Department of English
Islamic University
Syllabus
(Session:
2003-2004)
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ACADEMIC COURSES
(Session:
2003-2004)
Department of English
Islamic University
Marks Distribution for B.A. (Hon’s) Courses
Departmental Courses
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1400
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Allied Courses
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400
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Non-Credit Course
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100
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Tutorial
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100
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Viva Voce
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100
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Total Marks
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2100
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FIRST YEAR
D
Course :
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English Language
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100
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D
Course :
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Introduction to Literature : Poetry and Drama
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100
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D
Course :
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Introduction to Literature: Fiction and Non-fiction
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100
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D
Course :
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History of English Literature
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100
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NC
Course :
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Islamic/
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100
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Tutorial
:
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20
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Viva Voce
:
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20
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Total
:
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540
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SECOND YEAR
D
Course :
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Poetry from Chaucer to
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100
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D
Course :
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Prose from Bacon to Lamb
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100
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D
Course :
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History of
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100
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D
Course :
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Philosophy
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100
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Tutorial
:
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20
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Viva Voce
:
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20
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Total
:
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440
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THIRD YEAR
D Course :
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Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
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100
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D Course :
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Restoration and 18th Century Literature
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100
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D Course :
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Romantic Poetry
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100
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D Course :
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Literature Theory and Practical Criticism
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100
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D
Course :
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Introduction to Linguistics
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100
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Tutorial
:
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30
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Viva Voce
:
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30
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Total
:
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560
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FOURTH YEAR
D
Course :
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Classics in Translation
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100
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D
Course :
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Victorian Literature
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100
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D
Course :
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18th and 19th Century Novels
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100
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D
Course :
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20th Century Critical Theory
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100
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D Course
:
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Folklore/History of English Language
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100
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Tutorial
:
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30
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Viva Voce
:
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30
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Total
:
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560
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Syllabus
FIRST YEAR
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D Course 101:
English Language
A)Phonetics: Sound,
IPA symbol, word transcription, intonation and stress.
B)Word-formation: Morphology, affix, idiomatic expression, varieties of
English-colloquial and informal, standard and formal, British and American etc.
C) Grammar:
(i) Agreements,
phrases and their structures, transformation of sentences.
(ii) Simple sentence
and their structures, compound sentences, complex sentences, principal and
subordinate clauses.
(iii) Misplaced
modifiers, inversion, parallelism, linkers, defective subordination and
incongruity.
D)
Comprehension:
This part of the course will teach
the following abilities:
a)
to react to
sensory images
b)
to interpret
connotation and commutative meanings
c)
to understand
words in context and to select the meaning that fits the context
d)
to understand the
main ideal of passages of text
e)
to perceive the
organization of passages of text
f)
to recognize and
interpret figurative expressions
g)
to make
inferences, draw conclusions and supply implied details
h)
to identify
informal/formal language
i)
to understand
sentence structures
Basic and advanced reading
strategies: vocabulary studies, tone, mood and purpose, prediction, inference,
analysis and interpretation, connotation and denotation, context and meaning,
figurative expression, organizational feature, skimming scanning etc.
E) Composition:
(i) Paragraph:
Paragraph
structure, topic sentences, transitional devices, unity, order, coherence and
conclusion.
(ii) Essay:
Essay structure –
beginning, middle, end
Essay forms – narrative,
descriptive, expository
F) Mechanics of Writing: Critical essay, report, research article, formal and
informal letter, specific-purpose writing etc.
G) Listening and
Note-Taking: Listening to
recorded texts and class lectures and learning to take useful notes based on
listening.
H)
Communicative
English: Greeting, informal and
formal introduction, asking for and giving information, asking for and offering
help, advice, suggestion, expressing opinion, complaint, inability/ability,
obligation, dislike/likes, making request etc.
D Course 102: Introduction to Literature: Poetry and Drama
A) Rhetoric and
Prosody
B) Poetry:
Shakespeare (1564-1616) : Sonnets
116 & 130
Robert Herrick (1591-1674) : Delight
in Disorder
Gray (1716-1771) : Elegy Written in a County Churchyard
Keats (1795-1821) : Ode on a Grecian Urn
Browning (1812-1889) : My Last Duchess
Eliot (1888-1965) : The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
Ezra pound (1885-1972) : In a Station of the Metro
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) : Fern
Hill
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) : Jagure
Seamus Heany (1939-alive) : Digging
C)
Drama:
Sophocles (496-406 BC) : Oedipus the King
Shakespeare (1564-1616) : The Merchant of Venice
Shaw (1856-1950) : Arms and the Man
Synge (1871-1909) : Riders to the Sea
D Course 103:
Introduction to Literature (Fiction & Non Fiction)
A) Fiction:
Maugham (1874-1965) : The Ant and the Grasshopper
K Mansfield
Orwell (1903-1950) : Animal Farm
Joyce (1882-1941) : Araby
Golding (1911-1993) : Lord of the Flies
B) Non-fiction:
Swift (1667-1745) : A Modest Proposal
F R Leavies (1895-1978) : Literature and Society
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) : Tragedy
and the Whole Truth
Lawrence (1885-1930) : Why the Novel Matters?
