Dear Students,
Kindly note the topics assigned to me for the Odd Semester of the Academic Year 2023-2024:
I B.A., English (Major)
Core II - INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH (1Hr)
Unit V - Drama
a. “The Window” – from Five Plays
– Harindranath Chattopadhyay
b. “Nalini: A Comedy in Three
Acts” – from Three Plays – Nissim Ezekiel
c. Sleepwalkers - Joginder Paul
I B.A., English (Major)
Elective I - POPULAR LITERATURE AND
CULTURE (1Hr)
Unit III
“Professor Shonku and the UFO” -
Satyajit Ray (from The Mystery of Munroe Island and Other Stories, Puffin
Classics 2015)
Unit V
a. The Zoya Factor - Anuja
Chauhan
b. Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone - J. K. Rowling
II B.A., English (Major)
Core VII - BRITISH PROSE (1 Hr)
Unit IV*
a. “What I Believe” from Two
Cheers for Democracy - E.M. Forster
Unit V
a. The Pleasure of Reading -
Viscount Grey
b. Vanishing Animals - Gerald
Durrell
III B.A., English (Major)
Core XIII - GENRE STUDIES (1 Hr)
Unit I - Figures of Speech
Alliteration, Anaphora,
Antithesis, Assonance, Conceit, Hyperbole, Irony, Metonymy, Metaphor,
Onomatopoeia, Paradox, Personification, Pun, Simile, Synecdoche.
Unit II* - Schools and Movements
Metaphysical Poetry,
Neoclassicism, Pre-Raphaelites, Restoration
III B.A., English (Major)
Core XV - RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (2 Hrs)
Unit III
The Mechanics of Scholarly Prose
Unit IV
Works Cited
Unit V
In-Text Citations (Pg: 116)
I B.Sc., Chemistry/Zoology (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH (3 Hrs)
Unit I - SELF-AWARENESS (WHO) & POSITIVE
THINKING
UNICEF LIFE STORY
1.1 Chapter 1 from Malala
Yousafzai, I am Malala
1.2 An Autobiography or My
Experiments with Truth (Ch.1,2&3) M. K. Gandhi
POEM
1.3 "Where the Mind is Without
Fear" – Gitanjali (Song 35) – Rabindranath Tagore
Unit II - EMPATHY
POEM
2.1 "Nine Gold Medals" – David Roth
SHORT STORY
2.3 "The School for Sympathy" –
E.V. Lucas
2.4 "Barn Burning" – William
Faulkner
Unit IV - Part of Speech
4.1 Articles
4.2 Noun
4.3 Pronoun
4.4 Verb
4.5 Adverb
4.6 Adjective
4.7 Preposition
I B.A., English (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH (1 Hr)
Unit II - EMPATHY
POEM
2.1 "Nine Gold Medals" – David Roth
SHORT STORY
2.3 "The School for Sympathy" – E.V. Lucas
2.4 "Barn Burning" – William Faulkner
II B.A., Tamil (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH – PROSE, POETRY, FICTION, GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE STUDY AND ORAL COMMUNICATION
SKILLS (1 Hr)
Unit III - FICTION
The Dark Room (Abridged Version)
- R. K. Narayan
II B.A., English (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH – PROSE, POETRY, FICTION, GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE STUDY AND ORAL COMMUNICATION
SKILLS (1 Hr)
Unit III - FICTION
The Dark Room (Abridged Version) - R. K. Narayan
II B.A., B.Com. (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH – PROSE, POETRY, FICTION, GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE STUDY AND ORAL COMMUNICATION
SKILLS (1 Hr)
Unit III - FICTION
The Dark Room (Abridged Version) - R. K. Narayan
II B.Sc., Physics/Botany (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH – PROSE, POETRY, FICTION, GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE STUDY AND ORAL COMMUNICATION
SKILLS (3 Hrs)
Unit I - PROSE
1. "Character is Destiny" – Dr
Radhakrishnan.
2. "How to be a Doctor?" – Stephen
Leacock.
3. "How to win?" – Shiv Kera
4. "On doing Nothing" – J. B.
Priestley
Unit III - FICTION
The Dark Room (Abridged Version) - R. K. Narayan
Total Workload (10+2+1+3) = 16 Hrs
