NATIONAL UNIVERSITY | Department of English| Honours Part III

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Department of English

Detailed Syllabus of Third Year

Effective from the Session : 2009–2010  

Third Year

Course	Course Title	Marks	Credits
Code
1172	16th & 17th  Century Drama	100	4
1173	16th & 17th Century Poetry	100	4
1174	17th   and   18th   Century   Non-Fictional Prose	100	4
1175	Restoration     and     Eighteenth Century Fiction	100	4
1176	Restoration     and     Eighteenth Century Poetry and Drama	100	4
1177	Victorian Poetry	100	4
1178	Introduction to Linguistics	100	4
1179	Professional English	100	4
1180	Approaches    and    Methods    of Language Teaching	100	4
	Total =	900	36

Course Code- 1172  Title : 16^th & 17^th Century Drama

C. Marlowe — The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

W. Shakespeare —Macbeth, As You Like It

Ben Jonson — Volpone

John Webster — The Duchess of Malfi

Course Code- 1173  Title : 16^th & 17^th Century Poetry

Edmund Spencer—The Faerie Queene Bk 1 Canto 1

John Donne—“The Sun Rising”, “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,” “Twicknam Garden”, “The Canonization”, “Go and Catch a Falling Star”, “Batter My Heart”, “Death Be Not Proud”

Andrew Marvell—“To His Coy Mistress”, “The Definition of Love,”

George Herbert—“Easter Wings”, “The Collar”

John Milton—Paradise Lost Bk 1

Course Code-1174  Title : 17^th and 18^th Century   Non-Fictional Prose

F. Bacon—Of Love, Of Marriage and Single Life, Of Truth, Of Plantation

John Milton—Areopagitica

Addison and Steele—Selections from The Spectators (as in The Norton Anthology of English Literature)

Samuel Johnson—Life of Cowley

Edmund Burke— Speech on East India Bill

Course Code-1175  Title : Restoration and Eighteenth Century Fiction

Aphra Ben—Oroonoko

Daniel Defoe—Robinson Crusoe

Henry Fielding—Joseph Andrews

Jonathan Swift—Gulliver’s Travels

Samuel Johnson—Rasselas

Course Code-1176  Title : Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry and Drama

John Dryden—Mac Flecknoe

William Congreve—The Way of the World

Alexander Pope—The Rape of the Lock

Thomas Gray—“Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat”, “Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard”

Oliver Goldsmith—She Stoops to Conquer

Course Code-1177   Title : Victorian Poetry

A. Tennyson—“Locksley Hall”, “Ulysses”, “The Lotos Eaters”

R. Browning—“A Grammarian’s Funeral”, “Andrea del Sarto”, “Fra Lippo Lippi”

Mathew Arnold—“Thyrsis”, “Dover Beach”, “The Scholar Gypsy”

Christiana Rossetti—“Goblin Market”, “An Apple Gathering

Gerard Manley Hopkins—“The Windhover”, “Felix Randal”, “Spring and Fall”, “Pied Beauty”

Course Code- 1178    Title : Introduction to Linguistics

The course introduces students to fundamentals of Linguistics. It covers:

a)      Definition and characteristics of language

b)     Basic concepts in Linguistics: Langue and Parole, Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic perspectives of language, Competence and performance

c)      Consonant and vowel sounds in English, Basic Rules of elision and assimilation, Stress and intonation

d)     Morphology: Free and Bound Morphemes, Word formation rules

e)      Syntax: Sentence Construction Rules, Deep and Surface Structure

f)      Psycholinguistics: Child language development; theories of second language acquisition

g)     Sociolinguistics: Language varieties, Language arid society, Language and culture; Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

Recommended Reading: Text Books:

Fromkin V. and R. Rodman. 1995. An Introduction to Language.

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Roach,   Peter.   2000.   English   Phonetics   and   Phonology. Cambridge University Press.

John Lyons. 1981. Language and Linguistics An Introduction. Cambridge: C.U.P.

