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StructureofB.A.ENGLISHunderCBCS
NOTE:
The papers titled English I, English II, Alternative English I, and Alternative
EnglishIIwillbecommonforB.A.andB.Com.underCBCS.Forthosewhooptfor
M.I.L.papers,therespectivelanguagedepartmentswillprovidethesyllabus.
Semester1
CompulsoryCore:ENG-CC-1016EnglishIDSC1A:ENG-RC-1016TheIndividualandSocietyAECC:EnglishCommunicationSkills/MIL/EVS(TobeprovidedbytheConcerned
Department)Semester2
CompulsoryCore:ENG-CC-2016EnglishIIDSC1B:ENG-RC-2016ModernIndianLiteratureAECC:EnglishCommunicationSkills/MIL/EVS(TobeprovidedbytheConcerned
Department)Semester3
CompulsoryCore:ALT-CC-3016AlternativeEnglishIDSC1C:ENG-RC-3016BritishLiteratureSEC-1:ENG-SE-3014CreativeWritingSemester4
CompulsoryCore:ALT-CC-4016AlternativeEnglishIIDSC1D:ENG-RC-4016LiteraryCrossCurrentsSelectionsfromLivingLiteraturesSEC-2:ENG-SE-4014Translation:PrinciplesandPracticeSemester5
DSE-1A:ENG-RE-5016SoftSkills
GE-1:ENG-RG-5016ContemporaryIndia:WomenandEmpowermentSEC-3:ENG-SE-5014TechnicalWritingSemester6
DSE-1B:ENG-RE-6016AcademicWritingGE-2:ENG-RG-6016CulturalDiversitySEC-4:ENG-SE-6014BusinessCommunication
DETAILEDSYLLABUS
SEMESTERI
CompulsoryCore:EnglishI
DSC1A:TheIndividualandSociety
ENG-CC-1016
EnglishI
Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)=6Marks:100(80+20)
Theaimofthiscourse(EnglishIandII)istoprovidethestudentanopportunitytoreadandrespondtorepresentationsofissuesincontemporarylifeandcultureintheEnglishlanguage. The selection of texts is aimed to present themes and topics that arestimulating, insightfuland informative.Eachpaperwillhaveagrammarsectionof10marks.StudentshavingEnglishastheirMajorsubjectwillhavetoanswerquestionsonatextindicatedinthesyllabus,insteadofthegrammarsection.Internalassessmentinthesetwopapersmaybeintheformofanobjective-typetest.Prose: 60MarksTexts:
• ArthurMiller:AllmySons• GeorgeOrwell(1903-1950):‘ShootinganElephant’• D.H.Lawrence:‘TheWomanWhoRodeAway’• ManojDas(1934-):‘TheMistyHour’• MuninBarkotoki(1915-1995):‘KrishnaKantaHandiqui’• RohintonMistry(1952-):‘RunningWater’• MichaelOndaatje(1943-):‘Angulimala’• SalmanRushdie:‘GoodAdviceisRarerthanRubies’
Grammar: 20Marks
• Makesentencesusingcommonphrasesandidioms• CommonErrors:Tobeansweredasdirected• Correctuseofverbs,tenses,prepositions,etc.• Comprehension
DisciplineSpecificCoreI–A
ENG-RC-1016
IndividualandSociety
Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)=6Marks:100(80+20) Thispaperexaminesakeyaspectofliterarycomposition–thefigureoftheindividualinher interactions with the society in which she lives. Literary works represent theseelementsindifferentways.Theindividualappearsascharacter,narrator,writer,whilethesociety featuresasmilieu inwhich individuals function,andas thatwhichcreatesthe conditions for emergence of the literary text. Individuals live in harmony or inconflictwithsociety.Textsinthispaper,selectedfromthemanyliteraturesinEnglishbeing produced today, will provide the opportunity to study all of these aspects.Students will also note the ways in which individual-society relationships and theirrepresentationchangeindifferenthistoricalperiodsofliterature.Eachtextinthispaperwillbestudiedagainstitssocialandculturalmilieu.
CourseOutcomes:
• Understandtherelationshipbetweentheindividualwriterandthesocietyabout/inwhichshewrites
• Developskillinanalyzingtheauthor’srepresentationofsocietyandtheindividualininteractionandwritecritiquesdrawingout.
