SISTER NIVEDITA UNIVERSITY SYLLABUS FOR THREE YEARS … · 2019-07-13 · Mahesh Dattani’s Tara /Bravely Fought the Queen – Indian English Drama before Dattani; Dattani’s life

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SISTER NIVEDITA UNIVERSITY

SYLLABUS

FOR

THREE YEARS B.A. (DEGREE) COURSE

IN

ENGLISH

UNDER

UGC-CBCS SYSTEM

2019

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Credit Distribution

Name of Department: English

Name of the UG program: BA Honors

Duration of program: 6 Semester (3 years)

Head/ In-Charge of the Department: Arnab Chatterjee

Semester Credit

CC DSE GE AECC SEC USC Total/ Sem

1st 12 4 4 2 1 2 25

2nd 16 4 2 1 2 25

3rd 12 8 4 1 25

4th 12 4 4 1 21

5th 12 4 16

6th 18 18

Total Credit / Course 82 20 16 4 4 4

Total Credit 130

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B.A. English (H) Course Structure Category Course name Code Credit Teaching Scheme

L T P

Semester – I

CC – 1 History of English Literature I 121111 4 3 1 0

CC – 2 Indian Writing in English 121112 4 3 1 0

CC – 3 Literary Theory & Criticism 121113 4 3 1 0

DSE – 1 Popular Literature 121114 4 3 1 0

GE – 1 Generic Elective * 4 3 1 0

AECC – 1 Communicative English 121115 2 2 0 0

SEC – 1 Mentored Seminar – I 121311 1 1 0 0

USC – 1 Foreign Language I (German – I/ Spanish – I/ Japanese – I) 127111/

127112/

127113

2 2 0 0

Total Credit = 25 Teaching Hour = 25

Semester – II

CC – 4 History of English Literature II 121121 4 3 1 0

CC – 5 British Romantic Literature 121122 4 3 1 0

CC – 6 American Literature 121123 4 3 1 0

CC – 7 Women’s Writing 121124 4 3 1 0


AECC – 2 Environmental Science 115124 2 2 0 0

SEC – 2 Mentored Seminar – II 121321 1 1 0 0

USC – 2 Foreign Language – II (German-II / Spanish-II / Japanese-II) 127121/

127122/

127123

2 2 0 0


Semester – III

CC – 8 History of English Literature III 121131 4 3 1 0

CC – 9 European Classical Literature 121132 4 3 1 0

CC – 10 William Shakespeare 121133 4 3 1 0

DSE – 2 Partition Literature of the Subcontinent 121134 4 3 1 0

DSE – 3 Literature & Visual Arts 121135 4 3 1 0


SEC – 3 Mentored Seminar – III 121331 1 1 0 0


Semester – IV

CC – 11 History of English Literature IV 121141 4 3 1 0

CC – 12 Modern European Drama 121142 4 3 1 0

CC – 13 Avant-Garde Drama 121143 4 3 1 0

DSE – 4 Literature & Other Arts 121144 4 3 1 0


SEC – 4 Mentored Seminar – IV 121341 1 1 0 0


Semester –V

CC – 14 History of English Literature V 121151 4 3 1 0

CC – 15 Indian Classical Literature 121152 4 3 1 0

CC - 16 Modern Indian Writing in English Translation 121153 4 3 1 0

DSE – 5 Academic Writing 121154 4 3 1 0


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Semester – VI

CC – 17 History of English Literature VI 121161 4 3 1 0

CC – 18 Postcolonial Literatures 121162 4 3 1 0

CC – 19 BA Dissertation 121163 10 0 0 20


Semester 1

1. HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE I:

Course Objectives:

This course is intended to give an overview of the HEL from the first national poet of

England through an analysis of the major social, intellectual and cultural trends that

culminate in the phenomenon called the Renaissance.

Course Outcome:

After taking this course, students are expected to gain a broad understanding of two of the

major literary periods of England.

Unit 1 – Introduction to Middle English (ME) Literature

Background of ME Literature, especially its socio-cultural aspects; ME religious drama; other

non-dramatic religious and non-religious texts. Side by side, basic literary characteristics of

Old English/ Anglo- Saxon literature would also be discussed to facilitate positive learning

outcomes.

Unit 2 - Chaucer & the Chaucerians

Life and works of Chaucer; The Canterbury Tales (CT); Chaucer’s importance and the

influence of CT on later generations of writers; the Chaucerians.

Unit 3 - Between Chaucer & Spenser

The relatively dry period following Chaucer’s death; prose works of the era – Malory’s

Morte D’ Arthur, and the importance of Caxton and his press.

Unit 4 - Introduction to the Renaissance

The cultural connotations of the word; cosmopolitanism and the Renaissance.

Unit 5 - The rise of drama in England

The rise of ‘regular drama’ in England and themes dealt with in domestic plays (like Ralph

Roister Doister); the later romantic drama practiced by Shakespeare and others.

Unit 6 - Edmund Spenser

The life and works of Spenser; The Fairie Queene; the nuances of Spenser’s language.

Unit 7 - The Elizabethan Sonnet

The Sonnet as a major poetic art form; major Sonneteers of the period.

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Unit 8 - The University Wits & Elizabethan Prose Fiction

‘The University Wits’; select prose fiction (John Lyly's Endymion, among others).

Unit 9 - Francis Bacon

Bacon as a writer; his major prose works.

Unit 10 - Christopher Marlowe

The life and works of the rebel writer; his major plays.

Unit 11 - Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy

The Senecan elements in Elizabethan Revenge Tragedy; select dramatists who have had a

direct bearing on Shakespearean tragedy.

Unit 12 - Shakespeare

The life and works of William Shakespeare in general; discussion of his select tragedies and

comedies.

Unit 13 - Jacobean Drama

Continuation of the Elizabethan dramatic tradition in the Jacobean Age; Webster and

Johnson; The Duchess of Malfi and Volpone.

References:

The Short Oxford History of English Literature – Andrew Sanders (2005)

A Critical History of English Literature (Vols. I & II) - David Daiches (Version, 2010)

English Literature before Chaucer - Michael Swanton

Medieval English Romance - Barron

2. INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

Course Objectives: [all compulsory]

Give students an overview of Indian Writing in English - primarily of the 20th century; of the

different emphases of colonial and post-colonial writers; and the deep engagement with

questions of identity (both linguistic and literary) that has been an enduring staple of this writing.

Course Outcome:

After taking this course, students are expected to have a broad understanding of both the

colonial underpinnings of this literature as well as its present status of being one of the most

vibrant aspects of modern Anglophone literature.

Unit 1 – Introductory Lectures

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The colonial context of Indian English literature; Indian English literature and its readership;

Modernism in Indian English literature

Unit 2 - Indian English Poetry

Introduction to Indian English Poetry and its aesthetics; discussion and analysis of 4 poems –

H.L.V. Derozio's The Orphan Girl, A. K. Ramanujan's Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House, Nissim

Ezekiel's The Night of the Scorpion & Kamala Das's Introduction.

Unit 3 – Indian English Prose: Fiction

(Teacher will deal with 2 novels - R.K. Narayan The Guide & Anita Desai’s In Custody)

R. K. Narayan’s life and work; the ‘devdasi’ in Indian literature; discussion and analysis of all the

novelistic elements in detail; comparison with the film (starring Dev Anand) inspired by the novel

with the written text

Anita Desai’s life and work; the socio-political-cultural context of the novel; the tussle between

Hindi and Urdu; discussion and analysis of all the novelistic elements in detail; comparison with the

Merchant-Ivory film (starring Shashi Kapoor) based on the novel with the written text

Unit 4 – Indian English Prose: Non-Fiction

(Teacher will deal with 2 pieces - Amitav Ghosh’s “The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi” & V.S.

Naipaul’s Reading and Writing: A Personal Account)

Ghosh’s life and works; the political backdrop of the essay: Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and the

‘Khalistan’ movement, ‘Operation Bluestar’ and Indira Gandhi’s assassination; the backlash against

the Sikhs in the context of riots/communal violence in post-partition India; detailed examination

of the text

Naipaul’s life and the seminal influence of his father; his oeuvre; Naipaul as a ‘Third World’

writer; Reading and Writing as literary autobiography; detailed critique of the text

Unit 5 - Indian English Drama

Mahesh Dattani’s Tara /Bravely Fought the Queen – Indian English Drama before Dattani;

Dattani’s life and works; gender discrimination in India and its representations in art; stage

productions of ‘Tara’; detailed study of the text

The Texts:

R.K. Narayan - The Guide (Penguin, 2006)

Anita Desai - In Custody (Vintage, 1999)

Amitav Ghosh – ‘The Ghosts of Mrs. Gandhi’ (Surjeet Publications,

2013)ttps://www.amitavghosh.com/essays/ghost.html

https://www.amitavghosh.com/essays/ghost.html

https://www.amitavghosh.com/essays/ghost.html

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V.S. Naipaul - Reading and Writing: A Personal Account (New York Review Books, 2000)

Mahesh Dattani – Tara (Surjeet Publications, 2013) /Bravely Fought the Queen

General References:

Indian Writing in English – K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar (Sterling, 1996)

An Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English – Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (Ed.)

(Permanent Black, 2003)

Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets – R. Parthasarathy (Ed.) (OUP, 2016)

3. LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

Course Objectives: [all compulsory]

The given module is intended to give an overview of the various literary trends and ‘isms’

and how the same can be profitably used in the appreciation of various literary texts. It also

strives to teach the ‘stylistic’ aspects of a text, viz., by acquainting them with elementary

rhetoric and prosody.

Course Outcomes:

After taking the course, students are expected to understand and apply the various literary

theories, and develop a critical bent of mind while reading both canonical as well as non-

canonical texts.

Unit 1 - Aristotle's Poetics (Selected Chapters)

Tragedy as a genre; Epic poetry as propounded by Aristotle; Chapter 5 of the Poetics.

Unit 2 – Rhetoric & Prosody .---

Students would study the basics of rhetoric and prosody and extensive exercises would be done in the class.

Unit 3 – Select Literary Terms

Lyric, Sonnet, Ode, Elegy, Pastoral, Epic, Stanza, Blank Verse, Poetic Diction, Courtly Love, Genre, Tragedy, Comedy, Satire, Novel, Motif & Theme, Myth, Point of View

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Texts:

Aristotle - Poetics (the Bywater translation)

Rhetoric & Prosody (from Elements of Rhetoric and Prosody : Bose and Sterling).

Literary Terms – from A Glossary of Literary Terms – M. H. Abrams (CENGAGE Learning, 2013)

References:

The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory - J. A. Cuddon (2000)

Beginning Theory – P. Barry (Viva, 2010)

4. POPULAR LITERATURE : [all compulsory]

Course Objectives:

To help students critically analyze what makes ‘popular literature’ popular by studying a range of

sub-genres (children’s literature, crime fiction, coming-of-age tale, graphic novel) within it over a

time-span of more than a century and including both British and South Asian writers.

Course Outcomes:

To make students more ‘informed’ readers not only of ‘serious’ literature but also of a category

that is generally considered to be outside the pale of critical enquiry.

Unit 1 - Introduction to Popular Literature

What is ‘popular’ literature; the Canonical and the popular; the enduring popularity of crime

fiction, children’s literature, and the coming-of-age tale

Unit 2 - Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass

Sense and nonsense in Lewis Caroll; Alice in Wonderland; ethics and education in children’s

literature; detailed analysis of the text; celluloid representations

Unit 3 - Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes; Holmes and Dr. Watson; the enduring appeal of the

British sleuth; detailed analysis of the text; celluloid afterlives; the BBC Series Sherlock

Unit 4 – Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy

The ‘Coming of Age’ tale; gender and identity in South Asia; the Sri Lankan Civil War;

Selvadurai’s life and literary inspiration; detailed study of the text

Unit 5 – Saraswati Nagpal’s Sita

What is a graphic novel?; graphic novels in India; ‘Amar Chitra Katha’ & ‘Campfire’ books;

Amish and the mythology boom in India; the uniqueness of Nagpal’s graphic retelling of Sita’s

story

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The Texts:

Lewis Carroll – Through the Looking Glass – http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12/12-h/12-h.htm

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Basketvilles (BBC Books, 2014)

Shyam Selvadurai - Funny Boy (William Morrow Paperbacks, 2015)

Saraswati Nagpal - Sita (Graphic Novel) (Campfire, 2011)

References:

1. Popular Fiction: An Anthology – Gary Hoppenstand (Longman Literature and Culture Series,

Longman, 1997)

2.Writing India Anew: Indian English Fiction 2000-2010 – Essays by Rimi B. Chatterjee and Abhijit

Gupta in Krishna Sen & Rituparna Roy (Eds.) (Amsterdam University Press: AUP/ICAS Series,

2013).