O’Grady, William et al. 1987 Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction

Hudson, R. H. 1996. Sociolinguistics. Cambridge University Press
Reference Books:

R.H. Robins. 1964. General Linguistics An Introductory Survey.

New York: Longman David Crystal. 1985. Linguistics. Penguin Books. Bolinger. D. Aspects of Language.

Ferdinand De Saussure. 1959. Course in General Linguistics.

New York: Philosophical Library. (Chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4) Noam Chomsky. 1957. Syntactic Structures. S. Gravenhage: Mouton and Co.

Noam Chomsky. 1965. Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. Mouton and Co.

M.A.K. Halliday. 1978. Explorations into the Functions of Language.

Course Code-1179 Title : Professional English

This course will enable students to explore the nature of writing in domains of professional communication. It will introduce students to a range a professional text types, namely informational, persuasive and argumentative discourse commonly found in professional and business contexts. It will include: Business letters, Official notice, Notes and memos, Office order, Office circular, Press Release, Project Proposal, Tenders/Quotations, E-mail messages, Project Reports.

The course will also include an oral component and cover such areas as conducting and participating in meeting, interviewing and taking job interviews, presenting and participating inseminars, symposiums, workshops and the like.

Recommended Reading: Text Books:

Ashley, A. Oxford Handbook of Commercial Correspondence.

New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Raman,Menaskhi  and  Sangeeta  Sharma.  2004.   Technical

Communication. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Lennon, John M. 1982. Technical Writing. Little Brown and Company.

Reference Books:

Barnes, Henry A.1982. The Language of Bureaucracy. In

Boltz, Carol J and Seyler, D. U (eds.) Language and Power. New York: Random House. Gibson, Walker. 1982. Sweet Talk: The Rhetoric of Advertising.

In Boltz, Carol J and Seyler, D. U (eds.) 1982. Language and Power. New York: Random House.

Jeely, John. 2002. The Oxford Guide to Writing and Speaking OUP.

Pal, Rajendra and J. S. Korla Halls. 2002. Essentials of Business Communication. New Delhi: Sultan Chand and Sons.

Stephens, Mary. 2000. Practise Advanced Writing. Longman.

Course Code- 1180   Title : Approaches and Methods of Language Teaching

The aim of this course is to familiarize students with developments in the theories and practices of language teaching and learning so that those who will join as teachers of English can teach English language effectively with theoretical insights, taking the potentials and constraints of a context into consideration. The course will introduce students to theory of language, theory of language learning, classroom practices, teachers’ roles and learners’ roles, strengths and weaknesses of Audio-lingual Method, The Natural Approach, Direct Method, Communicative Approach, Task based teaching and learning, Appropriate Methodology, Post method pedagogy, The politics of English language teaching.

The course will also cover approaches to and practical aspects teaching Vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, reading, writing, speaking, listening use of literature in language teaching.

Text Book:

Richards, J. and T. Rodgers 1986. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. CUP. Littlewood William. 1981.

Communicative Language Teaching. Harmer, J. 1983

The Practice of English Language Teaching. Longman

Holliday, A. 1994. Appropriate Methodology in Social Context. CUP

Freceman -Larsen, 1996.

Techniques of Language Teaching Lyndsay, Paul.   2000.

Teaching English Worldwide: A New Practical Guide to Teaching English. California: Alta Book Center Publishers Penny Ur. 2003.

A Course in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.

Reference Books

Brumfit, C.J. and Carter, R. 1986. Literature and Language Teaching. OUP.
Harmer, J. 1997. How to Teach English. Longman.
Widdowson, H.G.1978. Teaching    Language as Communication. CUP. Robinson, P. 1988.

Academic Writing: Process and Product, ELT Doc. 129. The British Council

Nuttal, C. 1982. Teaching Reading Skills in a foreign Language.

Heinmann. Tricia Hedge. 1990. Writing. ELBS

White, R. and Arndt, V.  1991. Process Writing. London: Longman.