• Learntodistinguishbetweenliteraryrepresentationandactualcharacterandmilieu
Texts:
• GeoffreyChaucer:TheProloguetotheCanterburyTales• Pope:Epistle3(fromAnEssayonMan)• CharlesDickens:OliverTwist• T.S.Eliot:‘Preludes’,• AllenGinsberg:Howl• VijayTendulkarKamala(Play.TranslatedfromMarathi)• KamilaShamsie:BurntShadows• E.L.Doctorow:Ragtime
SuggestedReadings:
-TheNortonAnthologyofEnglishLiterature(Allvolumes-forlibrary)(10thedition,2018)
-AndrewSanders:TheShortOxfordHistoryofEnglishLiterature(1994)
-RaymondWilliams:CultureandSociety(1958)
SEMESTERII
CompulsoryCore:EnglishIIDSC1B:ModernIndianLiterature
ENG-CC-2016
EnglishII
Poetry: 60MarksTexts:
• WilliamBlake(1757-1827):‘TheLamb’• SamuelTaylorColeridge:‘Christabel’• MatthewArnold:‘DoverBeach’• LangstonHughes(1902-1967):‘Harlem’• NissimEzekiel(1924-2004):‘Shillong’• WoleSoyinka(1934-):‘TelephoneConversation’• DavidConstantine(1944-)‘TheHouse’• FedericoGarciaLorca(1898-1936):‘TheSleepwalkingBallad’• SeamusHeaney(1939-):‘Punishment’• ImtiazDharkar:‘Purdah1’
GrammarandComposition: 20Marks
• VoiceChange,UseofDeterminers• DialogueWriting,DescriptiveWriting• PrecisWriting/ReportWriting
DisciplineSpecificCoreIB
ENG-RC-2016ModernIndianLiteratures
Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)=6 Marks:100(80+20)The Modern Indian Literatures comprise extensive writings in all genres in manylanguages. The different historical and cultural backgrounds of the various Indianlanguages and literatures add to the complexity ofwhat is termed asModern IndianLiteratures. However, there are also things that hold India together, manycommonalities,bondings,andsharedexperiencesdespitethevarieties.ThelistofshortstoriesandpoemsprescribedforthiscoursegivethestudentatasteofIndianwriting
from different regions of the country. The selection has been culled from EnglishtranslationsofwritingsinIndianlanguagesandEnglishcompositionsofIndianauthors.ShortStories: 50Marks
• AmritaPritam:“TheWeed”• U.R.AnanthaMurthy:“TheSkyandtheCat”• GopinathMohanty:“TheSomersault”• RKNarayan:“AnotherCommunity”• SunilGangopadhyay:“ShahJahanandHisPrivateArmy”• SaurabhKumarChaliha:“RestlessElectrons”
Poems: 30Marks
• NissimEzekiel:“Poet,Lover,Birdwatcher”• JayantaMahapatra:“TheAbandonedBritishCemeteryatBalasore”• KekiN.Daruwalla:“Wolf”• MamangDai:“TheVoiceoftheMountain”• NavakantaBarua:“Bats”• DilipChitre:“TheFellingoftheBanyanTree”
RecommendedTexts:
-ThePenguinBookofModernIndianShortStories.EditedbyStephenAlterandWimalDissanayake.2001.
-TheOxfordAnthologyofTwelveIndianPoetschosenandeditedbyArvindKrishnaMehrotra.OxfordUniversityPress,1992.
-TheOxfordAnthologyofWritingsfromNorth-EastIndia:PoetryandEssays.EditedbyTilottomaMisra.OUP,2011.
SuggestedReading:
-Sarkar,Sumit.ModernTimes:India:1880s-1950s:Environment,Economy,Culture.Ranikhet:PermanentBlack,2014.
-Mehrotra,ArvindKrishna.PartialRecall:EssaysonLiteratureandliteraryHistory.OrientBlackswan,2012.
