jonson – Volpone Unit IV Congreve – The Way of the World Unit V G.B.Shaw – Pygmalion
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II YEAR – III SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN3C1
CORE COURSE V – POETRY II
Unit I John Milton – Paradise Lost Book IX Unit II Browning – Andrea Del Sarto Mathew Arnold – Dover Beach Unit III Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Blessed Damozel D.H.Lawrence – Snake Unit IV W.B.Yeats – The Second Coming G.M. Hopkins – God’s Grandeur Unit V T.S.Eliot – The Hollow Men Philip Larkin – Church Going
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II YEAR – III SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN3C2
CORE COURSE VI – DRAMA – II
Unit I T.S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral Unit II John Galsworthy – Justice Unit III J.M.Synge – The Play Boy of the Western World Unit IV John Osborne – Look Back in Anger Unit V William Becket – Waiting for Godot
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II YEAR – IV SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN4C1
CORE COURSE VII – SHAKESPEARE
Unit I General Shakespeare – Shakespeare’s Age – Theatre and Audience – Women Characters – Fools and Supernatural Elements Unit II – As you Like It Unit III – Julius Caesar Unit IV – Othello Unit V – The Tempest
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II YEAR – IV SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN4C2
CORE COURSE VIII – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – I
Unit I Poetry Toru Dutt – The Casuarina Tree Sri Aurobindo – The Tiger and the Deer Sarojini Naidu – The Queen’s Rival Unit II Nissim Ezekiel – The Night of the Scorpion A.K.Ramanujam – River Kamala Das – The Old Play House Unit III Prose Swami Vivekananda – The Secret of Work Tagore – Teaching Begins (from the recollections of my early life) Nehru – The Panorama of India’s Past Unit IV Drama Girish Karnad – Tughlaq Unit V Fiction R.K.Narayan – The Guide
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III YEAR – V SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN5C1
CORE COURSE IX – AMERICAN LITERATURE
Unit I Poetry Walt Whitman – When Lilacs in the Dooryard Last Bloom’d Robert Frost – The Mending Wall Emily Dickinson – Death in the Opposite House Wallace Stevens – Anecdote of the Jar Unit II Prose Emerson – The American Scholar Thoreau – The Walden Unit III Drama Arthur Miller – All My Sons Unit IV Fiction Mark Twain – The Prince and the Pauper Unit V Fiction Hemingway – The Old Man and Sea
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III YEAR – V SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN5C2
CORE COURSE X – WOMEN’S WRITING IN ENGLISH
Unit I Poetry Virginia Wolf – A Room of one’s own Elaine Showalter – Towards a Feminine Poetics Unit II Poetry Kamala Das – A Hot Noon in Malabar Sylvia Plath – Mirror – Daddy Sarojini Naidu – The Soul’s Prayer Unit III Drama Lorraine Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun Unit IV Fiction Margaret Atwood – The Surfacing Unit V Shashi Deshpande – Dark Holds No Terror
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III YEAR – V SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN5C3
CORE COURSE XI – COMMON WEALTH LITERATURE
Unit I Poetry A.D.Hope – Australia Allen Curnow – House and Land Wole Soyinka – Telephone Conversation Unit II Poetry Margaret Atwood – Journey to the Interior Chinua Achebe – Refugee Mother and Child Judith Wright – Clock and Heart Unit III Prose Chinua Achebe – The Novelist as a Teacher Dr.S.Radhakrishnan – The World Community Unit IV Drama George Ryga – The Ecstasy of Rite Joe Unit V Fiction Patrick White – Voss Books for Reference An Anthology of Commonwealth poetry: E.D. by C.D.Narasimiah An Anthology of Modern Commonwealth Prose Pub. By S.Swaroop Commonwealth University Book Publishers 34, Thirumurugan Salai, Chitlappakkam, Anna Nagar, Chennai – 64
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III YEAR – V SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BENE1A
ELECTIVE I (A) – TRANSLATION – THEORY AND PRACTICE
Unit I Translation – Definition – Types of Translation Unit II Decoding and Recoding Problems of Equivalence – History of Translation Theory Unit III Specific Problems of Literary translations Unit IV Translating Literary Texts Thirukkural – First 2 chapters from G.U.Pope’s translation Bharathiar – Our Mother Land Unit V Prem chand – Resignation T.S.Pillai – Chemmeen Books for Reference Savoury Theodore – The Art of Translation Susan Bassnett, MC Guire – Translation Studies (Methuene)
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III YEAR – V SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BENE1B
ELECTIVE I (B) – CANADIAN LITERATURE
