BA English (Hons) Syllabus

EBH 101 The structure of modern English
L T P C
3 1 0 4
SEM - I
Unit – 1
Parts of speech- Nouns, Pronouns, Verb, Adverb, Adjective, Conjunctions, Prepositions, Interjection ( in
short), Articles, Tenses
10 hrs
Unit – 2
Active and Passive Voice, Agreement of verb with the subject, Antonyms, Synonyms, Homonyms,
Homophones,
10 hrs
Unit – 3
One word Substitution, Suffix Prefix, Sentence Formation, Transformation of Sentences
0 8 hrs
Unit – 4
Paragraph writing, Types of Paragraph and Guidelines, Listening (Definition, guidelines and types),Group
Discussion (Speaking)
0 8 hrs
Unit – 5
Debate (Speaking), Extempore (Speaking), Reading ( Definition, types, guidelines), Comprehension
Passages.
08hrs.
TEXT.
English Grammar and composition by M A Pink and S E Thomas---- S Chand and sons.
High School English Grammar and composition by Wren and Martin.
Reference
A Dictionary of modern Usage---- Oxford University Press.
A practical English Grammar by Thomson and Martin
Professional Communication by Malti Aggarwal.
EBH 102 - Communication Skills in English
L T P C
3 1 0 4
SEM---I
Unit – 1
Basics of Human Communication, Types of Communication, Characteristics of Communication, Barriers
to Communication
10 hrs
Unit – 2
Process and Cycle of Communication, Dimensions of Business Communication, Communication in an
organization, Intra personal Communication
10 hrs
Unit – 3
Interpersonal Communication, Non- Verbal Communication, Body Language, Kinesics Communication,
Proxemics Communication,
08 hrs
Unit – 4
Hepatic Communication, Paralinguistic Communication, Chromatics, Intra- Cultural Communication,
08 hrs
Unit – 5
Inter- Cultural Communication, Cross- Cultural Communication, Employment Communication for Career
Advancement, Case Study
08 hrs
TEXT
Business communication by Shalini Verma — Pearson Publication
Professional Communication by Aruna Koneru - Tata McGraw–Hill Publication.
Reference.
Business communication by R C Bhatia--- Ane Books Pvt
Communication Skills by Sanjoy Kumar and Pushp Lata.
Oxford Publication.
Basic Technical Communication by Malti Aggarwal—Krishna Prakashan Media (P) Ltd
EBH 103- English for Practical Purposes
L T P C
SEM – I
3 1 0 4
Unit – 1
Business Letters-, Types of letters, Drafting of Letters, Notice, Agenda, Minutes, Memorandum
10 hrs
Unit – 2
Email Writing (Guidelines and etiquettes), Report Writing (Types, Structure, Guidelines), Proposal
Writing (Types, Structure, Guidelines)
10 hrs
Unit – 3
Advanced Vocabulary – Phrasal Verbs, Idioms, Metaphors, Similes, Alliterations, Figures of speech
08 hrs
Unit – 4
Story Writing, Creative Writing, Critical Appreciation of books, Critical Appreciation of movies, 08 hrs
Unit- 5
Critical Appreciation of poetry, Critical appreciation of News paper articles, Business Etiquettes and
Professionalism, Culture specific Business Etiquette
08 hrs
TEXT
Technical Communication by Meenakshi Raman.
Professional Communication by Aruna Koneru – Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited
Reference
Idioms and Phrases by Dr Ashok Kumar Singh – Arihant Publications (I) Pvt Ltd
Advanced Technical Communication by Malti Agarwal – Krishna Prakashan Media (P) Ltd
Oxford Language Reference by Jonathan Law – Oxford Publication
Functional skills in language and Literature by R P Singh---- Oxford University Press.
EBH—201-- ENGLISH ESSAYS
L T P C
SEM - II
3 1 0 4
Unit – 1
Bertrand Russell----Machine and the Emotion
8 hrs
Unit – 2
F Maxmueller------What can India Teach us.
8hrs
Unit -3
C E M Joad----- A Dialogue on Civilization.