SEMESTERIII
CompulsoryCore:AlternativeEnglishIDSC1C:BritishLiteratureSEC-1:CreativeWriting,BookandMediaReviews
ALT-CC-3016
AlternativeEnglishI
Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)=6 Marks:100(80+20)
ThispaperwouldseektoacquaintstudentswiththemajorgenresofEnglishliteraturethroughtextswhicharelandmarksofeachgenre.Thetextshavebeencarefullychosento effectively represent the distinctive qualities of a particular genre. Moreover,students are encouraged to read the prescribed texts in their social and culturalcontexts.
Poetry: 30Marks• Shakespeare:Sonnet65• JohnDonne:AValediction:ForbiddingMourning• WilliamWordsworth:TinternAbbey• AlfredTennyson:Tears,IdleTears• MatthewArnold:ScholarGypsy• RobertFrost:StoppingbyWoodsonaSnowyEvening• T.SEliot:Marina• W.BYeats:AmongSchoolChildren
Drama: 20Marks
• Shakespeare:AMidsummerNight'sDream• JohnOsborne:LookBackinAnger
Fiction: 30Marks
• JaneAusten:Emma• ErnestHemingway:FarewelltoArms
DSC1-C:ENG-RC-3016
BritishLiteratureCredits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)=6 Marks:100(80+20)ThispaperisdesignedtoofferarepresentativesamplingofthemajorliterarytraditionsofBritish life and culture through a studyof texts in different genres. Thepaperwillcompriseof80marksexternalexaminationand20marksinternalevaluation.SectionAPoetry: 30marks(12+12+6)
• WilliamShakespeare:‘Sonnet116’• JohnMilton:‘OnhisBlindness’• SamuelTaylorColeridge:‘Christabel’• W.B.Yeats:‘TheSecondComing’• TedHughes:‘TheThought-Fox’• EmilyBronte:‘Remembrance’• DylanThomas:‘PoeminOctober’
• VickyFeaver:‘SlowReader’SectionBFiction: 30marks
• ElizabethGaskell:MaryBarton• JamesJoyce:“TheDead”• E.M.Forster:“TheCelestialOmnibus”• WilliamTrevor:TheStoryofLucyGault
SectionCDrama: 20marks
• OscarWilde:TheImportanceofBeingEarnest• J.B.Priestley:AnInspectorCalls
SkillEnhancementCourse:I
ENG-SE-3014
CREATIVEWRITINGCredits:4 Marks:100(80+20)Thestudentsinthiscoursewillfocusonthreecreativegenres,fiction,non-fictionandpoetry.Theemphasiswillbetobuildproficiencyinreadingsandwritings.Thecourseencouragesactiveclassparticipationandlotsofwritings.Oneofthebasicobjectivesofthecourseistoallowstudentstoexploreideas,feelings,experiencesandeffectivelycommunicatethesestimulususingthewrittenword.Eachlecturewillbetiedtoreadingoftexts,techniques,narratologyandrhetoricalpositions.Thesetofreadingswillbegivenduringthecourseandmayvaryeachsemester,wheneverthecourseisonoffer.
Theweightageoftheprogrammewilldependon:10%--classlectures;20%--journalwritingsondiscussionsofideas,photograghs,paintings,memoriesandexperiences;30%---classparticipation/assignments/workshops/writingsfollowingprompts/writingwithmusic40%-- submission of fiction (20000 words)/non-fiction(20000 words)/poetry(15poemsof150000words)atthetimeofcompletionofthecourse.SectionA:Poetry 15MarksDiscussion/Classparticipationtopics:
• Whatisgoodpoetry?• Writingpoetry• Whypoetry• Readingpoetry
Thestudentswillbeintroducedto• Historyofpoetry,
• Formsofpoetry.• Rhetoricandprosody.• Imagesandsymbols
SectionB:Fiction 30MarksDiscussion/Classparticipationtopics:
• Whatisagoodstory?• Writingshortstories• Writingnovels• Characterisation• Structure• Dialogues
The selected texts will inform of style, sentence structure, and tone and how theseconnect to the purpose and meaning/effect of the story. There will be specific textshighlighting
• LyricalProse• Focusongroupratherthanindividual• Narratology• Useofsymbols• Individualandthecollectivevoice• Useoftime• Repetition• Genderroles
SectionCNon-Fiction 15MarksDiscussionsandassignments:Thestudentswillbeintroducedto
• Formsofessays• Memoirs• Travelogues• Reportwriting• Literaryjournalism
SectionD:Workshop(1000--3000words) 20Marks• Discussing--whyyouwrite,howyouwrite,andwhatyouhopetogainfromthis
course.• Howisyourwritingdifferent/similartoothers?• ReadingstoriesbyWriters-in-residenceandbyparticipants.• Considerhowthiscoursehaschangedyourwritingskills.• Howhasthiscoursehelpedyoutoencouragereadingofvarioustexts?• Howhasthiscoursehelpedyoutounderstandofliterature?
