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SECOND SEMESTER

Course Code

Title of   the Course

11221B

PART-I : COMMUNICATION SKILLS - II

Learning objectives:

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

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

BLOCK I: INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Unit – I Code and Content of Communication Skills

Unit– II Stimulus and Response of Communication Skills

BLOCK II: SPEAKING SKILLS

Unit – III Effective Speaking Guidelines

Unit – IV Pronunciation Etiquette of Communication Skills

Unit – V Phonetics in Communication Skills

BLOCK III: LANGUAGE SKILLS

Unit – VI A self Assessment of Communicating Soft Skills

Unit – VII Language Skills –Ability –Skill Selected Need- Learner Centre activities

Unit – VIII Listening Skills –Importance –Types of Listening- InterviewSkills

Unit – IX Conversation Skills –Modes

Unit – X Presentation Skills - Preparing –Planning-Presentation

BLOCK IV: WRITING SKILLS

Unit – XI Written Communication –Structure of Effective Sentences –Paragraph

Unit – XII Technical Writing-Creative Writing- Editing and Publishing

Unit – XIII Corporate Communication Skills-Internal –Effective business writing – Letters, Proposals, Resume

Unit – XIV Corporal Communication Skills-External - Press release - Newsletters- Interviewing skills

References:

1. Dutt. Kiranmai & Geeta Rajjevan. Basic Communication Skills. Rev.ed. Foundation Books Pvt.Ltd. Cambridge House, New Delhi 2006.

2. Bill R. Swetmon. Communication Skills for the 21st Century. Chennai: Eswar Press. First South Asian Edition 2006.

3. Glass. Lillian. Talk to Win. New York: Perigee Books, 1987.

4. Pease. Alan. Signals: How to Use Body Language for Power, Success and Love, New York: Bantam Books, 1981.

5. Walters. Lilly. Secrets of Successful Speakers. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993.

6. Mandal. S.K. How to Succeed in Group Discussions & Personal Interviews. Mumbai: JAICO Publishing House.

7. Rogoff. Leonard and Ballenger. Grady. Office Guide to Business Letters, Memos & Reports. New York: Macmillan, 1994.

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

9. Geetha Nagaraj, Write to Communicate, 2004.

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

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

SECOND SEMESTER

Course Code

Title of   the Course

11222

PART-II : ENGLISH PAPER - II

Learning objective:

1. To make the students master the different topics prescribed in the Poetry and Language use Sections.

BLOCK I: POETRY - I

Unit – I Sonnet - William Shakespeare

Unit – II Lines Composed upon Westminster Bridge

-William Wordsworth

Unit – III Grecian Urn - John Keats (1795-1827)

Unit – IV Andrea Del Sarto - Robert Browning (1812-1889)

BLOCK II: POETRY - II

Unit – V The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Unit – VI Strange Meeting - Wilfred Owen (1813-1918)

Unit – VII Gitanjali - Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1946)

Unit – VIII The Coromandel Fishers - Sarojini Naidu

Unit – IX The Express - Stephen Spender

BLOCK III: DRAMA

Unit – X Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice

BLOCK IV: DEVELOPING LANGUAGE SKILLS

Unit – XI Essay writing Unit – XII Note Making Unit – XIII Report writing

Unit – XIV Comprehension References:

1. The Golden Quill, P.K. Seshadri, Macmillan.

2. The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare. (Any overseas edition).

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

4. Modern English – A Book of Grammar Usage and Composition by N.Krishnaswamy, Macmillan Publishers.

SECOND SEMESTER

Course Code

Title of the Course

11223

RESTORATION LITERATURE

Learning objective:

1. To make the students study the literary trends and new classical movement through the poems, prose and plays written during the Restoration and the past restoration years.

BLOCK I: POETRY - I

Unit – I

Restoration Period

: Religious, Politics, and Class

Unit – II

John Milton

: ‗L‗ Allegro,   ―Penseroso‖

Unit – III

Alexander Pope

: Atticus   from Epistle to Arbuthnot

Unit – IV

John Dryden

: A Song for St. Cecilia‗s Day

BLOCK II: POETRY - II

Unit – V

Thomas Grey

: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Unit – VI

William Collins

: Ode to   Evening

Unit – VII

William Cowper

: The Castaway

Unit – VIII

William Blake

: The Lamb

BLOCK III: POETRY - III

Unit – IX

William Blake

: The Tiger

Unit – X

Richard Street

: The Spectator

Unit – XI

Joseph Addison

: Westminster   Abbey

BLOCK IV: FICTION AND PLAYS

Unit – XII

Henry Fielding

: Joseph   Andrews

Unit – XIII

Richard  Sheridan

: The School for Scandal

Unit – XIV

Oliver Goldsmith

: She Stoops to Conquer

References:

1. Holman, C. Hugh and Harmon, William (eds.) (1986). A Handbook to Literature. New York: Macmillan Publishing.

2. Dryden, John (1670). The Works of John Dryden, Volume 04, Project Gutenberg. Prepared from Walter Scott's edition. Retrieved 18 June 2005.

3. Holman, C. Hugh and Harmon, William (eds.) (1986). A Handbook to Literature. New York: Macmillan Publishing.

4. Howe, Elizabeth (1992). The First English Actresses: Women and Drama 1660–1700. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

5. Tillotson, Geoffrey and Fussell, Paul (eds.) (1969). Eighteenth-Century English Literature. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich.

6. Todd, Janet (2000). The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. London: Pandora Press.

7. Ward, A. W, & Trent, W. P. et al. (1907–21). The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. New York: G.P. Putnam‗s Sons. Retrieved 11 June 2005.

SECOND SEMESTER

Course Code

Title of   the Course

11224

ROMANTIC  LITERATURE

Learning objectives:

1. To make the students study and appreciate Romantic literature.

2. To acquaint students with the important features of the Romantic age.

BLOCK I: HISTORY OF ROMANTIC LITERATURE

Unit – I The Romantic Movement in England-Romantic Revival-The Writing of the Lyrical Ballad-The Concept of Nature, Reason and Imagination

Unit – II The Return to Nature- Realism-Concept of Introversion-English drama during the Romantic Age-The decline of drama-The Lyric-The Ode

Unit – III The Theory of Poetic Diction-Women‗s writing - The spread of education-The historical Novel

BLOCK II: POETRY - I

Unit – IV Thomas Grey : Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Unit – V William Blake : The Tiger

Unit – VI Robert Burns : Highland Mary

Unit –VII Wordsworth : Ode on Intimations of Immortality

BLOCK III: POETRY - II

Unit –VIII S.T. Coleridge : The Rims of Ancient Mariner

Unit –IX Shelley : Ode to the West Wind –Ode to a Skylark

Unit –X John Keats : Ode to a Nightingale

Unit –XI John Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn

BLOCK IV: FICTION

Unit –XII Olive Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield

Unit –XIII Sir Walter Scott : The Talisman

Unit –XIV Jane Austen : Emma

References:

1. Abrams, M.H. and Stephen Greenblatt, eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Seventh Edition, Volume 2. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

2. Bloom, Harold and Lionel Trilling. Romantic Poetry and Prose... New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.

3. Longley Arthur, Paul. ―Capturing the Antipodes: Imaginary Voyages and the Romantic Imagination."Journal of Australian Studies (2001).

4. Richardson, Alan. British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind.

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001.