GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS)

KUMBAKONAM

Part III-B.A English- Course Structure under CBCS

(for the candidates to be admitted from the academic year 2008-2009 onward)

SEM COURSE

TITLE

INSTRUCTION

HOURS

CREDIT EXAM

HOURS

INT.

MARKS

EXT.

MARKS

MARKS

I

Part I-Language

Tamil 6 3 3 25 75 100

Part II-

Language

English

6 3 3 25 75 100

Part III-CC I-

Prose 5 4 3 25 75 100

Part III-CC II-

Fiction 3 - - - - -

Part III –AC I-

Social History

of England

4 3 3 25 75 100

Part III-AC II-

History of

English

Literature I

2 - - - - -

Part IV –Value

Based

Education-Yoga

2 2 3 25 75 100

Part IV-Skill

Based Course-

Functional

English-Spoken

English

2 2 3 25 75 100

Total 30 17 600

SEM COURSE TITLE INSTRUCTION

HOURS

CREDI

T

EXAM

HOURS

INT.

MARKS

EXT.

MARKS

MARKS

II

Part I-Language

Tamil 6 3 3 25 75 100

Part II-Language

English 6 3 3 25 75 100

Part III-CC II-

Fiction 2 4 3 25 75 100

Part III-CC III-

Poetry I 5 4 3 25 75 100

Part III –AC II-

History of

Literature I

3 3 3 25 75 100

Part III-AC III-

History of English

Literature II

4 4 3 25 75 100

Part IV-Skill

Based Course 2 2 3 25 75 100

Environmental

Studies 2 2 3 25 75 100

Total 30 25 800

GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS)

Part III-B.A English- Course Structure under CBCS

(for the candidates to be admitted from the academic year 2008-2009 onward)

Semester Course Title Instruction

Hours\Week

Credits Exam

Hrs

Int.

Mark

Ext.

Mark

Total

III

Part I Language-Tamil 6 3 3 25 72 100

Part II Language-English 6 3 3 25 75 100

Part III core Course-IV-

Drama 4 4 3 25 75 100

Part III Core Course-V

Poetry II 3 - - - - -

Part III Allied Course IV

Literary Forms 4 4 3 25 75 100

Part III Allied Course V

Principles of literary

Course Criticism

3 - - - - -

Part IV Skill Based Course 2 2 3 25 75 100

Part IV Non –Elective

Course 2 2 3 25 75 100

Total 30 18 600

IV

Part I Language- Tamil 6 3 3 25 75 100

Part II Language- English 6 3 3 25 75 100

Part III Core Course-V-

Poetry II 3 4 3 25 75 100

Part III Core Course-VI

Drama II-Modern 5 4 3 25 75 100

Part III Allied Course V

Principles of Literary

Criticism

2 3 3 25 75 100

Part III Allied Courses VI

Comparative Literature 4 3 3 25 75 100

Part IV Skill Based Course 2 2 3 25 75 100

Part IV Non-Major Elective

Course 2 2 3 25 75 100

Total 30 24 800

GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS) KUMBAKONAM

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

U.G – COURSE STRUCTURE UNDER CBCS (140 Credits)

(For the Candidates to be admitted from the academic year 2008-2011 onwards)

SEMESTER COURSE TITLE INST.

HOU

RS

CREDIT EXAM

HOUR

S

INT.

MAR

KS

EXT.

MARKS

TOTAL

MARKS

V CC – VII

SHAKESPEARE

5 5 3 25 75 100

CC – VIII INDIAN

WRITING IN

ENGLISH – I

5 5 3 25 75 100

CC – IX

AMERICAN

LITERATURE

5 5 3 25 75 100

CC – X INDIAN

WRITING IN

ENGLISH – II

5 5 3 25 75 100

EC – I

TRANSLATION:

THEORY &

PRACTICE

5 5 3 25 75 100

EC – II ENGLISH

LANG. TEACHING

3 - - - - -

SKILL BASED

COURSE

2 2 2 25 75 100

TOTAL 30 27 18 150 450 600

SEMESTER COURSE TITLE INST.

