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Syllabus, Islamic University, Department of English


Academic Courses
Session: 2006-2007
Department of English
Islamic University
Marks Distribution for B.A (Honours) Courses


First Year
D Course ENG 101
Basic English
80
D Course ENG 102
Introduction to Poetry
80
D Course ENG 103
Introduction to Drama
80
D Course ENG 104
Introduction to Fiction and Non-fiction
80
D Course ENG 105
Old Middle English Literature
80
D Course ENG 106
Studies in English History
80
D Course ENG 107
Introduction to Bengali Literature
80
Total

560
Tutorial
10×7
70
Class Attendance
05×7
35
Class Test
05×7
35
Total

140
Viva-voce

50
Grand Total

750
NC Course108
Islamic Studies/Bangladesh Studies
100

Second Year

D Course ENG 201
Advanced English Language
80
D Course ENG 202
17th Century Poetry
80
D Course ENG 203
Prose from Bacon to Lamb
80
D Course ENG 204
Romantic Poetry
80
D Course ENG 205
Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
80
D Course ENG 206
 Restoration and 18th Century Literature
80
D Course ENG 207
Philosophy
80
D Course ENG 208
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
80
Total

640
Tutorial
10×8
80
Class Attendance
05×8
40
Class Test
05×8
40
Total

160
Viva-voce

50
Grand Total

850


Third Year

D Course ENG 301
Introduction to Linguistics
80
D Course ENG 302
Victorian Literature
80
D Course ENG 303
Literary Theory and Criticism
80
D Course ENG 304
Indian Writing in English
80
D Course ENG 305
English for Professional Purpose
80
D Course ENG 306
Latin American Literature
80
D Course ENG 307
Folklore and Literature
80
D Course ENG 308
History of English Language
80
Total

640
Tutorial
10×8
80
Class Attendance
05×8
40
Class Test
05×8
40
Total

160
Viva-voce

50
Grand Total

850

Fourth Year

D Course ENG 401
English Language Teaching
80
D Course ENG 402
Classic in Translation
80
D Course ENG 403
18th and 19th Century Novel
80
D Course ENG 404
20th Century Critical Theory
80
D Course ENG 405
African Literature
80
D Course ENG 406
Caribbean Literature
80
D Course ENG 407
Asian and Pacific Literature
80
D Course ENG 408
Gender and Literature
80
D Course ENG 409
Post War British Novel
80
Total

720
Tutorial
10×9
90
Class Attendance
05×9
45
Class Test
05×9
45
Total

180
Viva-voce

50
Grand Total

950





FIRST YEAR
D COURSE ENG 101: BASIC ENGLISH
A.                  Phonetics:
Sounds, I PA Symbols, word transcription, intonation and stress
B.                  Word-formation:
Affixes, idiomatic expressions, varieties of English colloquial and informal, standard and formal, British and American etc.  
C.                  Grammar:
i.                  Agreements, phrases and their structures, transformation of sentences
ii.                   Simple sentences and their structures, compound sentences, complex sentences principal and subordinate clauses
iii.               Misplaced modifiers, inversion, parallelism, linkers, defective subordination, incongruity of
D.                  Comprehension:
This part of course will teach students the following abilities:
1.      to react to sensory images
2.      to interpret connotative and denotative meanings
3.      to understand words in context and to select the meaning that fits the context
4.      to understand the main idea of passages of text
5.       to perceive the organization of passages of text
6.       to recognize and interpret figurative expressions
7.       to make inferences, draw conclusions and supply implied details
8.       to identify tone, mood and intent or purpose of the writer
9.      to identify antecedents and pronoun references
10.   to relate ideas from one's past experience to those of text
11.   to identify in/formal language
12.   to understand sentence structures