• Howhaveyougrownasawriter?• DiscussiononPublicationandMarket.• Promptwritingsforeachsection.
RecommendedReadings:
-AWriter’sTime:Aguidetothecreativeprocessfromvisionthroughrevision:KennethAtchity
-HowdoyouWriteaGreatWorkofFiction:JenniferEgan-InthePalmofYourHand:ThePoet'sPortableWorkshop:SteveKowit-TheMakingofaPoem:ANortonAnthologyofPoeticFormsEavanBolandandMark
Strand-Rhyme’sReason:AGuidetoEnglishVerse:JohnHollander
SEMESTERIVCompulsoryCore:AlternativeEnglishIIDSC1D:LiteraryCrossCurrentsSelectionsfromLivingLiteraturesSEC-2:TranslationStudiesandPrinciplesofTranslation
ALT-CC-4016
AlternativeEnglishII
Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)=6 Marks:100(80+20)CourseObjectives:Thecoursehasbeendesignedtofamiliarisestudentswithdifferentforms of literature, texts and their contexts. The select texts would enable them tounderstandliteraryrepresentationsandawriter’sengagementwiththesocial,culturalandpoliticalmilieu.
SectionAESSAYS (15marks)
• CharlesLamb:‘TwoRacesofMan’
• A.G.Gardiner:‘OnFear’
• GeorgeOrwell:‘TheSpike’
SectionBPOETRY (25marks)
• GeorgeHerbert:‘TheRose’
• WilliamWordsworth:‘ScornfortheSonnet’
• JohnKeats:‘LaBelleDamesansMerci’
• WilfredOwen:‘TheSend-off’
• AdrienneRich:‘Power’
SectionCSHORTSTORY (20marks)
• R.K.Narayan:‘AHorseandTwoGoats’
• VikramChandra:‘Dharma’
SectionDDRAMA (20marks)
• GeorgeBernardShaw:Candida
DSCI-D
ENG-RC-4016LiteraryCrossCurrents:Forms:Prose,Poetry,Fiction&Play
Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)=6 Marks:100(80+20)In almost everyperiodof literaryhistoryworksof non-fictional prose, fiction, poetryand drama have co-existed. Also, literary cross-currents have helped shape theseliterary forms in a way that demonstrates their affinities as well as differences. It’simportanttostudyworkswithdueattentiontotheir‘formal’aspectssothatwhatitistruly distinctive about the literary type, form, or genre to which they belong is notmissed. At the same time it’s necessary to contextualize the study so that theevolutionary or historical dimension of the literary works, their growth andtransformationovertheyearsisnotlostsightof.Thispaperwillacquaintthestudentswith different literary forms, with one part addressing formal concerns includingdefinitions, while the other part will involve study of actual texts which exemplify aparticular literary form or genre, and which will include some consideration of thecontextsoftheirproduction.
PartA:Formsandmovements (20Marks)• Forms:
Epicandmock-epic,ballad,ode,sonnet,lyric,elegy,tragedy,tragicomedy,absurddrama,heroicdrama,problemplays,expressionistplays,Gothicfiction,thehistoricalnovel,thebildungsroman,thepersonalessay,theperiodicalessay,memoir,autobiography,biography
• Movementsandtrendswhichinfluenceformsandgenres:Neo-classicism,Romanticism,Augustanism,Victorianism,Realism,Naturalism,Expressionism,Existentialism,DadaismandSurrealismPartB:StudyofindividualtextsEpicandPoetry: (20)
• TheMahabharata(TheGameofDice)• BenJonson:“SongtoCelia”• LordAlfredTennyson:“TheLadyofShalott”
• JohnKeats:“OdeonaGrecianUrn”Prose(FictionandNon-fiction) (20)
• JosephAddison:“TrueandFalseWit,”(Spectator62)• CharlesLamb:“TheDreamChildren”• CharlotteBronte:JaneEyre• EdgarAllanPoe:“TheBlackCat”• KamalaDas:MyStory
Plays: (20)• HenrikIbsen:ADoll’sHouse• HaroldPinter:TheBirthdayParty.