HOU

RS

CRE

DIT

EXAM

HOURS

INT.

MARKS

EXT.

MAR

KS

TOTAL

MARKS

VI CC- XI WOMEN’S

WRITING IN

ENGLISH

6 4 3 25 75 100

CC – XII COMMON

WEALTH LIT.

5 4 3 25 75 100

CCXIII CANADIAN

LITERATURE

5 4 3 25 75 100

CC – XIV

LANGUAGE &

LINGUISTICS

5 4 3 25 75 100

EC –II ENGLISH

LANG. TEACHING

2 5 3 25 75 100

EC – III

JOURNALISM

5 5 3 25 75 100

SKILL BASED

COURSE

2 2 3 25 75 100

TOTAL 30 28 21 175 525 700

GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN (AUTONOMOUS)

KUMBAKONAM RR1E1

Semester-I

Part –II English

Esays

1.Building Self – Confidence – Norman Vincent Peale

2. My Greatest Olymic Prize- Jesus Owens

3. Education of New India – C. Rajagopalachari

4. Examinations – Winston Churchill

5. Nehru – Some Memories – Arnold J. Toynbee

Stories

6. The Three hermits -= Count Leo Tolstoy

7. The Land Where There were No Old Men – Jean Ire

8.The Diamond Necklace – Gue de Maupassant

9. The Lost Child _ Mulk Raj Anand

PART III

CORE COURSE I

PROSE

Instruction Hours:5 Credits:4

Units I,II,III : Sesame and Lilies - John Ruskin

Unit IV: Essays of Orwell (ed) M.G.Nayar (Macmillan)

a) Propaganda and Demotic Speech

b) The eBookshop Memories

c) Why I Write

Unit V: selections from E.M. Froster (ed) R.Krishnamoorthy (Macmillan)

a) Notes on the English Character

b) My Wood

c) A Book that Influenced Me

PART III

ALLIED COURSE I

SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND

Instruction Hours:4 Credits:3

Unit I

Medieval England

Tudor England – The Renaissance & The Reformation

Age of the Stuarts-The Civil war

Unit II

Restoration England

The age of Queen Anne

The Agrarian Revolution

Unit III

The Industrial Revolution

The Effect of French Revolution

The War of American Independence

Unit IV

Methodist Movement

Humanitarian Movements

The Reform Bills

Unit V

The age of Queen Victoria

The Twentieth Century England

Books for Reference:

A.G.Xavier : Introduction to the Social History of England.

Part III

Core Course II

Fiction

Instruction Hours: 5 Credits: 4

The following Stories from Stories of Yesterday and Today (ed) A.E Augustine

(Blackie) (from units 5-10)

Unit I: The Best Investment I Ever Made –A.J.Cronin.

Heaven in Your Hand- North Lofts.

Unit II: Princess September- Somerset Maugham

A Horseman in the Sky – Ambrose Bierce.

Unit III: The Cop and the Anthem – O.Henry

An Astrologer’s Day- R.k.Narayan.

Unit IV: The Vicar Of Wakefield- Oliver Goldsmith

Unit V: A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

Semester-II RR2E2

Part –II English

Essays

1. Good Manners – J.C . Hill

2. My London Days – Mahatma Gandhi

3. The Secret of work – Swami Vevekanandha

4.What I Cherish Mosat – V.S srinivasa Sastri

5. Give us a role Model – A.P.J kalam

Stories

6. The Gift of Magi – O’ Henry

7. The model Millionaire – Oscar Wilde

8. The Face of Judas Isxariot – Bonnie Charnerlain

9. A devoted son – Anita Desai

10. My Lost dollar – Stephen Leacock

Part III- B.A. English

Semester II

Core Course II- Poetry-I

The following selection from The Mystic Drums(ed. Vilas Salunke et.al Orient

Longman)

Unit I: Edmund Spenser : One Day I wrote her Name

W.Shakespeare : Poor Soul, The Center

(Sonnet No.146)

John Milton : On his Bilndness

Unit II:

John Donne : The Sunne Rising.