D Course 104:
History of English Literature from the Anglo-Saxon Period to the 2nd
World War.
NC Courses 105:
Islamic/ Bangladesh
SECOND YEAR
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D Course 201: Prose from Bacon to Lamb
Francis
Bacon (1561-1626) : Of
Truth, Of Marriage and Single Life, Of Superstition, Of Travel, Of Great Place
Addison & Steel (1672-1719) : Selection (Total Five) from The Cover
ley Papers as in the Norton Anthology
Milton (1608-1674) : Areopagitica
Bunyan (1628-1688) : The
Pilgrim’s Progress, Book- 1
Lamb (1775-1834) : Selection
(Total Five) from Essays of Elia as in
the Norton Anthology
D Course
202: Romantic Poetry
Blake (1757-1827) : Selection
from Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Wordsworth (1770-1850) : The
Prelude, Book-1, Immortality Ode, Tintern Abbey
Coleridge (1772-1834) : The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, ‘Kubla Khan’ Dejection: An Ode
Byron (1795-1821) : Don
Juan: Book-1
Shelley (1792-1822) : Ode
to the West Wind, Ode to a Skylark, Adonis
Keats (1795-1821) : The
Odes
A Course 203: History of
England (1066 to the 2nd World War)
A Course
204: Philosophy: Problems
of Philosophy-definition, nature, scope relation to life and literature,
Epistemology, Metaphysics and Axiology. Theories of Reality: Materialism and
Idealism. Theories of Evolution: Creation and Evolution, Mechanical and
Emergent Evolution, Mechanism vs. Theology. The Philosophy of God: Theism,
Deism and Pantheism, God and the problem of Evil. Western Ideas: Plato,
Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans, Skeptics, Erasmus Machiavelli, Descartes,
Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Comte, Nietzsche, Schopenhaur, Keirkegaard
Jasper, Sartre, Camus, Karl Marx, Mary Wollstonecraft, Eastern Ideas: The
Vedas, The Upanishads, Buddhism, Carvaka, Confucianism, Taoism, Schools of
Muslim Philosophy, Sufism.
THIRD YEAR
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D Course
301: Poetry from Chaucer to Milton
Chaucer (c.1343-1400) : Then Canterbury Tales, The Prologue, Nun’s Priest’s Tale,
Spenser (1552-99) : The Faerie Queene, Book -1 (Canto 1,
ix and x)
Donne (c.
1571-1631) : The Good-Morrow, Go and
Catch a Falling Star, The Canonization, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Death
Be Not Proud, Twicknam Garden, Hymn to God, My God in My Sickness.
Marvell (1621-78) : The Garden, To His Coy Mistress, The
Definition of Love.
Milton (1608-74) : Paradise Lost, Book ix and x:
Samson Agonistes
D Course
302: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Kyd (1558-94) : The Spanish Tragedy
Marloe (1564-1593) : Dr.
Faustus
Shakespeare (1564-1616) : As
You Like It, Macbeth
Ben Jonson (1572-1637) : Volpone
Webster (1578-1634) : The
Duchess of Malfi
D
Course 303: Restoration and 18th
Century Literature
Dryden (1638-1700) : Absalom
and Achitophel
Pope (1688-1744) : The
Rape of The Lock
Swift (1667-1745) : Guliver’s
Travels, Book-1 &4
Defoe (1660-1731) : Robinson
Crusoe
Congreve (1670-1729) : The
Way of the World
D Course
304: Literary Theory & Practical
Criticism.
Sydney (1554-1586) : An
Apologie for Poetry
Dryden (1631-1700) : An
Essay on Dramatic Poesy
Johnson (1709-1784) : The
Preface to Shakespeare
Wordsworth (1770-1834) : Preface
to Lyrical Ballads
Coleridge (1772-1894) : Biographia
Literaryia (Chapters xii, xiv, xv, xvii)
Eliot (1888-1965) : Tradition
and the Individual Talent
A Course
305: Introduction to Linguistics
Linguistics
and the study of language
Language-definition,
characteristics and origins
Relationship
between linguistics and literature
Basic
concepts in linguistics
Different levels of linguistics
- Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics Pragmatics, Discourse
Analysis.
Sociolinguistics
and Psycholinguistics
Schools
of Linguistics
Saussure : Synchronic and Diachronic, syntagmatic/Paradigmatic, Langue/Parole,
Signifier/Signified.
