Kaviarasu Teaches: Dr. K. Kaviarasu's Workload

Dear Students,

Kindly note the topics assigned to me for the Even Semester of the Academic Year 2023-2024:

Class	Hrs	Course Title	Course Code	Unit	Content
I English (Major)	2	SEC - IV DIGITAL LITERACY AND CONCEPTS		I	a. Introduction to Digital Literacy and its types. b. Digitizing Information.
				II	a. Values and Ethics of Digital Literacy b. Significance of Digital Literacy c. Characteristics of Digital Literacy d. The role of Language in Digital Literacy
				III	a. Digital Media and its Types b. Email, vlog, blog, twitter, Facebook, E-book.
				IV	a. Digital Literacy in Education
				V	a. Challenges in Digital Literacy

Class

Hrs

Course Title

Course Code

Unit

Content

II English (Major)

Core XII

AMERICAN LITERATURE – II

Fiction

a. Native Speaker – Chang-Rae Lee

b. Nemesis – Philip Roth

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Unit

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III English (Major)

Core XXIII

LITERATURE AND PSYCHOLOGY

Novella

a. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James

b. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka

III*

Short Story

c. “A Rose for Emily” - William Faulkner

Class

Hrs

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Course Code

Unit

Content

I Chemistry/Zoology (Part II)

GENERAL ENGLISH

IV - Part of Speech

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 35 – Rabindranath Tagore

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I Tamil
(Part II)

GENERAL ENGLISH

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

Class

Hrs

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Course Code

Unit

Content

I B. Com.
(Part II)

GENERAL ENGLISH

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

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II Tamil (Part II)

GENERAL ENGLISH –

PROSE, POETRY, DRAMA, GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE STUDY AND ORAL

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

III

FICTION

The Dark Room (Abridged Version) - R. K. Narayan

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Unit

Content

II English (Part II)

GENERAL ENGLISH –

PROSE, POETRY, DRAMA, GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE STUDY AND ORAL

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

III

FICTION

The Dark Room (Abridged Version) - R. K. Narayan

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II Physics/Botany
(Part II)

GENERAL ENGLISH –

PROSE, POETRY, DRAMA, GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE STUDY AND ORAL

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

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

III

FICTION

The Dark Room (Abridged Version) - R. K. Narayan

Total Workload (10+2+1+3)= 16 Hrs

I UG – Part II English Slot – 2023-2024 (Even Semester)

Course Title

Slot	Content
I (1 Hr)	Unit I - RESILIENCE Poem 1.1 Don’t Quit – Edgar A. Guest 1.2 Still Here – Langston Hughes Unit IV - Tenses 4.1 Present; 4.2 Past
II (1 Hr)	Unit I - RESILIENCE Short Story 1.3 Engine Trouble – R.K. Narayan 1.4 Rip Van Winkle – Washington Irving Unit IV - Tenses 4.3 Future; 4.4 Concord
III (1 Hr)	Unit II - DECISION MAKING Short Story 2.1 The Scribe – Kristin Hunter 2.2 The Lady or the Tiger - Frank Stockton Unit V - English in the Workplace 5.1 E-mail – Invitation, Enquiry, Seeking Clarification
IV (1 Hr)	Unit II - DECISION MAKING Poem 2.3 The Road not Taken – Robert Frost 2.4 Snake – D. H Lawrence Unit V - English in the Workplace 5.3 Memo
V (1 Hr)	Unit III - PROBLEM SOLVING Prose life Story 3.1 How I taught My Grandmother to Read – Sudha Murthy Autobiography 3.3 How frog Went to Heaven – A Tale of Angolo Unit V - English in the Workplace 5.4 Minutes of the Meeting
VI (1 Hr)	Unit III - PROBLEM SOLVING Autobiography 3.4 Wings of Fire (Chapters 1,2,3) by A.P.J - Abdul Kalam Unit V - English in the Workplace 5.2 Circular

II UG – Part II English Slot – 2023-2024 (Even Semester)

GENERAL ENGLISH -- PROSE, POETRY, DRAMA, GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE STUDY& ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Slot	Content
I (2 Hrs)	UNIT I - PROSE 1. Give us a Role Model – A.P.J.Abdul Kalam. 2. The Best Investment I have ever made – A.J. Cronin 3. Seven Good Habits – Robin Sharma 4. How much Land does a Man Need - Leo Tolstoy
II (1 Hr)	UNIT II – POETRY 1.Anxiety – A.K.Ramanujam 2. Incident on the French Camp – Robert Browning. 3. Stopping by the woods – Robert Frost 4. Still I raise – Maya Angelo
III (1 Hr)	UNIT lll - DRAMA - Select scenes from William Shakespeare 1. Antony and Cleopatra – Death Scene of Cleopatra – Act V, Scene II 2. Macbeth – Sleep Walking Scene – Act V, Scene I 3. King Lear – Heath, before a Hovel – Act lll, Scene IV.
IV (1 Hr)	UNIT IV – GRAMMAR 1. Transformation of Sentences 2. Synthesis of Sentences 3. Spot the Error
V (1 Hr)	UNIT V – LANGUAGE STUDY AND ORAL COMMUNICATION 1. Phonetics – Vowel sounds 2. Dialogue Writing 3. One word Substitution 4. Report writing.