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