Dhaka University
Syllabus: B.A.
Honours in English
From Session:
2006-2007
First Year
Semester
I
Course
No.
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Course
Title
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Developing
English Language Skills
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Introduction
to Literature (Critical Appreciation)
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Introduction
to Poetry
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Semester
II
Course
No.
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Course
Title
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Advanced
Composition
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Introduction
to Prose and Drama
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Introduction
to Bangla Literature
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Second Year
Semester
I
Course
No.
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Course
Title
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Introduction
to Linguistics
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Romantic
Poetry
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English
Novel from Defoe to Hardy
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Semester
II
Course
No.
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Course
Title
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Academic
Writing
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English
Drama from Marlowe to Congreve
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Victorian
Poetry and Prose
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Third Year
Semester
I
Course
No.
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Course
Title
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Introduction
to English Language Teaching
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Poetry
from Spenser to Pope
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History
of
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Semester
II
Course
No.
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Course
Title
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English
for Professional Purpose
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English
Prose from Bacon to Burke
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History
of Western Ideas
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Fourth Year
Semester
I
Course
No.
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Course
Title
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Teaching
Second Language Skills
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20th
Century literature (Poetry and Drama)
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Classics
in Translation
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Language
and Society
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American
Literature
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Semester
II
Course
No.
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Course
Title
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20th
Century Fiction
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Critical
Theory
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Shakespeare
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Language
Through Literature
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Structure
of English
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Language
and Media
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First Year: Semester I
Course Eng.
Listening:
- listening for main ideas/ key
information
- listening for specific
details
- listening and understanding
both implicit and explicit messages
- Listening and responding to
texts (i.e., following instructions, answering questions, reacting to
texts, etc.)
- Listening and note-taking
Speaking:
- Understanding social conventions
(i.e., formal/ informal speech, turn taking etc.)
- Guided conversations
(involving different functions and situations, e.g., greetings,
requesting, apologizing etc.)
- Two-minute impromptu talks
- Reading news item and
reporting
- Role-plays and simulations
- Preparing and presenting talks
on a given theme
- Interviews
- Story telling
- Informal debates and group
discussions
- Public speaking
- Reading strategies (skimming,
scanning, predicting, inferencing, etc.)
- speed reading
- active reading (highlighting,
getting information from text quickly finding your way around texts noting
key words, following main arguments, interacting with the text and
summarizing)
- reading to improve linguistic
skills and expand vocabulary, understanding overall discourse to relate
structure and meaning to the analysis and comprehension of the text
- critical reading (make
judgments about how a text is argued, reflecting and making personal
response as well as close scrutiny of language to understand writer’s
attitude ad perspective)
- extensive reading (reading
outside class books selected by teachers; at least two books will be read)
- Reading journal articles and
literary criticisms.
- Writing books reviews
(reviews of the books read during the course)
Writings:
Developing
sentence structures to build language awareness:
a.
Extending basic sentence construction with vocabulary
b.
Use of word combinations and collocations
c.
Use of complex sentence constructions with connectives also fragments, run-ons
- Paraphrasing
- Summarizing
- Organizing a paragraph: topic
sentence, detailed sentences, logical order and conclusions
- Paragraph writing focusing on
the characteristics of pattering, cohesion, coherence and unity in the
paragraph, paragraph analysis, development, outlining
- Writing paragraph following
different modes of writing: definition, description, classification, cause
and effect, comparison and contrast
Course Eng.
- Using different genres to
introduce figurative language (image, simile, metaphors, connotation,
denotation, personification, allusion, symbol, hyperbole, irony, paradox,
oxymoron and apostrophe)
- Understanding sound patterns
(alliteration, consonance, assonance, internal, end rhyme, blank verse,
free verse, free verse, heroic couplet, rhythm) and scansion.
- Understanding aspects of
style and structure (mood, tone, setting, character and theme)
- Understanding overall
discourse to relate structure and meaning to the analysis and
comprehension of the text.
- Reading critically to make
judgements about how a text is argued and to make personal responses as
well as close scrutiny of language to understand writer’s attitude, and
perspective and point of view (speaker, narrator)
Course Eng.
