PART-I : HUMAN SKILLS DEVELOPMENT - I
Learning objective:
1. To Make the Students develop human skills.
BLOCK I: HUMAN SKILLS AND HABITS
Unit – I Human Skills –Developing skills-Types
Unit – II Mind-Levels of functions
Habits-Meaning-Types-Merits of good habits - Interpersonal Relationship-Features- Interpersonal Behaviour
BLOCK II: PERSONALITY AND SELF CONCEPT
Unit – III Thinking ahead- Significance of thinking ahead
Unit – IV Developing Personality-Meaning -Need- Factors influencing
personality, Ways of developing personality -Building positive personality
Unit – V Self-concept-Self-esteem-Meaning-Importance - Self- efficacy-Self- acceptance- Meaning-Importance - Etiquette-Meaning-Etiquettes in using mobile, telephones-Dais Etiquette
BLOCK III: TYPES OF SKILLS
Unit – VI Goal-setting Skills-Meaning-Types-Importance-
Unit – VII Decision-making skills-Meaning-Types-Steps in decision-making
Unit–VIII Negotiating Skills-Styles-Structure-Creating negotiation-Competitive Negotiation
BLOCK IV: HUMAN RELATIONS
Unit – IX Attitudes-Meaning-Types-Importance-Developing positive attitudes
Unit – X Coping with Change-Meaning-Characteristics-Importance of change Resistance to change-Dealing with change
Unit – XI Leadership-Meaning-Importance-Characteristics-Styles-
Unit – XII Human Relations Skill-Need-Canons of good human relations
Unit – XIII Counselling-Meaning-Importance-Forms- Conflicts-Meaning-Types- Causes-Effects-Managements of conflicts
Unit – XIV Stress-Meaning-Types-Causes-Effects-Managing the stress - Anger- Meaning-Causes-Consequences-Anger Management
References:
1. Les Giblin, Skill with People, 1995.
2. Shiv Khera, You Can Win, 2002.
3. Christian H Godefroy, Mind Power.
4. Dale Carnegie, How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job, 1985.
5. Natalie H Rogers, How to Speak without Fear, 1982.
6. Dale Carnegie, How to Develop Self-Confidence and Influence People by Public Speaking.
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PART-II : ENGLISH PAPER - III
Learning objective:
To make the students master the different topics prescribed in the Short Stories, One Act Plays, Grammar and Composition.
BLOCK I: SHORT STORIES
Unit – I
A Hero
- R.K. Narayanan
Unit – II
The Diamond Necklace
- Guy de Maupassant
Unit – III
The Verger
- Somerset Maugham
Unit – IV
The Postmaster
- Rabindranath Tagore
BLOCK II: ONE ACT PLAYS - I
Unit – V
The Proposal
- Anton Chekhou
Unit – VI
The Boy Comes Home
- A.A. Milne
Unit – VII
The Silver Idol
- James R. Waugh
Unit – VIII
Progress
- St. John Ervine
BLOCK III: ONE ACT PLAYS - II
Unit – IX
The Pie and the Tart
- Huge Chesterman
Unit – X
Reunion
- W.st. Joh Tayleur
Unit – XI
A kind of Justice
- Margaret Wood
Unit – XII
The Refugee
- Asif Currimbhoy
BLOCK IV: GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION
Unit – XIII Parts of speech-Noun- Pronoun- Adjective Degrees of Comparison- Verb- Adverb
Unit – XIV Agenda- Minutes- Notice- Descriptive Writing
References:
1. Aroma, Ed. by the Board of Editors, Publishers- New Century Book House, Chennai.
2. Six Short Stories, Ed. by the Board of Editors, Harrows Publications, Chennai.
3. One Act Plays, Ed. by the Board of Editors, Harrows Publications, Chennai.
4. Modern English – A Book of Grammar Usage and Composition by N.Krishnaswamy, Macmillan Publishers.
5 English for Communication, Ed. by the Board of Editors, Harrows Publications, Chennai.
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VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Learning objective:
1. To make the students study and appreciate Victorian literature.
BLOCK I: POETRY - I
Unit – I Victorian Age : Social, Political, Economic, Religious and
Literary tendencies
Unit – II
R.Browning
: Andrea Del Sarto
Unit – III
Alfred Tennyson
: Ulysses
Unit – IV
Matthew Arnold
: The Scholar Gipsy
BLOCK II: POETRY - II
Unit – V
G.M. Hopkins
: The Wreck of Deutschland
Unit – VI
W.B.Yeats
: Sailing to Byzantium
Unit – VII
T.S. Eliot
: The Waste Land
BLOCK III: CRITICISM
Unit – VIII
Mathew Arnold
: The Study of Poetry
Unit – IX
T.S. Eliot
: Tradition and the Individual Talents
BLOCK IV: FICTION AND PLAYS
Unit – X
Charles Dickens
: Great Expectations
Unit – XI
Thomas Hardy
: Tess of the d‗Urbervilles
Unit – XII
D.H. Lawrence
: Sons and Lovers
James Joyee
: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Unit – XIII
T.S. Eliot
: Murder in the Cathedral
Bernnardshaw
: Pygmalion
Unit – XIV
J.M. Synge
Oscar Wilde
: Riders to the Sea
: The Importance of Being Earnest
References:
1. Introduction and Notes for The Tenant of Wild fell Hall. Penguin Books. 1996.
2. Stedman, Jane W. (1996). W. S. Gilbert, A Classic Victorian & His Theatre, pp. 26–29. Oxford University Press.
3. Evans, Denise; Onorato, Mary. "Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism". Enotes. Gale Cengage. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
4. Khale, Brewster. "Early Children's Literature". Children's Books in the Victorian Era. International Library of Children's Literature. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
5. Dawson, Carl (1979). Victorian High Noon: English Literature in 1850.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U. Press.
THIRD SEMESTER
Course Code
Title of the Course
11234
INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Learning objectives:
1. To initiate the learners to the varied genres of Indian EnglishLiterature as a distinct part of Indian Literature.
2. To inculcate in the learners the values enshrined in this two – hundred – year old literature which has grown in volume, variety, scope, scholarship and depth.
BLOCK I: PROSE
Unit – I
Jawaharlal Nehru
: The Discovery of India
Unit – II
Swami Vivekananda
: Addresses at the Parliament of World
Religions
BLOCK II: POETRY
Unit – III
Toru Dutt
: Our Casuarina Tree
Unit – IV
Rabindranath Tagore
: The Heaven of Freedom
Unit – V
Aurobindo Ghose
: Satyavan and Savitri
Unit – VI
Nissim Ezekiel
: Night of the Scorpion
Unit – VII
Kamala Das
: An Introduction
BLOCK III: NOVEL
Unit – VIII
Mulk Raj Anand
: Untouchable
Unit – IX
R.K. Narayanan
: The English Teacher
Unit – X
Kamala Markandaya
: A Handful of Rice
Unit – XI
Anita Desai
: Fire on the Mountain
BLOCK IV: DRAMA AND FICTION
Unit – XII
Vijay Tendulkar
: Silence! The Court is in Session!
Unit – XIII
Girish Karnad
: Tughlaq
Unit – XIV
Ruskin Bond
: Tiger in the Tunnel
References:
1. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar. Indian Writing in English. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
2. M.K. Naik. A History of Indian English Literature. Sahitya Akademi.
3. C.D. Narasimhaiah. The Swan and the Eagle. Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
4. Paul C. Verghese. Problems of the Indian Creative Writer in English. Somaiya Publications.
5. M.K. Naik. Perspectives on Indian Prose & Drama in English.
6. Haq, Kaiser (ed.). Contemporary Indian Poetry. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990.
7. Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (ed.). A History of Indian Literature in English. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Distributed in India by Doaba Books Shanti Mohan House 16, Ansari Road, New Delhi.
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