Program Outcomes
- Students will be able to appreciate literary/linguisticdevelopments of different countries and different periods.
- Students will comprehend major trends, movements and ‘-isms’ and different critical/linguistic approaches.
- Students will develop acumen to appreciate, interpret and critically evaluate prescribedtexts.
- Students will be able to interpret, analyse and evaluate different varieties of written and spoken English.
- Students will be able to analyse unseen poem and prose stylistically.
- Students will learn different approaches to syllabus design and methods of teaching.
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Program Specific Outcomes
- The student will be well versed with the major literary trends and movements and schools of criticism.
- The student will be acquainted with various schools of linguistics and applied linguistics.
- The student will be familiar with research practices in language and literature.
- The student will compose a dissertation based on approved research topic.
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Course code
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Course title
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Course Outcomes
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Part-I Semester-I
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69786
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C1: Poetry in English up to 19th century
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69787
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C2:Fiction in English up to 19th century
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- Students will be able to appreciate fiction of different countries up to 19th Century in the light of various movements and aspects of fiction.
- Students will understand major trends and writers in Fiction through detailed study of selected novels.
- Students will be able to interpret and critically appreciate the novels of the selected authors with reference to the realism (naturalism) and psychology.
- Students will be able to critically appreciate representative 19th century American short fiction.
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69788
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C3: Introduction to Modern Linguistics
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- Students will learn the nature, scope, and different branches of linguistics and pragmatics.
- Students will understand and apply some major concepts related to Modern Linguistics.
- Students will be able to classify, compare and contrast the knowledge of various branches of Linguistics.
- Students will understand and classify varieties of languages grounded on user-based differences like geographical location, class, caste, education and sex as well as use-based differences like register.
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69789
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G1 E1:British Renaissance Literature
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- They will comprehend Renaissance poetry, drama, theatre and prose.
- Students will understandBritish Renaissance intellectuals.
- Students will be able to interpret and appreciate Elizabethan and Metaphysical poetry.
- Students will comprehend the Shakespearean plays.
- Students will be able to interpret and critically appreciate epic poetry with reference to Milton.
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69790
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G2 E1:American Literature up to Civil War
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- Students will comprehend poetry and novels in American literature up to the Civil War.
- Students will survey the prominent literary movements of America up to the Civil War.
- Students will be able to describe the features of representative texts.
- Students will understand the major work of James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Students will be able to interpret and critically appreciate early American poetry.
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69791
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G3 E1: Indian English Literature
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- Students will understand major trends and movements in colonial and post-colonial literatures in general andIndian English Literaturein particular.
- Students will know the narrative experiments in Postmodern Indian English novel with reference to the text.
- Students will learn the development of Modern Indian English Drama and major trends in it.
- Students will comprehend experiments and trends in Modern Indian English Short Stories
- Students will comprehend the experiments in modern Indian English poetry.
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69792
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G4 E1:Applied Linguistics
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- Students will understand the nature, scope and prominent branches of Applied Linguistics.
- Students will distinguish and determine the need for differences like EGP, ESP,
- Students will understand the basic concepts of Discourse Analysis and to compare it with critical discourse analysis.
- Students will perceive the needs and complexities of language planning and policy planning
- Students will learn about the concept of World Englishes.
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Part-I Semester-II
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70367
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C4: Poetry in English: Modern and Postmodern
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- Students will understand major trends and poets in Modern and Postmodern English Poetry through detailed study of prescribed poetical works of British, Indian, American and Australian poets.
- Students will be able to locate a specific poem in historical and social context.
- Students will be able to interpret and aesthetically appreciate poems.
- Students will be able to understand the difference between implicit and explicit meaning of poems.
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70368
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C5:Fiction in English: Modern and Postmodern
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- Students will be able to appreciate fiction of various countries during modern and postmodern era in the light of various movements and aspects of fiction.
- Students will be able to interpret and critically appreciate the selected novels with reference to existentialism and modernism.
- Students will be able to critically evaluate the selected texts and justify their readings with reference to postmodernism and nationhood.
- Students will be able to critically appreciateFeminism in Postmodern Indian Fiction with reference to the selected text.
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70369
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C6:Sociolinguistics and Stylistics
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- Students will learn the complex nature of relationship between society and language as well as that between literary and ordinary language.
- Students will understand the nature scope of sociolinguistics and stylistics.
- Students will be able to interpret, analyse and evaluate different registers of written and spoken English and to compose an analytical composition based on it.
- Students will be able to analyse and categorise different types of deviation and devices of foregrounding.
- Students will be able to analyse an unseen poem stylistically and to compose an analytical composition based on it.
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70370
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G1 E2:British Neoclassical and Romantic Literature
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- Students will comprehend the salient features of literature of the Neoclassical and Romantic period.
- Students will be able to understand the work of William Congreve in the context of restoration drama.