Basic and advanced reading strategies-vocabulary studies, tone, mood and
purpose, prediction, inference, analysis and interpretation, connotation and
denotation, context and meaning, figurative expressions, organizational
features, skimming, scanning etc.
E.                  Mechanics of Writing:
1.       Paragraph:
Paragraph structure- topic sentence, transitional devices unity, order, coherence, conclusion
2.       Essay:
Essay structure-beginning, middle, end Essay forms- narrative, descriptive, expository, critical
3.      Letter Writing
Formal and informal letter, specific-purpose writing etc.
F.                   Listening and note-taking:
Listening to recorded texts and class lectures and learning to take useful notes based on listening
G.                 Communicative English:
Greeting, in/formal introduction, asking for and giving information, asking for and offering help, advice, suggestion, expressing opinion, complaint, in/ability, obligation, dis/likes, making requests etc.
D COURSE ENG 102: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY

A
:
Rhetoric and Prosody
B
:
Poetry
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
:
Sonnets 116 & 130
Robert Herrick (1591-1671)
:
Delight in Disorder
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
:
Elegy Written in a Country churchyard
John Keats (1795-1821)
:
Odeon a Grecian Urn
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
:
My Last Duchess
TS. Eliot (1888-1965)
:
I he Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939
:
No Second Troy

D COURSE ENG 103: INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA

Sophocles (496-406 BC)
:
Oedipus the King
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
:
The Merchant of Venice
G B. Shaw (1856-1950)
:
Arms and the Man
J. M. Synge
:
Riders to the Sea

D COURSE ENG 104: INTRODUCTION TO FICTION AND NON-FICTION

A
:
Fiction
Katherine Mansfield (1868-1923)
:
The Garden Party
James Joyce (1 882-1941)
:
Evelyn
Edgar Alan Poe
:
The Black Cat
B
:
Non-fiction
George Orwell
:
Shooting an Elephant
D H. Lawrence (1885-193
:
Why the Novel Matters
Aldous Huxley
:
Tragedy and the Whole Truth

D COURSE ENG 105: OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE

Anonymous
:
The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Dream of the Rood, Beowulf
Geoffrey Chaucer
:
The General prologue to the Canter bury Tales
Edmund Spenser
:
The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 1, 9, 10

A COURSE ENG 106: STUDIES IN ENGLISH HISTORY

Chaucer's England, Tudor and Stuart England, The Glorious Revolution, Shakespeare's England, Milton's England, The Romantic Revival, The Victorian Age, Twentieth Century England Up to World War II

A COURSE ENG 107: INTRODUCTION TO BENGALI LITERATURE


:
উপন্যাস
বঙ্কিমচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়
:
বৃষবৃক্ষ
মানিক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়
:
পদ্মা নদীর মাঝি
আখতারুজ্জামান ইলিয়াস
:
চিলেকোঠার সেপাই

:
কবিতা
মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত
:
লক্ষ্মনের প্রতি সুর্পনখা
রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর 
:
বর্ষশেষ বলাকা
কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম
:
দারিদ্র, মানুষ
জীবনানন্দ দাশ 
:
বনলতা সেন, রূপসী বাংলা
শামসুর রহমান
:
স্বাধীনতা তুমি
আল মাহমুদ 
:
সোনালী কাবিন (৫)

:
নাটক
মুনির চৌধুরী
:
কবর

:
ছোটগল্প
রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর 
:
ক্ষুধিত পাষাণ
বিভুতিভূষণ বন্দোপাধ্যায় 
:
পুঁই মাচা




D COURSEENG 201: ADVANCED ENGLISH LANGUAGE
This program aims to develop communication skills and an all-round
understanding of the English language The course covers, reading writing
listening and speaking and also essential grammar, idioms. and vocabulary

Language: (Learn how to use): ellipsis (leaving out words) appropriately, different terms to express nuances of meaning, a wide range of adverbs and adverbial forms and their collections (e.g. deeply, worried), fronting (out came Steve) and There/It/What clauses (what mattered was) Inversion (Had we known...) Prepositional phrases (e.g. be inspired by), Compound nouns and noun phrases. Verbs with closely related meanings appropriately and accurately (e.g. rise, raise, arise), Varied participles and participle phrases (Having left the building…), Subjunctive forms (We propose that she leave), Homonyms (bow and bow), Homophones (Write and rite), Homographs (row and row) without ambiguity.