Francis Bacon----- Of Studies
12 hrs
Unit – 4
Mahatma Gandhi ---- To students.
08 hrs
Unit – 5
Swami Vivekananda-----Chicago Address.
Reference
My First Acquaintance with the Poets; Going on a Journey by William Hazlitt.
The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Lamb
Ba o ’s Essays, F G Siby. Macmillan. 1889.
My Experiments with Truth by
Mahatma Gandhi.
08 hrs
EBH 202 – Forms of Literature
L T P C
SEM - II
3 1 0 4
Unit – 1
Forms of Poetry
12 hrs
Unit – 2
Forms of Drama
12 hrs
Unit – 3
Forms of Novel
12 hrs
Unit – 4
Forms of Short Stories
TEXT
A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams(7TH Edition)
Reference
Mirrors and Lamps by M H Abrams.
8 hrs
EBH-203- LITERARY CRITICISM (PAPER 1) (From Aristotle to Leavis)
LTPC
SEM – II
3104
Unit - 1
Aristotle----Poetics, Longinus------ On the Sublime.
12 hrs
Unit - 2
Philip Sydney------- An Apology for Poetry, Samuel Johnson------- From the Preface to the plays of
Shakespeare.
12 hrs
Unit - 3
W. Wordsworth---- From Preface to Lyrical Ballads, T S Coleridge---- From Biographia Literaria.
10 hrs
Unit – 4
T. S. Eliot----Tradition and Individual Talent, F. R. Leavis---- The Great Tradition
Text
Poetics
by Aristotle
On the Sublime by Longinus.
An Apology for Poetry
by Philip Sydney.
From Preface to the plays of Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson.
From Preface to Lyrical Ballads by W Wordsworth.
From Biographia Liter aria by T S Coleridge.
Tradition and individual talent by T S Eliot
The Great Tradition by F R Leavis
10 hrs
EBH ---301—HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
LTPC
SEM - III
31o4
Unit I
The age of Chaucer
Elizabethan Period
10 hrs
Unit II
Restoration Period
Neo classical Period
08 hrs
Unit III
Romantic Period
8 hrs
Unit IV
Victorian Period
8 hrs
Unit V
Modern Period
Contemporary Period
8 hrs
Text
A history of English literature
by Satish Kumar.
Growth and Structure of English Language. by Otto Jespersen
The Making of English by H Bradley.
REFERENCE
Critical History of English Literature by David Daiches
EBH- 302- Recent Literary Criticism
LTPC
SEM – III
3104
Unit – 1
New Criticism, Russian Formalism, Marxism
12 hrs
Unit – 2
Structuralism, Post Colonial Theory
12 hrs
Unit – 3
Post Structuralism, Feminism
10 hrs
Unit – 4
Reader Response Theory, Eco- Criticism
REFERENCE
Principles of Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism
by I A Richardson.
by B Das and J B Mohanty
Critical Approaches to Literature by David Daiches.
Beginning Theory
by Peter Barry
Literary Criticism
by Enright & Chikera
10 hrs
EBH- 303- BRITISH POETRY
LTPC
SEM – III
3104
Unit – 1
John Milton- On his Blindness,
Sonnet of William Shakespeare(Sonnet no 116)
8 hrs
Unit – 2
William Blake- Tiger
William Wordsworth- Tintern Abbey
S. T. Coleridge- The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
10 Hrs
Unit – 3
P. B. Shelly- Ode to the West Wind
John Keats- Ode to nightingale
08 Hrs
Unit – 4
Lord Tennyson - Tithonus
08 hrs
Unit – 5
Robert Browning – My Last Duchess
Christina Rossetti – The Queen of Hearts
10 hrs
REFERENCE
Elizabethan Poetry; Lyrical and Narrative. by G Hammond ( London 1984)case book series
The Romantic Agony
by M Praz.
Coleridge and Words worth and the poetry growth by S Pricket.
Keats, the poet by S M Sperry.
Shelly, His thought and work
by D King Halo.