5. MENTORED SEMINAR I (Term Paper I)–

Course Objectives:

In this course, students are expected to write a term paper of 2,000 words on a specified topic

and supposed to present it in power point at the end of the semester/s.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students will understand how to present academic work in seminars,

conferences, etc. in future.

6. COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH :

Course Objectives:

This course intends to acquaint the students with the communicative aspects of the

English language in use today and how they can hone their LSRW skills and make

themselves industry ready.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students will be more ready to face the stiff job market with

the necessary communicative skills in hand.

[all compulsory]

Unit 1 - Functional grammar

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12/12-h/12-h.htm

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Tenses: basic forms and use; sentence formation; common errors; parts of speech, direct and

reported speech structures and voices

Unit 2 - Letter Writing

Job application; business letter; editorial letter; email

Unit 3 - Essay Writing

Overall argument; consistent logic; main points; paragraphs; introduction & conclusion

Unit 4 - Report Writing

Manuscript; memo, etc.

Unit 5 - Precis Writing

Understanding main points; inculcating precision; reducing to basics

Unit 6 - Note Making

Unit 7 - Other Kinds of Texts

Notice; Circular; Agenda; Minutes, etc.

Unit 8 - Presentation Skills

Soft skills; relevance of content; knowledge and confidence

Unit 9 - Group Discussion

The basic structure of GD's; workshops to develop participation and team-work skills.

Unit 10 - Role play

What is 'role play’? identifying and understanding one's role; workshops

Unit 11 - Developing Interview Skills

The "Do's & Don'ts" of Interviews; verbal proficiency; personality development; mock-

interviews: Demo.

Unit 12: Models of Communication:

Models of Communication, Business cum Technical Meets (demo) and Business

Communication

References:

Communicate with Confidence – Nilanjana Gupta (Anthem Press, 2011)

Effective Technical Communication: Guide for Scientists and Engineers – Barun Mitra (OUP, 2006)

7. FOREIGN LANGUAGE I – German/Spanish/Japanese:

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Course Objectives & Outcomes:

Students are expected to understand and speak elementary foreign language that they choose.

Semester 2:

1. History of English Literature II:

Course Objectives:

This module intends to acquaint the students with the closing of the dramas in 1642 in England and

the subsequent rise of Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan government under him with the major

works of John Milton till the restoration when monarchy was re-established in the British Isles and

the general licentiousness that was manifested in the literature of the age. Lastly, it would like to give

an idea to the learners about the rise of the novel in the 18th century and the predominance of

satirical works by poets like Alexander Pope, Swift and others.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, the learners are expected to understand the feel of religious literature during

the Puritan regime along with the Metaphysical poetry of the era as well as the end of the

Commonwealth after the Restoration, the general licentiousness that crept in and, lastly, the rise of

the novel and of ‘good sense’ during the reign of Queen Anne.

Unit I: John Milton and his works, Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes (extensive discussion of

these two texts), a brief discussion of Milton the Puritan and Milton the last great Renaissance poet.

Unit II: The Metaphysical poetry, Cavalier Poetry, the prose writers like Burton, Browne and

Bunyan.

Unit III: Restoration Age and Comedy of Manners and general licentiousness, Congreve’s The Way

of the World.

Unit IV: 18th century and the age of satire, ‘reason’ and the novel--- Pope, Swift, etc.

Suggested Topics for Class Presentations:

John Milton the Puritan and his Paradise Lost, the Puritan age and the suppression of

entertainment, Metaphysical poetry and the concept of conceits via a close reading of the poems,

Restoration Comedy of Manners, the 18th century and the rise of the novel under Richardson,

Defoe, Smollett and Sterne. The idea of colonial superiority in Robinson Crusoe.

Suggested Readings:

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1. Long, William J, A History of English Literature. (Atlantic, 2015).

2. Sanders, Andrew, An Oxford History of English Literature (OUP).

3. Daiches, David, A Critical History of English Literature. 2 vols. (Atlantic).

2. British Romantic Literature :

Course Objectives:

This course intends to acquaint the students with the Romantic literature of the British Isles

that was influenced by the French Revolution and the evolution of the subjective mode of

expression as evidenced in Romantic literature with the development of the gothic genre by

writers like Anne Radcliffe and the satirizing of the same in Jane Austen’s novels.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to understand the development of romantic

literature with its emphasis on the subjective mode of expression.

Poetry: [any 5]

1. William Blake ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ (from The Songs of Innocence and The

Songs of Experience)

2. ‘The Tyger’ (The Songs of Experience) 'Introduction’ to The Songs of Innocence

3. Robert Burns ‘A Bard’s Epitaph’ ‘Scots Wha Hae’

4. William Wordsworth ‘Tintern Abbey’ ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’

5. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ‘Kubla Khan’ ‘Dejection: An Ode’

6. Lord George Gordon Noel Byron ‘Childe Harold’: canto III, verses 36–45 (lines 316–

405); canto IV, verses 178–86 (lines 1594–674) 7.

7. Percy Bysshe Shelley ‘Ode to the West Wind’ ‘Ozymandias’ ‘Hymn to Intellectual

Beauty’ 8.

8. John Keats ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, ‘To Autumn’ .

Novels:

1. Mary Shelley Frankenstein [compulsory]

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations :

Topics

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Reason and Imagination , Conceptions of Nature Literature and Revolution The Gothic

The Romantic Lyric

Readings

1. William Wordsworth, ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’, in Romantic Prose and Poetry, ed.

Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling (New York: OUP, 1973) pp. 594–611.

2. 2. John Keats, ‘Letter to George and Thomas Keats, 21 December 1817’, and ‘Letter to

Richard Woodhouse, 27 October, 1818’, in Romantic Prose and Poetry, ed. Harold

Bloom and Lionel Trilling (New York: OUP, 1973) pp. 766–68, 777–8.

3. 3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ‘Preface’ to Emile or Education, tr. Allan Bloom

(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991).

4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, ed. George Watson (London: Everyman,

1993) chap. XIII, pp. 161–66.

3. American Literature :

Course Objectives:

This course intends to give an idea about the literature produced outside the mother nation with its

emphasis on regionalism and the unique geopolitical status that it enjoyed that is reflected in the

literature of the nation.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to appreciate the uniqueness and the variety of

American literature that was composed by various multi-ethnic authors.

[All the components are compulsory]

Drama:

1. Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie

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Novels:

1. Toni Morrison. The Bluest Eye.

2. Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea

Short Stories:

1. O. Henry. “The Cop and the Anthem.”

2. John Steinbeck ‘The Chrysanthemums’.

Poetry:

Walt Whitman : Selections from Leaves of Grass:

1. ‘O Captain, My Captain!’ ‘

2. ‘A Passage to India’; (lines 1-68 only)

Langston Hughes ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’, ‘Harlem’.

Allen Ginsberg ‘America’.

Sandburg . ‘Chicago’.

Criticism:

1. ‘The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain’, Langston Hughes

2. Walden. Thoreau. (selections, ‘Bean Field’)

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations.

The American Dream , Social Realism and the American Novel Folklore and the American Novel

Black Women’s Writings , Questions of Form in American Poetry

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***Films in general on American culture and urbanization to be shown compulsorily. To be decided

by the teacher.

Readings

1. Hector St John Crevecouer, ‘What is an American’, (Letter III) in Letters from an American Farmer

(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982) pp. 66–105.

2. Frederick Douglass, A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982)

chaps. 1–7, pp. 47–87.

3. Henry David Thoreau, ‘Battle of the Ants’ excerpt from ‘Brute Neighbours’, in Walden (Oxford:

OUP, 1997) chap. 12.

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Self Reliance’, in The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed.

with a biographical introduction by Brooks Atkinson (New York: The Modern Library, 1964).

5. Toni Morrison, ‘Romancing the Shadow’, in Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and Literary

Imagination (London: Picador, 1993) pp. 29–39.,

From Puritanism to Postmodernism , Malcolm Bradbury and Richard Ruland (Penguin).

(3+1 =4) Women’s Writing : [any 4]

Course Objectives:

This course is intended to acquaint the students with the feminist movement in general and

how a vibrant literature was produced by them that challenged and even supplemented the

male-centric discourse.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to appreciate such trends and tendencies.

1. Emily Dickinson ‘I cannot live with you’ , ‘I’m wife; I’ve finished that’

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2. Sylvia Plath ‘Daddy’ ‘Lady Lazarus’

3. Eunice De Souza ‘Advice to Women’ ‘Bequest’

4. Alice Walker. The Color Purple/ C. Adeichi. Americanah. [compulsory]

5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ Katherine Mansfield ‘Bliss’

Mahashweta Devi ‘Draupadi’, tr. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Calcutta: Seagull, 2002)

6. Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (New York: Norton, 1988)

chap. 1, pp. 11–19; chap. 2, pp. 19–38.

7. Ramabai Ranade ‘A Testimony of our Inexhaustible Treasures’, in Pandita Ramabai

Through Her Own Words: Selected Works, tr. Meera Kosambi (New Delhi: OUP, 2000) pp.

295–324. ##

8. Rassundari Debi Excerpts from Amar Jiban in Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, eds., Women’s

Writing in India, vol. 1 (New Delhi: OUP, 1989) pp. 191–2. ##

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics

The Confessional Mode in Women's Writing Sexual Politics, Race, Caste and Gender Social

Reform and Women’s Rights

Readings

1. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (New York: Harcourt, 1957) chaps. 1 and 6. **

2. Simone de Beauvoir, ‘Introduction’, in The Second Sex, tr. Constance Borde and Shiela

Malovany-Chevallier (London: Vintage, 2010) pp. 3–18. **

3. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid, eds., ‘Introduction’, in Recasting Women: Essays in

Colonial History (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1989) pp. 1–25.

4. Chandra Talapade Mohanty, ‘Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial

Discourses’, in Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader, ed. Padmini Mongia (New

York: Arnold, 1996) pp. 172–97.

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$$: In case texts marked # are unavailable or otherwise, texts marked in * may be done in the class

as primary texts.

Semester 3:

1. History of English Literature III:

(British Literature: 19th century)

Course Objectives:

This course is designed to acquaint the students with the history of the literature of 19th century

England—the Romantic movement that spanned roughly from 1798 to 1832. Coupled with this,

this course is intended to give an idea to students about the literature post-Romantic era that starts

with the Victorian age and the proliferation of novel writing as a genre and that also witnessed the

gradual growth of the industrial revolution in England.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to understand such literary trends.

Unit I: The Rise of the romantics and the influence of German Romanticism, the French

Revolution, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads and Biographia Literaria.

Unit II: Gothic literature and its rise.

Unit III: Romantic prose with reference to De Quincey, Lamb and Hazlitt.

Unit IV: The novel under Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice--- the text ) and Scott (Ivanhoe--- the text).

Topics for class presentations.

The Romantic age and the subjective mode of artistic expression with reference to representative

poems, the Gothic literature, the depiction of family life and social reality in Jane Austen and her

‘two inches of ivory’.

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Suggested Readings:

1. Andrew Sanders, The Oxford History of English Literature, (OUP).

2. William J. Long, A History of English Literature, (Atlantic, 2015)

3. Daiches, David, A Critical History of English Literature. 2 vols. (Supernova Publishers, 2011)

2. European Classical Literature

Course Objectives:

This course is intended to give an idea about the earliest of literature produced in the classical era

with its emphasis on a theocentric world view and the genre of drama and dramatic art that was

developed in classical antiquity.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, it is expected that the students shall get an overview of the early literature of

the Greek and the Roman city states.