Speaking: (Learn to) Express your idea and opinions clearly and precisely, orally summarise long demanding texts give clear, detailed accounts and descriptions of complex subjects, integrating themes, developing points and concluding appropriately, give dearly developed presentations on a subject in your field, speak with a good command of broad vocabulary, consistently maintaining a high degree of grammatical accuracy, summarise information from different sources in a coherent presentation, speak with a good command of idiomatic expression and colloquialism

Listening: (Understand) extended speech even when it is not clearly structured, a wide range of idiomatic expressions, slang and colloquialisms including in settings such as a film even poor quality pushie announcement and be able to extract information from them, complex technical information e. g. operating instructions, any spoken language, even delivered at fast native speech, provided you have time to get familiar with the accent.

Reading: Long, demanding texts, and be able orally to summarise these, complex reports, Commentaries, contemporary literary texts correspondence with the occasional use of a dictionary, and extract ideas and opinions, complex instructions, texts written in a very colloquial style containing many idiomatic expressions or slang, manuals, regulations, and contracts in familiar fields, contemporary literary texts in different genres (prose, poetry, drama).


D COURSE ENG 202: 17th CENTURY POETRY

John Donne (1571-1631)
:
The Good-Morrow, Go and Catch a Falling Star, The Canonization, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, The Sun Rising, Death Be Not Proud

Andrew Marvell (1621-78)
:
To His Coy Mistress, The Definition of Love
John Milton (1608-74)
:
Paradise Lost, Books ix and x, Samson Agonistes
George Herbert
:
Easter Wings, Altar
Henry Vaughan
:
Retreat

D COURSE ENG 203: PROSEFROM BACON TO LAMB

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
:
Of Truth, Of Marriage and Single Life, Of Great Place, Of Studies, Of Love
Addison & Steele
:
Selections (total 5) from The Coverley Papers as in Norton anthology
Jonathan Swift
:
A Modest Proposal
Edmund Burke
:
Speech on East India Bill
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
:
Selections (total 3) from Essays of Elia as in Norton Anthology

D COURSEENG 204: ROMANTIC POETRY

William Blake (1757-1827)
:
Selections from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
William Wordsworth
:
The Prelude, Book 1, Immortality Ode, Tintern Abbey
S T. Coleridge (1772-1834)
:
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Dejection: An Ode
John Keats (1795-1821)
:
Ode to A Nightingale, Ode to Autumn, Ode to Melancholy
P B Shelley (1792-1822)
:
Ode to the West Wind, Adonais
Lord Byron (1788-1824)
:
Don Juan, Book 1

D COURSEENG 205: ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN DRAMA

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
:
Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
:
As You like It
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
:
Volpone
Webster (1578-1634)
:
The Duchess of Malfi
Thomas Kyd
:
The Spanish Tragedy

D COURSEENG 206: RESTORATION AND 18Th CENTURY LITERATURE
John Dryden
:
Macflecnoe
Pope (1688-1744)
:
The Rape of the Lock
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
:
Gulliver's Travels, Books1 & 2
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
:
Robinson Crusoe
William Congreve (1670-1729)
:
The Way of the World



THIRD YEAR
 COURSEENG 301: INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS

Linguistics  and the study of Language
Language-definition, characteristics and origins
Relationship between linguistics and literature
Basic concepts in linguistics
Different levels of linguistics phonetics, phonology, morphology
syntax, semantics pragmatics, discourse analysis,
Sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics
Schools of linguistics:
Saussure synchronic/ diachronic, syntagmatic/paradigmatic
langue/parole, signifier/signified
Bloomfield American structuralism
Chomsky: competence/performance
Halliday social context and linguist

D COURSE ENG 302: VICTORIAN LITERATURE

Alfred Tennyson (1809-92)
:
Lotus Eaters, In Memoriam (selection as in Norton Anthology
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
:
Rabbi Ben Ezra, The Last Ride Together, Andrea Dei Sarto
Matthew Arnold (1822-88)
:
The Scholar Gipsy, Thyrsis, Dover Beach, The Forsaken Merman
J.S Mill (1806-1873)
:
On Liberty, Chapter1
Newman (1801-90)
:
The idea of a University, Chapters5, 6
I &7