- Students will be able to appreciate the significance of the rise and development of 18th Century British fiction through the detailed study of prescribed work.
- Students will be able to comprehend romanticism in British fiction.
- Students will be able to interpret and critically appreciate the Neoclassical and Romantic poetry.
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70371
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G2 E2:American Literature from the Civil War to the Turn of the Century
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- They will survey the prominent works of American literature up to the turn of the century.
- Students will be able to comprehend the work of Mark Twain in the light of Bildungsroman.
- Students will be able to appreciate the experimentalandnarrative strategies through a detailed study of the prescribed text.
- Students will identify the various trends in American fiction at the turn of the century.
- Students will be able to interpret and critically appreciate the late 19th Century American poetry.
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70372
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G3 E2: English Literatures of SAARC Nations
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- Students will comprehend major trends in the colonial and postcolonial English Literatures of SAARC Nations.
- Students will be able to assess the role of gender and politics in Postcolonial SAARC Fiction with reference to the text.
- Students will comprehend the major trends and issues in short stories of SAARC countries
- Students will be able to understand significantexperiments and trends in Drama of SAARC countries.
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70373
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G4 E2:Theories of Language Learning
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- Students will comprehend, compare and select as per the needs various theories of language learning.
- Students will be able to understand the historical development of theorizing in language learning and contrast the focus of different stages in this development.
- Students will be able to apply the steps of error and contrastive analysis to concrete examples and to relate the errors made with the interlanguage of the learners.
- Students will be able to classify and apply various learning, production and communication strategies.
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Part-II Semester-III
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71321
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C7:Drama in English up to 19th century
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- Students will be able to understand and interpret drama as a genreof literature and compare and contrast it with other genres of literature.
- Students will understand the origin and development of Greek drama and learn salient features of Greek Drama and analyse the prescribed text in light of this understanding.
- Students will learn the origin and development of Sanskrit Drama and analyse the prescribed text in the context of the salient features of Sanskrit drama.
- Students will be able to appreciate Elizabethan drama and will learn its significance in the development of English drama and analyse the prescribed text in this context.
- Students will examine the realist trend in drama and apply the knowledge to the prescribed text.
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71322
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C8:Critical Theories- I
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- Students will get acquainted with history of literary criticism and specifically with Psychoanalytical, Marxist and Structuralist approaches.
- Students will comprehend psychoanalytical approaches of Carl Jung and Juliet Mitchell.
- Students will understand Marxist approaches of Baliber, Macherey and Terry Eagleton.
- Students will comprehend Structuralist approaches of Vladimir Propp and TzvetanTodorov.
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71323
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G1 E3:Victorian and Early Modern Period
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- Students will be able to describe the prominent features of Victorian and Early Modern British literature.
- Students will be able to assess the Victorian novel through a detailed study of the prescribed fiction.
- Students will be able to appreciate the various trends of the 19th British Drama through a detailed study of the prescribed text.
- Students will be able to comprehend the majortrendsinBritish Short stories.
- Students will be able to interpret and critically appreciate the Victorian and Early Modern British poetry.
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71324
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G2 E3:Modern American Literature
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- Students will understand various schools, trends and movements such as Southern Renaissance in modern American fiction.
- Students will be able to understand rise and development of modern American drama.
- Students will be able to appreciate the significance of race and racism in modern American fiction.
- Students will be able to evaluate various experimentations in modern American poetry.
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71325
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G3 E3:African and Caribbean Literature
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- Students will understand major trends and movements in colonial and post-colonial literatures in generalandAfrican and Caribbean Literature in particular.
- Students will understand significant literary trends in Postcolonial Caribbean Novel with reference to the text.
- Students will comprehend major concerns and issues of postcolonial societies reflected in African drama.
- Students will learn Major Trends in African Short Stories.
- Students will be able to assess major experiments and trends in African and Caribbean Poetry.
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71326
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G4 E3:Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics
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- Students will able to distinguish between various schools of Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics.
- Students will understand and apply concepts of traditional approach.
- Students will be able to apply and use PS rules and Discovery Procedure
- Students will comprehend basic TG rules
- Students will understand the principles of Systemic Functional Approach.
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71331
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G1 E4:Modern and Postmodern British Literature
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- Students will comprehend contemporary works of Modern and Postmodern British Literature.
- The student will develop a comprehensive idea of the prescribed periods of history.
- Students will understand literary texts both as literature and representations of modern and postmodern discourses.
- Students will be able to trace the development of literary histories and tradition of British Feminism, Post-war British Fiction
- The students will understand and explore the relation between literary texts and socio-politico cultural factors.
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71332
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G2 E4:Postmodern American Literature
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- Students will understand various schools, trends and movements in postmodern American literature.
- Students will be able to appreciate various narrative techniques (like epistolary) in postmodern American fiction.