[any 3/4]

1. Homer The Iliad, Book-I, tr. E.V. Rieu (Harmondsworth: Penguin,1985).

2. Sophocles Oedipus the King, tr. Robert Fagles in Sophocles: The Three Theban Plays (Harmondsworth:

Penguin, 1984).

3. Plautus. Pot of Gold, tr. E.F. Watling (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965).

4. Ovid. Selections from Metamorphoses , Book-I, tr. Mary M. Innes (Harmondsworth: Penguin,

1975).

5. Horace. Satires I: 4, in Horace: Satires and Epistles and Persius: Satires, tr. Niall Rudd

(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2005).

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations Topics:

The Epic Comedy and Tragedy in Classical Drama , The Athenian City State, Catharsis and

Mimesis, Satire , Literary Cultures in Augustan Rome .

Readings

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1. Aristotle, Poetics, translated with an introduction and notes by Malcolm Heath, (London: Penguin,

1996) chaps. 6–17, 23, 24, and 26.

2. Plato, The Republic, Book X, tr. Desmond Lee (London: Penguin, 2007).

3. Horace, Ars Poetica, tr. H. Rushton Fairclough, (London: Penguin, 2012).

4. Horace: Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005) pp.

451–73.

3. William Shakespeare:

Course Objectives:

This course intends to acquaint the students about the plays of the bard that were the greatest

literary output of the Elizabethan England and the Early Modern era.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to appreciate the plays of the bard that are still

considered to be the greatest and the most enduring plays ever written that invite multiple readings

with recourse to various ‘isms’.

Drama : [any 2]

Tragedy - Macbeth

Comedy – Twelfth Night

Romance – The Tempest

Poems: [compulsory]

Sonnets 73, 116, 154

Criticism:

A.C. Bradley. Shakespearean Tragedy. (selections). [any 2]

G. Wilson Knight. The Wheel of Fire. Selections.

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Stephen Greenblatt. Renaissance Self-Fashioning. Selections.

Jan Kott. Shakespeare our Contemporary. Selections.

Suggested Topics for Class presentations:

The concept of “Character is Destiny”, The Shakespearean Hero and Canon , The Globe, The Swan

and Elizabethan theatrical convention, The Chronology of Shakespeare’s plays, Shakespeare the

bard and the ‘man’, Elizabethan costumes and scenery, translations from the bard, graphic novel

presentations, adaptations, Folio & Quartos.

Readings:

1. Bradley, A.C. Shakespearean Tragedy. (Kolkata, Radha Publishing House, 2008).

2. Knight, G. Wilson. The Wheel of Fire. (New York, Routledge, 2001).

3. Mangan, Michael. A Preface to Shakespeare’s Tragedies. (New York, Routledge, 1991).

4. Kott, Jan, Shakespeare Our Contemporary. (Blackstone Audio Books, 2014)

(3+1= 4) Partition Literature of the Subcontinent:

[any 5]

Course Objectives:

This course intends to teach the students about the partition literature of the nation in both

English and the vernacular (translated) that captures the agony of the pivotal incident in the

history of the subcontinent and the associated mechanics of identity formation.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to assimilate such concepts.

1. Intizar Husain, Basti, tr. Frances W. Pritchett (New Delhi: Rupa, 1995).

2. Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines

3. Dibyendu Palit, ‘Alam's Own House’, tr. Sarika Chaudhuri, Bengal Partition Stories: An Unclosed

Chapter, ed. Bashabi Fraser (London: Anthem Press, 2008) pp. 453– 72.

4. Manik Bandhopadhya, ‘The Final Solution’, tr. Rani Ray, Mapmaking: Partition Stories from Two

Bengals, ed. Debjani Sengupta (New Delhi: Srishti, 2003) pp. 23–39.

5. Sa’adat Hasan Manto, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, in Black Margins: Manto, tr. M. Asaduddin (New Delhi:

Katha, 2003) pp. 212–20.

6. Lalithambika Antharajanam, ‘A Leaf in the Storm’, tr. K. Narayana Chandran, in Stories about

the Partition of India , ed. Alok Bhalla (New Delhi: Manohar, 2012) pp. 137–45.

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7. a) Faiz Ahmad Faiz, ‘For Your Lanes, My Country’, in In English: Faiz Ahmad Faiz,

Renowned Urdu Poet, tr. and ed. Riz Rahim (California: Xlibris, 2008) p. 138.

8. Jibananda Das, ‘I Shall Return to This Bengal’, tr. Sukanta Chaudhuri, in Modern Indian

Literature (New Delhi: OUP, 2004) pp. 8–13.

9. Gulzar, ‘Toba Tek Singh’, tr. Anisur Rahman, in Translating Partition, ed. Tarun Saint et. al. (New

Delhi: Katha, 2001) p. x.

Suggested Topics and Readings for Class Presentation Topics:

Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Partition Communalism and Violence, Homelessness and Exile

Women in the Partition

Background Readings and Screenings

1. Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, ‘Introduction’, in Borders and Boundaries (New Delhi: Kali for

Women, 1998).

2. Sukrita P. Kumar, Narrating Partition (Delhi: Indialog, 2004).

3. Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Delhi: Kali for

Women, 2000).

4. Sigmund Freud, ‘Mourning and Melancholia’, in The Complete Psychological Works of

Sigmund Freud, tr. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1953) pp. 3041–53.

Films :

10. Garam Hawa (dir. M.S. Sathyu, 1974).

11. Khamosh Paani: Silent Waters (dir. Sabiha Sumar, 2003). Subarnarekha

4. Literature & Visual Arts : [any 3]

Course Objectives:

This course intends to acquaint the students with films in the contemporary era and how a number

of them are adaptations of canonical texts. In this process, they would be made to understand the

theoretical underpinnings of the same with recourse to adaptation theory in general.

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Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to understand such trends in literature and the visual

arts.

1. James Monaco, ‘The language of film: signs and syntax’, in How To Read a Film: The World of Movies,

Media & Multimedia (New York: OUP, 2009) chap. 3, pp. 170– 249.

2. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and its adaptations: Romeo & Juliet (1968; dir. Franco

Zeffirelli, Paramount); and Romeo + Juliet (1996; dir. Baz Luhrmann, 20th Century Fox).

3. Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice Candy Man and its adaptation Earth (1998; dir. Deepa Mehta, Cracking the Earth

Films Incorp.); and Amrita Pritam, Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories, tr. Khushwant Singh

(New Delhi: Tara Press, 2009) and its adaptation: Pinjar (2003; dir. C.P. Dwivedi, Lucky Star

Entertainment).

4. Ian Fleming, From Russia with Love, and its adaptation: From Russia with Love (1963; dir. Terence

Young, Eon Productions).


Theories of Adaptation Transformation and Transposition Hollywood and ‘Bollywood’ The ‘Two

Ways of Seeing’ Adaptation as Interpretation

Readings

1. Linda Hutcheon, ‘On the Art of Adaptation’, Daedalus, vol. 133, (2004).

2. Thomas Leitch, ‘Adaptation Studies at Crossroads’, Adaptation, 2008, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 63–77.

3. Poonam Trivedi, ‘Filmi Shakespeare’, Litfilm Quarterly, vol. 35, issue 2, 2007.

4. Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott, ‘Figures of Bond’, in Popular Fiction: Technology, Ideology,

Production, Reading, ed. Tony Bennet (London and New York: Routledge, 1990).

*** Other films that may be used for class presentations [not compulsory, but desirable]:

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1. William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, and Othello and their adaptations: Angoor (dir.

Gulzar, 1982), Maqbool (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2003), Omkara, Haider (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2006)

respectively.

2. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and its adaptations: BBC TV mini-series (1995), Joe Wright (2005)

and Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice (2004).

3. Rudaali (dir. Kalpana Lajmi, 1993) and Gangor or ‘Behind the Bodice’ (dir. Italo Spinelli, 2010).

4. Ruskin Bond, Junoon (dir. Shyam Benegal, 1979), The Blue Umbrella (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj,

2005), and Saat Khoon Maaf (dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2011).

5. E.M. Forster, Passage to India and its adaptation , dir. David Lean (1984).

Note:

a) For every unit, 4 hours are for the written text and 8 hours for its cinematic adaptation (Total: 12

hours) b) To introduce students to the issues and practices of cinematic adaptations, teachers may

use the following critical material:

1. Deborah Cartmell and Imelda Whelehan, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen

(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

2. John M. Desmond and Peter Hawkes, Adaptation: Studying Film and Literature (New York:

McGraw-Hill, 2005).

3. Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Adaptation (New York: Routledge, 2006).

4. J.G. Boyum, Double Exposure (Calcutta: Seagull, 1989).

5. B. Mcfarlens, Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation (Clarendon University

Press, 1996).

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Semester 4

3. History of English Literature IV (British Literature: Early 20th century)

Course Objectives:

This course intends to give an idea to students about the modern literature produced in England

post-Victorian period till the 1930s with a plan to make them study the era and its literary history

with an active engagement with the texts written during this period.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students will be able to appreciate the diverse texts written during this era

that sees a mixture of realism , modernism and other allied sensibilities.

Texts:

Novels & Short Stories : [any 3]

Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness

D.H. Lawrence. The Rainbow

Woolf . To The Lighthouse/ Mrs. Dalloway

James Joyce. The Dubliners [ selections : any 2 --- ‘Araby’ and any one more to be decided by the

teacher ]

Poetry: [any 3]

T.S. Eliot . ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘The Hollow Men’.

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W.B. Yeats. ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Easter 1916’, ‘Leda and the Swan’.

John Masefield. ‘Laugh and be Merry., ‘West Wind’.

Owen. ‘Futility’, ‘Strange Meeting.’

Drama: [compulsory]

John Millington Synge. Riders to the Sea

Topics for class presentations:

Modernism, Postmodernism, the Colonial enterprise, Myth and Irish literature, The stream of

consciousness technique and the modern novel, etc.

Readings:

Lodge, David. 20th Century Literary Criticism: Reader. Routledge.

Habib, M.A.R. A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to Present. Wiley-Blackwell.

Rollasaon, Christopher, and Rajeshwar Mitapalli, eds. Modern Criticism.

Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. Vintage Digital.

Wolfreys, Julian. The Continuum Encyclopaedia of Modern Criticism and Theory. Continuum Publications.

Raymond Williams. Culture & Society.

4. Modern European Drama

Course Objectives:

This course intends to orient the students with the literature produced in the Europe with its

emphasis on realism, naturalism and absurdism and the texts dealing with the same.

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Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to appreciate the literary trends and genres that were

used in Europe in the 19th century that sought to question traditional values and mores.

Drama [any 3]

1. Henrik Ibsen . A Doll’s House/Ghosts.

2. Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children.

3. Luigi Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author.

4. Eugene Ionesco. Rhinoceros


Politics, Social Change and the Stage , Text and Performance European Drama: Realism and

Beyond Tragedy and Heroism in Modern European Drama The Theatre of the Absurd,

Totalitarianism.

Readings

1. Constantin Stanislavski, An Actor Prepares, chap. 8, ‘Faith and the Sense of Truth’, tr.

Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967) sections 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, pp.

121–5, 137–46.

2. Bertolt Brecht, ‘The Street Scene’, ‘Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction’, and

‘Dramatic Theatre vs Epic Theatre’, in Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, ed.

and tr. John Willet (London: Methuen, 1992) pp. 68–76, 121–8.

3. George Steiner, ‘On Modern Tragedy’, in The Death of Tragedy (London: Faber, 1995) pp.

303–24.

4. Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd (Vintage, 2014, rep. ed.).

5. Avant-Garde Drama

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Course Objectives:

This course intends to acquaint the students with the avant-garde drama of Europe, Britain and the

USA with its emphasis on anti-traditional techniques and the negation of traditional views of

perceiving reality.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to understand such trends.