D COURSE ENG 303: LITERARY THEORY AND PRACTICAL CRITICISM
Aristotle
:
Poetics
Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
:
An Essay on Dramatic Poesy
John Dryden (1631-1700)
:
An Apology for Poetry
Dr. William Johnson (1709-1784)
:
Preface to Shakespeare
Wordsworth (1770-1850)
:
Preface to Lyrical Ballad
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
:
the Study of Poetry
TS. Eliot (1888-1965)
:
Tradition and the Individual Talent

D COURSE ENG 304: INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
R.K. Narayan
:
The Guide
N.C. Chaudhuri
:
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
Anita Desai
:
Clear Light of Day
Amitav Ghosh
:
The Shadow-Lines
Nissim Ezekiel
:
Selected Poems
Arundhuti Roy
:
God of Small Things

D COURSE ENG 305: ENGLISH FOR PROFESSIONALPURPOSES

Business
Letters- Business Reports-Job Applications- Internal Memorandums
- Translation- Editing Developing
Press Copies

D COURSE ENG 306: LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)
:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
:
Selected Poems
Octavio Paz (1914-19998)
:
Selected Essays from Children of the Mire
Gorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
:
Selected Prose Pieces from Labyrinths
Miguel Angel Asturias
:
Mr President

D COURSE ENG 307; FOLKLORE AND LITERATURE
This course is designed to concentrate on the study of Folklore and literature for students who are pursuing degrees in English.  In the Department of English folklore is an integral component of the study of language, literature and culture The program provides professional experiences and skill in folklore leading to further graduate work as well as career in teaching research and public-sector folklore. Students are encouraged to learn about the rich cultural heritage of Bangladesh, though by no means limited geographically or culturally in their studies. Fieldwork and internships can lead to involvement with various festivals and cultural events as well as the Bangladesh Folk- life Program.
The purpose of this course is to introduce the students of English Department the main methods in theories in the two fields folklore and
literature. These fields share a common focus on traditional forms of social, cultural, historical, political, human behavioural act and so on but they (folklore and literature)diverge from one another in important ways as well This course explores both the common ground and some key areas of difference by delving into the inquiry and current research paradigms; basic concepts such as community, tradition, genre and literature; the methods, techniques and procedures used to gather and process information and the issues associated with presenting and representing people in practical public settings and the
characters found in the texts.
- Folklore
- Literature
- Common Ground of both Folklore and Literature
- Key Areas of Differences between Folklore and Literature
- Study of Folklore and Literature based on Community
- Folklore's
Role of Analysing the Social Background of a Text
- Historical Process of Addressing the Issues of Literature and
of the Exceptional individuals
- From Field to Text and Text to Field (Field Based
Work)
- Theoretical Approaches
to the Study of Folklore and Literature in the Global Context
- Folklore, Literature
and Tradition
- Genre
Studies
- Cultural
Studies related to Folklore and Literature
- Folklore
and Literature in the Postmodernist's Perspective
- Folklore
and Literature in the Postcolonial Context
- Folklore
Approach to the Study of Gender and Literature
- Study
of Folklore and Literature in Bangladesh

D COURSE ENG 308: HISTORY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Before
Old English:
The Languages in England before English
The Romans
in Britain
The Roman
Conquest
Romanisation
of the Island
The Latin Language
in Britain
The Teutonic Conquest
Anglo-Saxon Civilisation

Old English:
The Origin and Position of English,
The Periods in the History of English
The Dialects of Old English
Some Characteristics of Old English

Foreign Influences on Old English:
The Contact of English with other Languages
The Celtic Influence
The Latin Influence
The Scandinavian Influence
The Norman Conquest and the Subjection of English, 1066-1200
The Norman Conquest
The Difference of French and English

The Re-establishment of English, 1200-1500:
Separation of the French and English Nobility
The Reaction against Foreigners and the Growth of National feeling
English and French in the Thirteenth Century
The  Rise of the Middle Class
Middle English Literature