- Students will be able to appreciate the significance of contemporary American drama.
- Students will be able to assess various movements (such as Confessional or Beat generation) in postmodern American poetry.
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71333
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G3 E4:Australian and Canadian Literature
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- Students will understand the development of colonial and postcolonial Australian and Canadian Literature and comprehend the major trends and experiments in it.
- Students will learn major concerns and issues of postcolonial societies reflected in Australian Drama.
- Students will be able to understand experiments and major trends in Canadian Fiction.
- Students will be able to comprehend the major Trends in Canadian Short stories.
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71334
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G4 E4:English Language Teaching
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- Students will be able to differentiate between different approaches to syllabus design
- Students will be able to compare and contrast various methods of language teaching.
- Students will learn different ways of testing and evaluation and design test components.
- Students will learn to develop and implement Lesson Plan for tertiary level of students.
- Students will be able to teach language skills at tertiary level through hands-on peer teaching.
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Part-II semester-IV
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72558
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C9:Drama in English: Modern and Postmodern
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- The students will understand reasons for rejection of realism and development of anti-realism movements in drama and apply the knowledge to analyze the prescribed text.
- The students will learn the salient features of epic theatre and evaluate the prescribed text.
- The students will learn the development of the theatre of the absurd and its features and be able to examine the prescribed text.
- The students will study the growth of drama and theater in India after independence and analyse the prescribed text in light of feminism and modernism.
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72559
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C10:Critical Theories- II
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- Students will get acquainted with history of literary criticism and specifically with Poststructuralist, Feminist and Postcolonial approaches.
- Students will comprehend Poststructuralist approach of Derrida, Foucault and Umberto Eco.
- Students will understand Feminist approach of Gilbert and Gubar.
- Students will comprehend Postcolonial approach of HomiBhabha.
- Students will comprehend ancient Indian aesthetic approach of Anandvardhana.
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72560
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G1 E5:British Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies
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- Students will understand the role of gender studies in the selected Shakespearean tragedy.
- Students will be able to comprehend significant psychological issues related to the selected Shakespearean tragedy.
- Students will understand the relationship between the selected Shakespearean tragedy and culture.
- Students will comprehend various issues regarding film adaptations of the selected Shakespearean tragedy.
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72561
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G2 E5:American Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies
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- Students will understand the effects of Great Depression as reflected in the American fiction.
- Students will assess various issues regarding film adaptation of the selected American fiction.
- Students will understand the role of gender studies in the selected American fiction.
- Students will be able interpret the psychological issues as reflected in the American fiction.
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72562
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G3 E5: Interdisciplinary Studies and New Literatures
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- Students will be able to assess various issues regarding film adaptation of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea.
- Students will be able to apply psychoanalytical criticism to interpret Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea.
- Students will be able interpret the cultural issues of postcolonial societies reflected in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea.
- Students will understand the role of gender studies in the interpretation of the prescribedtext.
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72563
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G4 E5:Stylistics
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- Students will be able to distinguish various approaches to style
- Students will learn development of the concept of foregrounding from Formalism to recent times.
- Students will be able to differentiate between Riti, Vakrokti and Swabhavokti and the contribution of ancient school of aesthetics to the study of style
- Students will be able to compare and evaluate similarities between modern stylistics and ancient Indian aesthetics.
- Students will be able to analyse unseen prose passage by applying various devices of Stylistic analysis and to composean analytical composition based on it.
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72568
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G1 E6:Research Methodology: British Literature
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- Students will understand significant key issues regarding research in literature.
- Students will understand the place of theory in literary research.
- Students will understand the relationship between literary research and interdisciplinarity.
- Students will be able to prepare a brief research project by taking into account style manual, research questions, research design, ethics, etc.
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72569
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G2 E6:Research Methodology: American Literature
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- Students will understand significant key issues regarding Research in literature.
- Students will understand the place of theory in literary research.
- Students will understand the relationship between literary research and interdisciplinarity.
- Students will be able to prepare a brief research project by taking into account style manual, research questions, research design, ethics, etc.
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72570
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G3 E6:Research Methodology: New Literatures
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- Students will understand significant key issues regarding research in New Literature.
- Students will understand the place of theory in literary disciplines.
- Students will comprehend the relationship between literary research and interdisciplinarity.
- Students will be able to prepare a brief research project by taking into account style manual, research questions, research design, ethics, etc.
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72571
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G4 E6:Research Methodology: Linguistics
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- Students will learn and develop basic skills of research.
- Students will comprehend and examine different types of data in linguistic research.
- Students will be able to apply various techniques of data collection and fieldwork.
- Students will perceive importance of ethics in research and avoiding plagiarism.
- Students will design their own project report involving qualitative and/or quantitative research tools and taking into account style manual, research questions, research design, ethics, etc.
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