Semester
II
1. Foundations of English – II:
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Use of grammar in context
o Phrase, clause and sentence structure
o Reported speech
o Modals
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Oral Communication Skills (Listening and Speaking)
o Comprehend and use English inside and outside the
classroom for social and academic purposes
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Reading
o Distinguishing between facts and opinions
o Recognizing and interpreting the tone and attitude of
the author
o Recognizing and interpreting the rhetorical
organization of a text
o Generating ideas using a variety of strategies e.g.
mind map
o Developing an outline for an essay
o Writing different kinds of essay (descriptive and
narrative)
o Vocabulary building skills
2. Pakistan
Ideology of Pakistan
Life and Works of : Mujadid-Alf- Sani, Shah
Waliullah, Sayed Ahmad Shaheed etc.
Two Nations Theory: Services of Sir Syed Ahmad
Khan and others.
1900_1930: The establishment of All
India Muslim League, Lacknow Pact, Khilafat Movement, Nehro Report,
Quaid-e-Azam’s Fourteen Points, Round Table Conferences, Allah Abad’s Address
etc.
1930_1946: 1935 Act, 1936-37
Elections, Congress Ministries, Pakistan Resolution, Crips Mission, Shimla
Conference, Dehli Convention etc.
After 1946: Cabinet Mission Plan, 3rd
June 1947, Independence Act 1947, The Creation of Pakistan, Red Cliff’s Award,
Early problems and difficulties of Pakistan.
3. Primary
Readings
Short Stories:
Ø Janet Frame, You Are Now
Entering The Human Heart
Ø Bessie Head, The Prisoner
Who Wore Glasses
Ø Etidal Osman, The House For
Us
Ø Ernest Hemingway, Soldier's
Home
Ø Jamaica
Ø Naguib Mahfooz, The Answer
is No
Ø Khalida Asghar, The Wagon
Ø Katherine Mansfield, The
Doll’s House
Ø Anton Chekhov, The Bet
Ø Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The
Handsomest Drowned Man in The World
Essays:
Ø George Orwell, A Hanging
Ø N. Scott Momaday, The way
To Rainy Mountains
Ø Virginia Woolf, The Death
Of The Moth
Ø Martin Luther King: I Have
A Dream
Ø Deborrah Tannen, How to
Give Orders Like A Man
Ø Russel Becker, Slice Of
Life
Ø Suzanne Britt, Neat People
vs. Sloppy People
Ø E.M. Forster, My Wood
Ø Alleen Pace Nilsen, Sexism
In English: A 1990s Update
Ø William Zinsser, College
Pressure
Ø Barbara Ehrenreich,
Cultural Baggage
Ø Jonathan Swift, A Modest
Proposal
4. Introduction
to Literature and Literary Movements - II
Literary
Forms: their origin and development
ü What is Novel? Various types of Novel, Plot, Setting,
Character, Characterization, Story,
Narrative Devices/Techniques, etc.
ü Short Story, Essay, Types, Constituents Elements/Essentials of
short stories and essays, etc
Literary Movements
ü Marxism, Feminism,
Deconstruction, Naturalism, Surrealism, Absurdism, etc.
5. History of English Literature- II
Aims and Objectives: To make the students understand how
historical and socio-cultural events influence literatures written in English
and how the literature of a particular nation and age mould and shape the
thinking of the writers. Although the scope of the course is quite expansive,
the students shall focus on the historical survey of various genres of
literature (Poetry, Prose, Novel, Drama, Short Story, Essay, etc., and literary
periods/movements from 19th Century to 21st Century.
Topics:
ü Classical or the Neo-Classical Age
ü Romantic Age
ü Victorian Age
ü 20th Century or the Modern Age
ü 21st
Century
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