Syllabus| Department of English| B.A. Honours Part I|NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

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	Syllabus| Department of English|  B.A. Honours Part I| Session: with effect from 2009-2010 Year wise courses and marks distribution

COURSE CODE:1152

ENGLISH READING SKILLS

100 MARKS

4 CREDITS

60 LECTURES

The course seeks to develop students’ reading skills and covers the following sub-skills;

a) Guessing word meanings by using knowledge of word form (class), word function, word structure and formation and most importantly, contextual clues.

b)Understanding ornamental expressions

c)Tackling sentence meaning,

d)Surveying text organization,

e)Reading for specific information (skimming),

f) Reading for general comprehension/gist (scanning),

g)Summarizing,

h)Predicting,

i) Interpreting.

j) Recognizing, author’s position, tone and attitude

The reading texts will be chosen from different types of writing like descriptive, narrative, expository, argumentative, journalistic, and academic texts e.g. History, philosophy etc. Williams, E. 1984. Reading in the Language Classroom. Mcmillan.

Wallace. 1992. Reading. OUP

Barr. P. Clegg, J. and Wallace, C. 1981. Advanced Reading Skills. Longman Walter, Catherine. 1982. Authentic Reading. CUP Greenwood, J. 1988. Class Readers. OUP

COURSE CODE:1153

ENGLISH WRITING SKILLS

100 MARKS

4 CREDITS

60 LECTURES

This course will focus on helping students develop their writing skills in English with focus on writing correct sentences, using proper punctuation marks, writing with good organization (coherence and cohesion), writing good topic sentences and concluding sentences in paragraphs, writing good introduction, body and conclusion. Students will be required to write:

a)      Paragraphs using a variety of techniques such as examples, listing, cause and effect, comparison, contrast, comparison-contrast among others.

b)     Descriptive, narrative, expository and argumentative essays

c)      Reports

d)     Formal and informal letters

e)      Amplifications

f)      Stories

Recommended Reading

Alice Oslima, Anna. Introduction to Academic Writing Beverly Ingran and Carol King From Writing to Composition. M. Knight. English Essays for GCE O level Patricia Wilcox . Developing Writing

John Langhan. 2001. College Writing Skills ( International edition). Mcgraw-Hill R. R. Jordon. 1995. Academic Writing. OUP

H. Ramsey Fowles. 1983. The Little Brown Handbook. The Little Brown Company. (Text) References:

.John Langhan. 2001. College Writing Skills ( International edition). Mcgraw-Hill.

Joseph Gibaldi and Walters S Achtert. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New Delhi:

Affiliated East West Press.

Karen L Greenberg. 1994. Advancing Writer, Book 2. Harper Collins. Mary Stephens. Practise Advanced Writing. Longman. R. R. Jordon. 1995. Academic Writing. OUP

COURSE CODE:1154

INTRODUCTION TO POETRY

100 MARKS

4 CREDITS

60 LECTURES

Poetry:

W. Shakespeare—Shall I Compare Thee?

John Donne—Good Morrow

Robert Herrick— Delight in Disorder

W.Wordsworth—I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud

P.B.Shelley—Ozymandias

J.Keats—To Autumn

Elizabeth B.Browning—How Do I Love Thee?

Emily Dickinson—Because I Could not Stop for Death

W.B. Yeats—No Second Troy

R.Frost—Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

D.H. Lawrence—Snake

Dylan Thomas—Fern Hill

Ted Hughes—Pike

Adrienne Rich—Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

Kaiser Haq— Ode on a Lungi

Literary Terms:

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Metonymy, Symbol, Irony, Climax, Anticlimax, Hyperbole,Paradox, Onomatopoeia, Bathos, Allusions, Conceit, Pun, Imagery and all other literary terms

Prosody:

Accent, Foot/Measure, Blank Verse, Rhyme, Tercet, Scanning of Verse and others.

COURSE CODE:1155

INTRODUCTION TO PROSE: FICTION AND NON-FICTION

100 MARKS

4 CREDITS

60 LECTURES

Non-Fiction:

Francis Bacon—“Of Studies “

A.Lincoln—“Gettysburg Address”

R.Tagore—“Letter to Lord Chelmsford Rejecting Knighthood”

G.Orwell—“Shooting an Elephant”

N.C.Chaudhury—River & Rain (from The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian) Martin Luther King—“I Have a Dream”

Fiction:

S.Maugham— “The Ant and the Grasshopper”

James Joyce—“Araby”

K.Mansfield— “The Garden Party”

Anita Desai—“Games at Twilight”

Edgar Allan Poe—“The Tell-Tale Heart”

E.Hemingway—“Cat in the Rain”

COURSE CODE:

INTRODUCING SOCIOLOGY

100 MARKS

4 CREDITS

60 LECTURES

1. Definition, Nature & Scope of Sociology, relationship with other social sciences. Development of Sociology: Contributions of Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber
2. Culture, Beliefs & Values: Norms, sanctions, symbols, language, subculture, counter­culture, hegemony & resistance
3. Globalization, Culture and Society: Globalization and its different dimensions, Cultural globalization, global culture and social change
4. Urbanization and Social Formation: Definition of urbanization and urbanism, Process of urbanization in developing societies and social formation, over urbanization, growth of slum & poverty in mega cities
5. Gender and Society: Discourse of WID, WAD and GAD, Why gender is important in the discourse of development, Gender inequality & women’s subjugation in developing societies.
6. Environmental Problems, Natural Disasters and Social Crisis: Climate change and its impact on society, Natural disaster, social crisis and vulnerabilities, Climate change, deforestation and mal-development.
7. Social Inequality: Dimensions of social inequality: Class, gender, age, minority group (religious and indigenous), economic vulnerability, Social inequalities in developed & developing countries.
8. Types of societies: Marxist view on classifying societies on the basis of type of control over economic resources and Lenski’s view on classifying societies by their main means of subsistence.
9. Deviance & Social Control: Definition of deviance, theories of deviance. Crime & justice system, agencies of social control

10. Health, Illness and Society: Nature & scope of the problem, Urbanizations, acute, chronic & life style diseases, Social, environmental & behavioural factors affecting health, Communicable & behavioural diseases: STD, HIV/AIDS, TB, Hep-B etc

Reference

Giddens Sociology

Tony Bilton et al Introductory Sociology

OR

COURSE CODE: 6212

INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK

100 MARKS

4 CREDITS

60 LECTURES

 1. Social Work: Meaning. Characteristics, Scope and Importance, Relationship of Social Work with other Sciences—Sociology, Economics, Psychology and Political Science.

2. Evolution: Evolution of Social Work in UK, USA, India and Bangladesh.

3. Social Reformers and their Movements in Pre-partition India and Bangladesh: Raja Rammohan Ray, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, A.K Fazlul Haque, Sir Syad Ahmed, Begum Rokeya.

4. Social Legislations Related to Social Security, Women Welfare, Child Welfare.

5. Profession and Social Work: Meaning and Characteristics of Profession, Social Work as profession, Philosophical, Religions and Ethical Basis of Social Work.

6. Industrial Revolution: Meaning, Impact on Society, Industrialization, Urbanization, Welfare State.

7. Social Problems and Social Services in Bangladesh.

Methods of Social Work: Basic and Auxiliary Methods and their Basic Issues such as Meaning, Elements. Principles and Area of Use. Importance of Social Work Methods in Bangladesh.

Books Recommended:

1. Barker, Robert L.

2. Coulshed, Veronica

3. Friedlander, Walter A.

4. Khalid,M.

5. Morales, A. and Shaefor, B.

Social Work Dictionary. 3rd ed. NASW, New York, 1995.

Social Work Practice: .An Introduction 2nd ed.

London. Macmillan, 1991.

Introduction to Social Welfare. Prentice Hall,

2nded. New Delhi- 1967.

WelfareState, Karachi. Royal Book, 1968

Social Work-A Profess ion of Many Faces, 4th ed. Allyan and Bacan, Boston, 1986.

COURSE CODE: 6192

INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL THEORY

100 MARKS

4 CREDITS

60 LECTURES

 Political Science : Meaning, Nature, Scope, Methods, Relations to other Social Sciences, Importance to Study Political Science.

State : Definition, Elements, State and Government, State and Individual, State and Society, Theories of the origin of the state.

Fundamental concepts : Sovereignty, Law, Liberty, Equality, Rights and Duties, Nation, Nationalism, Internationalism.

Concepts of Political Sociology : Political culture, elite theory, Max Weber and Bureaucracy

Political Thinkers : Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau.

Books Recommended :

1. R.G. Gettell : Political Science

2. J. W. Garner : Political Science and Government

3. R. M. MacIver : The Modern State

4. G.H. Sabine : A History of Political Theory

5. William Ebenstein : Great Political Thinkers-Plato to the Present

6. H.G. Laski : A Grammar of Politic

৭. মুহাম্মদ আয়েশ উদ্দীন : রাষ্ট্রচিন্তা পরিচিতি
৮. এমাজউদ্দিন আহমদ : মধ্যযুগের রাষ্ট্রচিন্তা
৯. মোঃ দরবেশ আলী খান : ও এরিস্টটলের রাজনৈতিক চিন্তা
১০. সরদার ফজলুল করিম : প্লেটোর রিপাবলিক