Bloomfield : American
Structuralism
Chomsky : Competence/Performance
Halliday : Social
context & Linguistics
FOURHT YEAR
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D Course
401: Classics in Translation
Homer (8th century) : The IIiad
Virgil (70-19 BC) : The Aeneid
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) : Agamemnon
Aristophanes (450-385 BCF) : Frogs
Euripides (480-406 BC) : Medea
Anonymous : Beowulf
D Course
402: Victorian Literature
Tennyson (1809-92) : ‘Mariana’,
The Lady of Shallot, In Memoriam, (Selections)
Browning (1812-1889) : Fra Lippo Lippi,
Rabbi Ben Ezra, The Last Ride Together, Andrea del Sarto
Mill (1806-73) : On
Liberty
Newman (1801-90) : The Idea of a
University, Chapter: 5, 6 & 7
D Course
403: 18th and 19th Century Novels
Fielding (1707-1754) : Tom
Jones
Austen (1775-1817) : Pride
and Prejudice
Bronte (1818-1848) : Wuthering Heights
Dickens (1812-1870) : Great
Expectations
Hardy (1840-1928) : The
Return of the Native
D Course 404: 20th
Century Critical Theory (From Russian Formalism
to French Deconstruction)
D Course
405: (a) Folklore and Cultural
Anthropology
Or
(b) Applied Linguistics
Or
(c) History of English Language
(a) Folklore and Cultural
Anthropology:
Context and Relevance of
Program:
Increasingly scholars from
various disciplines turn towards folklore study for a clearer understanding of
man. In Bangladesh
Object of Program:
(a) To provide the students
necessary skill in collecting and preserving folk materials;
(b) To provide
the students sufficient theoretical knowledge for understanding and analyzing
folk performances and practices;
(c) To develop
projects and activities which will bring out the cultural riches embodied in
indigenous folk forms.
(d) To orient the students to turn towards the culture of the people
(e) To learn the forces those shape the social and cultural matrix of Bangladesh
(f) To initiate
the students in practice of communication rooted in the traditions of the
people
1. Folklore:
Definition Nature, Scope, Role,
Folklore, Culture Anthropology and Literature,
2.
Ethnography: Participant Observation,
Emic and Etic, Fieldwork, Folklore Art, Literature, Music and Sports.
3. Concept
of Culture: Characteristics,
Subculture, Individual Variation and Culture, Culture as Real and Ideal;
Cultural Integration, Adaptation; Culture images; Diffusion
4.
Economics: Anthropological Point of
view – Economic System, Production, Evolution, Organization of Labour;
Distribution: System of exchange – Reciprocity, Redistribution, Potlatch, Kula
5. Family
& Marriage: Marriage, Definition,
Type, Function, Incest family and Its Function, Types of family etc.,
Post-material residence pattern
6. Kinship
and Association: Descent; Rules &
Type, Classification of Kin: Type of kinship terminology, Lineage, Clan, Tribe,
Totem
7. Religion:
Function, Religion, and Symbolism,
Totem and Taboo, Sacred and Profane, Kinds of Beliefs; Practices and Rituals,
Magic, Organization of Religion: Shamanistic cults, Communal cult,
Ecclesiastical cult, Revitalization
8. Society
and Politics: Political Integration,
Leadership, Band, Social control, Primitive communism, Conflict resolution etc.
9. International Folklore
10. Folklore in Bangladesh
(b) Applied Linguistics
The teaching of listening
speaking, reading and writing skills:
The development of
Reading skills:
Strategies and speed reading,
skimming, scanning, predicting, inferencing, analyzing and interpreting variety
of texts and text types, silent reading and reading aloud, intensive and
extensive reading, non-interventions, reading program and intervention.
The development of
writing skills:
Difference between spoken and
written English, Controlled, Guided and free writing activities, Reading and
writing skills – critical analysis and interpretation of texts – Essays, Report
writing, Book review, Research papers, Writing goals, Writing in the
pre-speaking stage, Writing and oral production. Writing to practice
monitoring. Functional writing goals.
The development of
listening skills:
Developing strategies for
listening comprehension, listening comprehension activities.
The development of
speaking skills:
Oral communication development,
Affective humanistic activities- Dialogues, interviews, preference ranking,
personal charts and tables. Revealing information about yourself. Activities
using the imagination; Problem solving activities tasks and series, charts,
graphs and maps, developing speech for particular situations, advertisements,
games, content activities. Grouping techniques for acquisition activities
reconstructing, one-centred, unified group, dyads, small groups, large groups.
Fluency and accuracy controlled and free speaking activities, oral presentation
– Brainstorming, discussing and reporting, debates, extempore speech
interviews, role play/ simulations.
The methodology of
language teaching:
Including methods, course and
syllabus design, Traditional and communicative methods/approaches, Syllabus
design-purpose, construction, needs analysis, Types-structural and
communicative approaches, Selection and gradation-principles.
Language testing:
General principles of testing
and testing the four skills, different types of tests, ways of designing test
items on elements and skills, Criteria of good tests-validity and reliability,
for testing language elements, for testing communicative competence,
Requirement of a test.
Language learner in the
classroom:
Individual learning
differences-attitude, aptitude, memory, motivation, age, personality, and
cognitive style, Learning strategies-social, cognitive and communication,
Classroom interaction-mode of teacher talk and class management with
large/small classes.
(c) History of English
Language: (as in the syllabus of
1999-2000 academic Session. Course contents will be given by the course
teacher.)
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