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