Texts: [any 2]

1. Alfred Jarry. Ubu Roi

2. Harold Pinter. The Birthday Party

3. Edward Bond. Lear

4. Sam Shepard. The American Buffalo

Readings:

Martin Esslin. The Theatre of the Absurd. (Vintage, 2014, rep. ed.).

6. Literature & Other Arts :

Course Objectives:

After taking this course, students are expected to understand how literature is inextricably

bound with other allied mediums of expression, viz. the fine arts and performing arts.

Course Outcomes:

Students will then be able to understand this relationship between literature & other such allied

arts.

(any 2)

1. PAINTING:

1. The history of Indian art: the Ajanta and the Ellora caves, art during Medieval India and in the Mughal

period, theoretical underpinnings, art in Bengal during the Bengal Renaissance: The Bengal school of art,

major figures, art in the nationalist era, Tagore and his illustrations, Abanindranath Tagore,

Gaganendranath Tagore, Ganesh Pyne, Nandalal Bose, contemporary art, the expressionist and the

impressionist school, contemporary artists: M.F. Hussein, the medium used in paintings: canvas, paper,

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plaster, ceramics, cloth, etc, the use of charcoal; French, German and other painters: Monet, Picasso,

Van Gogh. et al.

Practical/s: Appreciating a work of art: landscape painting in water color/ crayon or a sketch.

1. PHOTOGRAPHY:

The history of photography in general, daguerreotype, photography as an art form: evolution, major

photographers in India and abroad: Satyajit Ray, etc., photography during World War I and II, during the

Depression period in USA, the mechanics of taking a photograph: practical (collaboration with the Dept.

of Mass Communication may be thought of as a viable alternative).

Practical/s : The Photography Club.

2. MUSIC :

Music as an art form, Indian musicians and the evolution of the Hindustani music during the Mughal

era: Tansen and Baiju Bawra, Music during the Gupta period, Modern music: Mozart, Beethoven, etc.,

Music during the Bengal Renaissance: Tagore and Ranindrasangeet, Nazrul geeti, Indian musicians: A.R.

Rahman, R.D. Burman, and Anu Malik, role of rock bands in the popularization of contemporary music:

In India (Alisha Chinoy’s Made in India in the 1990s), In Bangladesh, modern Bengali Bands; In Europe:

Linkin Park, Backstreet Boys, Phil Colins’ ‘Another Day in Paradise’ , Modern Sufi Indian Music: Kailash

Kher and others, Afro-American Music: Blues, Jazz, etc.

Practical/s: Rabindrasangeet/Nazrul geeti/ any modern band performance.

3. DRAMA/ PERFORMING ARTS I :

Drama as an art form in India, Greece, Rome and Egypt. The theory: Aristotle’s The Poetics. Bharat

Muni’s Natyasashtra. Tagore’s dance dramas, Nukkad Natak or Street Drama in Hindi, The associated

theory: Kapila Vatsyayan, contemporary Indian dramatists: Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahesh

Dattani, Jaishanker Pradsad and his Dhruvswamini (Hindi), Badal Sarkar, Rudraprasad Sengupta in

Kolkata and his dramatic troupe ‘Nandikaar’, modern European drama: Brecht, Pinter, Ionesco, etc.

Practical/s: Dramatizing Shakespeare or any other dramatist and allied issues.

4. DANCE/ PERFORMING ARTS II :

Dance and its evolution as an art form: In India and elsewhere, the Greek chorus and the three

movements, modern European dance: hip hop, ballet, rock, Indian Classical dance: Manipuri, Odissi,

Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, Bhangra, Giddha, Garba, Kathak, etc: discussions, role of exponents like Birju

Maharaj.

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Practical/s: Kathak or any other dance form and its performance and appreciation.

Reading list/s :

Paula Thomson & Victoria Jaque. Creativity and the Performing Artist. Academic Press, 2017.

(other books may be recommended by the instructor from time-to-time)

Semester 5

5. History of English Literature V

(British Literature: Mid & Late 19th Century):

Course Objectives:

This course intends to acquaint the students with the literature of the Victorian era that saw the

tremendous proliferation of novel writing through the Bronte Sisters to Dickens and Trollope as well as

with the poetry of the primary Victorian poets that combines the lyricism of the bygone Romantic era

with the scepticism of the new age and the fin-de-siècle . Students are expected to study the literary

history of this era as well as the texts produced during this period.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to understand such trends in the literary period under

discussion.

Novels: [any 2]

1. Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre

2. Charles Dickens: Hard Times

3. Hardy. The Return of the Native.

4. George Eliot. Silas Marner/ The Mill on the Floss

Poetry : [any 2]

1. Alfred Tennyson ‘The Lady of Shalott’ ‘Ulysses’ , In Memoriam (selections.)

2. Robert Browning ‘My Last Duchess’ ‘The Last Ride Together’ .

3. Matthew Arnold. ‘Dover Beach’.

4. E.B. Browning. (Selections ) Sonnets from the Portuguese.

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Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

Utilitarianism

The 19th Century Novel,

Marriage and Sexuality ,

The Writer and Society ,

Faith and Doubt ,

The Dramatic Monologue

Readings

1. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ‘Mode of Production: The Basis of Social Life’, ‘The Social Nature

of Consciousness’, and ‘Classes and Ideology’, in A Reader in Marxist Philosophy, ed. Howard

Selsam and Harry Martel (New York: International Publishers,1963) pp. 186–8, 190–1, 199–201.

2. Charles Darwin, ‘Natural Selection and Sexual Selection’, in The Descent of Man in The Norton

Anthology of English Literature, 8th edn, vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton,

2006) pp. 1545–9.

3. John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women in Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th edn,

vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton, 2006) chap. 1, pp. 1061–9.

4. Hobsbawn. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848. Abacus Books (UK).

2. Indian Classical Literature: [any 3]

Course Objectives:

This course intends to acquaint the students with the ancient classical literature of the subcontinent

and the rich and varied heritage that is associated with the same.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to appreciate such trends.

1. Kalidasa Abhijnana Shakuntalam, tr. Chandra Rajan, in Kalidasa: The Loom of Time (New Delhi:

Penguin, 1989).

2. Vyasa ‘The Dicing’ and ‘The Sequel to Dicing, ‘The Book of the Assembly Hall’, ‘The Temptation

of Karna’, Book V ‘The Book of Effort’, in The Mahabharata: tr. and ed. J.A.B. van Buitenen

(Chicago: Brill, 1975) pp. 106–69. [any 2 episodes ]

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3. Sudraka Mrcchakatika, tr. M.M. Ramachandra Kale (New Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass, 1962).

4. Ilango Adigal ‘The Book of Banci’, in Cilappatikaram: The Tale of an Anklet, tr. R. Parthasarathy

(Delhi: Penguin, 2004) book 3.


The Indian Epic Tradition: Themes and Recensions Classical Indian Drama: Theory and Practice

Alankara and Rasa Dharma and the Heroic

Readings

1. Bharata, Natyashastra, tr. Manomohan Ghosh, vol. I, 2nd edn (Calcutta: Granthalaya, 1967)

chap. 6: ‘Sentiments’, pp. 100–18.

2. Iravati Karve, ‘Draupadi’, in Yuganta: The End of an Epoch (Hyderabad: Disha, 1991) pp. 79–

105.

3. J.A.B. Van Buitenen, ‘Dharma and Moksa’, in Roy W. Perrett, ed., Indian Philosophy, vol.

V, Theory of Value: A Collection of Readings (New York: Garland, 2000) pp. 33–40.

4. Vinay Dharwadkar, ‘Orientalism and the Study of Indian Literature’, in Orientalism and the

Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia, ed. Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter

van der Veer (New Delhi: OUP, 1994) pp. 158–95.

(2+1= 3) Modern Indian Writing in English Translation : [Any 5]

Course Objectives:

This course intends to acquaint the students with the modern, vernacular literature of the Indian

subcontinent trans created into English that is replete with genres ranging from novel, short story,

travelogue and the like.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to understand such trends.

1. Premchand ‘The Shroud’, in Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories, ed. M. Assaduddin (New

Delhi: Penguin/Viking, 2006).

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2. Ismat Chugtai ‘The Quilt’, in Lifting the Veil: Selected Writings of Ismat Chugtai, tr. M.

Assaduddin (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2009).

3. Gurdial Singh ‘A Season of No Return’, in Earthy Tones, tr. Rana Nayar (Delhi: Fiction House,

2002).

4. Fakir Mohan Senapati ‘Rebati’, in Oriya Stories, ed. Vidya Das, tr. Kishori Charan Das (Delhi:

Srishti Publishers, 2000).

5. Rabindra Nath Tagore ‘Light, Oh Where is the Light?' and 'When My Play was with thee', in

Gitanjali: A New Translation with an Introduction by William Radice (New Delhi: Penguin India,

2011). / The Hungry Stones and Other Stories, Rupa & Co., 2002.

6. G.M. Muktibodh ‘The Void’, (tr. Vinay Dharwadker) and ‘So Very Far’, (tr. Tr. Vishnu Khare and

Adil Jussawala), in The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, ed. Vinay Dharwadker and

A.K. Ramanujam (New Delhi: OUP, 2000).

7. Amrita Pritam ‘I Say Unto Waris Shah’, (tr. N.S. Tasneem) in Modern Indian Literature: An

Anthology, Plays and Prose, Surveys and Poems, ed. K.M. George, vol. 3 (Delhi: Sahitya Akademi,

1992).

8. Thangjam Ibopishak Singh ‘Dali, Hussain, or Odour of Dream, Colour of Wind’ and ‘The Land of

the Half-Humans’, tr. Robin S. Ngangom, in The Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from the

Northeast (NEHU: Shillong, 2003).

9. . Dharamveer Bharati Andha Yug, tr. Alok Bhalla (New Delhi: OUP, 2009).

10. G. Kalyan Rao Untouchable Spring, tr. Alladi Uma and M. Sridhar (Delhi: Orient BlackSwan,

2010)

11. Namdeo Dhasal. ‘Kamatipura’, ‘Speculations on a Shirt’.

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations:

The Aesthetics of Translation, Linguistic Regions and Languages , Modernity in Indian Literature Caste,

Gender and Resistance Questions of Form in 20th Century Indian Literature.

Readings :

1. Namwar Singh, ‘Decolonising the Indian Mind’, tr. Harish Trivedi, Indian Literature, no. 151 (Sept./Oct.

1992).

2. B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste in Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches, vol. 1

(Maharashtra: Education Department, Government of Maharashtra, 1979) chaps. 4, 6, and 14.

3. Sujit Mukherjee, ‘A Link Literature for India’, in Translation as Discovery (Hyderabad: Orient Longman,

1994) pp. 34–45.

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4. G.N. Devy, ‘Introduction’, from After Amnesia in The G.N. Devy Reader (New Delhi: Orient

BlackSwan, 2009) pp. 1–5.

4. Academic Writing :

Course Objectives:

This course intends to acquaint the students with the process of academic writing in general that would

help them write their final term paper towards the end of their course of study and prepare them for

the future academia.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to understand the nuances of the writing process per se.

1. Writing a Term paper : Issues

3. Writing Conventions--- Mechanics of writing and basic grammar, Abstract and developing the same

into a full-length essay , Critical Thinking and its inculcation, etc.

4. Plagiarism--- Issues , about plagiarism detectors (general introduction only ) ---[Viper ver. 4.1.0.1,

ithenticate, Urkund, Plagiarism-Checker X, Anti-Plagiarist, etc.)

Topics for Class Presentations:

Writing for the academia for the beginners: Issues,

Term papers and how to deal with them, etc.

Reading/s:

Bailey, Stephen. Academic Writing: A Handbook for International Students, 3rd ed. Routledge, 2011.

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Semester 6

7. History of English Literature VI

(British Literature: Late 20th Century):

Course Objectives:

This course intends to acquaint the students with the literary history of the late 20th century in

England that incorporated modernist elements and an anti-traditional stance with respect to literary

texts. Students shall study both the texts as well the history of the era.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to understand such literary trends in late 20th century

England.

Plays: [any 2]

Bernard Shaw. Candida*

John Osborne. Look Back in Anger.