EBH-401- BRITISH NOVEL
LTPC
SEM - IV
3104
Unit – 1
Jane Austen- Pride and Prejudice,
7 hrs
Unit – 2
Jane Austen--- Pride and Prejudice.
7 hrs
Unit – 3
Emily Bronte- Wuthering Heights
7hrs
Unit – 4
Emily Bronte---Wuthering Heights
7 hrs
Unit- 5
Thomas Hardy – The Mayor of Caster bridge
Text
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wuthering Height by Emily Bronte.
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy.
REFERENCE
Robinson Crusoe
Jane Eyre
by Daniel Defoe.
by Charlotte Bronte.
The Popular Novels in England.
by J M S Tomkins.
16 hrs
EBH—402— BRITISH DRAMA
LTPC
SEM - IV
3104
Unit – 1
Christopher Marlowe- Dr. Faustus
08 hrs
Unit – 2:
Christopher Marlowe- Dr. Faustus
08 hrs
Unit – 3:
William Shakespeare- Macbeth
08 hrs
Unit – 4:
William Shakespeare- Macbeth
08 hrs
Unit – 5:
Bernard Shaw- Candida
Text
Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
Candida by Bernard Shaw.
REFERENCE
Hamlet.
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Pygmalion, Man and the Arms by Bernard Shaw.
British Drama by Allardyce Nicoll
12 hrs
EBH –403 –PHONETICS AND HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
LTPC
SEM - IV
3104
Unit – 1
History of English Language
10 hrs
Unit – 2
Varieties of English Language
10 hrs
Unit – 3
Phonemes , Syllables , I.P.A. Symbols, Allophone
08 hrs
Unit – 4
Stress & Intonation
08 hrs
Unit – 5
Phonetic Transcription
REFERENCE
Phonetic book by V. Sarasvati
English Language Skills – I by Aruna Koneru.
History of English Language –by A.C. Baugh
08 hrs
EBH-501--- AMERICAN NOVEL
SEM - V
LTPC
3104
Unit – 1
Hemmingway- A Clean Well lighted Place
12 hrs
Unit – 2
Toni Morrison- The Bluest Eye
08 hrs
Unit – 3
Toni Morrison- The Bluest Eye
08 hrs
Unit – 4:
Hawthorne- The Scarlet Letter
08 hrs
U nit – 5:
Hawthorne- The Scarlet Letter
08 hrs
Text
A Clean Well Lighted Place by Hemming way.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne.
REFERENCE
From Puritanism to Post Modernism : A History of American Literature by Malcolm Bradbury and
Richard Ruland
A brief History of American Literature by Richard Gray
EBH- 502----- AMERICAN DRAMA
LTPC
SEM - V
3104
Unit – 1
Arthur Miller- Death of a Salesman
12 hrs
Unit – 2
Eugene O’Neil – The Hairy Ape
08 hrs
Unit – 3
Eugene O’Neil – The Hairy Ape
08 hrs
U nit – 4
Eugene O’Neil- Desire under the Elms
08 hrs
Unit – 5
Eugene O’Neil- Desire under the Elms
08 hrs
Text
Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller
The Hairy Ape by Euge e O’ Neil
Desire u der the El s y Euge e O’ Neil.
REFERENCE
From Puritanism to Post Modernism : A History of American Literature by Malcolm Bradbury and
Richard Ruland
A brief History of American Literature by Richard Gray
EBH—503----AMERICAN POETRY
LTPC
SEM - V
3104
Unit – 1
Walt Whitman- Oh Captain! My Captain!, Song of Myself
10 hrs
Unit – 2
Emily Dickinson- I measure every grief I meet, Emily Dickinson- Because I could not stop for death 10 hrs
Unit – 3
Henry Wadsworth Long Fellow- A psalm of Life, Sylvia Plath- Daddy
08 hrs
Unit – 4
Wallace Stevens- The Emperor of Ice cream, Adrianne Rich- Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
08 hrs
Unit – 5
Robert Frost- Mending Wall, Robert Frost- Stopping by the Wood in a Snowy Evening
08 hrs
REFERENCE
Literary History of the United States by Robert Spillage.