SuggestedReading:-PakmajaAsho.ACompaniontoLiteraryFormsPaperback-ChrisBaldick.TheOxfordDictionaryofLiteraryterms-TheConciseOxfordCompaniontoEnglishLiterature(OxfordQuickReference)-LillianHornstein,G.D.Percy,andCalvinS.Brown,Eds.TheReader'sCompaniontoWorldLiterature
SECI–D:
ENG-SE-4014Translation:PrinciplesandPractice
Credits:4 Marks:100(80+20)
Thiscourseisdesignedtogivestudentsbasicskillsintranslation.Itintroducesstudentstothefieldoftranslationstudiesandgivesthemtraininginpracticaltranslation.
Unit1 (Marks:30)
TranslationinIndia:History;Challengesoftranslationinmultilingualconditions;Institutionspromotingandcommissioningtranslation;Landmarksoftranslationindifferentlanguages.TypesandModesoftranslation:
• Intralingual,InterlingualandIntersemiotictranslation
• Freetranslation,
• Literaltranslation,
• Transcreation
• Communicativeorfunctionaltranslation
• Audio-visualtranslation
ConceptsofTranslation:
Accuracy,Equivalence,Adaptation,Dialect,Idiolect,Register,Style,subtitling,back-translation
Unit2 (Marks:50)
Inthissectionquestionsmaybeinthenatureoftranslationtests:shortpassages,speechesfromtheplaysorapoemtobeanalysedanddifferentaspectspointedout;andsecondlytobetranslatedintoEnglishfromtheoriginallanguage
Practicaltranslationactivities:
a.AnalysetextstranslatedintoEnglishkeepingtheaboveconcepts,andespeciallythatofequivalence,inmind,atthelexical(word)andsyntactical(sentence)levels:Novel:TheStoryofFelaneebyArupaPatangiyaKalita.Play:TheFortressofFirebyArunSarma.Poem:“Silt”byNabakantaBarua,Trans.PradipAcharyaShortStory:“GoldenGirl”byLakshminathBezbarua,intheanthologySplendourintheGrass.Ed.HirenGohain.b.MakeabacktranslationintotheoriginalEnglishShortStoryorpassagefromatext(AliceinWonderlandbyProbinaSaikia)c.Subtitleafilm(Assamese–VillageRockstars)(tobediscussedinclass,asampleshownandthenusedforinternalassessment)
ResourcesforPractice:
• Dictionaries• Encyclopedias• Thesaurus• Glossaries• TranslationsoftwareSuggestedReadings:
-Baker,Mona,InOtherWords:ACoursebookonTranslation,Routledge,2001.(Usefulexercisesforpracticaltranslationandtraining)
-Gargesh,RavinderandKrishnaKumarGoswami.(Eds.).TranslationandInterpreting:ReaderandWorkbook.NewDelhi:OrientLongman,2007.
-Lakshmi,H.ProblemsofTranslation.Hyderabad:BooklingsCorporation,1993.-Newmark,Peter.ATextbookofTranslation.London:PrenticeHall,1988.-Toury,Gideon.TranslationacrossCultures.NewDelhi:BahriPublicationsPrivate
Limited,1987.-Palumbo,Guiseppe.KeyTermsinTranslationStudies.LondonandNew
York:Continuum,2009.