Arnold Wesker. Roots

Novels : [any 2]

George Orwell. 1984

Doris Lessing. The Grass is Singing.

William Golding. The Lord of the Flies

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Poetry: [any 3]

Seamus Heaney. ‘Digging.’

Philip Larkin. ‘Church Going’, ‘The Whitsun Weddings’.

Ted Hughes. ‘The Thought Fox’, ‘Pike’.

Auden. ‘The Unknown Citizen’, ‘September, 1939’.

*Candida[’s] preoccupation with the woman’s question and the concept of the “New Woman” makes it

a peculiarly ‘modern’ play. Hence the justification to keep it in this time frame.


Modernism, Post-modernism and non-European Cultures, The Women’s Movement in the 20th Century

Psychoanalysis and the Stream of Consciousness , The Uses of Myth, The Avant Garde, Counterculture

in British society, Totalitarianism.

Readings:

1. Sigmund Freud, ‘Theory of Dreams’, ‘Oedipus Complex’, and ‘The Structure of the Unconscious’,

in The Modern Tradition, ed. Richard Ellman et. al. (Oxford: OUP, 1965) pp. 571, 578–80, 559–

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2. T.S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, in Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th ed,

vol. 2, ed. Stephen Greenblatt (New York: Norton, 2006) pp. 2319–25.

3. Raymond Williams, ‘Introduction’, in The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence (London:

Hogarth Press, 1984) pp. 9–27.

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8. Postcolonial Literatures :

Course Objectives:

This course intends to acquaint the students with the postcolonial literatures of the erstwhile colonies of

Great Britain and the subsequent strategy of ‘Writing Back’.

Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to understand postcolonial literatures produced

outside the mother nation.

Novels : [all]

1. Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart

2. Gabriel Garcia Marquez . One Hundred Years of Solitude.

3. Margaret Atwood, Surfacing/ The Lady Oracle.

Poetry: [any 4]

1. Bessie Head ‘The Collector of Treasures’ ,

2. A.D. Hope ‘Death of the Bird’,

3. Pablo Neruda ‘Letter on the Road’, ‘The Way Spain Was’

4. Derek Walcott ‘A Far Cry from Africa’ ‘Names’

5. David Malouf ‘Revolving Days’ ‘Wild Lemons’ 6.

6. Mamang Dai ‘Small Towns and the River’ , ‘The Voice of the Mountain’

Essay/s: [compulsory]

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B.R. Ambedkar. ’The Annihilation of Caste’.

Suggested Topics and Background Prose Readings for Class Presentations

De-colonization, Globalization and Literature , Literature and Identity Politics Writing for the New

World Audience Region, Race, and Gender Postcolonial Literatures and Questions of Form, Writing

Back .

Readings

1. Franz Fanon, ‘The Negro and Language’, in Black Skin, White Masks, tr. Charles Lam Markmann

(London: Pluto Press, 2008) pp. 8–27.

2. Ngugi wa Thiong’o, ‘The Language of African Literature’, in Decolonising the Mind (London: James

Curry, 1986) chap. 1, sections 4–6.

3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, in Gabriel Garcia Marquez: New

Readings, ed. Bernard McGuirk and Richard Cardwell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).

9. BA Dissertation :

Course Objectives:

Students would be writing a dissertation on a specified topic. The word limit would be 5, 000 words

maximum with recourse to the basic rules of academic writing, seminar presentation, orientation of

what is expected, synopsis development and submission, binding and outlook , etc. This would be the

culmination point of what they had assimilated as learners in the Mentored Seminar in previous

semesters.

Course Outcomes:

After writing this dissertation, students are expected to understand the mechanics of writing a BA

dissertation that will help them out in their next levels of study, viz., in MPhil & PhD.

[synopsis=10, seminar presentation=20, dissertation=20, TOTAL= 50].

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GENERIC ELECTIVES (GE)

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COURSES OFFERED BY DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS AS GENERAL ELECTIVE

SUBJECT FOR UNDER GRADUATE STUDENTS

DEPARTMENT COURSE

ENGLISH

THE STUDY OF SCRIPTS (FOR ODD SEMSTER)

TRANSLATION STUDIES (FOR EVEN

SEMESTER)

COMPUTER SCIENCE BASICS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (FOR FIRST

SEMESTER)

DATA STRUCTURE (FOR 4TH SEMESTER)

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (FOR 5TH

SEMESTER)

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (DBMS)

(FOR 6TH SEMESTER)

BIOTECHNOLOGY BIOTECHNOLOGY IN HUMAN WELFARE (FOR

ODD SEMESTER)

FUNDAMENTALS OF DEVELOPMENTAL

BIOLOGY (FOR EVEN SEMESTER)

MASS COMUNICATION AND JOURNALISM BASICS OF JOURNALISM (FOR ODD SEMESTER)

SCIENTIFIC REPORT WRITING AND EDITING

(FOR EVEN SEMESTER)

HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM

ADMINISTRATION

HOSPITALITY & TOURISM

ENTREPRENEURSHIP (FOR ODD SEMESTER)

PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT (FOR EVEN

SEMESTER)

MICROBIOLOGY MOLECULAR SECRETS OF LIFE (FOR ODD

SEMESTER)

INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC SCIENCE (FOR

EVEN SEMESTER)

ECONOMICS ECONOMIC HISTORY OF INDIA (FOR ODD

SEMESTER)

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (FOR EVEN

SEMESTER)

CHEMISTRY FUNDAMENTALS OF CHEMISTRY(FOR ODD

SEMESTER)

STEREOCHEMISTRY AND CONFORMATION

(FOR EVEN SEMESTER)

PHYSICS WHERE DO YOU LIVE? A JOURNEY THOUGH

OUR GORGEOUS UNIVERSE (FOR ODD

SEMESTER)

HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (FOR ODD

SEMESTER)

BUSINESS STRATEGY (FOR EVEN SEMESTER)

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DEPARTMENT: ENGLISH

COURSE: GE – THE STUDY OF SCRIPTS (FOR ODD SEMSTER)

1. Course Objectives:

This course intends to acquaint the students with the ancient scripts of the bronze as well as the

iron age civilizations that are awaiting decipherment, especially the Linear A and B scripts, the

enigmatic Indus Valley Civilization Script (IVCS), the Rongorongo script and the Egyptian script

that however, has been deciphered. It will trace the history of the study of these scripts and shall

look into the modern computational methods and the latest discoveries in the field of

computational and cognitive linguistics that have been used to study them.

2. Course Outcomes:

After taking this course, students are expected to gain an understanding of the basic orthography

as well as the real problems that lie in the path of decipherment of the same and also understand

the various research methods employed to study them.

Unit I: The History of Language Decipherment:

Decipherment and the underlying theory, first and second order language, the concept of

underlying language, famous linguists, structuralism and structural linguistics, Chomsky and the

cognitive revolution, ethnography, archaeology and the study of scripts.

Unit II: Scripts: An Introduction

Linear A and B, Rongorongo, IVC, Egyptian.

Unit III: The Indus Valley Script—Detailed Study

Problems posed by short inscriptions and orthography, the proto-Dravidian Hypothesis,

Iravathan Mahadevan’s concordance of the IVC signs, Asko Parpola and his hypothesis, Nisha

Yadav’s and Rajesh Rao’s observations, the study of select seals from Dholavira and Harappa, the

Dholavira sign board, the possible reasons for the decline of the script, IVC painted pottery, the

‘Pashupatinath’ seal, the dancing girl and female iconography, trade practices and the IVC script,

the anti-literate hypothesis: S. Farmer et al. , animal figurines in the seals, seals found in

Mesopotamia: issues.

Unit IV: Modern techniques to study the IVC script:

The idea of conditional entropy, recent advances in computational linguistics, the use of sound

silencing, AI and decipherment, the Chennai team and deep neural networks, efforts in IIT

Kharagpur to understand the disappearance of the civilization and the script through climate

modelling simulation, other relevant techniques.

Select Readings:

1) Robinson, Andrew, Lost Languages: The Enigma of World’s Undeciphered Scripts. New York:

Mac-Graw-Hill, 2005.

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2) Shendge, Malati J, Unsealing the Indus Script: Anatomy of its Decipherment. New Delhi:

Atlantic, 2010.

3) Yule, George, The Study of Language. New Delhi: CUP, [2007?].

COURSE: GE – TRANSLATION STUDIES (FOR EVEN SEMESTER)

1. Course Objectives:

After taking this course, the students are expected to understand the nuances of translation and

the act of transcreation itself that often takes into account the fact that the translator has to

possess a sound understanding of both the language and the general vocabulary of the target

text and the source text.

2. Course Outcomes:

After going through the course, the students are expected to understand the theory and the

praxis of the very enterprise of transcreation.

Unit I: Transcreation: Theory and History

The history of translation and the emergence of translation studies, translation as a discipline in

ancient Greece and Rome, translation in India, the theory of translation, translation or

transcreation?

Unit II: Translation: Issues at Work

Translation and the issue of vocabulary, the ‘loss’ of meaning during the act of translation, ‘good’

and ‘bad’ translation, the issue of copyright © in translation, translation as a profession.

Unit III: Transcreation : Practice 1

Translating from select texts into English (from Bengali to English and Hindi to English and vice

versa).

Unit IV: Transcreation: Practice 2

The concept of computer/ machine translation and the use of software and translation blogs and

services.

Select Readings:

Munday, Jeremy. Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications. New York; London:

Routledge, 2012.

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DEPARTMENT: COMPUTER SCIENCE

COURSE: GE – BASICS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE (FOR FIRST SEMESTER)

Unit 1: Data representation (4 Lectures):

Data vs Information: Bit, byte number system: binary, octal, hexadecimal, 1’s, 2’s complement

arithmetic, digital logic: AND, OR etc.

Unit 2: General problem Solving concepts (6 Lectures):

Algorithm and Flowchart for problem solving with Sequential Logic Structure, Decisions and

Loops, time & space complexity; Imperative languages: Introduction to imperative language;

syntax and constructs of a specific language (ANSI C).

Unit 3: Human Computer Interface: (7 Lectures):

Types of software, operating system as user interface, utility programs; Computing systems:

hardware & software, Architecture & organization history: von Neumann Architecture: memory,

processor, I/O; BIOS, Booting, Application software, system software, introduction of

programming languages: brief overview of Pascal, FORTRAN, and BASIC.

Unit 4: Devices:(6 Lectures):

Input and output devices (with connections and practical demo), keyboard, mouse, joystick,

scanner, OCR, OMR, bar code reader, web camera, monitor, printer, plotter Memory: Primary,

secondary, auxiliary memory, RAM, ROM, cache memory, hard disks, optical disks.

Unit 5: Computer Organisation and Architecture: (5 Lectures):

C.P.U., registers, system bus, main memory unit, cache memory, Inside a computer, SMPS,

Motherboard, Ports and Interfaces, expansion cards, ribbon cables, memory chips, processors.

Unit 6: Overview of Emerging Technologies: (4 Lectures)

Bluetooth, cloud computing, big data, data mining, mobile computing and embedded systems.

Unit 7: Use of Computers in Education and Research: (4 Lectures)

Data analysis, Heterogeneous storage, e-Library, Google Scholar, Domain specific packages such

as SPSS, Mathematica etc.

Reference Books: 1. A. Goel, Computer Fundamentals, Pearson Education, 2010.

2. P. Aksoy, L. DeNardis, Introduction to Information Technology, Cengage Learning, 2006

3. P. K.Sinha, P. Sinha, Fundamentals of Computers, BPB Publishers, 2007.

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COURSE: GE – DATA STRUCTURE (FOR 4TH SEMESTER)

(36 LECTURES); L-T-P: 3-0-2

Module 1: (8 Lectures)

Introduction: Basic Terminologies: Elementary Data Organizations, Data Structure

Operations: insertion, deletion, traversal Searching: Linear Search and Binary Search

Techniques and their complexity analysis.


