B.A.(English) Semester I Syllabus

PART I: COMMUNICATION SKILLS - I

Course Code: 11211B  

Learning objectives:  

1. To make students to understand the basic skills of Communication.

2. To acquaint students with the important features of Communication skills.

BLOCK I: COMMUNICATION: AN INTRODUCTION

Unit - I Communication – Meaning – Types- Importance

Unit – II Barriers to Effective Communication – Principles – Principles of Effective Communication

BLOCK II: ORAL COMMUNICATION

Unit – III Oral Communication – Meaning – Importance- Forms of Oral Communication

Unit – IV Intonation –Meaning – Function- Types Preparation of Speech- Steps Involved

Unit – V Principles of Effective Oral Communication

BLOCK III: WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

Unit – VI Written Communication – Meaning –Steps – Importance- Advantages Use of words and Phrases

Unit – VII Sentence – Meaning –Sentence formation- Characteristics of an Effective Sentence

Unit–VIII Paragraph Writing –Essay Writing –Steps Involved –Outline-Layout – Contents-Drafting-Correction- Final Draft

BLOCK IV: OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION

Unit – IX Application for Employment and Curriculum Vitae –Steps involved

Unit – X Non –Verbal Communication – Meaning –Types –Body Language –Postures-Gestures –Facial Expressions –Eye Contact

Unit – XI Report Writing –Report –Types of Reports –Format of a Report

Unit – XII Essentials of a Good Report –Preparation of Report-Procedure Involved

Unit – XIII Meetings-Purpose of the Meeting – Procedure

Unit–XIV Group Discussion–Quality of Content-Participation –Logical Presentation –Behavioural Skills

References:

1. Krishna Mohan & Meera Banerjee, Developing Communication Skills, 2005.

2. Geetha Nagaraj, Write to Communicate, 2004.

3. Wren & Martin, English Grammar and Composition, 2002.

4. Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People, 1981.

5. Dale R Jordan, Language Skills and Use.

6. Gartside L. Bahld, Nagammiah and McComas, Satterwhite, Modern Business Correspondence.

7. Rajendra Pal and Kortahalli J S, Essentials of Business Communication.

8. Wallace, Michael J, Study Skills in English.

9. Editors of Readers Digest, Super Word Power.

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11212 PART-II : ENGLISH PAPER - I

Learning objective:

1. To make the students master the different topics prescribed in the Prose, 

Grammar and Composition.

BLOCK I: PROSE I

Unit – I Water-the Elixir of life - C.V. Raman

Unit – II Mrs. Packletide‗s Tiger - SAKI

Unit – III A Deed of Bravery - Jim Carbett

Unit – IV The Cat - Catharine M.Willson

Unit – V On Letter Writing - Alpha of the Plough

BLOCK II: PROSE II

Unit – VI Our Ancestors - Carl Sagan

Unit – VII Our Civilization - C.E.Foad

Unit – VIII A Hero on Probation - B.R. Nanda

Unit – IX Dangers of Drug Abuse - Hardin B. Fones

Unit – X Food - J.B.S. Haldane

BLOCK III: DEVELOPING GRAMMATICAL SKILLS

Unit – XI - Articles-Gerunds-Participles-Infinitives-Modals-Proposition-

Tenses

Unit – XII - Direct and Indirect Speech-Transformation of sentences- Active 

and passive voice.

BLOCK IV: DEVELOPING WRITING SKILLS

Unit – XIII - Letter writing - Precis writing - Developing hints.

Unit – XIV - Dialogue writing - Paragraph writing.

References:

1. Sebastian D K, Prose for the Young Reader, Macmillan.

2. Active English Grammar, Ed. by the Board of Editors,Macmillan.

3. Modern English – A Book of Grammar Usage and Composition by.....     

Course Code

Title of   the Course

11213

LITERARY FORMS

Learning objective:

1. To enrich the knowledge of the students with different literary forms.

BLOCK I: POETRY - I

Unit – I - Lyric

Unit – II - Ode

Unit – III - Sonnet

Unit – IV - Elegy

Unit – V - Epic

BLOCK II: POETRY- II

Unit – VI - Ballad Unit – VII - Mock epic Unit – VIII - Satire

Unit – IX - Idyll

BLOCK III: DRAMA

Unit – X - Tragedy –Comedy-Tragic Comedy-Farce –Masque

Unit – XI - One act Plays-Absurd drama-Melodrama

BLOCK IV: FICTION AND ESSAY

Unit – XII - Historical –Social –Picaresque –Regional novel –Sentimental – Psychological epistolary- Gothic- Detective – Dramatic –Science fiction

Unit – XIII - Essay – Aphoristic –Character –Critical –periodical – personnel, 20th Century essay.

Unit – XIV - Short story –Biography –Auto biography

References:

1. Abrahams, M.H, A Glossary of Literary Terms, California, Wadsworth Publishing, 2011.

2. Boulton, Marjorie, Anatomy of the Novel, New Delhi, Kalyani Publishing, 2006.

3. Rees, R, J., English Literature: An Introduction for Foreign Readers, London, Macmillan, 1973.

Seturaman, V.S., Indra, C.T, Practical Criticism, Madras, Macmillan, 1990 

11214

ELIZABETHAN  LITERATURE

Learning objective:

1. To acquaint the students with the British prose, poetry and drama written during the Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline and the Pre-Restoration years.

BLOCK I: POETRY - I

Unit – I Shakespeare‗s England (1564-1616) I Shakespeare‗s England II

The England of Charles and Cromwell

Unit –II Edmund Spenser : Prologue to Faerie Queen

Unit – III Sir Philip Sidney : The Nightingale

Unit – IV Thomas Nashe : A Litany in time of plague

BLOCK II: POETRY –II

Unit – V John Donne : The Funeral

Unit – VI Andrew Marvel : To his Coy Mistress

Unit – VII George Herbert : The Pulley

Unit – VIII William Shakespeare‗s : When to the sessions of sweet silent

Thought

Unit – IX

Robert Herrick

: Delight in Disorder

BLOCK III: ESSAY AND NOVEL

Unit – X

Bacon‗s Essay

: Of Truth, Of Nobility, Of Ambition,   Of

Simulation and Dissimulation

Unit – XI

Thomas More

: Utopia Book I&II

BLOCK IV: DRAMA

Unit – XII

Christopher  Marlowe

: Edward   II

Unit – XIII

Ben Johnson

: The Alchemist

Unit – XIV

Thomas Dekker

: The Shoemaker‗s Holiday

References:

1. "Elizabethan Literature", Encyclopedia Britannica.

2. "Elizabeth I, Queen of England 1533–1603", Anthology of British Literature,

Peterborough: Broadview, 2009, p. 683.

3. Nicholl, Charles (1990). "'Faustus' and the Politics of Magic". London Review of Books. pp. 18–19. Retrieved 11 May 2015.

4. John O‗Connell (2008). "Sex and books: London'smost erotic writers". Time Out. Retrieved 26 November 2015.

5. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Sixteenth/Early Seventeenth Century, Volume B, 2012, p. 647.

6. Poetry, LII (1939). Elizabethan Poetry. Modern Essays in Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967.

7. Poetry, LII (1939). Elizabethan Poetry. Modern Essays in Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967: 98.

8. The Oxford Companion to English Literature (1996), pp. 266–7.