SEMESTERV
DSE-1A:SoftSkills
GE-1:ContemporaryIndia:WomenandEmpowermentSEC-3:TechnicalWriting
SECIII
ENG-SE-5014
TechnicalWriting
Credits:4 Marks:100(80+20)ThiscourseinTechnicalWritingaimsatequippingthestudentwiththeskillsofwritingwith a practical purpose. It is concerned with the techniques of good writing, ofretainingandcommunicatinginformationwithprecision,andalsowithspecificformsoftechnical writing such as summaries, instructions, descriptions, formal letters andofficialemails.Topicstobedealtwith:
1. Writing as communication: Characteristics of bad technical writing andcharacteristicsofgoodtechnicalwriting.2.Purposeofwritingandtheaudience/targetreaders.3.Theprocessofwriting:planning,drafting,revising.4.Writingstyle:issuesofreadability,sentence-length,vocabulary, jargon,redundancy,circumlocution,choiceofactiveorpassivevoice,etc.5. Writing a summary: title, compactness, completeness, aid to memory, descriptionversusinformativesummary,organizationofasummary.6.Writinginstructions,descriptions,explanations.7.Writingofficiallettersandemails.RecommendedText:-Turk,ChristopherandJohnKirkman:EffectiveWriting:ImprovingScientific,Technical
andBusinessCommunication.LondonandNewYork:E&FNSpon(AnImprintofRoutledge),1982.
-TaylorandFrancise-libraryedition2005.SuggestedReading:
-Wallwork,Adrian:UserGuides,Manuals,andTechnicalWriting:AGuidetoProfessionalEnglish.NewYork:Springer,2014.
-Peters,Pam:TheCambridgeGuidetoEnglishUsage.CUP,2004.-Swan,MichaelandDavidBaker:GrammarScan:DiagnosticTestsforPracticalEnglish
Usage.OxfordUniversityPress,2008.
DisciplineSpecificElectiveI-A
ENG-RE-5016SoftSkills
Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial) Marks:100(80+20)CourseObjectives:
ThepurposeofthisCourseistoequipstudentswiththeresourcesofsoftskillssoastodevelop their overall personality. With this aim the course is designed to make thelearnersunderstandandbeawareabouttheimportance,roleandcontentsofsoftskillsthroughinstructions,knowledgeacquisition,demonstrationandpractice. Ineffectthiscourse hopes to improve the students’ communication, interaction, writing anddocumentationskillsandtherebyhonetheirconfidencelevel.
CourseContents
Someimportantcorecompetenciestobedevelopedare:
• ListeningSkills
• Oralpresentationskills/SpeakingSkills
• Communicationskills
• Selfmanagement
• Resumepreparation
• GDparticipation
• Interviewfacingtechniques
• Creativethinking,problemsolvinganddecision-making
• Leadership
Methodology
Themethodologytobeadoptedshouldbeappropriatetothedevelopmentoftheabovementioned competencies. The focus of the course is on “performing” and not on just“knowing”. Lecturing should therefore be restricted to the minimum necessary andemphasisoughttobegivenforlearningthroughactiveparticipationandinvolvement.Thetrainingmethodswillbeindividualcentredtomakeeachpersonacompetentone.Opportunities for individual work have to be provided by the respective teachers.Demonstrationsusingdifferentmodels, audio visual aids andequipmentwill beusedintensively.
SuggestedReadings
-EnglishandSoftSkills.S.P.Dhanavel,OrientBlackSwan2013-BasicsOfCommunicationInEnglish:FrancisSounderaj,MacMillanIndiaLtd.2011-EnglishforBusinessCommunication:SimonSweeney,CambridgeUniversityPress1997-AnIntroductiontoProfessionalEnglishandSoftSkills:Das,CambridgeUniversityPress,
2009-TheRiseoftheCreativeClass:Andhowit'sTransformingWork,Leisure,Communityand Everydaylife:Florida,R.,BasicBooks,2002
GEI(GenericElective):
ENG-RG-5016
ContemporaryIndia:WomenandEmpowerment
Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)=6 Marks:100(80+20)
Course Objectives/Course Description: This coursewill look atWomen’s Issues inIndiainthelightofthevarioushistoricalandsocialcontexts.Itwilltracetheevolutionof Women’s Empowerment both in terms of policy and discourse in postcolonial,contemporaryIndiaandatthesametimetrytolocatethewomen’spositioninearliertimes.
