Syllabus Fourth Semester

Semester IV

1.         Academic Reading and Writing

a.         Critical Reading

            Advanced reading skills and strategies building on Foundations of English I & II             courses in semesters I and II.

·               expository (description, argumentation, comparison and contrast)

b.         Academic Writing

Advanced writing skills and strategies building on Foundations of English I & II in semesters I and II:

·               report writing

·               assignments/term-papers

·               examination answers

2.         South Asian Literature

• Anita Desai: In Custody (novel) or Bapsi Sidhwa: Cracking India / Ice Candy-Man        (novel)

• Bapsi Sidhwa: “Breaking it Up” (essay)

• Arun Joshi: “The Only American from Our Village” (play)

• Aamir Hussain: “Sweet Rice” (poem)

• Tahira Naqvi: “Attar of Roses” (poem)

• Daud Kamal: “An Ode to Death” (poem)

• Taufeeq Rafat: “Reflections” (Poem)

3.            Classics in Poetry-II (2^nd Generation of Romantics to 20th Century)

ü        John Keats, Ode On Grecian Urn, Ode To A Nightingale, Ode To     Autumn

ü        A. L. Tennyson, The Lotus Eaters, The Lady Of Shallot, Break Break,          Break, Tears, Idle Tears

ü        Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, Stopping By Woods On A           Snowy Evening, Mending Walls

ü        W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming, The Lake Isle Of Innisfree

ü        T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, The Love Song Of Alfred J. Prufrock

ü        Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting, The Owl, The Seven Sorrows, Crow's            Fall, A Woman Unconscious

ü        Sylvia Plath, Ariel, The Colossus, Daddy, Lady Lazarus, The Bee    Meeting, The Arrival Of The Bee Box, Purdah

4.                     Classics in Drama-I (Sophocles to Shaw)

ü        Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

ü        Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

ü        Shakespeare, Hamlet

ü        Shakespeare, The Tempest

ü        G.B. Shaw, Arms And The Man

5.         Phonetics and Phonology

ü     Introduction

·         Stages in the production of speech

·         Speech Organs

·         Manner and Place of articulation

ü     Segmental Phonology

·         Phonemes and allophones (consonants, vowels, diph/triphthongs)  

·         The Cardinal Vowel System  

·         Syllable and syllabic structure (consonant clusters, syllable, word stress)

·          Sounds in connected speech (weak forms, elision and assimilation)         

ü     Suprasegmental Phonology 

·         Word and Sentence stress and intonation

ü     Contrastive Phonology

·         Teaching of pronunciation

·         Application of phonetic and phonological rules in daily life

·         Pakistani English                                          

ü  Phonetic/Phonemic Transcription