Shakespeare : “shall I Compare Thee to a
summer’s Day”; “My Mistress’s Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun”
Herrick : “Delight in Disorder”;
“Upon Julia’s Clothes”
Donne : “The Sun Rising”;
“Batter my heart”
Gray : “Elegy Written in a
Country Churchyard”
Keats : “On First Looking into
Chapman’s Homer”
E.B.
Browning : Sonnets from the
Portuguese, No. 43
Eliot : “The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock”
Dylan
Thomas : “Fern Hill”
Ted
Hughes : “Pike”; “Jaguar”
Adrienne
Rich : “Living in Sin”; “Aunt
Jennifer’s Tigers”
Archibald
Macleish : “Ars Poetica”
Seamus
Heaney : “Digging”
First Year: Semester II
Course Eng.
The
course will comprise the following:
- Prewriting strategies:
free-writing, brainstorming, mind mapping/ clustering, narrowing the focus
etc.
- Writing with purpose and for
specific audience
- Writing effective thesis
statements
- Organizing/ structuring the
essay: outlining, writing appropriate introductions, supporting details
and conclusions
- Writing the firsts draft
- Revising and editing
- Writing the final draft
- Writing different types of
essays: narrative/ descriptive, exploratory, argumentative
- Writing biographies
- Writing response papers
- Mechanics of writing:
grammar, punctuation and spelling
Course Eng.
Prose:
Bacon : “Of
Studies”
Lamb :
“Witches and Other Night Fears”
Newman : From “The Idea of a New University”
Woolf :
“Women and Fiction”
Orwell :
“Shooting an Elephant”
O’Connor : “My
Oedipus Complex”
Desai :
“Games at Twilight”
Drama:
Oedipus
Merchant of Venice
Arms and the Man
Course Eng.
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Course Eng. Bangladesh
(For
foreign students and those who have not studied Bangla at any level)
Introduction
to Bangla Language, History and Culture
History
of Bangladesh
since 1905
Ethnology
and Culture
Literary
Heritage
Second Year: Semester I
Course Eng.
- Definition and
characteristics of language
- Origins of language
- Subfields/branches of
linguistics: phonetics and phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax,
sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics
Course Eng.
Blake : Songs of Innocence and Experience
Wordsworth :
“Tintern Abbey”; “Michael”;
“Ode on Intimations of
Immortality”;
“The Prelude” Book 1
Coleridge :
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; “Kubla Khan”;
“Dejection: An Ode”
Byron : Don Juan 1
Shelley : “Ode to a Skylark”; “Adonais”
Keats : “Odes”
Course Eng.
Defoe : Robinson Crusoe
Austen : Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens : Oliver Twist
Hardy : Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
Second Year: Semester II
Course Eng.
The various components of the course will include:
- Synthesizing diverse
information and making commections
- Thinking critically and
analytically on a given theme/issue
- Organizing and prioritizing
the information into a thematic pattern
- Arguing with convincing
evidence
- Setting the tome of formal writing
- Diction/word choice in
academic writing
- Transitions and cohesion
- Acknowledging source and
incorporating direct and indirect quotes
- Writing literary essays on
character, theme, style plot structure, imagery, symbolism, etc.
- Understanding examination
questions and key terms in questions
Course Eng.
Marlowe :
Dr. Faustus
Shakespeare :
Macbeth
Jonson :
Volpone
Webster : The Duchess of Malfi
Congreve : The Way of the World
Course Eng.
Poetry:
Tennyson :
“Lotos Eaters”; “Ulysses”; “Tithonus”; “Locksley Hall”
Browning :
“Porphyria’s Lover”; “Fra Lippo Lippi”; “Andrea del Sarto”;
“My Last Duchess”; “Rabbi Ben Ezra”;
Prose
Mill :
Selections from On Liberty
and Autobiography (as in Norton)
Walter Pater :
(As in Norton)
Third Year: Semester I
Course Eng.
