Year
1, Semester I
1. Foundations of English – I
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Use of grammar in Context
o Tenses: meaning & use
o Use of active and passive voice
o Use of articles and prepositions
o Different sentence patterns
o Combining sentences
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Oral Communication Skills (Listening and Speaking)
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Express ideas/opinions on topics related to students’ lives and experiences
o Participate in classroom discussions on contemporary issues
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Reading
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Skimming
o Scanning
o Identifying main idea/topic sentence
o Inference and prediction
o Recognizing and interpreting cohesive devices
o Note taking and note making
o Generating ideas using a variety of strategies e.g.
brainstorming
o Developing a paragraph outline (topic sentence and
supporting details)
o Vocabulary building skills
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To develop the ability to use a dictionary
2. Islamic
Studies
Quranic
Verses: Translation
and Explanation: Selected from various Sections of Quran Relating to different
issues like Salat, Zakat, Ramadan, Tuheed etc.
.
Ahadis: Translation and
Explanation: Selected Ahadis relating to different issues like, Haqooq- ul-
Habad, Jehad, Husn-e- Ikhlaq etc
History of
The Prophet’s Life: Various
incidents and battles taken from the life of the Holy Prophet. (PBUH)
Islamic
Culture and Civilization: Islamic
Culture and Civilization through the History, its development, achievements etc
3. Primary Readings
- Robert Herrick, To Daffodils
- John Donne: Go and Catch a
Falling Star, The Flea
- Andrew Marvell, To His Coy
Mistress
- William Blake, Introduction to
‘Songs Of Experience’, Tiger
- W. Wordsworth, The Daffodils,
Composed Upon
- S.T. Coleridge, Kubla Khan
- P.B. Shelly, Song: Rarely,
rarely, comest thou, Ode to the West Wind, To A Skylark
- J. Keats, La Belle Dame sans
Merci, Ode to A Nightingale,
- A.L. Tennyson, Ulysses
- Robert Browning, Love Among The
Ruins
- Mathew Arnold,
- Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods
on A Snowy Evening
- W.B. Yeats, Among School
Children, The Leda And the Swan,
- T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
- Theodore Roethke, My Papa’s Waltz
- Christina Rossetti, When I am
Dead my Dearest
4. Introduction
to Literature and Literary Movements - I
Literary
Forms: their origin and development
ü What is Poetry? Various forms/types of
Poems/Verse/Stanza, metre, rhyme,
rhythm
ü What is drama? Various types of drama, Plot, Setting,
Character/, Characterization, Story,
Dialogue, Spectacle, etc.
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Some Literary Movements
ü Classicism, Romanticism,
Modernism, Post-Modernism, Formalism, Realism, Symbolism, etc.
5. History of English Literature- I
ü The Age Of Chaucer, 14th Century
ü The Renaissance Period
ü Elizabethan Age
ü 17th Century (Milton, The Puritan Movement,
The Metaphysical and The Cavalier Poets, The Reformation Age)
ü Restoration Period
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