Thecourseaimsto:
• Studythepositionofwomeninpre-colonialtimes
• Showhowcolonialmodernityimpactswomen
• Studytheimpactofnationalismonwomen
• TracktheWomen’smovementandEmpowermentissuesincontemporaryIndia
CourseOutcome:
Thelearnerwillbeequippedwith:
• AhistoricalunderstandingofthespaceaccordedtowomeninIndiathroughhistory
• Anunderstandingofthemannerinwhichthesocialconstructionofgendercomesabout.
• Theabilitytocritiquethegivenandstereotypicalnotionsofsuchconstructions.
UNIT1:SocialConstructionofGender (15)
• MasculinityandFemininity
• Patriarchy
• WomeninCommunity
UNIT2:HistoryofWomen'sMovementsinIndia(Pre&PostIndependence)(20)
• WomenandNation
• WomenandthePartition
• Women,EducationandSelf-fashioning
• WomeninthePublicandPrivateSpaces
UNIT3:WomenandLaw (15)
• WomenandtheIndianConstitution
• PersonalLaws(CustomarypracticesoninheritanceandMarriage)
• Workshoponlegalawareness
UNIT4:Women’sBodyandtheEnvironment (15)
• Stateinterventions,KhapPanchayats
• Femalefoeticide,Domesticviolence,Sexualharassment
• Eco-feminismandtheChipkoMovement
UNIT5:FemaleVoices (15)
• KamalaDas:“TheOldPlayhouse”
• MahashwetaDevi:Motherof1084
• KrishnaSobti:Zindaginama
RecommendedReading:
• UrvashiButalia,TheOtherSideofSilence:VoicesfromthePartitionofIndia• KumkumSanagari,RecastingWomen:EssaysinColonialHistory
• JudithWalsh,DomesticityinColonialIndia:WhatWomenLearnedWhenMenGaveThemAdvice
• TanikaandSumitSarkar,WomenandSocialReforminModernIndia-Vol1&Vol
• NiveditaMenon,GenderandPoliticsinIndia:ThemesinPolitics
• VandanaShiva&MariaMies,Ecofeminism
SEMESTERVI
DSE-1B:AcademicWritingGE-2:CulturalDiversitySEC-4:BusinessCommunication
DSEI-B
ENG-RE-6016AcademicWriting
Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)=6 Marks:100(80+20) TheEnglishlanguageisthelanguageofhighereducationaswellasthelanguageusedina variety of formal settings. Hence students are expected to develop the requisiteproficiency in academic writing which involves the ability to write summaries,abstracts,reviews,reports,conference/seminarpresentationsetc.Thispaperisaimedatdevelopingacademicwritingskillsbyacquaintingstudentswiththedifferentkindsofacademicwriting and the skills to be acquired towrite academic English for variouspurposes;itwillalsogivethempracticeintheprocessesinvolvedinproducingpiecesofgoodacademicwriting.Thepaperconsistsoftwomodules–module1andmodule2.
Module1:EssentialsofAcademicWriting
This module will familiarize students with samples of different kinds of academicwriting and concentrate on developing the basic skills required for such writing asbuilding up vocabulary for formal use, gathering ideas or data for purposes ofdescriptionorbuildingupanargumentorthesisstatement,organizingtheideassothatthere is coherence and clarity of thinking, making paragraphs and writing withoutgrammaticalandspellingerrors.
Module2:PracticeinAcademicWriting
This module will focus on giving students practice in different kinds of academicwriting-taking them through the processes of making drafts, revising, editing, andwritingthefinalversion.Theyarealsotobetaughttopreparebibliographies,citationsandreferencesforwritingintendedforpublicationinacademicjournals.
SuggestedReading:
Bailey,S.(2011).AcademicWriting-AHandbookforInternationalStudents(3rdedition).NewYork:Routledge
Hartley,J.(2008).AcademicWritingandPublishing-apracticalHandbook.NewYork:OpenUniversityPress.
Swales,J.M&Peak,C.B(2001)AcademicWritingforGraduateStudents-EssentialTasksandSkills.Michigan:TheUniversityofMichiganPress.