- Brief history of English
language teaching
- The Grammar-Translation
Method
- The Direct Method
- The Audio-Lingual Method
- The Natural approach
- Alternative Approaches and
Methods:
- Communicative Language Teaching
- Learner-centred Approaches
- Issues in ELT Methodology:
Classroom interaction, authenticity, fluency, accuracy, accuracy and
appropriacy, usage of L1 and L2, error correction
Course Eng.
Spenser : The Faerie Queene Book 1, Canto 1
Donne : “Good Morrow”; “Canonization”;
“Song: Sweetest Love
I do not goe……”;
“Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning”;
“Nocturnal upon St.
Lucie’s Day”;
“The Relic”; “The
Extasie”; “The Flea”; “Batter My Heart”;
“Thou Hast Made Me”;
Herbert
: “The Altar”; “Easter Wings”; “Collar”
Marvell : “To His Coy Mistress”; “Bermudas”; “The
Definition of Love”
Pope : The Rape of the Lock
Course Eng.
The
Tudors and the Stuarts – Renaissance and Reformation England
The
Civil War
The
Restoration of 1660
The
Glorious Revolution of 1688
The
Rise of Political Parties
Industrial
Revolution
The
English Empire
Victorian
England
The
First World War in England
Third Year: Semester II
Course Eng.
- Business Reports
- Business Letters
- Job Applications
- Internal Memoranda
- Minutes
- Editing
- Developing Press Copies
- Oral Presentation
Course Eng.
Bacon :
Essays: “Of Truth”; “Of Marriage and Single Life”;
“Of Great Place ”; “Of
Plantations”; “Of Studies”;
“Of Friendship”
Swift :
Gulliver’s Travels
“The Aims of the Spectator”; “Wit: True,
False, Mixed”
Samuel Johnson : “Life of Cowley”
E. Burke :
“Speech on the East India Bill”
Course Eng.
The Greeks and the
Romans: the Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans, Cynics,
Skeptics.
The Medieval World War
The Renaissance: Eramus, More,
Machiavelli, Bacon.
The Reformation and the Counter-Reformation.
The Rise of Modern Science: Copernicus, Galileo, Newton .
The Rise of Modern Philosophy: Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza,
Leibniz, Locke.
The Enlightenment and 18th Century Thought: The
Philosophes,
Berkeley, Hume, Burke, Adam Smith, Malthus, Rousseau, Kant.
Romanticism and the French Revolution.
Mary Wollstonecraft and the birth of Feminism
The American War of Independence
and Democracy
19th Century Thought: Hegel, Marx and Socialism,
Utilitarianism, Darwin
and the Theory of Evolution, Positivism (Comte), Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard,
Nietzsche, Feminism.
20th Century Thought: Bergson and Creative
Evolution, Pragmatism, Modern Analytical Philosophy and the Scientific
World-View, Modern Psychology (Freud, Jung and Psychoanalysis, Behaviourism, Gestalt
Psychology), Existentialism, Feminism.
Fourth Year: Semester I
Course Eng.
- Teaching the receptive and
productive skills: theory and classroom application
- Integration of the four
skills
- Teaching Grammar
- Teaching Vocabulary
- Teaching Pronunciation
Course Eng.
Poetry:
Yeats : “The Lake Isle
“The Man Who Dream of Faerie Land
“Second Coming”; “Sailing to Byzantium ”;
“The Wild Swans at Crole”; “Leda and the
Swan”;
“Among School Children”; “Byzantium ”;
“Circus Animal’s Desertion”; “A Prayer for
My Daughter”
Eliot : The Waste Land
Auden : “Musee de Beaux Arts”; “In Memory of W.B.
Yeats”;
“Shield of Achillies”; “In Praise of
Limestone”
Larkin : “Church Going”; “MCMXIV”; “Aubade”; “Mr.
Bleaney”;
“The Building”; “Ambulances”; “The Whitsun
Weddings”
Drama:
Osborn : Look Back in Anger
Beckett : Waiting for Godot
Pinter : The Birthday Party
Course Eng.
Homer : The Iliad
Virgil : The Aeneid
Aeschylus : Agamemnon
Sophocles : Electra
Euripides : Alcestis
Aristophanes :
Lysistrata
Anonymous : Beowulf
Course Eng.