Stacks and Queues: ADT Stack and its operations: Algorithms and their complexity

analysis, Applications of Stacks: Expression Conversion and evaluation – corresponding

algorithms and complexity analysis. ADT queue, Types of Queue: Simple Queue, Circular

Queue, Priority Queue; Operations on each types of Queues


Linked Lists: Singly linked lists: Representation in memory, Algorithms of several

operations: Traversing, Searching, Insertion into, Deletion from linked list; Linked

representation of Stack and Queue, Header nodes, Doubly linked list

Trees: Basic Tree Terminologies, Different types of Trees: Binary Tree, Threaded Binary

Tree, Binary Search Tree, AVL Tree; Tree operations on each of the trees


Sorting and Hashing: Objective and properties of different sorting algorithms: Selection

Sort, Bubble Sort, Insertion Sort, Quick Sort, Merge Sort, Heap Sort;

Suggested books:

1. “Fundamentals of Data Structures”, Illustrated Edition by Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni,

Computer Science Press.

Suggested reference books:

1. Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problem Solving with C++”, Illustrated

Edition by Mark Allen Weiss, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

2. “How to Solve it by Computer”, 2nd Impression by R. G. Dromey, Pearson

Education.

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COURSE: GE – OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (FOR 5TH SEMESTER)

(30 Lectures); L-T-P: 3-0-2

Module 1: Abstract data types and their specification. How to implement an ADT. Concrete state

space, concrete invariant, abstraction function. Implementing operations, illustrated by the Text

example. Features of object-oriented programming. Encapsulation, object identity, polymorphism

– but not inheritance. Inheritance in OO design. [10L]

Module 2: Design patterns. Introduction and classification. The iterator pattern. Model-view-

controller pattern. Commands as methods and as objects. Implementing OO language features.

Memory management. Generic types and collections [12L]

Module 3: The software development process. The concepts should be practised using Java. [8L]

Suggested books

1. Barbara Liskov, Program Development in Java, Addison-Wesley, 2001

Suggested reference books

1. Any book on Core Java 2. Any book on C++

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COURSE: GE – DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (DBMS) (FOR 6TH

SEMESTER)

(36 Lectures); L-T-P: 3-0-2

Module 1: (10L)

Database system architecture: Data Abstraction, Data Independence, Data Definition Language

(DDL), Data Manipulation Language (DML). Data models: Entity-relationship model, network

model, relational and object oriented data models, integrity constraints, data manipulation

operations.

Module 2: (10L)

Relational query languages: Relational algebra, Tuple and domain relational calculus, SQL3, DDL

and DML constructs, Open source and Commercial DBMS - MYSQL, ORACLE, DB2, SQL

server. Relational database design: Domain and data dependency, Armstrong's axioms, Normal

forms, Dependency preservation, Lossless design. Query processing and optimization: Evaluation

of relational algebra expressions, Query equivalence, Join strategies, Query optimization

algorithms.

Module 3: (6L)

Storage strategies: Indices, hashing.

Module 4: (10L) Transaction processing: Concurrency control, ACID property, Serializability of

scheduling, Locking and timestamp based schedulers, Multi-version and optimistic Concurrency

Control schemes, Database recovery.

Suggested books:

1. “Database System Concepts”, 6th Edition by Abraham Silberschatz, Henry F. Korth, S.

Sudarshan, McGraw-Hill.

Suggested reference books:

1 “Principles of Database and Knowledge – Base Systems”, Vol 1 by J. D. Ullman, Computer

Science Press.

2 “Fundamentals of Database Systems”, 5th Edition by R. Elmasri and S. Navathe, Pearson

Education 3 “Foundations of Databases”, Reprint by Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, Victor Vianu,

Addison-Wesley

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DEPARTMENT: BIOTECHNOLOGY

COURSE: GE – BIOTECHNOLOGY IN HUMAN WELFARE (FOR ODD SEMESTER)

PURPOSE

The course will provide a basic knowledge of applications of Biotechnology in industrial and

medical fields

Unit 1: Environmental Biotechnology

Water and waste water treatment process: Current community drinking water treatment process

disinfection of water (chlorination and ozonation), primary, secondary and advanced treatment of

sewage (domestic waste water), Definition and concept of: biodegradation, bio deterioration and

biotransformation. Biodegradation of plastic, pesticides and hydrocarbons Bioremediation,

Bioleaching, Biosorption, Biopesticides, Biofertilizers, Biofuels, Biosensors, Bioindicators,

Biodegradable plastics

Unit II: Xenobiotic and recalcitrant compounds Bioaccumulation and biomagnification. Assessment of water and wastewater quality: Concept of

COD, DO and BOD. Indicators of faecal pollution and MPN and MFtechnique for coliforms.

Significance and principal of IMViC.

UNIT III: Industrial Biotechnology

Basic Principles of Industrial Biotechnology: Important commercial products produced by

microorganisms and GMOs and their applications. Microbes in industry – foods from

microorganism (vinegar and cheese). production of citric acid, amylases, proteases, vitamin B12,

beer, wine, biogas, methane, hydrogen.

Unit IV: Food Biotechnology

Production and types of cheese, microorganisms as food –production of mushroom and spirulina,

assessment of microbiological quality of various foods. Industrial awareness: Quality control and

quality assurance in food and pharamaceutical industry, concept of current good manufacturing

practices in pharmaceutical industry

Unit V: Agricultural Biotechnology

crop improvement, herbicide resistance, insect resistance, virus resistance, plants as bioreactors.

Genetic modification in Agriculture –transgenic plants, genetically modified foods, application,

future applications, ecological impact of transgenic plants

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COURSE: GE – FUNDAMENTALS OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY (FOR EVEN

SEMESTER)

PURPOSE-

This course presents the genetic, cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the development

of animal embryology

Unit I: Gametogenesis and Fertilization

Definition, scope & historical perspective of development Biology, Gametogenesis –

Spermatogenesis, Oogenesis Fertilization - Definition, mechanism, types of fertilization. Different

types of eggs on the basis of yolk.

Unit II: Early embryonic development

Cleavage: Definition, types, patterns & mechanism Blastulation: Process, types & mechanism

Gastrulation: Morphogenetic movements– epiboly, emboly, extension, invagination, convergence,

de-lamination. Formation & differentiation of primary germ layers, Fate Maps in early embryos.

Unit III: Embryonic Differentiation

Differentiation: Cell commitment and determination- the epigenetic landscape: a model of

determination and differentiation, control of differentiation at the level of genome, transcription

and post-translation level Concept of embryonic induction: Primary, secondary & tertiary

embryonic induction, Neural induction and induction of vertebrate lens.

Unit IV: Organogenesis

Neurulation, notogenesis, development of vertebrate eye. Fate of different primary germlayers

Development of behaviour: constancy & plasticity, Extra embryonic membranes, placenta in

Mammals

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DEPARTMENT: MASS COMUNICATION AND JOURNALISM

COURSE: GE – BASICS OF JOURNALISM (FOR ODD SEMESTER)

Pre requisites: Basic Knowledge of 12th grade communicative English.

Course Objective:

1.Gain an overview of news journalism’s public service role in a democratic society

2.Become familiar with fundamental principles of journalism, such as truth-telling, watchdog

reporting,

accuracy, courage, tolerance, justice, minimizing harm

3.Learn basics of journalism law, history and ethics

Course Outcome:

Demonstrate critical thinking skills necessary to collect, evaluate, organize and disseminate news

1.Analyze relative newsworthiness of various fact sets, using elements of newsworthiness

(proximity, interest, importance, impact, timeliness)

2.Write a simple news using set of facts

3.Distinguish news from infotainment, public relations, advertising and non-journalistic

blogging, as well as the difference between news and opinion

Unit 1: Understanding News Ingredients of news meaning, definition, nature The news process:

from the event to the reader (how news is carried from event to reader) Hard news vs. Soft news,

basic components of a news story Attribution, embargo, verification, balance and fairness,

brevity, dateline, credit line, byline.

Unit 2: Tabloid press Language of news- Robert Gunning: Principles of clear writing, Rudolf

Flesch formula- skills to write news.

Unit 3: Understanding the structure and construction of news Organizing a news story, 5W‘s and

1H, Inverted pyramid Criteria for news worthiness, principles of news selection, importance of

research in news, sources of news, use of internet

Unit 4: Different mediums-a comparison Language and principles of writing: Basic differences

between the print, electronic and online journalism Citizen journalism

Unit 5: Role of Media in a Democracy Responsibility to Society press and Democracy

Contemporary debates and issues relating to media Ethics in journalism, debates discussion and

practical writing /Viva.

Books/References

1. Bruce D. Itule and Douglas A. Anderson. News writing and reporting for today’s

media; McGraw Hill Publication, 2000. –

2. M.L. Stein, Susan Paterno& R. Christopher Burnett. News writer’s Handbook: An

Introduction to Journalism; Blackwell Publishing,2006.

3. George Rodmann. Mass Media in a Changing World; Mcgraw Hill Publication,2007.

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4. Carole Flemming and Emma Hemmingway. An Introduction to Journalism; Vistaar

Publications,2006. Richard Keeble. The Newspaper’s Handbook; Routledge

Publication,2006.

5. JohnHohenberg: Professional Journalists; Thomson Learning.

6. M.V. Kamath: Professional Journalism; Vikas Publishing, New Delhi.

COURSE: GE – SCIENTIFIC REPORT WRITING AND EDITING (FOR EVEN

SEMESTER)

Course Overview

Science and technology profoundly shape our lives, changing the way we communicate with

others, the kinds of careers we will have, and the quality of our natural environment. When science

and technology move from laboratory to corporate boardroom to Media houses writing is involved

in every step in this process. This course will focus on the writing that constitute science and

technology. We will explore the writing done by scientists, technologists, will examine how

writing circulates through society journalism, press releases, policy makers, citizens.

Course Outcome

• Use writing for the purposes of reflection, action, and participation in academic inquiry

• Work within a repertoire of genres and modes—including digital media—to meet appropriate

rhetorical purposes

• Exercise a flexible repertoire of invention, arrangement, and revision strategies

• Engage in reading for the purposes of reflection, critical analysis, decision-making, and inquiry

• Demonstrate the ability to locate, critically evaluate, and employ a variety of sources for a range

of purposes

• Synthesize external data and documentary sources into your own writing with greater awareness

of proper citation

Unit 1: (4 Lectures)

Introduction to Science Writer Profile; Stories about Scientists; Introduction to New Discovery

Story; Science communication models - problems, its solutions; writing science as news; engaging

writing style; Article analysis – structure, style, voice, narrative.


Writing from science journals; Language goals in scientific writing; reporting on new research;

explanatory writing; Avoiding jargon; New discovery story analysis, Introduction to Feature

Article, Explanatory features; Ethics in writing.

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Select a recent healthcare research study and find both the original study published in a biomedical

journal and another (non-academic) article written about the study findings; Target Audience-Who

is the audience? Purpose of the article; Bibliographic Database Searching and Citation

Management Software; Fact-checking


Interviewing a scientist; Questionnaire Design; Prepare Press releases; Workshopping ideas;

Presentations and Posters; Presentation Slides; Presenting Research; Grant Proposals; Writing

Abstracts; Writing Thesis and Capstone Documents; Survey: Schedule, Sample; Tools of Data

Collection


Planning for print-size, anatomy, grid, design; Format, typography, copy, pictures, advertisements;

Plotting text: headlines, editing pictures, captions; Page-making; Technology and Print; layout,

use of graphics and photographs; Printing Processes: Traditional vs modern; Desk Top Publishing:

Quark Express, Coral Draw, Photoshop


Online Story Package – Use of text, photos, video, audio, graphics; working together to tell a story;

Types of Multimedia Content; Supporting Text; Story Pitch; Search Operators; Database;

Hyperlink; Rule of Thirds; Rendering; Authenticity; In-Depth Story

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK(S):

1. Alley, Michael. The Craft of Scientific Writing, third edition. New York: Springer, 2009.

ISBN: 0387947663 ISBN-13: 9780387947662

2. Alley, Michael. The Craft of Scientific Presentations, second edition. New York: Springer,

2013. ISBN: 1441982787 ISBN-13: 9781441982780

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DEPARTMENT: HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM ADMINISTRATION

COURSE: GE – HOSPITALITY & TOURISM ENTREPRENEURSHIP (FOR ODD

SEMESTER)

UNIT 1: 08 LECTURES

Introduction to Entrepreneurship Development: Definition of entrepreneurship-emergence of

entrepreneurial classes-theories of entrepreneurship-role of socio-economic environment-

characteristics of entrepreneur-leadership, risk taking, decision-making & business planning.