Middle English:

Middle English-a Period of Great Change
Anglo-Norman and Central French
The Period of Greatest Influence
The Middle English Dialects and Dialectical Diversity
The Rise of Standard English

The Early Modem and Modern English:

The Renaissance, 1500-1650
Changing Conditions in the Modem period
The problems of the vernaculars
The Struggle for Recognition
General Characteristics of the Period
The temper of the Eighteenth Century
IB Reflection in the Attitude towards the Language
The Problem of Refining the Language
An English Academy
The Nineteenth Century and After Influence Affecting the Language
English as an International Language




American English:
The Settlement of America
The Thirteen Colonies
Uniformity of American English
The Controversy over American English
The Future of English

FOURTH YEAR

D COURSEENG 401: ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (ELT)
i.                    History -of ELT: Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method, Audio Lingual Method.
Chomskyan Revolution and Contemporary Methods: The
Communicative Approach and The Natural Approach
ii.                  Teaching and Testing the four Skills. Listening, Speaking, Reading and
Writing.
iii.                 Testing: General Principles of testing, different types of tests Designing language tests: multiple choice, doze tests, open-ended tests etc.
iv.                 Syllabus Design Purpose, types, construction
Needs Analysis and syllabus design a learner centred approach.
v.                  Teaching Practice: Designing lesson plans class observation, experimental
teaching and feed-back.
vi.                Error-analysis


D COURSEENG 402: CLASSICSIN TRANSLATION
Homer (8th century BC)
:
The Iliad
Virgil (70-19BC)
:
The Aeneid
Aeschylus
:
Agamemnon
Aristophanes
:
The Frogs  
Euripides
:
Medea
Kirtibash Ojha

The Ramayana (Translated by Max Muller)


D COURSEENG 403:1 8th AND 19th CENTURY NOVEL

Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
:
Tom Jones
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
:
 Pride & Prejudice
Emili Bronte (1818-1648)
:
Wuthering Heights
Charles Dickens (1812-1670)
:
Great Expectations
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
:
The Return of the Native


D
COURSE ENG 404: 20TH CENTURY CRITICAL THEORY
Formalism, New Criticism, Structuralism, Psychoanalysis, Marxism Post-Structuralism, Deconstruction and Post-Modernism, Feminism, New Historicism, Post Colonialism, Orientalism, Reception Theory, Eco-criticism

D COURSE ENG 405: AFRICAN LITERATURE

Chinua Achebe
:
Things Fall Apart
Wole Soyinka
:
The Lion and the Jewel
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
:
Petals of Blood
Nadine Gordimer
:
July's People

D COURSE ENG 406: CARIBEAN LITERATURE

WiIson Harris
:
the Palace of the Peacock
V.S. Naipaul
:
A House for Mr. Biswas
Derek Walcot
:
Selected Poems
George Lamming
:
The Pleasures of Exile


D COURSE ENG 407: ASIAN AND THE PACIFIC LITERATURE

imrul Kaes
:
Selected Poems
Yasunari Kawabata
:
The Snow Country
Gao Xingjian
:
Soul Mountain
Patrick White
:
A Fringe of Leaves
Judith Wright

Selected Poems.
Rabindranath Tagore

Home and Abroad (No Translation to be taught and read in Bangla but to be answered in English)


COURSE ENG 408: GENDER AND LITERATURE
Sappho
:
Selected Poems
Simone de Beauvoir
:
The Second Sex (Introduction, Ch. Xt: Myth and Reality)
Helene Cixous
:
The Laugh of Medusa  
Beaum Rokeya
:
Sultana's Dream
Adrienne Rich

Selected Poems


D COURSE ENG 409: POSTWAR BRITISH NOVEL

Graham Green
:
The Heart of the Matter
William Golding
:
Pincher Martin
Doris Lessing
:
The Grass is Singing
Iris Murdoch
:
A Fairly Honorable Defeat
Anthony Burses
:
A Clockwork Orange

















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