- Language and Dialect:
Regional and Social Dialects, Variation Studies, Standard Language
- Register
- Diglossia
- Code-switching
- Borrowing
- Pidgins
- Creoles
- Theories of the origins of
pidgins and Creoles
- World Englishes, Language and
Culture
Course Eng.
Emerson : “The American Scholar”
H. Melville : “Bartleby”
Thoreau : “Economy” (from Walden)
Walt Whitman : “When Lilacs Last…..”
Emily Dickinson : Selections
Henry James : Daisy Miller: A Study
Frost : Selections
Eugene O’Neill : The Hairy Ape
J.D. Salinger : Catcher in the Rye
Toni Morrison : The Bluest Eye
Allen Ginsberg : “A
Supermarket in California ”;
“Jessore Road ”
Edward Albee : The Zoo Story
Fourth Year: Semester II
Course Eng.
Conrad : Lord Jim
Woolf : Mrs. Dalloway
Joyce : Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Golding : Lord of the Flies
Mauriel Spark : The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Course Eng.
Dryden : “Preface to the Fables”
Johnson : “Preface to Shakespeare”
Wordsworth : “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads”
Coleridge : “Biographia Literaria (Chapters xiii,
xiv, xv,xvii)
Eliot : “Tradition and the Individual Talent”; “The
Metaphysical Poets”
Woolf : A Room of One’s Own
Eagleton : “The Rise of English”
Said :
Introduction to Orientalism
Course Eng.
Twelfth Night
Hamlet
Measure for Measure
King Lear
Tempest
Richard II
Henry IV
Course Eng.
- Using Literature in the
Language Classroom
- Literature and the Language
Learner
- Reading Literature
Cross-Culturally
- Literature and Language
Skills: using short stories, novels, poetry and plays in teaching the
language skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary and
grammar)
- Stylistics: Aims and
Perspective
- Linguistic Description of
Literary Texts: Analysis at Word Level; Analysis at Clause Level; Analysis
at Sentence Level
Course Eng.
- Nouns: Position and Function;
Noun Classes: count, non-count, proper nouns; Determinatives:
pre-determiners, central determiners, post determiners. The use of
Articles.
- Verb: Major verb classes –
time, tense and the verb.
- Sequence of Tenses:
Conditional.
- Adverbs: Characteristics of
the adverb – the adverb as a clause element – the adverb and other word
classes – syntactic functions of adverbs – correspondence between
adjectives and adverbs – comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
- Adjectives: Characteristics of
the adjective – central and peripheral adjectives – the adjective in
relation to other word classes – syntactic function of adjectives –
syntactic and semantic sub-classification of adjectives.
- Adverbial Phrases –
Adjectival phrases – Prepositional phrases – Verb phrases.
- Tensed, Non-Tensed and Verbless
Clauses.
- Voice: Principles of
Passivization – Voice Constraints.
- Operators and traditional
interpretation of the use and usage of modals.
Course Eng.
- History of Media Technology –
special focus on the development of print media
- Theory and Aesthetics of
Audio-Visual Media – central theories/ philosophy and its impact of media
- Feminist Media Studies –
critical analysis of gender and sexuality in print media, film,
photography
- Discourse Analysis of Media –
critical analysis of language: examination of ideology; politics of
representation
- Reception and Use of Media –
critical theory of Jean Baudrilliard etc.
- Writing for the Media –
examine the form and content of popular genres; prepare “copies” of media
texts
General Reading List
Although
the course teachers will provide lists of recommended books (both texts and
criticism), it is advisable to procure copies of the following books which will
come in handy for the study of literature and language.
- M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of
Literary Terms.
- J.A. Cuddon, A Dictionary
of Literary Terms and Literary Theory.
- Ifor Evans, A Short
History of English Literature.
- David Daiches, A Critical
History of English Literature.
- David Crystal, A
Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics.
- Kalyan Pandey, Rhetoric
and Prosody.
- A.S. Hornby,
- Zaman, Alam & Hossain, An
English Anthology.
- Norton Anthology of
English Literature, Vols. I & II.
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