Unit I Poetry F.R.Scott – The Canadian Authors Meet Margaret Atwood – Towards a poem that cannot be written James Reancy – The Alphabet Unit II Prose Margaret Atwood – Nature as Monster (from Survival) Unit III Fiction Margaret Lawrence – The Stone Angel Unit IV Drama George Ryga – Indian Unit V Criticism Northorpe Frye – The Archytypes of Criticism
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III YEAR – VI SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN6C1
CORE COURSE XII – INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – II
Unit I Poetry Jayanta Mahapatra – An Old woman Tagore – The Child Parthasarathy – Under another Sky Unit II Aurobindo – Transformation Gieve Patel – Servant Uma Sankar Joshi – India – The Spirit Survives [from Twenty Indian Poems Ed. by Arvin Krishna Mehrotra (O.U.P)] Unit III Prose Jawaharlal Nehru – The Role of University Nirad C. Chaudhuri – The Eternal Silence of the Infinite – Crowds C.Rajagopalachari – Education for New India Unit IV Rabindranath Tagore – Chandalika Unit V Fiction Kushwant Singh – A Train to Pakistan
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III YEAR – VI SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BEN6C2
CORE COURSE XIII – DEVELOPING LANGUAGE SKILLS
Unit I Reading and Comprehension Skimming the Text Scanning the Text Unit II Greeting and Responding to Greetings Introducing yourself Introducing others Unit III Inviting, Accepting and Declining Invitations Asking, Giving and Refusing Permission Apologizing Unit IV Writing Agendas Writing Minutes Writing Letters Unit V Writing Curriculum vitae Writing Telegrams Group Discussion Book Prescribed: English for Practical Purposes By Z.N.Patil, B.S.Valke, Ashok Thorat and Zeenat Merchant (Macmillan)
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III YEAR – VI SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BENE2A
ELECTIVE II (A) – ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
Unit I Issues involved in Teaching of English Explanation of Curriculum, Syllabus, Course, Methods, approaches, Techniques Unit II Teaching English as a second Language Unit III Teaching of Grammar, Vocabulary, Teaching of Poetry and Prose Unit IV Testing Characteristics – Types of Questions Unit V Use of Audio – Visual Aids in Language Teaching Books for Reference
1. Introduction to English Language Teaching (CIEFL (OUP) Ghosh, Sastri, Das) 2. Teaching English as a Second Language (Long Man), Bright, MC.Gregor. 3. Teaching English as a Second Language – Paul Verghese.
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III YEAR – VI SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BENE2B
ELECTIVE II (B) – LITERARY FORMS
Unit I Poetry Subjective – Lyric, Elegy, Ode, Sonnet Unit II Objective – Ballad, Epic, Idyll, Dramatic Monologue Unit III Prose The Essay, Short Story, Biography, Autobiography Unit IV Drama Tragedy, Comedy, One Act play, Tragi-comedy, The Masque and Farce Unit V Fiction Historical Novel, Picaresque Novel, Detective Novel, Science Fiction and the Stream of Consciousness Novel Books for Reference W.H.Hudson – An Introduction to the Study of English Literature R.J.Rees – English Literature – An Introduction for Foreign Readers – Macmillan 1973 K.R.Ramachandran Nair – Literary Forms – Emerald Publication, Chennai 2003
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III YEAR – VI SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BENE3A
ELECTIVE III (A) – JOURNALISM
Unit I Definition of Journalism – Role of Journalism – Ethics – Press Laws – Press Council Unit II News – Definition – Kinds – Elements – Sources – News Agencies Unit III Reporting – Qualities of Reporters – Kinds of Reporting Unit IV Editing – News Editor – Sub Editor – Anatomy of Editing Unit V Language of Journalism – Writing a News Story – Writing opinion pieces – writing leads – Head lines Book for Reference R.Partha Sarathy – Basic Journalism (Macmillan) M.V.Kamath – Professional Journalism (Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.,
576, Majid Road, Jangpura, New Delhi) K.M.Shrivastava – News Reporting and Editing (Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., L.10, Green Park Extension, New Delhi – 16)
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III YEAR – VI SEMESTER COURSE CODE: 1BENE3B
ELECTIVE III (B) – COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Unit I Definition and Scope Unit II National Literature, Comparative Literature – General Literature – World Literature Unit III The French and American Schools of Comparative Literature Unit IV Genre Studies Unit V Literature and Other Arts Books for Reference Ulrich Weisstein – Comparative Literature and other Arts Wellek & Warren – Theory of Literature (Part II) S.S.Prawar – Comparative Literature
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