George Herbert : Easter Wings.

Andrew Marvell : To His Coy Misrtress.

Unit III: William Blade : London

Wordsworth : A Slumber did my Spirit seal.

Unit IV: S.T.Coleridge : Kubla Khan

Lord Byron : She Walks in Beauty.

Unit V:

P.B.Shelley : Ode to the West Wind.

John Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn.

PART III

ALLIED COURSE II

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE-I

Instruction Hours:5 Credits:3

The scope as indicated in Hudson: An Outline History of English Literature (BI

Publications)

Unit I : Chapter II & III- The Age of Chaucer

Unit II : Chapters IV & V- Development of Drama

Unit III : Chapter VI,VII & VIII –The Age of Shakespeare

Unit IV : Chapter IX & X –The Age of Milton.

Unit V : Chapter XI & XII –The Age of Dryden.

PART III

ALLIED COURSE III

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE-II

Instruction Hours:5 Credits:3

Book Referred Hudson: An Outline History of English Literature .

Unit I : Chapter XIII & XIV- The Age of Pope.

Unit II : Chapters XV & XVII- The Age of Johnson

Unit III : Chapter XVIII,XIX The Age of Wordsworth.

Unit IV : Chapter XXII-XXIV –The Age of Tennyson.

Unit V : Chapter XXV-XXVI-XXVII –The Age of Hardy &

The Present Age..

GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, KUMBAKONAM.

Semester –III Part II English

PAPERD III: POETRY AND DRAMA FOR COMMUNICATION

DEPARTMENT SELECTIONS

POETRY

1. Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali (XXXV & XXXVI)

2. Earl & Surrey: Description of Spring

3. Robert Herrick: To Daffodils

4. Alexander Pope: The Universal Truth

5. Wordsworth: The World is too Much with Us

6. Thomas Campbell: The Mariners of England

7. John Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn

8. W.H. Davies: Leisure

9. John Masefield: Sea Fever

10. Felica Dorothea Hemans: Casabianca

EXTERSIVE READING

11. Oliver Goldsmith: Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

12. W.B. Yeats: The Ballad of Father Gilligan

DRAMA

One –Act Plays

1. Norman Mckinnel: The Bishop’s Candlesticks

2. Josephine Niggli: Sunday Costs Five Pesos

3. Cedric Mount: The Never –Never Nest

Question paper pattern

Semester III

Paper III: POETRY AND DRAMA FOR COMMUNICATION

Time:3hrs Max marks: 75

Section –A (30 Marks)

POETRY

1.True or False (3X1=3)

2. Choose the best answer (4X1=4)

3. Fill in the banks (4X1=4)

4. Choose any 2 of the following passages and answer the questions given below

(2 out of 4) (2X2=4)

5. Paragraph (1X5=5)

Either……or……. type question

6. Essay (1X10=10)

Either ……or……. type question

Section B (30 Marks )

DRAMA

1. True or False (3X1=3)

2. Choose the best answer (4X1=4)

3. Fill in the Blanks (4X1=4)

4.Choose any 2 of the following passages and answer the question given below

(2 out of 4) (2 X 2=4)

5. Paragraph (1X5=5)

Either …or… Type question

6. Essay ( 1X10=10)

Either … or … Type question

Section C( 15 marks)

COMMUNICATION

1. Comprehension from Extensive Reading – poetry ( 5X1= 5)

2. Dialogue and Report Writing (1X4=4)

3.Dialogue Writing (1X4= 4)

4. Sending SMS (1X2=2)

CORE COURSE –IV : DRAMA-I

ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA

Unit I- Christopher Marlowe : Dr.Faustus

Unit II – Thomas Dekkar : The Shoemaker’s Holiday

Unit III – Ben Johnson : Everyman in His Humour

Unit IV – John Webster : The Duchess of Malif

Unit V- Philip Massinger : A New Way to Pay Old Debts

AC IV –Literary Forms

The Scope of study of the paper will be restricted to knowledge of the topic

mentioned below:

Unit I: POETRY- Nature and Elements of poetry – Definitions

Classifications of Poetry- Subjective- Objective.