Scope in tourism. Introduction to entrepreneur and entrepreneurship.

UNIT 2: 08 LECTURES

Opportunity analysis: External environmental analysis (economic, social & technological)-

competitive factors-legal requirements for establishment of a new unit related to tourism & raising

of funds-venture capital sources & documentation required.

UNIT 3: 08 LECTURES

Entrepreneurial Behaviour: Innovation and entrepreneur, entrepreneurial behaviour &

psychological theories.

UNIT 4: 08 LECTURES

Entrepreneurial Development Program (EDP): EDPs & their role, relevance and

achievements-role of Government in organizing EDPs-evolution of EDPs. Social responsibility in

business.

UNIT 5: 10 LECTURES

Role of Entrepreneur: Role of an entrepreneur in economic growth as an innovator, generation

of employment opportunities, complementing economic growth, bringing about social stability &

balanced regional development of industries with emphasis on tourism, foreign earnings etc.

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COURSE: GE – PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT (FOR EVEN SEMESTER)

Unit I- 4 lectures

Introduction to bio data, features of a bio data, types of bio data, importance of bio data,

specifications, preparation of bio data.

Unit II- 4 lectures

Group discussion: importance, participation, rules to be followed, listening skills, do’s and don’ts

Personal interview: Self introduction, expressing yourself, understanding the interviewers’ need,

do’s and don’ts

Unit III- 4 lectures

Grooming and hygiene: basic grooming ideas, self-check of grooming, healthy practices.

Unit IV- 6 lectures

Speech on a given topic (extempore speech); presentation Skills; public speaking.

Time Management; Organizational Skills; Stress management; Team Building Skills; Change

management.

Unit V- 4 lectures

Table manners, telephone etiquettes, body language

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DEPARTMENT: MICROBIOLOGY

COURSE: GE – MOLECULAR SECRETS OF LIFE (FOR ODD SEMESTER)

Unit 1: Origin of Life:

Formation of life, Concept of Biogenesis and abiogenesis, Miller-Urey experiment, properties of

water, contribution of scientists to the journey of biology, Discovery of microscope and its types.

Theories of evolution, Contribution of Lamarck and Darwin.

Unit 2: Cell structure and function:

Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell structure. Difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell,

Plant and animal cell, Cell envelop, Cell organelles and their functions. Eukaryotic cycle definition

and its regulation, phases of cell cycle, Cell division and its significance, types of cell division,

Mitosis and meiosis, different stages of cell division.

Unit 3: Biodiversity and classification:

Classification living organisms, nomenclature system, Characteristics of different classes of

organisms, Three domains of life,

Unit 4: Macromolecules of life:

Carbohydrates and sugars, amino acids and proteins, enzymes, Lipids, Nucleic acid (both DNA

and RNA)

Unit 5: Information flow in life:

Concept of gene and chromosome, Replication, Transcription, Translation, Methods of gene

transfer in prokaryotes like Transformation, Transduction and Conjugation, Operon concept,

Mutation.

Unit 6: Metabolic pathways in life:

Carbohydrate metabolism – glycolysis, TCA cycle, oxidative phosphorylation. Amino acid

metabolism and urea cycle, Fatty acid metabolism – β oxidation of saturated and unsaturated

fatty acids, photosynthesis.

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COURSE: GE – INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC SCIENCE (FOR EVEN SEMESTER)

Unit 1: History of Development of Forensic Science in India:

Functions of forensic science. Historical aspects of forensic science. Definitions and concepts in

forensic science. Scope of forensic science. Need of forensic science. Basic principles of forensic

science. Frye case and Daubert standard.

Unit 2: Tools and Techniques in Forensic Science:

Branches of forensic science. Forensic science in international perspectives, including set up of

INTERPOL and FBI. Duties of forensic scientists. Data depiction. Report writing.

Unit 3: Organizational set up of Forensic Science Laboratories in India

Hierarchical set up of Central Forensic Science Laboratories, State Forensic Science Laboratories,

Government Examiners of Questioned Documents, Fingerprint Bureaus, National Crime Records

Bureau, Police & Detective Training Schools, Bureau of Police Research & Development,

Directorate of Forensic Science and Mobile Crime Laboratories. Police Academies. Police dogs.

Services of crime laboratories. Basic services and optional services.

Unit 4: Instrumentation:

Sample preparation for chromatographic and spectroscopic evidence. Chromatographic methods.

Fundamental principles and forensic applications of thin layer chromatography, gas

chromatography and liquid chromatography. Spectroscopic methods. Fundamental principles and

forensic applications of Ultravioletvisible spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, atomic absorption

spectroscopy, atomic emission spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy. X-ray spectrometry.

Colorimetric analysis and Lambert-Beer law. Electrophoresis – fundamental principles and

forensic applications. Neutron activation analysis – fundamental principles and forensic

applications.

Unit 5: Basics of Criminology:

Definition, aims and scope. Theories of criminal behavior – classical, positivist, sociological.

Criminal anthropology. Criminal profiling. Understanding modus operandi. Investigative strategy.

Role of media.

Unit 6: Basics of Fingerprinting:

Introduction and history, with special reference to India. Biological basis of fingerprints.

Formation of ridges. Fundamental principles of fingerprinting. Types of fingerprints. Fingerprint

patterns. Fingerprint characters/minutiae. Plain and rolled fingerprints. Classification and

cataloguing of fingerprint record. Automated Fingerprint Identification System. Significance of

poroscopy and edgeoscopy.

Unit 7: Biological Evidence:

Nature and importance of biological evidence. Significance of hair evidence. Transfer, persistence

and recovery of hair evidence. Structure of human hair. Comparison of hair samples. Morphology

and biochemistry of human hair. Comparison of human and animal hair. Types and identification

of microbial organisms of forensic significance. Identification of wood, leaves, pollens and juices

as botanical evidence. Diatoms and their forensic significance.

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DEPARTMENT: ECONOMICS

COURSE: GE – ECONOMIC HISTORY OF INDIA (FOR ODD SEMESTER)

Course Description

Using appropriate analytical frameworks, this course reviews major trends in economic indicators

and policy debates in India in the post-Independence period, with particular emphasis on paradigm

shifts and turning points. Given the rapid changes taking place in India, the reading list will have

to be updated annually.

Course Outline

Unit 1: Economic Development since Independence

Major features of the economy at independence; growth and development under different policy

regimes-goals, constraints, institutions and policy framework; an assessment of performance-

sustainability and regional contrasts; structural change, savings and investment.

Unit 2: Population and Human Development

Demographic trends and issues; education; health and malnutrition.

Unit 3; Growth and Distribution

Trends and policies in poverty; inequality and unemployment

Unit 4: Policies and Performance in Agriculture

Growth; productivity; agrarian structure and technology; capital formation; trade; pricing and

procurement.

Unit 4: Policies and Performance in Industry

Growth; productivity; diversification; small scale industries; public sector; competition policy;

foreign investment.

Unit 6: Trends and Performance in Services

Readings:

1. Kaushik Basu, 2009, ―China and India: Idiosyncratic Paths to High Growth, Economic and

Political Weekly, September.

2. Himanshu. 2011, ―Employment Trends in India: A Re-examination, Economic

and Political Weekly, September.

3. Rama Baru et al, 2010, ―Inequities in Access to Health Services in India: Caste,

Class and Region, Economic and Political Weekly, September.

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4. Geeta G. Kingdon, 2007, ―The Progress of School Education in India, Oxford

Review of Economic Policy

COURSE: GE – ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (FOR EVEN SEMESTER)

Unit 1: Meanings and nature of development – economic growth, redistribution from growth and

capabilities approach to development, Objectives of development, Measures of development –

Purchasing power parity and Per capita income as an index of development, difference between

growth and development, human development index, developing economy – features, Introduction

to concept of sustainable development,

Unit 2: Factors in economic development - Land: Ownership and tenancy system – fixed rent

contract and share cropping, role of agriculture in development, barriers to agricultural

development and land reforms, Labour – Population and Labor force growth, casual and long term

labor, permanent labor market, Capital: Role of capital accumulation in economic development.

Significance of capital-output ratio, role of technology and technological progress, learning,

human capital, Natural Capital & concept of investment.

Unit 3: Population and Development - Concepts of Population: definitions of fertility, mortality,

birthrates, death rates, fertility rate, life expectancy, infant mortality rate, youth dependency ratio.

Theory of demographic transition

Unit 4: Development strategies - Complementarity and Coordination, Poverty Trap of Nurkse and

Big Push theory of Rosenstein-Rodan , Linkages – backward and forward; linkages, policy and

big push,,

Choice of technology and choice of scale (large vs small) and criteria for investment, Gains from

trade, sustainable development strategies.

Unit 5: Development in a Labour surplus economy - The concept of economic dualism, Disguised

Unemployment, The Informal Sector, Rural-urban migration of labour – Harris-Todaro model,

development in natural resource rich contest

Unit 6: Development, Inequality and poverty - Meaning of inequality, inequality measures, Lorenz

Curve, Range, Coefficient of variation, Gini-coefficient, Kuznet’s Inverted U hypothesis. Poverty,

relative and absolute deprivation with respect to income, Poverty line, Poverty measures – Head

count ratio, Poverty gap ratio, Income gap ratio, Human Poverty Index. Social dimensions of

poverty – rural poverty, women and ethnic minorities and indigenous populations

References:

Development Economics Debraj Ray

Development Economics Hayami

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DEPARTMENT: CHEMISTRY

COURSE: GE – FUNDAMENTALS OF CHEMISTRY (FOR ODD SEMESTER)

Unit 1: Basic concepts of Organic Chemistry

Fundamentals and Applications:

Basic Organic Chemistry Concepts: introduction to organic molecules and functional groups understanding

organic reactions, atomic orbitals, hybridization, orbital representation of methane, ethane, ethyne and

benzene.

Polarity of bonds: Inductive, resonance and steric effects hyper conjugation, and their influence on acidity

and basicity of organic compounds.

Green Chemistry introduction and principles.

Unit 2: Basic concepts of Physical Chemistry

Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics: Equilibrium, State Functions, Temperature, Equations of State.

First Law of Thermodynamics: Work, Heat, Internal Energy, Heat Capacity, Concept of Enthalpy.

Open thermodynamics.

Solutions: Molarity, Normality, Partial Molar Quantities, Ideal Solutions, Non Ideal Solutions, Electrolytes,

Ionic activity and the Debye Huckel Theory, Colligative properties.

Reaction Kinetics: Reaction Rates, Rate Laws, Application.

Unit 3: Basic concepts of Inorganic Chemistry

Atomic Structure & Study of matter:

Study of matter – its properties and behavior; Atomic Structure: Discovery of Electron by J J Thomson,

Bohr’s Theory, De Broglie Hypothesis, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.

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COURSE: GE – STEREOCHEMISTRY AND CONFORMATION (FOR EVEN

SEMESTER)

Unit 1: Stereochemistry

Introduction, Chirality, Concepts of Isomerism, Types of Isomerism: Structural and Stereoisomerism.

(R) and (S) Nomenclature of asymmetric carbon atoms.

Optical Isomerism or Enantiomerism, Optical Activity.

Biological discrimination of enantiomers.

Racemic mixtures, Enantiomeric excess, Optical purity.

Fischer Projections and their use.

Diastereomers, stereochemistry of molecules with two or more asymmetric carbons.

Geometrical isomerism: cis–trans and, syn-anti isomerism and E/Z notations.

Unit 2 - Conformation

Cycloalkanes and Conformational Isomerism,

Conformational analysis of ethane and n-butane,

Conformation analysis of alkanes: Relative stability, Axial and Equatorial bonds.