American Renaissance
by F O Matthiessen
Concise Anthology of American Literature by George Mc Michel.
From Puritanism to Post Modernism : A History of American Literature by Malcolm Bradbury and
Richard Ruland
A brief History of American Literature by Richard Gray
EBH---504---CONTEMPORARY INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION
LTPC
SEM - V
3104
Unit - 1
Short Story- The Empty Chest ---- Indira Goswami,
12 hrs
Short Story- The Compromise ----Vijaydan Detha
Unit – 2
Novel- ---Tamas ---- Bhisham Sahani
08 hrs
Unit – 3
Novel- ---Tamas ---- Bhisham Sahani
08 hrs
Unit – 4
Novel- ---Outcast ---- Mahasweta Devi
08hrs
Unit – 5
Novel- ---Outcast ---- Mahasweta Devi
TEXT
The Empty Chest. by Indira Goswami
The Compromise by Vijaydan Detha
Tamas by Bhisam Sahani
Outcast by Mahasweta Devi.
Reference
Shishu by Mahasweta Devi .
Ek Baat by Amrita Pritam
Ghansiram Kotwal by Vijay Tendulkar.
Selections from Kabir by A K Mehrotra..
08hrs
EBH—601--- INDIAN NOVEL
L T P C
SEM - VI
3 10 4
Unit – 1
Mulk Raj Anand-----Untouchable
10 hrs
Unit – 2
R K NARAYAN---Guide
09 hrs
Unit – 3
R K NARAYAN---Guide
09 hrs
Unit – 4
Anita Desai-----Cry, the Peacock
08 hrs
Unit – 5
Anita Desai-----Cry, the Peacock
TEXT
Guide by R K Narayan
Cry, the peacock by Anita Desai
Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
REFERENCE
A History of Indian English literature by M.K Naik
Indian Writing in English by K.R Srinivas Ayengar
08 hrs
EBH—602-- INDIAN POETRY
L T P C
SEM – VI
3 1 0 4
Unit – 1
Toru Dutta----- Our old casurina tree,.
Sarojini Naidu----- Palanquin Bearer
08 hrs
Unit – 2
Rabindranath Tagore--- Where the mind is without fear, Rabindranath Tagore- -I had gone a-begging
from door to door.
10 hrs
Unit – 3
Nissim Ezekiel-----Night of the scorpion,.
08 hrs
Unit – 4
A K Ramanujan------- River. In India, Kamala Dass---- Old play house
08 hrs
Unit – 5
Vikram Seth ----- The song of the Nightingale, Rudyard Kipling------- If,
Reference
Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
Poems written by Sarojini Naidu
Poems written by Rudyard Kipling
Poems written by Nissim Ezekiel
Modern Indian Poetry in English by Bruce King
Three Indian Poets by B King
08 hrs
EBH ---603— INDIAN ENGLISH DRAMA
L T P C
SEM – VI
3 1 0 4
Unit – 1
R. Tagore---- Sacrifice
12 hrs
Unit – 2
Girish Karnad------ Tughlaq.
08 hrs
Unit – 3
Girish Karnad------ Tughlaq.
08 hrs
Unit – 4
Vijay Tendulkar------ Kanyadan.
08 hrs
Unit – 5
Vijay Tendulkar------ Kanyadan.
TEXT
Tughlaq by Girish Karnad
Kanyadan by Vijay Tendulkar.
Sacrifice by Rabindranath Tagore.
REFERENCE
A History of Indian English Literature by M.K.Naik
08 hrs
EBH----604--- Russian Literature
L T P C
3 10 4
SEM – VI
Unit --1
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
08 hrs
Unit II
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
08 hrs
Unit III
Mother by Maxim Gorky
08 hrs
Unit IV
Mother by Maxim Gorky
08 hrs
Unit V
The Bet by Anton Chekov
The Man in the Case by Anton Chekov
TEXT
Mother by Maxim Gorky
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Short Stories by Anton Chekov
Reference
Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
12 hrs