Unit II: The Ode, The Lyric, The Sonnet, The Elegy , The Epic, The

Ballad.

Unit III: PROSE- The Essay, Short Story , Biography, Autobiography.

Unit IV: DRAMA – Elements of Drama, Tragedy, Comedy, One –Act Play,

Tragi-Comedy The Masque, Farce.

Unit: FICTION – Elements of Fiction- Historical Novel, Picaresque

Novel, Detective Fiction , and Science Fiction.

Books and References:

1.W.H. Hudson: Introduction to the Study of English.

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

3. Prasad: A Background to the study of English Literature.

4. Ramachandra Nair: Literary Forms

GOVERNMENT COLLEGE FOR WOMEN(AUTONOMOUS)

KUMBAKONAM

Semester- IV Part II English

Paper IV: ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS

Text Prescribed:

1. ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS

Edited by Dr.V.Ayothi & Dr.R.Vedavalli

Published by New Century Book House(p) Ltd., Chennai. Price-Rs.70/-

The following selection are prescribed:

1. Basics in English Grammar

2. Error Correction

3. Vocabulary Enrichment

4. Synonyms & Antonyms

5. One word Substitution

6. Words Often confused and Misused

7. Idioms & Phrases

8. Vocabulary- Miscellaneous

9. Comprehension

10. Precis writing

11. Letter Writing

12. Reporting

13. Essay

14. Group Discussion and Interviews

Question Paper Pattern

Semester IV

Paper IV : ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS

Time: 3hrs. Marks:75

Section-A (30 Marks)

1. Basics in English Grammar and Usage- 10 marks

2. Error Correction -5 marks

3. Vocabulary Enrichment-2marks

4. Synonyms&Antonyms-5 marks

5. One word Substitution-5 marks

6. Words Often confused and Misused -3 marks

Section-B (20 Marks)

7. Idioms & Phrases– 5 marks

8. Vocabulary – Miscellaneous – marks

9. Comprehension – 5 marks

10. Precis Writing – 5 marks

Section-C (25 Marks)

11. Letter Writing – 5 marks

12. Reporting – 5 marks

13. Essay – 10 marks

14. Group Discussion and Interviews - 5 marks

CORE COURSE V POETRY II

Units I & II: Milton : Paradise Lost –Book I

Units III: Tennyson : Break, Break , Break

R. Browning : My Last Duchess.

Thomas Hardy: Neutral Tone.

Units IV: Wilfred Owen : Futility

G.M. Hopkins : Springs and Fall

W.B. Yeats : Sailing to Byzantium

Unit V: T.S. Eliot : Journey of the Magi

Dylan Thomas:Do not go Gentle into the

Night.

John Hollander: Swan and Shadow.

Poetical Selections are found in the mystic Drum (ed) Vilas Salunke et.al

(Longman)

CORE COURSE V I:DRAMA-II

MODERN DRAMA

Unit I - Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer

UnitII - George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man

Unit III - John Galsworthy : The Silver Box

Unit IV - T.S.Eliot : Murder in the Cathedrals

Unit V - Harold Printer : The Birthday Party

Allied Course V

Principle of Literary Criticism

Unit I. Critical/ Literary Terms

1. Irony

2. Paradox

3. Metaphor

4. Metonymy

5. Ambiguity

6. Chorus

7. Stream of Consciousness

8. Soliloquy

9. Dramatic Monologue

10. Sprung Rhythm

11. Metaphysical Poetry

12. Pre- Raphaelites

Unit II & III Traditional Criticism

II. 1.Biographical Criticism

2.Historical Criticism

II 1.Moralistic Criticism

2.Philosophical Criticism

Unit IV & V New Criticism/ Formalistic Criticism

III. 1.Theory of Allen Tate and Cleanth Brooks

2. Warren : Literary Theory, Criticism and History

IV. 1.Phychological Approach to Literature

2. Marxist approach to Literature

Part III Allied Course VI : Comparative Literature

Unit I:

Definition and Scope – National Literature, Comparative Literature –

General Literature – World Literature

Unit II:

The French and American School of Comparative Literature.