Energy diagrams of cyclohexane: Chair, Boat and Twist boat forms; Relative stability with energy

diagrams.

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DEPARTMENT: PHYSICS

COURSE: GE – WHERE DO YOU LIVE? A JOURNEY THOUGH OUR GORGEOUS

UNIVERSE (FOR ODD SEMESTER)

Unit 1: Radiation from stars: spectral lines and their formation; stellar atmosphere.

Unit 2: Telescopes and other detectors.

Unit 3: Special relativity - Basic ideas.

Unit 4: Stellar parameters; Binary stars.

Unit 5: Main sequence stars and their structure; Nuclear processes in stars; End points of stellar

evolution; White dwarfs, Neutron stars and Black holes.

Unit 6: Interstellar medium and star formation.

Unit 7: Cluster of stars.

Unit 8: Galaxies.

Unit 9: Universe on large scale: an overview.

Unit 10: Cosmological moles for a homogeneous and isotropic universe.

Unit 11: Early Universe.

References:

1. The Physical Universe: an introduction to Astronomy - Frank H. Shu

2. Cosmos - Carl Sagan

3. Fundamental Astronomy - H. Karttunen et. al

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COURSE: GE – HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (FOR EVEN

SEMESTER)

Unit 1: What is Science?

Unit 2: Scientific Reasoning.

Unit 3: Explanation in Science.

Unit 4: Realism and Anti-realism.

Unit 5: Scientific change and Scientific evolution.

Unit 6: Philosophical problems in physics, biology and psychology.

Unit 7: Science and its critics.

Unit 8: Conclusions.

References:

1. Science order and creativity -D. Bohm and D. Peat

2. Understanding Philosophy of Science - J. Ladyman

3. Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary introduction - A. Rosenberg

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DEPPARTMENT: MANAGEMENT

COURSE: GE - ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (FOR ODD SEMESTER)

1) Organization- the concept.

2) Human behavior- concepts and practice.

3) Leadership and leadership styles.

4) Motivation- theory and practice.

5) Communication.

6) Individual and Group dynamics.

7) OB and decision making.

8) Presentation and case studies.

COURSE: GE - BUSINESS STRATEGY (FOR EVEN SEMESTER)

1) Concept of business strategy- reactive, preactive and proactive strategies.

2) McKinsey 7S framework.

3) Impact of environment in strategy formulation.

4) Mega, Micro and relevant environment.

5) The strategic management pyramid.

6) Swot analysis.

7) BCG growth share matrix.

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SKILL ENHANCEMENT

COURSE (SEC)

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Course: SEC1 – Mentored Seminar I

Credit: 1 (1L-0T-0P)

In this course, every student has to prepare presentations during the first semester under the

guidance of any faculty of the department who will mentor the student’s work. The students are

taught how to prepare a presentation, how to deliver seminar and to make them comfortable in

answering the questions asked to them during the interactive session. At the end of the semester,

the student has to deliver a lecture on a specific topic.

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Course: SEC2 – Mentored Seminar II


In this course, every student has to prepare presentations during the second semester under the




the student has to deliver a lecture on a specific topic

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Course: SEC3 – Mentored Seminar III


In this course, every student has to prepare presentations during the third semester under the





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Course: SEC4 – Mentored Seminar IV


In this course, every student has to prepare presentations during the fourth semester under the





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ABILITY ENHANCEMENT

COMPULSORY COURSES

(AECC)

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Course: AECC1 – Communicative English


Component: Theory

Unit 1 - Functional grammar Tenses: basic forms and use; sentence formation; common errors; parts of speech, direct and

reported speech structures and voices

Unit 2 - Letter Writing Job application; business letter; editorial letter; email

Unit 3 - Essay Writing Overall argument; consistent logic; main points; paragraphs; introduction & conclusion

Unit 4 - Report Writing Manuscript; memo

Unit 5 - Precis Writing Understanding main points; inculcating precision; reducing to basics

Unit 6 - Note Making

Unit 7 - Other Kinds of Texts Notice; Circular; Agenda; Minutes

Unit 8 - Presentation Skills Soft skills; relevance of content; knowledge and confidence

Unit 9 - Group Discussion The basic structure of GD's; workshops to develop participation and team-work skills

Unit 10 - Role play What is 'role play'? identifying and understanding one's role; workshops

Unit 11 - Developing Interview Skills The "Do's & Don'ts" of Interviews; verbal proficiency; personality development; mock-interviews

References:

Nilanjana Gupta - Communicate with Confidence (Anthem Press, 2011)

Barun Mitra - Effective Technical Communication: Guide for Scientists and Engineers (OUP,

2006)

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Course: AECC1 – Environmental Science


Component: Theory

Unit 1: Environment and its components:

Definition, Geographical distribution of environment, Environmental chemistry, Atmosphere and

its composition.

Unit 2: Forest resources:

Use and over exploitation, deforestation, timber extraction, mining, dams and their effects on

forests, tribal people.

Unit 3: Water resources:

Use and over-utilization of surface and ground water, floods, drought, conflicts over water,

dams- benefits and problems.

Unit 4: Food resources:

World food problems, changes caused by agriculture and over-grazing, effects of modern

agriculture, fertilizer and pesticides, water logging, salinity.

Unit 5: Energy resources:

Growing energy needs, renewable and non-renewable energy resources, use of alternative energy

sources.

Unit 6: Land resources:

Land as a resource, land degradation, man induced landslides, soil erosion and desertification.

Unit 7: Ecosystem, Biodiversity and its Conservation:

Concept of ecosystem, structure and function of ecosystem, Energy flow, Bio-geological cycles,

Introduction to biodiversity, genetic diversity, species diversity, ecological diversity,

Biogeographical classification of India, Biodiversity Hot-spots, conservation of biodiversity.

Unit 8: Environmental Pollution:

Definition, cause and effect of pollution, Control measures of pollution, Air pollution, Water

pollution, Soil pollution, Noise pollution, Solid waste management, Disaster management, role of

the society to control pollution.

Unit 9: Environmental issues, Laws and ethics:

Water conservation, climate change: cause and effect, global warming, acid rain, ozone layer

depletion, hazardous material industries, Wasteland reclamation, Environment protection act, Air

(prevention and control of pollution) act, Water (prevention and control of pollution) act, Wildlife

protection act, Forest conservation act, issues involved in enforcement of environment legislation,

Public awareness.

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UNIVERSITY SPECIFIED

COURSE (USC)

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Course: USC1 – Foreign Language –I (German)


Component: Theory

Lesson 1

Speech acts:

Greetings and farewells

1st, 2nd and 3rd person introduction.

Speaking about other persons

Numbers till 20

Exchanging telephone numbers and E-mail addresses.

How to spell a word?

Speaking about countries and languages.

Grammar: W-Questions and declarative sentences, personal pronouns- I.

Vocabulary: Numbers, countries and languages.

Lesson 2:

Speech acts:

Speaking about hobbies.

Weekdays and weekends.

Speaking about work, profession and working hours.

Numbers above 20

Seasons

Making profiles on the internet

Grammar: Definitive articles, verbs and personal pronouns-II, yes/no questions, plurals, verbs

'haben’ and ‘sein’.

Vocabulary: Hobbies, Days of the week, numbers from 20, months of the year, seasons

Lesson 3

Speech acts:

To name places and buildings

To ask questions about places

Picture stories

To enquire about things

Transportation

Concept of international words

Grammar: Articles for nouns, definite articles, indefinite articles, negative articles, imperative

sentences.

Vocabulary: Places and buildings, transportation, directions.

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Course: USC1 – Foreign Language –I (Spanish)


Component: Theory

1. Introduction, Alphabets

2. Vocabulary (Relatives, Fruits, Flowers, Colours, Food, Dress, Days of Week, Month,

year etc.)

3. Numbers

4. Noun

5. Subject Pronoun

6. Indicative Mood

7. Verbs: - Regular

8. Verbs Irregular: - Ser, Estar, Tener, Haber, poder, poner etc.

9. Verbs Irregular: - Stem Changing (e to ie), (e to i), (o to ue)

10. Adjective: -Regular Comparative and Superlative

11. Reflexive Verb

12. Object Pronoun

13. Preposition

14. Demonstrative Adjective

15. Possesive Adjective

16. Possesive Pronoun

17. Por and Para

18. Past Tense: - Preterite

19. Audio

20. Conversation

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Course: USC1 – Foreign Language I (Japanese)


Component: Theory:

a. Course Title: Japanese Language Course

b. Learning Objectives:

Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the

satisfaction of needs of a concrete type.

Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details

such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has.

Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is

prepared to help.

Text Books:

① Marugoto: Japanese language and culture Starter A1 Coursebook for communicative

language competences (Goyal Publisher & Distributer Pvt Ltd. New Delhi)

② Marugoto: Japanese language and culture Starter A1 Coursebook for communicative

language activities (Goyal Publisher & Distributer Pvt Ltd. New Delhi)

1. Japanese Script & Greetings

Hiragana (Japanese Native Script)

Katakana (Foreign Script)

Kanji

Exchange greetings in Japanese

2. Japanese Vocabulary

Country Names, Languages, Occupations, Family, People, Numbers

Food, Drinks, Food for Lunch, Easting Places

Home, Furniture, Places to visit Near buy, Rooms, Things in the room

Daily routines, Time, Free-time activities, Places, Calendar

3. Basic Conversation & Grammar

4. Listening, Reading and Writing activities in Japanese

Self-introduction

My Family

Favorite Food

My family's breakfast

My breakfast, My lunch

My home, My room

My daily life

My week's schedule

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Course: USC2 – Foreign Language II (German)


Component: Theory

Lesson 4:

Speech acts: Talk about food, planning a shopping, conversations during shipping, conversations

in a Restaurant, understanding texts with W-Questions.

Grammar: Positions in a sentence, sentence structure, ‘Akkusativ’ and 'Akkusativ'-verbs.

Vocabulary: meals, groceries, beverages, shops and businesses.

Lesson 5:

Speech acts: Understanding of time and to call, informations with date and time, talking about

family, planning an appointment, to apologise for delay, cancellation of an appointment over the

telephone.

Grammar: Informations with date and time with prepositions 'um’, 'am’, 'von’……. ‘bis’,

possessive articles, Modal verbs,

Vocabulary: Daily routine, time, family.

Lesson 6:

Speech acts: Planning something together, to speak about birthdays, to receive and send

invitations, talk about events, finding of particular informations in a text.

Grammar: separable verbs, preposition 'für’ for ‘Akkusativ’, personal pronouns, past tense of

'haben’ and 'sein’.

Vocabularies: Hobbies, food, beverages, passion and events

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Course: USC2 – Foreign Language II (Spanish)


Component: Theory

1. Gustar , Encantar, Doler Verb 2. Some More irregular Verbs- Saber , Conocer , querer, hacer etc 3. Past Tense:- Preterite indefinido

4. Audio

5. Conversation

6. Comprehension

7. Picture description

8. Letter Writing

9. Paragraph Writing

10. Form Filling

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Course: USC2 – Foreign Language II (Japanese)


Component: Theory

a. Course Title: Japanese Language Course

b. Learning Objectives:

Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the

satisfaction of needs of a concrete type.

Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details

such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has.

Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is

prepared to help.

d. Text Books:

① Marugoto: Japanese language and culture Starter A1 Coursebook for communicative

language competences (Goyal Publisher & Distributer Pvt Ltd. New Delhi)

② Marugoto: Japanese language and culture Starter A1 Coursebook for communicative

language activities (Goyal Publisher & Distributer Pvt Ltd. New Delhi)

1. Japanese Script

Kanji

2. Japanese Vocabulary

Hobbies (sports, films, music, etc.), Places, Events, Calendar

Transport, Places in Town, Locations

Souvenirs, Counting Numbers, Clothes, Prices

Holiday activities

3. Conversation & Grammar

4. Listening, Reading and Writing activities in Japanese

My hobby

My town

My shopping last week

Clothes that I like

My Holiday trip

Experiences in Japan