Dr. K. Kaviarasu's Timetable– 2025-2026 [ODD Semester]

Dear Students, 

Kindly note my timetable for the Odd Semester of the Academic Year 2025-2026:

	I	II	III	V	VI
I			III Eng (M)		I Eng (II)
II			I Com	II Phy/Bot	III Eng (P)
III	III Eng (M)			I Com	I Mat
IV	I Com		III Eng (M)	I Mat
V		II Phy/Bot		III Eng (M)
VI	II Phy/Bot	I Eng (II)		III Eng (M)

General English III – Prescribed Texts for II B.Sc. Physics/Botany Students

Dear Students,

Listed below are the topics assigned for the General English III course for II B.Sc. Physics/Botany. Please click the VIEW button beside each topic to read the prescribed text.

Unit II - Poetry & Prose

2.1 “Telephone Conversation” – Wole Soyinka  |VIEW|

2.2 “Of Friendship” – Francis Bacon    |VIEW|

Unit III – Coping with Stress - Poem

3.1 “Leisure” – W. H. Davies    |VIEW|

3.2 “Anxiety Monster” – Rhona McFerran   |VIEW|

Readers' Theatre 

3.3 The Forty Fortunes: A Tale of Iran – Aaron Shepard   |VIEW|

3.4 “Where there is a Will” – Mahesh Dattani    |VIEW|

Unit V – Composition / Writing Skills 

5.1 Official Correspondence – Leave Letter, Letter of Application, Permission Letter

5.3 Brochures for Programmes and Events

Dr. K. Kaviarasu's Workload – 2025-2026 [ODD Semester]

Dear Students, 

Kindly note the topics assigned to Dr.KK for the Odd Semester of the Academic Year 2025-2026:

III B.A., English (Major)
Core IX - Authors in Focus (5 Hrs)

Unit I

Aristotle – Life and Works
Introduction
De Anima (On the Soul) – Books I–III (Pages 1–49)
Poetics – Chapters 1–5

Unit II

Charles Dickens – Life and Works
Introduction
David Copperfield
Christmas Carols 

Unit III

Rabindranath Tagore – Life and Works
Gitanjali – Introduction 

Unit IV

Jane Austen – Life and Works
Sense and Sensibility 

Unit V

Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists - Written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Donna Barr et al.                 

  

III B.A., English (Major)
Core XII - PROJECT (1 Hr)

Individual / Group project

A report of a minimum of 30 pages should be submitted      

I B.A. English /  B.Sc., Mathematics (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH I (2 Hrs)

Unit I - Life Story

     1.1 I am Malala (Chapter 1) – Malala Yousafzai

Unit I - Poem

     1.3 “Where the Mind is Without Fear” – Gitanjali 35 – Rabindranath Tagore

Unit II - Poem

     2.1 “Nine Gold Medals” – David Roth

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.Com. (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH I (3 Hrs)

Unit I - Life Story

     1.1 I am Malala (Chapter 1) – Malala Yousafzai

     1.2 The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Ch 1, 2 & 3) - M. K. Gandhi

Unit I - Poem

     1.3 “Where the Mind is Without Fear” – Gitanjali 35 – Rabindranath Tagore

     1.4 “Love Cycle” – Chinua Achebe

Unit II - Poem

     2.1 “Nine Gold Medals” – David Roth

     2.2 “Alice Fell or Poverty” – William Wordsworth

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

 

II B.Sc., Physics/Botany (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH III (3 Hrs)

Unit II - Poetry & Prose

2.1 “Telephone Conversation” – Wole Soyinka

2.2 “Of Friendship” – Francis Bacon

Unit III – Coping with Stress - Poem

3.1 “Leisure” – W. H. Davies

3.2 “Anxiety Monster” – Rhona McFerran

Readers' Theatre 

3.3 The Forty Fortunes: A Tale of Iran – Aaron Shepard

3.4 “Where there is a Will” – Mahesh Dattani

Unit V – Composition / Writing Skills 

5.1 Official Correspondence – Leave Letter, Letter of Application, Permission Letter

5.3 Brochures for Programmes and Events

 Total Workload (5+1+7+3) = 16 Hrs

Dr. K. Kaviarasu's Workload - 2024-2025 [Even Semester]

 Dear Students, 

Kindly note the topics assigned to me for the Even Semester of the Academic Year 2024-2025:

Timetable 

	I	II	III	V	VI
I	II Phy/Bot		II English		II Maths
II	I Maths		I Commerce	II Maths
III			II Maths	II Phy/Bot	I Chem/Zoo
IV			I Maths		II English
V	II English	II Phy/Bot
VI	I Chem/Zoo			I English (II)	II English

II B.A., English (Major)
Core VII - WORLD LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (4 Hrs)

Unit I

“Ulysses' Last Voyage” – Dante

“The Violet” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Tomorrow at Dawn” – Victor Hugo

“Your Children are not Your Children” – Khalil Gibran

 

Unit II

“If you Forget Me” – Pablo Neruda

“Pyramus and Thisbe” – Ovid

The Gypsies – Alexander Pushkin

“On Discontent” (from Satires) – Horace

“The Mystic Drum” – Gabriel Okara

“Two Dead Soldiers” – Jean Arasanayagam

 

Unit III

“Unpacking My Library” – Walter Benjamin

“On Friendship” – Montaigne

 

Unit IV

The Unnatural & Accidental Women – Marie Clements

Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett

 

Unit V

“A Very Oldman with Enormous Wings” – Gabriel Garcia Mårquez

“The District Doctor” – Ivan S. Turgenev

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

I B.A., English / B.Com. (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH (1 Hr)

Unit II - DECISION MAKING

2.1 The Scribe – Kristin Hunter  (Short Story)

2.4 Snake – D. H Lawrence (Poem)

Unit III - PROBLEM SOLVING:

3.1 How I taught My Grandmother to Read – Sudha Murthy (Life Story)

Unit V - English in the Workplace

5.1 E-mail – Invitation, Enquiry, Seeking Clarification

        5.2 Circular

I B.Sc., Chemistry / Zoology /  Mathematics (Part II)

GENERAL ENGLISH II (2 Hrs)

Unit I – RESILIENCE

1.1 Don’t Quit – Edgar A. Guest (Poem)

1.2 Still Here – Langston Hughes (Poem)

1.3 Engine Trouble – R.K. Narayan (Short Story)

1.4 Rip Van Winkle – Washington Irving (Short Story)

Unit III - PROBLEM SOLVING

3.3 Wings of Fire (Chapters 1,2,3) by A.P.J - Abdul Kalam (Autobiography)

Unit IV - Tenses

4.1 Present

4.2 Past

4.3 Future

        4.4 Concord

 

II B.Sc., Mathematics  / Physics / Botany (Part II)

GENERAL ENGLISH IV (3 Hrs)

UNIT II - INTEGRITY

2.1. The Taxi Driver - K. S. Duggal (Short Story)

2.2. Kabuliwala - Rabindranath Tagore (Short Story)

2.3. A Retrieved Reformation - O. Henry (Short Story)

2.4. The Quality of Mercy (Trial Scene from ‘The Merchant of Venice') - William Shakespeare (Extract from a Play)

UNIT III - COPING WITH EMOTIONS: Poem

3.1. Pride - Dahlia Raviokovitch 

3.2. Phenomenal Woman - Maya Angelou 

UNIT  IV - Language Competency

4.1 Simple Sentences

4.2 Compound Sentences

4.3 Complex Sentences

4.4 Direct and Indirect Speech