Unit III:

Influence and Imitation – Periodization – Epoch , School, Movement

Unit IV:

Genre Studies, Thematology.

Unit V:

Literature and Others Disciplines,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

Core Course VII – Shakespeare

Unit I : Two Gentlemen of Verona

Unit II : As you like It

Unit III : King Lear

Unit IV : Julius Caesar

Unit V : The Tempest

Core Course VIII Indian Writing in English – I

Unit I: Nissim Ezekiel :Good – bye Party for Miss pushpa T.S.

Jayantha Mahapatra :An Old Woman

Gieve Patel :Forensic Medicine

Unit II: Adil Jussawala :Sea Breeze, Bombay

Dilip Chitre :Father Returning Home

Kamala Das :The Old Play House

Unit III: Girish Karnad :Hayavadhana

Unit IV: J. Nehru :Freedom and Licence

Radhakrishnan :The world Community

Unit V: R.K. Narayan :The Guide

The Poetical Selections are found in The Mustic Drum(ed) Vilas Salunke(Longman)

Core Course IX – American Literature

Unit I:

Walt Whitman : A Noiseless Patient Spider

Emily Dickinson : After Great Pain, a formal feeling comes

EA Robinson : Richard Cory

Robert Frost : Mending Wall

Unit II:

Wallace Stevens : The Emperor of Icecream

Ezra Pound : In a Station of the Metro

William Carlos Williams : The Red Wheelbarrow

E.E Cummings : What If a much of a which of a wind

Sylvia Plath : Daddy

Unit III:

Martin Luther King : I have a Dream

Robert Frost : The Figure a Poem Makes

Unit IV:

T. Williams : A Street Car Named Desire

Unit V:

Ernest Hemingway : The Old man and the Sea

John Steinbeck : The Grapes of Wrath

Poetical Selection are found in The Mystic Drum(ed) Vilas Salunke et. Al (Longman)

Core Course X – Indian Writing in English – II

Unit I:

A.K.Ramanujan : A River

R. Parthasarathy : Under Another Sky

Mamta Kalia : Tribute to Papa

Eunice de Souza : Bequest

Unit II:

Vijay Tendulkar : Silence! The Court is in Session

Unit III:

Shashi Deshpande : My Beloved Charioteer(from Instrusion and other

Stories)

Arun Joshi : The Boy with the Flute

Unit IV:

Khushwant Singh : Train to Pakistan

Unit V:

Anita Desai : Cry, the Peacock

Reference books

Contemporary Indian Poetry in English – An Assessment and Selection – Edited by Saleem

Peeradina

Nine Indian Women Poets – An Anthology – Edited by Eunice de Souza

Contemporary Indian Short Stories in English – Edited by Shiv K. Kumar

Elective Course – I Translation:Theory & Practice

Unit I:

Translation – Definition – Types – Principles of Translation- Decoding and Recoding –

Problems of Equivalence- Untranslatability.

Unit II:

History of Translation Theory- Period Study – The Romans – Bible Translation – Early

Theorists – The Renaissance – 17th century 18th century – Romanticism – Victorians – 20th

century.

Unit III:

Problems of Literary Translation – Structures – Poetry & Translation – Translating Prose

– Translating Dramatic Texts.

Unit IV & V

Translation Practice – Students will be trained to translate literary and articles of common

interest both from English to Regional Language & Vice Versa.

