Dr. K. Kaviarasu's Workload - 2023-2024 [ODD Semester]

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