GEII:
ENG-RG-6016CulturalDiversity
Credits:5(Theory)+1(Tutorial)=6 Marks:100(80+20)Thispaperisdesignedtofacilitatethestudent’sengagementwithandunderstandingofculturalcontexts,situationsandtherichvarietyofpracticesthroughasamplingofsuchtextsthatrepresentthewidelytexturedtapestryemanatingfromdifferentlocationsoftheworld.Therewillbe80marksfortheend-semesterexternalexaminationand20markswillbeallottedforinternalevaluation.Texts:
• V.S.Naipaul:HouseforMr.Biswas• MarguaretAtwood:Handmaid’sTale• KishwarNaheed,‘TheGrassisReallylikeme’• ShuTing,‘AssemblyLine’• GabrielOkara,‘TheMysticDrum’• KersyKatrak:“ColabaCauseway”• SeamusHeaney:“MaighdeanMara”• Forster:“DoesCultureMatter?”• JanMorris:“LaPaz”• PaulineKael:“MoviesonTelevision• GeorgeBernardShaw:Pygmalion
SuggestedReading:-SarahLawall,‘Preface’and‘Introduction’,inReadingWorldLiterature:Theory,History,
Practice,ed.SarahLawall(Austin,Texas:UniversityofTexasPress,1994)pp.ix–xviii,1–64.
-DavidDamrosch,HowtoReadWorldLiterature?(Chichester:Wiley-Blackwell,2009)pp.1–64,65–85.
-TheD’haenet.al.,eds.,‘Introduction’,inWorldLiterature:AReader(London:Routledge,2012).
-C.D.Narasimhaiah,eds.AnAnthologyofCommonwealthPoetry,ed.(Delhi:Macmillan,1990)
-KishwarNaheed,WetheSinfulWomen(NewDelhi:Rupa,1994)-ShuTing,ASplinteredMirror:ChinesePoetryFromtheDemocracyMovement,tr.Donald
Finkel,additionaltranslationsbyCarolynKizer(NewYork:NorthPointPress,1991)
SEC-4
ENG-SE-6014
BusinessCommunicationCredits:4 Marks:100(80+20)
This paper is designed to familiarize studentswith a comprehensive idea of effectivecommunicationanditsimportanceinthebusinessandprofessionalworld.Studentswillbeintroducedtothevariouskindsofcommunicationaswellastothemanytheoriesofcommunication. The components in this paper will be both written and oral, andstudentswillberequiredtoparticipateindiversegroupactivities.Activities(individualand/orgroup)onthespokencomponentsof thepaperwillbeconsideredfor internalassessment in this paper, while the end-semester examination will focus on thetheoretical andwrittenelementsof thepaper.Theend-semesterexamination for thispaperwillbeof80marksandinternalassessmentwillbeof20marks.
Thispaperwillfocusonthefollowingkeytopics:
• IntroductiontotheessentialsofBusinessCommunication:Theoryandpractice• Citingreferences,andusingbibliographicalandresearchtools• Structure,vocabulary,pronunciation,andcomprehensionskills• Writingrésumésandfacinginterviews• Reportwriting• Writingmemosandcirculars• Summarizingannualreportofcompanies• Préciswriting• Writingminutesofmeetings• E-correspondence• Groupdiscussion• SpokenEnglishforbusinesscommunication• Makingoralpresentations
SuggestedReadings:
-Scot,O.;ContemporaryBusinessCommunication.Biztantra,NewDelhi.-Lesikar,R.V.&Flatley,M.E.;BasicBusinessCommunicationSkillsforEmpoweringthe InternetGeneration,TataMcGrawHillPublishingCompanyLtd.NewDelhi.-Ludlow,R.&Panton,F.;TheEssenceofEffectiveCommunications,PrenticeHallOf IndiaPvt.Ltd.,NewDelhi.-R.C.Bhatia,BusinessCommunication,AneBooksPvtLtd,NewDelhi-Bovee,Courtland,JohnThill&MukeshChaturvedi.BusinessCommunicationToday.
DorlingKindersley,Delhi-Booher,Dianna.E-Writing:21stCenturyToolsforEffectiveCommunication.New
York:PocketBooks,adivisionofSimon&Schuster,Inc.,-Guffey,MaryEllen.BusinessCommunication:ProcessandProduct.5thed.Cincinnati,Ohio:South-WesternCollegePublishing
-Guffey,MaryEllen.EssentialsofBusinessCommunication,SixthEdition.South-WesternCollegePublishing.