Books for Reference:

1. Susan Bassnett- MC Guire – Translation Studies(Methuene)

2. J.C. Catford – A Linguistic Theory of Translation(OUP)

3. Savoury Theodore – The Art of Translation

Elective Course – II English Language Teaching

Unit I:

Issues involved in Teaching of English – Explanation of curriculum, syllabus,

course, methods, approaches, techniques, Teaching English as a second Language.

Unit II:

Teaching of Pronunciation, Reading and Writing Skills – Teaching of

Composition.

Unit III:

Teaching of Grammar, Vocabulary, Teaching of Poetry, Prose.

Unit IV:

Testing Characteristics – Types of Questions.

Unit V:

Use of Audio- Visual Aids in Language Teaching.

Books for References:

1. Introduction to English Language Teaching(CIEFL(OUP)),Ghosh, Sastri,

Das.

2. Bright, MC Gregor, Teaching English as a Second Language

3. Paul Verghese – Teaching English as a Second Language.

CORE COURSE – XI WOMEN’S WRITING IN ENGLISH

UNIT I:

Margaret Atwood - Circle Game

Kamala Das - Freaks

Jenny Lins - Wonder Woman

UNIT II:

Shashi Deshpande - Writing from the Margins- Masks & Disguises

Elaine Showalter - Towards a Feminist Poetics

UNIT III:

Dorris Lessing - England vs England

Nadine Godimer - A Correspondence Course

Bharathi Mukerjee - Wife’s Story

UNIT IV:

Toni Morisson - Beloved

Pearl S. Buck - Letter from Peking

UNIT V:

Anita Nair - The Ladies Coupe

Margaret Laurence - The Stone Angel

CORE COURSE XII – COMMON WEALTH LITERATURE

UNIT I:

A.D.Hope - Australia

Margaret Atwood - Journey to the interior

A.M. Klein - Portrait of my mother

UNIT II:

J.P.Clark - The Casualties

Roy Lampbell - Poets in Africa

Derel Walcott - A Far cry from Africa

UNIT III:

Margaret Atwood - The Sin Eater

Joyce Marshal - The Old Woman

UNIT IV:

Wole Soyinka - The Lion and the jewel

UNIT V:

Chinna Achebe - Things Fall Apart Margaret Atwood - Surfacing

SECOND ALLIED COURSE XIII CANADIAN LITERATURE

UNIT I:

Poetry

F.R.Scott : The Canadian Authors Meet

UNIT II:

Short Stories

Collection : Margaret Atwood & Robert Weaver

1.Sinclair Ross: The Lamp at Noon

2. Margaret Lawrence

UNIT III:

George Ryga : The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

UNIT IV:

Sheila Watson : The Double Hook

UNIT V:

Margaret Atwood : The Edible Woman

Core Course XIV-Language & Linguistics

UNIT I& II:

1. Organs of Speech

2. The Consonants of English

3. The Vowels of English

4. Word Groups, Strong and Weak Forms, Stress and Intonation,

Transcription J.D. O’Connor : Better English

Pronunciation(OUP)

UNIT III.IV,V:

General Linguistics

The Following Chapters from the Study of Language by George Yule(OUP)

UNIT III:

1. The Origins of Language

2. The Development of Writing

3. The Properties of Language

4. Words and Word – Formation Process.

UNIT IV:

5. Morphology

6. Phrases & Sentences:Grammar

7. Syntax

8. Semantics

UNIT V:

9. Language and Machines

10. Language. History, Change

11. Language Varieties

12. Language, Society & Culture

Elective Course – III 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-Quality of Reporters- Beats – Kinds of Reporting with special reference to

court, crime, election, sports-Investigative- 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 –

Headlines.

Books for References:

1. Parthasarathy, R.Basic Journalism(Macmillan)

2. Metha, D.S.Mass Communication and Journalism in India(Allied)

3. Ramachandran Rao, Quest for News(Macmillan)

4. Sethil, Pathanjali, Professional Journalism(Longman)